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Mendocino County Today: Sunday 12/1/2024

Calm | Chilly | Missing Angel | Joseph Garcia | Church Restoration | B Finance | Toy Drive | Thanksgiving Dinner | Holiday Wreaths | AV Events | Denim Days | Podcast Recommendations | Pet Yogi | Marco Radio | Willits Farriers | Denoyer Case | William Goddard | Mechanical Shark | Charles Willard | Third Party | Dance Brigade | Real Albion | Coon Gulch | Yesterday's Catch | Lotta Likes | Advantage Advice | Satire Terminated | Listen Completely | Lucerne 1941 | Phys Ed | Different Homos | Never Leave | Immigration Statement | Irish Pub | Shipping Homeless | City Night | Go Away | Lead Stories | Sleepless Night


Calm and clear all the way to Cape Mendocino (Dick Whetstone)

HIGH PRESSURE continues to dominate the area, bringing mostly clear skies aside from some low clouds and fog in some of the river valleys. Chilly conditions with temperatures in the 30s are being observed across most of the lower elevations early this morning. The sneaker wave threat continues through Monday. Temperatures slowly and marginally rise through the week. (NWS)

STEPHEN DUNLAP (Fort Bragg): It's just a bit warmer this Sunday morning with 37F under clear skies. Morning low temps will slowly get warmer the next few days & a return of patchy fog is the gist of our dry forecast for this week. Rainfall totals so far 2024: Oct 1.26", Nov 14.53", YTD 15.79".


MISSING: she was last seen hitch hiking to Clearlake around 10:55 this morning. If anyone sees her in town in ukiah please have her get ahold of Monte, Sam, Addam, Tricia, Stormy Stanek, Def Paul, or anyone else she knows please and thank you trying to ger her home. My number is 707-391-7267 Thank you. Her name is Angel (Angie) Stanek.


MENDOCINO COAST THANKSGIVING COLLISION shatters family, claiming beloved son and brother

by Matt LaFever

A Thanksgiving evening collision on State Route 1 on the Mendocino Coast south of Fort Bragg claimed the life of Joseph Garcia, a beloved Fort Bragg resident, and left two others injured.

The crash occurred on November 28, 2024, at approximately 9:55 p.m on the Caspar Creek Bridge between Fort Bragg and Mendocino.

Sarah Rowe, 44, of Mendocino, was driving a 2007 Infiniti sedan northbound on SR-1, accompanied by Garcia, her 25-year-old male passenger. Investigators report that Rowe lost control of her vehicle, causing it to veer into the southbound lane and collide head-on with a 2023 GMC van driven by 76-year-old Katherine Whipple of Alameda.

Garcia was pronounced dead at the scene, while Rowe sustained major injuries and was airlifted to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in critical condition. Whipple was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.

The CHP indicated that impairment on Rowe’s part is suspected, though it has not been confirmed, and the investigation is ongoing.

Joseph Garcia

Garcia’s mother, Cat Wenke, of Fort Bragg, identified him as the deceased passenger in the crash and remembered him as a kind-hearted, vibrant individual deeply loved by his family. “He was caring, hardworking, charismatic, intelligent, goal-oriented. Fun-loving. He was perfect,” Wenke said.

Describing her son’s devotion to his family, Wenke shared, “He always looked out for me and his siblings. He was so funny and generous, always wanting to make others happy.”

“He was very independent and respectful,” Wenke said. “He had such a big heart and always made people feel special.”

Joseph Garcia’s sister, Kendle Alvarez, remembered her brother as a bright and happy soul, someone whose infectious smile and joyful energy left a lasting impression on everyone he met. “He always had a smile on his face and always had a way to spread that joy,” she said. Whether he was greeting a stranger with a simple “hello” or going out of his way to make someone feel special, he exuded kindness and generosity.

“He was light. He was colorful,” Kendle continued, describing her brother’s vibrant personality. “He was adventurous about trying new things,” she said, recalling how Joseph was constantly excited for what the future would bring. He had so much to look forward to, and his family is heartbroken that his journey was cut short. “He was barely starting out,” Kendle added.

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to assist with the costs of Garcia’s memorial services.

The investigation into the crash continues, and the CHP has urged anyone with information about the incident to come forward.

(mendofever.com)



‘NOT LESS THAN 25%…’

by Mark Scaramella

Periodically, it’s necessary to look back at the original text of Measure B because, after more than seven years, there’s still no indication that Mendo will comply with it, much less even cares. And this, despite a perfect opportunity to do so while making a difference for the population Measure B was sold on:

“Section 5.180.040. Specific Purpose. … D. For a period of five (5) years a maximum of 75% of the revenue deposited into the Mental Health Treatment Fund may be used for facilities, with not less than 25% dedicated to services and treatment; thereafter 100% of all revenue deposited into the Mental Health Treatment Fund shall be used for ongoing operations, services and [substance abuse] treatment.”

As of November of 2024, Mendocino County calculates that about $51.2 million of sales tax revenue has been accumulated in the Measure B fund since it was passed on 2017.

Almost $10 million in expenses was reported, about 75% of which was spent on facilities. Of that $10 million spent on facilities, almost $5 million was spent for the $1 million four-bedroom house next door to the Schraeders’ admin offices on Orchard Avenue, their “Crisis Residential Center.” The bulk of the rest has been spent on top dollar architectural/planning work by former CEO Carmel Angelo’s favorite architects, the Sacramento-based Nacht & Lewis.

The first five years of revenue (from April of 2018 to June of 2023) came to about $48 million. After that the half-cent Measure B Sales Tax increment dropped to 1/8 of a cent. So, using the formula specified by the text of Measure B, that means that not more than 75% of the $48 million or $36 million could be spent on facilities and not less than $12 million on services. Then about $2.5 million a year additional thereafter also on services, not facilities. 


