CORRECTION: Of course, Alan Crow writing from Vacaville prison in last week’s paper DID NOT SAY “kill her,” in his letter about Kelli Johnson’s arrest. He said, “Nonetheless, good luck to her. May she find some peace.” The Major apologizes for the unfortunate and embarrassing transcription error.
LEGGETT, CA- Due to extensive fire damaged sustained at the Leggett Post Office, services normally provided at the Leggett Post Office will be made available until further notice at the Garberville Post Office located at 368 Sprowl Creek Rd, Garberville, CA 95542.
Starting Monday, March 4, Leggett customers are directed to pick-up their mail at the Garberville Post Office Monday- Friday 9:00 am to 4:30 pm and Saturday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Customers are asked to please present photo ID for mail pick-up.
Many retail services including temporary forwards, stamps, mail holds and more are also available anytime, online at USPS.com.
We thank our Leggett community in advance for their patience as we work to provide continued service.
(USPS Presser)
REMOTE CALIFORNIA POST OFFICE DESTROYED BY FIRE AFTER EXPLOSIVE LIGHTNING STRIKE
by Andrew Chamings
A rural post office in Northern California has been destroyed by a fire after an explosive lightning strike Friday.
The branch off Highway 271 in Leggett, Mendocino County, suffered extensive damage from fire, the U.S. Postal Service said in a statement Saturday. The Leggett Valley Fire Department reported Friday that after the fire that started during a severe storm with lightning and hail, the post office is a complete loss, though the responding agencies saved the neighboring grocery store.
Videos shared on social media show flames billowing from the charred structure, with a nearby redwood tree having fallen across Highway 271. “The tree was shattered and fell through the building,” the Fire Department said in a statement. “The building was quickly consumed by flames despite the deluge of rain and hail.”
“I’ve lived here my entire life and never heard thunder like that,” Leggett resident Shelby Felton told SFGate. “It was so long and so loud.”
Felton works at Leggett Valley Mercantile, the neighboring store that escaped much of the damage, beyond a power outage, thanks to a fast response from firefighters.
“It was crazy. The lightning hit the tree, it exploded, then fell onto the post office and it caught on fire,” Felton said. “Our fire department saved our store.”
The fire started at around 5:40 p.m Friday, according to the Fire Department, which was during the severe storm that hit California, drenching the Bay Area and dropping over 7 feet of snow in parts of the Sierra. Leggett Post Office customers are advised to use the Garberville Post Office for service for the foreseeable future, the postal service said.
“We thank our Leggett community in advance for their patience as we work to provide continued service,” the statement read.
(SFgate.com)
FOR A NUMBER of years, the Northcoast Democrats, a tiny cadre of party shot callers who shove Schiff-like candidates at us every election for the past 60 years, pretended that a train would again run between Marin and Eureka just like it did up through the 1950s when two a day each way ran between Eureka and Sausalito and Tiburon.
BUT WHEN it became obvious that the train was finished, and even before it was obvious, the Democrats got their people installed to run it, and millions of public dollars went into pretending the line would again someday be viable. They knew it was a lie, everyone who paid attention knew it was a lie.
WHEN the rail fantasy collapsed, the Democrat shot callers, with State Senator Mike McGuire, a bright-eyed little hustler out of Healdsburg out front, declared a Great Redwood Trail would amble along the abandoned rail bed. McGuire recently got promoted to another state Democrat sinecure and we haven't heard a word about the Trail since.
FOR YEARS WE'VE NEEDED a forensic criminal investigation of how Northcoast Democrats, led my former Congressman Doug Bosco, presently the lead ownership dog at the Press Democrat, managed to acquire the rail franchise, while Bosco himself wound up private owner of the lucrative remains of the rail line's Sonoma County properties.
THANKS to the Democrats, it is not possible to get any of their officeholders to discuss any of this, the baleful effects of the wine industry, water allocations, labor, land use policy, incumbent officeholders, the Northcoast Railroad cum Great Redwood Trail, timber policy, the Russian River — all or any of it because they profit, and profit mightily, from things as they are.
BACK IN 2001, the Press Democrat, prior to Bosco's ownership but slavishly devoted to promoting him, ran a story about how the former Congressman had successfully lobbied the Democrat governor for $60 million to throw into the fantasy that the railroad would again run north all the way to Eureka like it used to sixty years ago. The PD mostly edited Bosco out of the body of the story, relegating his pivotal role in what amounts to a huge fraud on the taxpayers to a confused sidebar.
