The commissioners did not reply to yesterday's email asking about the process they use to investigate requests by NGOs before issuing letters of support. Here is today's email sent to the board of the William Shore Memorial Pool:
Dear Pool Board Members Mike French, Randy Johnson, Mark Hodgson, LaTrisha Suggs, and Greg Shield,
When the shower voucher program was reinstated, board members stated that there had been no reported incidents associated with the program. Since then, a local parent has reported that their child picked up what appeared to be a fentanyl patch in a family changing area at the pool, raising concerns about safety in a facility used by families.
Can the Board explain what specific safety protocols are in place for voucher recipients, what training staff receive to identify and respond to potential drug-related hazards, and whether the Board has reconsidered the risks associated with continuing the program?
Politically though that response might have been a smart one. "I will examine the facts and get back to you". LOL When I was younger I met hundreds of guys similar to Mike French I think that either Susan C Bonallo or Jennifer called him "The French Tickler". I guarantee that guys with his personality are impervious to criticism. Their mental structure is separate from that of the average citizen who is not a narcissist.
What a lame excuse for a “pool board”. Everyone, remember these names in case they run for a future office. Where is their respect for a job well done? Don’t think that is part of their moral make-up. Losers, completely removed losers. Shame on you!
Thank you to the Calico Cat Club for organizing this forum for the people of Clallam County. This is what community engagement looks like. It raises an important question: Who do our county commissioners represent? Their recent actions make the answer increasingly clear. When elected officials refuse to sit for a couple of hours to listen to their constituents and answer questions, it signals that the temperature has become “too hot in the kitchen.” They do not want to hear what we see every day. They do not want to acknowledge the decline occurring in this county.
It should trouble every one of us that human beings — many in severe mental distress from drug use — are sleeping on the ground in our parks, on our sidewalks, and in our neighborhoods. We are repeatedly told that we lack compassion. But ignoring suffering is not compassion. Allowing people to deteriorate in public is not compassion. Providing inpatient treatment, real recovery options, and meaningful pathways to stability — that is compassion.
Not everyone will choose sobriety, but many will if given a chance. This county should be investing in inpatient treatment centers, not doubling down on an endless cycle of grant-funded programs with little measurable outcome. The lure of grant money flowing to NGOs has become too great. Jobs are created, buzzwords are repeated, and the public is expected to nod along. Meanwhile, accountability is scarce, and the community continues to decline.
People are right to be frustrated. I am frustrated. And when election season arrives, we must remember what we see. Change happens one seat at a time. That begins with the next commissioner race by voting for Jake and continues the following year. Accountability is not partisan — it is the foundation of public service.
Today is also June 6, the anniversary of D Day. I know my next point may draw criticism, but this is my perspective. We dedicate an entire month to Pride celebrations, yet I would prefer to see more attention given to the men who fought and died for our freedoms. How many of the pride celebration attendees know what today is? Do these folks realize without the heroes who came before us and kept this nation free, that they would not be able to celebrate as they do? I have stood on the beaches of Normandy overwhelmed with emotion. I have walked the American cemetery there, bowing my head in reverence for husbands, sons, and brothers who never made it home. Their sacrifice is overwhelming. Too many veterans still suffer from PTSD, and their struggles are real, I have seen it.
So, this month, I will honor our veterans in my own way. I will remember the cost of freedom and the responsibility we have to safeguard our community, our values, and our future.
Spot on CAS!! I'm with you. We don't honor the Veterans or our First Responders enough, they step up to do those required jobs, and to put their lives on the line to maintain our way of life!!
You won't get criticism from me, CAS. I'm with you in remembering those who fought with unimaginable dedication and heroism to win the battles to win the wars. The parades for these men and women feature pride, honor, sacrifice, respect, and love of country. I, too, honor veterans past and present in my own way, and I will continue to do so because I am a grateful American.
I'm a veteran and what you say is spot on and I think back as a in the early 60's and 70's that men and women came home and were spit on..our vet's encountered alot more than the alphabet people
I am really confused this morning. I recognize there is different lifestyles, sexual preferences, dress attire, and different chemistry make up in our society. What I do not understand is the celebration of a month long lifestyle. No other minority is offered this perk and parades, picnics,free stuff, and so forth monthlong.Are we going to have a homeless month soon?
I am perplexed at what we celebrate with open arms for a month and what we celebrate for a day. I know I will get some backlash on this but it seems like we as Americans we lose our priorities in making celebrations for the minorities more important than soldiers , God, and
Independence Day. Where is the balance? Hope I did not offend anyone.
Veterans get one day. We clean up the area around the bell, move the tents and drug users out of sight for a few hours, and call it good.
But who you sleep with? Apparently that deserves an entire month.
Pride has become so political that it's hard to recognize what it was originally supposed to be about. Everywhere you look, there's another proclamation, another flag, another event, and another reminder that certain groups are supposed to be viewed as victims.
And here's the irony: I've never seen a group spend so much time talking about inclusion while being so quick to shut out anyone who disagrees with them. Every June we're told how diverse and welcoming everything is, but try questioning any part of the agenda and see how much tolerance you get in return.
Read this on X. I couldn't have said it any better.
What started as a stand for equal rights jumped the shark into full-blown victim Olympics, identity parades, and “look at me” validation theater.
Real pride?
It’s living your life with quiet strength, personal responsibility, and zero need for a month-long applause break. Not this endless costume show demanding the world bow down.
