Another Sunday morning headache. We must look awfully stupid to our Lords and Ladies. Thank you Jeff, for the rabbit hole investigation. I would lose my mind if not my soul doing that kind of investigative journalism.
Jeff, he is amazing. I don’t know what else to say. He was quick to pick up there is way more than the Towne Road problem going on here. All followers of your blog would do well to go back and read all of his comments. I did several times.
I attended last week's BoCC meeting and witnessed the reprimand by the Board, in particular Com. French and Com. Ozias. Those in the "peanut gallery" we're caught off guard and not pleased with the new policy, this included everyone in attendance who had an opinion about Towne Road. Jeff has detailed the meeting with exceptional accuracy. The Board's abrupt decision to remove the public's use of graphics is disconcerting because it is political. We are denied the opportunity to challenge our policians
The NODC is where all the local governments go to "integrate" a local policy. Before they go the ICLEI has already picked the policy and has it there to be leveraged with money from federal and state sources. In Towne Road's case and all the other projects like filling the ditches and the reservoir are part of an attack on local farming and water supply. The ICLEI refers to it as "open spaces." The USA ICLEI branch was founded by Marge Pageler who would give these long speeches on water resources. That was in like 1991.
Much of what the NODC is implementing has changed little from the Margaret Pageler days. The Destruction of the farming capacity in the Skagit River Valley, the Dungeness Valley and Eastern Washington started in earnest. The irrigation ditches, the stormwater and water conservation. It had one great big hole in the policy. Alluvium. Farms eventually will have to purchase top soil instead of making it cheapy with the alluvium distributed by the irrigation ditches. Another bad policy was the tributary and riparian bonanza that spread the river flow out to low levels where birds could easily catch salmon and other fish and river temperatures increased. Stormwater projects were in the mix, with some claiming to reduce toxics by 90 percent even tire products like PPD 6. Since 1991, most of our roadways have millions spent on stormwater retention. How PPD6 can be getting in there makes no sense given the money that WSDOT and the rest have spent on stormwater management. Unless it comes from the same polymer used to seal fishing boats.
The bottom line is it goes back to building capacity for India, China and third world countries. An environmental front to take out local manufacturing and farming. The local liberals have turned it into a science. They come out of the Universities with "Open Spaces" and "sustainability" indoctrinated into them. There have been 30 plus years of sustainability brainwashing students cut loose into our government structure. They have done well for India, China and the third world countries. So well they got us breathing bunker fuel from all the shipping, and still getting people feeling guilty about our carbon footprint despite a dwindling manufacturing base, spending millions on stormwater, electric cars and green building code adoptions. The shipping is their biggest Achilles heal. They hate seeing the shipping chart going straight up after ICLEI started and they hate the real time shipping chart showing there really isn't "sustainability."
The first picture I showed in screen share really hit Mike French and Mark Ozias hard. It was the year by year shipping increases since joining the ICLEI. That was the end of screen share. Then the rest finally came. Imagine being this indoctrinated greeny Gus politico and having a power point display of how your doctrine is not working. Of course your going to ban it.
John, the complexities are staggering...the overlapping layers of bureaucracy seem infinite.
I hope that is also their weakness. We are looking at fascism. It simply means "on the face" although it has been redefined to mean 'collusion of corporate and state' powers.
So, 'on the face', gov't is going about the business of serving the people and it manages to do that to varying degrees...while 'behind the face'...well, not even the sky is the limit for what goes on 'behind the face'!
I understand and agree that many if not most of our managing political figures are actually selected under pretense of election or shoe-ins or just appointees and have been actively trained for 'activism' while ignoring/overriding the challenge of due process.
John Birch was right, only too radical for most folks to believe it. Here we are!
"Things were a lot more like they used to be than they are now!"🫣😱🥸😤😵💫🤡🤣
There is always a way to do a recall but it takes enough critical mass awareness and will to accomplish and most people are clueless and uninterested..."As long as enough people are comfortable enough...nothing will change." Let's keep sharing and building awareness as best we can! Thanks to all participating. Arrogance, ignorance and ego make for an interesting mix in gov't.