IN THE SIDEBAR, Bosco was made to appear as simply one more rail advocate among many. In fact, he was the key go-to guy for more public money down this particular rathole from the day the last engine on the line wheezed to a final stop.
BOSCO had rounded up a bunch of Northcoast fat cats to present the governor with a large contribution of $60,000 or so to the guv's re-election fund. The guv, Gray Davis, and like Bosco, a quid pro quo guy, said, “Thanks, boys, and here's $60 million for the little engine that never will.”
BOSCO'S father-in-law, Victor Guynup, was a major Humboldt County timber and shipping player. Guynup owned a sea facility at Samoa and lots of timber land. His shipping and timber businesses would benefit from rail restoration — even partial restoration, so long as trains got to and from Eureka on a more or less regular basis. Never happened. Never could happen, but it kept millions in public dollars flowing into the fantasy that it was all quite practical, simply a matter of adequate funding.
ALL THIS bubbled along without anyone concerned taking even a cursory look at the sixty collapsed miles of track in the Eel River Canyon, although I'd bet Bosco knew all along no train would ever again run through the Canyon, which has been returning itself to the wild day by day for the past fifty years.
BOSCO'S Santa Rosa law firm, like Bosco himself as Northcoast Congressman, faithfully served as lobby central for public money handouts to the Northcoast's timber and gravel outfits. The rock and gravel boys would have benefited from publicly-subsidized access to the Eel River Canyon, hence their interest in the taxpayers subsidizing the line. Never happened either, but they hoped maybe it would while not costing them a penny.
THE NORTHCOAST'S Democratic Party was always for or the most extravagantly un-doable version of the railroad — the Eel River Canyon's 60 miles of collapsed track — because the public liked the idea and the Democrats were able to park their favorite sons on the rail payroll, people like termed-out Dan Hauser of Arcata and otherwise unemployable.
THE PARTY'S career officeholders of that low time — Virginia Strom-Martin, Mike Thompson, Wes Chesbro, Patty Berg… — wanted huge amounts of public money to revive the line's entire 286-miles of track, including the Eel River Canyon stretch necessary for the train to reach Humboldt County. They claimed the rail line would revive HumCo's sagging economy with a daily train hauling stuff to Eureka's non-existent deep water port.
THE CAREER OFFICEHOLDERS went so far as to propagate the fantasy that Eureka's port would become an important shipping center, linking NorCal to the Far East. What would be shipped from and to whom never quite came into focus, besides which Asian sea trade was already established at Oakland and points south.
AS ALL THIS rumbled along, millions of public dollars fed the rail fantasy.
REALISTICALLY, a rail line could be made to run more or less efficiently between Marin County and Dos Rios, and maybe it will someday if the present Smart Train ever gets past the Rose City's airport. But geologists who have examined the Eel River Canyon, the historically precarious link to Humboldt County that begins north of Dos Rios, say that the canyon is so unstable it would require upwards of a billion dollars to shore up the canyon walls to prevent their annual winter descent onto the tracks. And a billion to the Northcoast? For anything? Not likely.
AH WELL, that was then, and now is now with the Great Redwood Trail consisting of a couple of miles of paved path running through Ukiah's wastelands, someday to culminate, its visionaries say, at the inspirational site of the town's sewage treatment plant.
THERE aren't many of us still around who remember our area's last real Democrat, Clem Miller, unfortunately killed in a plane crash but not before he got major set asides of public forest land, and generally represented the Northcoast in a clean, idealistic manner with the best interests of all of us in mind. Hasn't been a Clem Miller since. The grinning sociopaths the Democrats have foisted off on us ever since represent exactly whom?
ANOTHER CONSTANT IRRITANT that arrived with each morning's Press Democrat are headlines like this one: “Davis faces challenge of his career.” Like we're supposed to care? How about an opinion piece beneath a hed that reads, “Do We Want These People In Charge As The Crises Multiply?”
ALSO PLEASE NOTE that the Frisco street address of the upscale building where the monster presa canario dog killed the young woman back in 2001 was never media-mentioned beyond that it's in posh Pacific Heights. Anything goes bloodily awry in the Mission or Hunters Point, we get the exact address right down to the apartment number.