Ditch the spectacle. Be who you are. Live it without begging for likes and special treatment.
America needs strong families and real character. Not this.
I remember hearing similar opinions in the 90’s in Sunday School but knowing in my 9-5 job I would see gay couples step up and foster children in the system. Not one family in the church I attended fostered children. Gay couples didn’t have equal rights.
And usually with the confidence of someone who has never once wondered if they might be reading the Bible through a fog machine.
But this is why context matters.
Hermeneutics is how we interpret Scripture.
Exegesis is drawing meaning out of the text instead of cramming our favorite outrage into it.
And when you actually slow down, those LGTBQ “clobber verses” are not nearly as simple as people pretend.
Even Sodom is more complicated than the convenient label. Ezekiel names arrogance, excess, neglect of the poor, and refusal to help the needy as the sin of the city.
Interesting how rarely that part trends. 😉
But here is what is not hazy:
God is LOVE. (1 John 4:8)
Jesus said the greatest commands
are to LOVE God
and LOVE our neighbor.
Jesus said the world would know His disciples by their LOVE.
Not by their theology.
Or their ability to win comment sections.
LOVE.
So here is the question:
Where is the love for our LGBTQ friends?
Actually, that may be the wrong question. Because Christians will usually grade our own homework and give ourselves extra credit for “speaking truth in love.” You know, "loving the sinner, but hating the sin."
So maybe we should ask the people on the receiving end instead.
LGBTQ friends…
when Christians talk about you…
when we post about you…
when we preach about you…
when we vote about you…
when we quote Scripture at you…
do you feel loved?
Because if our theology feels like good news to us, but terror to the people Jesus told us to love… we may not be defending truth.
We may be failing love.
You can quote verses all day.
You can defend your doctrine.
You can call it biblical conviction.
But if your theology makes you cruel, arrogant, dismissive, mocking, or indifferent to someone’s pain or struggle… you may not be defending Scripture.
You must not have read the Bible very carefully. It says love thy neighbor and not to judge them. It does not say you have to agree with them. You can
NOT change the Bible because it is 2026. Note it is as written not the change people want it to say. It sounds like you are hiding behind the scripture you DONT agree with.
You went to the wrong church! Today Christians are targeted as much as Gays. We are not to be judges in the biblical sense. The judgement of others in in the Lords hands at my church. One commandment we do not adhere to today is love thy neighbor.
The whole month of December is about religious celebrations, and we celebrate vets over 3 months (4th of July, Memorial Day and Veteran's Day). Does the queer community need a national month of celebration vs a day? Maybe, maybe not, but these other things are celebrated in smaller ways all the time and are ingrained in our culture.
Thanks for your enlightenment. Maybe we will see a day when we are all equal and not presented as not. I do not see the equality of one day versus a month.
All of the holidays mentioned are in memory of accomplishments that have people were heroes and died for a cause. Religions birth of Christ(most) is not the same as a culture or choice of lifestyle. Sorry Doug not apples to apples.
My first marriage manymoons ago was to a Jewish Chicago girl. We had 2 kids that live in Atlanta and have had issues with being Jewish. They are persecuted far more than the gay community.
Thank you for reminding us for our fallen soldiers that gave their lives so WE can enjoy the freedoms we have today. Too many people forget that the resistance we see in the USA and protests are only promoting dissent we fought to die for. None of these WOKE people ever took history in school or they wouldn’t be so anti American. Thank the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
Jed, my wife and I were at Utah beach for the ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, then spent a week touring the battlefields. One of the most humbling, and awe- inspiring, trips of my life.
Agreed, I am second generation with my grandfather coming from France, along the Rhine river area. I visit cousins there frequently and was just speechless as I visited the tiny villages along the Rhine and near the Vosges mountains where there was heavy fighting during WWII and to this day, those tiny villages along with the flag of France also fly the American flag and list the American casualities at memorials in the town centers. It was quite humbling as few hear of this.
"Ugly American" tourists rarely travel to such tiny villages because they find it boring. I find it interesting that some places in America reluctantly fly our stars and stripes, which is a direct insult too every Armed Forces Veteran who supported their rights of free speech, and the right to "be." The delusional mindset of being a ______ American is poisonous to our Republic; one is an American, or not; heritage, etc. changes nothing. The word "pride" is used out of context according to the definition presented, regarding gender, or lack of. In reality, pride is the result of self-esteem, and a life of accomplishment, well-lived. Minority factions have become experts in usurping words, graphics, and presenting "indoctriganda", which are only relevant to their own make-believe world, and followers. I note that much of what the "Sisterland" spokesperson spews is "radical". Happy people, especially farmers, do not need to "show the world" what they are made of, they live it everyday, in peace; proud and content.
I love traveling through those villages. All my cousins live there. I've been in the house my grandfather was born in, in 1892, family still has the house, which barely survived WWI and WWII. My grandfather one of fourteen siblings, the only one to come to America when he was 16. He had a heavy accent and when I was a young girl in high school would ask him to speak Alsatian (French/German), he said, no. I'm an American and speak only English. He was so very proud to be an American. And he had pride, the true definition.
I’m “woke,” and I studied history in school. For years, I’ve walked alongside French, German, Belgian, and American veterans and service members during D-Day commemorations in Europe.
