tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post5976835081733875706..comments2023-12-07T00:44:23.610-08:00Comments on The Trojan Heron: Ordinary People After Lisa -- OPAL?ECKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13031277544085651063noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-78079282296468399702013-03-30T07:58:53.455-07:002013-03-30T07:58:53.455-07:00Well I guess I resemble that remark and hang my he...Well I guess I resemble that remark and hang my head in shame having been properly accused of the politically correct thought-crime of "Bi-Coastalism." Oh. My. Gawd.<br /><br />Who on earth said the east coast was evil and the west coast pure? Here is historical fact. The Washington State Constitution, and more broadly the establishment of western states like Montana, Wyoming, Idaho were pushing back hard against the east coast establishment, 19th century railroad robber barons, Wall Street. That is why the Washington State Constitution has stronger civil rights protections than the US Constitution.<br /><br />The east coast is great. I worked in Vermont for a spell. Washington DC is a very livable city and the New York's energy is amazing. But look at a satellite image of North America at night and tell me the east coast and the west coast are not vastly different? Back east, population is very dense, infrastructure is dense. Out west? Not so much. There are differences.<br /><br />One time presidential candidate Sen. Gary Hart from Colorado wrote a Western Manifesto some years back warning Democrats that while they could win majorities in western states and let the deep south go, they had to resist the urge to export east coast urban and regional planning philosophies to the west. If they did so they would eventually lose, lose, lose.<br /><br />And that is exactly what this Machine is trying to do. And, eventually they will lose, lose, lose.<br /><br />Parting shot just to lighten this up: What's the difference between the east and west coast? Back east if someone says "Screw you!" they're really saying "Howdy!" Out west, if someone says "Howdy!" they're really saying "Screw you!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-1790794620045449282013-03-29T20:02:06.583-07:002013-03-29T20:02:06.583-07:00I'm not buying the line that the east coast is...I'm not buying the line that the east coast is evil and the west coast pure. Whoever is saying that BS all the time don't know what they're talking about.<br /><br />I'm from the east. I never lived in California. I hate the corruption and lying in this county, so please take your geo-politico-bigotry and shut up.<br /><br />We agree that Lisa, Lovel, and Jamie -- who is from Utah -- are wrong for this county, but otherwise, you're an ignorant blowhard.<br /><br />Ooooo, Lisa is from Maryland, oooooo, Rhea is from Massachusetts. Who gives a f^%k?<br /><br />Focus on what they say and do and not the first three digits of their social security number.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-10798917013259624592013-03-29T19:47:40.890-07:002013-03-29T19:47:40.890-07:00@11:34 AM
I take it you are not from the Left Coa...@11:34 AM<br /><br />I take it you are not from the Left Coast.<br /><br />California has way more in common, especially north of San Francisco with our lifestyle and outlook, than the eastern seaboard. It's just different out west.<br /><br />There's rich folks from everywhere all over, California is not unique. Its the left coast/ east coast thing that matters. Let's have locals for local government once again. Is that such a hard concept to accept? <br /><br />I lived back east for years, I wanted to find out what that part of the country was about, and I did. Glad I did. Really humid in the summer. I was really happy to come home.<br /><br />If you have no respect for private property rights how can anyone trust you to respect their reasonable expectation to privacy? It's not possible to separate the two. <br /><br />God gave you your body. Use it well why you are here because it is yours freely given by Grace not by the government. Do you get it yet? Your home. Your hat. Your body. Respect your neighbors civil rights as you would have them respect yours. Do not trespass like the Friends of the San Juans do. They have brought disharmony and corruption while pretending to protect. They protect nothing but their own self interests. They bring shame and opprobrium on their heads.<br /><br />And now I will prove I am not a robot. Can Lovel do the same?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-32491920178628019742013-03-29T19:01:01.024-07:002013-03-29T19:01:01.024-07:009:54: It makes sense, good sense, indeed. Now make...9:54: It makes sense, good sense, indeed. Now make some signs and flyers and get to work!<br /><br />Only work will make you free.