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September 16, 2020

The Entire Port Angeles City Council Should Resign

They have all failed at their duties, one of those duties is to remove any employee under their purview, namely Manager Nathan West, that commit unlawful acts.

The case that is now well etched has now been revealed as going even deeper and more concerning as time moves forward regarding the speech violations committed in the clerk’s office, not only have they tried to suppress the speech that is critical of city staff, they are now banning contact with elected council members and with their, the council members, apparent blessing, they have done nothing to correct this behavior.

Apparently emails addressed to the council members are directed to one designated inbox and held for days and even weeks before the email(s) are first censored then O K’d and then released by the number one suspect, Kari Bailey Martinez.

Manager West and Bailey Martinez should be removed from their duties for this clear violation of The First Amendment, violations clearly spelled out here.

It was explained to the council what their duties are and that they too would face a Federal Suit if they too, when running for reelection, created a “public forum,” a Facebook page, for that purpose, reelection. They can not invited comments but then ban or delete comments that are critical of their performances and derelictions as was the case in Knight v Trump, Trump tried to ban comments and was busted.

Facebook has their rules and The Public Forum Doctrine has it’s rules. Facebook becomes a “public forum” when used for governmental purposes. The two contradict, private v public, but “public forum” comments can not be ban or deleted.

September 16, 2020 6:44am

August 27, 2020

The City of Port Angeles Facebook Unconstitutional

Not only is the upper levels of local government guilty of violating The First Amendment in another unrelated case that will most certainly go to federal court, but their Facebook pages are unconstitutional as well.

Note the language used in the introduction segment, the “terms of service,” those individuals that criticize in the slightest and do not highly praise the morons running our local government will be accused of “insults” “personal attacks” or disrespect.

It is so bad that they will delete anything critical of their performances. Words like “blunder,” “botched” “over paid” will be deleted as disrespectful as if any of that is not protected by The First Amendment.

The “terms of service” is unconstitutionally vague and would not pass a challenge.

Facebook and or Twitter, as I have said, can delete most anything they disagree with, they are private, but The City of Port Angeles, government created pages, even if Facebook or Twitter, that “invite comments,” which makes it a “public forum,” can not delete critical comments that merely “insult” the poor little babies.

Knight v Trump is a great example, his Twitter is a government “public forum,” used to invite comments thus then can not delete only those that are “insulting.”

Davidson v Randall is another case that is easily researched.

My guess is Clerk Kari Martinez-Bailey wrote the terms, as she is a loon.

Here is information that should inform those uninformed including The City of Port Angeles attorneys, idiot manager Nathan West and inept though diverse, city council.

First Amendment; The right to petition for grievances is the right to complain to, or seek the assistance of, one's government, without fear of punishment or reprisals.

1. “The Supreme Court, "redress of grievances" is to be construed broadly.”
2. Public emails accounts are public forum and can not be blocked.
3. “The Petition Clause includes the “right to communicate” with government officials.”
4. “Certainly the right to petition extends to all departments of the Government.”
5. Similarly, an ordinance prohibiting or punishing “offensive language” or “discourteous language” will be struck down as unconstitutionally vague.
6. “The government cannot suppress a speaker because of the “reaction of the audience.”
Moreover, if people have to check with the government before speaking to see if their
speech meets ordinance approval, then the ordinance is an unconstitutional prior restraint.

The U.S. Supreme Court has expressly delineated and specifically defined certain
categories of unprotected speech. To be certain, “offensive words,” “profanity,” “hateful
words,” “pornography,” or “indecent words” are not categories of unprotected speech.

August 27, 2020 6:40am

August 8, 2020

Add Obstruction of Justice To The City Hall Corruption

Apparently Port Angeles City Hall has blocked emails and complaints from not only reaching public employees in the administrative departments but also from reaching The Port Angeles Police Department including it’s record division.

City Manager Nathan West and Clerk Martinez-Bailey snoop, filter and read incoming emails and reroute any emails that they disagree with, including those emails that are critical of their performances, to a special inbox.

At the time this is being published, an inquire will be conducted to also see if this conduct also violates any public records law. It is clear that it violates The First Amendment by routing emails to a single “point of contact” and may very well violate RCW 42.56, if not also, as I say, criminal statutes by blocking complaints, sent to The PAPD when the blocking was first reported, but don't count on them, West controls their employment.

A "Point of Contact," for you uninformed, is sometimes used for records requests but records requests only, not for all emails sent to city employees totally unrelated to public records request. If a governmental body has X amount of employees each of those has an email address for contact. What Martinez-Bailey and West have done is block and then reroute emails sent to any and all individual employees to an inbox they control.

If they decide to then not route it to the intended recipient the email will stay in the designated inbox and not be delivered to the intended target.

As mentioned, the two perpetrators will face a federal suit for not allowing city employees to receive their emails based on black letter viewpoint discrimination.

All courts have struck down similar attempts to block, delete or ban social media users participating and posting grievances and or petitions to a governernment created page.

The government can not block, ban or delete comments like a newspaper or Facebook or Twitter can, they are private industry, but a goverment created website, or an singular official who creates a Facebook or Twitter account, does not have the same discretion.

If a public official, say running for office or creates a page and invites public comments like President Trump’s Twitter, it is public property and he can not block, ban or delete comments he does not like. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez settled her case, then apologized.

Thin skinned Nathan West and Kari Martinez-Bailey have done exactly that, they tried to “protect” employees from criticisms posted through and via their "city of pa us" web site and in the process, violated The First Amendment.

Manager West, under his little "general supervison duties," does not have atuthority to order the I T department to filter, block, or ban emails from their intended destination.

August 8, 2020 6:09am

August 3, 2022

Monkeypox Getting Worse

Monkeypox has been getting more serious in Washington State and across the country. As of Aug. 2, the Washington State Department of Health reports 154 confirmed cases of Monkeypox in Washington State, with the large majority – 134 cases – in King County. The dashboard is updated daily.

“Cases have been doubling every 8–9 days ever since the first reported case in May,” KUOW reported. “Most of the cases have been reported by men who have sex with men. But [Dr. Tao] Kwan-Gett [chief science officer for the Washington State Department of Health] notes MPV doesn’t discriminate between sexual orientation, gender, or income. This virus is not a sexually transmitted disease.”

Washington State received 3,600 doses of the newest vaccine last week, according to KUOW, with plans from the federal government to distribute more doses nationally in the near future. There are currently limitations on who can receive the vaccine, and more information can be found through Public Health – Seattle & King County’s website,

The same precautions as you [should] be taking for Covid should be taken for Monkeypox, wash hands, wear masks no up close contact with and infected person or any one really.

August 3, 2022 5:33am

July 25, 2020

City of Port Angeles Corruption Deeper Than Thought

The criminal behavior at The City of Port Angeles may very well extend into the council and legal department, both are hunkering down and preparing for war.

Bill Blore had told a citizen who sent a “no further contact notice” to a city employee who, while on public duty and harassed a private citizen, it “has no Force or Effect” and called it just “a predilection” of the citizen.

He was out of touch and wrong, RCW 10.14 specifically states that “giving clear notice” to an harasser is an important first step in obtaining legal remedy.

Apparently Clerk Kari Martinez-Bailey was the harasser and given clear notice.

Blore, and perhaps other members of the so called legal team, also aided and abetted Martinez and Manager Nathan West in [their] attempts to quash speech.

This, of course, is not new for Martinez, remember back during the downtown art work issue how angry she got when people actually had a right to freely speak, it was actually reported in the newspaper that she did not agree with the viewpoints.

The City of Port Angeles, more importantly and specifically West, Martinez and this Todd Weeks, I T manager, will inevitably face a Federal First Amendment suit for their unlawful conduct while on public duty but operated independently not as the city as a entity and will be sued in their personal or, “individual capacities.”

All three, four…I lost count now, violated First Amendment rights by banning the free speech rights of an individual who simply utilized a public forum.

All courts have struck down restriction attempts and upheld speech on “public forums” that serve a purpose more so if created by the government for communication purposes or an individual government employee seeking verbal attention on a social site.

There are a the usual few restrictions of course, libel, “true” threats etc.

In the case of social sites operated by a public official, that official can’t then exclude or delete comments he or she dislikes without it being “viewpoint discrimination.”

It’s about speech not conduct, there is not even an allegation of conduct just the (benign) speech they deemed "inappropriate" and want to control, (inappropriate) hurt feelings from criticisms do not appear in the constitution, this should concern every one of you.

July 25, 2020 6:09am

May 20, 2020

Go To Full Time Remote Learning

Can’t stress enough the benefits of remote learning as I have said for years now. There are so many benefits, as I’ve said, no building maintenance no levies no more school boards and less State Government involvements including Olympia.

Would most local school districts be in favor, probably not, they want to keep their taxpayer funded jobs and bloated benefits intact and undisturbed.

This, as I have said, could be accomplished very easily and quickly, every household in America might not have high speed internet but it is save to say that every household has a wide screen television or at least, a television.

Not only can students be taught online but through a dedicated T V Channel.. Millions of students can be taught in one fell swoop. Any given age group, grade or class in a given time zone can be instructed by one teacher in one room.

Students, young people, can get their activities through other means, little league, neighborhood playmates etc. A city, town or state can be represented as if a physical grade school, middle school, high school or college was intact.

Sure it would be up to the parents to ensure the individuals learn and pass tests and that might be another draw back, they would have no one else to blame, but perhaps the tax savings might stop some of the complaints.

Those using the districts to baby sit and feed their kids but should also think the thousands in tax savings and use it to simply buy groceries.

May 20, 2020 6:33am 

April 12, 2021

Lunatics At It Again

Many reason why the left is so intent on allowing crime to rage and criminals to reign is really all about is reparations, of which, I warned for decades.

You see, these minorities are just so oppressed in America those in power have to try and even the score by not only setting the oppressed free but of course allowing them to vote and they, those now in charge, think it will be for the democrats.

Gov. Jay Inslee just signed a bill that would increase voting eligibility for felons

Before now, people with felonies didn’t necessarily have their voting rights restored upon leaving prison. Instead, they could regain voting rights after finishing the conditions of their sentence which can rightly last for months or years.

The bill was sponsored by this Rep. Tarra Simmons nut, a Democrat of Bremerton, who is believed to be the first formerly incarcerated lawmaker in America.

Gee, isn’t American now a great place to live, lefty felons now in government.

Republicans rightly opposed to the legislation argued that certain individuals should be prohibited from regaining their voting rights based on the type of felony they committed. People convicted of violent and sexual offenses, some have argued, shouldn’t be given the same right as other offenders.

Others, like Sen. Jim McCune, R-Graham rightly argued that individuals shouldn’t have voting rights restored until they have completed their full sentences.

Punishment for a crime in Washington does not end at the prison gate, so voting rights should not be restored for convicted felons until they have completed their sentences and paying restitution to victims which would be my, form of reparations.

But of course the racists loons resort to the new old days of “Jim Crow.”

April 12, 2021 5:22am

January 14, 2021

Sequim City Council Has More Balls Than Port Angeles

The Sequim City Council has more balls than The Port Angeles City Council or perhaps just more education to do what?s right and required regarding inappropriate behavior of it?s manager, Charlie Bush.

The Sequim City Manager had recently taken a stand against those airing support of Qanon, a group locals and national liberal leftist loons claim is racist etc but what else is new, everyone these days is a racist, just ask the real racists.

The Sequim Council also took a stand but there is another meeting on Jan. 25 regarding the resignation of Bush of whom, has faced criticism throughout his short term.

Apparently the mayor of Sequim went on a morning show, ?Coffee with the Mayor? that seem to anger the manager who apparently, like The Port Angeles Manager who also does not believe in The First Amendment, said ?this is the first time since I began working for the city in 2015 that a mayor has commented on national politics that have nothing to do with the City of Sequim.? Oh, poor baby.

Two of the council members just voted against the decision to remove him and wanted the discussion on Bush?s future with the city to be held in public instead if the usual ?executive session? of which should never be allowed, we, the taxpayers, pay their salaries but Washington State law allows ?executive sessions? which are secret.

Some feel his removal will be ?disruptive? of which, most agencies already are.

The Sklallam Tribe is unhappy of course, they liked Bush? loony liberal medical policies most of which are very expensive and the good community members opposed the latest proposed endeavor termed the, ?MAT facility.

Bush has also long opposed those views of which are not liberal lunatic and of which he disagrees with and opposes all groups that are not Black Lives Matter or Antifa.

Gee, just look at all of the peace and cheer those groups have brought.

Most of the local lunatics are coming out of the closet to show support for the nutty Manager and the liberal Antifa way of destruction including Clallam Commissioner Mark Ozias, as for The Port Angeles City Council Members, no one ever expects that uneducated group to put two words together.

Sequim has removed several evil doers in the same time The Port Angeles City Council has been aware of Constituional Violations committed by staff and have done nothing.

January 14, 2021 5:33am

December 18, 2020

Liberal Loons Empty Prisons

With COVID-19 outbreaks springing up in Washington prisons, liberal lunatics around the sound call for corrections officials to release more inmates and improve the conditions of their facilities.

The state Department of Corrections (DOC) avoided widespread outbreaks early in the pandemic now, however outbreaks are spreading at prisons across the state though none yet reported from The Clallam Bay Facility.

There has only been four deaths but the loons want all prisoner freed. And a wide release of prisoners to make room for social distancing.