My take from these life experiences. I learned is not to stereotype people, but to understand them as individuals. I also gained a deep appreciation for the freedoms many have fought and sacrificed for, including the right to express our views and protest peacefully, even when we disagree with one another.
As John W. explained to me responding to my recent essay (https://davidzelenka.substack.com/p/how-globalisms-decline-lands-here), the effects of globalism are inseparable from the political project that sustains it: an administrative class that manages and answers to its globalist priorities. That mindset is a product of globalism. And it will fail. The engine is sputtering and will seize up completely. How soon? Doesn't really matter.
For Clallam County, this is what we must prepare for. The Constitution gives us that blueprint. We must stand in the gap, but we should also understand that what we're watching at the county level, including commissioners who decline to show up unless the meeting is organized by the right people, is the death rattle of that system, not its peak.
The Calico Cat Club is doing something important by hosting at the Dry Creek Grange. It's not a government-managed space. It's not a chamber of commerce event. It's neighbors gathering on their own authority to ask their elected officials to account for themselves. That Sheriff King and Prosecutor Nichols will be there tells you something about who actually believes in accountability and who is waiting for this to blow over.
It won't blow over. The community that shows up at the Dry Creek Grange on June 18 is the same community that will be here when the distant managerial solutions stop arriving. Not as preppers stockpiling in isolation, but as a county: economically grounded, ecologically rooted, and family-minded.
That struck me immediately that Commissioner Ozias will only attend events hosted by the LWVs. That's not someone who understands the people they're supposed to represent, rather someone interested in control.
Thank you CCWD, great round up. I am surprised that there hasn't been more issues yet at the pool . Wait and see. I am amazed at the statement rich White men are the problem. My question is which ones? Those that do good with their money? or those that keep funding the riots and the Terrorism on our streets? Ozias is a coward and we know why he won't go to any other events as he will be asked tough questions and won't be able to answer them. He is a puppet to all the wrong organizations. He needs to be voted out next!!!
How can the public take back public spaces when the public has no support from its public services, like social services, law enforcement, parks dept, free indigent defense, and judges who release criminals within hours of their arrest? Putting the blame on the public to negate your culpability is not good governance. Thanks, Jeff, great job on social media Saturday.
Am I correct that the local Indivisible organizations are branches of the national organization founded to oppose Trump? Indivisible is funded, in part, by the Tides Foundation which was started by a left wing billionaire hedge fund manager to support progressive politics here and abroad. Also somewhere in the mix is George Soros. But remember, Indivisible is a "grassroots" organization. /sarc
Even the NJ Govenor finally had to state that these paid agitators are being used in and she called on them to stop doing so. SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) funds the KKK and other radical groups. We've known this for over a decade. And now Democrats are funding and endorsing a U.S. Senate candidate who has a NAZI tattoo and is alleged to be a misogynist. You gotta laugh at their antics. It's just crazy. 🤪
Since members of Indivisible Sequim have promoted boycotting businesses that have Watchdog signs, as you’ve posted in the past, does that mean it’s equally acceptable for people to boycott businesses associated with SisterLand Farms? Asking for a friend. LOL.
The blurbs about the violence and bad behavior at Serenity House stand out to me. Vulnerable people should not feel threatened where they shelter. We need the strictest enforcement of laws to protect the most vulnerable. It sounds like there are cameras everywhere there, how is this possible?
There are 9,388 white marble headstones at the Normandy American Cemetery. It is also a D-Day tragedy for families who could not bring there loved ones home.
I have not visited the Normandy American Cemetery, but many years ago I did visit a smaller American Cemetery in Italy for American’s killed in 1943.
What I first felt was how quiet, pristine and well cared for the cemetery was by the local villagers who also had a plague commemorating American service members fallen in the campaigns for Italian liberation from Germany. I did meet one very old Italian villager who talked (through an interpreter) about the day the American tanks rolled through the narrow cobblestones alleys of the village and how she leaned out the second floor of her casa to give kisses.
The second feeling I had was an overwhelming sense of sadness for the families who never had the chance to bury or see the graves of the person they loved. Nor the solace to tend the grave nor spend time to sit with them. Out of nowhere, I started crying. It was one of my most profound emotions of loneliness I ever felt.
Thank you Jennifer for your profound words. I have had the honor to visit many American cemeteries in Europe with my cousins who live in France showing me. I cannot explain the emotions, but you so well captured that feeling. My cousins took me to the only concentration camp in Alsace region of France where two of my uncles who were members of the underground, were killed. We are losing the few remainging villagers who remember those times. We cannot let the memories of these heroes fade away. Even reading this brings the tears....thank you to our brave soldiers.
CAS, I know that the Italians would never let tents, pipes or drug addicts around to DESECRATE their monuments and graves they honor and tend for the Americans. Why do the Americans allow it? And yes, I too get lost tears when I reflect.
Great question and heartbreaking to see what many have done to desecrate our monuments. There is so much hate and violence. They are so far removed from history and I have no idea if it is even taught in school these days. I sometimes ponder where this country will be in another 100 years from now. Perhaps it will be the rise and fall of the United States. I certainly hope we have young folks who realize the freedoms that we have and continue to strive for this country.
