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July 24, 2009 at 12:03 am
Heraldo, thanks for restoring my faith in electronic communication by restoring the functionality of Quick Notes!
Speaking of things that don’t fit elsewhere, I have a sad story to report. It wasn’t in the evening news, either. A man from Fortuna underwent 6 hours of surgery within the last 24 hours as the result of being seriously stabbed by his girlfriend. The girlfriend, by reliable sources, is known to have been beating this man seriously for four or five months. Up to the time of the stabbing, they lived together.
Well, he is in the hospital, alive. And she is in the jailhouse now. The news media hasn’t heard about it yet or doesn’t consider it newsworthy. Things have gotten to such a condition in Humboldt County that a nearly-life-threatening knife attack may no longer be considered important enough to report as news.
I’ll try to keep my future reports focused on less gruesome topics.
July 24, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Two things noticed in town a little after noon: local (business) internet was marginal this morning, then died completely at about 1:30, and there was a parade of CDF and related trucks heading north on 101 with flashers flashing (maybe 20 in all). Who would ususally have news on brush fires and cable cuts?
July 24, 2009 at 3:38 pm
http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current
July 25, 2009 at 11:00 am
I reported on July 24, 2009 at 12:03am the unfortunate stabbing in Fortuna. I happened to get the information and posted it here before the media got it. The media DID carry the story, proving that my pessimistic assessment of the state of affairs was wrong. Serious crimes are upsetting, and they are still considered important enough to report as news.
July 25, 2009 at 12:44 pm
saw brand new national guard vehicles going through the groves headed north….part of next weeks HS exercises? or just random traveling. ?
July 27, 2009 at 10:00 am
Interested in the economics of West Coast container ports? Want to see what container port advocates for Humboldt Bay are up against? See this article for details.
July 28, 2009 at 11:43 am
The reinstatement of Michael Vick indicates that the NFL condones the torturing and killing of dogs (and I must assume other critters, as well). Vick did NOT make a mistake. Forgetting to pay your water bill is a mistake; torturing and killing animals is not a mistake, it is a social sickness from which you can’t be cured. Will the NFL reinstate him after he mutilates and kills a human? Probably, since worship of the almighty dollar is the NFL’s religion (and probably a little christianity thrown in for good measure). This reinstatement and the support for Vick shown by other players shows how sick the entire organization is.
I will never watch any NFL event ever again. I will never buy any NFL paraphernalia, nor will I participate in or support any NFL promotion. Unless you support the torture and killing of innocent critters, I suggest you do the same. The NFL is a bunch of sick fucks.
July 29, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Torturing innocent critters? That’s the job for elementary school sports! Torturing the little kids’ bodies and killing their souls! Organized sports IS torture. Torture, anyway, for the asthmatic kids, the near-sighted kids, the ADHD kids, and all other kinds of good, innocent tortured little critters!
July 30, 2009 at 6:40 pm
But on a more positive note, I just got word that the concert of Snoop Dog at Redwood Acres on July 8 didn’t go very well. Ticket holders got less than they expected, and turnout seems to have been low. Per the article in the NCJ, the performers gave a performance that might have been more energetic if it had literally been phoned in. People who attended appear to have been too bummed out to want to talk about it. That’s why it took almost a month for any word about the concert to reach this “correspondent.” Does this mean that the anti-woman, pro-crime message of Snoop and his ilk are falling from favor among our neighbors on the North Coast? One can hope!
July 31, 2009 at 8:58 am
It’s not that Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle is out of favor. It’s that he acted like every other rap artist that comes up here acts… went to Big Louie’s Pizza, ordered up a gang of food, got high as hell from that real Humboldt County organic that is 10x better than that chemmy L.A. shit, and couldn’t function well enough to get out the door and to the show.
There should be a bulletin to these rap artists that they have to start the show on time. The cool cats around here are mostly not trustafarians or gangsters contrary to how they dress. They have jobs and aren’t about to be fired up when the act shows up an hour late talking about it’s only 11:30PM, make some noise, what’s up Humbolllldt? What’s up? We’re tired and have to go to work after paying $70 to wait around for your never worked a real job in your whole life late as fuck to your own concert ass.
Oh, how was Nas, did anybody go to that?
August 1, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I have received some indications that no one here, or on Topix, or on most of the other local blogs cares what I think or write.
A lifetime of seeking Truth, courageously battling the forces of hatred and reaction, all have been spent to achieve what?
It’s like what the old sheriff said in the movie, High Noon. “It’s all for nothing, Will. All for nothing.”
August 2, 2009 at 5:43 am
Perhaps it is not what you have to say, but how you say it?
Also, if you always post as ‘anonymous’ you are likely being lumped in with every other comment ever made by any other poster named ‘anonymous’ who your reader has ever encountered. It’s hard to get an unbiased reaction under those circumstances.
August 3, 2009 at 9:19 am
The fascist rental inspection ordinance will be back in front of the council tomorrow.
I ask Larry Glass to give up this foolish waste of time. It is your dumbest idea EVER.
Everyone who thinks this is a dumb idea needs to come to the council and express themselves.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 3, 2009 at 9:30 am
What will happen to any Private Property Owner who resists invasion/occupation by “government”?
What nerve these filthy bastards have to try this again, even after the out cry against it- have they no cares about The People they claim to represent?
Treason against Sovereign Americans is a crime, and if memory serves me in the late 1700’s these was a fight about these very issues- have they forgotten that Liberty and Rights were given by God and no man is entitled to take them away?
It’s time to take out all the trash in the next “election” and have a clean slate free from redcoats and slaves to banksters.
August 3, 2009 at 11:18 am
I usually skip the posts marked anonymous knowing that they are probably interns posting on state senate computers.
August 4, 2009 at 12:50 pm
What about the new mandatory recycling program in Eureka? Can the government really force me to wash the grease out of my Dinty Moore Beef Stew cans before I put them out on the curb for pick-up? That is so demeaning. And I have better things to do.
August 4, 2009 at 1:07 pm
What is wrong with you guys up there. Why are you letting the mexican drug cartels come in and take over something that belongs to us. You need to get people out into the woods to hunt them down and use them for fertilizer. Jeeez louise.
August 5, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Mike Thompson thinks universal health coverage and public option health coverage are similar how?
Well, thanks for calling again, Mike. Glad I wrote you all those angry emails.
If you fools want to listen to him, it is
(877) 229-8493 and enter the passcode 13293
August 10, 2009 at 10:44 am
If a total jerk calls himself Mr. Pleasant, is that a case of passive-agressive behavior?
August 10, 2009 at 10:49 am
Mr. Nice frequently disagrees with me, sometimes strongly but I rarely feel abused.
On a relative scale for Humboldt bloggers he or she is nice.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 10, 2009 at 11:35 am
I must be doing a primo job if I’m pissing off Anonymous.
August 10, 2009 at 11:52 am
I discovered a way to gain hours and hours of time to my weekly schedule. I just refrain from replying to idiots online.
(This is NOT aimed at you, Bill or you, Mr. Nice.)
August 10, 2009 at 12:18 pm
This is a very helpful thumbnail description of fascism, and how to spot it as it grows (though usually not in time).
http://www.truthout.org/080909A?n
August 10, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Thank you 1152 for your concern.
I actually do better online at discerning people’s intent than I do in person.
Sometimes in person I have trouble with the nonverbal communication that most people can understand. It is simply unavailable to me. It is far better to speak to me simply even if you are telling me something I don’t like. It is not that I am an idiot. I am a high functioning autistic person with a high IQ but some social impairments
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 11, 2009 at 10:50 am
President Obama is giving the insurance companies a much-needed and very overdue drubbing at his Town Hall meeting in New Hampshire today. I’m really enjoying him taking back the issue of health insurance reform from the insurance companies shills who have been dominating the discussion for the last couple of weeks.
August 11, 2009 at 11:40 am
Petition to Save Richardson Grove
August 11, 2009 at 11:40 am
http://saverichardsongrove.blogspot.com/2009/08/petition-to-save-richardson-grove.html
August 15, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I think the new recycle bins (big, blue, and did I mention they are very big?) make our “Victorian Seaport” look like “Leggo Village.”
August 19, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I wonder what you all think about my proposal to limit the state and local sales tax rate to 2 1/2 %.
My proposed amendment to the California Constitution will limit the sales tax much like Prop 13 limits property taxes.