As a "woke " person I find this comment offensive. I tried to indicate a few times that I'm not interested in looking for political divides. I'm only interested in what impacts the good of our community.
Buh-bye! What impacts the good of our community is open, honest, clear, unbiased due process, not special interests, special treatments, secret deals and arrogant, ignorant egoic agents who have no interest in we the people.
SMH at who comes up with these silly labels anyway. "Woke" means aware, awake, alive and the opposite is asleep, drowsy, comatose. So if you're not woke, are you in a coma? LOL. Labels in our current culture serve to cause a reaction, divide us and encourage even more cultural tribalism. United we stand and divided we are rapidly falling.
"Snowflake" is another fun one. Sure they melt but they're unique and beautiful while they're here. Enough of them together can cause a deadly avalanche as they melt and shift.
It all reminds me of elementary school. "I know you are but what am I?"
No doubt it's easier to be critical than it is to think critically.
Woke used to mean the qualities A. Johnson cited. It is another hijacked term which is currently meaning something quite different from its former meaning.
The appropriate term is probably awake, (aware, alive, cognizant). Woke has become an acronym for Willfully-Overlooking-Knowable-Evil. It is difficult with all the acronyms, alphabet agencies and language inversions happening all around.
Like "sick" now means cool... or "gnarly" means both difficult and excellent, etc.
If we cannot label (identify) a problem as it is then there is no hope of dealing with it appropriately. Many of us like the ideal of unity but not even the Buddhists achieve that state sustainably. We are in a 'free will zone' so literally anything goes...true freedom...with no moral or ethical constraints...unless you resist the mainstream narrative...then you can be marginalized, hounded and prosecuted by weaponized gov't agents and agencies. When you stand for something backed by morals, ethics and higher values it's almost a guarantee of being attacked. How's that working out for folks? How do we even know what is best for our community? Maybe we should just go along to get along while the 'men behind the curtain' just have their way with the world as they have for many thousands of years. Maybe a lot of us are getting tired of the manipulation, lies, weaponization of our agencies against us, the people. Mary, if you find a forum that is wise enough to trust with "what impacts the good of our community" please let us know. Thank you.
I had never heard of WOKE as an acronym. Intersting. I've heard SOAK for the internet (Source Of All Knowledge) and GOD (Genetics Of DNA) and more. We live in an age when any short word can be aconym-ized for good or for evil. :-)
History of current cultural use of the word "woke": black culture started using that term to mean "politically aware". Then it went from there to where it is now an insult by some and a badge of honor by others. And apparently an acronym. I just use it in the old-fashioned way, "When I woke up yesterday, I had breakfast and then read all the CCWatchdog updates."
The idea/ideal of "something backed by morals, ethics and higher values" sounds great. The challenge becomes with whose morals, ethics, values are we going by?
It used to be that if one were caught in a lie, it would be shameful, embarassing and more. Politicians that lied and were caught, would quickly lose favor with the public and lose their job. Now people rationalize their lies or keep telling them over and over again until they and their follwers are convinced it's the truth.
Keep fighting the good fight. Glad you're involved.
Yeah, wrong word to describe what I was trying to say. I meant entitlement! My apology, Mary. And now I’m the one that’s stepping away. I don’t like Facebook, I don’t like Nextdoor and I really have better things to do than to spout my opinions.
Thanks. Just trying to bring awareness so we can 'inner stand' the context we find ourselves in, in the shifting, swirling energies and psychological mayhem currently playing out in the world and likely beyond. Truth, Justice, Liberty!
Another Sunday morning headache. We must look awfully stupid to our Lords and Ladies. Thank you Jeff, for the rabbit hole investigation. I would lose my mind if not my soul doing that kind of investigative journalism.
You're welcome, Deborah. John Worthington is a walking encyclopedia and a pro at showing anyone how to conduct research.
Jeff, he is amazing. I don’t know what else to say. He was quick to pick up there is way more than the Towne Road problem going on here. All followers of your blog would do well to go back and read all of his comments. I did several times.