Mass releases, whether through governor?s proclamations, expedited clemency or through legislative bills, particularly of medically vulnerable people and elders, is the only way to relieve the pressures that COVID places on DOC the loons say

Family members of inmates speak about their fears amid the pandemic but perhaps ?the family? should have kept the sociopaths out of prison in the first place.

Columbia Legal Services sued Gov. Jay Inslee in an attempt to force him to free thousands of inmates to create space for distancing amid the outbreak. The state Supreme Court in April rejected that lawsuit, though Inslee did move to release about 1,100 inmates to free up space in the prisons.

Well so much for Inslee being reasonable. It is this site?s opinion that those in prison have access to medical care that many who are free from committing crimes and from incarcerated receive much less at taxpayer expense.

December 18, 2020 5:33am

December 7, 2020

Fraud In Unemployment

Since May, the head of Washington?s unemployment agency has been buffeted with criticism for a slow footed response to a massive fraud that leeched away hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.

Now Employment Security Department (ESD) Commissioner Suzi LeVine is being rebuked by state Auditor Pat McCarthy for hindering her office?s investigation into what went wrong.

In an unusual step, McCarthy recently accused LeVine of imposing ?significant constraints? on auditors, including attempts at limiting interviews with key ESD employees and delaying access to important documents.

McCarthy, in an Oct. 20 memo to LeVine, warned if such roadblocks continued, auditors would report that ?management interference? had prevented completion of several audits that are underway. It would be a rare finding ? and a black eye for Gov. Jay Inslee?s administration, which has faced growing criticism for its handling of the pandemic?s economic fallout.

The roadblocks have centered in part on efforts by the auditor?s office to document the scale of the theft and the total amount of money, criminals stole $576 million, of which $356 million has been recovered as of Friday.

Annual audit of state?s financial statements report will include some fraud and recovery figures and will be due in December.

The auditor?s office is conducting five audits of ESD. All aim to shed new light on how cybercriminals including a Nigerian crime ring known as ?Scattered Canary? ? stole hundreds of millions by filing false unemployment claims.

Inslee spokesperson Tara Lee said in an email the governor?s office and the Office of Financial Management have been working with the auditor and ESD ?and we are not aware of any issues that aren?t resolvable. All indications are that the audits will be done on time and on target.?

Despite harsh criticism of ESD?s management of the crisis from some state legislators and union-backed worker advocacy groups, Inslee has defended LeVine, and has instead pointed blame at criminals who scammed the unemployment system.

December 7, 2020 5:31am

November 19, 2020

Seattle?s Loony ?Defund? Now Needs To, Re-fund

Advocates and lunatic organizations and businesses are urging the Seattle City Council to try to stop the Police Department from hiring officers next year, based on the idea that the money would be better invested in unarmed solutions.

What City Hall decides to do could indicate whether the political heat kindled by the summer?s demonstrations remains red-hot or has cooled somewhat.

While most lunatics vowed in July to support defunding the Police Department by 50%, the 2021 budget plan they?ve hammered out so far would fall short of that target. They and Mayor Jenny Durkan have taken steps to cut police spending for the first time in recent memory. Still, the current plan would allow for 114 officers to be hired next year.

But the council wants to take the hiring budget and invest it into the community,?

Promoted by the Solidarity Budget advocates with the tagline ?No New Cops,? the campaign has drawn attention from council members the loony Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales, who released a proposal Tuesday to redirect $9 million in officer salaries.

But that proposal has yet to win support from other council members, and the concept is unlikely to be welcomed by Durkan, interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz and others who think the force is already stretched thin due to voluntary departures and a hiring pause in the second half of this year.

The city must resume hiring in 2021 in order to replace officers who have been leaving at a rapid pace, Durkan and Diaz have said, warning about the Police Department?s ability to answer 911 calls and comply with court-ordered reforms. Absent hiring next year, attrition could shrink the force dramatically by scores of officers.

It seems that the leftist lunatics are now smelling their own Bullshit.

November 19, 2020 5:33am

November 5, 2020

The Left Coast Does Not Disappoint

Sex Ed for kindergartners, drugs for everyone, sure go ahead and burn loot and kill cops it?s all in an effort to let everyone do whatever they want except when it comes to the constitution on which most of your rights will be restricted.

It is no surprise that all the incumbents won their races, people complain about everything but then vote for the same ole tax and spend liberals.

Some of the issue may be the bastards that operate the local Republican office on Lincoln St, I called down there several times for information and got a couple of mouthy old men. I then went down in person to see who I was dealing with and as soon as I walked in the door was given the third degree attitude.

More of your money will also be wasted on the failing schools systems and keep an eye on your holidays, if you care anymore, as I have said, warned, on a national basis, not only will statues be demolished by The Black Lives Matter racists, but together with the loony whites, will end anything established after their lunatic1619.project.

No one I know ever thought of The Black Lives Matters? 1619 concoction as an educated idea, perhaps the school districts need to encourage the groups to pick up a book and read a little bit of history instead of trying to destroy it.

November 5, 2020 7:40am

October 23, 2020

Sex Ed In Grade Schools

There is a dust up regarding Sex Ed in schools of which should be limited to at least junior high schools, if kids need Sex Ed in grade school it is the parents that need educated and perhaps even put in jail for abuse or abandonment.

The law requires school districts to adopt a sex education curriculum of their choice that meets state standards. The standards suggest that fourth graders learn about puberty, reproduction, healthy relationships and communicable diseases.

But the legal battle over those words, which the state Supreme Court ruled could remain in the voter guide because it was not defamatory, has turned the race into somewhat of a proxy war over a ballot measure, Referendum 90, that is on the ballot this November.

Pushback to the law helped make one Washington State race one of the most ideological in recent memory, observers say, with each campaign falling more clearly along political party lines, a republican wanting to curtail teaching sex ed to kindergartners and the incumbent wanting to teach it to kids straight out of the womb.

October 23, 2020 6:44am

October 7, 2020

Remote Learning Under Attack

Thousands of students are given the ability to learn through the internet butfor months, officials haven?t be able to answer these questions with certainty:

How many kids actually need the technology? And does it work well enough to meet remote learning demands?

They?re questions central to conducting school online and closing digital access and learning gaps, especially if schools will stay remote for the foreseeable future.

In some cases, the lack of firm information has made estimating the appropriate response to the problem harder and more time consuming, especially when it comes to internet connectivity. And the main solution offered by school districts discounted or free plans offered by internet service providers sometimes results in internet access too slow to handle multiple kids learning online at the same time, according to industry guidelines.

The most comprehensive statewide effort to get clarity on student tech needs voluntary state surveys of school districts in May and August only requested estimates. Based on the answers it received, the state education department projects that between 81% to 89% of Washington state students had adequate technology and connectivity.

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The best estimate from state officials, based on data from May, is that 81% of Washington students have internet access adequate enough to support online instruction. More than 94% of them started the school year online.

October 7, 2020 6:55am

July 2, 2020

Chaz, Ooops, Chop Now ?De-funded? But Not Without A Fight

After a few had been shot and other crimes had committed in the mostly ?peaceful? love feast? The Mayor and nuts will end finally what was first known as Chaz then Chop a summer of love gone bad, like a marriage made in hell.

Monday?s gun viJolence marked the second fatal shooting of a teenager in the area in a little over a week a Lorenzo Anderson, 19, died after being shot at the edge of the protest area in the early morning hours of June 20.

Monday?s fatal shooting also raised concerns from protesters and Black clergy members alike about the city?s response to the protest zone, with debates about what should be done next erupting later in the morning near the scene.

At a news briefing on Capitol Hill last Monday morning, police Chief Carmen Best said ?enough is enough.?

?Two African American men are dead, at a place where they claim to be working for Black Lives Matter. But they?re gone, they?re dead now,? Best said, referring to Monday?s slaying as well as the June 20 fatal shooting of Anderson. (Seattle police initially said the person who was killed Monday was an adult, but later corrected that to 16 years old).

?We need to be able to get back into the area,? Best said about the protest zone and surrounding blocks, the scene of a total of four shootings in the past week and a half. ?This is dangerous and unacceptable.?

Protesters in the area on Monday morning defended the occupation, saying it wasn?t the, ?cause of the violence.?

Tensions were still running high Monday morning: During Best?s news conference, demonstrators down the street surrounded a pickup, shouting at Fox News correspondent Dan Springer, who was sitting in the passenger seat. The demonstrators said the dispute started when Springer pushed one of the protesters, Rashyla Levitt, who said she threw her coffee in Springer?s face. Protesters also alleged that the driver of the truck pushed the vehicle into the crowd as the truck turned to leave the street.

Fox News said in a statement from vice president of domestic bureaus and Los Angeles bureau chief Nancy Harmeyer that a protester confronted Springer ?after overhearing him cancel a live report due to ?filthy language? in the background,? but ?at no point during the situation did the FOX News crew ever physically instigate or retaliate in any way against the protestors.?

Horace Lorenzo Anderson, the father of Lorenzo Anderson, the 19-year-old fatally shot on June 20, also showed up to the protest zone on Monday morning and criticized the lack of police presence when his son was killed.

?When I went up there to go see my son there, there was nobody there,? Anderson said. ?Only my family was there. Weren?t no detectives there, wanting to ask questions ? It was like he was nobody.?

So much for the Black Lives Matter Hypocrites

July 2, 2020 6:33am

June 17, 2020

Even My Next Door Neighbors Are Anti Police Lunatics

As even local lunatic protesters demand sweeping changes, even eliminating, law enforcement, the future would look even more like a war zone.

On the face of it my next door neighbors look to be peaceful people, liberal, drive little electric vehicles, nature lovers and bark eaters but when it comes to The Police they want them totally ban and were part of the local De-fund The Police protests.

What is totally ironic, not only are they hard to get along with, which may be why they have lived in a half a dozen cities in a dozen years, the last one, prior to their move to Port Angeles in 2017, is Chicago which obviously needs ?spending "increased.?

Don?t know if the couple, that is 40ish, and without children, another sign of being a member of the ?it?s all about me generation? and possible Antifa members, instigated any of the chaos locally as reported but I would not be surprised.

If one was to rely on what might be found on the internet, one by a local former councilman and diagnosed sociopath who created a Google Blog or the libel printed by the Peninsula Daily News several years ago, they might think I would be anti police.

Nothing could be further from the truth regardless of the 2012 incident of which was simply the using of my full Constitutional Rights of being secure in one?s home, illegal searches and seizures and right to remain silent and to an attorney to the false charges.

But these collective de-fund the police idiots have it in their genes, ?reform? has morphed into full de-funding and or abolishing the police entirely and altogether.

The lunatics are saying it?s time to upend the whole system, literally getting rid of all law enforcement officers without any regards of the alternative when at 4 in the morning a murder, rape, robbery or domestic violence may be in progress.

America is also not ?systemically? racists,? in fact it is The Black Lives Matter Terrorists that are not only lunatics and racists but whose aim is black supremacy.

June 17, 2020 6:33am

June 10, 2020

Scott T. Collins.Com Leads On Mask Wearing

All employees in Washington state will be required to wear face coverings beginning Monday, June 8 thanks, if only in my own mind, to this site.

This will not apply to those jobs where people have no contact with others or if the individual has a medical condition that makes wearing a facial covering inappropriate.

Employers will be required to provide all the necessary materials for employees.

Washington residents are also strongly encouraged to wear facial coverings when out in public to help limit the spread of COVID-19.

Customers must follow retailers' posted signage requiring facial coverings.

Although it has not yet been mandated, health officials strongly urge people to wear a face-covering in places like grocery stores, pharmacies, and other places to slow the spread of the virus. Sanitary wipes and gels should be mandated at doorways however.

I had always, even before the latest hype, would grab several wipes when entering and departing a business to clean the cart handles etc. and to keep my hands clean.

Unless you?re working from home, odds are you will need to wear a face covering to go to work. employees at businesses statewide must wear face coverings at work.

This was announced after my post on May 27 2020 regarding the incident I had at Thurman?s Supply in Port Angeles, when an associate seemed too good to wear a mask and displayed no regards for human life when I had asked her why she wasn't wearing a mask and she told me directly ?oh well? (if not wearing a mask may infect customers).

Other employees were noticably sick with bad colds

June 10, 2020 6:40am

May 27, 2020

Thurman Supply Says "Oh Well" If People Choke Of Covid

I personally was told by a Thurman employee on Wednesday 20 2020 that she "won?t wear a mask because it "chokes" her, this was after asking why she wasn?t wearing a mask when it appeared all other employees were wearing a mask.

The State or at least the county and or city should mandate that all businesses do what Safeway and Walmart require, that all employees wear a mask.

Despite what the national media is pushing, mostly Fox, who want to see their president reelected, the virus hype is far from over and restrictions are necessary. People also have the "freedom" to not be infected by others who are irresponsible.

There was no rudeness on my part of any kind or brought to my attention, but the female employee, not only got the whole "return/purchase" wrong and almost cheated me out of funds, but also failed to give me my receipt along with her bad attitude.

A male employee prior, same day and time, taller, thin, was wearing a mask and good thing, he had one of the worst colds I have seen, nose running like a river and however, should not have even been working.

I had then sent an email to management but not one reply of concern.

Thurman Supply has always had a bad attitude and everyone who does business there knows it, perhaps an indication of the owner/operator, William Hoagland, who is either an absentee owner/operator or, simply a very bad one.

May 27, 2020 6:13am

May 20, 2020

Go To Full Time Remote Learning

Can?t stress enough the benefits of remote learning as I have said for years now. There are so many benefits, as I?ve said, no building maintenance no levies no more school boards and less State Government involvements including Olympia.