THE LOCAL CHAIN newspapers frequently run press releases as news stories. Sometimes those press releases border on the sinister which, in the following instance, seems to me to be the case. “Ukiahan Chronicles Hall's Struggle — Abuse victim had 300 different personalities.” This press release as news story appeared in both the Willits News and the Ukiah Daily Journal. It is the work of a Potter Valley man named Dale McCulley although the Willits News attributed it to “The Willits News Staff.” The Journal ran it unattributed, as I recall.
“MULTIPLE EXPOSURE,” says McCulley, quoting himself on his book by that title, “is not for the fainthearted, or for those who do not wish to see conventional views of reality sharply challenged.” In paragraph three after he has reeled off his bogus credentials as a big time media guy, McCulley says about himself, “In it, McCulley chronicles the life and struggles of his adopted daughter, Robin Hall, a victim of childhood ritual abuse and multiple personality disorder.”
McCULLEY claims he was adoptive parent to a child, Robin, who had “300-plus alternate personalities.” Fortunately for the Potter Valley pop he could feed all 300 at once because they “coexisted in Robin's body.” If they hadn't, McCulley would have had to prepare meals for the kid at the Ukiah Fairgrounds.
BUT McCULLEY was one of the major local propagandists for the non-existent phenomenon of Satanist child molestation a few years back. His pivotal role in the persecution of designated women, every one of them vulnerable and defenseless, and the terror he and other locally-sanctioned screwballs visited on the uncomprehending children of these women, should have gotten the guy locked up. But Mendocino County being the place where history starts all over again every morning at sunrise, here he is back with more crackpot nonsense, including the assertion that his stepchild and he had firsthand experience of “ritual abuse.” No he didn't. Neither did the 300-plus Robins. There's no such thing.
WHAT WAS SCARIEST of all about the local manifestation of the Satanist hysteria promoted by McCulley and an implausible array of other sexually-obsessed perverts, was that several Ukiah-based, tax-paid, court-appointed “therapists” — including Robert and Ann Horton — joined the pursuit of the non-existent devil church, thus lending official weight to the ruination of three Fort Bragg women and one totally bewildered Indonesian immigrant.
SO, HERE'S A GUY peddling a wholly discredited phenomenon that has directly resulted in great harm to vulnerable single mothers, while people who get paid to distinguish reality from unreality print free advertisements for him. Only in Mendocino County.
SURE SIGN that we live in the sticks is the story and photos taking up most of the Mendocino Beacon in 2001 about a television crew taking over Mendocino to film a segment of a cretinous show called, “The Fugitive.”
JACK SAUNDERS:
This is taken from a 1934 highway map that must have been produced prior to the August 1934 opening of the new section of the Redwood Highway (now 101) between Cloverdale and Hopland. The eastern terminus of the McDonald-To-The-Sea Highway (now 128) was then at Mountain House (aka McDonald) where it intersected the original Redwood Highway, the northern portion of which is now Mountain House Road. Alexander Campbell McDonald, born in New Jersey, came to California as an officer with Stevenson's Regiment at the direction of President Polk in the late 1840s, lived in Sonoma County for a time, and moved on to Mendocino County in the 1850s. For some years he ran a tavern/inn at Mountain House catering to stagecoach passengers. One interesting thing, among others, about this map is that Yorkville is shown in its original location. Three years later it and its post office moved a few miles east to its present location.
PETERS & GARVEY: You decide
I don’t know who first thought I looked like Steve Garvey but this is not photo-shopped.
Also, I am truly sorry to hear the AVA print version is becoming extinct. So much history.
Lindy Peters
Ed note: Do they look alike? (Lindy interviewing Garvey for Bay Area station, circa 1979.)
WHEN ROSS LIBERTY of Ukiah's booming industrial manufacturing business, Factory Pipe, came out for Madeline Cline for 1st District supervisor, he was only the latest inland bigwig to endorse Ms. Cline, a young, inexperienced person who had shown no prior interest in local matters and still hasn't demonstrated that she's ready to steer the Good Ship Mendo.
LIBERTY'S endorsement translates to me as a vote for nihilism, that he doesn't care how dysfunctional the County is and how much more dysfunctional it will be be if Ms. Cline is elected to the 1st District seat and Mo Mulheren is re-elected in the 2nd District. Liberty's flying blind. Of course it's possible that the Ukiah tycoon spends his off hours among the dozen or so people who watch the supervisors' meetings on-line, but I doubt it.