I"ve never been to Normandy, but I lived on the island where Richard B. Anderson (Federal Building named in his honor - Port Angeles, WA) was killed during WWII. As a matter of fact, I also had the distinct honor of mounting a bronze plaque on the memorial recognizing Richard B. Anderson, and others, on the island in 1990. There are still buildings with bullet pock marks throughout the Island of Roi-Namur which was my home for a couple of years. Everyday, I revered the men who took that island from the Japanese long before I arrived on July 1, 1986, also my Dad's birthday; he was involved in the taking of the Solomon Islands from the Japanese during WWII, and was in my thoughts, daily, as well. Never forget, ever.
I am saddened, sickened and overwhelmed by this Saturday snippet. They all resonated as well…horrifying. Because they were all true or terrible. I could address each one really but a couple stood out. Elected public official Mark Ozias refuses to attend any public forum unless it is facilitated by the League of Women Voters or local Chambers of Commerce? Perhaps Mr. Ozias could expel on that. He is elected BY THE PEOPLE he should be attending ANY PUBLIC forum where the people he represents have invited him andddddd always and just as importantly these public forum are his opportunity to learn and understand what the people that voted him in want. I am disappointed to say the least that he does not find these very down in the streets opportunities more important than behind the scenes manipulation of dollar driven scheming for others.
Second the Library System supporting special interest groups and offering “education”. I don’t see them out at public places teaching about Jesus or what native species are endangered in our county or or or or. I would not think that a great majority of those that voted for the Levy would want all that money we the taxpayers are kicking down to go to things like this. Did anyone run the $$$$ numbers of the Levy. Where is the oversight of how that money is to be spent in a completely neutral way to offer actual Library services to the community. How about a free monthly bookclub for Clallam county children for instance. I am not against anybody but we are ALL special. Why are only some louded as special!! Where is the local support for …fat people discrimination or or or.
I am a man and mostly White, as far as most could tell, but FAR from financially "wealthy"~! So, if I hit the lottery that I don't play, or my long lost "rich uncle" that I don't have dies leaving me GOBZ of bucks, or my investments prove to make me "wealthy" does that mean that I am "suddenly" a threat to anyone? Do my dreams of financial security include me being a threat to anyone? Huh, I need to figure that out, because I always believed that I was a man of peace... Precisely how much money makes me "wealthy"? Exactly how does this completely ridiculous and insane logic work? Where exactly is this supposed "violence" against the few in the "sexual alphabet soup" mix happening? Violence? Where? When? From the looks of some of these absolutely horrific looking radical loudmouth types who rant and scream about their sexual choices, it would appear that they are actually engaged in violent sexual activities with their sexual partners, so are they just confused about violence??? Are these obnoxious big-mouthed morons really the violent ones themselves? Give us factual details, because I sure don't see any cases of violence against anyone for their sexual choices in Clallam County! In fact, if the morons who can't "keep in in their pants" just shut up and quit advertising their sexual choices like little companies selling beer or Tampons, most people would not even know or care what folks did in their private lives. Personally, I have always found it to be boorish, extremely low class, and COMPLETELY insulting for anyone to insist upon advertising the sexual details of their private lives regardless of their sexual choices~! Locker room talk is a betrayal of your sexual partner and from what the women I have known tell me, the women are FAR more disgusting about talking about the men in their lives in a traditional M/W relationship~! That is disturbing enough for anyone who values their private lives as well as betraying the feelings & privacy of their sexual partner. If you want to dress like a multicolored Tijuana hooker on a late Saturday night, bedazzled with grotesque holes where they do not belong, rings in your entire face and in "other disturbing places" and with more ink splattered all over your body than the New York Times garbage rag, then maybe the problem is YOU~! Make bad, ugly, and visually offensive grotesque choices that communicate to others that there is something wrong with you, then most folks will believe that there is something wrong with you! Is that REALLY a difficult concept to grasp??? Americans are free to do whatever to themselves, but that also comes with the absolute responsibility for your own actions and what YOU do to yourself! Don't bitch and moan about it when you make yourself look like a horrific side show in a struggling 3rd world circus, because folks don't want to even look at your visual screams for attention! Americans also have their own right NOT to be offended by how others look if they don't want to live in the visual nightmares of others~!
The commissioners did not reply to yesterday's email asking about the process they use to investigate requests by NGOs before issuing letters of support. Here is today's email sent to the board of the William Shore Memorial Pool:
Dear Pool Board Members Mike French, Randy Johnson, Mark Hodgson, LaTrisha Suggs, and Greg Shield,
When the shower voucher program was reinstated, board members stated that there had been no reported incidents associated with the program. Since then, a local parent has reported that their child picked up what appeared to be a fentanyl patch in a family changing area at the pool, raising concerns about safety in a facility used by families.
Can the Board explain what specific safety protocols are in place for voucher recipients, what training staff receive to identify and respond to potential drug-related hazards, and whether the Board has reconsidered the risks associated with continuing the program?
Thank you for your time.
French's excuse "I didn't even know about it" :(
Politically though that response might have been a smart one. "I will examine the facts and get back to you". LOL When I was younger I met hundreds of guys similar to Mike French I think that either Susan C Bonallo or Jennifer called him "The French Tickler". I guarantee that guys with his personality are impervious to criticism. Their mental structure is separate from that of the average citizen who is not a narcissist.
What a lame excuse for a “pool board”. Everyone, remember these names in case they run for a future office. Where is their respect for a job well done? Don’t think that is part of their moral make-up. Losers, completely removed losers. Shame on you!
