Mendocino County Today: Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024

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RAIN SHOWERS will gradually spread across the area this morning form north to south. Showers will bring periods of brief moderate rain with snow above 2000 feet. Small hail and isolated lightning are likely along the coast this afternoon and evening. Cool, calmer weather is expected Sunday into early next week.

DANGEROUS SURF conditions will continue on Saturday. The decay long-period westerly swell will be reinforced as a larger swell fills in late morning through evening Saturday. Breakers of 18 to 21 foot is expected for the northwest-facing beaches along the coast in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. (NWS)

STEPHEN DUNLAP (Fort Bragg): A cloudy 43F on the coast this Saturday morning. Our forecast continues to change with each check in. Showers this morning then clearing later today thru Monday afternoon when rain returns. Off & on rain next week in general with timing tbd with each cycle. Our high surf advisory is in effect again today.

Update 5:40am - I am 1 mile from the ocean at my desk & I can hear the crashing waves very clearly

16-YEAR-OLD BOY ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ATTEMPTED MURDER IN UKIAH

A woman was stabbed unprovoked, according to police.

by Alana Minkler

A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of randomly stabbing a 29-year-old woman walking in Ukiah last Saturday, according to police.

About 12:32 a.m. Dec. 30, the Ukiah Police Department received a call from a woman requesting emergency medical aid at 749 South State St. after she had been stabbed by an unknown male, the department said in a news release.

Officers found the woman on the ground covered in blood with a single stab wound to her left shoulder just above the armpit.

Officers tried to gather information about the suspect but she was in shock, they said.

Medical personnel arrived to the scene and transported the woman to Adventist Health Ukiah Valley.

As officers began canvassing the area, a 50-year-old Ukiah man approached them and said a male subject had just tried to stab him and gave them a description.

Shortly after, a sergeant saw a person matching the description of the suspect walking east across South State Street from Observatory Avenue.

He entered the parking lot area of Express Mart and appeared to be heavily intoxicated, the release says.

The sergeant was able to detain him without incident and found a serrated steak knife in his sweatshirt pocket.

The subject, a teenager, was taken to the hospital for medical clearance before he was booked into the Mendocino County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and public intoxication.

The woman identified the 16-year-old male as the person who stabbed her. She said she had been walking north on South State Street when he approached her and made two stabbing motions toward her body, unprovoked.

She was able to avoid the first but the second gashed her left shoulder. The suspect immediately fled on foot, she told police.

An investigation is ongoing and the Ukiah Police Department urged any witnesses to contact them.

(pressdemocrat.com)

FORT BRAGG POLICE DEPARTMENT welcomes Austin Hopper to our family as a Police Recruit! 

He is leaving today for the police academy in Eureka for an intensive five month program. Upon his graduation, he will be sworn in as a Police Officer - fulfilling his childhood dream. Austin is from a multi-generational Fort Bragg family and has deep roots here. We are excited he chose to stay and serve our community. Join us in wishing him good luck in the academy!

UKIAH CONSTRUCTION UPDATE FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 8

Happy New Year!

On the south side (Mill to Cherry), crews will be replacing sewer laterals between Gobbi and Cherry, beginning at the south end and progressing north. This work is occurring on the west side of the street currently; when the laterals on the west side are done, traffic will be moved to the other side of the street and laterals on the east side will be done. Travel lanes will continue to be open in both directions. Additionally, work has begun on the joint trench between Mill and Gobbi, which will run along the west side of the street and contain underground electric and communication lines.

On the north side (Norton to Henry), weather has delayed the completion of the concrete work. Crews are resuming work on Friday, 1/5, and will continue, weather permitting, until completion. In most parts of this section, on-street parking has been restored. The on-street parking is not very intuitive, because the orange delineators (cone-thingies) must remain in place to keep vehicles traveling in a single lane. However, it IS okay, unless there are barricades in place that state otherwise, to park inside (to the right of) those delineators.

Also on the north side, bases for the new street lights are being installed.

— Shannon Riley, Ukiah Deputy City Manager

SUPERVISOR MULHEREN’S MISINFORMATION MISINFORMATION

by Mark Scaramella

Supervisor Maureen Mulheren, on her facebook page, recently said she was surprised to be (anonymously) asked: 

“Why haven’t you spent any of the Measure B money?”

Mulheren: “The goals of Measure B have largely been accomplished, first and foremost crisis workers that go out with/before law enforcement.”

The crisis response unit took them five years to even start. As useful as it has been, it was not a “goal” of Measure B.

“A Regional Training Center”? The purchase of that old Jehovah’s Witness church in Redwood Valley could be considered part of a Measure B “goal” since it was intended for first responder training. But it has yet to be used for mental health responder training. So that “goal” has not been met.

“A Crisis Residential Treatment Center”?

The CRT was not a goal of Measure B either. It was only built because the state threatened to withdraw some grant funding if it wasn’t — and the County paid a whopping $5 million of Measure B money for what should not have cost more than $1 million for a four-bedroom house.

“A Psychiatric Health Facility that begins next Spring”?

The PHF will not begin next Spring (unless you have a very loose definition of “begins.”). And it’s a grossly overdesigned and colossal waste of money. 

“Programming with the remainder of the funds (IMO could be more successful, but I’m working on that).”

It certainly could be “more successful” since there’s nothing being done to provide the services mandated by the 2017 voter-approved measure. But there’s no evidence that Mulheren is “working on that.”

The original question Mulheren started with is intentionally misphrased. An honest version of that question would be, “Why haven’t you spent any of the Measure B money on the services that were required by the text of the Measure?” Which should have been the question she tried to answer. But she probably didn’t address that proper question because the answer is that they are wasting most of the Measure B money on overpriced buildings and spending none for required services.

Then Mulheren concludes:

“Unfortunately people seem to believe some misinformation that is online and I’d like to be able to give you the correct details so you are informed.”

“Some information that is on line”?