Now I figure that all you conservatives will love it. It’s a tax cut, right? According to Laffer, cutting the sales tax will increase tax revenue right?
I also figure that all you Democrats will like this idea too because the sales tax is the most regressive tax there is, and the progressives are always in favor of progressive taxation, as I am.
Those of us on the lower half of the economic spectrum are tired of carrying all of you on our backs through regressive taxation. So what do all you think. I call it the Peoples Tax Reduction Initiative. But we could name it the Laffer Act for a fee.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 19, 2009 at 7:01 pm
why not abolish any tax and cap sales tax at 0%?
Much fairer world when nobody forces money from your possession…
August 19, 2009 at 7:09 pm
You have to admit, BF, that it is a step in the right (or left) direction.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 20, 2009 at 8:48 am
Come on HumRed,
YOu are the biggest true believer in that old fraud Arthur Laffer, dont you agree that cutting the sales tax will increase the states tax revenue?
Or is it all just right wing bullshit?
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 25, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Ted Kennedy is dead.
August 26, 2009 at 7:14 am
so is wacko-jacko, ignore the wars and the pipeline to Israel guarded by 5 us bases in Iraq, trust in private banks to print your currency, jet fuel melts steel.
August 26, 2009 at 8:03 am
I appreciate Blag Flag’s music selections. Excellent!
August 26, 2009 at 9:13 am
The Hole in Glenn Beck’s Ass,
from the Daily Show:
http://urlet.com/nicely.flight
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 27, 2009 at 6:18 am
How did I miss this?
Mike Thompson is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition?
http://www.house.gov/melancon/BlueDogs/Member%20Page.html
Crap.
August 27, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Fireworks in August.
August 28, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Burning jet fuel weakens steel; it doesn’t melt it. There is no need to melt steel to destroy buildings. Only Rosy O’Donnell and nuts of her ilk, Black Flag, are still harping on that point about the melting point of steel.
August 29, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Less than two hours after the close of today’s Gay Pride Event at the Zoo, the “Eureka POZ” website has a photographic report about the parade. It looks as if the participants had a happy time.
August 29, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Here’s the Eureka POZ report.
August 30, 2009 at 8:37 am
Thompson is Treasurer of the Blue Dog PAC. No friend of Single Payer.
August 30, 2009 at 9:47 am
Here’s a little news tidbit for you prohibitionists, big pharma drug pushers and Faux News viewers:
Long Term Pot Smokers Have 62 % Less Head and Neck Cancers
In a study, researchers have found that long-term pot smokers were roughly 62 percent less likely to develop head and neck cancers than people who did not smoke pot.
http://urlet.com/menu.fries
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE57O5DC20090825
August 30, 2009 at 11:34 am
Green Liberal Zombies To Ban Grow Lamps
it is happening in the EU- an occupied bankster zone, when the banksters implode America and destroy the Rebublic you will be forced to comply.
You won’t be able to have grow lamps in the NWO, nor cash, even your mmj,inc proposes “cards” with bankster hands deeeeeeep in your wallet and life.
Don’t fall for a turncoat!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u5Nd9i1UiA
resist taxation! it feeds offshore bankers! government sleeps with Lucifer!
August 30, 2009 at 11:46 am
One of the most effective ways Big Media has for enslaving us is reporting “New study shows…” whatever they want to make us think and do.
One study, taken in isolation from other research in the field, doesn’t mean a damn thing.
If the research can’t be replicated by other researchers, it is worthless.
That, however, won’t stop certain people from referring to the study as “proof” of the validity of their particular point of view.
August 30, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Yeah but this is a story that your “Big Media” has completly ignored for a couple of weeks until Reuters finally picked it up.
Corporate media is trying to bury this story as deep as it can.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
August 30, 2009 at 12:15 pm
“Rep. Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has endorsed a bill calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve.
The support from the powerful Massachusetts Democrat comes after the measure, introduced in late February by Rep. Ron Paul, has won hundreds of co-sponsors on both sides of the aisle.”
from faux news bulletin
August 30, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Before this last presidential election cycle, sooooo many people said Ron Paul was a whack job, crazy, yada, yada, yada, etc… Well, guess what, the American people are not laughing at him as much now because he truly was the best candidate for president. Too sad that so many voters have been brainwashed by the dualopoly regime (entrenched Democrats and Republicans). Taking manipulative media out of politics would help force voters to do more research of candidates’ merits. Oh, and don’t forget the money laundering schemes too that the favored insiders by favored insiders receive!
Anyone else feel that presidents in this time and age(post WWII) are just puppets on strings being hoisted and pulled by a secret society of unknowns calling the shots if you will? I do, and frankly, I can see right through so many elected officials as to what their true intentions are that it is repulsive. It actually is pretty darn easy once you know what to look for and how to recognize one’s character.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
August 30, 2009 at 5:11 pm
National Health Care is a moral issue
check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSQ2DWkVE0
3 parts be sure to see them all
August 31, 2009 at 6:32 am
Jeff’s almost right on. . .the “dualopoly” isn’t allowing much of the “change” people were hoping for. Obama has hired the usual crooked insiders to run the country. What would it take for us to throw out ALL the folks in power, starting with our own Blue Doggy?
Jeff backed Ron Paul, I backed Cynthia McKinney, but the folks in power are working for corporations, so really either would be better. Remember that in the next election. . .could “our” government be any worse?
August 31, 2009 at 7:45 pm
New subject:
Have been wondering what has happened to Myrtletown.com…anyone out there have information?
August 31, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Travel the world. See the countries. Observe their governments. See how they treat their citizens. Come home to America. Share what you learned about the other countries of our world. Share what you think then about America.
August 31, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I befriended mormon neighbors across the street years ago – they were very nice people. They sent two of their sons on missions somewhere in Africa. When they came back, they said that the experience made them understand that America was spoiled, over-rated, arrogant, out-of-the-loop of reality, not as giving toward each other, etc… It made me realize that throwing american tax payers dollars over here and over there was not really “true”. In other words, money can’t buy love or peace or friendship, etc.! It is about the content of character for which America dismisses in such equivocal fashion.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
August 31, 2009 at 9:35 pm
For what it’s worth Craigs List says the feds are
here again in Fortuna.
September 2, 2009 at 8:04 am
Where are the Democrats?
I want to know where the prominent local Democrats are in the health care debate.
The local Humboldt County Democrats publicly endorsed a single payer system, and we thank them for that. I think even Rep Thompson publicly supports a public option, even though he is a blue dog.
But where are the local Democratic big wigs? Why dont they step out and publicly and loudly demand the real change in health care that we need? WHERE ARE THEY?
I went to a demonstration for reform a month or so ago, a nice little demo of 100 or so organized by Physicans for Social Responsibilty I think. I thank them for the organizing, but we need to do more.
A million of our fellow people PER YEAR are having thier lives ruined by bankruptcy by this rapacious greedy economic cancer of a health care industry.
Democracy can not survive without health care sanity.
It is that important.
WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS?
The Green Party is also notably absent from the public discourse. It is time for them to step forward also.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 2, 2009 at 8:52 am
Pfizer Pleads Guilty to Felony Misbranding
http://urlet.com/prevent.movement
Tags: Big pharma, felony misbranding, kicbacks to doctors, corruption, Pfizer, health care, slap on the wrist
September 2, 2009 at 9:13 am
But where are the local Democratic big wigs? Why dont they step out and publicly and loudly demand the real change in health care that we need? WHERE ARE THEY?
Response = An election is coming up for 4th/5th District Supervisor. They are probably practicing methodical abstention.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
September 4, 2009 at 1:25 am
The person I know best who spent time in Africa was also a missionary. She said the people there were impoverished because almost no one was willing to start or run a business. And if anyone did do it, all their relatives and friends would show up hoping to receive not a job but a handout. No profit motive, so no enterprise. Poverty and disease for everyone.
Not the rosy picture painted above by Hench.
Africa! I will never forget the quaint African custom of having sex with virgins to cure AIDS. What will they think of next?
Mormons are a cute bunch, too.
I guess whatever Africans and Mormons want America to do about Health Care, we’d better follow their wishes.
September 7, 2009 at 9:07 am
Car insurance is a right.
September 7, 2009 at 9:22 am
Hello Black Flag,
Please answer my question from several days ago re: treason and taxation.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 7, 2009 at 9:28 am
Oh HumRed,
You never answered my question either. Will lowering the state sales tax result in an increase in tax revenue for the State of California like your hero Art Laffer believes?