Thank you to the Calico Cat Club for organizing this forum for the people of Clallam County. This is what community engagement looks like. It raises an important question: Who do our county commissioners represent? Their recent actions make the answer increasingly clear. When elected officials refuse to sit for a couple of hours to listen to their constituents and answer questions, it signals that the temperature has become “too hot in the kitchen.” They do not want to hear what we see every day. They do not want to acknowledge the decline occurring in this county.
It should trouble every one of us that human beings — many in severe mental distress from drug use — are sleeping on the ground in our parks, on our sidewalks, and in our neighborhoods. We are repeatedly told that we lack compassion. But ignoring suffering is not compassion. Allowing people to deteriorate in public is not compassion. Providing inpatient treatment, real recovery options, and meaningful pathways to stability — that is compassion.
Not everyone will choose sobriety, but many will if given a chance. This county should be investing in inpatient treatment centers, not doubling down on an endless cycle of grant-funded programs with little measurable outcome. The lure of grant money flowing to NGOs has become too great. Jobs are created, buzzwords are repeated, and the public is expected to nod along. Meanwhile, accountability is scarce, and the community continues to decline.
People are right to be frustrated. I am frustrated. And when election season arrives, we must remember what we see. Change happens one seat at a time. That begins with the next commissioner race by voting for Jake and continues the following year. Accountability is not partisan — it is the foundation of public service.
Today is also June 6, the anniversary of D Day. I know my next point may draw criticism, but this is my perspective. We dedicate an entire month to Pride celebrations, yet I would prefer to see more attention given to the men who fought and died for our freedoms. How many of the pride celebration attendees know what today is? Do these folks realize without the heroes who came before us and kept this nation free, that they would not be able to celebrate as they do? I have stood on the beaches of Normandy overwhelmed with emotion. I have walked the American cemetery there, bowing my head in reverence for husbands, sons, and brothers who never made it home. Their sacrifice is overwhelming. Too many veterans still suffer from PTSD, and their struggles are real, I have seen it.
So, this month, I will honor our veterans in my own way. I will remember the cost of freedom and the responsibility we have to safeguard our community, our values, and our future.
Spot on CAS!! I'm with you. We don't honor the Veterans or our First Responders enough, they step up to do those required jobs, and to put their lives on the line to maintain our way of life!!
You won't get criticism from me, CAS. I'm with you in remembering those who fought with unimaginable dedication and heroism to win the battles to win the wars. The parades for these men and women feature pride, honor, sacrifice, respect, and love of country. I, too, honor veterans past and present in my own way, and I will continue to do so because I am a grateful American.
I'm a veteran and what you say is spot on and I think back as a in the early 60's and 70's that men and women came home and were spit on..our vet's encountered alot more than the alphabet people
Vietnam Veterans have my honor. They did and still do suffer.
Those that are left, we are fewer by the day.
Thank you for your service, Mr. Williams. I am grateful.
I am really confused this morning. I recognize there is different lifestyles, sexual preferences, dress attire, and different chemistry make up in our society. What I do not understand is the celebration of a month long lifestyle. No other minority is offered this perk and parades, picnics,free stuff, and so forth monthlong.Are we going to have a homeless month soon?
I am perplexed at what we celebrate with open arms for a month and what we celebrate for a day. I know I will get some backlash on this but it seems like we as Americans we lose our priorities in making celebrations for the minorities more important than soldiers , God, and
Independence Day. Where is the balance? Hope I did not offend anyone.
Veterans get one day. We clean up the area around the bell, move the tents and drug users out of sight for a few hours, and call it good.
But who you sleep with? Apparently that deserves an entire month.
Pride has become so political that it's hard to recognize what it was originally supposed to be about. Everywhere you look, there's another proclamation, another flag, another event, and another reminder that certain groups are supposed to be viewed as victims.
And here's the irony: I've never seen a group spend so much time talking about inclusion while being so quick to shut out anyone who disagrees with them. Every June we're told how diverse and welcoming everything is, but try questioning any part of the agenda and see how much tolerance you get in return.
Read this on X. I couldn't have said it any better.
What started as a stand for equal rights jumped the shark into full-blown victim Olympics, identity parades, and “look at me” validation theater.
Real pride?
It’s living your life with quiet strength, personal responsibility, and zero need for a month-long applause break. Not this endless costume show demanding the world bow down.
Ditch the spectacle. Be who you are. Live it without begging for likes and special treatment.
America needs strong families and real character. Not this.
Rip Taylor or Rip Torn for 300 Alex..
I remember hearing similar opinions in the 90’s in Sunday School but knowing in my 9-5 job I would see gay couples step up and foster children in the system. Not one family in the church I attended fostered children. Gay couples didn’t have equal rights.
Nor should they It's sinful and not natural.
Dude, really?
Christians often quote Genesis.
Romans. Leviticus.
And usually with the confidence of someone who has never once wondered if they might be reading the Bible through a fog machine.
But this is why context matters.
Hermeneutics is how we interpret Scripture.
Exegesis is drawing meaning out of the text instead of cramming our favorite outrage into it.
And when you actually slow down, those LGTBQ “clobber verses” are not nearly as simple as people pretend.
Even Sodom is more complicated than the convenient label. Ezekiel names arrogance, excess, neglect of the poor, and refusal to help the needy as the sin of the city.