FOR ME, today's Supe's elections are a rare opportunity to radically upgrade Mendo's civic functioning. Adam Gaska, Bernie Norvell, Jacob Brown, and Carrie Shattuck are four of the strongest candidates at the local level we've had for years and, as the times grow more difficult it's important who sits at the local power levers because the persons at the state and federal power levers seem oblivious of the looming disasters. We'll need to be strong locally.
I HAVEN'T had a party or a candidate at the state and national level for many years who I had any enthusiasm for. As a kid, I was enthusiastic about Kennedy. As an adult, McGovern was the last Democrat I voted for, having gone 3rd party since George in '72.
THE DEMOCRATS were on all their tv shows Tuesday morning lamenting the Supreme Court's unanimous, and unanimously correct decision to not allow Democrats to keep Trump off the ballot, while the same Democrats have put in plenty of OT keeping RFK Jr. off Democrat ballots, as the presidential race rumbles on between a Democrat who doesn't know where he is or what he's doing and a bellowing child, the diff between the two being that Beller Boy will make things worse faster than the figurehead, Biden. Prediction: Politics will at last become all local, which is why rural Mendo is going to be a good place to be in the turmoil to come, and which is why it's important to elect capable, sensible people to local offices.
SHERIFF KENDALL, Wednesday morning, promoted James Elmore and Clinton Wyant to the position of Sheriff’s Lieutenant.
Both lieutenants started their law enforcement careers as corrections deputies in the Mendocino County Jail, Wyant in 1999 and Elmore in 2006. Elmore and Wyant have carried out their duties with excellence throughout their careers as deputies, investigators, and supervisors. Please join the Sheriff’s Office in congratulating Clinton Wyant and James Elmore as they take on their command duties.
SUPERVISOR WILLIAMS:
Planning & Building / Environment Health workshop.
Supervisor McGourty and I are sponsoring a Planning and Building & Environmental Health “workshop” at the BOS meeting on March 26. It'll start at approximately 1pm, 501 Low Gap, Ukiah, with Zoom option. This is a rare opportunity for stakeholders to share constructive criticism directly with the board and department heads. The goal is to strength operations. Please save the date and share with builders.
BEFORE IT CLOSED for good in September of 2002, the Georgia-Pacific mill in Fort Bragg imported construction site waste from various landfills in the Bay Area to feed its on-site power plant. That plant not only generated enough electricity to run mill operations there was enough juice left over to sell to PG&E.
UNDER its license issued by Mendocino County Air Quality at the time, the G-P mill was permitted to burn wood waste products as its primary fuel, but was also allowed to burn some fuel oil, plus the imported construction site wood waste.
UNDER its revised license, the Fort Bragg mill could burn up to 300 tons per day of imported wood waste, igniting a chorus of complaints from Fort Bragg residents that the wood waste contained lots of bad chemicals, including antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, vanadium and zinc, all of which were declared “twice below” federal EPA guidelines by Mendocino Air Quality officials.
AS I RECALL, G-P was stiffed for over a million dollars by PG&E for sales of electricity when PG&E's profit-making wing was split from the mother ship to protect PG&E's shareholders during the deregulation sweepstakes.
“AT GEORGIA-PACIFIC, the production of electricity is helping to keep our company afloat this winter,” Fort Bragg mill manager Ron Holen told the Press Democrat back then. “The plant shut down last Thanksgiving, laying off 215 workers, because of a lack of demand for wood products. But during the shutdown it has been running its power plant at full capacity, producing 6.5 to 7 megawatts — enough for 7,000 homes and businesses — and selling that electricity to PG&E.”
AIR QUALITY officials said that the Fort Bragg area sometimes exceeded federal standards for air quality when cloud cover was low and an inversion was created that trapped pollutants, but this was due to “particulates” from wood burning stoves, they said, not emissions from the mill.
THE MILL was required to install new smokestack scrubbers in the early 1990s after a health risk assessment study was ordered by Air Quality. The particulate matter — that grimy black dust residents were familiar with that coated houses and cars — was due to woodstoves and backyard burning of yard trimmings and household garbage, according to Air Quality, neatly shifting blame to FB residents from G-P.
RETIRED G-P employees recall the days when the state’s CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) program used the mill's boilers to burn tons of marijuana seized from local growers. Residents, however, had long suspected that G-P also occasionally burned old tires and other forms of hazardous waste in its boilers, especially under the cover of dark, foggy nights.
