Yes, costs are going up. Prices are higher than they were last year, and the year before, and the year before. Everything from Netflix, to a USPS stamp are higher. Everything has gone up in price. But, on a fixed budget what do you do? Eat more chicken, pork, and hamburger? Move from Jack Daniels to Evan Williams to Jim Beam? No more take-out, forego pizza and decline lunch with the friends? How many sweaters will you need to pile on this winter to keep the cold at bay (and save on heating costs)? Flush the toilet less often? Turn down the water heater and resign yourself to lukewarm showers?
See, I think that our representatives just don't have the same pressure to "tighten the belt" to keep their pants from falling off during hard times. And, it is, INDEED hard times for many people. Elites, especially the liberal elite, just don't see things the same way as the people they are "SUPPOSED TO SERVE".
Ozias could not be MORE tone-deaf to what people are going through. (Hope you read this, and comment, Mr. OZ. Come out from behind the curtain, Emerald City is hurting.)
Prices in WA State will not be going down because more taxes are coming in 2026, an increased minimum wage to $17.17 in 2026, utility costs increasing, and Gov. Ferguson's favorite pastime -lawsuits!. There is no relief, and this pain has been inflicted by local elected officials with sadistic delight. Good luck, Mimi! We NEED you!
BDSM, It covers it all...they like us in bondage...they LOVE dominating and intimidating us..they love to inflict pain...and they secretly enjoy being ruled and tormented by their ideologies and their 'uplines' because it relieves them from any accountability or responsibility while being deliciously naughty!😈
P.S. This is ideological theory...I only have the tangential experience of government BDSM, and I am widely studied!😂
Actually, bondage is common in the wilderness. I have watched films of a male wolf pinning an insubordinate younger male wolf to the ground and humping him. This is a humiliation ritual intended to establish dominance.
Though I would not object privately if some corpulent judges were subjected to a riding crop across their flabby butts. Crime though is a separate issue I realize.
I understand that this is mainly a political forum, but I believe the words "sadistic delight " do explain the recent political hysteria plaguing the country.
Brilliant response, Mimi. I think when push comes to shove, a progressive look at solving financial problems isn't to 'tighten the belt' it's to buy larger designer pants with an elastic waistband. Nothing is being eliminated but more problems are certainly adding up. I wonder if anyone's contemplated that the issue may not be to grab more money but to seriously cull the expenses. Maybe pay cuts for the political leaders are in order?
Well, 'let them eat cake!' Btw, we think maybe cake isn't so bad, but what they called 'cake' was the scraps that fell off in the ovens...so hard, dry scraps!🤓
Only a complete breakdown or a mob would have any effect on government.
I offered ancient wisdom, not mine, to the Kommissars via email...the values and practice of good governance based on thousands of years of cause and effect wisdom, but if they were interested, they would already have availed themselves of this information. AI is a good friend if properly used and not just treated with adoration or revulsion...AI will only give the mainstream narrative about current world events and political 'realities' but if you ask the right questions and give it some challenging feedback, it has VAST stores of ancient knowledge which if/when applied could turn the world around...or at least create a parallel reality based on higher values. I only use ChatGPTopenAI which, in theory, isn't as controlled by dark forces, although they have their presence there, of course.
If we suffer a collapse which seems imminent, the psychopaths will immediately try to reestablish 'their' authority...anyone able bodied must do whatever is necessary to prevent that...that is all! You can't have a garden if you don't pull the weeds!
As a gardener and a Port Angeles resident, I'd amend that saying to "You can't keep the garden if you don't build a fence." Much like our "public servants", the deer run this place. They take what they want and destroy everything beautiful in the taking.
There has to be a vacancy first, as no one wants to step into the lion's den completely overwhelmed by the commie/leftist mentality pervading government.
We need teams of people moving together as they will pick us off one by one if we try to 'infiltrate' as they have done.
It's a spiritual/psychological problem FIRST, so meditate, pray for truth, justice, liberty, accountability, tough love and GIVE US THE SIGNS we need to act.
Patience isn't my strong suit...a handyman by trade and experience...I see a problem...I figure out an approach and get busy on a solution, often reassessing and reinventing along the way.
My motto's are 'Getterdone' and 'Root-Hog-Or-Die'!
I appreciate those with the patience of Job...I would have caved!🤪
Although for any who have studied the Bible, Job has pages and pages of laments and complaints, so maybe that's what got him through!🤣
Thanks for that depressing but important assessment, Mimi Smith Dvorak. I love the analogy. I must have watched The Wizard of Oz twenty times. It really demonstrated the power of illusion. The flying monkeys actually hated their ruler and were friendly in the end.
At the health board meeting this week they agreed to give another $50, 000 of opiate settlement funds for harm reduction supplies that the state is no longer funding. Opiate settlement funds, being spent on meth pipes and foil and straws is their idea of "essential"
'The Rules'...'The Narrative'...'The Legalism'...is staggering...that's how it's designed...we just have to look at it and recognize it for what it is and keep doing whatever it is we are "Inspired" to do...including going to bed for a day or a week if we have to...Jim Carrey says...'if you are depressed...you need deep-rest". I have needed a lot of deep-rest in this life.
From the moment my mother abandoned me to kindergarten, the tyranny of the home-life was supported by the tyranny of 'the system'.
Every day when I dive into another passage in the rabbit warren, I feel drained and overwhelmed, then, after awhile, I go outside and do something while my subconscious 'mulls it over'. The reality, for me, is that we are in some kind of hellish 'matrix' (matr=mother) some kind of cosmic womb, where both sides of 'reality' play out, with the default being an emphasis on psychopathy and evil...so we KNOW what the other side of Truth and Goodness (Godness) are...it is diabolical.