This is a thinly veiled, underhanded and dishonest attempt to falsely portray our criticism of the Board’s handling of Measure B money as “misinformation.” (There’s no other criticism of the Board’s Measure B money wasting on line.) 

But Mulheren doesn’t dare cite any specific alleged “misinformation that is online,” because she knows that would be too obvious. If her unjustifiably rosy “correct details” about Measure B spending are her idea of a response to our criticism, then Mulheren is simply creating the very misinformation that she bemoans.

JDSF/MCMC MUSHROOM FORAY Wednesday, January 10th 9:30am

Next Wednesday, January 10th , join Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club (MCMC) <https://www.mendocinocoastmushroomclub.org/> and Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) for a mushroom foray.

Our guest speaker, Alan Rockefeller, is a mycologist visiting Mendocino County from Oakland, California. He will join JDSF forestry personnel along with MCMC club members to lead guided walks in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF).

All are welcome. *Participants must show their JDSF mushroom permit to pick any mushrooms. *Mushroom permits are by mail and require 10-14 days processing time.

Location: Caspar Scales-JDSF

Date: Wednesday, January 10th

Time: 9:30am-3:30pm

Groups will start heading into the forest around 9:45 so don't be late!

Please bring plenty of water, sturdy boots/shoes, and a packed lunch to eat in the field.

PENNYROYAL FARMS’ Erika McKenzie-Chapter is hosting a 4H/Youth Dairy Goat Workshop on January 13!

For 4H, FFA and Independent Youth in Mendocino/Lake/Sonoma Counties who have or are interested in starting a dairy goat project, join us for a hands-on afternoon of learning more about dairy goats, Jan 13, 1-4pm.

The afternoon will begin with a tour of the Pennyroyal Farm goat dairy. Topics discussed will include basic dairy goat care, showmanship and showing, breeding and breeding decision-making. The afternoon will end with the chance to observe goat milking in the dairy parlor.

Registration is $5 per participant. Proceeds will fund youth awards at the Mendocino County Fair. Contact erika@pennyroyalfarm.com to register or for more information.

MLK DAY OF SERVICE

January 15, 2024 — Join us at 9:00 AM for a community clean-up event at the South Boat Ramp in honor of MLK Day! Let's come together to make a positive impact and honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy through community service. Gloves, bags, and trash pickers are provided. See you there! 

MS NOTES: Hmm. Something tells us Martin Luther King’s message has been lost on the Army Corps of Engineers.

ED NOTES

I LIKED this comment on celebrity from Diana Cooper of Kentfield in a recent edition of the Pacific Sun: “May I remind Mike Thomas of ‘Overheard’ who is still puffed up with excitement over a centuries-old chance meeting with Jerry Garcia (Mike, have you washed your hands yet?) that in this country all men are created equal. It is a tragic aspect of the modern era that a chosen elite (i.e., celebrities) thrust themselves into the spotlight at the expense of others. While our eyes are riveted to the TV set on overexposed talents, there are quieter and stiller waters around us that merit deeper examination. Actually, Jerry Garcia always seemed like a jerk to me, but since he was a celebrity, most people will see more where there could very well be less. It reminds me of Henry Kissinger’s famous words: ‘The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault’.”

WE'VE NEVER HAD enough stability or staff interest at the local schools to keep track of our graduates, many of whom have gone on to become down right illustrious. Emma Salgues for instance, went from Boonville High School to U.C. Berkeley to the award of a 7-year graduate scholarship to Yale to study semitic languages and archeology which, she explained, involves, “Digging up an ancient archive somewhere in the vast Arabian deserts and translating the long-gone languages accompanying the recovered trove.” The ebullient youngest daughter of Michael and Silvie Salgues of Philo then became Dr. Salgues, PhD. Only one student is admitted to the highly competitive program each year. 

EMMA'S Arabic is so good that during the recent year she spent in Egypt on an archeological expedition she was often assumed to be a native speaker. “People thought I was Moroccan or Lebanese,” she said. Asked what she would do with a doctorate in Assyriology, “Oh, I’ll probably be a waitress.” In real life she's a college professor at, I think, U.C. Santa Cruz where her husband is also a member of the faculty.

MEASURE B MONEY ought to go to the expansion of the County Jail for a dedicated psychiatric unit. The Sheriff, and the county’s police departments, already do the heavy mental health lifting. The Sheriff, of necessity, and for many years, already maintains a unit housing the mentally ill and “vulnerable” inmates, often one in the same. The present mental health unit, however, is simply a section of the jail not designed to treat the mentally ill but simply protect them from the wolves. 

A SPECIALLY DESIGNED new unit at the jail site, funded by Measure B before it’s frittered away on overpriced buildings and vague programs benefiting only the people who run them, would fulfill the promise made to the voters that the money would go to getting the intractables off the streets, i.e., the people untreated now because the existing mental health apparatuses can’t get paid to treat them, and even if the intractables were “reimburseable” they can’t be treated in open settings. They gotta be locked in. Obviously, and as any cop will tell you.

AS WE KNOW, many homeless people are drug and/or alcohol dependent. They require much more than a roof over their heads. The only sensible local solution to the drug and alcohol dependent homeless is an expansion of the County Jail to include a locked treatment center. Homeless persons who are homeless because they can’t find affordable shelter are already regularly placed by the Social Services Department, at public expense, in motels or really are found permanent housing. 

IF MENDOCINO COUNTY, as public policy, invested its large employee retirement fund in local affordable housing, for instance, instead of in distant money markets whose proprietors take a big slice for themselves well, hell, we might actually do something progressive rather than prattle constantly about how progressive we are. (That’ll be the day. A Mendo progressive is a person proud to simply be thinking progressive thoughts.) 

IF THE DRUG corporations and their allies in the “helping professions” hadn’t helped the Reagan-ites close down California’s state hospital system there wouldn’t be a homeless problem. But as our society continues to implode, homelessness is only one of many rolling, unaddressed catastrophes and Mendo, for once, ought to get ahead of doing something specifically helpful to both the walking wounded and the public. 