AIR QUALITY staff promised complete protection for G-P employees who reported first-hand observations of anything other than wood waste and fuel oil going into the boilers, but there were never any confirmed complaints.
TIM MCCLURE: Regarding Georgia-Pacific and their burning of industrial waste for corporate profit, another aspect was the copious tonnage of fly ash that they offered “Free” to the unsuspecting locals for use as garden soil amendment and fill dirt. To my knowledge there has never been any reports on the toxicity of this byproduct but working on a property up on Sherwood road a decade or so ago I would come home from work with my feet turned a nasty black right through my work boots and socks. Not long ago the nice elderly lady, Betty Steckmeyer, who lived there, passed away from cancer. I also remember hearing that the fly ash that was spread on a cow pasture on Bald Hill had to be removed because it made the cattle sick. Classic mill town corporate behavior, strip the resources and leave the toxics behind.
LINDY PETERS
Re: Look alikes
Though I have never in my life been confused with Steve Garvey, several times strangers have confused me with this guy.
NORM THURSTON: I have a different take on Mr. Liberty’s support of Madeline Cline. Liberty has very definite opinions about how things should be done, and will exert his influence if he believes it will get the result he wants. It is safe to say that, in general, older successful men may sometimes be influential in dealings with younger, ambitious women. So I contend that it is control, and not nihilism, that is motivating him. The reported vote tally for the 1st District is quite a surprise, as is the comparatively low number of total votes reported so far in the 2d District.
SUPERVISOR TED WILLIAMS: I regularly receive reports of abandoned vehicles. The decision by voters to continue the program was a wise one. It's crucial for the county to enhance successful programs and eliminate those that are found to be ineffective.
THE BOONVILLE PERSPECTIVE ON BIDEN'S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
Biden sets a low rhetorical bar, not quite as low as Trump, but certainly not leadership quality. Biden was pretty good, though, by Biden standards. Not a lot of gaffes, his slurred words didn't often detract from his meaning. If you didn't know who he was though, he came off as a half-cracked angry old uncle lecturing a family picnic. He mispronounced jogger Laken Riley's name when he mentioned the famous murder victim killed by a Venezuelan criminal, calling her “Lincoln” as he held up a pin with her name given to him by, of all people, Marjorie Taylor Green, who bellowed out a few catcalls inaudible to me except for “Say her name.” To hear Biden tell it, crime was down, jobs were up, he's knocking back drug prices, and things were in overall good shape, a view shared by very few Americans. He thundered out his proposal to tax the rich at 25 percent as if it were sufficient to pay for lots of stuff Americans can only dream of and, of course, no mention at all of single payer other than a reference to the successes of Obama Care. And that's the problem with him and Democrats generally, too little too late. America was at its most prosperous when the rich were taxed at 90 percent, and the tide was indeed lifting all boats. Biden rightly blamed “my predecessor” for ineffective border controls, weaseled on Israel's genocidal assault on Gazans and called it a night amid rapturous Democrat cheers. He looked and sounded more vigorous than his other recent appearances, which his handlers keep to a minimum out of fear he might go off script.
JAMESON JACKSON was 15 on February 24th of 2001 when he and Chris Coleman, also 15, walked into the little convenience store in Brooktrails (west of Willits) and shot Joan LeFeat to death as she begged for her life. Coleman functioned as Mrs. LeFeat's executioner, Jackson provided the gun, which he'd stolen from his father.
TESTIMONY revealed that Jackson made no effort to stop Coleman from shooting Mrs. LeFeat. The killers fled with cigarettes and a few dollars from the till.
THEY were soon caught. Jackson was prosecuted as a juvenile, Coleman, the shooter, as an adult. Jackson did 8 years in the California Youth Authority and has been off parole for some time now. Coleman's still in prison, I think.
THE MURDER of Mrs. LaFeat still shocks and disgusts everyone who knew her, a long-time resident of Comptche before she moved inland to Willits.
AT THE TIME of the atrocity I remember local reporters lurking outside Willits High School hoping to get luridly incriminating quotes from passing students, the kind of ghoulish behavior that helps diminish the reputation of legit journalists everywhere.