Would most local school districts be in favor, probably not, they want to keep their taxpayer funded jobs and bloated benefits intact and undisturbed.

This, as I have said, could be accomplished very easily and quickly, every household in America might not have high speed internet but it is save to say that every household has a wide screen television or at least, a television.

Not only can students be taught online but through a dedicated T V Channel.. Millions of students can be taught in one fell swoop. Any given age group, grade or class in a given time zone can be instructed by one teacher in one room.

Students, young people, can get their activities through other means, little league, neighborhood playmates etc. A city, town or state can be represented as if a physical grade school, middle school, high school or college was intact.

Sure it would be up to the parents to ensure the individuals learn and pass tests and that might be another draw back, they would have no one else to blame, but perhaps the tax savings might stop some of the complaints.

Those using the districts to baby sit and feed their kids but should also think the thousands in tax savings and use it to simply buy groceries.

May 20, 2020 6:33am 

May 4, 2020

Port Angeles Should Follow Sequim's Lead

The Sequim School District is cutting about $2 million from it?s budget and Port Angeles should get off it?s high horse and follow suit

Their cuts are to supplies, most curricular activities ,personnel positions and huge cuts for basic education and teaching positions salary which is a huge cost.

Much more needs to be done of course, more cuts need to be made and those such as the local school board, needs to stop spending other people money.

The Port Angeles School District has been poorly managed for decades and needs a few that know how to run things, this Steve Methner and his wife are idiots.

Times change folks and so should the huge levy increase the idiots passed last year, people are overwhelmingly against it now and it should be repealed.

The average $800.00 increase for a simple $300,000 home for the new levy due to kick in the beginning of next year will hit at exactly the wrong time.

As usual, the idiots never think ahead, they have no foresight, oh boy the money will just keep rolling on in, but that thought just barely passed by a few votes.

May 4, 2020 6:33am

April 20, 2020

Clallam, Port Angeles And The School Should Retract

All of the three should retract all of the tax increases they unwisely imposed upon the taxpaying citizens in the county and districts without forethought.

This site had said many times that any increase would in fact be unwise at the moment and in the manner in which they were crammed through.

Just because state laws allow for local entities to impose even small increases and the school board can put to a vote (and several times mind you) and because one man comes in to the city council chambers and advocates for a 24/7 restrooms so his wife would not piss her spandex while jogging is a piss poor reason to mortgage the future.

Anyone and everyone who reads this site knows that it has always cautioned against unnecessary and unfunded spending based on any current financial times.

Good times always come to an end folks, there is never an endless supply of money, at some point with the current national debt etc and local hardships, all of these expenses already on the books will have to be paid for. It is real easy to vote for happy feel good talk about renovating schools etc ?for the sake of the children? but what do you say now kids are not in school, there will be a bigger push for online education and all of that money will be just happy feel good liberal lunatic talk and waste of money.

Anyone reading this and considers it a job to network should start to question authority, to get reversed the unwise increases imposed throughout the past year.

April 20, 2020 6:10am

April 6, 2020

Clallam To Not Postpone Property Taxes

Even with the virus hype and the stay home orders Clallam County will not postpone the due date for the property taxes due April 30 2020.

Most other counties have postponed the due date however out of concern and compassion for their residents, something Clallam County has never been accused.

The school district is also not concerned, with compassion that is, and will also go full steam ahead with the tax increase due out early next year, 2021.

I can help but boast, not for the virus hype but for the foresight to see the coming issues as can be viewed right here, about both issues. I had said, watch what you pass and the money you spend the good times won?t last forever, and sure enough?

I had phoned the district when the virus hype first appeared and asked if the district would consider postponing the levy increase and you all can guess what the answer was.

So I had then put forth the idea, something I had long posted on, to the district office and said gently so I would not be hung up on, that their day was coming and that one day all education will be available via the internet the most cost effective way to educate.

This would solve the physical structures issues, no more building(s), no more liberal colleges, no more liberal lunatic indoctrinations, and no more teacher unions.

This would save all governments trillions over time, even if the government had to buy each household a compute that would still be more cost effective, no more levies no more construction projects and most importantly, as I already said, keep the children out of the hands of the liberal lunatics, they would be there to teach not spew loony tunes.

April 6, 2020 6:19am

March 30, 2020

States Close Gun Stores Leave Open Liquor And Pot

Users were panicked recently because the coronavirus might shutter both types of shops, but reported sales showed an increase of at least 20% to 30%.

Pot shops and many, if not most, liquor stores in this state are considered ?essential businesses? and can stay open under the States? stay home order.

Users are treating pot and liquor as if it were as necessary as toilet paper, stocking up because they don?t know what?s going to happen and they do not want to be without, not food and hygiene products, but their necessities, pot and liquor.

Admittedly so, some users actually have a medical need for the THC, some put the chemical oil in their tea but most take advantage of the language in the order.

Essential: ?liquor stores that sell food.?

Essential: ?Workers supporting cannabis retail and dietary supplemental retail.?

These were based on ?federal and ?California? state? regulations, they will look however at liquor stores that don?t sell food of which however no timeline is set.

According to the state, 446 pot stores have a staffer approved by the state Department of Health to help customers in selecting medical marijuana; 58 are simply retailers.

The increase in sales for pot and liquor stores are estimated from a small sample, there is a lag in figures the state compiles, none are scientific or studied.

The stores of both kinds however say they do enforce the 6 feet apart rule for customers, sometimes taping the distance for easy reference. Some have greeters at the door to manage the flow of customers, has surfaces sanitized hourly and that the staff wears gloves, with hand sanitizer provided for customers and staff.

Idaho, where marijuana laws are harsh and possession of under 3 ounces carries a potential penalty of up to year in jail, a $1,000 fine, or both, pot shops on the Washington side of the border have long benefited from those customers crossing state lines.

March 30, 2020 6:29am

March 23, 2020

Repeal The Levy, I Was Right

Now that the economy has hit the skids as I said it would and actually told the district such, it is time to think about repealing the new loony liberal levy.

The costly levy will hit voters hard this coming spring when their property tax bills rise a whopping thousand dollars a year for even, now, a modest home.

The idiots, like Insurance Salesman and liberal loony tunes Steve Methner, who were celebrating the ?victory? to make the illegitimate children of every illegal immigrunt in the world comfortable while taking taxpayer?s money, should not now be allowed to profit from new school facilities while real Americans, are losing jobs.

My idea(s) have come to bear if only during a virus crisis virus, close all schools and colleges and go to an all internet base education system.

This would save trillions over time, billions in the short term, there would be no need for building or teachers and put the liberal teachers unions out of business.

One instructor, in one classroom, with one chalkboard, can teach millions of students in one subject at one time and all anti free speech colleges shut down.

This was communicated recently during a conversation with a local schools district employee, I had joked that she could take the credit for introducing the idea.

March 23, 2020 6:30am

March 16 2020

Schools Close And I Want My Money Back

The office clowns liberal do gooders celebrated their victory when they finally able tio sock the local taxpayers with their levy increase and I warned that the good time people feel right now will not last and the tax burden will compound.

Gov. Jay Inslee had now ban attending and order their closures furthermore prohibited large gatherings across all of Washington state in an effort to slow the spread of the new corona virus, this does of course include Port Angeles.

The virus is spreading quickly so all K-12 schools are closed from March 17 to April 24.
Inslee also expanded the order to prohibit gatherings and events of more than 250 people to cover the entire state though most affected are people over 80.

Most of the people who died were in their 70s through 90s an most were all in the same nursing home of which I could write on the germ factories for a year.

Back to the levy, the economy will recover, slightly and slowly and the do gooders should retract, remove, replace the levy with another vote on the issue. They placed cost on those less fortunate and as usual without any forethought what so ever.

Anyone person can start an initiative to rollback the levy and should.

March 16, 2020 6:13am

March, 9, 2020

Keep Bi Yearly Time Switch

Washington state lawmakers voted last year to scrap the twice yearly time switch and the governor signed the legislation and the state?s representatives in D.C. promised to support it but you still have to turn your clocks ahead one hour this Sunday.

This site supports keeping things as is and for you late sleepers, get a job.

My goodness, schools are allowing late starts, students arriving in pajamas then wonder why America is at the bottom in education and production. Why people want it dark until 10:00am is along those same loser thinking lines of thought.

The state has previously wrestled with the idea of ditching the time change, but it failed in years past because it was focused on staying on permanent standard time, which was unpopular with state residents, according to Sen. Jim Honeyford of Sunnyside, one of the sponsors of last year?s bill.

In a recent poll by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 71 percent of Americans said they don?t want to keep moving the clock in spring and fall, though they are divided on whether they prefer standard or daylight saving time, which is what we observe from March through the beginning of November.

In Washington State the shortest winter day, the sun rises about 8 a.m. and sets at 4:20 p.m. If we were on Pacific Daylight Time in the winter, as proposed, the sun would rise about 9 a.m. and set at 5:20 p.m. on the shortest day of the year.

People who study sleep disorders and seasonal affective disorders have warned, however, that daylight saving time is harder on the body, as morning light is significantly more important than evening light for establishing and syncing the body?s circadian rhythms.

March 9, 2020 6:11am

March 2, 2020

Violence Out Of Control And Over Vape

February 24, 2020

Loony Left Fails Again At Gun Control

In Olympia, the House Democrats this year appeared set to move on one of the most stringent firearms restrictions proposed at the Legislature, Bill 2240, to ban the sale or transfer of high capacity ammunition magazines.

The policy that supporters of gun restrictions have called for to try and limit the number of deaths from mass shootings, such as the 2016 shooting in Mukilteo that killed three and seriously injured a fourth, died under the weight of more than 120 amendments submitted by the republicans and what could have resulted in days or weeks of debate..

The version of HB 2240 that Democrats were preparing to debate would have banned the sale or transfer of magazines holding more than 15 rounds. Like its companion bill in the Senate that did not move forward, the bill would have allowed people possessing existing magazines to keep them.

More than 40 of the amendments came from Rep. Jesse Young, R-Gig Harbor who had put a photo on his Facebook page of the stack of the amendments.

The left of course are whining like a bunch of stuck pigs.

Rep. Javier Valdez, D-Seattle and sponsor of the proposal, has already sponsored a new version of the legislation that would allow it to be considered through the end of the session, but with the lawmakers scrambling to finish their work in the final weeks of the session, Valdez said he has no guarantees that new proposal, HB 2947, will be given a committee hearing and vote, much less another attempt at a full House vote.

HB 2467 would overhaul Washington?s decentralized and fragmented gun purchase background check system by making the Washington State Patrol the sole point of contact for background checks. The current system is spread among more than 200 law enforcement agencies. Studies have described the current arrangement as complicated and fragmented enough to potentially allow some people who would be barred from buying guns to get one.

SB 6288 would create a statewide Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention, housed within the Department of Commerce.

That office would, among other things, promote and coordinate efforts by state and local governments to reduce gun violence. It would also set up a helpline to provide counseling and referrals for victims of firearms violence.

As I have said throughout I am not a firearm enthusiast but like the first amendment, once gone folks say goodbye to the constitution and all the enjoyed freedoms.

February 24, 2020 6:13am

February 14, 2020

Yes $30.00 Car Tabs But Not Quite Yet

A judge in King County for the most part agreed with and upheld Initiative 976 of which was voter in by the voters, it is the measure to cut car tab taxes.

The measure will remain on hold for now and the judge?s decision on Wednesday is expected to be appealed by the greater Seattle area.

Seattle residents and bus riders want everyone to pay for their transportation needs just like here in Port Angeles and the school levy, you all must pa even though all of those immigrunts and illegitimate children are not yours.

The initiative passed with about 53% of the vote statewide in November. The latest effort by longtime anti tax activist, the great Tim Eyman it would lower some state vehicle-registration fees, strip local governments? authority to impose their own car tab fees and attempt to repeal or reduce Sound Transit taxes.

After the initiative passed, groups including the Garfield County Transportation Authority, Seattle and King County quickly sued, claiming it was unconstitutional and that the ballot title misled voters about the initiative.

Eyman said voters were well aware of what they were voting for and criticized the defense of I-976 from the state Attorney General?s Office. Eyman and the attorney general are engaged in two other legal battles, one alleging Eyman violated campaign-finance laws and another about his bankruptcy.

In his written order, King County Superior Court Judge Marshall Ferguson rejected most of the arguments that I-976 was unconstitutional, it clearly was.

Because his ruling ?does not dispose of all? the claims by opponents, the initiative will remain on hold. The state continues to collect car-tab taxes as usual and will determine a refund process if a court orders it to do so.

State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office defended I-976, praised the decision and used the opportunity to take a shot at Eyman, who in an earlier court hearing attempted to address the judge directly from the audience.

Voters? will ?should be implemented immediately,? Eyman said in an email. Eyman said the ruling happened ?in spite of? the attorney general.

King County and other I-976 opponents had a ?heavy burden? for proving a voter-approved measure should be struck down, the judge noted in his order.

?A court may not strike down an initiative simply because it dislikes it or disagrees with its policies,? he wrote. But to allow an unconstitutional measure to stand would be to ?shirk? the duty of the court, he added.

February 14, 2020

February 6, 2020

Increased Police Presence At Council Meetings

Police Officers in tactical gear now have to stand at entrances to council chambers around America and here in Washington State including in eastern parts.