Or as most sensible people suspect, NOT.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 7, 2009 at 9:42 am
what is that? collecting taxes is treason against Sovereign Citizens seeing how every red cent goes offshore as debt service?
those who work for Lucifer deserve their fate….
September 7, 2009 at 9:54 am
So taxation is treason against Sovereign Citizens but not against the Constitution.
You do agree that the Constitution gives Congress the power to tax in some way at least?
Do you agree that the only legal form of treason that you can commit in the US is treason against the Constitution?
Is your position that the US Constitution commits treason against the Sovereign Citizen?
I agree with you on some things, BF, like eliminating the Federal Reserve, but you hurt your arguments when you keep throwing the word treason around.
I believe that George Bush, Dick Cheney and some others in this last treasonous Republican administration committed treason against the Constitution and should be tried for it. How about you, Black Flag, are you with me on this?
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 7, 2009 at 10:16 am
The “Constitution” is a failed hunk of trash that isn’t even followed and was set up to allow for government.ie control and rule over People.
At the very least we need a new one…
Let’s look at how the federal reserve act and the income tax were passed in the dead of night when nobody was even there- same as Patriot Act 1&2 ( where is your bankster ruler who was gonna repeal this for change? ) If government can write something on paper and force you to follow it, how is this Liberty?
How is it Liberty to force payment on debt for services you don’t even use?
If you think that gw and cheney need to be tried for treason- why no outrage with the current sham that has the very SAME people working for the federal government? It’s cool to bash bush, but we need to give the same people under an “obama” flag a free pass?
last time I checked obama opened up a third front in the war ans was expanding them- all the while bringing 350,000 foreign troops into the country for the coming flu “crisis”? Where is the outrage of the anti-war movement over the lies being told by obankster? silenced by media?
I am for the deportation of anyone who has ever collected taxes against someone’s will.
If I have a cause to plant a million trees in humboldt, so we can have a forest again, if I go house to house and demand payment for these trees and to refuse means a swat team will enter your property and take that payment against your will- am I doing a good thing?
You have no right to demand payment on anything because that isn’t freedom- how is this different than Strawn demanding a tax on your boat or home?
The only way the nation can change is for a voluntary society to rise from the ashes.
September 7, 2009 at 10:25 am
Well BF,
I have publicly opposed the expansion of the wars yes all three of them and I have publicly opposed the Obama mission to re inflate the Bush Bubble using the same ecomic team, for sure Bernake and Sommers are Goldman Sachs puppets. So I am with you on those issues.
I also agree that there was plenty of hanky panky in 1913.
Citizens do have sovereignty under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, in the 10th amendment particularly. Its the main reason why you and I have a constitutional right to smoke pot, for instance.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 7, 2009 at 10:35 am
The “anti-war” movement’s best figurehead was/is outside obankster’s vacation house- might it be that even Sheehan now claims the left/righ paradigm is the issue at hand, yet her voice is silent right now. Look at how the media was used to make everyone hate w and the war, sheehan was on the news every night- they drove the “american” people off a cliff with the next election…
The trouble with the country is government, their theft, their treason- because tyranny is bipartisan.
September 7, 2009 at 10:44 am
Black Flag,
Which of the political parties major or minor would you join or support right now?
If none of the existing parties meet your standards, please give me a quick simple five or six point platform for your dream party.
I want to see if I can wrap my simple little mind around it.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 7, 2009 at 11:21 am
None….they all need to take a walk for being liars and dicks.
September 9, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I guess this is one of those “dialogues” we’ve heard so much about. The dialogues that keep people’s brains and fingers agile. The dialogues that strengthen our Republic.
I guess that’s so.
But it seems more like two cranks on a rant.
And at least one of them is a traitor in the bargain. (See Black Flag’s first sentence on September 7 at 10:16 a.m.)
Humboldt County, can’t we do better than this?
September 9, 2009 at 5:00 pm
“The Socratic Method (or Method of Elenchus or Socratic Debate), named after the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates, is a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions to stimulate rational thinking and to illuminate ideas.[1] It is a dialectical method, often involving an oppositional discussion in which the defense of one point of view is pitted against the defense of another; one participant may lead another to contradict himself in some way, strengthening the inquirer’s own point.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_methodhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
September 9, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I don’t know if I can do any better than this, mr anonymous, but the rest of Humboldt County could be brave enough to put their names on their opinions, don’t ya think?
Crawford uses his name I totally disagree with most of his positions but you don’t hear me calling him names. I don’t call Black Flag names either, he or she is angry, so what? I am just trying to sharpen up his thinking. Lots of people all over the political spectrum are angry right now, it is going around. Black Flag is on the extreme but he or she doesn’t threaten people, just a lot of name calling.
First thing with an angry person, if you can sit down with them and listen to them. Find out why they are upset, maybe you can do something for them. Lots of times an angry person will talk themselves out, release the energy, if someone will just take the time to listen to them.
That is my life experience talking, that is how I try to cut down on violence around me. If you are in real life, not internet, it is real important to SIT DOWN , and not face to face but at 90 degrees, if you try to confront an angry person standing face to face it is much more likely to go badly.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 9, 2009 at 8:29 pm
I’m just trying to upset the apple cart and expose yall to different ideas about self empowerment, remind you that every cent paid in taxes goes offshore to banks as debt service. People who collect taxes against a person’s will are STEALING, and deserve to be tried, convicted, and punished by their peers.
Also like to remind yall that the constitution no longer exists- and we need to step away from the silly left/right paradigm which has so many fooled.
Here’s a couple podcasts that are about Liberty http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/
if you vote republican or democrat or green you should give it a listen, it might make you want to tell government to shove their “ballot” up their ass.
September 10, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Traitor.
September 12, 2009 at 8:20 am
The Savage Weiner gets the boot from his home station in San Francisco, KNEW. YES!
http://urlet.com/understand.polite
Sorry to interrupt your day with this glorious news.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 12, 2009 at 6:50 pm
That IS good news. Will Savage be taken off the air locally, too?
September 12, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Quick! What do Dick Army and fertilizer have in common?
September 12, 2009 at 7:09 pm
they are most properly used to push up daisy’s.
September 13, 2009 at 1:47 am
That was a beautiful response! Thank you.
September 14, 2009 at 8:51 pm
While it is true that yard signs don’t vote, there are currently 17 of these non-voters standing along Greenwood Heights Road with Dan Hauser’s name on them. That’s serious ground game.
September 16, 2009 at 12:46 am
Despite what you may have heard or read, yard signs DO VOTE.
They do it electronically.
September 16, 2009 at 6:33 am
How do they use the keyboard?
September 16, 2009 at 10:36 am
Mike Thompson wants a transponder in your car- he is for this nonsense and invasion of Liberty.
http://www.infowars.com/vehicle-tracking-bill-introduced-in-house/
tell Mike to knock it off, it’s really getting old.
September 17, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Redwood Curtain Bicycle Run! October 2-4
Bike to help Save Richardson Grove and to support our State Parks!
September 18, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Flies that cannot be shoo’d out of one’s home can effectively be discouraged from buzzing around one’s house. Simply spray them with ordinary household hairspray. It gums up their breathing tubes, I’m told, encouraging them to find a quiet out-of-the-way place to lie down and rest. In my experience, once treated in this manner, they do not return to their buzzing. Ever. Wishing you and yours peace and tranquility in your homes throughout the Autumnal season!
September 22, 2009 at 10:46 am
On this first day of Fall- pray GOD will bring judgement on government, and THEY will fall like the leaves in the trees.
In the meantime you can listen to Jealous Again!
September 23, 2009 at 9:24 am
Are the Republicans going to come out and protest the Fishermans Building because “government cant do anything right?” Are they going to protest because it is financed by Obama’s stimulus package? We shall see.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 23, 2009 at 9:39 am
BF said: “pray GOD will bring judgement on government, and THEY will fall like the leaves in the trees.”
I am curious Black Flag, which God do you pray to? I have never known an anarchist in my life who was very religious, so please inform me. Is it the God of Abraham? Do you believe that prayer works? Did you know that Ayn Rand was a confirmed atheist?
have a peaceful day,
Bill
September 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm
More annoying than Black Flag are the National Car Rental tv ads featuring John McEnroe, the shouting tennis brat, who after all these years is still profiting from his abusive, uncivil behavior.