Mendo’s Measure B current budget claims that $1.8 million per year is to be spent on “operations.” Most of that appears to be budgeted for the “expanded outreach/mobile outreach teams” (aka the mental health “crisis van,” a useful if limited contribution to the mental health system). But, since that crisis van has been funded by non-Measure B grants so far, only $182k of actual expenses have come from the Measure B fund. This, by the way, is under a budget column entitled “Budgeted Service or program/operating costs (Min 25%).” (Even the budget chart says that a minimum of 25% is to be spent on services.)

Other minor “operating expenses” bring the non-facilities expenses so far in more than seven years to a total of about $1.5 million, about $800k of which is for “Crisis Assessment and Psychiatric Hospitalization Aftercare $260,000 over 4 years,” which goes to the Schraeders’ Redwood Quality Management Company. The rest has been spent on an ill-defined $130k contract with the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), and $421k for Fort Bragg’s popular and effective CARE program.

This latest Measure B financial report is an improvement over previous reports, albeit heavily jargonized and acronymed. In broad terms it shows that only about 10% of the (minimum) 25% that’s required to be spent on the mandated services has been spent. And if their own budget is to be believed, only $1.8 million more is to be spent this year. Year after year, Mendo fails to spend anywhere near the required amount for treatment services. Why? It can NOT be because of worries about escalating construction costs because the text of the Measure requires that at least 25% be spent on services.

In addition, this latest report shows that even if Mendo never pays back the $7 million of Measure B money that was “loaned” to the jail expansion overrun, there will be millions of dollars left for mental health treatment facilities or services as well. If the Psychiatric Health Facility comes in under budget as is currently forecast, that means Mendo will have even more millions left over for Mental Health treatment facilities and services.

Which brings us to the point of this financial summary.

One of the main arguments that opponents of the recently passed (overwhelmingly) state Proposition 36 was that although the Proposition is expected to coerce some criminals with underlying drug addictions into treatment, there wasn’t enough funding for treatment facilities and services to handle them.

But, as is obvious by the Measure B financial summary, in Mendo at least, there’s plenty of money for whoever enters treatment via Proposition 36. Based on booking logs and the Marbut report we estimate that the number of people who might opt for treatment under Prop 36 in Mendocino County is probably in the low hundreds, certainly a manageable, affordable number.

What there’s NOT plenty of is leadership to take practical advantage of this glaring opportunity. The Supervisors, in particular, have never even mentioned Measure B’s requirement that at least 25% of the money be devoted to services, despite all the other millions they routinely hand over to the homeless and mental health bureaucracies and contractors every year.

Meanwhile the street people that Measure B proponents said would be addressed by these millions remain, mostly on the streets and creeks of Ukiah where they’re quite conspicuous. Despite the promises and requirements of Measure B, no perceptible dent has been made in the problem. In fact, if the County’s recently rejuvenated inland anti-homeless camp group, Mendo Matters, is to be believed, it’s worse.



MITCH CLOGG

Nother Turkey Day come and gone. Ellie & I went to church. Curious thing for a couple of atheists, you say, but no, it was free Thanksgiving Dinner at the Presbyterian Church in Ft. Bragg (California). Rich & poor, dining together. We were among the poor, but we looked rich, stuffed a few bucks into the bucket. Grand tradition, and everybody is aware of it, even if the language doesn’t have too many words. (Nobody said grace. Zat cool or what? A church!) “Thanksgiving” pretty much covers it. One of the holidays I approve of, a touch of grace we U.S.ians rarely display—and hardly commercialized.

So you sit around, aware of each other and the significance and all. We even had an Indian at our table, a Native American named Anna—pure—and a familiar around here. Likable lady. She did not engage in irony, which was good because Californians are not great ironists. They don’t often get it. If you’re East-Coast born & bred, as are we: Connecticut Ellie, Maryland me, irony is a crucial part of talking, but here on the Left Coast the schools are different and society somewhat different.

So there were us and Anna the Indian and a guy in a Vietnam Veteran cap and, at his elbow, a big, loudmouthed, rough-looking politically correct guy, young but enough beard and scraggle to not look too young. Couple more quiet ladies. The loudmouth listed his Liberal credentials (who he goes to for news, supported for president, alcoholism et cetera). He ate and left, relieving the Vietnam vet of his leftish presence, the VV being a Trumpster, civil, soft-spoken and hardcore. Odd, huh? If you’re a Kurt Vonnegut reader (Ellie worships KV, and I agree), you recognize all this as a Bokononist adventure.

The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is this: “All the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies”—Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 13-14.

Here are a few added words to explain. Pay attention: “If you find your life tangled up with somebody else’s life for no very logical reason,” writes Bokonon, “that person may be a member of your karass,”

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 12

We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized unto teams, teams that do God’s will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon, and the instrument, the kan-kan, that brought me into my own particular karass was the book I never finished, the book to be called The Day the World Ended.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 11

At another point the The Books of Bokonon he tells us, “Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.” By that he means that a karass ignores national, institutional, occupational, familial, and class boundaries. It is as free-form as an amoeba.”

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 12

Nowhere does Bokonon warn against a person trying to discover the limits of his karass and the nature of the work God Almighty has had to do. Bokonon simply observes that such investigations are bound to be incomplete.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 12-13

Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of wampeter. A wampeter is the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us, just as no wheel is without a hub. Anything can be a wampeter: a tree, a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:

Around and around and around we spin,

With feet of lead and wings of tin…

And wampeters come and wampeters go, Bokonon tells us. At any given time a karass actually has two wampeters– one waxing in importance, one waning.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle, pg. 42-43

This is why we went to church, this and the turkey. Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Rockwell, as alike as the Hatfields and McCoys, spirits in the same room. Joyous day. Until twenty-four days ago, I looked forward to joyous days. Kamala Harris was pushing joy, and I was buying, all full of gratitude ‘n’ shit. But instead of the City on the Hill, we returned to the Slum in the Slough, and nothing will be the same again, and the world looks to the U.S. to be a model, to be a force against greed and madness, but greed and madness won the day. Assholes are in charge.

You’re entitled to your despair over this, but you and I gotta get back on our feet. I have a terrible fear that there will be no redress in my lifetime, but you and I must stay in the faces of the bad guys. Evil usually proves itself to be incompetent as well—this new period will be no exception—but the enterprise is to lock in stupidity, spare no institution, make it so tomorrow’s reformers cannot function. We have to stay in the assholes’ faces (as it were), to go down fighting, to bury records of our good intentions for the future to find.

