I'm not that good at math, but $10,000 (Poet Laureate) and $10,000 (Pizza Parties) is a hell of a lot of money. I was taught you pay your bills first, then plan your vacation.
There is too many times we are subject to "Pop-Up" advertising for the Tribes. These suddenly appearing subtle messages keep reminding us that we are "guest" on THEIR lands from time "immemorial", or that the Tribes are the only ones who know how to "steward" our lands. I consider this brainwashing and offensive to the other residents of Clallam County, which is feeding their own resentment.
I'll try my best to recall what a neighbor if mine, who attends high school sports events in PA, told me occurs at the final home games depending on the sport. It's at this event that graduating seniors receive some sort of recognition in front of the crowd where a representative of the tribe gives them something (blanket?) and the representative gives the senior, and crowd, the admonishment about being on tribal lands.
It's funny. I keep hearing the tribe say they've been here " from time immemorial". Just because you were the last person to occupy an area doesn't mean you were there from the beginning of time! I think it's a scam for certain people to "pay" till time immemorial...
Kathy, also remember the Tribe claims you are a "guest" on THEIR land, which implies ownership of your home and land. It is that attitude of a narcissistic belief that we owe them just because they were born. We all have earned our way in this world.
Well it’s not their land, it’s no one’s land. We pay for it until we die then it’s someone else’s land. They are just a little high on pushing people around, just don’t give them any power by feeling guilty. I went to school with and have good friends who are Jamestown they love their cars, phones, and comfortable lives. It’s hot air
You all realize that your taxes continue to be increased at the same rate that these extraneous groups, parties, liberal events and parades continue to be grant funded? There is only one pot of money, and it is divvyed up amongst those writing the grants who make it appear to be for one thing...and inevitably wind up being for several others. Creative financing and you're the bank. The very same reason why bills before our political parties are hundreds, if not thousands, of pages long. They bury the truth in a bundle of words and no one reads the whole book.
As for the tribes, they can either choose to be sovereign and autonomous, or they can continue demanding handouts and 'reparations'. As it stands, it looks like double dipping and hypocrisy.
I submitted a written request to NOLS to include The Epoch Times newspaper in their periodical collection for public reading. Crickets. For those of you not aware: The Epoch Times is a conservative weekly newspaper much like The New York Times in format. It is chock-a block full of world news, art, history, a children's section and it has a page of 'funnies.' While I will never subscribe to the PND, Gazette or Seattle Times, I'll gladly support a paper that's not afraid to report the truth. I guess our public library feels otherwise.
Government funded entities, more focused on their own agendas, clearly understand the art of funding and public sentiment/support. They'll fund their pet projects with forced taxpayer dollars (taxes), but feign poverty with projects with wide public support and make taxpayers decide whether to approve those projects via levies.
A classic, when I lived in another county, was their medic vs needle exchange program. The council happily spent taxpayer dollars on the needle exchange program citing X, Y, and Z reasons, but forced the funding of the Medic One program to a vote of the people. Those levies always passed because everyone wants the assurance of life safety. Had they flipped it, funded the Medic One program, and put the needle exchange program to a vote one could clearly envision the majority of the voters might not approve raising their taxes for something they wouldn't perceive a benefit for.
SPECIAL MEETING CLALLAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
the Board of Commissioners will be attending a joint meeting with the City of Port Angeles at 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 321 East 5th Street, Port Angeles
I am not for this Poet Laureate. Jeff brings this point up to the Commissioners often. Why do we PAY someone to read poetry. If a person wants to do so, volunteer, especially if one is passionate about it. You are right, Jeff. CC, pinch those pennies!
The method of dissemination for propaganda under the guise of "cultural ennrichment". Out-of-context language is a tool of the liberal left; many are not even aware that they are being led down the proverbial garden path. Indoctrination has been transpiring for over 4 decades, beginning in daycare facilities (homes), and right on through college. Common sense is being bred out of so-called civilization, our Constitutions, at any level of governance may as well be written in Chinese. Generations are now in place for what we see unfolding, the stage is set.
"A government that gives you everything you have can take away everything you have."
Reagan.