BOTTOM LINE? Persons unable or unwilling to care for themselves should be removed from the streets and sheltered in locked facilities until they’re well again. Our over-large population of crackpot therapists should not be in charge of any new lock-up psychiatric program. Let the Sheriff do it. He’s not only a far more competent person than the typical “helping professional,” he’s a much more humane person.

AV ADULT SCHOOL

We are collaborating with Mendocino College to bring you a range of class offerings for our winter/spring semester of 2024: English as a Second Language, Conversational Spanish, Citizenship, Guitar, Creative Writing, Watercolors, Chorale. Classes will run from February to May and cost anywhere from $12 to $60 for the entire semester. 

Please see the flyer below for details on class teachers, days, and times or check out our website: www.avadultschool.org

To register, you can visit our website or attend our open house registration event on January 21st 12:30-2:30 (more info in a separate post on our page). 

To more learning in 2024!

“PRINTED & STITCHED: Examining the overlap between the hand pulled print and the art quilt” opened at Grace Hudson Museum on Oct. 28, 2023 and will be on display until March 15, 2024.

This exhibition features textile and paper artworks that blend techniques from both printmaking and art quilt disciplines, exploring the overlap between the two methods. Organized by Exhibit Envoy and with significant input from Studio Art Quilt Associates and the California Society of Printmakers, "Printed & Stitched" includes dozens of artists whose work explores personal experiences and tackles social and political issues.

The Grace Hudson Museum is at 431 S. Main St. in Ukiah. The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4:30 p.m. General admission is $5; $12 per family; $4 for students and seniors; free to all on the first Friday of the month; and always free to Museum members, Native Americans, and standing military personnel. For more information please go to www.gracehudsonmuseum.org or call (707) 467-2836.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON CRAB FEED, February 17, 2024

Mendocino County Fairgrounds, Boonville. 6 pm social hour, 7 pm dinner.

Tickets now on sale. Advance ticket sales only $75/adult (12+ yrs)$40/child (1 – 11yrs)

Tickets: John Schultz 895-9552, Jorge Mejia 489-3821, Colleen Schenck 895-3053

JIM SHIELDS:

Re: Seal Pups Were Turning Up Headless On The Mendocino Coast

The LAT’s story on decapitated seals is nothing new, unknown or mysterious relative to coyotes. Such decapitations have nothing to do with anything theorized by the presumed experts quoted in the piece. The story is laughable with its reliance on the ignorant speculations of a “doctoral student in the ecology and evolutionary biology department at UC Santa Cruz” and a “marine mammal stranding coordinator,” whatever the hell those vocations are. According to the report, “It’s still unclear why the coyotes are going for just the seals’ heads and then leaving the bodies for other scavengers, but Gerraty has his suspicions. ‘My guess is that the brains are pretty nutritious compared to a lot of other seal parts. Blubber can be pretty hard to get through,’ he said.”

Mr. Garrity, the ecologist-in-training, needs to spend more time in the real world, say on a farm or ranch with livestock, then he’d know exactly why coyotes sever mammal heads and carry them off.

As a high-schooler, I was a proud member of the Future Farmers of America. In fact, I still have my blue and gold trimmed FFA jacket, that still fits me, by the way. To brag a little more, I also still possess the first place blue ribbon and trophy I won for livestock judging at the state fair when I just a freshman. Oh, my future was paved with limitless golden opportunities.

Anyway, both my high school Ag teacher, Max Tessier and the late, great, long-time county trapper, Sully Pinches (father of John Pinches) educated me on the habits and behaviors of the coyote, including why they sever mammal heads.

I started raising sheep in high school and then resumed after I left the labor movement and moved to Laytonville. Years ago, I found a dead lamb without its head in one of my pastures. It appeared the head had been surgically removed. The cut was clean with no jagged edges.

Sully lived on the neighboring ranch, so I called him and asked him to come over to look at the dead lamb. It just so happened that his good friend and fellow cowboy Bud Bowman was there at Sully’s having coffee, so they both came to my place.

We gathered around the lamb and the two of them inspected it.

“What do you think, Bud?” Sully asked.

“Yep, that’s a coyote that done it for sure,” Bud replied.

Sully explained what both of them already knew as experienced wildlife trappers and trackers, “That’s a female that killed that lamb. She’s probably got her den of pups not too far away. She carried that head back to where she’s got them pups. That’s how they feed them and teach them how to hunt and what not.”

So there’s the answer to a mystery that’s not mysterious at all. You’d think the L.A. Times would do a bit more review and fact-checking of a story before going to publication.

STARTUP MENDOCINO 2024 

Innovative Business Accelerator Program Applications Open on January 8, 2024

FORT BRAGG, Calif. – January 5, 2024 – West Business Development Center (“West Center”) is pleased to announce that the application window for StartUp Mendocino 2024, its innovative business accelerator program, will open on Monday, January 8, 2024. Now in its fourth year, StartUp Mendocino continues to energize and accelerate entrepreneurial endeavors in Mendocino County.

This no-cost program is designed to give local entrepreneurs the opportunity to participate in an intensive training program that serves as a hands-on training ground. Participants will learn to chart a course for their business, refine their strategies, hone entrepreneurial skills, and develop a plan for growth and success. 

The application-based 18-week program is limited to 12 participants who, upon successful completion of the program, will each receive a $1,000 stipend. Laura Brooks, West Center's Director of Strategic Programs, says, "We have found that setting a limit on the number of participants ensures they receive an immersive and personalized experience. It also allows for the creation of cohesive cohorts for continued peer-to-peer business support." The 2023 program launched eleven early-stage entrepreneurs on their path to success. 

Earl Chavez, owner of Big Earl's BBQ and one of the program graduates in June 2023 said, “Startup Mendocino connected the dots for us to take our business to the next level. The individual guidance we received from West leadership helped us fine tune our goals and business plan. We are successful because of them.”