CINDI MAYFIELD, juvenile court judge, opened the perps' arraignment to the public because, she said, the overwhelming public interest in the case compelled her to, although I don't recall much interest in the case beyond most people's sad recognition that another senseless death has occurred.
WHAT INTEREST there was in the LaFeat murder had been ginned up by the local newspapers. Cyber World had not yet eaten the print media.
THE SORDID, merciless details of the LeFeat homicide were very much like literally thousands of similarly pointless annual murders in America. The difference in this one is that it happened in Mendocino County. After you say that death occurred at the hands of a pair of deranged adolescents, what's left but the mechanics of adjudication and a short wait for the next senseless act of random violence?
LOCAL PAPERS claimed that recent legislation allowed the release of the names of persons under the age of 18 if they've committed crimes of a particularly heinous nature. The murder of Ms. LeFeat was heinous, certainly, but America has long been past the quaint notion that juvenile criminals should not be publicly named because they might go on to lead honest, productive lives as adults. Get their names and faces out there, and the ensuing bad publicity might pressure them and their families onto the paths of righteousness.
THE MURDER of Mrs. LaFeat, like most murders, was essentially a multiple homicide — Mrs. LeFeat, the two killers, Mrs. LeFeat's survivors, the families of the two boys.
CHRIS COLEMAN, the boy who pulled the trigger, and pulled it more than once as Mrs. LaFeat begged to live, showed no remorse. Jameson Jackson seemed genuinely pained, but after years in the Youth Authority, where recidivism runs better than 80 percent, and his subsequent return to Willits when he was ordered not to.... well, another one lost. .
WHAT STRIKES ME about the accounts of these berserk teen rampages is the utter irrelevance of the post-event discussion. What makes “the kids” do it? Are they nuts, or what? We get the predictable parade of experts, invariably people who hold doctorate degrees in psychology, a diploma about as intellectually sound as advanced degrees in astrology or the I Ching.
THERE is the usual speculation about derelict parents who are either physically or emotionally absent from their children's lives. And school-yard bullying. And failed schools. And dope. And antisocial song lyrics. And the sick visuals of movies. And the stupefyingly moronic images beamed in by television, the primary caregiver for most American children under the age of 12.
AND NOW, with the internet, the young have access to much more depraved forms of unwholesomeness. And don't forget those diets of sugar and grease. And totalitarian architecture (cf your local school buildings). And single moms. And disappeared dads. And, and, and…
ALL TRUE. Added up, we have millions of children being raised in an objectively psychotic social-political nexus, but nobody really wants to address that one because the answer leads to the big question: Is it time to bring it all down? After all, Founding Father Jefferson said a revolution every generation or so was necessary to prevent crooks and stagnation getting too entrenched.
I REMEMBER talking with an Anderson Valley store owner who gave me a new perspective on the tragic death of Joan LeFeat. The local store owner pointed out that the persons who own and work in the little stores of far-flung Mendocino County are expected to be “law enforcement officers” in addition to their many other responsibilities in operating a small business. “We can be fined and put out of business for selling cigarettes to minors, or selling liquor to minors, or selling liquor to people who are already drunk, adding that being liable for these sorts of violations is on top of constant complaints and investigations by government agencies about food stamp irregularities caused by crooks trading in them, other crooks committing crimes via money orders, and even crooks trading in the welfare vouchers known as WIC certificates. It's up to the store owner to sort out the criminal from the non-criminal on all these transactions. “We can find ourselves in court as the defendant on a whole range of laws that require us to enforce them! It isn't fair to expect a market owner to function as a cop. It's twice as unfair to make us liable for the criminal behavior of another person.”
THE STORE OWNER went on to describe three instances of menacing customer behavior that might well have resulted in serious harm to this person if help hadn't arrived just in time. “Someone else is going to be killed like that poor lady in Willits was. People have no idea what we deal with in our stores every day.”
DEB SILVA with an update on Chris Coleman, the man who murdered Joan LaFeat at the Brooktrails store:
Yes, Chris Coleman is still in prison. He comes up for parole on May 23rd of this year. Below the poop from the California Inmate Locator site. The Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility is in San Diego. It's the prison where Manson Family member Charles "Tex" Watson is housed.