Including salmon art or something to cheer up your "climate grief." Or artfully display your awful "colonization" to repent your sins for having the ingenuity to develop a long knife (rifle) and a coffee grinder, to be deemed worth saving in dire circumstances.
In my younger days the library was part of the "core services" in the blue pages of the phone book. Now the blue pages outnumber the yellow pages and home owners are the official slaves of the Democrat party.
The Democrats never get enough. They feed on their own. They only care about power and not Democracy. A bunch of us are right on the front lines daily because they have made things so bad good people who never before knew each other, have rallied to stop them. Its a very pure grassroots movement. Nobody is being leveraged or paid to stand up to our local global regime.
They have spent 20 plus years handing our economy off to the world in order to address equity and share the wealth, while they built residential only communities that are not sustainable or good for the environment in any way. They have no real freeway system here and have to lie to build bridges by claiming there is spawning access strait up a mountainside.
The world economy, Amazon and the tribes have drained local brick and mortar (business) and revenue. They pollute the world for free with the help of the marginalized victim posse, who is making America pay for being so unfair and rotten.
Now they cannibalize upon the remaining revenue source which is homeowners.
The obvious "equitable" solution would be a nautical mile or air mile tax on the world economy, an Amazon lane mile tax, and a tribal user and impact fee tax.
But, that contradicts the entire ICLEI agreement and will never happen.
Buckle up homeowners. Its gonna take way more than Tim Eyman or Jim Walsh to save you.
This is why so many subdivisions are greenlighted, like for 7th, or in Carlsborg, John Brown Road project? and maybe the John Wayne Marina?. Have to Get property tax revenue coming in the front door to offset land going out the back door and off our tax rolls. Renters are maybe the smart ones, they can walk away at the end of the lease period but a homeowner now that's another story when it comes time to sell.
Somewhere out there is a judge that said, "Salmon have rights. Long ago the salmon had the rivers to swim up and lay their eggs. Then you settlers built roads and destroyed their habitat. Now you must spend millions and billions to correct those sins and restore the original habitat."
And out there is a judge that is waiting to say to Sequim, "You have diverted the rivers and streams to irrigate farmland and to supply potable water to a community. Now you must spend millions to correct those wrongs and restore the habitat to its original state. This appears to be the direction we is movin in 3 Crab residents?
Just look at the USA on May 17, 2025 if you don't think you can find a judge to rule in your favor. Pick a topic! Ask people like Tim Eyman or other people who have filed initiatives. And even look at when the Initiative passed re. parental rights a few years ago, the Democrats attacked it in this last legislative session. Looks like parents are only here to procreate, after that, the state owns your kid. Don't like your parents? Call CPS. Don't like your sexual orientation the state will help you, let your counselor know because schools don't have to share info with parents. Keep passing those levies parents.
Try to sell a home with high real estate taxes and where you turn on the tap and behold, the only drip is you. Maybe today, your property is the biggest asset in your portfolio but a few years from now?
Although I would like to see that crazy dude tear off his Rv door again. That would be some great and modern local culture for the public to see. Maybe a warm up for the strait to the chin culture display
He has the lonely old ladies that are not afraid of nice young bears eating out of his hands. They give him rides with bags of groceries and long concerned talks. They haven't seen him when he doesn't get what he wants...
The book clubs are the same way. If you’re not interested in the work of gay or POC authors (or if you’d rather focus on texts instead of authors, regardless of their categories), forget it.
I agree. Last time I was participating in the book clubs, many attendees noticed the same. We submitted titles that WE wanted to read, and got some. Unfortunately, if we don’t participate/push back/demand what WE want from our library, they are going to continue to push the narrative that benefits THEM.
Its the only thing socialism or communism can do. Make slaves, kill and imprison opposition. What else have they ever done.
Look at what they have done locally. Go after Jeff and his "followers." Go after Jeff. Then keep going after "Jeff's people." They know exactly where their opposition lives and does not have any problems trying to take you out anyway they can.
To them its be a slave for us or suffer our wrath. Even if they have to get you while you are volunteering to help others at a church, they will not let that stop them. They went after free speech and tried to punish opposition here by a guilt by association concept.