September 24, 2009 at 4:36 pm
THIS JUST SENT TO HSU COMMUNITY
FROM HSU PRESIDENT ROLLIN RICHMOND:
Dear HSU Community Member:
Recently there was an incident on campus of racial hatred that involved a written attack against a faculty member. This is a hateful and cowardly act. The faculty member involved has resigned from the university in fear for his/her safety. The outrage and sorrow expressed by those members of the campus community who know of this incident reiterate the university’s absolute and unequivocal refusal to tolerate this kind of behavior. The University Police Department has been notified and is investigating the incident. Let us all continue to reflect on the challenges of social justice and inclusivity that continue to elude us — as a campus community and as a society overall. It is essential that we strive to find ways to make our campus a safer and more humane community. Everyone will benefit from the opportunity to experience and learn from a diverse faculty and staff.
Let us reaffirm our support for HSU’s vision and use it to guide our interactions with members of the campus community: We will be renowned for social and environmental responsibility and action.
Sincerely,
Rollin C. Richmond
President
September 26, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I am far from being an anarchist, yet some things about our rule of law puzzle me.
Police officers pull us over if we drive our cars too fast, to uphold the law, but then they say “I’ll cite you for going 74 mph in a 65 mph zone – even though you were really going 79 mph. That will save you some money.”
How is that supposed to reinforce our respect for Law?
October 4, 2009 at 8:11 am
Glen Beck is a Mormon.
October 4, 2009 at 9:36 am
new blog…..dignity for all
October 4, 2009 at 10:14 am
When promoting a new blog it’s helpful to provide a link if you want anyone to actually check it out.
October 7, 2009 at 7:32 am
Check out the following “emerald triangle” video and accompanying story at the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/mexico-at-war/video2/index.html?hpid=artslot
The primary focus is alleged Mexican cartel grows in the National Forests and similar wildland areas.
October 8, 2009 at 3:26 pm
If someone comes and visits my home and just casually mentions the TV show “Hoarders” do you suppose they are trying in some subtle way to tell me something about me or my house?
October 11, 2009 at 9:46 pm
When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?
I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev. 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Lev. 25:44 states that I may buy slaves from the nations that are around us. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev. 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this?
Lev. 20:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear prescription glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God’s word is eternal and unchanging.
October 17, 2009 at 6:08 pm
this topic has not been brought to the medias attention, it is unfortunate that locals can treat locals this way. For several years upper management at Baywood has ruined a once fine country club. In doing this they have depleted any respect that employees might have for such individuals. Acts of cronyism and blatant lies as of recent have set off a fire. “Cronyism” by definition is the “practice of favoring ones close friends”, in this case a long term salaried employee was demoted and replaced by the brother of a club member. This club member just so happens to be good friends with a board member who wrote the job description, and was integral in the hiring process, eventually hiring the brother even though he did not fulfill the specified requirements. He is self admittedly computer illiterate. In his job “Qualifications” it states, “…Must be computer literate; have the ability to understand and interpret financial data; understand budgeting processes; have a good knowledge of training programs, and health and safety programs and standards; and understand inventory control and monitoring.” The demoted long term employee was soon fired, even though they were repeatedly told that they would not be; they were used to train the new hiree and cut effectively without any warning even when they had asked for at least that. When employees confronted the GM on the situation before the firing, the employees were lied to by the GM as well, being assured that the employee would not be fired. The brother who took the job was told that his job was a “new” job, this was also a lie, in fact it was the same job that the demoted employee had once occupied. It becomes pertinent to know that the GM is in a conflict of interest on his own side. He privately owns a very valuable piece of Baywood, the pro shop and greens fee collection. Every three years Baywood has the option to not sign this right, and effectively collect on that revenue as well. The person who signs away that right is the GM however and therefore he keeps himself in a “safe” position, leaving Baywood to collect on its restaurant for revenue. Unfortunately the GM has no experience with restaurant business. Employees have tried to document certain complaints with the GM. In one case the GM simply lied saying that he would bring it up with the board of directors, when he had no such plans to. Another time an employee stated a much more serious matter to the GM, one that involved the president, the GM stated that he would not file anything because it was the president of the club. Issues like these are why there is supposed to be a strong leader as GM, one that looks out for employees and works with upper management to create a cohesive flowing unit. This is not the case, and these facts are sickening.
October 24, 2009 at 12:12 am
“If someone comes and visits my home and just casually mentions the TV show “Hoarders” do you suppose they are trying in some subtle way to tell me something about me or my house?”
I’ve had this happen.
October 25, 2009 at 11:22 am
CalPERS just lost another half a billion dollars. The details are here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/25/financial/f084602D32.DTL
So the question of the day is, how come the people who have been gambling with peoples pensions haven’t been arrested?
We the people will have to pick up this mess, won’t we?
have a peaceful day,
Bill
October 25, 2009 at 6:17 pm
There’s a great show on CNN tonight. It’s called Latino in America, chasing the dream. It tells the story about hardworking people who sneak across the border to do all our hard jobs (the ones Americans refuse to do) and hope we won’t become angry when Spanish becomes the new majority language of the USA. They sometimes have to live in crime ridden areas where they live with other Latinos and sometimes they get beaten up by white racists. We should help these people. Let’s all quit our jobs and make more room for them in the work force. And let’s stop speaking English and start learning to speak Spanish. Have a heart, you indifferent Americans! A new day is coming, so get with the program or get out of the way.
October 25, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Thanks Anon.
October 25, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Mike? Are you joshing me?
October 25, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I hope so.
October 25, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Sorry it wasn’t obvious.
October 26, 2009 at 6:53 am
Latino in America is first in a series. The next one is called English in America: Chasing the Subdivision, and it tells about landgrubbing people who sneak onto the continent to claim ownership of the land (the land that belongs to no one) and hope we won’t become angry when English becomes the new majority language of the land. They sometimes have to live in pox ridden areas where they live with other English and sometimes they starve to death. We should help these people. Let’s all leave our homes and make room for them to divide up the land. And let’s stop speaking our native tongues and start learning to speak English. Have a heart, you indifferent Indians! A new day is coming, so get with the program or get out of the way.
October 26, 2009 at 7:34 am
Fear In America- a broken dollar and a banker spun communist movement w/ faux enviro freaks, mandatory trash collection, and home inspections have driven the last Sovereigns into Cascadia where they resist the Chinese army from the west and the UN army from the east.
Much like in red Dawn the first thing the communists do is shoot the history teacher, and strengthen the central bank through carbon taxation- a tax on your very breath.
Youtube videos of classic hardcore punk keep them at bay- all while the enviro-communists starve from no construction jobs while their leaders get fat off council studies and kickbacks from trash companies.
October 26, 2009 at 8:00 am
Wouldn’t that be the Chinese navy if they were coming from the west? The Chinese army would have to be attacking from San Franciscos Chinatown in the south. Just sayin’.
October 26, 2009 at 8:15 am
They would use the new port to land off transport ships….humboldt bay would be their LZ with Larry out there directing traffic with a red flashlight.
October 26, 2009 at 9:51 am
tad went to jail yesterday.
Friends and supporters met to give tad hugs before he went in to the humboldt county “correctional” facility in eureka to begin his 35-day sentence. Tad started fasting on October 20 at the board of county supervisors meeting, and so is today on the sixth day of his hunger strike.
to read the whole story and/or comment on it, go to:
theplazoid.wordpress.com
October 26, 2009 at 11:07 am
I saw a white haired lady on CNN. She held a Tea Party sign. She said she wanted government to get out of her life. But she did not say she would give back her Social Security check or give up her Medicare.
October 26, 2009 at 11:11 am
A Tale of Two Californias
http://calitics.com/diary/10355/a-tale-of-two-californias
“Judis did make the initial connection between racial inequality and Republican politics, and understands that the GOP is a central part of California’s crisis:
The biggest reason for this paralysis is the radicalization of California’s Republican Party. By now, this is a familiar part of the American political landscape. But it all began in California. When Brown took office, California politics was still dominated by liberal Democrats and progressive Republicans. By the mid-1960s, conservative Republicans, fueled by the backlash against the civil rights movement, the campus rebellion, and the counterculture, began to oust Republican progressives.”
October 26, 2009 at 4:06 pm
California is owned by offshore banks, nobody else. To blame GOP or the dems is silly, BOTH parties are owned by the SAME banks- any figurehead will collect taxes and send debt service to these same banks.