The increased police presence for council meetings has been a response to the increase in threats. The concern coincides with open forums at recent council meetings that evolved into a communitywide debates regarding the fiery issues.

These are on the increase due to the issues that now face America, abortion, gun rights taxes and who pays etc. and the subsequent public comments.

This happened right here in Port Angeles during the council?s open forums on the benign downtown artwork and Clerk Baily Martinez opening her mouth.

She had said after the council meeting that she was afraid that the debate would devolve, Ms Martinez is not, despite what she has in her little Sequim raise head the Speech Police and has no authority to tell anyone what and where to say it.

Like records requests, cities expressed concerns about the cost of assigning additional officers to council chambers and the burden it places on the police department. The agencies also have limited funds for requests.

Many departments assign tactical team members to council meetings and it is not only necessarily limited to council meetings, different levels of protection at different times are now required for protection of all public officials.

People, taxpayers, citizens now feel like hey, we pay your salaries and so, do what we want and if not, things get very heated when things do not.

February 6, 2020 6:44am 

January 23, 2020

The Money Grubbers Are At It Again, Vote No On Levy

They have tried and tried and tried but this time they might actually get their way and get their money, there are more liberal loons locally then before.

The statement is really saying something too considering every affirmative action big spending rubbers stamp lunatic has always voted yes on every new program and not only by the loony council but the voters as well, hence the funds for the homeless.

The voters have previously declined the massive tax increase several times but the hands are out once again and the levy will probably pass this time, people are feeling better about things in general and think then have money to throw away.

The east coast stock market cable media won't tell you but the economy is slowing.

I advocate a No Vote and I have for years, the district is as badly managed as is the poorly managed City of Port Angeles, there will be cost overruns and unnecessary projects and they will be back to cover their asses on mistakes and guess who pays.

Sequim is mostly retirement that is why their tax base is higher and also has less crime, this is due to more adults and less little assholes, if the whiners want a better district for their kids then move out and pay a higher overall cost of living, elswhere

Those voting no, on a number of occasions, agree and do not want to pay for your illegitimate, homeless children to get free lunches and nice warm classrooms.

This will never end, they will be back for more and more when this levy ends, there will then be a ball field, a jock strap, a new gym, or so some guy speaking to the city council can get his ?24/7" downtown restroom? for his wife? who apparently has a bladder problem and can?t hold it in and pisses her yoga pants while jogging.

I say piss on her and stop it now and forever, send a strong message.

January 23, 2020 6:33am

January 13, 2020

Port Angeles To Update Code To Avoid Criminal Charges

The city management will attempt to make the entity known as City Hall less accessible to those who put food on their tables, this is the real reason not because management is so concerned with old dancing codes or sections that are redundant.

All media, and I do not, as I have said, consider myself part, should be concerned with this attempt to restrict access and infringements on the First Amendment.

The management has chosen this time in history for several reasons;

One, they see a great big opening with the most liberal rubber stamp affirmative action uneducated puppet gallery in the history of Port Angeles.

What they are hoping for is to con deceive and rush through changes before anyone including those 7 doing the rewrite, knows what hit them.

Two, they want to as I have said, restrict access to agency staff, they want to make everyone use a link then route to staff members, members funded by the taxpayers.

Three, they are attempting to cover their asses against the criminal charges already filed against all three of the named below for violations of the constitution.

They have already attempted this and the council should have ethics charges file against them for not removing City Manager Nathan West, clerk Kari Bailey Martinez and City Attorney Bill Blore all of whom have been hit with a criminal referral.

The three stooges and you can throw PAPD clerk Cindi Carino in that jail cell, are already violating their own ordinance(s) by telling citizens they ?are not to contact ?city staff? and if necessary only through a designated Point of Contact link.

The four received the grievances for Abuse of Office under RCW 9A.80.

In fact the entire controversy is due to "words" contained in "grievances," legally and rightfully filed under the first amendment and of which no unlawful actions have even been alleged much less committed and no law enforcement was necessary.

Apparently however these self entitled poor little baby snowflakes, who are mostly delelict in their duties, which is why the city pays out hundreds of thousands in insurance claims, are tying to protect themselves from any criticism and in the process have and will violate not only the First but the Fourteeth Admendment, due process.

January 13, 2020 6:44am

First Amendment; The right to petition for grievances is the right to complain to, or seek the assistance of, one's government, without fear of punishment or reprisals.

All Courts of The United States have given First Amendment deprivations high scrutiny and uphold speech more so if liberties are restricted purposely and violate due process, more so if no ?true? threat,? ?actual? disruption,? ?libel? or ?fighting words? exist.

Justice Felix Frankfurter stated in Baumgartner v. United States,

?One of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures and that meant not only informed and responsible criticism but the freedom to speak foolishly.?

The U.S. Supreme Court has expressly delineated and specifically defined certain
categories of unprotected speech. To be certain, ?offensive words,? ?profanity,? ?hateful
words,? ?pornography,? or ?indecent words? are not categories of unprotected speech.

1. ?The Supreme Court, "redress of grievances" is to be construed broadly.?
2. Public emails accounts are public forum and can not be blocked.
3. ?The Petition Clause includes the ?right to communicate? with government officials.?
4. ?Certainly the right to petition extends to all departments of the Government.?
5. Similarly, an ordinance prohibiting or punishing ?offensive language? or ?discourteous language? will be struck down as unconstitutionally vague.
6. ?The government cannot suppress a speaker because of the ?reaction of the audience.?
Moreover, if people have to check with the government before speaking to see if their
speech meets ordinance approval, then the ordinance is an unconstitutional prior restraint.

*A local Bainbridge case that involved another confused taxpayer funded individual,
a councilmember, this Nassar woman thought she also had the right to restrict liberties.

http://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/bainbridge-councilwoman-sought-to-have-two-citizens-banned-from-city-hall/

?Nassar is seeking a restraint order, banning [Dunn] from petitioning government for redress of any grievances he may have with city government now or in the future.?

Jahns also strongly pushed back that Dunn be banned from council meetings or city hall.

Judge Jeffrey J. Jahns in his order of denial noted ?that a person has a constitutional right to public property, right to grievances and speech are bedrock principles of the American system of government.? ?A judicial order placing a prior restraint on a First Amendment right is the most serious and least tolerable infringement on the First Amendment.?

January 2, 2020

Liberals Whining Damn Those Voters

Not only do the loons want to overturn the will of the voters regarding the $30.00 car tabs now they want to overturn the affirmative action rejection.

Referendum 88 was rejected and the socialists are livid and wanted like hell to reinstate affirmative action in Washington for the first time in two decades.

The socialist wanted Referendum 88 to control everything pertaining to race, gender and everything under the LGBTQABCETC category and to select their candidates in public contracting, education and employment.

Some Democratic state lawmakers and Gov. Jay Inslee now want to find other ways to improve equity without the affirmative action measure.

This month, Inslee released a proposed supplemental operating budget that would spend $5.5 million on new diversity efforts.

The City of Port Angeles does this whenever there is a vacated seat on the council, they too ?pick? the most loony affirmative action mined rubber stamp they can.

A group, Let People Vote, is led by Chinese immigrants that opposes affirmative action and got Referendum 88 on the ballot a move supported by Republicans.

The election is over, but the group is not going away.

?We will keep a close eye on the development [of] any executive orders or legislative bills that would circumvent people?s will,? Linda Yang, one of the groups leaders, wrote in an email. ?Voters? will should be respected.?

In 1998, Washington voters decisively banned affirmative action by approving Initiative 200 with 58% of the vote. The measure that year passed in 38 of Washington?s 39 counties. Only the liberals in King County rejected it.

More counties this year like it affirmative action and this time around voters rejected it by smaller margins in some of Washington?s other big counties.

?But if we have to fight again in the future, we will do so and we will be far stronger, better organized and better funded if a fight comes our way,? Yang wrote in an email. ?We hope that it does not come to that and that we will be listened to and included.?

It?s all about liberal control and using minorities to do it.

January 2, 2020 6:04am

December 23, 2021

City Council Blows It Again

The Port Angeles City Council is once again showing their liberal nuttiness by allowing an anything goes building permit process regarding land use.

I don’t care what they do downtown, which should be bulldozed and which I have said a million times is worthless down there and will always be worthless down there but to allow our residential neighborhoods to turn into a liberal experiment with these tiny little houses and cottages on every lot just so these liberal nuts like this Swami Warmin don’t have to take a tough stand on the influx of crime causing immigrants is alarming.

As I have said, instead of changing long held codes, of which were enacted to prevent exactly what they have just done, don’t encourage the low lives here in the first place.

Now every property owner with an over sized lot or even a standard 50 x 140 can add a secondary mother in law she shed out back which will be used for drug addicts and immigrants that in no way are American and will never be Americans.

Perhaps it will take the owners of the properties, just like what is now happening around the country after the no bail bailouts and the opening of the flood gates to the prisons to let the animals loose to destroy America, to realize that those who should be road kill or at least mass incarcerated, are not worth a quick feel good policy.

I know of many cases where, mostly older women, needing extra income, are trusting and allow a low live to live on premises to get free yard work and end up regretting it.

This City Council is the most liberal in recent history, what happened to those with at least some form of education and common sense.

December 23, 2021 5:12am

December 2, 2021

Citizens Of Port Angeles Finally Awoken

A complaint for injunctive relief and declaratory judgment was filed in Clallam County November 24 2021 by six restaurants owners in Sequim, Diamond Point, Joyce and Port Angeles challenging Clallam County and Dr. Allison Berry over Berry’s unconstitutional proof of COVID vaccination mandate for bars and restaurants.

The owners of the establishments asks that Clallam County Superior Court Judge Simon Barnhart rescind the order issued Sept. 2 by the health officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties will be heard at 1:30 p.m. Friday.

A complaint also challenges the mandate in Jefferson County as part of a larger scale court action against Berry, Prosecuting Attorney James Kennedy has said.

“The county was presented with a complaint and it is being processed as a claim for damages,” he said in an email.

The business owners in Sequim, Port Angeles and Joyce claim the edict violates their liberty and has cost them revenue and customers.

Berry requires that bars and restaurants in Clallam County must require proof of vaccination, never before have the collective, anti Constitution, leftist lunatics gone this far, Clallam requires the establishments to enforce the mandates or consequences will follow, also imposed by, “The State.”

The mandates are clearly Discrimination and Constitutional violations and has been held such by higher Appeals Courts that have ruled against The Biden Lunatics.

December 2, 2021 5:45am

November 19, 2021

What Is It With Council Members?

Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant was accused of defaming two Seattle police officers when she publicly called their 2016 fatal shooting of Che Taylor “a blatant murder at the hands of police.”

The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed an earlier dismissal of the case and reinstates the claims.

The Officers, Michael Spaulding and Scott Miller, had shot the man, Taylor, when one of the officers said he saw a handgun on Taylor’s hip. Taylor left the area, but when he returned later, the officers, in plain clothes and armed with a shotgun and a rifle, approached him after he had exited a car. The officers said they planned to arrest Taylor for being a felon in possession of a gun. The officers shot him, they said, when they saw him reach for what they believed was the gun.

A U.S. District Court Judge, Marsha Pechman, had dismissed the two officer's lawsuit of which was a third amended complaint filed in December 2020.

Pechman based the dismissal on the fact that Sawant didn’t identify the officers by name when the council member decried the shooting during a rally five days afterward outside the Seattle Police Department.

In the 28-page opinion issued Wednesday, the appeals court panel reversed Pechman’s ruling, holding that “Sawant’s own words suggested that her remarks were directed not only at the police generally, but also at the individual officers involved in the shooting.”

While Sawant didn’t name them, the officers’ family, friends, colleagues and members of the public “knew that Plaintiffs were the officers involved in the shooting” and “plausibly … understood that Sawant’s remarks were directed” at them, the panel ruled.

Neither Sawant, who is named as a co-defendant with the city of Seattle, nor the city attorney’s office could be reached for comment over the weekend.

The Police Department previously ruled the shooting fell within department policy and King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg declined to file criminal charges against Spaulding and Miller, saying they perceived their lives were in danger as they tried to arrest Taylor. An inquest jury also found the two white officers believed Taylor, who was Black, posed a threat of death or serious injury when he was shot.

Spaulding and Miller first filed their lawsuit in 2017, alleging Sawant’s statements damaged their reputations and subsequently filed in federal court.

There was a case in Bainbridge, WA, that regarded a nutty Council Woman.

This Rasham Nassar had accused two police officers of acts that she could not prove, that they came onto her property and took pictures of her house etc. She is clearly a nut, the good judge did not buy any of her outrageous story.

That was a simple harassment case that was heard in Kitsap County, that nut wanted the two officers kept from City Hall all together simply because the two made her feel uncomfortable while she was on duty as a councilmember.

That judge said she didn’t prove her case and the two had a right to City Hall.

November 19, 2021 5:22am

November 2, 2021

The Governor Halts Eviction Ban, Mostly

At the Washington State Capital, Gov. Jay Inslee said he will allow the latest version of the state’s eviction moratorium to finally expire.

This never affected the rentals associated with this site because I never rent to any one that can’t pay their bills. I handle all of the screening processes which allows me to control who the tenants are and the problem they may bring.

Many tenants in the area like going only through the agencies because the agencies aren't quite so hands on and don’t care who they rent to as long as both parties are happy. Tenants tout going through an agency but also pay a higher price.

After nearly 2 years of of the eviction limits, the move will allow new eviction cases and end the tenant's protections which I say pay or vacate.