The program begins with a kick-off reception on Thursday, February 29 from 4 to 7 PM at Medium Art Gallery, 522 East Perkins St, Ukiah. Participants will have the opportunity to meet their peers, advisors, and cohort leaders prior to starting the course of study on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Participants will meet for 90-minute classes every other week via Zoom. On alternate weeks, cohorts will meet for 90 minutes and use their peer-to-peer learning to help solve current challenges for themselves and others. The program will run until June 25, 2024 and will culminate in a graduation celebration where graduates will celebrate their success with friends, family, and the community.

During the program participants will be introduced to new approaches in a series of four modules that address the Foundations of Leadership, Mastering Finance Fundamentals, Building Strong Employee and Customer Relations, Demystifying Marketing, Creating the perfect Pitch.

Rachel Clark, lead instructor for the program, remarked, “I'm thrilled to be leading the StartUp Mendocino class of 2024. Seeing the determination of these entrepreneurs to learn and implement best practices into their businesses is both an inspiration and a challenge. This important program is creating the next level of business leadership in Mendocino County."

The main criteria for submitting a StartUp Mendocino application include: the business is located in Mendocino County; and the business has been operational for between one and three years. Detailed information about the program can be found on the frequently asked questions page.

Applications for entry into the program open at 8AM on Monday January 8, 2024; the closing date for applications is Friday January 26, 2024 at 5PM. All applications will go before a selection committee composed of business and community leaders and stakeholders and the final applicants will be announced on Friday February 16, 2024. 

StartUp Mendocino 2024 is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors, which include (at time of writing): the U.S. Small Business Administration, the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development our sponsors include Tri Counties Bank, Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation, Savings Bank of Mendocino County, Redwood Credit Union, and the Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation. West Center is actively seeking sponsorship and volunteers for this Mendocino business accelerator program.

Visit www.westcenter.org/programs/startup-mendo-2024 to learn more about the program or contact Laura Brooks, laura@westcenter.org. 

KIM CAMPBELL:

Re: Small print newspaper story

Dear AVA,

A friend in Eugene alerted me to this event. The Eugene Weekly is a twenty-year-old print newspaper a lot of folks in Eugene prefer to the Register-Guard. An (alleged) major embezzlement by their bookkeeper threatens the struggling newspaper’s existence, but the staff are working for free to keep it afloat. All the employees lost their jobs three days before Christmas.

Rob Weiss is one of the EW journalists and my college friend’s friend. The New York Times link goes to a pay wall for me, but I included it anyway.

Just thought you might like to know.

Kim Campbell

1. https://eugeneweekly.com/
2. https://apnews.com/article/eugene-weekly-oregon-embezzled-newspaper-40cbf6317089b2772450dff050cc704b
3. https://www.klcc.org/economy-business/2024-01-04/eugene-weekly-attracts-support-following-alleged-embezzlement
4. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/business/media/eugene-weekly-embezzlement-oregon.html

FROM THE AVA ARCHIVE, a quarter century ago: "Off the Top" March 17, 1999

DAN HAMBURG it's time for your smelling salts. If you'd bothered to read the latest speculation on the Bari bombing case, you might be less inclined to join the paranoids, the usual party line censors of the fake left, and people like Tanya Brannan, Nick Wilson and Karen Pickett who have converted Judi Bari mythology into a little cottage industry for themselves. The weird notion that challenges to the official story on the bombing case are either helpful to the FBI or the work of FBI agents doesn't apply this time around because the FBI itself has announced it's content with its demonstrably false version of events. The Bari hagiographers of course are as deeply committed to their implausible (and self-aggrandizing) version of events as any fully dipped Baptist is to resurrection fantasies.

THE FBI says Bari was knowingly carrying the bomb that almost killed her because it exploded behind her seat and was thus visible to her as it was transported. Photos of the scene published in newspaper stories at the time – May 1990 – and Bari's destroyed Subaru itself, put the lie to the FBI's suspiciously obtuse insistence on the placement of the nearly lethal device. The bomb was under the driver's seat, obviously. The FBI simply acted on the tip they received from up here on the Northcoast that Bari was headed south to commit some kind of crime. I believe the tipster was Mike Sweeney. 

ON THEIR PART, the vested interest gaggle of Bari-ites, lead by their dim lawyer Dennis Cunningham, say Bari was attacked by the combined forces of corporate timber and the FBI, which is a hell of a lot more ennobling than an attack from a devious little psycho of an ex-husband. It's also a minor money maker with the weepier and more credulous cadres of what passes for a left in this country these days.

MIKE SWEENEY is the only person who fully fits the bill as Judi Bari's bomber. He not only had easy and ongoing access to her vehicle to measure it for placement of the device, he was uniquely situated to know her movements. He also has a history of explosive devices tied to his cult-left background. Additionally, Sweeney's life-long deviousness continues to this day with letters to newspapers under pseudonyms aimed at solidifying his ambitions to become Mendocino County's garbage king. He has also been caught by Jim Shields of the Mendocino County Observer speculating with his feckless sponsor, supervisor Richard Shoemaker, about ruining the reputation of Jerry Ward, the hard working and scrupulously honest Willits garbage man.

I KNOW this is hard for you Dan, you and Mike being Stanford men and all, but buck up. Better yet, retrieve your powers of critical thinking from the nuts and low-grade fascists who've made their dreary little careers around fantasies that money and power don't regard them as anything more than not particularly useful idiots. Remember, the Bari cult has based much of its grandiose case on the hapless Irv Sutley who they say was the FBI's man in Mendo. If Sutley was point man for the conspiracy to destroy Judi Bari, why wasn't he subpoenaed by the Bari-ites? The guy runs for office in every election and he's a ubiquitous presence at pwog events in Sonoma County, yet the hard-hitting Bari-Cherney legal team claims they couldn't find Sutley to serve him. If you believe that, Dan, you can also believe that challenges to the porous federal suit the Bari-ites are "suspicious."