Your generation screwed enough shit up watching Kennedy killed for executive order 1110 and not lifting a finger. All your role models were killed right before your eyes on television- instead of fighting back fake poser hippies went to woodstock or watched Jerry Gar of the CIA and his band the greatful dead. Now the bankers will steal the last of the wealth your parents left you before tossing your shit into the street.
Not a single baby boomer has anything worthwhile to say about anything.
October 26, 2009 at 6:44 pm
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
This will clue you in to the dangers of compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). This safety info should be known by everybody.
October 26, 2009 at 6:58 pm
11:07 am,
Are you referring to the income (SSI and Med) that was deducted out of this old lady’s paycheck after paycheck after paycheck which was supposed to be managed retirement funding but is now insolvent? Why would she want to give that back again?
Once bitten, twice shy.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
October 27, 2009 at 12:42 am
Jeffrey, if after all this time you cannot tell the difference between regular Social Security benefits and SSI (Supplemental Security Income), I am not going to waste my time or energy exchanging views with you. Educate yourself first, then come back and ask me some questions based on a firmer understanding of these programs.
October 28, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Another excellent Bay District Economic Development meeting tonight. The 6th in a series. This one on Aquaculture. This industry has a lot of great potential. Also got update on Eureka’s Fisherman’s Work Area at foot of C. Ground breaking soon and the facility has tenants.
Too bad not many folks attend. But they are on cable.
October 28, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Video of Botany of Desire (Cannabis).
November 2, 2009 at 6:24 pm
The City of Fortuna meets The Ghost of Red Skelton: Tonight, the Fortuna City Council meeting closed on this familiar note: “Good night and God Bless.”
November 3, 2009 at 7:33 am
Anyone have any sense of who the better candidate is in the Eureka school board at large seat? I’m somewhat inclined to vote against incumbents for the board (since I think the board has been on the wrong track for years) but I don’t want to help elect a stealth christian wingnut either. Thoughts?
November 3, 2009 at 8:58 am
LOL – Too funny 12:42 am.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
November 3, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I want to be the first to welcome Mr. Dennis Mayo as the newest member of the Humboldt County Planning Commission! As the representative for the 5th District Dennis will help the County develop a balanced approach to the General Plan Update!
Welcome Aboard Dennis!
November 3, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Voting against all incumbents is not only lazy, foolish & stupid, but it is dangerous as well.
Not all incumbents are alike. You would end up throwing out the good with the bad. In the case of the Eureka School district, the only good incumbent is the one who is running for re-election.
November 3, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Oooh, danger in the polling booth! There’s an exciting reason to not stay home! I would never vote against all incumbents. I would do so in this case only because (as I stated) I don’t think the Eureka district is making the right choices.
So why is Fullerton the only good incumbent? He was, apparently, too busy to post any information to the LWV site. Gaye Gerdts, his challenger, has lots of thoughtful information about herself and her views of the district. They both have financial backgrounds and hers is from working in the district. Is John Fullerton somehow better than Gerdts – or is he just better than the two incumbents that were unopposed?
I need a reason to vote for somebody besides incumbency – if that’s a word.
November 3, 2009 at 2:07 pm
You could look at his ad on page 3 of the Times Standard yesterday. I also got a flyer in the mail.
I’ve never met him, but I have heard lots of good things about him from both teachers & parents. He isn’t a rubber stamp & some people don’t like that.
November 7, 2009 at 11:25 am
Our thoroughly corrupt Congress is about to pass a Health Care Reform package that FORCES Americans to BUY INSURANCE from the very same insurance companies that have been making lives miserable since they started picking pockets and denying legitimate claims.
Once again, both Democratic and Republican parties unite to screw middle-income Americans, giving their money to their obscenely-wealthy private-enterprise friends.
Satan may not be in complete control of Earth, but who can argue that he does not control Washington, D.C.?
November 7, 2009 at 11:28 am
I agree that this Democratic-Republican package is bad. We need single payer health care like the rest of the civilized world – available to everyone at nominal expense and financed pay as we go through progressive taxation.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
November 7, 2009 at 6:15 pm
A PROMISE TO PAY = PROTECTION
A promise of a member to contribute property to the LLC is enforceable. It’s an enforceable promise if in writing and signed by the member. This can provide an advantage when facing a lack of planning and assets that are immediately exposed. The Alaska LLC can serve as a friendly creditor. Furthermore, you have an option to pay the creditor of your choice, as long as one of the creditors is NOT the IRS. Once the Alaska LLC files liens against your assets, it is the creditor of first priority. You shifted the value of the assets to the LLC in exchange for an interest in the LLC.
Sleeper/Lazy Asset Protection: Form the Alaska LLC and sign the promissory note indenting yourself to the company. Make certain that the promissory note is notarized. If sued, simply allow the Alaska LLC to file the lien against your assets to perfect the debt. The LLC then shows up on public record as a creditor. A hostile creditor, seeking to collect on a judgment, will have difficulty contesting the lien for the following reasons:
The promissory note preceded the conflict with the hostile creditor.
The Alaska LLC is a co-creditor.
You choose which creditor to pay first.
Example: You commit, in writing, to contribute assets to the LLC. The LLC has a right to enforce the contribution, even if you’re facing litigation in an unrelated matter. A promissory note indenting yourself to the LLC is a contribution to the LLC in exchange for the member interest. And the LLC has a right to enforce that contribution to make certain that you follow through. This means the Alaska LLC serves as a “friendly creditor.”
Sec. 10.50.280. Liability for contributions.
(a) Notwithstanding AS 09.25.010 – 09.25.020, a promise by a member of a limited liability company to contribute property or services to the company is not enforceable unless the promise is stated in a writing signed by the member.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in an operating agreement of the company, a member of a limited liability company is liable for performing an enforceable promise made to the company to contribute property or services, even if the member is unable to perform because of death, disability, or another reason.
Sec. 10.50.285. Compromise of contribution obligation.
Unless otherwise provided in an operating agreement of the company, the obligation of a member to make a contribution to a limited liability company may not be compromised, unless all of the other members consent to the compromise.
RECEIVING DISTRIBUTIONS WHEN THE A CHARGING ORDER IS PLACED AGAINST YOUR INTEREST IN THE LLC
It’s possible to receive distributions from the LLC even when a creditor has a charging order against your interest. Although these “prohibited distributions” are possible, you end up owing the LLC for the funds released.
Let’s say creditor Joe has a charging order against my LLC interest (I am the debtor), and I obtain a “prohibited” distribution from the LLC…I am now a debtor to the LLC. Now the LLC is a creditor friendly creditor and I am on record, with the company, of having to pay back the LLC. The LLC is a friendly creditor but a creditor nonetheless. Hostile creditor Joe may need to wait.
These “prohibited” distributions are only “prohibited” as far as the LLC is concerned. And the LLC can file suit against you, and file liens against assets in the attempt to take back the “prohibited” distribution.
Therefore, the LLC may need to sue you to recover the distribution that you shouldn’t have received. If the prohibited distribution was for an understandable purpose, such as to meet important familial or business obligations, there is an understanding that may be made. Perhaps you may sign a promissory note, or confession of judgment, so a lawsuit is not required.
IMPLEMENTATION
Please ask your tax advisor on how the Alaska LLC should hold these attributes to maximize the protection under IRS Revenue Ruling 77-137:
LLC taxed as a partnership
At least two (2) members
Manager-managed LLC. Members are not managers.
APPLICATIONS
Ask your tax advisor/attorney on how to protect the following assets:
File liens against your assets.
Real estate
Intellectual property
High risk operations such as construction, trucking, technology, and other industries fraught with liability issues
Persons who previously signed non-compete agreements with unethical employers.
Whistle-blowers who seek to protect their assets and income from retaliation.
Last minute protection when the risks are immediately identified as threatening to the asset portfolio. There’s no fraudulent conveyance if you’re simply trading your assets for a member interest in the LLC. There must be a legitimate business purpose for this to work. Check with a licensed attorney.
DISADVANTAGES TO THE ALASKA LLC
Alaska LLC’s must file a report every two years whereas the manager and the members are reported to the State of Alaska. The managers and the members are disclosed on public record. Keep in mind that corporations, and other entities, can be members.