I want all the sociopathic tree-huggers (I'm a non-sociopathic tree-hugger, I hope) to go out into that beautiful, pristine environment and find a nice spot to lay down and meditate and see how long it takes for the creepy-crawlies to start to explore your body...if you could stay there for a few days and remain conscious, you could watch your body begin to be dismantled by 'the beauty of nature'...faster and faster each day and hour...That is just as much the 'nature' of this place as the perceived beauty and innocence of 'nature'...I LOVE the Red-Rock country but I couldn't survive there without modern support.
I love the deep forest but I wouldn't survive there without modern support...even the most rugged people in the world now, Eskimoes and deep back to the landers, use modern devices like snowmobiles and iron axes/knives, etc.
I know a young woman who went to Evergreen State Communist College and got a degree in 'flint-knapping'. She did so much flint-knapping she ended up with carpal tunnel so bad, she was on SSI disability for years.
You can't fix stupidity and insanity, people have to do want to do that themselves...but I am tired, real tired, of having to bail them out of their stupid/insane pranks...let the chips fall where they may...if you disable yourself flint-knapping, you might have to starve to death, because I am not going to coddle you while you take your time to 'figure it out'.
Will I encourage and mentor you if you realize you are off-track and want to figure out a better way, before you ruin yourself?
Sure...I'm 68 and still trying to figure out a better way...but I don't have the financial or energetic resources to 'save you from yourself'!
The mindset of current self-asserted leadership is "it is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission"...liberal reasoning, with no consequences, yet.
It is essential, if your overarching goal is to destroy a culture and a society.
The Kommissars may be so stupid that they don't know they are pawns in a MUCH, MUCH bigger game than it appears to most.
I've been a 'student' of 'the shadow that runs the world', or 'the men/women behind the curtain' for more than a decade... and the only thing we can do about a diabolical plan which has been playing out for thousands of years... is to expose it and get a prayer life which focuses on what we want rather than what we got...we have to look where we want to go or we'll stumble and trip on every psychotic obstacle we encounter. I'm not good at this yet, but I'm practicing...publicly calling out corruption may not go well for us, but cowering in the shadows won't either...so it's choice...each to their own.😎
In today's PDN article on the closing of a large encampment in Port Townsend "Leathers said that, on a recent visit to the encampment, when asked where the residents would go, police officers said there were 30 beds open in a Port Angeles shelter." So are Jefferson taxpayers going to send some money this way too?
And how many times have I read comments from PA people saying "there's nowhere for them to go". Apparently there's somewhere for 30 of them to go, they just don't want to because they might have to follow rules.
I was flipping through the channels on the TV last night when I landed on one of the Seattle evening news shows. The subject at the moment was homelessness and the reporter was interviewing a man in one of the encampments. He had a key in his pocket to a free apartment nearby but chose to return to the street. When asked why by the reporter, he said he didn't like the confinement, or some such term, of the apartment. He preferred the freedom of the street. Affordable hosing is not going to solve all the homeless problem.
Anyone who refuses housing should be cut from all freebies. And why does he have the key? It should be given to someone else who would be grateful to have a roof over their heads.
It was a typo, but, for the taxpayers footing the bill, affordable housing v. hosing is all the same thing. The Homeless Industrial Complex will absorb any and all money thrown at it and we will still have the same number of homeless. Or more.
Free everything for everybody...grants from heaven for all...magic money really does grow on trees...oh, wait, we can't log Doc Holliday, so no money trees there!
Well... just keep figuring out how to squeeze the taxpayer money tree...that'll work out fine, I'm sure!
BTW, our incomes fall just out of the exemption/deferment program levels, so those numbers need to be adjusted for 'inflation' as well...people are being marginalized and displaced...many have older mobile homes in parks and the rent increases are taking over half of many of their SSI checks.
Greed and corruption doesn't only happen in gov't...it's ubiquitous.
As usual, the lower income households are paying the biggest price, not only in dollars but in lifestyle and affordability.
The Left Behind was a rapture movie but we're being left behind while still here!😜
The park my mom was in was $440 before being bought be a greedy corporation 3 years ago. It's now $619 for current residents and for those moving in new, it's just short of $900.
Geoff have you looked into the little Hideaway court on south 3rd? I don't think their rates have gone crazy so they must still be privately owned. Also Baywood Village, though I think most of those homes are quite old. The Shipley Center owns Baywood.
I heard there was one for sale in a different court than my moms, the price was $70k which is great, very affordable. Then I was told the space rent was $900/month. That place has been sitting for more than 8 months. I also love how Sequim council just had a housing report done by an out of town consultant who said manufactured homes are "an important source of affordable housing in Sequim" and "mobile homes will likely continue to be an important source of deeply affordable housing citywide." It also says the average space rent is $400 to $500/month. Right, let's rely on these people for the correct statistics.
That’s true. I have a friend who lives in Juniper Estates and she is planning on moving but most likely her place won’t sell due to the high rent and even higher qualifications to buy one in there. 3 times the monthly rental income(which would be just over $900), plus over a 700 credit score. And that is for a park that has no clubhouse, pool, view, etc. it’s insane!
If Government was not spending our tax dollars on social engineering like DEI, MWBE, LGBTQ+, indigenous whatever and any other favored ethnicity, there would be no need for any tax increase of any kind. There are other tax dollar wastes on non-essentials like the arts and the homocentricity in believing humans can control climate. When our Governance focuses only on infrastructure, safety and economic opportunity I might endorse supporting it more, but not until then. More taxes is a parasite killing it's host. I can only find honest media in what is now characterized as alternative media and the CCW is a perfect example.