Interesting how rarely that part trends. 😉
But here is what is not hazy:
God is LOVE. (1 John 4:8)
Jesus said the greatest commands
are to LOVE God
and LOVE our neighbor.
Jesus said the world would know His disciples by their LOVE.
Not by their theology.
Or their ability to win comment sections.
LOVE.
So here is the question:
Where is the love for our LGBTQ friends?
Actually, that may be the wrong question. Because Christians will usually grade our own homework and give ourselves extra credit for “speaking truth in love.” You know, "loving the sinner, but hating the sin."
So maybe we should ask the people on the receiving end instead.
LGBTQ friends…
when Christians talk about you…
when we post about you…
when we preach about you…
when we vote about you…
when we quote Scripture at you…
do you feel loved?
Because if our theology feels like good news to us, but terror to the people Jesus told us to love… we may not be defending truth.
We may be failing love.
You can quote verses all day.
You can defend your doctrine.
You can call it biblical conviction.
But if your theology makes you cruel, arrogant, dismissive, mocking, or indifferent to someone’s pain or struggle… you may not be defending Scripture.
You may be hiding behind it.
Chris Krauter
Where did the Bible equate love to a feeling vs action? Everything I've read says that love is the way we treat our neighbors, defend them, etc.
You must not have read the Bible very carefully. It says love thy neighbor and not to judge them. It does not say you have to agree with them. You can
NOT change the Bible because it is 2026. Note it is as written not the change people want it to say. It sounds like you are hiding behind the scripture you DONT agree with.
Do show what scriptures you see me changing? I’m very much loving my neighbor.
You went to the wrong church! Today Christians are targeted as much as Gays. We are not to be judges in the biblical sense. The judgement of others in in the Lords hands at my church. One commandment we do not adhere to today is love thy neighbor.
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Wrong church and theology. I don’t judge is my point. I love my neighbor no exceptions.
I do too
The whole month of December is about religious celebrations, and we celebrate vets over 3 months (4th of July, Memorial Day and Veteran's Day). Does the queer community need a national month of celebration vs a day? Maybe, maybe not, but these other things are celebrated in smaller ways all the time and are ingrained in our culture.
Thanks for your enlightenment. Maybe we will see a day when we are all equal and not presented as not. I do not see the equality of one day versus a month.
All of the holidays mentioned are in memory of accomplishments that have people were heroes and died for a cause. Religions birth of Christ(most) is not the same as a culture or choice of lifestyle. Sorry Doug not apples to apples.
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WHERE ARE HETEROSEXUALS month long celebrations held? 🤔
WHERE are the advertised HETEROSEXUAL appreciations, street fairs, and park celebration days? 🤔
WHERE are the “Publicized”, HETEROSEXUAL story times at the Library, located?
WHERE are the advertised HETEROSEXUAL only, fashion shows? 🤔
WHERE are HETEROSEXUAL ONLY merchandise stores, located? 🤔
WHERE ARE the advertised HETEROSEXUAL parades held? 🤔
I DONT CARE who you partner with! I DONT CARE WHAT you do IN your personal lives!
ALL IN THE SAME BREATH, WHATS THE ULTIMATE DEFINITION of WHY your lifestyle NEEDS to be SHOVED in HETEROSEXUAL faces?
The only way that the human population survives, is THROUGH a born MAN & born WOMAN! PERIOD….
MY WHOLE POINT IS;.. WHY aren't HETEROSEXUAL INDIVIDULES CELEBRATED, because WE CREATE LIFE!? 🤔🤷♀️
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If a month is a month of pride is set aside to reflect great! It’s better than wearing pink triangle in a detainment center.
HUH!
Homosexuals were forced to wear pink triangles in concentration camps.
Also, Jews had to wear the Star of David inside and outside of concentration camps.
My first marriage manymoons ago was to a Jewish Chicago girl. We had 2 kids that live in Atlanta and have had issues with being Jewish. They are persecuted far more than the gay community.
Maybe we should have a national Jewish month.
On another note, today is D-Day. Never forget.
Thank you for reminding us for our fallen soldiers that gave their lives so WE can enjoy the freedoms we have today. Too many people forget that the resistance we see in the USA and protests are only promoting dissent we fought to die for. None of these WOKE people ever took history in school or they wouldn’t be so anti American. Thank the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
Jed, my wife and I were at Utah beach for the ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, then spent a week touring the battlefields. One of the most humbling, and awe- inspiring, trips of my life.
Agreed, I am second generation with my grandfather coming from France, along the Rhine river area. I visit cousins there frequently and was just speechless as I visited the tiny villages along the Rhine and near the Vosges mountains where there was heavy fighting during WWII and to this day, those tiny villages along with the flag of France also fly the American flag and list the American casualities at memorials in the town centers. It was quite humbling as few hear of this.
"Ugly American" tourists rarely travel to such tiny villages because they find it boring. I find it interesting that some places in America reluctantly fly our stars and stripes, which is a direct insult too every Armed Forces Veteran who supported their rights of free speech, and the right to "be." The delusional mindset of being a ______ American is poisonous to our Republic; one is an American, or not; heritage, etc. changes nothing. The word "pride" is used out of context according to the definition presented, regarding gender, or lack of. In reality, pride is the result of self-esteem, and a life of accomplishment, well-lived. Minority factions have become experts in usurping words, graphics, and presenting "indoctriganda", which are only relevant to their own make-believe world, and followers. I note that much of what the "Sisterland" spokesperson spews is "radical". Happy people, especially farmers, do not need to "show the world" what they are made of, they live it everyday, in peace; proud and content.