OVERCOME THE DISADVANTAGES
Since the members are published on public record, there are two ways to deal with this problem:
1. Make members another LLC or Corporation. Place a nominee as the manager of the member entities, OR
2. Members (companies) assign the member interest to you.
Always structure your plan to work in the absence of privacy.
TOOLS
Aggressive promissory note that indents you to the LLC
The promissory note empowers the creditor to enforce collection against the debtor (you)
Special operating agreement
Alaska LLC
Manager-managed
Taxed as a partnership
At least two members
COMPARE ALTERNATIVES
Wyoming LLC or Alaska LLC?
Wyoming offers the best balance between doing business and asset protection.
Alaska is best for holding and protecting assets.
Nevada LLC or Alaska LLC?
Alaska is the only state where your interest in the LLC may not be foreclosed.
Delaware LLC or Alaska LLC?
Delaware is best for an initial public offering. It’s for big business.
Alaska is the best pro-debtor state.
What about the Alaska income tax?
In order to obtain the charging order protection, the LLC must be taxed as a partnership, there must be at least two members and the LLC must be manager-managed. This means the LLC is a disregarded entity, tax-wise, and the taxable earnings (and deductions) flow through to you and other members. The income and deductions show up on your own tax return as a K1. There should be no tax payable to Alaska when the entity is a disregarded entity for tax purposes. Please ask your tax advisor. There’s no tax advantage to obtaining an Alaska LLC for asset protection.
November 7, 2009 at 7:44 pm
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(MINUTE ITEMThis Calendar Item No.JbliL ‘as approved as Minuta HemuiL_by the State Lands io. Commission by a vqte, Q£-ià to _Qi at its meeting. CALENDAR ITEM 44 APPROVAL OF SETTLEMENT OF CALLISON. TITLE DISPUTE, CÏTY OF EUREKA 1/28/82G 04-02GrimesStevensonSLL 82 S 2 Pursuant to Chapter 1085; oiT Che. Statutes of 1970, the City of Eureka is empowered to negotiate and complete the settlement of sovereign lands disputes within the grant to the City of Eureka, subject to the prior approval of the State Lands Commission. The staff of the -State Lands Commission has received arequest from the City of Eureka to approve a proposed sovereignlands settlement agreement it has negotiated with DeloresGlendyne Callison, record owner of a parcel of land subjectto a sovereign lands claim. The parcel dealt with in this settlement is described in the attached Exhibit “A”, is shown in its general locality on the attached Exhibit “B ,and will be referred to throughout this item as SUBJECT PARCEL. The settlement agreement is on file at the officesof the Commission and is incorporated as a part of this Calendar Item by this reference. Review by the staff has shown the following: 1. The SUBJECT PARCEL xies entirely within the perimeter description of Tideland Survey No. 2, patented July 18, 1860 to Jonathan Clark. The SUBJECT PARCEL in its last natural condition was traversed by Clark Slough, the bed of which was belowthe line of mean low water. 2. 3. The SUBJECT PARCEL has been filled above the line ofmean high tide and is bounded by streets on three sidesand by another parcel of fast land on its other twosides.
Trouble on the Waterfront:
The Plight of Eureka’s Tidelands
Jacqualine Faria
Introduction to the History Major
History 210
2 May 2008
Revised
1 July 2008
In 1968, Lawrence Lazio, president of Tom Lazio Fish Company, sought to expand and
improve the company’s property at the foot of C Street in the City of Eureka on Humboldt Bay.
There was a fish processing plant, as well as the famous Lazio’s Restaurant, and he wanted to
add a parking lot and other refurbishments. When he went to procure a loan for the
improvements, the bank refused his application due to a “cloud” over his title to the property. In
other words, his was not the only claim to that particular piece of land. This hitch in a property
owner’s development plans ultimately led to an expensive legal battle. By July 1976, when the
litigation first entered the court room, property owners all along the northern shore between
Commercial and K Streets were contending with the City of Eureka, as well as the State of
California, for control of the waterfront and the right to any potential revenue.
The beginning of the trouble on Eureka’s waterfront stretched all the way back to the
incorporation of the town, which in 1856 was little more than a smattering of buildings perched
on the edge of Humboldt Bay. Little though it may have been, the new town’s advantageous
location provided the promise of growing into a bustling seaport that could boast an impressive
lead in the lumber and shipping industries. Perhaps this was just what the State of California
had in mind when granting the town stewardship of its tideland areas for the express purpose
of distributing it among the current mill owners on the waterfront.
Rather than assuring Eureka’s economic development, this maneuver paved the way for
a self-serving city council to allow much of Eureka’s coveted waterfront to pass into the
possession of a few men, namely those mill owners who were occupying the lands when they
were offered for sale.1 Private ownership of the tidelands, combined with indefinite property
boundaries and an ever-changing tideline, has had a ripple effect that continues to hamper the
development of said waterfront some 150 years later.
November 8, 2009 at 7:08 am
Survey map of ungranted tidelands:
http://www.slc.ca.gov/Reports/Inventory_of_Ungranted_Tidelands/Humboldt/part_1.pdf
November 8, 2009 at 7:10 am
When Costco came to town they paid the city of Eureka $800,000 for the city’s sovereign interest in 9.5 acres. I wonder what 44 acres is worth?
have a peaceful day,
Bill
November 8, 2009 at 11:12 am
SUV Crushed By Freight Train In Davis
DAVIS, Calif. (CBS13) ―
Authorities say two people were inside the SUV at County Road 32A and County Road 105 when the vehicle became stuck on the tracks. The driver and his wife got out of the car and called 911 dispatchers, who notified the conductor of an oncoming train of the hazard.
The 140-car train was a half-mile away from the vehicle at that point and attempted to slow down, but the train needs a full mile to come to a complete stop.
The train smashed into the SUV, sending it up in flames.
Nobody was hurt in the incident.
http://cbs13.com/local/davis.suv.train.2.1299167.html
November 9, 2009 at 8:34 am
The “Enterprise Zone” program that is referenced below is a scam that has been actively promoted here in Eureka for a few years now by the Chamber of Commerce and City Hall. It financed the Chinese takeover of the Pulp Mill. It is possible that some of the mill machinery that is about to be sold off by Freshwater was purchased by the taxpayers. It is possible that a large portion of the former mill jobs were subsidized by the taxpayers. Two years ago there were more than 600 enterprise zone employees, now there are about 450. It is time for this scam to come to an end, and it is time for all involved to tell the truth. Being the “company of the year” is great work if you can get the taxpayers to pay for it.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
Dan Walters: It’s time for a hard look at California tax dodges
from SacBee — Capitol and California by dwalters@sacbee.com (Dan Walters)
Last June, the Public Policy Institute of California released a highly critical report on California’s “enterprise zone” program that provides big tax breaks to businesses for supposedly hiring workers in areas of high unemployment.
PPIC’s study of the 42 zones, which are created by local governments with approval from the state Department of Housing and Community Development, concluded that state and local governments were losing about a half-billion dollars in revenue each year without any discernible impact on joblessness.
“The state can ill-afford to continue the enterprise zone program without clearer evidence of its benefits or a well-defined plan to make it more effective,” said Jed Kolko, co-author of the PPIC study.
There were three reactions to the densely sourced study:
The University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business quickly re-released a study by Dr. Charles Swenson declaring that California’s enterprise zones had “statistically significant” positive impacts on employment and incomes of affected households without revealing Swenson’s affiliation with a company, National Tax Credit Group, that advises firms on how to obtain government tax breaks;
The state certified or recertified enterprise zones in Kern and Tulare counties and five cities; and
The California Chamber of Commerce and other business groups ramped up a public relations campaign to defend the enterprise zone program.
As California’s fiscal crisis deepens, the competition for ever-scarcer public funds is growing more intense. Spending programs and tax breaks “tax expenditures” in fiscal parlance are facing closer scrutiny.
The PPIC study is potent ammunition as it should be for those who question whether enterprise zones and other corporate tax breaks should remain untouched while health, education and welfare programs face deep spending cuts.
Michael Bolden, a lobbyist for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, cited the PPIC study during a legislative hearing on enterprise zones last month.
“There hasn’t been any sort of proof that the enterprise zone program works,” Bolden said. “It’s been a boon for business, but we don’t necessarily see the return on investment coming back to the state.”
Like many loopholes enacted on the premise that they would enhance employment, including a new batch approved just this year, enterprise zones have received little objective evaluation on whether their purported benefits have materialized.