MORE BAD NEWS for ya, guy: The obvious fact is that Judi Bari knew after the bombing that she was safe from a follow-up attack. If she didn't know she was safe from further assault, she would not have moved to String Creek east of Willits where an assassin could literally drive up to her door and finish her off without anybody in that sparsely-settled neighborhood even hearing the shot. If she were a true kamikaze, or a fatalist of some sort, she might have moved to String Creek by herself, but Judi had her kids with her, and she was devoted to them. It was in Bari's and Sweeney's mutual interest to divert attention from Sweeney to Big Timber and the FBI, the world's least competent political police force. They had an abundance of felony info on each other. Not exactly a love story, but I'm convinced that's what happened. I knew Judi Bari and I was very fond of her in many ways. I always tried to be a good friend to her, especially in the feedback department. I drove her to String Creek on her first visit there. I told her then it wasn't safe, but I only had a tiny piece of the elephant at that point in the saga. She knew she was safe there, as safe in String Creek as she was anywhere, which is pretty safe given all the givens of her prominence as a regional troublemaker. It still makes me sick to think of her being attacked the way she was attacked in Oakland. I want to know exactly what happened and how it happened. But between the Bari cult and the FBI, nevermind what appears to be a complicit federal court apparatus, all of it supported by people who ought to know better, it doesn't look like we'll ever know for a court-verified fact that Mike Sweeney, Stanford Maoist, slayer of abandoned airports, tried to murder his ex-wife.

CATCH OF THE DAY, Friday, January 5, 2024

FRANCIS ASZKLAR II, Gualala. Domestic abuse.

DAVID COPE, Fort Bragg. Controlled substance for sale, ammo possession by prohibited person.

ERIC GARCIA, Redwood Valley. Failure to appear, probation revocation.

EDWARDS HIRSCH, Santa Rosa/Ukiah. DUI-alcohol&drugs.

BENJAMIN HOFF, Ukiah. Vandalism, probation violation.

DANIEL HOLMES JR., Ukiah. Parole violation.

JOSE LAZOS-MARTINEZ, Laytonville. Fugitive from justice.

BRADLEY MCCARTNEY, Willits. Public alcohol consumption, failure to appear.

DENA MORRIS, Ukiah. Tear gas, parole violation. (Frequent flyer.)

ROGER PETERS, Covelo. Felon-addict with firearm, ammo possession by prohibited person.

PATRICK SCHUETZ, Ukiah. Probation revocation.

SCOTT STONE, Conway, South Carolina/Ukiah. Probation revocation.

CHRIS SKYHAWK:

On the “democracy” vigil this weekend

I realize this post might offend some; might lose me some friends. But the Democracy vigil this weekend: before y’all run off to that I would like to propose that we as a community, take an objective look at what Democracy really is. Since its inception the US has engaged in 400 foreign military interventions, not even mentioning the millions of native people killed as the American Empire expanded to the west. Since WW2 the U.S. has from 1945 to 2001, among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions of the world, 201 were initiated by the United States, accounting for 81% of the total number. As of Oct 7, 2021, the US launched 251 military interventions since 1991. So you are going to bring your candles for this? Have fun!

Here is a song about this issue: youtube.com/watch?v=S8RcnlLOHWI

CRAIG LOOKS BACK

In the summer of 1972, I was the designated cook at Big River Farm Zen Sangha, located exactly six miles up the Comptche Road, near Mendocino. On weekends, I’d drive the orange colored VW bug to People’s Park full of vegetables and Gravenstein apples which we could not use, plus some goat’s milk cheese and yoghurt. (Obviously, I didn’t take any chopped wood.) After dropping this off at the stage at the park, which featured tall grass at the park’s east side where the deer sometimes slept at night and where lute players and poets congregated during the day, and Mike Delacour smiling and pontificating near the stage, and a lot of volunteers putting in a garden along the west side fence, I’d drive to Alameda for a date with a charming Italian woman who had visited the Mendocino farm for a personal retreat. And off we would go to Marin County for ecstatic dancing with Sufi Sam, and the Sierra Club dance party later, at the Strawberry Recreation Center. And then back to Alameda for the night! And then the drive back to Mendocino for another week of zazen, chopping wood and carrying water. People’s Park is changing this week. I am not.

Craig Louis Stehr

MEMO OF THE AIR: Good Night Radio is every Friday, 9pm to 5am PST on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg and KNYO.org. The first hour of the show is simulcast on KAKX 89.3fm Mendocino.

You can always go to https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com and hear last week's MOTA show. By Saturday night I'll put up the recording of tonight's show. Also there you'll find plenty of things to read and learn and fiddle with until showtime, or any time, such as:

The trailer for Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain. https://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2024/01/la-montana-sagrada.html

A one-minute slow pan left and right across the Japan Airlines jet fully engulfed in flames. All 379 people onboard got out safe because not a single one of them tried to save their carry-on luggage. (via Fark) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-67862011

And a discussion of reentry while we look out the back of a real spacecraft actually reentering. You may have wondered, why can't they just fly down on wings and slow down slowly and not have to fall in a fiery screaming fireball? There are reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kl2mm96Jkk

Marco McClean, memo@mcn.org, www.MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com

TOMMY SMOTHERS

Editor: 

Tommy and Dick Smothers were attending San Jose State University when they got their big break at the Purple Onion in San Francisco in 1959. I was lucky enough to interview Tommy while I was finishing my bachelor’s degree in journalism at San Jose State in 1998. Our student newspaper, the Spartan Daily, was doing a semester-end article about music styles that were popular throughout the school’s history. Tommy told me that he and Dick had planned to go back and finish their degrees but never got around to it. They both enjoyed their time at San Jose State.

Tommy said he could barely find the campus in later years due to the population explosion in San Jose and Silicon Valley. San Jose’s population in 2023 is 1.8 million. In 1960, it was 204,196. Tommy’s memory of San Jose was that it was mostly fruit orchards and wide open.