Envision no parasites...oh, wait...that would be another time-space reality all together! Visualize truth, justice, liberty, accountability and tough love...wherever it can occur...maybe not here?😎
A classic example of the difference between the so-called progressive political philosophy vs the conservative philosophy. The current commissioners and government staff never first look at ways to cut costs or eliminate personnel when times are tough. Instead they want to squeeze the taxpayer ad infinitum, believing they can fool enough uneducated voters to get their death by a thousand cuts increases passed year after year so they can keep the gravy train rolling.
They 'overstand'. French-fry looked shocked when I said there is still an influx of the downtrodden coming here! Completely unaware of reality as we the 'understanders' see it!
I think this is another example of inversion of language....we need to overstand something to see it objectively, while their overstanding is, lording it over us.
Understanding is seeing something from below, which is also important.
We need both perspectives, but the meanings are inverted for 'us' and 'them'.
They 'understand' their programmer/masters perhaps at a subconscious level, I don't know, but there are obviously opposing realities we are dealing with.
The gap may be bridgeable but it requires all 'parties' to be desirous and probably desperate...there is a course of study called Non-violent Communication and there are, mostly older and low quality videos showing the practice in action... Marshall Rosenberg developed it from his experience as a psych-doctor being ineffective in helping people.
There are protocols available to cover all the woes we have but it requires all 'parties' to be willing...to be open...to be wrong...to reevaluate...to see both sides, etc. Hope for the best...study higher law and embody it...learn the art of debate...we're all works in progress...or regress!😎
We can only break the cycle when we go within and renew the mind...that might include 'sacrificing' the body, if not physically at first, gaining healthy detachment while in the body and projecting a new reality with the MIND!
In other words, not letting the programmed distractions and emotions run us.
Dunno, maybe this is the Yuga which will break through the curtain into a glorious new reality! But we have to let go of the old one first!😜
Right now, they have us captured in outrage and cognitive dissonance...it all comes from MIND, the precursor to every THING!😊
Thank you Jeff Tozzer for pointing out the blatantly biased "one sided" sales pitch that Mark Ozias and the local failed "rag" that poses as a "newspaper" is spewing to the general public~! I hope that the good folks of Clallam County see Mark Ozias's weak effort to "film flam" the voters into voting for more taxes as the "hose job" that it obviously is~! IF the current Clallam County Commissioners and existing governments had a recent track record of reasonable fiscal management and they had been transparent and up front about their actions, I would be inclined to listen to them about their money issues, but that is definitely NOT the case. It is unconscionable that the Individuals in government are deceiving folks and pushing for them to be drained of even more money, especially at this time of widespread rising prices and economic hardship~! I am glad for those in our community who can pay higher taxes because they are not suffering like many others are, however, I hope that these folks who have enough money can show their compassion for those who are struggling to even pay their basic bills~!!! It is the height of ignorance & selfishness to vote for everyone to pay more & more taxes and fees, when it is well known that many in our community are being forced into making brutal decisions about their economic and even physical health because they don't have enough money to pay all of their basic bills. I would hope that the folks who are financially secure would consider what others are going through and the fact that if they fail to show due compassion now, they will soon discover that many in the working class here have had to move for better economic opportunities elsewhere and precious few will be moving here or staying here to replace those workers when they get a taste of how high the costs of living here have become~! Heed the old saying; What comes around, goes around~! We will soon be voting for or against the economic health of our own community like never before, so it would be wise to exhibit some compassion towards those who we need to be here to maintain a functioning community~!!!
Jeff, maybe you (since you are a great writer) should do a rebuttal to Ozias piece. He is bought and paid for by the tribe, letting them put more and more land into Tribe Land Trust. Why are property owners on the hook for mismanagement of county funds. People really need to get out the vote this year, but I still don't trust these people to be transparent and honest when it comes to voting if it furthers their political ambitions. Ozias wants to run for Congress or Senate (can't remember which) and needs to pad his resume with how he stole from the residents of Clallam County. He is so arrogant he thinks nothing can touch him since he has the backing of the Tribes. Please speak up and tell your friends, neighbors, coworkers, shoppers, anyone you can to VOTE NO ON PROP 1, if we need to pick up ballots from people who are unable to send them in, I'd be glad to help. With all their soft on crime policies, it's no wonder we spend millions on public defenders for repeat offenders, you'd think after 10 arrests these people would wake up but they can care less. Do you think this will be the last year they raise taxes on property owners? Last year it was 2% because of the way it was written up.
Thanks, Diane. It's a great idea. The Gazette already said they won't run an opinion column from me, but I'm able to submit letters to the editor. I have in the past, and they don't acknowledge that they receive them (and don't publish them). I think they are ghosting me :)
Commissioners need to set priorities for spending, granting, based on the money thats already on the books, NOT the FUTURE OR POSSIBLE money by raising taxes. Pretend they are on FIXED INCOME like us, their BOSSES, starting with their own salaries and outsourcing to even foreign Advisers and consultants. People do this: get an income set up (say, a job or business or pension), then plan how to spend that money on what is needed, and save some (just in case). The Commissioners spend the money, then come after us for the funding to cover the projects, and raises. Thats why we are going broke. TOO MUCH SPENDING BEFORE THE MONEY HITS THE TABLE!