Inslee finally showed some intelligence and said “We have to have some end to the moratorium, you can’t have an economy, ultimately, where just nobody pays rent.”

For all of you “mom and pop” landlords do the same as I do, a month to month agreement is the only way to go, a year or longer lease just adds to your problems.

A month to month can be ended at any time with no legal issues.

November 2, 2021 5:13am

October 8, 2021

Even Port Angeles Is Not This Lunatic

Seattle looking at forcing 350 SPD officers to be laid off because of vaccine mandates.

A spokesman for the department confirmed the figures on Tuesday but said officers who haven’t submitted vaccination records are not yet out of compliance with the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate.

The numbers presented in Tuesday’s SPD meeting are the first publicly confirmed by the department that specify how many officers have yet to offer proof of vaccination under the city’s mandate.

In August, Mayor Jenny Durkan issued a directive requiring city employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 18. Because vaccinations take two weeks for full efficacy, city employees needed to receive their second shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, by Oct. 4, according to Durkan’s office.

The city has yet to reach an agreement with the Seattle Police Officers Guild, however.

In the event officers without vaccination verifications aren’t allowed to work, detectives in office assignments will be deployed to respond to 911 calls, the sources said.

As of August, SPD’s latest count of fully trained, sworn officers provided to the Seattle City Council stood at 1,157. With 108 of those officers on leave or on disability, the overall number of “officers in service,” or those able to respond to calls, stood at 1,049, according to the latest figures.

As anti First Amendment free speech lunatic The City of Port Angeles is, collectively, mandates, not that mandate has yet to be enacted.

October 8, 2021 5:18am

October 1, 2021

Scott T. Collins Dot Com Still Active

I hadn't posted for a few weeks due to the engineers having to work behind the scenes on the website builders.

Will start again to post in the near future, still fully employed with a full life so be patient, perhaps more when and if work slows in the winter months.

Thank you for logging in and rating this site, scotttcollins.com, the best.

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October 1, 2021 5:34am

September 3, 2021

Federal Unemployment Welfare To Expire

Washingtonians will lose their unemployment benefits as a federal pandemic program expires and state officials have yet provided a new extension.

The last day to file claims is Saturday for the two emergency federal benefit programs that targeted people who’d lost jobs in the pandemic but didn’t qualify for regular state unemployment benefits.

This will mainly affect people who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state unemployment or whose former job category, such as contractors or self-employed, prior to Covid, could not file for benefits only their employees could

The $300 a week pandemic benefit that Congress reauthorized in March for all recipients of federal and state unemployment is also expiring.

Last month, Gov. Jay Inslee rejected calls by some worker advocacy groups to replace expiring federal benefits with some of the state’s federal pandemic funds but Inslee’s office said last month that the state’s remaining pandemic funds could only cover a few weeks of the expiring federal benefits and that the state would instead help unemployed workers by assisting them in “returning to work.”

This uncertainty won’t sit well with some labor groups which argue that federal pandemic benefits are expiring as jobless workers were already facing a rise in COVID-19 cases and the end of the state eviction moratorium on Sept. 30.

But state lawmakers in both parties remain reluctant to push for a state funded extension of the benefits, Republicans have rightly expressed concerns over the benefits’ effects on the state’s economy, which is in the midst of a labor shortage.

Paying able bodied people not to work has never been a good idea.

September 3, 2021 5:22am

August 16, 2021

Masks Are A Requirement At Port Angeles Schools

Washington State has mandated that All students wear masks while at school locations.
The mandate come from the State and not the local School Districts of whom can not alter from the State mandate of which comes from the Governor.

Everyone 5 years old and older will also be required to wear masks inside businesses, restaurants and government buildings starting Monday.

The local requirements comes from Dr. Allison Berry, health officer for Jefferson and Clallam Counties and goes into effect Monday.

Dr. Berry has too much authority if she has any at all…except in her own mind.

If someone were to file a suit they would probably win, it is a violation of rights to force upon citizens any mandates such as the mask wearing, it is interfering with individual liberties and of which places the business in the roles of The Mask Police.

Requiring masks at school is a different, students have fewer Constitutional rights and liberties and the penalties would be hard to enforce of which is what, expulsion?

Students do have a choice however, take virtual learning classes of which this site has advocated as you all know for years, much more control over content.

The local School Districts do not teach Critical Race Theory, that is the one, for those who are ignorant on contemporary social issues, where the leftists are teaching fake history to make themselves feel better like you know, trying to make girls into boys and boys into girl to make all the mixed up LGBTABC124 feel better about, themselves.

August 16, 2021 5:22am

August 4, 2021

Same Ole Same Ole

Though the existing Port Angeles City Council members can not declare a victory in the primary they appear to be leading by enough of a margin to remain members after the subsequent November 2021 general election.

The three incumbents are LaTrisha Suggs, Mike French Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin and Kate Dexter...

Suggs has 1,786 votes, or 46.58 percent, to Adam Garcia‘s, with 1,596 votes, or 41.63 percent and are headed to the Position 1 contest

Mike French has to date 2,171 votes, or 56.86 percent, to John Madden’s 1,355 votes, or 35.48 percent, for the November Position 2.

Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, to date, has 1,603 votes, or 41.41 percent for Position 3 on the Port Angeles City Council while Jena Stamper has 1,447 votes or 37.38 percent.

Mayor Kate Dexter has 2,073 votes to date or 53.63 percent and will go up against John W. Procter who currently has 1,565 votes or 40.88 percent for the Position 4.

This site believes that all four will win reelection but that the most vulnerable of the four, and not just because of the current numbers, is this Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin.

Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin is the most “aloof,” to be kind, and or willfully ignorant or just plain ignorant. He made a campaign stop at my front door and my guess is not by design, he seemed surprised I, had opened the door and could not answer one of my questions but more concerning were his answers and when asked to whom do his duties and loyalties lie the voters or to city staff, he said “the city staff.”

August 4, 2021 5:49am

July 28, 2021

Your Local Legislators Pass Mass Police Reform

Two months after Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bills, law enforcement officials remain uncertain about what they require, leading to discrepancies around the state in how officers might respond, or not respond, to certain situations, including active crime scenes, welfare checks and mental health crises.

Law Enforcement throughout the state, including here locally, are concerned about the new “legislation” and how to apply it. Many law enforcement spoke persons say the laws were written very poorly, and the combination of them all at the same time has led to there being conflicts in clarity and what was written.

The laws, passed by a Legislature controlled by Democrats, and signed by a Democratic governor, is likely the nation's most ambitious police reform legislation that was also passed by the very same Legislators you all thought was so cool to vote for.

They cover virtually all aspects of policing, including the background checks officers undergo before they're hired; when they are authorized to use force and how they collect data about it; and the establishment of an entirely new state agency to review police use of deadly force.

Supporters said the laws would create the nation’s strongest police accountability and help undo “racial inequity” in the justice system,” an “inequity” I had forecasted years ago would come in form of reparations.

The Black Lives Matter Alliance, I rightfully call Terrorists, are whining that of those 260 people killed in Washington state since 2013, were mostly Black.

What those anti white anti America loons don’t tell you is that 95% of the crimes are committed by Blacks, America was incinerated in 2020, by Blacks.

The measures ban chokeholds, neck restraints and no-knock warrants, and limit the use of tear gas and military equipment among other restrictions.

They restrict when officers can engage in car chases; make it easier to decertify police for bad acts; make it easier to sue individual officers; and require police to use “reasonable care” in carrying out their duties, including exhausting appropriate de-escalation tactics before using force.

Hard to say how this will affect local law enforcement yet, probably not much but only because Clallam County as a whole is not a high Black, high crime area.

July 28, 2021 5:44am

July 14, 2021

Candidates Not Quite As Weak As The Loony Council

In a recent primary election forum the discussion was based on what else, homelessness and housing, as if that is the voter’s responsibility to fund.

Instead of laying around our streets, thanks now to the lunatic policies of the liberal nuts, perhaps ask those to actually find a job, that I hear are now plentiful.

Instead of handing out disability checks like penny candy and providing all kinds of costly “treatment” programs why encourage the losers to come here in the first place?

What lunatics like Mike French and Mayor Dexter don’t get is that the liberal policies always sound good on paper and it may make you feel good but they never work, for any period of time, look around, conservatives will retake Washington DC.

Oh boy they wanted to de-fund the police, let a bunch of animals run wild to steal rape rob and set fires and gee, all in the name of feel good liberal reparations.

A challenger stated at the forum that “the number one thing we have to do is clean up our streets of vagrants and drug users. We need to make our city cleaner and safer and more appealing to potential investors and possible retirees.”

But gee, can’t have that, that is too sensible.

Mayor Dexter was offended at the comment that the homeless should be “put” somewhere and adding that, “people are not garbage, they’re humans, and they’re part of our community.

Maybe you want them as part of your community Ms Dexter.

Perhaps then you can perhaps invite a few to come live with you.

Mike French, perhaps suffering from food poisoning added, “the word affordability is the word that just keeps popping in my mind” and that “it’s about housing, but it’s also about utilities, it’s about wages, it’s about propriety taxes and we can spread that burden a lot better to all.”

July 14, 2021 5:41am

June 24, 2021

Durkin Shows Backbone Won’t Sign Illegal Rental Law

The three anti landlord bills will become law however, that’s how the Seattle City Council works, when the lunatics want something they just do it. Republican can learn a few things from them.

Mayor Durkan rightly did not sign the bills due to the fact they are probably unlawful. She also did not veto the bills, to avoid an override.

"While we all have the same goals to prevent evictions, it is regrettable that City Council has passed these bills despite receiving legal advice that they are unlikely to withstand legal challenge,” Durkan wrote in a June 18 letter."

"These bills will yet again open the City up to legal liability and costs, spending valuable City resources that could be better spent actually helping vulnerable tenants to remain in their housing. Unfortunately, given the vote margins by the Council a veto is not viable."

Several other rental laws passed by the council have been challenged in court. Judges in recent years have upheld limits on move-in fees and a requirement that landlords accept the first qualified applicant.

The new bills will provide a defense against most school year evictions of students and school employees, require landlords to offer lease renewals in many cases, and prevent certain post pandemic evictions.

Anti landlord groups support the bills, while, of, course, the property owners opposed the bills saying they are unfair to the small landlords. I know I would not stay in the business if mandated to accept all undesirables needing mandated housing.

As lunatic as the local Council is now no doubt they might try this approach the way they whine about “affordable housing.”

June 24, 2021 5:44am

June 10, 2021

Loony Liberal Seattle Again Shows Hatred Toward Landlords

The Seattle City Council again comes down of the side of lowlife tenants against their landlords even if the lowlifes can’t pay the rent.

The bills passed on Monday will mandate against most school year evictions of students and school employees and mandate that landlords offer lease renewals.

Gee, then they wonder why us landlords don’t rent to lowlifes or even own rental houses at all, most aren’t, they are selling their homes to avoid the liberal lunatics.

If the local loons, like this Lindsey Schrowen-Warfin or Mike French try this here they will get their asses handed to them, no doubt they are about as crazy as it gets.

The loons want the rights of renters to be above the interests the actual property owners, Councilmember Kshama Sawant has always been a lunatic and sponsored the resolutions and mandates, isn’t she, however, the nut case un-America lunatic who also find herself in constant hot water and with her foot in her mouth.

Several landlords objected to Sawant’s description of the bills, saying the council hadn’t considered the mom-and-pop landlords of whom will no longer have rentals.

Perhaps this is what the liberal lunatics, including the local idiots, want, for Government and Government only to provide housing, that way it can be controlled even more.

This ban on evictions is being done now to continue providing housing well after the COVID-19 moratoriums expire.

“This isn’t about property rights. This is about human rights,” Tram Tran-Larson, community-engagement manager at the King County Bar Association’s Housing Justice Project, had recently told the council. Unbelievable.
assistance instead; Council President M. Lorena González said City Hall has made assistance available, along with the state and King County.

This Landlord has never and hopes to never have to resort to eviction but I will evict anyone at time I Damn well choose!

June 10, 2021 5:15am

May 24, 2021

The Port Angeles Council Gets Challenged, Finally

After November 2 2021, the Council may finally get some adults holding down the fort.

This site has not endorsed anyone yet and might not, it depends on who will promise to cut spending, cancel the new PenCom funding and stop the liberal lunacy.

The School Board also finally received some challenge, perhaps those incumbent nuts will finally get defeated, no doubt they too are a bunch of lunatics starting with School Board President Sarah Methner who drew opponent Lola Moses.

In an unrelated yet related issue, The Port Angeles City Council spenders have given a taxpayers funded $300,000 grant to Peninsula Housing Authority to secure housing for the increasing homeless population that they, have created.

Oh boy, we need to first encourage a bunch of homeless people to move here then bitch moan and spend to create more housing for them once they get here.

This Allison Brekke, Port Angeles City Community and Economic Development Director, is about as lunatic and retarded as it gets, she wanted the project, perhaps she should pay for it herself instead of running her mouth.

Unfortunately we as a country are in a liberal spend spend spend era right now however and when you have a bunch of misguided loons like Council member Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin saying that because of “the homeless” we now need “more” law enforcement and that “yes, this is expensive, but the alternative is even more expensive” type of legislative action lunacy is inevitable.

NO, DUMB ASS, CREATING MORE FREEBEES IS MORE EXPENSIVE!!!