So anyway it was a gorgeous sunny day. I walked forth from Wheeler Street with two good feet, ho ho, and my intention is, as always, to find a way to turn bad times to good account somehow. It requires output and who knows what else. I am no Pollyanna, but I refuse to let assholes ruin my life while I can still resist, and I won’t be too helpful while they try to ruin other people’s either. “Eating well is the best revenge,” say the sages, and we all ate well, there in the Presbyterian Church yesterday.


AV FUTURE FARMERS

Miguel, Carlos, and Helen went with Ms. Swehla to the Zeni ranch to cut brush Saturday morning for our wreath project.

We start making wreaths on Monday! We will have wreaths at the Holiday Bazaar! You can pre-order a wreath too.


ANDERSON VALLEY VILLAGE: List of Events


SAVINGS BANK DONATES TO ANDERSON VALLEY SENIOR CENTER

We're dressing casual for a cause to make a difference in our communities! Anderson Valley Senior Center received $1,273 donated by employees and the Bank as our October 2024 'Casual For A Cause - Denim Days' beneficiary. We are proud of the support we have been able to provide to local non-profit organizations since this effort began in 2012 with donations totaling $173,042.

Anderson Valley Senior Center, a 501(c) non-profit, has been serving the greater Anderson Valley community since 1973. The center promotes the health and well-being of senior citizens 60 and over, and disabled persons of Anderson Valley by providing vital services in the area.


PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS

Letter to the Editor:

I listen to both left and right longform podcasts. Anyone who gets their news only from cable TV is really missing out. Here are links to a couple of pods I recently enjoyed. These links are copied from the Apple podcast app. If they don’t open for you, try searching for the name of the podcast and guest, and you should find it in a compatible format for your phone or computer. You can also search for them on YouTube.

I listen to the Sean Ryan show when he has guests with foreign policy experience. This episode is a good view of what is going on in China from guest Erik Bethel, former director at the World Bank.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shawn-ryan-show/id1492492083?i=1000676482474

Here is a Podcast and Chill episode from South Africa, a long conversation with Elon Musk’s father Errol Musk. Fascinating glimpse of life in South Africa, and the Musk family, all from Errol’s point of view, of course.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-and-chill-with-macg/id1455343618?i=1000676953842

Monica Huettl

Redwood Valley


UKIAH SHELTER PET OF THE WEEK

Yogi is a funny, energetic pup who’s ready to wiggle his way right into your heart! Mr. Handsome will make a great walking or running partner. We know Yogi will be beyond happy to be part of his new family’s activities, hanging out with them as much as possible. Yogi is an energetic dog who will need daily exercise and plenty of outdoor space to enjoy. Yogi is a Lab or Lab mix, 10 months old and 70 pounds.

To see all of our canine and feline guests, and the occasional goat, sheep, or tortoise, visit: mendoanimalshelter.com

Join us every first Saturday of the month for our Meet The Dogs Adoption Event at the shelter. We're on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/mendoanimalshelter/

For information about adoptions please call 707-467-6453.

Making a difference for homeless pets in Mendocino County, one day at a time!


MEMO OF THE AIR: An Abergavenny Thorgellen, acrylic on black velvet.

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday, 2024-11-29) 8-hour Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and KNYO.org (and, for the first THREE hours of the show now and going forward, also 89.3fm KAKX Mendocino): https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0620

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or essay or kvetch or announcement or whatever. Just email it to me. Or include it in a reply to this post. Or send me a link to your writing project and I'll take it from there and read it on the air.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh batch of dozens of links to not-necessarily radio-useful but worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the show together, such as:

Matt Axton and his BadMoon band - The Pusher. This band will be playing the Caspar Community Center Friday Dec. 6 starting at 6:30, a benefit for KNYO, the Little Lion in Fort Bragg (CA). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAHa-8at2jw

Pwning (say POOH-ning) oneself royally. https://boingboing.net/2024/11/27/tom-the-dancing-bug-we-win-you-lose.html

Household acoustical science. I remember noticing, and reporting via Redwood Free Net BBS in the middle 1990s, something like the effect below, which was when I stirred my hot chocolate coffee with just the right size spoon, the sound came: “Woin-ya, woin-ya, woin-ya, woin-ya.” Jill Taylor liked that. A man whose BBS name was Mad Dog declared me nuts. This was the same Mad Dog who argued at length that if the government can have machine guns on the roof of their trucks, and cannons and bazookas and atomic bombs and missiles in their garage, then, under the Constitution, he should be allowed to have them too, and use them to defend, preemptively if necessary, his side of any line he chose to draw. Also there was a one-legged man named Richard Kaderli who felt that my newspaper (Memo) was pornographic, because I used Lawrence Bullock's photo of Yarrow Sprinkling with bare shoulders for the cover once, cleverly above the fold. In other news, more to the point of the link, Juanita has a little dresser whose top drawer makes a sound like a pleasantly surprised old woman saying softly, breathily, “OOOooh!” when you pull it open, and asks, “Zhoo-ooff?” when you push it shut. I'd like to hear about the sounds from objects in /your/ life. https://www.bitsandpieces.us/2024/11/24/the-hot-chocolate-effect/

One of the movies I remember admiring when it came out, and that I watched again last week and admired even more, was /The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus/ by Terry Gilliam. Here it is free for all, for the time being, and in 720p, too. I mention this because of Tom Waits, who fascinates in every art he attempts. His Devil character is menacing but darkly comical and appealingly hapless, in a different way than Absolute Evil was done in Gilliam's /Time Bandits/. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43PjjfJMJ_g

And the Collected Columns of Walt McKeown (Colonel Wingnuts), who forty and more years ago was often a fixture in the corner of Sip and Sup Souphouse, singing, and playing his homemade one-man-band apparatus, and who also pioneered a technique of measuring the ocean's surface temperature from the stratosphere and above. I hesitate to give out his contact info for where he is now in a small old-folks facility, but if you remember him fondly and would like to get in contact and maybe visit, and your relationship is or was such that you think he'd like that, email me and I'll pass it along through the proper channels, so I don't cause a problem here. https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Columns-Colonel-Wingnuts-McKeown/dp/0983091951

Marco McClean, memo@mcn.org, https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


ANN SIRI (Philo): I have had a very happy thing happen. After a few years of struggling with much body pain from trimming and shoeing 6 large drafts I have finally found someone not only willing to help but also very good at trimming. Very kind and patient with the big guys. They are 2 brothers that work together. Rock Bottom Ranch Shoeing out of Willits. What a joy! I am 69 years and it is very hard to start giving in to some aging facts though.