Mark Lane chief executive officer of county finances vehemently reminded the comms in 23 or 24 they must refrain from spending beyond the budget. No comment from the bocc. I applaud Lanes request and shame the comms for ignoring the obvious.
There is no incentive to tighten the belt. Give Commissioners a $48k base pay and tie their extra compensation to performance in staying on budget and producing a surplus and you would see positive results. Poet Laureate, Director of DEI, worthless studies would all be out the door not to mention every piece of land elected to be put in the Tribal Trust would be scrutinized and opposed. Progressive? Yes. That's my definition of Progressive.
Good idea! BTW, no offense to the poet laureate but it is an Evergreen Diploma and the poetry...well see or listen to some of it yourself...The county only paid $1000, but the Communist Library System (with all the child-porn, transgender books) supplies the other $9000, over 2 years. More 'magic' money? NO, that would be taxpayer money too! Maybe the poet should learn to write good poetry instead of fantasy conversations with plastic milk crates and sidewalk lampposts! Just sayin'!😎
Why not just start a GoFundMe for the county and have Mr. Ozias administer it (with an oversight committee, of course) and that way people that do have cash to spare can save the County from whatever new and catastrophic event occurs or, if they are of diminished financial capacity (as seems to be the overall effect) they can forgo their charitable contribution until such time as their needs have changed? I am attempting a new record for run on sentences. Follow me for more tips on how to avoid having your pockets picked without permission.
😊GREAT Teri! 1000 likes to you! The oversight committee would be a stickler but I could participate at some level...using the higher value references as an overseer base of conduct, of course, not relying on my own ego to be righteous...honestly, 'I never argue, I just explain to people why I'm right!' (Nick Freitas paraphrase)
I released my thinking 🤔 on this one.. i am at the point where I ask myself..
- Why, are we depending on Government Funding to keep our County Safe, Effective, Efficient & Thriving?
We never needed it…
-Why are we not using our Timber as Revenue?
-Why are we Funding, Medical & Prison/Jail release program(s) for *potentially non-citizen incarcerated individuals, who may have been released from various prisons & countries?
-When they are caught, then that gets them into the system to qualify for benefits 🤦🏻♀️💁🏻♀️
Smooth with practice....if we didn't know, we wouldn't know...that's the nature of most sociopaths...intelligent, well spoken, good at deceit and lying...giving one appearance while up to something else.
If they were doing their real jobs they wouldn't have time to peruse the internet during work time. They don't give a shit! I'm running right out of shits! I'm out of shits for them. Visualize vacant seats at BOCCK. Non-violently of course!.🥸 Miracles are always possible! Natural catastrophes, resignations for 'personal reasons'...maybe others?😜
Lets remind them who are the employers and who are the employees! We are the bosses, we hired them, and We can fire them if the do bad work. Remind them! They need to do good work or Out the door.
We didn't 'hire' them...they were 'selected', bought and paid for and selected by a voting public which represents neither the majority nor the righteous...mind-blind party voters for either side is a catastrophic way to conduct public business...
Under all the bullshit, MOST of us want the same things, but we are divided, (psyops) on purpose...divide and conquer is not just a meme...it's an ancient truth...how to bridge the gap is the challenge BUT attitudes and awarenesses do have to change with a willingness to find a better way from ENOUGH of us...what the magic number is, I don't know..,but we are not in charge of outcomes, only intentions and actions.😇
With all the money given by the County to various NGOs and other non-County organizations that seem to have as their leaders our County elected officials, isn't it time the "ethics police" to take a hard look at where these organizations are spending our money on items like 'directors' expenses? Seems like there is a lot of room for conflict of interest there. Are our Commissioners milking the system fir their own benefit?
Yes, costs are going up. Prices are higher than they were last year, and the year before, and the year before. Everything from Netflix, to a USPS stamp are higher. Everything has gone up in price. But, on a fixed budget what do you do? Eat more chicken, pork, and hamburger? Move from Jack Daniels to Evan Williams to Jim Beam? No more take-out, forego pizza and decline lunch with the friends? How many sweaters will you need to pile on this winter to keep the cold at bay (and save on heating costs)? Flush the toilet less often? Turn down the water heater and resign yourself to lukewarm showers?
See, I think that our representatives just don't have the same pressure to "tighten the belt" to keep their pants from falling off during hard times. And, it is, INDEED hard times for many people. Elites, especially the liberal elite, just don't see things the same way as the people they are "SUPPOSED TO SERVE".
Ozias could not be MORE tone-deaf to what people are going through. (Hope you read this, and comment, Mr. OZ. Come out from behind the curtain, Emerald City is hurting.)
Prices in WA State will not be going down because more taxes are coming in 2026, an increased minimum wage to $17.17 in 2026, utility costs increasing, and Gov. Ferguson's favorite pastime -lawsuits!. There is no relief, and this pain has been inflicted by local elected officials with sadistic delight. Good luck, Mimi! We NEED you!
BDSM, It covers it all...they like us in bondage...they LOVE dominating and intimidating us..they love to inflict pain...and they secretly enjoy being ruled and tormented by their ideologies and their 'uplines' because it relieves them from any accountability or responsibility while being deliciously naughty!😈
P.S. This is ideological theory...I only have the tangential experience of government BDSM, and I am widely studied!😂
Actually, bondage is common in the wilderness. I have watched films of a male wolf pinning an insubordinate younger male wolf to the ground and humping him. This is a humiliation ritual intended to establish dominance.
This would be a fun meme for Clallamity Jen to translate into Clallam County issues.