Ed Oberweiser

Fort Bragg

MAKING HISTORY…

by John Arteaga

You know, one of the most poignant stories that I ever read about the great war, WWII, in which my father enlisted, (even though he was well past draft age), was of a group of soldiers meeting the fresh dawn of the first morning without war in years of fighting. It would turn out to be the last time that the US actually won a war. Every single conflict since then has been a pointless, bloody, humiliating defeat, always based on a pack of lies and only ending when the utter futility of the enterprise becomes impossible to ignore, at which time hostilities may cease on basically the same terms that could have been had before the first shots were fired.

Anyway, on that glorious day in 1945, Fascism had been defeated, and now it was up to us, the people, to build societies worth living in; anything and everything was possible, it was up to us, the people of the world, to start from scratch and build a politics, a culture, a world, out of our best, not our worst, instincts.

I remember, growing up, thinking that certain things were obvious; that the rapid growth of technology was making it possible to produce so many more goods with so much less work, that any prosperous society would have to devise ways to ensure that everyone had the essentials of life without us all having to be on some job for 40 hours a week. Pretty much every other first world democracy has taken steps in this direction. The US is an outlier when it comes to having a robust social safety net. Most Europeans and other advanced nations enjoy things like long maternity paid leave, practically free childcare, free quality education to the highest levels, convenient public transit just about everywhere, and countless other life enhancing options that most Americans, seduced by the right’s relentless and lavishly funded propaganda apparatus, can’t even imagine, largely because we seem to all be so successfully insulated from any awareness of such enviable alternative ways of running a nation.

While here in the United States the focus is always on GDP, the Gross Domestic Product; the net worth of all goods and services produced, whether they are the millions spent to clean up a gargantuan mile-long train derailment that renders an entire area’s real estate basically worthless, (the end product of a step-by-step standdown of any kind of reasonable regulation of the rail industry, to pick one of many), or the production of gargantuan, polluting rockets by a deranged billionaire who dreams of transplanting human civilization on the distinctly uninviting environs of Mars. It all adds up to GDP, regardless of its merit.

A more meaningful (to us regular folks) measure of the success or failure of the society is the polling that I’ve read about inquiring about people’s happiness with their lives and their society. I’m afraid that in this method of evaluation our country comes in pretty low in the rankings for first world countries.

Why is that? I just heard this morning that our own beloved Mendo comes in with triple the state average for drug overdose deaths. Millions of people, many of whom had thought that they had earned a decent nest egg for their golden years, end up bankrupt for what would be a minor medical issue in a more civilized country, like Canada. Likewise, there are millions whose college loan debt follows them to the grave, stopping them from buying a house, having kids, all the things we associate with a happy and successful life.

Why is that? Why does a nation where the people have such a high level of income feel so much dissatisfaction with their lives, their society etc.?

I think that a major factor is the fact that we are all living in an utterly broken political system that has largely forsaken the idea of manifesting the will of the majority into rules and laws, for the moneygrubbing business of soliciting political contributions from those who have the deepest pockets.

Ever since Reagan’s, “government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem,” the Republican Party has waged a scorched-earth campaign against the very idea that government can do anything at all to improve the lives of the nation’s people. Extreme right wing organizations like the Federalist Society have waged a decades long campaign that finally, under the Trump administration, came into full flower, succeeding beyond probably most of their highest expectations; with the connivance of the despicable Mitch McConnell, who refused to observe the Constitution and stole what was rightfully a Supreme Court appointment of the Obama presidency, one of the three horrible hard right religious nutcases that the ‘Orange Jesus’ got to appoint, whose extremism the nation will suffer under for decades.

Once the Citizens United case was decided, the floodgates for right wing money swung wide, redefining what used to be (and still is in most civilized countries) political corruption and bribery into ‘free speech’, thus beginning a self reinforcing pattern of right wing corporate and oligarch money funding faux populist candidates who appeal to the ignorant masses with wedge issues like immigrants or abortion. These politicians of course make sure to take care of their sugar daddies first, with tax cuts and subsidies, which of course are paid for by the hapless suckers who voted for them, which of course leaves less money for their needs.

Each election cycle makes matters worse; no money to address climate change, no money for healthcare or education, nothing for replacing the nations decaying infrastructure. No, the politicians need that money to give more tax breaks to the billionaires, who were now paying an average tax rate of around 3%! Pretty soon they’ll be paying nothing, and after that they will demand subsidies!

It’s hard to see any improvement without legislating a fix for the catastrophic Citizens United decision that has resulted in the cynicism so many have about government today.

(For this and previous columns, go to https://inarationalworld2.blogspot.com/2023/12/making-society.html)

WORKING COACHELLA: Images of the farmworker community of the Coachella Valley

Photographs by David Bacon

“Working Coachella” makes visible the people who labor in the Coachella Valley’s fields, demonstrating who is responsible for producing the food we all eat.  But while the labor of Coachella farmworkers is essential, the rural poverty endemic in their communities is largely invisible. This project shows the dignity of their work, in images whose impact comes from their detail and intimacy. They also clearly demonstrate the need for social justice to deal with the problems of these rural communities.

Opening: Thursday, January 11, 2024, 5PM

Exhibition hours: Wednesday – Friday 12:00 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California, 3933 Mission Inn Avenue, Suite 103 Riverside, CA 92501

https://www.inlandcivilrights.org/exhibitions/working-coachella/

SOCIALISM is the fire department saving your house. Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.

"There are men who fight for a day and are good, others who fight for a year and are better, there are those who fight for more years and are even better, but there are those who fight all their lives: those are the indispensable ones."

— Bertolt Brecht

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN ON THE FORCED RESIGNATION OF CLAUDINE GAY: 

“What happened to Charlene Gay is the biggest assault on academic freedom in our history. It is unthinkable that a president of a university would be overthrown by big money. You know what Balzac, the French novelist said: “Behind ever great fortune is a great crime.” So this billionaire criminal class, if they can determine the president, they can determine every facet of university life. And I’ve talked to many student organizations, including at U of P and at Harvard, and I’ve said, your first demand when school resumes is (Penn President) Magil should be restored. And that should be the first demand at Harvard, that Claudine Gay should be restored. If you don’t restore her, you’ve set a ghastly precedent. You will be the alumni of a generation of students that allowed for the end of academic freedom.”