I attended last week's BoCC meeting and witnessed the reprimand by the Board, in particular Com. French and Com. Ozias. Those in the "peanut gallery" we're caught off guard and not pleased with the new policy, this included everyone in attendance who had an opinion about Towne Road. Jeff has detailed the meeting with exceptional accuracy. The Board's abrupt decision to remove the public's use of graphics is disconcerting because it is political. We are denied the opportunity to challenge our policians
The NODC is where all the local governments go to "integrate" a local policy. Before they go the ICLEI has already picked the policy and has it there to be leveraged with money from federal and state sources. In Towne Road's case and all the other projects like filling the ditches and the reservoir are part of an attack on local farming and water supply. The ICLEI refers to it as "open spaces." The USA ICLEI branch was founded by Marge Pageler who would give these long speeches on water resources. That was in like 1991.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Marge+Pageler+ICLEI&oq=Marge+Pageler+ICLEI&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEINTc5OWowajGoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5fabff94,vid:5RfvT277JfM,st:0
Much of what the NODC is implementing has changed little from the Margaret Pageler days. The Destruction of the farming capacity in the Skagit River Valley, the Dungeness Valley and Eastern Washington started in earnest. The irrigation ditches, the stormwater and water conservation. It had one great big hole in the policy. Alluvium. Farms eventually will have to purchase top soil instead of making it cheapy with the alluvium distributed by the irrigation ditches. Another bad policy was the tributary and riparian bonanza that spread the river flow out to low levels where birds could easily catch salmon and other fish and river temperatures increased. Stormwater projects were in the mix, with some claiming to reduce toxics by 90 percent even tire products like PPD 6. Since 1991, most of our roadways have millions spent on stormwater retention. How PPD6 can be getting in there makes no sense given the money that WSDOT and the rest have spent on stormwater management. Unless it comes from the same polymer used to seal fishing boats.
The bottom line is it goes back to building capacity for India, China and third world countries. An environmental front to take out local manufacturing and farming. The local liberals have turned it into a science. They come out of the Universities with "Open Spaces" and "sustainability" indoctrinated into them. There have been 30 plus years of sustainability brainwashing students cut loose into our government structure. They have done well for India, China and the third world countries. So well they got us breathing bunker fuel from all the shipping, and still getting people feeling guilty about our carbon footprint despite a dwindling manufacturing base, spending millions on stormwater, electric cars and green building code adoptions. The shipping is their biggest Achilles heal. They hate seeing the shipping chart going straight up after ICLEI started and they hate the real time shipping chart showing there really isn't "sustainability."
The first picture I showed in screen share really hit Mike French and Mark Ozias hard. It was the year by year shipping increases since joining the ICLEI. That was the end of screen share. Then the rest finally came. Imagine being this indoctrinated greeny Gus politico and having a power point display of how your doctrine is not working. Of course your going to ban it.
John, the complexities are staggering...the overlapping layers of bureaucracy seem infinite.
I hope that is also their weakness. We are looking at fascism. It simply means "on the face" although it has been redefined to mean 'collusion of corporate and state' powers.
So, 'on the face', gov't is going about the business of serving the people and it manages to do that to varying degrees...while 'behind the face'...well, not even the sky is the limit for what goes on 'behind the face'!
I understand and agree that many if not most of our managing political figures are actually selected under pretense of election or shoe-ins or just appointees and have been actively trained for 'activism' while ignoring/overriding the challenge of due process.
John Birch was right, only too radical for most folks to believe it. Here we are!
"Things were a lot more like they used to be than they are now!"🫣😱🥸😤😵💫🤡🤣
This is sickening. Deaf ears. No eyes to see.
And we're certain there's no recall process for our fine lying commissioner?
There is always a way to do a recall but it takes enough critical mass awareness and will to accomplish and most people are clueless and uninterested..."As long as enough people are comfortable enough...nothing will change." Let's keep sharing and building awareness as best we can! Thanks to all participating. Arrogance, ignorance and ego make for an interesting mix in gov't.