Though I would not object privately if some corpulent judges were subjected to a riding crop across their flabby butts. Crime though is a separate issue I realize.
I understand that this is mainly a political forum, but I believe the words "sadistic delight " do explain the recent political hysteria plaguing the country.
Brilliant response, Mimi. I think when push comes to shove, a progressive look at solving financial problems isn't to 'tighten the belt' it's to buy larger designer pants with an elastic waistband. Nothing is being eliminated but more problems are certainly adding up. I wonder if anyone's contemplated that the issue may not be to grab more money but to seriously cull the expenses. Maybe pay cuts for the political leaders are in order?
Great idea, but …. When has a public employee union ever voted to reduce headcount or compensation packages?
Okay, you win. Never would be my answer.
Well, 'let them eat cake!' Btw, we think maybe cake isn't so bad, but what they called 'cake' was the scraps that fell off in the ovens...so hard, dry scraps!🤓
Only a complete breakdown or a mob would have any effect on government.
I offered ancient wisdom, not mine, to the Kommissars via email...the values and practice of good governance based on thousands of years of cause and effect wisdom, but if they were interested, they would already have availed themselves of this information. AI is a good friend if properly used and not just treated with adoration or revulsion...AI will only give the mainstream narrative about current world events and political 'realities' but if you ask the right questions and give it some challenging feedback, it has VAST stores of ancient knowledge which if/when applied could turn the world around...or at least create a parallel reality based on higher values. I only use ChatGPTopenAI which, in theory, isn't as controlled by dark forces, although they have their presence there, of course.
If we suffer a collapse which seems imminent, the psychopaths will immediately try to reestablish 'their' authority...anyone able bodied must do whatever is necessary to prevent that...that is all! You can't have a garden if you don't pull the weeds!
Godspeed and God Bless, every one!🤓
As a gardener and a Port Angeles resident, I'd amend that saying to "You can't keep the garden if you don't build a fence." Much like our "public servants", the deer run this place. They take what they want and destroy everything beautiful in the taking.
It's hard to see the problem, when your paycheck depends on you not seeing the problem...keep the lights shining!😎
Oz with the devil's claws...
There has to be a vacancy first, as no one wants to step into the lion's den completely overwhelmed by the commie/leftist mentality pervading government.
We need teams of people moving together as they will pick us off one by one if we try to 'infiltrate' as they have done.
It's a spiritual/psychological problem FIRST, so meditate, pray for truth, justice, liberty, accountability, tough love and GIVE US THE SIGNS we need to act.
Patience isn't my strong suit...a handyman by trade and experience...I see a problem...I figure out an approach and get busy on a solution, often reassessing and reinventing along the way.
My motto's are 'Getterdone' and 'Root-Hog-Or-Die'!
I appreciate those with the patience of Job...I would have caved!🤪
Although for any who have studied the Bible, Job has pages and pages of laments and complaints, so maybe that's what got him through!🤣
🙌🏻 Mimi ✔️
Thanks for that depressing but important assessment, Mimi Smith Dvorak. I love the analogy. I must have watched The Wizard of Oz twenty times. It really demonstrated the power of illusion. The flying monkeys actually hated their ruler and were friendly in the end.
If we possess confidence and ambition the power always lies within our reach I believe.
At the health board meeting this week they agreed to give another $50, 000 of opiate settlement funds for harm reduction supplies that the state is no longer funding. Opiate settlement funds, being spent on meth pipes and foil and straws is their idea of "essential"
I have to wonder how much the BOCCC is interpreting and attempting to apply WA State's definition of essential facilities.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=365-196-550
Good grief! How can anyone? I tried. Now I want to go back to bed for the day. For the week. At least a week and a day.
'The Rules'...'The Narrative'...'The Legalism'...is staggering...that's how it's designed...we just have to look at it and recognize it for what it is and keep doing whatever it is we are "Inspired" to do...including going to bed for a day or a week if we have to...Jim Carrey says...'if you are depressed...you need deep-rest". I have needed a lot of deep-rest in this life.
From the moment my mother abandoned me to kindergarten, the tyranny of the home-life was supported by the tyranny of 'the system'.
Every day when I dive into another passage in the rabbit warren, I feel drained and overwhelmed, then, after awhile, I go outside and do something while my subconscious 'mulls it over'. The reality, for me, is that we are in some kind of hellish 'matrix' (matr=mother) some kind of cosmic womb, where both sides of 'reality' play out, with the default being an emphasis on psychopathy and evil...so we KNOW what the other side of Truth and Goodness (Godness) are...it is diabolical.
I want all the sociopathic tree-huggers (I'm a non-sociopathic tree-hugger, I hope) to go out into that beautiful, pristine environment and find a nice spot to lay down and meditate and see how long it takes for the creepy-crawlies to start to explore your body...if you could stay there for a few days and remain conscious, you could watch your body begin to be dismantled by 'the beauty of nature'...faster and faster each day and hour...That is just as much the 'nature' of this place as the perceived beauty and innocence of 'nature'...I LOVE the Red-Rock country but I couldn't survive there without modern support.
I love the deep forest but I wouldn't survive there without modern support...even the most rugged people in the world now, Eskimoes and deep back to the landers, use modern devices like snowmobiles and iron axes/knives, etc.
I know a young woman who went to Evergreen State Communist College and got a degree in 'flint-knapping'. She did so much flint-knapping she ended up with carpal tunnel so bad, she was on SSI disability for years.
You can't fix stupidity and insanity, people have to do want to do that themselves...but I am tired, real tired, of having to bail them out of their stupid/insane pranks...let the chips fall where they may...if you disable yourself flint-knapping, you might have to starve to death, because I am not going to coddle you while you take your time to 'figure it out'.