The dueling studies from PPIC and USC frame the vacuum. And if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature are serious about navigating through the sea of red ink now engulfing the state budget, they’ll divert the energy they now expend on dreaming up gimmicks to making some hard decisions on how taxpayers’ money is being spent or squandered.
http://urlet.com/runs.spring
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/2314093.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20and%20California
November 9, 2009 at 9:02 am
It is amazing to find out where American Tax dollars go to waste. Enough taxes are collected to already pay for healthcare reforms to cover every citizen. Too bad the four horsemen style of governance dominates today’s reality.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
November 12, 2009 at 12:16 am
Fascinating. Not a word on the Klamath deal. What gives?
November 12, 2009 at 11:55 am
Hospital County Diagnosis Number of Discharges, 2008 Average Charge Statewide $57,940 Average Charge, this Hospital
ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL – EUREKA Humboldt Heart Failure, Major Complications 43 $52,291
REDWOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Humboldt Heart Failure, Major Complications 8 $39,356
MAD RIVER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Humboldt Heart Failure, Major Complications 14 $18,479
Records 1-3 of 3
http://www.sacbee.com/1098/story/2317472.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories&appSession=942117596169175
November 12, 2009 at 11:57 am
ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL – EUREKA Humboldt Normal Child Delivery, no complications 419 $13,351 $10,927
REDWOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Humboldt Normal Child Delivery, no complications 264 $13,351 $9,529
MAD RIVER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Humboldt Normal Child Delivery, no complications 314 $13,351 $4,941
http://www.sacbee.com/1098/story/2317472.html?appSession=578117597214633
November 12, 2009 at 7:34 pm
So when so we get the scoop on the most recent lawsuit filed against the city of Eureka and the City Manager personally?
November 13, 2009 at 8:21 am
How about the T-S’s editorial on Pellegrini’s seat? It is hard to argue with the point that her replacement on the Commission should be someone who can represent commercial fishing interests. The commercial fishing industry has been in crisis for years, and needs thoughtful advocates.
But how can one agree with the T-S’s assertion that the Commission should identify a replacement who replicates Pellegrini’s political stance, which is combative, divisive, and far-right? Does that really do justice to the voters in the division she represents? Are commercial fishing interests really helped when their representative alienates the majority of Humboldt County progressives and moderates? Surely it is possible to represent commercial fishing interests without the partisan baggage. What fair-minded individuals will really “miss” Pellegrini’s voice on the Commission, as the T-S suggests?
November 13, 2009 at 8:26 am
Another weak editorial from the T-S. “Balance of power”? What an odd choice of words for a decidedly imbalanced commission.
November 15, 2009 at 3:37 pm
There is another potential huge lawsuit in Eureka’s future unless the Eureka City Council acts now and fixes the unconstitutional at large voting scheme here.
The council needs to establish a true ward system and run off voting (either instant or 2nd election) or a lawsuit is inevitable.
Please read this article. Failure to act on the part of those in office will be held accountable by the voters.
http://urlet.com/writer.occurrence
http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/2327032.html?mi_rss=Latest%20News
have a peaceful day,
Bill
November 15, 2009 at 3:47 pm
the true ward elections problem should be easy to fix, just have to do it…
November 15, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Yes, easy for the council to fix, Big Al, but they better do it fast. There is blood in the water.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
November 17, 2009 at 9:09 am
OPEN LETTER TO EUREKA MAYOR BASS
Let us remember the men, the women and the children, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our sons and daughters who are huddled under a bush shivering in the rain.
Please join me in contacting Eureka Mayor Virginia Bass and requesting that she use the emergency powers vested in her to open an emergency shelter in a city facility for our homeless during this rainy period, and during the rainy periods to come this winter.
Mayor Bass Office: (707) 441-4200
Mayor Bass Email: virginia@ci.eureka.ca.gov
It is the responsibility of our government to care for the vulnerable among us.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
November 18, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Celebration Ale has arrived folks.
Another scoop for Heraldo!
November 19, 2009 at 6:33 am
what about Hoover?
is he like, … a cop?
November 19, 2009 at 8:05 am
“The place is just a fucking soap opera,” the former employee told us Tuesday
YAAAA thats what I talkin’ bout
Down and Dirty
By Hank Sims
A lawsuit was filed last week. It alleged, among other things, that Eureka City Manager Dave Tyson sexually propositioned a former employee of the Eureka Police Department while she was still in the city’s employ. It alleged, further, that Tyson had touched the employee “in a suggestive manner.” It alleged, further and somewhat murkily, that Tyson had told this employee about “his potential sexual encounter with an elected Eureka official.”
A press release was issued on Tuesday. In it, the city of Eureka wrote that the “salacious, sexual” claims made in the lawsuit were total hokum, and that Tyson adamantly denies them. “We are confident that the claims against Mr. Tyson and the City will be thrown out,” the city maintained.
The roots of the present suit go back to the hiring of current EPD Chief Garr Nielsen in the spring of 2007. Shortly after Nielsen took over the post, a faction of the department took against him violently. They began spreading word that Nielsen, a married man, was having an extramarital and intradepartmental affair with a police dispatcher named Tawnie Hansen, a married woman and the person now bringing suit against Tyson and the city of Eureka.
Both Nielsen and Hansen (through her attorney) denied that they were having an affair. They said that they were friends, and that Hansen’s husband was friends with the chief as well. To underscore the point, Hansen brought an earlier suit against another EPD employee for spreading the rumor, and that now-former employee — DeeDee Wilson — settled the case for $10,000.
Now, standing on the outside we civilians have no way of knowing what the absolute facts are in either of these interlinked cases. When we recreate the scene on our desks and kitchen tables, as I encourage you to do, there are no instructions that tell us to insert Tab A into Slot B, or etc. We have to muddle through, and we will never have 100 percent certainty that we will have it right.
It seems to me that these two cases merely present the informed public with a range of questions that, though unanswerable, help us to understand how city government works. Is everyone in Eureka City Hall doing it up, down and sideways 24 hours a day, in every conceivable combination, as if it were the last days of the Roman Empire? Or does everyone just imagine that everyone except them is getting loads of action, resulting in a funky yellow stew of rage inside Fifth and K? Or are both things true, to one degree or another?
One of the above scenarios must be the case. None of them point to what you might call a healthy work environment. The city spent hundreds of thousands of dollars investigating claims resulting from the sex-crazed atmosphere at the EPD, and now will spend scads more defending the suit brought by Hansen, whose underlying claim is that Tyson and the city purposefully slow-played the investigation into her claims of harassment in the workplace because Tyson’s alleged sexual advances were rebuffed. She is asking for $1.4 million in compensatory damages from the city, and an untold sum in punitive damages. This, too, isn’t going away cheaply.
So the taxpayers of Eureka are being asked to subsidize either the saucy fantasies or the saucy facts of their public servants. Our suspicion — confirmed by the million little whispers that reach our ears from time to time — is that this has gone on far too long. A call to a former City Hall employee who fled a few years ago basically confirmed this suspicion.
“The place is just a fucking soap opera,” the former employee told us Tuesday, before reeling off an eye-popping list of liaisons, rivalries, petty crimes and generally strange workplace behavior. “I was repelled by weirdness and weird people.”
So the city government now sets off to spend yet more scarce dollars investigating and/or defending its employees against harassment, real or alleged. (Yes, we know the insurance company picks up much of the tab, but our premiums must be absolutely through the freaking roof by now.) If that’s going to happen anyway, we entreat the Eureka City Council to invest a bit more to pry their employees’ minds out of the pages of the Penthouse Forum.
It’s an absolute mystery why this sex-mad culture seems to fester in and around City Hall. Does it infest any other Humboldt County workplace that you know of? Our former employee had a theory, which they put in their characteristically plainspoken way:”There’s too much free time, I think, and they’re unattractive to anybody but each other.”
Whatever. City Council: Either do some freaking sensitivity training or buy your problem cases tickets to the next orgy in Ferndale, where they can perv out on people other than their co-workers. I’m amazed someone has to tell you this stuff
November 19, 2009 at 9:46 am
There are differences between a narc and a cop.
Calling someone a cop or police is a lighthearted insult. Calling someone a narc is cold blooded.
Cops catch criminals and follow orders. Narcs take it upon themselves to perpetuate the very activity they act like they are trying to stop.