GETTING AWAY WITH IT

by Bruce Anderson (2008)

At the time in 2007, the Mendocino County District Attorney had prosecuted a Fort Bragg man for saving a mountain lion cub, put a Little River man in jail for tidying up a State Parks trail, ruined a Potter Valley teacher with false charges of molestation, let a couple of confirmed wife beaters go, confiscated the property of several alleged drug traffickers before they'd even gone to trial, refused to prosecute two politically friendly County supervisors for their obvious thefts of public funds and did everything short of apologizing to an animal torturer whose prosecution DA Lintott botched from start to pathetic finish.

James “Jimmy” Denoyer will also get returned to him four of the 36 horses the county seized from Denoyer when they were discovered starving and near death in the shin-deep mud of two pastures near Westport.

Denoyer hung his jury on charges of cruelty to animals, and the DA gave up. The DA said there was no point in trying Denoyer a second time, claiming that some witnesses had “disappeared” so a second prosecution would likely fail.

Some witnesses had indeed disappeared. They're probably buried in the wooded vastness lying between Westport and Laytonville.

But the DA ignored living witnesses who had incriminating evidence who had come forward but weren't called to testify against Denoyer in his first trial, let alone contacted to testify against him in a second.

In dismissing all but one charge against the Westport building contractor and pot farmer, now a resident of Lake County, Judge Henderson said he “had to believe” that Denoyer had learned from what Henderson characterized as a “mistake” — one misdemeanor count of leaving a horse carcass within 100 feet of a road.

That mistake was Denoyer's 37th consecutive documented error. He appeared to be a slow learner, and Judge Henderson an infinitely optimistic teacher.

Denoyer's 36 other mistakes were rescued before they could die in the mud of his 20-acre Westport ranch.

One spectator at the hearing characterized Denoyer's courtroom demeanor as “smug,” that “it seemed difficult for him to say 'guilty' to even the one charge.”

Prosecutor Katherine Houston, the spectator said, “seemed deflated, like she had given up.”

The DA had given up, and they'd botched the first case — 36 counts of felony animal abuse — in as many ways as it's possible to botch a case.

The DA had been trying to plea bargain with Denoyer ever since his trial the previous year when the jury was convinced by Denoyer's attorney, Stephen Turer of Santa Rosa, that it was Denoyer's caretakers who'd failed to care for his horses, not Denoyer, not the owner of the horses, not the man responsible for buying their feed, for paying their vet bills.

Denoyer said he was in the Lake Tahoe area taking care of his ill mother when his horses were found starving that Christmas.

The DA couldn't find a rebuttal for that one, or any other of the childishly transparent claims Denoyer made through his attorney, the glib Turer, paid for by Denoyer's wealthy family, and one more example that in Mendocino County you get the defense you pay for.

None of the casually maligned caretakers were called to testify at Denoyer's one and only trial, although at least two were eager to appear. They filed affidavits claiming that Denoyer did not buy feed for the animals or provide the caretakers with the money to buy feed for his horses.

How could the caretakers do their jobs when the boss didn't do his?

Prosecutor Houston went along with Denoyer's characterization of his employees as “transients” and “unreliable” and “marginal.”

Lisa Hodanish's father and brother worked as caretakers for Denoyer. Mrs. Hodanish's brother Ryan survived the experience. Her father didn't. He hasn't been seen since he ran afoul of Denoyer.

“My brother was not a lost witness,” Lisa Hodanish insists. “He sent to the DA in March of 2008 a notarized statement of the horse abuse that he had first hand knowledge of Denoyer committing because my brother lived on his property for three years and worked with Denoyer. The statement also included why we think Denoyer is responsible for my dad's disappearance.”

JC Cavanaugh was a second senior citizen associated with Denoyer to go missing. Cavanaugh was Denoyer's uncle, and a long-time horseman who'd come out from Illinois to help his nephew with his horses. He hadn't been seen since he refused to stop insisting that Denoyer feed and care for his emaciated, starving herd.

Property belonging to the two missing men was found on Denoyer's severely neglected horse ranch near Westport. The police brought cadaver dogs to the denuded twenty acres to search for Neily and Cavanaugh, both men in their late 60s, but no trace of them was ever found.

The Mendocino County Sheriff's Department regards Denoyer as the sole suspect in their disappearances.

Denoyer would get four of his horses back when he paid the County of Mendocino $5,000 for their care. Predictably, he contested that fee. Denoyer has, however, agreed that every three months, a veterinarian of his choosing will examine the four returned animals, and that the County of Mendocino could inspect the horses twice a year with a veterinarian of their choosing. The "mistake"-prone Denoyer will also be on probation, and can't own more than four horses at a time.

Judge Henderson ordered the defendant to take classes in horse care.

Denoyer's attorney, Stephen Turer told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that Denoyer “didn't like the idea of pleading guilty to anything, but he's happy to have his horses back.”

The two old guys who worked for Denoyer remain missing.


UKIAH WAY BACK WHEN: William ‘Bill’ Goddard, Cold Case Redwood Valley Mendocino Co (Ron Parker)


BILL KIMBERLIN: As you can see here, they were having a lot of trouble with the mechanical shark in the original Jaws.