They live by a the ends justify the means creed. Eating their own, making deals with sworn enemies, re-negotiating treaties, lying, cheating and stealing whatever they can grasp.
Yes Eric, I'm TOZZER PEOPLE! I would fight a bear for him. Maybe not a Grizzly Bear or a Black Bear or even a Polar Bear, but I'd fight a Care Bear for him for sure. Yep, I'd fight that sonofabitch! ; )
Jeff, I couldn't figure out if the CRC survey was on or off, but thought I'd ask a question. A friend sent me this: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MZSFB38
Its a CRC survey, pay attention to the ethics question, the yes/no buttons are reversed from all the other questions.
This is the first time I've seen it. But I know the commission put it out there, I just haven't clicked on it. Wow, that water Steward question isn't phrased neutrally. I hadn't noticed that question about the ethics, thanks for pointing it out.
I see poetry as a niche interest. Perhaps a passion. I further liken the poetry niche to quilting, macramé, car racing, games, crossword puzzles, etc.. Niches / passions can, should and do fund themselves. Those like minded in their passion can and do pay for that venue. I cannot speak for others, but I rarely find poetry either enlightening or stimulating, ( enjoyable ? ). So my question is why public funds are being spent on one of so many interests. On a similar majority interest path I am confused about our current societal preoccupation to educate the masses on sexual deviancy. I see no value in educating a child to the fact they may have been born the wrong gender or into the wrong body. I'm fairly confident the human majority is heterosexual and not understanding the need to focus so intently on a deviating minority. Sexuality is personal and challenging path.
I see no need to educate our children that they might be different. Assuming a child's sexuality does deviate from the norm, it will become self evident.
Guaranteed that if there was a Queer Quilting Club that it would be grant funded. The focus is on the topic, not the product.
The vast majority of us were, and still are, completely oblivious of other's sexual proclivities. I never wanted to know what it is that makes you 'special' and I still don't. It is personal.
This planet must be the 'queerest' place in this sector of the galaxy..I mean that in the former sense of queer, since lost to time..."very different."
A friend's wife worked for the King County library system maybe 10 years ago. She quit after she'd had enough with their controlling emotional progressive activism.
Like the P.J. O'Rourke quote. If he was alive today he'd probably see merit in adding teenage girls at the end of the quote you included at the end of the article.
But How about P.J.'s quote about government "The mystery of government is NOT how Washington (or we can add Olympia, Clallam County, or Sequim City Council, NOLS) works but how to get it to stop,"
I'm not that good at math, but $10,000 (Poet Laureate) and $10,000 (Pizza Parties) is a hell of a lot of money. I was taught you pay your bills first, then plan your vacation.
There is too many times we are subject to "Pop-Up" advertising for the Tribes. These suddenly appearing subtle messages keep reminding us that we are "guest" on THEIR lands from time "immemorial", or that the Tribes are the only ones who know how to "steward" our lands. I consider this brainwashing and offensive to the other residents of Clallam County, which is feeding their own resentment.
I'll try my best to recall what a neighbor if mine, who attends high school sports events in PA, told me occurs at the final home games depending on the sport. It's at this event that graduating seniors receive some sort of recognition in front of the crowd where a representative of the tribe gives them something (blanket?) and the representative gives the senior, and crowd, the admonishment about being on tribal lands.
It's funny. I keep hearing the tribe say they've been here " from time immemorial". Just because you were the last person to occupy an area doesn't mean you were there from the beginning of time! I think it's a scam for certain people to "pay" till time immemorial...
Kathy, also remember the Tribe claims you are a "guest" on THEIR land, which implies ownership of your home and land. It is that attitude of a narcissistic belief that we owe them just because they were born. We all have earned our way in this world.
The Mammoths and Saber-tooth Cats were here first and they're working on bringing them back...that should be something to see!😁
Displaced peoples displacing people...sounds about right!😎
Well it’s not their land, it’s no one’s land. We pay for it until we die then it’s someone else’s land. They are just a little high on pushing people around, just don’t give them any power by feeling guilty. I went to school with and have good friends who are Jamestown they love their cars, phones, and comfortable lives. It’s hot air
You all realize that your taxes continue to be increased at the same rate that these extraneous groups, parties, liberal events and parades continue to be grant funded? There is only one pot of money, and it is divvyed up amongst those writing the grants who make it appear to be for one thing...and inevitably wind up being for several others. Creative financing and you're the bank. The very same reason why bills before our political parties are hundreds, if not thousands, of pages long. They bury the truth in a bundle of words and no one reads the whole book.