ON-LINE COMMENT OF THE DAY

Some people can get all those male and female elements removed though. And then I have heard that some former men are getting their penis all diced up and cut into an incision to make it look like they have a vagina. Some women have undergone reconstruction to pull out the inside lady parts and construct a penis.

This is all just so much insanity. The time and money involved in such an endeavor is ridiculous. But there you go, people have done this and they think they can play God with their bodies. Our society is sick and needs a major reboot.

NOTE FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

by Matt Taibbi

Sioux City, IA — I’ve done this gig so many times I have Pavlovian reactions to certain airports, but having never flown here, I didn’t know Sioux City’s three-letter code is SUX. That’s the name of the car that raged-out ex-councilman Ron Miller demands when he takes the Detroit mayor hostage in Robocop. “I want something with reclining leather seats that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage,” he shouts, Uzi in hand.

“How about a 6000 SUX?” a police captain bullhorns back. Miller likes it, but wants cruise control. “I want a recount!” he yells, stepping over bodies. “And no matter how it turns out, I want my old job back!” So the story connects. Who’d have thought? 

Anyway, Sioux City’s cool, just never came this way. 

I started covering presidential campaigns in 2004. The problem then was the events were fake. Candidate speeches were market-tested piles of words designed to attract the statistical middle of the middle. In post-event asides, aides pretended to socialize and fed you rehearsed spiels over beers about their candidate’s path to victory. Everything was canned. A memory that stands out is plastic clumps of grass scotch-taped to reporters’ seats on Howard Dean’s “grassroots express” charter. It was hard to divine much, traveling in that mechanized sales hell. 

Now things are reversed. Reality is altered before you leave the house. Challengers are censored or deamplified, the incumbent “brushes off” debates, vote counts are shady (what’s with Iowa Democrats waiting until Super Tuesday to announce caucus results?), and even ballots are curated. Coverage of everyone but the President and whoever’s currently pushed as the “viable” Republican alternative to you-know-who (“Could Haley Beat Trump? Big Donors are Daring to Dream,” writes the New York Times) is a desert of lies and hit jobs. Even public reaction is edited. A controversial guest essay by lefty legal scholar Samuel Moyn in the Times arguing the Supreme Court should vote 9-0 to return Trump to the Colorado ballot appears devoid of approving comments. I could buy most disapproving, but it looks more like all. Who can tell, without checking for yourself, where public sentiment is now?

I try to bring an open mind to campaigns and not let concepts like “fringe” or “viable” color observations. This was once a misdemeanor offense, as press colleagues were so sure they could suppress candidates like Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul, they didn’t mind if the occasional oddball let it slip somewhere they were connecting with audiences. Now, forget journalism, just as a citizen I want to see what all the candidates look and sound like in person, what they say and how crowds react, because I can’t believe anything I read. 

I have trips booked to see Republicans, Democrats, and independents in the next month. The plan tomorrow is a Trump rally, an hour from here. Check here for reports of different types, interviews with attendees, a trip to this candidate’s never-boring t-shirt counter, and so on. No parent likes being away from home, but a reporter who doesn’t get at least a little jazzed on the campaign trail, especially to start an election year as crazy as this one’s sure to be, probably isn’t doing it right. 

REPLACEMENT THEORY

by James Kunstler

“When DEI is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, Fight Back!!! We stand for Claudine Gay.” — The Rev. Al Sharpton

Wondering about who the Harvard Board of Trustees might consider for president of that august outfit once Claudine Gay moves to her new professorship in the graduate program for creative writing? The no-brainer, in more ways than one, has got to be Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, launched in 2020, then un-launched in September, 2023, after BU auditors disclosed that $43-million in donations, endowments, and grants to the center could not be accounted for.

Mistakes were made, BU conceded, mostly by white people seeking to discredit the antiracism movement, proving the persistence of structural racism. Dr. Kendi explained to The New York Times that critics were using the situation “to settle old scores and demonstrate that I’m a problem or that antiracism is a problem,” because blaming the victim is one of the core techniques of those behind structural racism. “Unfortunately, we live in such a polarized, spiteful sort of reactionary moment,” he said.

Surely, the firing of President Gay at Harvard was just such a case of spitefully settling old scores, and Dr. Kendi is the best-qualified candidate to root out the remaining reactionary racists on Harvard’s payroll, who pose the gravest threat to democracy, hate-speech elimination, and equity in academia. We could expect President Kendi to double-down on the institution’s commitment to advancing marginalized people at all costs. Also, consider: Boston U is less than a mile across the Charles River from Harvard, so at least no moving costs to get Dr. Kendi on-board — what with some of the school’s biggest donors (e.g., Wall Street’s Bill Ackman) threatening to withhold future giftings to Harvard’s hedge fund, a.k.a., its endowment.

Perhaps a shrewder hire would be Admiral Rachel (née Richard) Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, one of the chief overseers (whoops), I mean, administrators of America’s official Covid-19 policies, and chief promoter of mRNA vaccine mandates. Wikipedia tells us: “Levine was commissioned as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer in any of the United States uniformed services as well as the first female four-star admiral in the Commissioned Corps,” evading the fact that s/he is not actually a female, but rather a male pretending to be a female, with scrupulous attention to hair and costume.

Readers can argue as to whether female is interchangeable with the word woman and whether imagining oneself to be a woman is the same as being a woman. But you see this would be exactly the advantage of putting Dr. (pediatrician) Levine in the president’s chair at Harvard: the nation’s attention would shift dramatically from the quandaries of racism and anti-racism to the even richer perplexities of gender identity, while exposing the baleful influence of men who remain on the Harvard faculty in promoting intransigent patriarchy, often tinged with toxic whiteness.