The producer's job is to protect the director, especially when things start to go wrong. Steven's producer was Richard Zanuck. Richard called the studio and said, “If I see one Studio Lear Jet set down in Martha's Vineyard, I'm shutting the picture down.” That put the fear back at the studio because shutting a picture down is a disaster. When I worked on “Gangs of New York” Martin Scorsese did not have a Richard Zanuck and the director was going nuts. His producer was Harvey Weinstein, who is now in jail.


DEB SILVA researches Charles Willard in reply to Ms. Janes:

There really wasn't much exciting about Charles. He was born in Mendo County though there is no birth record for him. He lived in Hopland.

He was a witness to a murder in Hopland in 1892.

By 1913 he was in Klamath Falls, Oregon getting married to Jessie. He was 39 years old and she was 21 years old.

They had three children, one daughter and two sons.

His death certificate states that he was a carpenter.

I found a few short articles that name him in an Oregon newspaper. It seems like they were accepted in Oregon, going by all the little folksy clippings.


CHRIS SKYHAWK: For those who are SERIOUS about wanting to defeat Trumpism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3lNrSjXss0&t=891s



“CONCERNING the next place I came to, I invite the reader to share a little confidence. My map gave its name as Albion, and, Englishman as I am, I felt a particular interest in the place that bore that name. So it was with something like horror that I noted the two or three rickety shacks, the wreck of a wharf, the former store, now a dirty saloon with two profane old men loafing on the porch, and the hangdog “barkeep” playing cards with a couple of boys within. Could this be a parable of my native land? It was quite a shock, and I went on not a little depressed. A mile farther, and I turned a corner; behold ! a fine little town, all buzzing and humming with life, steam whizzing, saws shrieking, locomotive bustling about with cars of lumber, trim schooner at wharf, men wiping perspiring brows, and everything thriving. This was the place, after all: the other was Whitesboro', when it was anything. And down at the river's mouth was a little purple bay, all a-glitter with wind and surf. It was a microcosm of the real Albion, and I rejoiced at the sight, as I hope, friendly American reader, you would have done if the circumstance had happened to you on your travels, meeting some foreign Columbia or Washington.”

— J. Smeaton Chase, California Coast Trails 1911


MENDOCINO COUNTY BACK WHEN: Typical logging camp 1880 and after Coon Gulch Albion Lumber Co., Mendocino County. (Ron Parker)


CATCH OF THE DAY, Saturday, November 30, 2024

KIMBERLY BAKER, 59, Ukiah. Failure to appear.

ANTONIO CALDERON-ROSAS, 33, Willits. Violent felon in possession of body armor, suspended license, ammo possession by prohibited person, paraphernalia, parole violation.

WILLIAM CANIDA, 29, Point Arena. Felon-addict with firearm, controlled substance, probation revocation.

MONTE SHARP, 48, Willits. Controlled substance, marijuana sales, paraphernalia, probation revocation.

KYLEE WOOD, 26, Willits. Obtaining credit with someone else’s ID, paraphernalia, conspiracy.



“IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby


POLITICAL SATIRE OFFICIALLY DIED WHEN RFK JR. GAVE “ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY' AWARD TO SCHWARZENEGGER

by Dan Bacher

In light of Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the head of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), I thought I’d share this piece I wrote in April 2010: https://t.co/RnOlbPFZs3

Political satire in the United States officially died on April 14, 2010. That’s when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, honored Arnold Schwarzenegger, the worst governor for fish and the environment in California history, for his “environmental advocacy.”


WHEN PEOPLE TALK listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling.

— Ernest Hemingway


CA 20 at Lucerne, August 1941

BRING BACK PHYS ED

To the Editor:

Among the structural changes that may be needed to address the childhood obesity epidemic, it is clearly time for schools to make physical education a core subject as important as English, math or science. Good physical education gives students the knowledge and skills they need to achieve fitness over their lifetimes and motivates those who do not consider themselves athletic.

Unfortunately, P.E. is often relegated to the bottom of the curricular ladder. Physical education departments are rarely afforded a dedicated budget and P.E. teachers frequently lack specific professional development, leaving schools unequipped to deliver and students unable to receive the quality of education they deserve.

Our public health crisis is unlikely to be resolved until we recognize physical education as a key component of American education, capable of imparting healthy habits at an early age. Our children have just as much right to physical literacy as they do to literacy in academic subjects.

William E. Simon Jr.

Founder of the nonprofit UCLA Health Sound Body Sound Mind; author of “Break a Sweat, Change Your Life: The Urgent Need for Physical Education in Schools.”

Los Angeles


ON-LINE COMMENT OF THE DAY

My understanding is that there is evidence for Homo sapiens sapiens going back at least 240,000 years. That would put our species overlapping with H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis, and H. neanderthalensis. Possibly also H. floresiensis if our species made it to Java by that time.

If some people freak out today about mixed-race relationships, imagine bringing someone of a different species home to meet the parents.



SONOMA COUNTY STANDS UP. … MENDO?

We, the undersigned, write to address the climate of concern within our community in the wake of this presidential election. Many residents have expressed deep apprehension about the hateful rhetoric and potential policies of the incoming administration – concerns that we fully share.

Regardless of any speech or actions from the incoming administration, we assure our community that we will continue to stand firmly in support of our family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors, no matter where they are from, what language they speak, who they love, or how they worship.

As local government and community leaders, we specifically and unequivocally reaffirm our commitment to supporting all immigrants in our community. A relationship of trust between immigrants and local agencies, including law enforcement and first responders, schools, hospitals, and service organizations, is essential to carrying out the basic functions of our community and assuring that all residents feel safe and healthy, and have access to the resources necessary to help make our community a safer and healthier place for all. We acknowledge that trust cannot be cultivated or maintained when our local agencies cooperate with ICE. We will ensure transparency of all immigration enforcement action conducted within our community.