As for the tribes, they can either choose to be sovereign and autonomous, or they can continue demanding handouts and 'reparations'. As it stands, it looks like double dipping and hypocrisy.
I submitted a written request to NOLS to include The Epoch Times newspaper in their periodical collection for public reading. Crickets. For those of you not aware: The Epoch Times is a conservative weekly newspaper much like The New York Times in format. It is chock-a block full of world news, art, history, a children's section and it has a page of 'funnies.' While I will never subscribe to the PND, Gazette or Seattle Times, I'll gladly support a paper that's not afraid to report the truth. I guess our public library feels otherwise.
Best value you can get for @$100 a year. (Digital Subscription) Epoch...
Oh, thanks for the heads up. I’ll request as well.
This is the only comment needed here to summate what's going on with these government funded activists. I suppose SSGL and the LOWV meet here too.
Government funded entities, more focused on their own agendas, clearly understand the art of funding and public sentiment/support. They'll fund their pet projects with forced taxpayer dollars (taxes), but feign poverty with projects with wide public support and make taxpayers decide whether to approve those projects via levies.
A classic, when I lived in another county, was their medic vs needle exchange program. The council happily spent taxpayer dollars on the needle exchange program citing X, Y, and Z reasons, but forced the funding of the Medic One program to a vote of the people. Those levies always passed because everyone wants the assurance of life safety. Had they flipped it, funded the Medic One program, and put the needle exchange program to a vote one could clearly envision the majority of the voters might not approve raising their taxes for something they wouldn't perceive a benefit for.
Thank you for sharing. And it's so true!
"Clever Girl!' Jurassic Park.😬
Thank you for speaking up & being the voice of many!
I’m telling ya-
Clallam County Economic Development Council.
Colleen MacAleer is the host. 💥💥
They took the blood money.
You're welcome.
SPECIAL MEETING CLALLAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
the Board of Commissioners will be attending a joint meeting with the City of Port Angeles at 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 321 East 5th Street, Port Angeles
https://clallamcowa.portal.civicclerk.com/event/3505/files/agenda/3773
Thanks, Diana! You're so on top of it!
Thank you Diane.
💥🙌🏻🇺🇸
McAleer empire is a danger to 'democracy'.🥸
A conflict of Interest, no doubt… ⚠️
I am not for this Poet Laureate. Jeff brings this point up to the Commissioners often. Why do we PAY someone to read poetry. If a person wants to do so, volunteer, especially if one is passionate about it. You are right, Jeff. CC, pinch those pennies!
The method of dissemination for propaganda under the guise of "cultural ennrichment". Out-of-context language is a tool of the liberal left; many are not even aware that they are being led down the proverbial garden path. Indoctrination has been transpiring for over 4 decades, beginning in daycare facilities (homes), and right on through college. Common sense is being bred out of so-called civilization, our Constitutions, at any level of governance may as well be written in Chinese. Generations are now in place for what we see unfolding, the stage is set.
Rockefellers' openly declared that as one agenda...they captured the education, medical and pharmaceutical businesses in the early 1900's.
We're pretty far downstream now.😎
"A government that gives you everything you have can take away everything you have."
Reagan.
Including salmon art or something to cheer up your "climate grief." Or artfully display your awful "colonization" to repent your sins for having the ingenuity to develop a long knife (rifle) and a coffee grinder, to be deemed worth saving in dire circumstances.
In my younger days the library was part of the "core services" in the blue pages of the phone book. Now the blue pages outnumber the yellow pages and home owners are the official slaves of the Democrat party.
The Democrats never get enough. They feed on their own. They only care about power and not Democracy. A bunch of us are right on the front lines daily because they have made things so bad good people who never before knew each other, have rallied to stop them. Its a very pure grassroots movement. Nobody is being leveraged or paid to stand up to our local global regime.