As president of Harvard, Dr. Levine could elevate and emphasize the importance of pretending in higher education. Of course, pretending is already well-established in academic journals and publishing, and especially lately in the medical science surrounding one of Dr. Levine’s specialties, Covid-19 (and its remedies). One can only hope that the admiral will recruit Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Chief of the Covid Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute, as her chief of staff. As recently as three days ago, Dr. Feigl-Ding tweeted (or X’ed): “Anti-vax campaigns are fueled by disinformation army. Your friends and family are pummeled with disinfo to the point they start to believe it — but don’t fall for it!” Meaning: for goodness sake, go out and get more mRNA booster shots! Especially because, as Dr. F-D also declares on X, “a raging inferno of Covid is surging nationwide.”

One is tempted to ask: if Harvard renewed its Covid vaccine mandate, would Harvard students be intelligent enough to decline the injections? Granted, Harvard’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging policy (DEIB) has front-loaded matters beside intelligence in its admissions procedures. Parents might ask: in the case of a student’s death from myocarditis before the end of a semester, would Harvard refund any or all of the $55,000 tuition? These are some of the perplexities that Dr. (Admiral) Levine is well-equipped to resolve.

Anyone else have some nominations? (hints: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? Mika Brzezinski? Ilhan Omar, Megan Rapinoe. . .?)

GAZA CARNAGE AND CONGRESSMAN HUFFMAN — tell him what you think

And find out what he thinks

Last weekend, the daily newspaper in Marin County — home of Jared Huffman, the Congress member representing the North Bay and North Coast — published the following article written by RootsAction's Norman Solomon. You might want to share it with friends. If you’d like to let Rep. Huffman know your opinion as a constituent, you can send him an email here.

Huffman Remains Evasive While Palestinian Civilians Die

by Norman Solomon

Reading social media posts and press releases from Rep. Jared Huffman, of San Rafael, is illuminating.

The House member repeatedly and quite properly condemned the horrific killings of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 by Hamas. He repeatedly and quite properly condemned antisemitism. What he has not done is devote anywhere near the same amount of emphasis to condemning the horrific killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza that have continued since that day.

This is particularly striking since Huffman has routinely joined with others in Congress to vote for supplying many billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and ammunition to the Israeli military. It has persisted in killing Palestinian civilians — estimates say at least 19,000 of them since early October. The wherewithal is largely courtesy of appropriations from Huffman and his congressional colleagues.

A pattern of civilian carnage was soon obvious. By mid-November, five weeks into Israel’s massive bombing of Gaza, the World Health Organization’s director-general told the United Nations that the Israeli military was killing Palestinian children at an average rate of about six per hour. That amounts to about 1,000 kids each week.

One wonders whether members of Congress, now providing such easy rhetoric in public statements to justify huge and ongoing military support to Israel, would be so comfortable with those appropriations if they had to dig their own dead children out of rubble.

As a Jewish American, I know about antisemitism. I grew up with the frightening stories of storm troopers and concentration camps, where some of my relatives perished. I know full well that antisemitism is a real problem. None of that justifies continuing to vote in the House of Representatives for massive military aid to Israel — aid that has been and is being used to slaughter civilians as innocent as ones you would see at a shopping mall in Corte Madera, San Rafael or Novato.

By mid-October, there was an opportunity for members of Congress to take a clear stand for a cease-fire. Eighteen Democrats in the House signed on as co-sponsors of the cease-fire resolution (House Resolution 786). But Huffman chose not to be among them and he is still not a cosponsor.

Instead, Huffman has basically supported President Joe Biden’s policies toward the conflict. On Nov. 19, Huffman posted on social media that a cease-fire would require “Hamas releases all hostages, disarms & relinquishes control of Gaza” — in effect, first unconditional surrender. While a letter to Biden that Huffman signed two days later urged “immediate cessation of hostilities against targets with a civilian presence to facilitate the timely evacuation and protection of children and babies,” it notably did not call for a cease-fire.

In the White House and on Capitol Hill, ethnocentric and racial biases have combined with geopolitical priorities and political expediency to enable U.S. government support of ongoing atrocities by the Israeli military. Huffman is a participant in this dynamic.

Congressman Huffman would better represent the decency of people in this congressional district by actually supporting a single standard of human rights.

Unfortunately, proclaiming opposition to antisemitism sometimes serves as a smokescreen for egregious and lethal double standards.

In early December, Huffman distanced himself — a bit — from the ridiculous and manipulative conflation of the Israeli government with the religion of Judaism, writing in a tweet that “anti-Zionism is often antisemitism, but not always.” Since many Jews are anti-Zionist, that should hardly be a revelation.

Yet, last month, Huffman touted his “long-standing opposition to BDS” — the effort to boycott, divest and sanction Israel — and he flatly called it a form of “antisemitism.” Such labeling evades the fact that authoritative human rights groups — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli organization B’Tselem — have declared that Israel is an apartheid state.

It sounds as if Huffman is claiming that such nonviolent measures as boycotting Israel are antisemitic. That’s absurd. Much as it would have been absurd to call such nonviolent measures that were aimed at South Africa’s apartheid government “anti-White.”

Someday, hopefully, a member of Congress representing Marin will have the minimal courage to apply a single standard of human rights to foreign policy.

(Norman Solomon, of West Marin, is national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. A former candidate for Congress, Solomon lost a primary election to Rep. Jared Huffman in 2012.)

UPGRADING HUSBAND 1.0

(The young woman who submitted the tech support message below (about her relationship with her husband) presumably did it as a joke. Then she got a reply that was way too good to keep to herself. The tech support people's love advice was hilarious.)

The query:

Dear Tech Support,

”Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0, and Golf Clubs 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House Cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems but to no avail. What can I do?

Signed: Desperate

* * *

The response (that came weeks later out of the blue)

Dear Desperate,

First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System. Please enter the command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2. Do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

However, remember, overuse of the Tears application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will auto-download the Snoring Loudly Beta version.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 as it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources. In addition, please do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0.

Good Luck

Tech Support