We commit to taking all necessary steps to ensure that this trust remains intact and that the undersigned agencies and elected officials within the county of Sonoma make every effort to safeguard justice and equity for everyone. We stand prepared to assert and defend these commitments, including through multiple layers of legal and policy protections already in place at the state and local levels:

  • California Values Act (SB 54): This act prohibits state and local police from using funds or personnel to support immigration enforcement. This includes preventing police from asking about an individual’s immigration status, sharing a person’s personal information with immigration authorities, or arresting anyone only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.
  • TRUTH Act (AB 2792): Ensures transparency and oversight regarding local law enforcement’s communication with federal immigration authorities.
  • TRUST Act (AB 4): Limits the circumstances under which local law enforcement can detain individuals on behalf of federal immigration authorities.
  • California Education Code: Prohibits schools from adopting policies or practices that discriminate against or hinder access to school services based on immigration status, and restricts schools from collecting or sharing information about immigration status.

Whatever the future holds, we are resilient and ready to meet any challenges presented to our community. We, the undersigned agencies and elected officials within the county of Sonoma County, remain committed to ensuring that a place where all individuals are valued for their unique contributions and where every resident can live without fear.

In solidarity,

State Representatives

ED NOTE: Every public official in Sonoma County has signed on, as have Northcoast state officials.


Father and son in Irish pub (1959) by Marvin Koner

BUSING PEOPLE OUT OF HOMELESSNESS: HOW CALIFORNIA’S RELOCATION PROGRAMS REALLY WORK

by Marisa Kendall

Mayor London Breed, the outgoing mayor of San Francisco, made waves recently with a major policy shift: Before providing a shelter bed or any other services, city workers must first offer every homeless person they encounter a bus or train ticket to somewhere else.

But while San Francisco has gotten an outsized amount of attention for putting its busing program at the forefront of its homelessness strategy, other California cities and nonprofits continue to quietly send small numbers of unhoused people all over the country. At least one new program is set to start early next year.

For an unhoused person who wants to move in with family in another city or state, or who got stuck somewhere after a job or housing prospect fell through and needs help getting home, these types of programs can be a game changer. But some activists worry they can be used coercively to move unhoused people out of sight instead of helping them. And once someone is bused away, it’s hard to tell what happens to them — whether they successfully reunite with family or become homeless on another city’s sidewalks.

“In general, the ability to travel back to a place where you have a home is really important and can be a lifesaving service, in fact, and can help to reunite families,” said Niki Jones, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness. “When done in good faith, it can be an important and powerful intervention.”

Many programs do some homework before sending their clients off on a bus, but the amount of effort they put in varies. One nonprofit serving homeless young people in Los Angeles has a therapist call the client’s family in the destination city, to make sure the client is going into a safe, welcoming environment. One of San Francisco’s relocation programs requires the client only to have a vague connection to their destination city.

These programs are garnering attention at a time when city leaders are facing pressure from all sides, including from Gov. Gavin Newsom, to get rid of homeless encampments, but lack the resources to give everyone a home or shelter bed. Buying someone a one-way ticket out of town is a much cheaper alternative. But the number of people who can benefit from these programs tends to be small. Data from throughout California consistently shows that most people who are homeless are from the county they’re in. And homelessness, addiction and other traumas have marred many people’s relationships, leaving them with no one to help them in another city.

San Francisco offers bus tickets before shelter

Shortly after beginning an aggressive crackdown on tent encampments in San Francisco, Breed ordered all city agencies to “offer and incentivize” the city’s busing program before other services. Those who decline any help may be at risk of being arrested for illegally camping in a public place.

Providing free bus tickets to unhoused people is nothing new in San Francisco, which has been offering some form of this program for about two decades, said Emily Cohen, deputy director of communications and legislative affairs for the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. But usage declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, when travel was restricted, and it didn’t pick back up, she said. The mayor’s directive was intended to fix that, she said.

The increased emphasis on busing also comes as the demographics of San Francisco’s homeless population are shifting. This year, 41% of the people surveyed in San Francisco’s point in time count reported they were living in another city or state when they lost their housing. That’s up from 29% two years ago.

“There are definitely an increasing number of people who are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco who aren’t originally from San Francisco,” Cohen said.

San Francisco offers three programs to help unhoused people relocate outside of the city. Journey Home, begun in September 2023, has the lowest barrier to entry. While other programs require clients to work with a case manager on a detailed plan to find and hold onto housing when they arrive in their new city, Journey Home requires only that someone be healthy enough to travel and prove they have some connection to their destination city. That proof could be a phone call to a friend or relative in the city, a receipt showing the client once got food stamps there, or an ID with an address in that city. Clients do not need to prove they have housing in the destination city, and the whole process, from intake to sitting on a bus, can take a day or two.

Since July 2022, San Francisco has relocated a total of 1,039 unhoused clients via Journey Home and other programs, according to city data.

The number of clients relocated via Journey Home spiked in August of this year (the month Breed issued her order) — 25 people were moved, up from nine the month before. The city relocated another 32 people through other programs. That same month, the city placed 120 people from encampments into shelters, and another 429 people on the street declined help, according to the city.

While Lukas Illa, a human rights organizer with the San Francisco-based Coalition on Homelessness, supports programs that help unhoused people who want to relocate, he’s skeptical of Journey Home. The choice to leave San Francisco should be the unhoused person’s to freely make, he said. And he says that’s not the case when police, who have the power to cite and arrest people, offer bus tickets as a first resort.

“Journey Home needs to be so deliberate and to really center the agency and the autonomy of the person it is offered to, and not used as a cudgel to threaten arrest or jail time,” Illa said.

Cohen said no one is being forced to leave San Francisco.

“The intention is to facilitate connections with loved ones and home communities, if that is a safe and healthy option for you,” she said. “But no one is required to take that option.”

Other cities that use homeless busing programs

San Jose has budgeted $200,000 to launch a relocation program called Homeward Bound, which is expected to start in February. That money can go toward a client’s bus or plane ticket, or to help with utility bills or other expenses for the friend or family member taking them in. The city will make sure clients have friends or family to help them in their destination city, but staff members are still ironing out the specifics, said Tasha Dean, spokesperson for Mayor Matt Mahan.

“Reconnecting people living on the streets with family members or loved ones who want to care for them is just common sense,” Mahan said in a statement. “It’s the least expensive, most impactful program we could launch.”