Name: Coleman, Chris
CDCR Number: T43081
Age: 38 Current
Location: Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility<https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/RJD/>
Admission Date: Aug 30 2002
Commitment County: Mendocino
Parole Eligible Date: November, 2023
Board of Parole Hearing's Actions Date May 23, 2024
Action: Parole Suitability Hearing
Status Pending
Outcome: Tentative date for parole suitability hearing: September 18, 2023
Past Parole suitability hearing was postponed: September 30, 2019
SQUIB of a story in a recent PD caught my eye. It said the Santa Rosa Police Department now provides maps “pinpointing” the town's “275 sex offenders.” 275? That figure translates as an average of one perv per block.
BUMPER STICKER spotted in Palm Beach: “Honk if you voted for Biden. It's the big button in the middle of your steering wheel.”
MIKAEL BLAISDELL of Name Change Fort Bragg: “No mention of the fort, established to enforce ethnic cleansing, systematic starvation, and forced labor of the indigenous people. What of that history?”
AS PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMFORTING to the emotionally needy Woke, it works just fine. As history it's totally wrong.
SOLDIERS were dispatched to the Mendocino Coast to protect Indians from the criminals preying on them and to maintain order generally, and Indians were not merely the pathetic victims portrayed by the Fort Bragg name changers. They fought back as best they could given that they didn't have horses and guns. When they did get guns? Hence the federal detachment of soldiers at Fort Seward, Southern Humboldt County, into the early twentieth century.
MARINO’S OF UKIAH FEATURED ON ‘BEST RESTAURANTS’
Ukiah restaurant Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli will be hosting a visit from America’s Best Restaurants (ABR) in mid-March 2024.
America’s Best Restaurants, a national media and marketing company focusing on bringing attention to local, independently-owned restaurants, will bring its ABR Roadshow to the restaurant on March 15th. Popular dishes will be highlighted, along with an extensive on-camera interview with owner Michelle Marino about the restaurant’s special place in the community. The episode will be aired extensively on social media channels at a later date.
Marino has owned her family’s namesake eatery since 1996; her parents opened it in 1987. She had no restaurant experience prior to taking over, but has established the eatery as a mainstay in the area. Over the years numerous family members have also worked at Marino’s.
“A lot of my kids have worked here, my nieces, my nephews, so many different people,” Marino says. “My brother worked with me for twenty-five years.”
Pizza and Italian food is the mainstay of the eatery, and it includes freezer meals to-go and catering. The menu offers an extensive selection of homemade Italian entrees and pastas, salads, sandwiches, wings, and soup, which she sells by the quart to-go as well.
Marino does the cooking herself, and is proud of the community support she has received.
“I was probably one of the first or second pizza places around here,” Marino says. “Now there’s tons of pizza places open here in Ukiah. But I have a following of people that are regulars. I do a lot of catering, and it’s good food because it’s made with love.”
America’s Best Restaurants will be filming on location on Friday, March 15th from 9 am to noon PST. The press is invited to attend. The restaurant’s finished episode premiere date will be announced on their Facebook page and will be featured on America’s Best Restaurants’ website. americasbestrestaurants.com.
Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli:
Open Tuesday through Saturday, Marino’s Pizza & Ravioli is located at 142 Talmage Rd, Ukiah CA 95482.
Telephone is (707) 468-9386.
For more information visit www.marinos-pizza.com.
(America’s Best Restaurants Presser)
THE LIBERAL CONSCIENCE IN ACTION: “Honestly, I don’t know if I can in good conscience vote for Jill Stein or Cornel West. Sure they’re against genocide, which is good, as far as it goes, but do they have a position on the marginal tax rate or price supports for winter wheat?”
ON-LINE COMMENTS About The AT&T Public Meeting In Ukiah On Thursday about AT&Ts plans to discontinue support for local landlines, two weeks ago:
Carrie Shattuck: “I was seated next to a couple of gentlemen and at each statement AT&T gave in their presentation they would reply ‘that’s a lie.’ … “That’s a lie…” I looked at them quizzically and they said, ‘We work for them’.”
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PS. from k.h.: There was a noticeable attitude difference between the guys wearing union shirts and the PR and management people. The billions in profits, the hundreds of millions they’ve paid a few executives and the 60,000 people they’ve laid off in just the past 5-10 years wasn’t really discussed much.
ON-LINE COMMENTS OF THE WEEK
[1] It was also suggested that this young coed was dressed ‘provocatively’, that is, she was wearing shorts.
That was from AP, which failed to mention that this Jose chap was an illegal. He was simply described as an assailant.