2021 SERN workshop talks about art and "climate grief."
I'm developing 'oppression grief'! I need a grant!😱
They have spent 20 plus years handing our economy off to the world in order to address equity and share the wealth, while they built residential only communities that are not sustainable or good for the environment in any way. They have no real freeway system here and have to lie to build bridges by claiming there is spawning access strait up a mountainside.
The world economy, Amazon and the tribes have drained local brick and mortar (business) and revenue. They pollute the world for free with the help of the marginalized victim posse, who is making America pay for being so unfair and rotten.
Now they cannibalize upon the remaining revenue source which is homeowners.
The obvious "equitable" solution would be a nautical mile or air mile tax on the world economy, an Amazon lane mile tax, and a tribal user and impact fee tax.
But, that contradicts the entire ICLEI agreement and will never happen.
Buckle up homeowners. Its gonna take way more than Tim Eyman or Jim Walsh to save you.
This is why so many subdivisions are greenlighted, like for 7th, or in Carlsborg, John Brown Road project? and maybe the John Wayne Marina?. Have to Get property tax revenue coming in the front door to offset land going out the back door and off our tax rolls. Renters are maybe the smart ones, they can walk away at the end of the lease period but a homeowner now that's another story when it comes time to sell.
The renters load will undoubtedly be passed on to homeowners too. As soon as they get through stuffing the culture tax down homeowners throats
Somewhere out there is a judge that said, "Salmon have rights. Long ago the salmon had the rivers to swim up and lay their eggs. Then you settlers built roads and destroyed their habitat. Now you must spend millions and billions to correct those sins and restore the original habitat."
And out there is a judge that is waiting to say to Sequim, "You have diverted the rivers and streams to irrigate farmland and to supply potable water to a community. Now you must spend millions to correct those wrongs and restore the habitat to its original state. This appears to be the direction we is movin in 3 Crab residents?
Just look at the USA on May 17, 2025 if you don't think you can find a judge to rule in your favor. Pick a topic! Ask people like Tim Eyman or other people who have filed initiatives. And even look at when the Initiative passed re. parental rights a few years ago, the Democrats attacked it in this last legislative session. Looks like parents are only here to procreate, after that, the state owns your kid. Don't like your parents? Call CPS. Don't like your sexual orientation the state will help you, let your counselor know because schools don't have to share info with parents. Keep passing those levies parents.
Try to sell a home with high real estate taxes and where you turn on the tap and behold, the only drip is you. Maybe today, your property is the biggest asset in your portfolio but a few years from now?
Although I would like to see that crazy dude tear off his Rv door again. That would be some great and modern local culture for the public to see. Maybe a warm up for the strait to the chin culture display
John, all you need is 3 menopausal women to confront the dude. Nobody, not even husbands can withstand us. Game over! We admire Judge Judy.
He has the lonely old ladies that are not afraid of nice young bears eating out of his hands. They give him rides with bags of groceries and long concerned talks. They haven't seen him when he doesn't get what he wants...
I never get to see the good stuff😔
But more to come, so...😊
Walk away to WHERE?
At least we can be our own slumlords as we watch our property decay because we can't afford to keep up the maintenance!
All part of the plan.😎
Leave it like Rayonier did and no one will want it.
CEPA FATIGUE!😳
The book clubs are the same way. If you’re not interested in the work of gay or POC authors (or if you’d rather focus on texts instead of authors, regardless of their categories), forget it.
I agree. Last time I was participating in the book clubs, many attendees noticed the same. We submitted titles that WE wanted to read, and got some. Unfortunately, if we don’t participate/push back/demand what WE want from our library, they are going to continue to push the narrative that benefits THEM.
Kiddie porn is ok though.👹😈😱
Its the only thing socialism or communism can do. Make slaves, kill and imprison opposition. What else have they ever done.
Look at what they have done locally. Go after Jeff and his "followers." Go after Jeff. Then keep going after "Jeff's people." They know exactly where their opposition lives and does not have any problems trying to take you out anyway they can.
To them its be a slave for us or suffer our wrath. Even if they have to get you while you are volunteering to help others at a church, they will not let that stop them. They went after free speech and tried to punish opposition here by a guilt by association concept.