Sacramento County also offers those services, but they aren’t widely used, said county spokesperson Janna Haynes. During the 2022-23 fiscal year, 17 people used the county’s Return to Residency program to leave the county. That program has since dissolved, and now social workers in various county programs offer the service on a case-by-case basis.

The city of Los Angeles doesn’t run a busing program, but multiple nonprofits within the city offer similar services. People Assisting the Homeless, or PATH, helped 313 clients reunite with family in the last fiscal year, and a little more than half of those clients left Los Angeles County.

A Safe Place for Youth also helps young people reunite with friends and family outside Los Angeles.

Cities and nonprofits in other states also run busing programs — and sometimes send people to California. Haven for Hope, which operates a large homeless shelter and service center in San Antonio, gave about 60 people one-way bus tickets out of the city last year, said Alberto Rodriguez, vice president of operations. Before it sends a client on their way, Haven for Hope calls the family or friend they are going to live with and confirms the client can stay there, Rodriguez said.

“We’re never just going to send someone back to homelessness in another city or another state, in the same way we don’t want other cities or other states to send their homeless clients to San Antonio without connecting with us,” he said.

Where do people who are bused end up?

Of the 151 people relocated from San Francisco since August, at least 29 went to other cities within California. At least another 12 went to Texas, six went to Florida and seven went to Georgia. Due to a data processing error, the city couldn’t provide information on where 34 people went.

It’s harder to tell what happens to those people once they reach their destination.

San Francisco only recently started requiring staff to check in with clients 90 days after they leave, but staff often can’t get a hold of them in their new city, Cohen said. The city didn’t provide data on the outcomes of those 90-day calls, which started in July, in time for publication.

About 15% of people who left San Francisco through the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s relocation program between July 2022 and July 2023 ended up back in San Francisco, using the city’s homeless services, within a year.

Cohen called that an 85% “success rate,” despite that even though someone didn’t return to San Francisco, they might have ended up homeless in their new city.

“That is fantastic,” Cohen said, “in terms of the amount of investment for the outcome we are able to achieve.”

(CalMatters.org)


Night in the City (1998) by Jack Vettriano

IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL to force homeless people to relocate. If a rich neighborhood is the best place to sleep rough then the rich should be forced to look at a daily reminder of the dystopia they live in until the underlying problems which cause homelessness have been fixed. You shouldn’t be allowed to hide such things to make people comfortable.

All the laws designed to criminalize homelessness and force the unhoused to relocate are just one more way our dystopia hides its abuses and contradictions from public view, the same as propaganda and internet censorship and murdering Palestinian journalists. They want the homeless out of sight and out of mind in the same way their wars and genocides are out of sight and out of mind.

They just want the homeless to go “away”, because they can’t fix the injustices and inequality which cause homelessness without upending the power structure they rule. They wish all the symptoms of poverty and injustice in our society could be hidden on the other side of vast oceans like their wars are.

— Caitlin Johnstone


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Edvard Munch - Sleepless night, self-portrait in inner turmoil, 1920

20 Comments

  1. Kathy Janes December 1, 2024

    Thanks for the information about Charles Willard. He seems to have lived a productive life shared with a family. Worthy of being remembered a little bit.

  2. Bernie Norvell December 1, 2024

    The city of Fort Bragg has been successful with its homeward bound program. We do require a contact on the other end before we send people anywhere. That other end has to be available to meet the traveler at the bus stop. Until recently the county had paid for this program. At some point the county decided to stop the funding and required we send our travelers to Ukiah Building Bridges and allow them to facilitate the travel. Two of the first four clients processed this way failed to reach their destination prompting calls to our CRU program, “ where is our family member?”

    No longer willing to accept those odds the City immediately decided to appropriate 40k to the program. This will ensure the clients will remain our responsibility from port to port.

    • Mark Donegan December 1, 2024

      Appreciate you coming to address BB through the BHAB. It has been one of my intents since getting on that board and this is a good opportunity. Especially since state BHAB just visited our BHAB meeting this last month with printed “Best Practices”. A binder including a lot of information for board members including step by step walk through site visit invitations and check lists. Someone or everyone from our board has the right and informal duty to engage and inform the public as much as possible, you can usually find me at market as Ziggy Daniels did just yesterday. I also want to extend my appreciation to both her and Beth Lucas-Planner for attending this last meeting and taking notes. Two very engaged members of the public. I will do my best you get the high points for the meetings as I just laid out from last month.

  3. Boomer G. December 1, 2024

    ONE way to guarantee nothing changes how people relate to one another is to continue to believe, and to continue to use terms/concepts such as RACE, COLOR.

    RACE, COLOR are MAN-MADE concepts.

  4. Kirk Vodopals December 1, 2024

    Uh no duh, Hawk… we need a third party. But the uniparty won’t allow it. We either despise the Gubmint so much we elect a complete buffoon, or we sit aside smugly and let Team Blue install their preferred candidate because she “secured enough delegates.”
    Maybe we need to try a parliamentary system for a while. That’s probably the best way to have a rise in participation outside the uniparty. Then we’d have elections every year!
    One thing we should limit is the amount of time allowed for campaigning. Three weeks max. This circus is nauseating.