You could say Hoover isn’t a paid narc and that is true. If anything, his support of other local holier-than-thou characters like Robbin Hashplant and Jeff Knapp has brought nothing but pulled advertisements. The national media attention may have been good for a minute, but that is going to wear off soon.
Watch out for the narcs, they will take it upon themselves to get all up in your business. I only hope this upcoming trial exposes some of this shit. At least it gives some of us a clue as to who to support in the D.A. election.
November 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm
“c. Appeal No. A-1-EUR-09-049 (CUE VI, LLC, Eureka) Appeal No. A-1-EUR-09-49 (CUE VI, LLC, Eureka) Appeals by: (1) Commissioners Stone & Mirkarimi, (2) Humboldt Baykeeper, Environmental Protection Information Center, & Northcoast Environmental Center, and (3) Ralph Faust from decision of City of Eureka granting permit with conditions to CUE, VI, LLC for Phase 1 of the Marina Center project. Phase 1 of the Marina Center project includes implementation of the Supplemental Interim Remedial Action Plan (SIRAP), and including creation of an 11.89 acre wetland reserve, which has received concurrence from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region (RWQCB), City of Eureka, Humboldt County. (JB-E)”
DECEMBER 2009 DRAFT AGENDA
SAN FRANCISCO CITY HALL
LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS, ROOM 250
1 DR. CARLTON GOODLETT PLACE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html
November 19, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Hoover is one of the best citizens I know. He wants his neighborhood and town to be safe. You can’t find a more altruistic individual. Robin too. Some of us are just sick and tired of those who would sell out their town for their ganja and the riches it brings them.
November 19, 2009 at 9:16 pm
There has to be a better solution than being an informant. All informants do is piss people off, it’s not solving the problem. You ask people if they have a grow house on their block on they say yes but so what? Now, you ask people if they got a meth trailer on their block with fifty junk cars on the lawn polluting the ground and those who say yes are the people who really need help in their neighborhood from the system, not these pinner ass grow houses like Daniel whatever his name is… at least as it stands currently with that whole meth law.
It ain’t right, the words have already been printed/shown up on the internet/on A&E, and there is no argument that is going to lead me to believe that things are getting any better because of it. In fact, all I see is now people associate Arcata with some kind of organized gangster shit which is far from the truth.
November 20, 2009 at 12:07 am
I don’t like Kevin, that way long before all this grow shit.
November 20, 2009 at 12:52 am
ALTRUISM- unselfish devotion to the interests and welfare of others; disinterested regard for others as a principle of action
My Response = note that in first part of definition, either positive or negative interests or welfare can be the intent or outcome while the second part of the definition is rather clear
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
November 20, 2009 at 9:03 am
The shield law is supposed to protect journalists FROM giving their notes to the cops, not to defend journalists acting as the cop catspaw and feeding information TO the cops.
As has been said many times before…Hoover Is A Cop.
November 20, 2009 at 11:54 am
Lawbreakers are anarchists. Both want to destroy what they are too unintelligent to create.
November 21, 2009 at 10:27 am
Search for “too unintelligent” and you’ll find only morons say that.
November 21, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Nocturnum + Buju = protest. Bounty Killer + ATL = silence.
November 22, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Perhaps Mr. Nice would care to offer a less imaginative way for me to express myself?
November 22, 2009 at 7:39 pm
C’mon, don’t be too unimaginative yourself.
November 23, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Thankfully, I’m not unimaginative enough to use the trite word of insult you used.
November 23, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Anarchy rules
November 24, 2009 at 3:38 pm
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(Outlaw Country/Blues Rock)
RECENTLY BACK FROM PERFORMING@WORLD-RENOWNED STURGIS MOTORCYCLE RALLY, KELLI & THE SHADOWMEN NOW ON TOUR IN “THE BIG BLACK BUS,” TAKING THEIR UNIQUE SOUND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA AND NORTH AMERICA
Perform Locally: SIMON LEGREES in Hawkins Bar – Saturday, December 5
“Get out there and tour…play every city. Get your name out there. Get dirty! Realize that the labels are not going to help a new band as much as you can help yourself. My dad did it, Elvis did it. It’s just going back to the old ways of music…keep going down that road.” – KELLI
(HAWKINS BAR) – The previous quotes accurately reflect the mind-set and work ethic of Kelli & The ShadowMen, currently on tour throughout North America and soon, the world.
Kelli & the ShadowMen perform locally at Simon Legrees, Highway 299@Denny Rd., Hawkins Bar, Saturday, December 5. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $8. Info: (530) 629-3899.
Front and center of this exciting five-piece band is multi-talented vocalist/songwriter, Kelli, who was the subject of a Cover Story in the current issue of ALL ACCESS MAGAZINE as well as in the October issue of SoCal monthly, WHATS UP MAGAZINE. The daughter of famed country singer Johnny Lidell (known for the hit song, “Primrose Lane”) was originally an actress (with a lead role in long-running TV hit, THE LIFE OF GRIZZLY ADAMS), producer, and director – with over twenty-eight movies to her credit.
Early on Kelli signed to CBS Records, before a serious auto accident short-circuited her music career. After many years of painful rehabilitation –during which time Kelli founded and created non-profit L.A.-based organization, the Second Chance Foundation, “for people who were given a second chance at pursuing their life-long dreams” – the diminutive singer with a big voice is back with a vengeance, stronger than ever. A prime example of Kelli’s strong-as-iron will and determination is summed up by her catchy original, “Can’t:” “I despise the word can’t…it’s too easy a crutch to get out of things,” she says. “Never say it. If you can dream it you can do it.”
Kelli & The ShadowMen’s “The Big Black Bus” is a sight to behold: A Tour Bus that is nearly fifty feet long and fully equipped with beds, bathrooms, bar and state-of-the-art living quarters, enabling the band to travel in style. “I’m always excited when we tour because I have my family with me,” she says. “There’s nothing like sitting on the bus and talking and laughing. Sometimes it gets a little rough on the bus…good thing I had a brother but now I have a brother times five. I really love it..the best thing is that we all get along.”
Kelli calls the band’s Sturgis show this past Summer as “life-changing…what a great bunch of people!” Recalling her performances there, she said, “at the end of the show a lady who was dancing and flashing her ta-tas the whole night walked up to the stage and said, “I lost my eye.” The whole band helped her find it. What a night…when I really think about it I think we see more ta-tas than any plastic surgeon!,” she says with a laugh.
Catch the excitement of Kelli & The ShadowMen when they come through your town.
KELLI & THE SHADOWMEN – UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
Dec. 5 (Sat.)
SIMON LEGREES Hawkins Bar, CA
Dec. 19 (Sat.)
PJ’S ROADHOUSE Placerville, CA
Jan. 22 (Fri.)
THE BUFFALO ROSE Golden, CO
Jan. 23 (Sat.)
THE REDSTONE ROOM Colorado Springs, CO
Jan. 28 (Thurs.)
TAVERN ON GREEN Lee’s Summit, MO
Feb. 5 (Fri.)
LOST ISLE BAR Carlton, MN
Feb. 6 (Sat.)
THE OLD LOG CABIN Forest Lake, MN
KELLI & THE SHADOWMEN INTERVIEWS/PRESS MATERIALS/SHOW PASSES AVAILABLE.
http://www.kelli.com http://www.myspace.com/kelliandtheshadowmen
November 24, 2009 at 7:22 pm
KMUD Environment Show is discussing the Balloon Tract
November 29, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Lord Arkley is running pressure ads on cable tv to pressure Bonnie Neely and the Coastal Commission to approve the Balloon Track project.
This is an unbelievably slimey attempt to pressure a state agency.
Seen on TNT cable approx 650 pm sunday night.
The good citizens of Eureka need to organize to get this slimeball out of our city. Enough is enough.
November 29, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Every time you see the ad you could always call Bonnie yourself and pressure her to not approve.
BTW the ad was on broadcast tv this morning, too. I don’t recall the channel – probably FOX.
November 29, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Thanks for the heads up.
December 1, 2009 at 11:26 am
anybody know how Bill is doing?
December 2, 2009 at 12:08 am
Tom Seabourn appears to be in contact with Bill.
December 2, 2009 at 7:02 am
Bill wrote me too, he’s ok and will be back soon.
thank you
December 2, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Have you heard that the State did not certify the County’s Housing Element! Now Humboldt may just have to do it right for a change, unfortunately their thumbing their nose at the law will cost us a shit load of grant money. Thank you Bonnie and Kirk, for such a crappy job.