Jeff, you are a true journalist! A rare species in today’s Woke culture in this county specifically. Keep up the good work.
As a "woke " person I find this comment offensive. I tried to indicate a few times that I'm not interested in looking for political divides. I'm only interested in what impacts the good of our community.
Bye.
Buh-bye! What impacts the good of our community is open, honest, clear, unbiased due process, not special interests, special treatments, secret deals and arrogant, ignorant egoic agents who have no interest in we the people.
Hard to be a Teflon pan when you see a river community intentionally flooded while others are not.
Sorry to see you go, Mary.
SMH at who comes up with these silly labels anyway. "Woke" means aware, awake, alive and the opposite is asleep, drowsy, comatose. So if you're not woke, are you in a coma? LOL. Labels in our current culture serve to cause a reaction, divide us and encourage even more cultural tribalism. United we stand and divided we are rapidly falling.
"Snowflake" is another fun one. Sure they melt but they're unique and beautiful while they're here. Enough of them together can cause a deadly avalanche as they melt and shift.
It all reminds me of elementary school. "I know you are but what am I?"
No doubt it's easier to be critical than it is to think critically.
Woke used to mean the qualities A. Johnson cited. It is another hijacked term which is currently meaning something quite different from its former meaning.
The appropriate term is probably awake, (aware, alive, cognizant). Woke has become an acronym for Willfully-Overlooking-Knowable-Evil. It is difficult with all the acronyms, alphabet agencies and language inversions happening all around.
Like "sick" now means cool... or "gnarly" means both difficult and excellent, etc.
If we cannot label (identify) a problem as it is then there is no hope of dealing with it appropriately. Many of us like the ideal of unity but not even the Buddhists achieve that state sustainably. We are in a 'free will zone' so literally anything goes...true freedom...with no moral or ethical constraints...unless you resist the mainstream narrative...then you can be marginalized, hounded and prosecuted by weaponized gov't agents and agencies. When you stand for something backed by morals, ethics and higher values it's almost a guarantee of being attacked. How's that working out for folks? How do we even know what is best for our community? Maybe we should just go along to get along while the 'men behind the curtain' just have their way with the world as they have for many thousands of years. Maybe a lot of us are getting tired of the manipulation, lies, weaponization of our agencies against us, the people. Mary, if you find a forum that is wise enough to trust with "what impacts the good of our community" please let us know. Thank you.
I had never heard of WOKE as an acronym. Intersting. I've heard SOAK for the internet (Source Of All Knowledge) and GOD (Genetics Of DNA) and more. We live in an age when any short word can be aconym-ized for good or for evil. :-)
History of current cultural use of the word "woke": black culture started using that term to mean "politically aware". Then it went from there to where it is now an insult by some and a badge of honor by others. And apparently an acronym. I just use it in the old-fashioned way, "When I woke up yesterday, I had breakfast and then read all the CCWatchdog updates."
The idea/ideal of "something backed by morals, ethics and higher values" sounds great. The challenge becomes with whose morals, ethics, values are we going by?
It used to be that if one were caught in a lie, it would be shameful, embarassing and more. Politicians that lied and were caught, would quickly lose favor with the public and lose their job. Now people rationalize their lies or keep telling them over and over again until they and their follwers are convinced it's the truth.
Keep fighting the good fight. Glad you're involved.
Yeah, wrong word to describe what I was trying to say. I meant entitlement! My apology, Mary. And now I’m the one that’s stepping away. I don’t like Facebook, I don’t like Nextdoor and I really have better things to do than to spout my opinions.
I understand needing to step away. I need to also. I do want to say I have learned so much from your posts here. You are a true treasure.
Bless you for that but I hate the thought that I add to the division.
Mary, I am sorry to see you go. Deborah
Thanks. Just trying to bring awareness so we can 'inner stand' the context we find ourselves in, in the shifting, swirling energies and psychological mayhem currently playing out in the world and likely beyond. Truth, Justice, Liberty!