  5. Chuck Dunbar December 1, 2024

    HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY

    Here’s a short, interesting excerpt from a piece by journalist Asli Aydintasbas, on Trump’s coming reign:

    “American democracy is about to undergo a serious stress test. I know how it feels, in part because I lived through the slow and steady march of state capture as a journalist working in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. Over a decade as a high-profile journalist, I covered Turkey’s descent into illiberalism, having to engage in the daily push and pull with the government. I know how self-censorship starts in small ways but then creeps into operations on a daily basis. I am familiar with the rhythms of the battle to reshape the media, state institutions and the judiciary…
    President-elect Donald Trump’s return to power is unnerving but, as I have argued previously, America will not turn into a dictatorship overnight — or in four years. Even the most determined strongmen face internal hurdles, from the bureaucracy to the media and the courts. It took Erdoğan well over a decade to fully consolidate his power. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Poland’s Law and Justice Party needed years to erode democratic norms and fortify their grip on state institutions…

    I am not suggesting that the United States is immune to these patterns, but it’s important to remember that its decentralized system of governance — the network of state and local governments — offers enormous resilience. Federal judges serve lifetime appointments, states and governors have specific powers separate from those granted federally, there are local legislatures, and the media has the First Amendment as a shield, reinforced by over a century of legal precedents. Sure, there are dangers, including by a Supreme Court that might grant great deference to the president. But in the end, Donald Trump really only has two years to try to execute state capture. Legal battles, congressional pushback, market forces, midterm elections in 2026 and internal Republican dissent will slow him down and restrain him. The bottom line is that the U.S. is too decentralized in its governance system for a complete takeover. The Orbanization of America is not an imminent threat…”

    “Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready. I lived through the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey. Here’s what I learned.”
    Politico, 12/1/24

    • Mike Jamieson December 1, 2024

      This observation by the journalist makes sense. Knowing our still-existing constitutional framework, the role of federal judges, and county and state governing agencies, the immediate anxiety and depression post election night that I felt has yielded to a calm curiosity at this point.

      It takes a lot for Congress and state legislators to approve new constitutional amendments and any that may be introduced to engineer an authoritarian form of national governance aren’t too likely to succeed.

      The areas of concern to monitor and likely requiring smart resistance and counter-action are related to possible efforts from the FCC, FBI, Attorney General, and the Immigration Czar, Tom Homan. So far, we’ve seen that many local Sheriffs are vowing to assist Homan in the mass detention and deportation plans. With 57% of Americans sadly supporting such an effort, this is one front that may have some success in execution.

      A Putin-Orban-Erdogen–Xi governing model could arise here if climate change impacts displace a very significant number of people. But, if the militarization of the central government isn’t feasible in such a circumstance, then maybe governance becomes based on local and regional agencies. That could lead to a wide variety of approaches.

      • McEwen Bruce December 1, 2024

        Yes but the Putin- Orban-Erdogan-Xi model would have to contend with the Stehr-Dunbar-Jameson-G model here, and the Turks, though hard on the Arminians and Kurds, seem to be the only friends the Gazans have since the rest of the world stands idly by while the last plucky few aid workers were bombed yesterday…

        • Mike Jamieson December 1, 2024

          I’m guessing the model to look for is what the Millennials and Gen Z people will cook up. Presently surviving Baby Boomers won’t be a deciding factor in the near future.

          Hopefully the arrest warrant for Netanyahu will be something that can be executed at some point?

      • Call It As I See It December 1, 2024

        57% support mass deportation. Sounds like Americans want this to happen. Why does this issue bother you? Majority is for it, isn’t that Democracy?

        • Call It As I See It December 1, 2024

          By the way, Chuck, America just underwent a Biden/Harris stress test that spit on Democracy.

          News Flash, America didn’t like it. That’s why Trump won. We’ve already had four years of Trump and none of this bullshit you and your fellow Libtards project didn’t happen.

          Stop whining and deal with it!

  6. Craig Stehr December 1, 2024

    Awoke early at the Adam’s Place Homeless Shelter in northeast Washington, D.C. and enjoyed the 10:30 a.m. Mass at the Basilica, and then dropped by Halal Guys at Union Station and bought a falafel wrap sandwich and took it to Philipos Melaku-Bello who was bottomlining the Washington, D.C. Peace Vigil across from the White House. Then, took the metro to Pentagon City and enjoyed two Dos Equis Amber drafts at the bar at Chevy’s. Left, and took the metro back to central D.C. Am on a guest computer at the MLK library here and now. Will leave and return to the shelter next. Gotta get up early tomorrow and go to Miriam’s Kitchen for the once monthly check in to keep my name on the housing list. Awaiting the cold air coming down from Buffalo, Craig Louis Stehr (Paypal.me/craiglouisstehr)

  7. Call It As I See It December 1, 2024

    Sleepy Joe pardons Hunter from his gun violation.
    I thought Liberals were concerned about gun violence. They say it’s a huge problem in America, unless Hunter has one. Do as I say not as I do.
    Libtards strike again.

    Who is destroying democracy?

    • Eli Maddock December 1, 2024

      ciaisi,
      what a profoundly stupid statement.
      Or did H.B. shoot up some innocents recently?
      Drumpt is gonna pardon as many truly guilty criminals as he pleases in a few short months.

      • Call It As I See It December 1, 2024

        No, just threw the gun near a trash can next to a school. So the justification that he didn’t shoot up something is profoundly smart?

        Wow! Do you actually read the bs you write?
        Answer the question. Why do Liberals want outrageous 2 Amendment laws or confiscation but this is okay?

        Of course you go to, Trump will pardon his version of undesirables because you have no answer. Well, you do, but you can’t cross the Libtard line!

        Nice response!

        • pca67 December 1, 2024

          “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

        • Eli Maddock December 1, 2024

          Struck a nerve? I might be ‘tarded but not the way ya think
          Troll on dude!

          • Call It As I See It December 1, 2024

            No, you didn’t strike a nerve. You struck common sense which you have none.

            I guess in your tarded eyes facts don’t matter. You never answered my question.
            So who is really the Troll, dude?

            • Eli Maddock December 1, 2024

              I did not see any question. Just unsubstantiated bs with no fact based background. But of course you run to 2nd amendment. Lol! That’s one of the most obscure pieces of text ever written. With a feather quill pen on hand made parchment in the times of war carried out by lines of troops with single shot handmade muskets and rifles that shot balls at a velocity so low that they were essentially lobbed. So , yea, it still sounds stupid to me.

              • Call It As I See It December 1, 2024

                That feathered pen worked pretty well over 200 years. And yes, there is a question there.
                The right to bear arms is the issue. Not whether the gun shoots a certain way. Your comment shows you know nothing about firearms. Hunter’s issues revolve around gun laws, so I just didn’t run to 2nd Amendment. Everything I’ve said is fact. What’s BS is your disregard to the Constitution. But doesn’t that describe most Libtards?

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