Will I encourage and mentor you if you realize you are off-track and want to figure out a better way, before you ruin yourself?
Sure...I'm 68 and still trying to figure out a better way...but I don't have the financial or energetic resources to 'save you from yourself'!
Blessings to all🙏🏼
I want to return to bed and wake up in 200 years. Will the Eloy still rule the Morlocks then?
The mindset of current self-asserted leadership is "it is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission"...liberal reasoning, with no consequences, yet.
the last portion of that is very subjective
And that's a problem if you've got an agenda.
You guys are perceptive...I appreciate it....I wish I could be as clever in real-time as I sometimes am in online-time!😊
The lunatics are running the asylum...and we're all in the asylum...an open air asylum...where's that asteroid when you need it?🤣
It is essential, if your overarching goal is to destroy a culture and a society.
The Kommissars may be so stupid that they don't know they are pawns in a MUCH, MUCH bigger game than it appears to most.
I've been a 'student' of 'the shadow that runs the world', or 'the men/women behind the curtain' for more than a decade... and the only thing we can do about a diabolical plan which has been playing out for thousands of years... is to expose it and get a prayer life which focuses on what we want rather than what we got...we have to look where we want to go or we'll stumble and trip on every psychotic obstacle we encounter. I'm not good at this yet, but I'm practicing...publicly calling out corruption may not go well for us, but cowering in the shadows won't either...so it's choice...each to their own.😎
Why? If they don’t fund it, are they afraid we will lose our drug addicted population?
I think the commissioners need a field trip to Portland Oregon. Word is out that when you provide drug accessories, they will come.
I will email the BOCCC and invite them for a personal guided tour.
It should be mandatory because they obviously don’t understand that the behavior isn’t supporting health.
Or the 50k is just getting funneled elsewhere. I don’t know which is worse.
Hey, they don't even need to get out of their chairs.
https://stream.org/san-francisco-from-doom-loop-to-boom-loop/
Believe it when we see it. Yikes, that woman at the end of the video...
In today's PDN article on the closing of a large encampment in Port Townsend "Leathers said that, on a recent visit to the encampment, when asked where the residents would go, police officers said there were 30 beds open in a Port Angeles shelter." So are Jefferson taxpayers going to send some money this way too?
And how many times have I read comments from PA people saying "there's nowhere for them to go". Apparently there's somewhere for 30 of them to go, they just don't want to because they might have to follow rules.
I was flipping through the channels on the TV last night when I landed on one of the Seattle evening news shows. The subject at the moment was homelessness and the reporter was interviewing a man in one of the encampments. He had a key in his pocket to a free apartment nearby but chose to return to the street. When asked why by the reporter, he said he didn't like the confinement, or some such term, of the apartment. He preferred the freedom of the street. Affordable hosing is not going to solve all the homeless problem.
Anyone who refuses housing should be cut from all freebies. And why does he have the key? It should be given to someone else who would be grateful to have a roof over their heads.
😎'Unaffordable HOSING' is what we're getting...thanks for the typo!🥸
It was a typo, but, for the taxpayers footing the bill, affordable housing v. hosing is all the same thing. The Homeless Industrial Complex will absorb any and all money thrown at it and we will still have the same number of homeless. Or more.
Can't call these people homeless given they choose to live this way. Urban nomads works for me.
Many of those people work in PT , cant travel 120 miles a day to work.
I was referring to homeless people living in PA, and how many times I hear there's nowhere for them to go, and that the shelter is always full.
the police chief has stated several times in public that Serenity is not at capacity when he inquires. the shelter being full is a myth
Not even the mentally ill want to live in cages with crazy neighbors!
I get it!😎
I've heard that too but I've never heard a number this high.
Free everything for everybody...grants from heaven for all...magic money really does grow on trees...oh, wait, we can't log Doc Holliday, so no money trees there!
Well... just keep figuring out how to squeeze the taxpayer money tree...that'll work out fine, I'm sure!
BTW, our incomes fall just out of the exemption/deferment program levels, so those numbers need to be adjusted for 'inflation' as well...people are being marginalized and displaced...many have older mobile homes in parks and the rent increases are taking over half of many of their SSI checks.
Greed and corruption doesn't only happen in gov't...it's ubiquitous.
As usual, the lower income households are paying the biggest price, not only in dollars but in lifestyle and affordability.
The Left Behind was a rapture movie but we're being left behind while still here!😜
The park my mom was in was $440 before being bought be a greedy corporation 3 years ago. It's now $619 for current residents and for those moving in new, it's just short of $900.
sounds like when I contacted a sales agent about a property in Juniper Estates this is my understanding from that conversation.
Geoff have you looked into the little Hideaway court on south 3rd? I don't think their rates have gone crazy so they must still be privately owned. Also Baywood Village, though I think most of those homes are quite old. The Shipley Center owns Baywood.
I heard there was one for sale in a different court than my moms, the price was $70k which is great, very affordable. Then I was told the space rent was $900/month. That place has been sitting for more than 8 months. I also love how Sequim council just had a housing report done by an out of town consultant who said manufactured homes are "an important source of affordable housing in Sequim" and "mobile homes will likely continue to be an important source of deeply affordable housing citywide." It also says the average space rent is $400 to $500/month. Right, let's rely on these people for the correct statistics.