I love traveling through those villages. All my cousins live there. I've been in the house my grandfather was born in, in 1892, family still has the house, which barely survived WWI and WWII. My grandfather one of fourteen siblings, the only one to come to America when he was 16. He had a heavy accent and when I was a young girl in high school would ask him to speak Alsatian (French/German), he said, no. I'm an American and speak only English. He was so very proud to be an American. And he had pride, the true definition.
I’m “woke,” and I studied history in school. For years, I’ve walked alongside French, German, Belgian, and American veterans and service members during D-Day commemorations in Europe.
My take from these life experiences. I learned is not to stereotype people, but to understand them as individuals. I also gained a deep appreciation for the freedoms many have fought and sacrificed for, including the right to express our views and protest peacefully, even when we disagree with one another.
My flag is out
I fly my flag 365 days!
Mine too!
As John W. explained to me responding to my recent essay (https://davidzelenka.substack.com/p/how-globalisms-decline-lands-here), the effects of globalism are inseparable from the political project that sustains it: an administrative class that manages and answers to its globalist priorities. That mindset is a product of globalism. And it will fail. The engine is sputtering and will seize up completely. How soon? Doesn't really matter.
For Clallam County, this is what we must prepare for. The Constitution gives us that blueprint. We must stand in the gap, but we should also understand that what we're watching at the county level, including commissioners who decline to show up unless the meeting is organized by the right people, is the death rattle of that system, not its peak.
The Calico Cat Club is doing something important by hosting at the Dry Creek Grange. It's not a government-managed space. It's not a chamber of commerce event. It's neighbors gathering on their own authority to ask their elected officials to account for themselves. That Sheriff King and Prosecutor Nichols will be there tells you something about who actually believes in accountability and who is waiting for this to blow over.
It won't blow over. The community that shows up at the Dry Creek Grange on June 18 is the same community that will be here when the distant managerial solutions stop arriving. Not as preppers stockpiling in isolation, but as a county: economically grounded, ecologically rooted, and family-minded.
That struck me immediately that Commissioner Ozias will only attend events hosted by the LWVs. That's not someone who understands the people they're supposed to represent, rather someone interested in control.
Thank you CCWD, great round up. I am surprised that there hasn't been more issues yet at the pool . Wait and see. I am amazed at the statement rich White men are the problem. My question is which ones? Those that do good with their money? or those that keep funding the riots and the Terrorism on our streets? Ozias is a coward and we know why he won't go to any other events as he will be asked tough questions and won't be able to answer them. He is a puppet to all the wrong organizations. He needs to be voted out next!!!
How can the public take back public spaces when the public has no support from its public services, like social services, law enforcement, parks dept, free indigent defense, and judges who release criminals within hours of their arrest? Putting the blame on the public to negate your culpability is not good governance. Thanks, Jeff, great job on social media Saturday.
Am I correct that the local Indivisible organizations are branches of the national organization founded to oppose Trump? Indivisible is funded, in part, by the Tides Foundation which was started by a left wing billionaire hedge fund manager to support progressive politics here and abroad. Also somewhere in the mix is George Soros. But remember, Indivisible is a "grassroots" organization. /sarc
Even the NJ Govenor finally had to state that these paid agitators are being used in and she called on them to stop doing so. SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center) funds the KKK and other radical groups. We've known this for over a decade. And now Democrats are funding and endorsing a U.S. Senate candidate who has a NAZI tattoo and is alleged to be a misogynist. You gotta laugh at their antics. It's just crazy. 🤪
Hypocrisy at its best!
Since members of Indivisible Sequim have promoted boycotting businesses that have Watchdog signs, as you’ve posted in the past, does that mean it’s equally acceptable for people to boycott businesses associated with SisterLand Farms? Asking for a friend. LOL.
The blurbs about the violence and bad behavior at Serenity House stand out to me. Vulnerable people should not feel threatened where they shelter. We need the strictest enforcement of laws to protect the most vulnerable. It sounds like there are cameras everywhere there, how is this possible?
Acceptance and sequestering, by "management."
There are 9,388 white marble headstones at the Normandy American Cemetery. It is also a D-Day tragedy for families who could not bring there loved ones home.
I have not visited the Normandy American Cemetery, but many years ago I did visit a smaller American Cemetery in Italy for American’s killed in 1943.
What I first felt was how quiet, pristine and well cared for the cemetery was by the local villagers who also had a plague commemorating American service members fallen in the campaigns for Italian liberation from Germany. I did meet one very old Italian villager who talked (through an interpreter) about the day the American tanks rolled through the narrow cobblestones alleys of the village and how she leaned out the second floor of her casa to give kisses.
The second feeling I had was an overwhelming sense of sadness for the families who never had the chance to bury or see the graves of the person they loved. Nor the solace to tend the grave nor spend time to sit with them. Out of nowhere, I started crying. It was one of my most profound emotions of loneliness I ever felt.
Thank you Jennifer for your profound words. I have had the honor to visit many American cemeteries in Europe with my cousins who live in France showing me. I cannot explain the emotions, but you so well captured that feeling. My cousins took me to the only concentration camp in Alsace region of France where two of my uncles who were members of the underground, were killed. We are losing the few remainging villagers who remember those times. We cannot let the memories of these heroes fade away. Even reading this brings the tears....thank you to our brave soldiers.