By the way, does anyone know if this Sarah “Martinez” is related to Kari Martinez-Bailey or her husband, both are also property enthusiasts and own property in downtown Port Angeles and have been accused of insider dealings.

The challenges are good, it is happening all over the country, parents are angry at the crazy Critical Race Theory being taught to children, the loons taking over the hen house, the encouraging of homeless people to invade the northwest and letting a bunch of Black Lives Matter Animals out of prison to further destroy America.

May 24, 2021 5:22am

May 10, 2021

The Port Angeles Council Needs To Be More Like Sequim

What ever happened to the older and more educated public officials, or even those that didn’t mind controversy, liked to stir things up and worked for the voters not the Administration of whom is a separate body in a Council Manager system.

I was a critic of Cherie Kidd but at least she wasn’t a potted plant, those down there now have never seen a project they just couldn‘t wait to finance and are so over their heads that all they know how to do is pass spending bills and talk affordable housing.

Most of the current members plan on running again and still want to make rewriting city codes and providing affordable housing to those they, the council, encourage to move here that then the rest of us have to pay for, as their, the council’s, top priority.

They, the council, encourage low lives to move here, they then, the low lives, litter our streets with tents and shopping carts then the publicly funded officials say we need more affordable housing to house the low lives that they, the council, have encouraged.

Downtown always comes up, how much more money is going to be wasted down there and has anyone ever checked to see how the City Clerk, Kari Martinez-Bailey and her husband were able to purchase several downtown properties for little money and are the first in line with their hands out for more taxpayer funded improvements?

They are right about a “maintenance backlog” however, the City Manager, Nathan West, is so inept and over his head, he is nothing but a tyrant that everyone hates.

The McMenemin Law Firm has filed hundreds of claims for injuries because of the lack of leadership at the top and lack of Public Works personnel that knows how to run Departments. The City of Port Angeles pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars in settled claims through their insurance provider WA Cities.

All of those running will have Facebook accounts, Facebook is a private platform but if used for a Pubic Forum, Public Officials can not block or censor comments.

May 10, 2021 5:13am

April 1, 2021

No Joke, Judicial Diversity More Important Than Qualifications

The White House asked the senators to focus on diversity in addition to legal expertise in suggesting potential nominees for the lifetime appointments. The recommendations from the nonpartisan judicial selection panel for the Western District have not been made public, but the makeup of the panel itself is among the most diverse of those assembled to recommend federal judges anywhere in the country.

All of the 10 members recommended include all minorities, of which Senator Patty Murry said “I’m committed to nominating “highly qualified” individuals whose wide-ranging legal experiences and diverse backgrounds will ensure our judicial branch will reflects our country and “justice for all Americans.”

The two active local judges are both eligible for senior status, raising the prospect that Biden could name all seven active judges in western Washington.

Having five of the Western District’s seven active judgeships vacant “is incredible,” said University of Richmond Law School Professor Carl Tobias.

“The only thing that keeps the court afloat is the senior judges, but they must be getting tired of it,” Tobias said.

Former President Donald Trump agreed to make two nominations for the Seattle courthouse: O’Sullivan and Tessa Gorman, a longtime federal prosecutor who is currently serving as acting U.S. attorney for the Western District. But Trump never actually forwarded those nominations to the Senate amid a dispute with Cantwell and Murray, who opposed Trump’s pick for a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacancy.

This pick em according to the color of their skin and life experience is concerning, I do not care about their “life experience” that has nothing to do with law.

Judges and justices should not rule out of empathy for a group or race and or because he or she thinks she has to make some sort of reparations by a ruling.

April 1, 2021 5:31am

March 16, 2021

Black Lives Matter Terrorists At It Again

The Peninsula has been mostly spared the massive destruction caused by the terrorist group but only because of the nature and sheer size and demographics of the region. The Peninsula is mostly shielded from The Terrorists.

The rest of the northwest is getting hit again and will until Law Enforcement put them all, back in chains. Appeasement doesn‘t work and never has, you can’t reason with these animals they lack the reasoning gene.

This will change if the local liberal lunatics keep advocating to build affordable house etc and low lives decide to move here and take advantage.

Portland arrested a few of those caught, Seattle police arrested a dozen people over the weekend which isn‘t nearly enough, it should be a dozen thousand.

This idea that The Black Lives Matter Terrorists will respond to kindness is futile, but that is not what it is all about, it is about “reparations” in a sense.

I have posted on this issue for decades now and the national audience is finally admitting I was right. Not only do national leftist loons want monetary reparations for events hundreds of years past, by letting The Black Lives Matter Terrorists out of prison and going easy on sentencing is a form or reparations because, well, America, the most free and hospitable county on earth, is just such a horrible place to live.

March 16, 2021 5:32am

March 3, 2021

Police Accountability On The Rise

The Washington State Senate could make Washington the worst state for police oversight and police accountability.

Liberal efforts in Olympia are not only focusing on such procedures as chokeholds and neck restraints, they are now going further to police decertification.

Under a bill, the SB 5051, the Washington state Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) would greatly expand its capability to investigate police misconduct and revoke or suspend a police officer’s license.

The state agency’s ability to decertify would take away an officer’s gun and badge for good instead, officers with long histories of misconduct have been able to move from department to department.

After a debate, the Democrats passed the bill by a mostly party line vote of 26 to 19, with four senators absent or excused and only one Democrat opposing.

The bill would overhaul the state’s decertification law, which hasn’t been significantly changed since it was passed in 2001. It would roughly double the number of reasons for an officer to lose certification, adding to the list use of force that violates law or policy.

It would allow the CJTC to add investigators, expanding its capacity to pursue additional cases, including against corrections officers, and would empower the commission to suspend an officer for misconduct. Today its only recourse is to revoke an officer’s license or dismiss a misconduct allegation.

Lastly, it would give the CJTC authority to initiate decertification proceedings against an officer, without waiting for a local sheriff or chief to mete out discipline. Under the current law, the state has to wait — often for years — until an officer is fired for misconduct and exhausts all appeals before initiating decertification, allowing problem officers to quietly slip away or remain on the job.

Some officers bounce from department to department after a series of use-of-force episodes of which, it is alleged, include mostly against Black men.

March 3, 2021 5:22am

February 22, 2021

Liberal Lunatics Are Bankrupting Us All

Have you looked at your property tax bill this year, most have and are very angry but that?s what you all voted for folks?

The average $400.000 homeowner in Port Angeles will pay an increase in property tax of $1,100 thanks to The Do Gooders that want all of you to pay for their liberal nut case policies and programs including teaching your kids that all whites are racists.

Even those that work for The Port Angeles School District who all thought it was so cool to sock the taxpayers with this huge tax levy increase are whining.

I tried to tell all of you, this was done by the liberal lunatics at the school district and the rest of The Do Gooders with the mindset to invite every homeless person they can drag here to house and feed and on top, pay for their education too!

This wasn?t The Port Angeles City Council this time but they encouraged it and they too need ousting along with the board members and district employees.

You, not me, keep reelecting these nuts, nuts like The Methners and this Bob Jones idiot, no relation to Jim Jones (who, probably wasn?t? so bad after all).

The council has never met a liberal policy or idea they passed up.

This Sarah Methner, School Board President, wow aren?t you tough now, ?President,? has seen some of the Facebook posts that since were very disparaging to both her and the new levy but it passed by a good margin so some of you voted for it!

This Methner skank was quick to point that out.

Port Angeles School Superintendent Marty Brewer said his ?property taxes also went up, but that ?it?s worth every penny,? it?s investing in our community.?

I suggest the user pay approach, those who want higher taxes so their little Joy Boys and LGBQTABC123 Whatevers can be comfy should pay out of their own pockets.

The Port Angeles City Council needs overhauled, right now it?s nothing but uneducated liberal lunatics that think their main duty it to take orders from the city Manager, Nathan West, who is verging on jail time himself for his conduct.

February 22, 2021 5:20am

February 12, 2021

Sequim Changes ?Leadership,? Again

Friday was the last day for City Manager Charlie Bush.

He has refrained from talking about the issue to keep from losing his severance pay etc. so he will stay mum for a while at least.

Bush resigned because of disagreements between he and Charlie Armacost and certain members of the City Council on issues the city faces though Armacost said that the coverage was ?overblown.?

Charisse Deschenes, assistant city manager will act as manager for the time being until the search for a new city manager concludes.

A local group, Save Our Sequim (SoS) wanted Bush gone for a while now and since his involvement in the approval process for the (MAT) medication assisted treatment facility now under construction in Sequim.

Other crusaders, the Sequim Good Governance League, wanted to retain Bush and have Armacost gone for ?his? statements about Qanon which were his personal views when expressed on a local radio show. Armacost also told a CNN reporter that he has ?never endorsed or supported the Qanon group which is considered far rightwing.

Many of the council members are concerned about Sequim?s reputation and the city?s image as a whole and want to improve the public relations.

Armacost expressed an interest in ?developing trust (between constituents and council members) and looking at those concerns of council ethics.?

This site or it?s contributors does not support most groups but if true, what is reported about the group and it?s support of the reported issues, it also does not support the group known as Qanon and does not consider it right wing or conservative. This site does however support The First Amendment right to support any group.

February 12, 2021 5:04am

February 2, 2021

Sequim Made Nation News, How Dare They Be Conservative

The small town of Sequim WA has now drawn national attention as home to a mayor who has promoted theories that are not that of The Leftwing Nuts, how dare he.

William Armacost was selected mayor by the Sequim City Council a year ago. Last summer, in a “Coffee with the Mayor” chat broadcast on local radio he declared QAnon a “truth movement” and encouraged listeners to watch QAnon YouTube videos.

YouTube has subsequently taken ‘em down but they are still available on the internet.

The video(s) try to convince viewers that every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan has been a “deep state criminal” and that a secret group of good guys in the military is about to save the world with Donald Trump as their great leader.

Wouldn’t that be nice, America would be a much better place if just that were true.

Armacost was interviewed by the lefty CNN loon recently but refused to pass judgment on the groups conspiracy theories. Instead, he denied he had ever explicitly “endorsed or said I was a QAnon supporter” and said he had simply encouraged people “to seek truth.”

This Shenna Younger weirdo founded a citizens group to promote good governance in Sequim and has 500 active members that are very concerned about Armacost (actually having a mind of his own and who doesn’t fall into the liberal lunatic pig sty that governs Port Angeles) and that she and other Leftwing Nuts want Sequim as loony as Port Angeles who has passed every liberal minded policy on the agenda.

Armacost is a good business owner and who runs a salon & spa business in Sequim and is also a representative of Juice Plus+, a multi-level marketing success.

In August he had also traveled to the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, which drew more than 450,000 people but of which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified it as triggering chains of the transmission of Covid to other states.

The Liberal Lunatics are doing what liberal lunatics do best, name call.

Matthew Randazzo is just one, he hasn’t lived in Sequim for a decade like another local loser kick out on his ass along with his loser wife and has since created a blog in which they harass and libel those in Port Angeles while hiding in Corvallis and behind 100s of aliases.

Randazzo also didn’t fail to stick his nose into things and run his mouth by saying that Sequim is trying to create “a robust and outspoken conservative population that is trying to drag The City in its direction.”

Gee, how dare anyone challenge The Leftwing Nuts and their fruitcake jelly for brains ideas.

February 2, 2021 5:29am

January 25, 2021

Violence Hits Tacoma

Crowds gathered in Tacoma last night to protest against The Police Department of which an officer on the prior night had drove through a crowd.

The police officer had knocked several people to the ground in his SUV and running over at least one person as onlookers scream. The injuries of the two people who were hospitalized were not expected to be life threatening.

The group of leftist lunatics marched through downtown Sunday night again breaking windows at buildings including a bail bonds office and a County Building.

?Whose Lives Matter? Black Lives Matter? was shouted while demonstrators barricaded streets to keep cars out and someone set a trash can on fire. One person in the group could be seen carrying a rifle. By about 8:15 p.m., they were marching through downtown, and some in the crowd were breaking windows and spray-painting graffiti.

Some officials are finally getting fed up but not fast enough, this whole de-fund The Police has not worked out so well for the lunatics who thought the world was now going to be peaceful now that President Trump lost reelection.

January 25, 2021 5:22am

December 20, 2022

Yes, Cut The Hell Out Of The Budget

The Port Angeles School District will now, finally be forced to cut their bloated budget.

These cuts, though welcome by taxpayers, are due to drop in enrollment and lack of support by legislators, too bad the morons did not figure this out before they socked taxpayers with the huge and unnecessary levies and bonds.

Superintendent Brewer even admits the district had maintained the same level of staffing and services and spending though student enrollment had tanked.

The reductions could be the largest reduction we’ve seen in recent times…good, it’s about time cuts were made  to the little trouble causers.

The district’s overall enrollment has tanked but a big increase has been in special education students, mostly those identifying as trans etc and any and all other type of the mentally ill of whom many are already on medication before reaching puberty.

Some want The LGBQABC123XYZ community funded at the same level it supported basic education, because “the morally right thing to do and it’s the law.”

December 20, 2022 5:44am

December 1, 2022

Flu And RSV On The Rise

Seasonal influenza cases are higher in many states than they’ve been at this time of the year in more than a decade, federal health officials said Friday, underscoring fears that hospitals this winter could be overwhelmed by a “tripledemic” of flu, the respiratory illness known as RSV and COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned the flu season, which runs between October and May and normally peaks in December and January, has arrived unusually early and hard. Among 880,000 lab-confirmed cases so far this season, 6,900 people have been hospitalized and 360 people, including one child, have died.