That’s true. I have a friend who lives in Juniper Estates and she is planning on moving but most likely her place won’t sell due to the high rent and even higher qualifications to buy one in there. 3 times the monthly rental income(which would be just over $900), plus over a 700 credit score. And that is for a park that has no clubhouse, pool, view, etc. it’s insane!
What info do you have that backs that up?
This question is for Jean Pratschner.
If Government was not spending our tax dollars on social engineering like DEI, MWBE, LGBTQ+, indigenous whatever and any other favored ethnicity, there would be no need for any tax increase of any kind. There are other tax dollar wastes on non-essentials like the arts and the homocentricity in believing humans can control climate. When our Governance focuses only on infrastructure, safety and economic opportunity I might endorse supporting it more, but not until then. More taxes is a parasite killing it's host. I can only find honest media in what is now characterized as alternative media and the CCW is a perfect example.
Envision no parasites...oh, wait...that would be another time-space reality all together! Visualize truth, justice, liberty, accountability and tough love...wherever it can occur...maybe not here?😎
A classic example of the difference between the so-called progressive political philosophy vs the conservative philosophy. The current commissioners and government staff never first look at ways to cut costs or eliminate personnel when times are tough. Instead they want to squeeze the taxpayer ad infinitum, believing they can fool enough uneducated voters to get their death by a thousand cuts increases passed year after year so they can keep the gravy train rolling.
It's never their fault for over spending other people's money. It's always the taxpayers' fault for not willingly giving them everything they ask for.
We, the public, just don't understand.
They 'overstand'. French-fry looked shocked when I said there is still an influx of the downtrodden coming here! Completely unaware of reality as we the 'understanders' see it!
I think this is another example of inversion of language....we need to overstand something to see it objectively, while their overstanding is, lording it over us.
Understanding is seeing something from below, which is also important.
We need both perspectives, but the meanings are inverted for 'us' and 'them'.
They 'understand' their programmer/masters perhaps at a subconscious level, I don't know, but there are obviously opposing realities we are dealing with.
The gap may be bridgeable but it requires all 'parties' to be desirous and probably desperate...there is a course of study called Non-violent Communication and there are, mostly older and low quality videos showing the practice in action... Marshall Rosenberg developed it from his experience as a psych-doctor being ineffective in helping people.
There are protocols available to cover all the woes we have but it requires all 'parties' to be willing...to be open...to be wrong...to reevaluate...to see both sides, etc. Hope for the best...study higher law and embody it...learn the art of debate...we're all works in progress...or regress!😎
Free bus rides, that's how you keep them warm and off the streets.
Rinse and repeat, going on 200,000 years!
We can only break the cycle when we go within and renew the mind...that might include 'sacrificing' the body, if not physically at first, gaining healthy detachment while in the body and projecting a new reality with the MIND!
In other words, not letting the programmed distractions and emotions run us.
Dunno, maybe this is the Yuga which will break through the curtain into a glorious new reality! But we have to let go of the old one first!😜
Right now, they have us captured in outrage and cognitive dissonance...it all comes from MIND, the precursor to every THING!😊
I can’t keep up.
And how do you know that those drug users/homeless are not in this Yuga already and what we're seeing here is not reality, but their vison IS reality?
Thank you Jeff Tozzer for pointing out the blatantly biased "one sided" sales pitch that Mark Ozias and the local failed "rag" that poses as a "newspaper" is spewing to the general public~! I hope that the good folks of Clallam County see Mark Ozias's weak effort to "film flam" the voters into voting for more taxes as the "hose job" that it obviously is~! IF the current Clallam County Commissioners and existing governments had a recent track record of reasonable fiscal management and they had been transparent and up front about their actions, I would be inclined to listen to them about their money issues, but that is definitely NOT the case. It is unconscionable that the Individuals in government are deceiving folks and pushing for them to be drained of even more money, especially at this time of widespread rising prices and economic hardship~! I am glad for those in our community who can pay higher taxes because they are not suffering like many others are, however, I hope that these folks who have enough money can show their compassion for those who are struggling to even pay their basic bills~!!! It is the height of ignorance & selfishness to vote for everyone to pay more & more taxes and fees, when it is well known that many in our community are being forced into making brutal decisions about their economic and even physical health because they don't have enough money to pay all of their basic bills. I would hope that the folks who are financially secure would consider what others are going through and the fact that if they fail to show due compassion now, they will soon discover that many in the working class here have had to move for better economic opportunities elsewhere and precious few will be moving here or staying here to replace those workers when they get a taste of how high the costs of living here have become~! Heed the old saying; What comes around, goes around~! We will soon be voting for or against the economic health of our own community like never before, so it would be wise to exhibit some compassion towards those who we need to be here to maintain a functioning community~!!!
Sincerely, Mike
Excellent, Jeff. Thank you for filling in the empty slots with substance we can all relate to.
Jeff, maybe you (since you are a great writer) should do a rebuttal to Ozias piece. He is bought and paid for by the tribe, letting them put more and more land into Tribe Land Trust. Why are property owners on the hook for mismanagement of county funds. People really need to get out the vote this year, but I still don't trust these people to be transparent and honest when it comes to voting if it furthers their political ambitions. Ozias wants to run for Congress or Senate (can't remember which) and needs to pad his resume with how he stole from the residents of Clallam County. He is so arrogant he thinks nothing can touch him since he has the backing of the Tribes. Please speak up and tell your friends, neighbors, coworkers, shoppers, anyone you can to VOTE NO ON PROP 1, if we need to pick up ballots from people who are unable to send them in, I'd be glad to help. With all their soft on crime policies, it's no wonder we spend millions on public defenders for repeat offenders, you'd think after 10 arrests these people would wake up but they can care less. Do you think this will be the last year they raise taxes on property owners? Last year it was 2% because of the way it was written up.