See how those lying media sonsabitches obfuscate the truth? Nothing makes me happier when they have mass layoffs, file for bankruptcy, or at the very least get called out for their mendacity.
[2] President Potatohead tosses out another giveaway to buy some votes. Now he’s cancelling late fees and other credit card charges. Yea, the banks are gonna let that multi-billion profit stream go. I guess the responsible people who actually pay their bills on time will be taking up the slack. No problem. SloJoe goes on endlessly about “shrinkflation” like he just coined the term. That shit’s been going on forever. A 1 lb. can of coffee went to 13 oz. in the ’80’s I think. The 1/2 gallon of ice cream disappeared more than 20 years ago.
[3] We are a nation of ugly, ignorant, overweight, tattooed clowns who have no idea about civics, financial responsibility, respect, nor logic. Our culture has collapsed and our society is right behind it.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
WHEN you are young you get blamed for crimes you never committed, and when you are old you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
— I.F. Stone
NIETZSCHE was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.
Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
— Joseph Campbell
THERE ARE PEOPLE who want to fight to bring about peace—the most deluded souls of all. There will be no peace until murder is eliminated from the heart and mind. Murder is the apex of the broad pyramid whose base is the self. That which stands will have to fall. Everything which man has fought for will have to be relinquished before he can begin to live as man. Up till now he has been a sick beast and even his divinity stinks. He is master of many worlds and in his own he is a slave. What rules the world is the heart, not the brain, in every realm our conquests bring only death. We have turned our backs on the one realm wherein freedom lies.
— Henry Miller
WITH EVERYONE KILLING and fighting each other, and sinking each other’s ships, and crops not getting planted, and the labor shortage everywhere due to men being soldiers instead of growing food — how soon will there be famine all over the world? Nowadays when my husband and I hear bad news on the radio, we just look at each other and don’t talk much about it.
— Nella Last, Great Britain, 1941
MANY OF THESE MEN [Necessary war workers] who strike now were treated like dirt before the war: almost literally like dirt—they were tipped and shoveled out of the way and onto a sort of slag-heap of unemployed and unemployables. They didn’t learn love of country from that…now they have power, almost paramount power, and they use it to square up the account. It isn’t patriotism (the system that pauperized them wasn’t patriotism either): it is not in the end even common sense; but it is assuredly human nature.
— Nicholas Monserrat
CAUTIOUS, CAREFUL PEOPLE, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
— Susan B. Anthony, 1860
I’VE NEVER quite understood why tourists from the more prosperous end of the market are so drawn to wine growing areas. They wouldn’t presumably, want to go and see cotton before it became L.L. Bean slacks, or caviar being gutted from sturgeon, but give them a backdrop of vines and they appear to think they have found heaven.
— Bill Bryson, “In a Sunburned Country”
IF YOU LOOK at those Chilean documents describing Kissinger’s deep involvement in the overthrow of Allende that we now do have and look at what they admit to, and then you look at the blacked-out bits, you think, “Well, boy, given what they've owned up to in the unredacted parts, what the hell could that be?”
— Christopher Hitchens
I’M OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE. For example, I can watch John Cassavetes’s films over and over again. When I used to date women much younger than me, I would put them through training periods—”This is Ingmar Bergman week,” “This is Stanley Kubrick week.” It was very controlling, because they had to enjoy what I enjoyed. I see now how foolish and crazy and narcissistic it was. I like dark films. There’s a French film called The Mother and the Whore [1973]. It came out about a year after Last Tango in Paris [1972], which blew my mind and frightened me because it’s all about fear of intimacy. When I watch Marlon Brando in that movie now and I realize that I’m so much older now than he was when he was in it … Even though I got married, I still have … you know, those shadows followed me, those intimacy problems. The Mother and the Whore, though, was directed by Jean Eustache. He was this guy who came after the French New Wave and who wound up committing suicide. Jean-Pierre Léaud, who was one of my favorite actors, is in the movie. So I come home one night and I’m watching this film and I’m saying, “God, it looks like a [Bernardo] Bertolucci movie. It’s so dark. But I’ve never seen Jean-Pierre in a movie like this.” And it went on and on. It’s a masterpiece. It’s the greatest film I’ve ever seen on the Madonna-whore complex. So I do obsess over these films—I watch them over and over because, I guess, I sort of feel less alone and less crazy when I see some of these works of darkness.
— Richard Lewis
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