In the Pacific Northwest, flu activity is minimal so far, according to the CDC weekly surveillance report. However, infections are beginning to rise in Washington, and the state recently reported its first two flu deaths of the season. The state Department of Health on Thursday urged residents to consider getting their flu shots, along with the updated omicron-focused COVID-19 boosters.

Flu practically vanished over the past couple of years as people wore face masks and stayed out of crowded places to avoid COVID-19, which has killed more than 1 million people since early 2020. In the past week, 265,893 people in the United States have tested positive and 19,454 were hospitalized with COVID-19.

In Washington, DOH officials said COVID-19 cases have largely kept on a downward trend since mid-summer, apart from a "small bump" recorded last month, but activity remains in the moderate to substantial range across most of the state. They worry waning immunity, new subvariants and more people gathering indoors over the colder months could lend to another surge in the weeks to come.

The CDC report comes as children’s hospitals across the country are seeing a rise in RSV cases. Cases of respiratory syncytial virus, as the common childhood illness is officially known, also plummeted during the first two years of the pandemic, but doctors now report an alarming increase in what is normally a fall and winter virus.

Hospitals are already at high capacity, most pediatric sites, such as Seattle Children's hospital and Mary Bridge Children's Hospital are seeing record-high emergency department volumes due to RSV and other respiratory viruses.

According to The Seattle Times, testing at UW Medicine is detecting up to 200 percent more RSV cases than the same time last year. Cases in young children and infants, who are more at risk, have led to overwhelmed pediatric emergency departments, with double the number of patients than usual for October at Seattle Children's, including 20 to 30 RSV cases per day.

Not only is flu early, it also looks very severe, a couple of things are compounding the problem. Flu, COVID-19 and RSV all have similar symptoms, making laboratory tests the only way to erase doubt about which disease should be treated. Also, less than a quarter of Americans have gotten flu shots, according to CDC data.

December 1, 2022 5:10am

November 11, 2022

No Election Surprises

Clallam County’s election resulted in a turnout 58.27 so far and Port Angeles City Council member Mike French, a Democrat loon, leading incumbent Republican Bill Peach in the race for the Clallam County Board of Commissioners District 3 position with 52 percent of the vote to Peach’s 48 percent. Peach was not really a republican, not a real one anyway.

French will continue his work and lunatic thinking that it is Government’s job to “provide housing for people of all income levels” and that he was excited to work on that issue for the county if elected.

There are still another 6,500 ballots yet remaining.

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat and that U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer idiot, also a Democrat also won as did legislative incumbents Mike Chapman and Steve Tharinger, also Democrats

Kidd conceded the race to this Emery character and Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King also won in a big way.

The good news is, and the local liberal lunatics should take note, a big note, Clallam County fell in line with the entire State and voted to repeal two taxes enacted by the state Legislature.

Advisory Vote No. 39, and Advisory Vote No. 40 both failed by a huge margin, yet Frenchy and the local loons on the council want to impose a massive tax increase for his free housing, to everyone, free everything, for everyone..

The City Council is contemplating adding restrictions one how and what landlords and property owners can charge and interact with tenants.

Goodluck sweethearts, I screen them all myself and rent to no one that can not pay me high rent, doesn’t have a good job, no pets and only to, real Americans.

I do most screening on the phone, if they do not sound right, I make up an excuse.

I also only rent month to month, no year lease so I, as the property owner, if they do not pay or even can’t pay, can evict them immediately and you my dears, will never tell me otherwise.

November 11, 2022 5:15am

October 21, 2022

Hold On To Your Wallets, They’re Coming

A double wammy came to the citizens of Clallam County this week in the form of higher costs, both utility bills and property taxes will be going up, property values are skyrocketing and the local lunatics voted to raise your utility rates.

Granted inflation has everything up and all costs are rising but the problem is property values will be going back down and the question then is will property, taxes.

The Port Angeles City Council approved increases for water, wastewater and medic 1. In an effort to lessen the blow of the rate hike, staff presented to the council on Oct. 4 customer cost-saving scenarios which included using money and funds from elsewhere specifically set aside for capital or rate stabilization.

Council member Mike French later backed out of his support for the initial motion due to timing and budget concerns, but as usual, raising rates to pay for programs is top priority.

There are programs however to the lower income to reduce both property taxes and utility rates but who wants to provide their personal income information just to save a few bucks.

October 21, 2022 5:33am

October 6, 2022

Cases Steady But Masks Still Recommended

Those living in the local areas are still in the moderate risk of catching Covid, surrounding  counties saw outbreaks after the school started for the year and more and more cases are being reported.

Deaths are down but officials as do I recommend wearing a mask, I always have not for the common cold or flu but of course Covid is much more dangerous and now there is concern with the “co-infection,” where people can have OVID-19 and a cold or the flu at the same time.

Combining the two viruses puts the body in a mode that it has to fight two viruses at the same time and for those that are more at risk it means double trouble and accounted for the more severe COVID-19 cases on the Peninsula last winter.

Health officials are advising to get both the Covid vaccine and the flu shots I say just possible the flu shot an even that has issues with many people.

More and more issues are cropping up regarding the Covid vaccines, I double mask when in a public place and may be the only one in most case but also the only one that has yet to contract the infection.

October 6, 2022 5:31am

September 20, 2022

Thomas Hunter Moves On After His Port Angeles Debacles

Thomas Hunter has decided to get out of Dodge for a variety of reason but mostly because he was heavily criticized for his decision making and blunders at The City of Port Angeles.

He is responsible for the W 10th street mess that had left many complaining not only about that project but all road and new barriers placed that even City vehicles now have trouble navigating.

Even just simple, smaller vehicles can’t make a simple turn because the road are now too narrow top safely make the turn without running over or into the barriers or into the other lane.

The “water gardens” still remain a big issue on the west side, general Shane Park area of which have created such as issue with the residents he had no answers.

Back to W 10th Street, many neighbors have complained about lack of the response from Hunter regarding the dozens of accidentsthat have been created by the W 10th Street project.

There is now much more traffic that, after stopping at W 10th and I Streets, continue on east on W 10th through to C Street where there are  no markings at any of the intersections.

There have been at least 25 accidents at W 10th and G Streets where, after drivers decide to go straight to C Street and not as Hunter had submitted that drivers would turn left and up to W 8th Street to that 4 way stop, drivers find it easier to just go straight now east to C Street.

That area is purely residential and yes drivers [should] drive slow but “should” is a big ask.

Thomas Hunter was made aware of this issue but no action was ever take to save lives and property damage and insurance cost, no markings were ever added to that area to reduce the risks.

Thomas Hunter is now the problem of the City of Pflugerville as Assistant City Manager (ACM).

Thank goodness Thomas Hunter will leave Port Angeles on September 26th 2022.

September 20, 2022 5:02am

September 9, 2022

Local Districts Settle, Not King County, Unions

Unions and students are whining because they have to hunt down their school counselors in the hallway just to get a couple of minutes of their time and also want more mental health support in schools, SEA officials also say the district isn’t budging on its proposal to budget time spent before and after school for social worker support for families.

Since when is it a School District's responsibility to provide social workers, for families?

The Union is also asking for smaller student-to-teacher ratios in the multilingual programs, more pay and manageable caseloads, for all of you that don’t know the definition of “multilingual,” it means you, the taxpayer, are expected to fund all of the illegal aliens entering the country and flooding the school systems which increases "the student to councilor "ratio" and the question needs to be asked why are there so many children needing mental health care?

All sorts of problems could be solved if all systems went to all virtual leaning, the reason it did not work during Covid is because it was new and no one knew how to handle it and the students took it as an extended vacation, those that wanted to learn, did learn.

Studies show that home schooled children are much more educated than with Union based schools but it does require a stay at home parent or guardian which most parents are not willing to be. It is also true that learned bad behavior also starts once the children start to be around other bad behavior, new words and attitudes not normally seen or heard around their own homes becomes noticable once children start hanging around other children.

September 9, 2022 5:02am

 August 12, 2022

The “Raid” Was Unconstitutional

Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.

Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago, located in Palm Beach, Florida was raided by the FBI under orders from the AG loon Garland to find anything and everything related not to records but to satisfy the Jan 6 lunatics hellbent on finding Mr. Trump guilty of, something.

The raid was another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves.

Such an assault could only take place in broken, third-world countries, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before but get used to it folks, that is what the Bidens wanted for America to look like and be, more blacks and browns.

The raid on Mar-a-Lago represents yet another example of the federal government weaponizing law enforcement to punish political enemies, silence critics, and send a message to those whom it views as enemies, which has been from the outset, whites.

The anti-Trump democrats disguised as republican such as McConnell Portman Thune Ernst and Barrasshole have remained mum and are more than happy right about now. 

August 12, 2022 5:10am

July 15, 2022

Let’s Hope The Falling Gas Prices Continues

The price of a gallon of unleaded dropped to $4.60 on Thursday, a steep decline from the all-time high of $5.01 reached in mid-June. That's given motorists some relief but experts say not to expect an imminent return to $3.15 a gallon, the average a year ago.

Fuel prices are tied to the cost of oil crude of course and is responsible for more than half the cost of retail gasoline. The price of crude dropped below $100 a barrel for the first time since April. On July 12, West Texas Intermediate was $96.48.

But the overall imbalance of supply and demand suggests elevated prices will be the norm for some time. The price of crude has already fallen by 13% in the US this month, while gas has dropped only half as much.

The world has never witnessed such a major energy crisis in terms of its depth and its complexity but why has the price of gasoline gone down recently?

Reduced demand is a big factor, gas demand dropped last week from 9.41 million barrels a day to 8.06 million, while total domestic stocks increased by 5.8 trillion barrels.

Then why is gas still so expensive?

Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine is the obvious factor. The war raised gasoline prices by more than $1.70 per gallon at its peak. Even though the US doesn't import much crude from Russia, oil is traded globally and change affects prices all over the world.

But the Russian invasion isn't the only factor: Even though demand is nearing pre-pandemic levels, producers are still hesitant to increase production.

Amid a war that has raised gasoline prices more than $1.70 per gallon, historically high refinery profit margins are worsening that pain.

This site had opposed “banning Russian Oil” and did so on this platform and the Facebook page but the east coast talk show morons think [they] know best and made it a mantra for months and every single lawmaking voted to ban a product on the world market.

July 15, 2022 5:09am

June 6, 2022

Proclamations Rescinded

Governor Jay Inslee announced on April 29 2022 that two COVID-19-related proclamations will be rescinded starting June 1.

Proclamation 20-15 waived certain eye examination statutes for driver's licensing and identification. According to the governor’s Office, the Department of Licensing will be ready to offer all services across the state soon.

Proclamation 20-28 waived certain in-person attendance requirements for open public meetings and in-person transactions for public records. The proclamation mainly required remote access options for public meetings.

Proclamation 20-28 suspended and waived certain provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act and the Public Records Act that require or allow in-person attendance or transactions. Key provisions in Proclamation 20-28 ensured public access to public meetings by requiring that remote access be provided to the public.

Although our state remains in a state of emergency and most COVID-19-related barriers that required issuance of these orders have largely receded, impacted agencies and governing bodies may need notice and time to adjust to pre-COVID-19 procedures.

As a result, these orders of rescission are effective at 12:01 AM on June 1, 2022.

June 3, 2022 5:21am

June 30, 2022

There Is No Right To Abortion

All pro choice advocates fail to mention where exactly the right to abortion is written in The Constitution. The hypocrites however know that gun rights and free speech however are clearly written under The First and Second Amendments yet those are the two that they, the left wants to control if not totally ban.

In the recent Supreme Court ruling The Constitutional savvy Justices wrote;

"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Alito wrote in the opinion, which was backed by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch (also appointed by Trump), Kavanaugh and Barrett. "The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of The Fourteenth Amendment."

This is not a pro or anti-abortion post, only written with a clear understanding what The Constitution clearly states, includes and protects and what it does not.

June 30, 2022 5:12am

June 20, 2022

Juneteenth Should Be Repealed

First liberal Washington State then Joe Biden signed legislation establishing a new federal holiday, commemorating the end of slavery, a measure making Juneteenth another worthless and legal state paid holiday, Federally starting, in 2022.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered. That was also about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Southern states. Juneteenth is a day of remembrance dedicating this year, at least, to be observed on Monday.

It’s the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day another worthless federal holiday. The newest federal, state and city holiday, Juneteenth, will get further entrenched meaning Federal, county and city government facilities including post offices, public libraries and community centers will be closed on Mondays for observance.

Juneteenth will also be a free day at Washington state parks, meaning visitors do not have to display a Discover Pass on their vehicles for parking access Sunday. Gee!

The holiday should instead honor President Lincoln who is the real hero and American.

Holidays, especially the more worthless and symbolic ones, are a waste of time and production is halted for yet another day of the week.

June 20, 2022 5:14am

June 10, 2022

And I am Not A Firearm Enthusiast

A U.S. appeals court ruled recently that California's ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional.

In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday the law violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and a San Diego judge should have blocked what it called "an almost total ban on semiautomatic centerfire rifles" for young adults. "America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army," Judge Ryan Nelson wrote. "Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms."

The Firearms Policy Coalition, which brought the case, said the ruling makes it optimistic age-based gun bans will be overturned in other courts.

However, the ruling was not a total victory for gun rights advocates.