Thanks, Diane. It's a great idea. The Gazette already said they won't run an opinion column from me, but I'm able to submit letters to the editor. I have in the past, and they don't acknowledge that they receive them (and don't publish them). I think they are ghosting me :)
They only ghost the very best. Yes, two of my letters disappeared without a trace. Must be the Bermuda Triangle over there.
Just write it up and give it to someone else to send it in to the editor.
All those searches about Louisiana gave me hope he's looking for another place to ruin.
His constant interest in seizing our private wells and water systems for county management ought to get him run out of town on a rail.
You'd think!
Commissioners need to set priorities for spending, granting, based on the money thats already on the books, NOT the FUTURE OR POSSIBLE money by raising taxes. Pretend they are on FIXED INCOME like us, their BOSSES, starting with their own salaries and outsourcing to even foreign Advisers and consultants. People do this: get an income set up (say, a job or business or pension), then plan how to spend that money on what is needed, and save some (just in case). The Commissioners spend the money, then come after us for the funding to cover the projects, and raises. Thats why we are going broke. TOO MUCH SPENDING BEFORE THE MONEY HITS THE TABLE!
Mark Lane chief executive officer of county finances vehemently reminded the comms in 23 or 24 they must refrain from spending beyond the budget. No comment from the bocc. I applaud Lanes request and shame the comms for ignoring the obvious.
You were crystal clear last night and a breath of fresh air.
Dang, reality hurts!🫣
Local press bought and paid for by Kommissars. Expect anything else than pandering?
The best government stolen globalist money can buy!
Visualize their dream crumbling and being replaced by a higher order of reality!😎
There is no incentive to tighten the belt. Give Commissioners a $48k base pay and tie their extra compensation to performance in staying on budget and producing a surplus and you would see positive results. Poet Laureate, Director of DEI, worthless studies would all be out the door not to mention every piece of land elected to be put in the Tribal Trust would be scrutinized and opposed. Progressive? Yes. That's my definition of Progressive.
Good idea! BTW, no offense to the poet laureate but it is an Evergreen Diploma and the poetry...well see or listen to some of it yourself...The county only paid $1000, but the Communist Library System (with all the child-porn, transgender books) supplies the other $9000, over 2 years. More 'magic' money? NO, that would be taxpayer money too! Maybe the poet should learn to write good poetry instead of fantasy conversations with plastic milk crates and sidewalk lampposts! Just sayin'!😎
Why not just start a GoFundMe for the county and have Mr. Ozias administer it (with an oversight committee, of course) and that way people that do have cash to spare can save the County from whatever new and catastrophic event occurs or, if they are of diminished financial capacity (as seems to be the overall effect) they can forgo their charitable contribution until such time as their needs have changed? I am attempting a new record for run on sentences. Follow me for more tips on how to avoid having your pockets picked without permission.
😊GREAT Teri! 1000 likes to you! The oversight committee would be a stickler but I could participate at some level...using the higher value references as an overseer base of conduct, of course, not relying on my own ego to be righteous...honestly, 'I never argue, I just explain to people why I'm right!' (Nick Freitas paraphrase)
Thanks Jeff.
Everyday… every stinken’ bit you bring forward…
helps us connect those dots!
I released my thinking 🤔 on this one.. i am at the point where I ask myself..
- Why, are we depending on Government Funding to keep our County Safe, Effective, Efficient & Thriving?
We never needed it…
-Why are we not using our Timber as Revenue?
-Why are we Funding, Medical & Prison/Jail release program(s) for *potentially non-citizen incarcerated individuals, who may have been released from various prisons & countries?
-When they are caught, then that gets them into the system to qualify for benefits 🤦🏻♀️💁🏻♀️
-this is another *Pilot Program
Another Switch of hand..
Dirty politics, Mark is a master at it.
Smooth with practice....if we didn't know, we wouldn't know...that's the nature of most sociopaths...intelligent, well spoken, good at deceit and lying...giving one appearance while up to something else.
If they were doing their real jobs they wouldn't have time to peruse the internet during work time. They don't give a shit! I'm running right out of shits! I'm out of shits for them. Visualize vacant seats at BOCCK. Non-violently of course!.🥸 Miracles are always possible! Natural catastrophes, resignations for 'personal reasons'...maybe others?😜
Lets remind them who are the employers and who are the employees! We are the bosses, we hired them, and We can fire them if the do bad work. Remind them! They need to do good work or Out the door.
We didn't 'hire' them...they were 'selected', bought and paid for and selected by a voting public which represents neither the majority nor the righteous...mind-blind party voters for either side is a catastrophic way to conduct public business...
Under all the bullshit, MOST of us want the same things, but we are divided, (psyops) on purpose...divide and conquer is not just a meme...it's an ancient truth...how to bridge the gap is the challenge BUT attitudes and awarenesses do have to change with a willingness to find a better way from ENOUGH of us...what the magic number is, I don't know..,but we are not in charge of outcomes, only intentions and actions.😇
With all the money given by the County to various NGOs and other non-County organizations that seem to have as their leaders our County elected officials, isn't it time the "ethics police" to take a hard look at where these organizations are spending our money on items like 'directors' expenses? Seems like there is a lot of room for conflict of interest there. Are our Commissioners milking the system fir their own benefit?
We ARE the only ethics police available...keep going!😎
You're probably right, because the County Prosecutor seems to have no interest. Wonder if the Federal DOJ would be interested?