CAS, I know that the Italians would never let tents, pipes or drug addicts around to DESECRATE their monuments and graves they honor and tend for the Americans. Why do the Americans allow it? And yes, I too get lost tears when I reflect.
Great question and heartbreaking to see what many have done to desecrate our monuments. There is so much hate and violence. They are so far removed from history and I have no idea if it is even taught in school these days. I sometimes ponder where this country will be in another 100 years from now. Perhaps it will be the rise and fall of the United States. I certainly hope we have young folks who realize the freedoms that we have and continue to strive for this country.
I"ve never been to Normandy, but I lived on the island where Richard B. Anderson (Federal Building named in his honor - Port Angeles, WA) was killed during WWII. As a matter of fact, I also had the distinct honor of mounting a bronze plaque on the memorial recognizing Richard B. Anderson, and others, on the island in 1990. There are still buildings with bullet pock marks throughout the Island of Roi-Namur which was my home for a couple of years. Everyday, I revered the men who took that island from the Japanese long before I arrived on July 1, 1986, also my Dad's birthday; he was involved in the taking of the Solomon Islands from the Japanese during WWII, and was in my thoughts, daily, as well. Never forget, ever.
Lucky Clallam Bay to have a chance to meet Jake and get their questions answered without a LWV controlling pre-filter.
Very glad to see them doing another town hall.
I am saddened, sickened and overwhelmed by this Saturday snippet. They all resonated as well…horrifying. Because they were all true or terrible. I could address each one really but a couple stood out. Elected public official Mark Ozias refuses to attend any public forum unless it is facilitated by the League of Women Voters or local Chambers of Commerce? Perhaps Mr. Ozias could expel on that. He is elected BY THE PEOPLE he should be attending ANY PUBLIC forum where the people he represents have invited him andddddd always and just as importantly these public forum are his opportunity to learn and understand what the people that voted him in want. I am disappointed to say the least that he does not find these very down in the streets opportunities more important than behind the scenes manipulation of dollar driven scheming for others.
Second the Library System supporting special interest groups and offering “education”. I don’t see them out at public places teaching about Jesus or what native species are endangered in our county or or or or. I would not think that a great majority of those that voted for the Levy would want all that money we the taxpayers are kicking down to go to things like this. Did anyone run the $$$$ numbers of the Levy. Where is the oversight of how that money is to be spent in a completely neutral way to offer actual Library services to the community. How about a free monthly bookclub for Clallam county children for instance. I am not against anybody but we are ALL special. Why are only some louded as special!! Where is the local support for …fat people discrimination or or or.
Recall is a high burden just to get it past judicial scrutiny.
I am a man and mostly White, as far as most could tell, but FAR from financially "wealthy"~! So, if I hit the lottery that I don't play, or my long lost "rich uncle" that I don't have dies leaving me GOBZ of bucks, or my investments prove to make me "wealthy" does that mean that I am "suddenly" a threat to anyone? Do my dreams of financial security include me being a threat to anyone? Huh, I need to figure that out, because I always believed that I was a man of peace... Precisely how much money makes me "wealthy"? Exactly how does this completely ridiculous and insane logic work? Where exactly is this supposed "violence" against the few in the "sexual alphabet soup" mix happening? Violence? Where? When? From the looks of some of these absolutely horrific looking radical loudmouth types who rant and scream about their sexual choices, it would appear that they are actually engaged in violent sexual activities with their sexual partners, so are they just confused about violence??? Are these obnoxious big-mouthed morons really the violent ones themselves? Give us factual details, because I sure don't see any cases of violence against anyone for their sexual choices in Clallam County! In fact, if the morons who can't "keep in in their pants" just shut up and quit advertising their sexual choices like little companies selling beer or Tampons, most people would not even know or care what folks did in their private lives. Personally, I have always found it to be boorish, extremely low class, and COMPLETELY insulting for anyone to insist upon advertising the sexual details of their private lives regardless of their sexual choices~! Locker room talk is a betrayal of your sexual partner and from what the women I have known tell me, the women are FAR more disgusting about talking about the men in their lives in a traditional M/W relationship~! That is disturbing enough for anyone who values their private lives as well as betraying the feelings & privacy of their sexual partner. If you want to dress like a multicolored Tijuana hooker on a late Saturday night, bedazzled with grotesque holes where they do not belong, rings in your entire face and in "other disturbing places" and with more ink splattered all over your body than the New York Times garbage rag, then maybe the problem is YOU~! Make bad, ugly, and visually offensive grotesque choices that communicate to others that there is something wrong with you, then most folks will believe that there is something wrong with you! Is that REALLY a difficult concept to grasp??? Americans are free to do whatever to themselves, but that also comes with the absolute responsibility for your own actions and what YOU do to yourself! Don't bitch and moan about it when you make yourself look like a horrific side show in a struggling 3rd world circus, because folks don't want to even look at your visual screams for attention! Americans also have their own right NOT to be offended by how others look if they don't want to live in the visual nightmares of others~!
Sincerely, Mike
We need so much help. Wish we had 3 Jake Seegers to replace the 3 deaf, dumb and blind stooges. Their claim to fame is showing up! Big F***
Deal! We are so proud of your model behavior!🤮🤮