They had sought to block the state from requiring a hunting license for purchases of rifles or shotguns by adults under 21 who are not in the military or law enforcement.

Handgun sales to those under 21 were already prohibited when the hunting license requirement was passed in 2018 after some of the nation's worst mass shootings were committed by young adults using rifles, including the Valentine's Day slayings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The court ruled the hunting license requirement was reasonable for increasing public safety through "sensible firearm control."

In 2019, the state passed an additional law banning sales of semiautomatic centerfire rifles to anyone under 21. There were exemptions for police or military troops but not for those with hunting licenses.

Matthew Jones, a 20-year-old at the time from Santee in San Diego County, was the lead plaintiff in the case. He said he wanted a gun for self-defense and other lawful purposes but didn't want to obtain a hunting license.

His lawsuit, which had been filed before the under-age ban on semiautomatic weapons, was amended to challenge that law and the hunting license requirement.

The suit said the state had "whittled down (the) already inapplicable and irrelevant hunting license 'exemption' - the only exemption that is even possible for an ordinary, law abiding young adult who does not wish to enter into a highly dangerous career in law enforcement or the military - by prohibiting an entire class of firearms."

The two judges who ruled in the majority were part of President Donald Trump's wave of conservative-approved nominees to the famously liberal court.

A dissent was written by U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Stein, who was assigned to the panel from the Southern District of New York. Stein was nominated to the lower court by President Bill Clinton.

Democratic Sen. Anthony Portantino of La Cañada Flintridge, who wrote both laws, said he was disappointed the semiautomatic ban was struck down but was pleased the hunting license requirement survived.

"I remain committed to keeping deadly weapons out of the wrong hands," Portantino said. "Student safety on our campuses is something we should all rally behind and sensible gun control is part of that solution."

Attorney General Rob Bonta's office said it was reviewing the decision. In a statement, a spokesperson said it was committed to "defending California's commonsense gun laws."

I write this purely as a defense of The Second Amendment and the entire Constitution.

June 10, 2022 5:15am

May 9, 2022

Abortion Is Not A Constitutional Right

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is right, that there is little written about abortion in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. As it happens, there is also nothing at all in that document, which sets out fundamental law, about pregnancy, uteruses, vaginas, fetuses, placentas, menstrual blood, breasts, or breast milk.

The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.

The draft decision, which Politico published on last Monday night, would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion. Chief Justice John Roberts, promising an investigation, has not denied its authenticity. Five Justices have reportedly voted in accordance with the draft: Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan are sure to dissent. Roberts is not likely to concur. One theory has it that whoever disclosed the draft is trying to make it more difficult if not impossible for Roberts to recruit a defector from the majority. But, of course, this remains unknown.

The Constitution makes no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion, and therefore those who claim that it protects such a right must show that the right is somehow implicit in the constitutional text.

If a right isn’t mentioned explicitly in the Constitution, following a mode of reasoning known as the history test, then it can only become a right if it can be shown to be “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.

Especially important is the question of who was enfranchised at the time of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, in 1868, the nation’s second founding, since many arguments defending abortion rights (and many other rights, too) turn on the equal-protection and due-process clauses of that amendment. Here, too, Alito is baffled to discover so little about abortion and women. Referring to the advocates for Jackson Women’s Health Organization and to amicus briefs like one signed by the American Historical Association, Alito writes, Nor is anyone able to show that a constitutional right to abortion was established when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, and found no support for the existence of an abortion right that predates the latter part of the 20th century no state constitutional provision, no statute, no judicial decision, no learned treatise.

May 9, 2022 5:33am

April 22, 2022

Put On The Damn Masks…

This site does not favor most government mandates especially those imposed by local officials who are unelected staff members, Dr. Allison Berry, health officer for Clallam and Jefferson counties, included. I also submit she, like the CDC, also does not have authority to impose any, mandates.

That said, this site has no problem wearing masks unlike my Republicans friends who, like this site, oppose all government mandates but this site is not opposed to wearing the things and believes that the things do fend off the chances of getting Covid, of any variant.

Cases are also on the rise and to those that think it is unmanly or just a plain nuisance to wear the things is just plain lunacy however to not wear the things especially on a closed flying tube.

The idea that the air filtration system is a catch all, pardon the pun, is also lunacy, the system is not sitting between you and the person next to you ready to reach  out a hand and grab any moisture that spews out of the mouth of the filthy human sitting next to you.

Masks are not full proof of course but they can’t hurt in small doses, contributors to this site wear two but mostly, if not only, around crowds like walking into a market or any closed environment like in a flying air tube of which, by all means, wear the things, cases are only going up.

Markets and all indoor agencies should still encourage masks when in their facilities, Walmart offers free masks as does the court house. It is just plain moronic to walk around like you are something special because you are not wearing a mask as if you are thumbing your nose at the law, “the “law” will not be by your hospital bed when you are there sick of Covid.

April 22, 2022 5:03am

April 7, 2022

The County As Loony As The City Council

Commissioners are as loony as The Port Angeles City Council when it comes to sucking up to the low lives sleeping on our streets and have raised the sales tax one-tenth of a percent to use for affordable housing to keep the coming to the Northwest For the freebees.

The state Legislature passed House Bill 1590 two years ago to allow cities and counties to pass sales and use taxes that would go toward affordable housing, it then did not take The City of Port Angeles long to adopt the ordinance, in mid, 2020, which was just after the state passage.

This lunatic liberalism will cost all of you $1.3 million in taxes for the free housing and just so the ass sitters can then claim in liberal WA ST to have actually done something.

The majority of the new found funds will go for the construction of the “affordable” housing.”

This liberal lunatic, Sarah Martinez, Peninsula Housing Authority executive director, said, “I think it’s no secret that housing options in this county are scarce, and further finding affordable housing is near impossible right now.”

Well did you ever think, you stupid ditz, to then not invite more of the low lives to the area in the first place or are you so woke in your fantasy world to, think at all?

Where will they all be employed, oh yeah, they will all be on mental disabilities.

This moron Ingrid Carmine said the measure will help “to lower hospital costs and police and sheriff costs because housed people are healthier and have a place to recover from illness and also police are less likely to be involved with them.”

April 7, 2022 5:12am

March 28, 2022

Gas Powered Cars Banned In 2030

The Washington legislature voted to end the sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2030 the most aggressive goal in the U.S. and five years ahead of California's 2035 target. The measure is part of the $16.9 billion "Move Ahead Washington" transportation package.

Washington is committing to going green as the state passed legislation to only allow the sale of electric cars beginning in 2030. The move is part of a larger climate change plan that focuses on overhauling the state’s transportation system.

The passed “Move Ahead Washington” a package includes major shifts to move the state’s transportation system to a cleaner, more efficient system. One of the most prominent goals is to require all new vehicles sold or registered in the state to be electric by 2030.

In total, the state estimates the package will support about 2,390 construction and ferries jobs annually.

Inslee’s plan reflects President Biden’s climate change goals for the country, including establishing a nationwide network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations and increasing electric car sales up to 50 percent by 2030.

Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill also included $5 billion to be portioned off for states to develop their own electric charging stations.

Consumers also seem to be leaning into electric vehicles, with data from Alliance for Automotive Innovation finding between October and December 2021, electric car sales made up 6 percent of all light-duty vehicle sales the highest volume for any quarter on record.

This site supports this move and looks forward to and beyond even electric.

March 28, 2022 5:10am

March 15, 2022

Congratulations Port Angeles, An Expanded Food Bank

What this site had said for years is now coming to fruition, the homeless is up, transients are up, tin cup pan handlers are up, sidewalk sleepers are up, crime is up, just what every small town desirers to be.

The most liberal loony City Council in history is jumping of joy I’m sure, isn’t this what they have, and are, striving for, turning society into a bunch of mentally ill dependants needing government to survive so those dumb enough to keep voting for the lunatics can live free on the backs of the old and established taxpayers that are still left.

A neighbor of mine is a single mother, part time boyfriends of course, two boys, one nine and shows signs of mental illness, and the other is pushing twenty, never worked a day in his life and already on mental disability which is probably a family trait

Not just here to pick on them but [they] have The Food Bank deliver food, they don’t even have to go pick up the free food, it is delivered, to them. The boy has nothing to do all day, has a car, that mostly sits, but has plenty of time to go get the food.

The mother has a job of sorts and is a typical anti social “make the taxpayers pay for it” attitude about life in general.

Like most trailer trash, (the neighbors however own the (house), those that live on taxpayers time and dime just have to have what else, a big Dog to feed of course.

Doesn’t that just burn your ass, when a small family claims they need free food to feed themselves then get a dog that needs a 50 pound bag of dog food.

Something is wrong, but for those, like the most liberal lunatic Council Port Angeles has ever had, it is more important to change Columbus Day to Indigenes Persons Day and to make what may have been “a quiet little town” into one that is now looking more like a small Seattle where Amazon just left due to mismanagement.

March 15, 2022 5:13am 

February 28, 2022

WA ST To Ease Mask Mandates

This site has supported wearing a mask, the science is mixed on if the things prohibit or even reduce the risk of being infected but it is this site's contention that at least they do not bring harm to those with no breathing difficulties, I, wear two.

As with much of the two years of public health regulations to stem the pandemic, Gov Inslee’s decision brought questions and critiques across the board. Republicans castigated the governor for moving too slowly.

The Educational Associations made clear however it intends to raise concerns about any lift on masking through union negotiations citing mask removal will fail students and educators who are or live with someone immuno compromised.

Others who have spent the past two years adjusting their business to outdoor dining amid COVID and working to keep his own staff and customers safe.

In recent weeks, the COVID exposure notifications have become fewer, the state health department is expected to issue new guidance for schools next week and Inslee will reveal “the next chapter” for how the state will respond in the future.

What was concerning to this site were those that thought they were too special to even wear a mask, every time I walked into the local Thurman’s Supply, i e, no employee was wearing a mask and that one gal is always coughing about something.

Perhaps not wearing a mask is a sort of status symbol, for those needing to feel special.

February 28, 2022 5:16am

February 12, 2022

Local Officials Causing Smash And Grabs

The ultra liberal lunatics that now govern local politics are the ones causing the recent crime wave, the loons think it is so compassionate to be nice to the low lives that are now infesting The Peninsula by provide “housing” and other hand outs.

I had said for years that all that offering the freebees will do is bring in more of the undesirables and now I am being once again proven right.

Spending money on downtown restrooms just because one husband complained to the local council about his wife pissing her spandex while jogging is another example of the lunatic thinking. Anyone attending or viewing the meetings lately?

Changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Person Day is another loony liberal woke agenda gone amuck. The libs have now insulted every Italian in the area.

The City of Port Angeles as a body is on board of course, the more the loony council passes the more tax money they will need and thus pass to pay for it all.

Well, as I said, locally and nationally, the more “de-funding” of The Police that is done will just create a need for more re-funding of The Police later

You can not be nice to these thugs, they don‘t have the reasoning gene, I say build more prisons then chain, shackle and cage the jungle animals.

But of course the next thing the local liberal lunatics pass will be more “counseling” and “treatment programs” and probably offering free Crack Pipes…

Then wonder why the problems are getting worse.

February 12, 2022 5:33am

January 31, 2022

The Right Should Thank Covid, And Me

If it wasn’t for Covid, The Right would not have learned about the recently discovered teaching problems regarding the indoctrination of our children.

I had long advocated for remote learning and if done correctly is still the way to go, the left is never gong to stop trying to convert the children into good little socialists and not until each and every child is ashamed of their whiteness and all turned into good little gays, transvestites, anti-white racists and anti capital lunatics.

With remote learning, parents could look in on what is being taught which is how The Right discovered just how bad the twisting of minds had become, from the left teaching Critical Race Theory to turning normal children into their little Trannys.

Parents an their children may have to cope with this way of learning at least until the right can take control of the liberal majorities that control the liberal institutions.

It has bee this way for years while networks like Fox were busy selling happy books about Martin Luther King and how great American is.

America hasn’t been “great” for a long time now and I think I am making progress with at least some to those on the right who were before to weak and timid to take on those that are the true racists. I had said that if they call us all racists then it will be a big tent and welcome to the party, being weak and capitulating is not the answer.

For every statute they pull down tear down one of theirs starting with George Floyd.

January 31, 2022 5:22am

January 10, 2022

New Legislative Session, Hold On To Your Wallets

The 60 day legislative session will begin and lawmakers have a long list of pressing issues and unfolding crises to confront. Even as the economy recovers and third term Gov. Jay Inslee enjoys strong support from House and Senate Democratic majorities, these are some of the state’s most fundamental and vexing problems.

Changes to new policing laws and of course the homelessness and housing affordability crises are continuing, gun violence is up and prices are rising, students have suffered amid the pandemic, and state and local officials continue to grapple with continuously evolving waves of COVID-19.

The lawmakers think they have plenty of money since the pandemic shutdown in spring 2020 caused a sharp downturn, Washington’s tax collections have recovered and continue to soar above projections. And legislators still have over $1 billion in federal COVID aid as they draft a supplemental state operating budget.

The same ole liberal garbage is on the list of spending priorities, “homelessness, mental health, salmon, climate change, criminal law and justice, transportation”

Lawmakers last year passed a package of roughly a dozen new laws to overhaul policing in the wake of protests over the deaths of people of color — like George Floyd, and in Tacoma, Manuel Ellis.

Many Republicans and most law enforcement groups last year ultimately opposed many of the policing laws, including the use-of-force statutes.

January 10, 2022 5:10am