They live by a the ends justify the means creed. Eating their own, making deals with sworn enemies, re-negotiating treaties, lying, cheating and stealing whatever they can grasp.
Its sickening to watch.
TOZZER PEOPLE
Yes Eric, I'm TOZZER PEOPLE! I would fight a bear for him. Maybe not a Grizzly Bear or a Black Bear or even a Polar Bear, but I'd fight a Care Bear for him for sure. Yep, I'd fight that sonofabitch! ; )
Thanks, Jennifer. And I would mud wrestle an entire rugby team for you :)
Now that's just selfish on your part!😅
Jeff, I couldn't figure out if the CRC survey was on or off, but thought I'd ask a question. A friend sent me this: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MZSFB38
Its a CRC survey, pay attention to the ethics question, the yes/no buttons are reversed from all the other questions.
This is the first time I've seen it. But I know the commission put it out there, I just haven't clicked on it. Wow, that water Steward question isn't phrased neutrally. I hadn't noticed that question about the ethics, thanks for pointing it out.
All Yes/No questions have the yes on top. Should there be an Ethics Board has the yes on bottom.
Inverted, subverted , perverted...that's the modus operandi.😎
What size t-shirt?
Go, J!😄
I thought they were just misunderstood by their mommies.
Are you sure we can't negotiate a fair deal with them?🤣
I see poetry as a niche interest. Perhaps a passion. I further liken the poetry niche to quilting, macramé, car racing, games, crossword puzzles, etc.. Niches / passions can, should and do fund themselves. Those like minded in their passion can and do pay for that venue. I cannot speak for others, but I rarely find poetry either enlightening or stimulating, ( enjoyable ? ). So my question is why public funds are being spent on one of so many interests. On a similar majority interest path I am confused about our current societal preoccupation to educate the masses on sexual deviancy. I see no value in educating a child to the fact they may have been born the wrong gender or into the wrong body. I'm fairly confident the human majority is heterosexual and not understanding the need to focus so intently on a deviating minority. Sexuality is personal and challenging path.
I see no need to educate our children that they might be different. Assuming a child's sexuality does deviate from the norm, it will become self evident.
Guaranteed that if there was a Queer Quilting Club that it would be grant funded. The focus is on the topic, not the product.
The vast majority of us were, and still are, completely oblivious of other's sexual proclivities. I never wanted to know what it is that makes you 'special' and I still don't. It is personal.
This planet must be the 'queerest' place in this sector of the galaxy..I mean that in the former sense of queer, since lost to time..."very different."
We are like the Star Wars bar scene!🤪
Garry, I also don't appreciate poetry, except maybe Billy T Wilson's "Roses are Red..." I get that one ; )
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Our Kommissioners
Govern like Poo
Where's my $10,000 Lorel ette award?
I get one too, so Kommissars need to double the grant!😆
Commies are red
RINOS are blue
Grift and corruption
Can be yours too!
Dang, we're smoking' hot now!🤪
Yes we're childish, that's the point...
Never grow all the way up, too boring!😊
And that’s why my family no longer visits the library!!!
A friend's wife worked for the King County library system maybe 10 years ago. She quit after she'd had enough with their controlling emotional progressive activism.
Controlling Emotional Progressive Activism. CEPA. New acronym every day!
I have CEPA fatigue and I just found out what it was!😬
Thanks for the information. Did not realize that was going on.
We're just spoofin' Kathy...it's all just made up!
I hope!😇
On point as usual. There are plenty of poets around who would be happy to read their works for free at any local library or tattoo parlor.
William, you are more than absolutely correct. I've had to choke through them and pictures of grandchildren at too many dinner parties.
We have two Expert poets right here and I'll bet there are MORE where those came from!
Not free though...$10,000 per poem!🤣
If you can do it to the tune of "Barnacle Bill, the Sailor" I'll send the request to the BOCC!
Like the P.J. O'Rourke quote. If he was alive today he'd probably see merit in adding teenage girls at the end of the quote you included at the end of the article.
But How about P.J.'s quote about government "The mystery of government is NOT how Washington (or we can add Olympia, Clallam County, or Sequim City Council, NOLS) works but how to get it to stop,"