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-10651861376723356472013-03-29T13:26:37.209-07:002013-03-29T13:26:37.209-07:00Apparently, wishing to preserve your property righ...Apparently, wishing to preserve your property rights casts you as an extremist in this county these days. <br /><br />Showing up at a public meeting to speak about your concerns, or writing a letter on the topic constitutes "fear mongering". <br /><br />"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act."<br />Eric Arthur Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-55764514612757511732013-03-29T13:22:31.875-07:002013-03-29T13:22:31.875-07:00What is "fear mongering property rights menta...What is "fear mongering property rights mentality"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-85120147864728513692013-03-29T11:34:29.694-07:002013-03-29T11:34:29.694-07:00@10:53am
I would say the same for rich California...@10:53am<br /><br />I would say the same for rich Californians that move to our county and want to "make it better". Leave your fear mongering property rights mentality at the border, or don't move here.P.N. from Orcasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-83242347596722728372013-03-29T10:57:18.412-07:002013-03-29T10:57:18.412-07:00The implication seems to be that Lisa Byers earns ...The implication seems to be that Lisa Byers earns too much to have bought her OPAL neighborhood home, and that there must have been some dirty dealing going on.<br /><br />What is the purchase history of the home Lisa lives in? My own understanding is that the house was purchased by Laurie, and that as some date Lisa and Laurie formed a relationship, and Lisa moved in.<br /><br />Lisa's name appears to be on the Polaris record as a co-owner now - when and how did that happen? <br /><br />Looking at the records for tax parcel 271151013000, it seems CHASANOFF, MATHEW filed a quit claim deed to GALLO, MARY LAURETTE on 4/13/1998. Then on 2/5/2002, GALLO, MARY L. filed a statutory warrant deed to BYERS, ELISABETH C. *and* GALLO, MARY L... making them co-owners. Sort of the same thing that might have happened had they gotten married, if that were legal in our state at the time.<br /><br />I believe OPAL homeowner are allowed to marry or enter into a relationship. Or have a job/income change over time.Joe Fridaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-85799791405898799832013-03-29T10:53:33.782-07:002013-03-29T10:53:33.782-07:00Interesting.
According to Lisa's Facebook pag...Interesting.<br /><br />According to Lisa's Facebook page she was born in Bethesda MD and given the family history with a 200 acre Connecticut farm, tells me she was born into a political family as an urban "Beltway Brat."<br /><br />Lovel is about concentrating people into new urbanist population zones, of which community land trusts are an element of. She is no friend of the rural lifestyle. <br /><br />Jaime likes to drive down I5 in his Jaguar and takes his green VW over to Lopez. He is a creature of Lopez Village, the only urban growth area on the island. <br /><br />New Urbanism and East-Coast Communitarianism just doesn't fit here.<br /><br />Hell, Rhea Miller is from Massachusetts and brings along the eastern mindset the Washington pioneers were so hell-bent to resist when they wrote the Washington State Constitution.<br /><br />Listen folks: Background matters. If rich east coast folks want to settle in around here, welcome. It is up to you to fit in. But we don't need our local government dominated by east coast politics and urban backgrounds. That's just loony tunes.<br /><br />Speaking of loony tunes, this brings us to Senator Kevin Ranker who lost all his committee leadership positions because he cannot work well with others. He is now showing up as Endorser #1 on Machine websites. Is this guy really one of us?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-45579006870815024452013-03-29T09:54:42.125-07:002013-03-29T09:54:42.125-07:00Something to think about in this election is the r...Something to think about in this election is the relationships all of the candidates have w/the islands themselves.<br /><br />Are they in touch? Are they rooted? Are they aware of the little eco-systems etc...?<br /><br />It seems to me one of the huge problems w/the decision makers in the CAO "update" was that there was a huge disconnect w/nature and a fairly extreme ignorance of science protocol and process. There was a lot of emotional and fictional theory being pressed on the council people by people who will benefit by spreading stories of eco doom and fear. And it seems that some of the former and current council members could live just as happily in an urban setting. Maybe more so. <br /><br />Some of them couldn't ask the right questions because the science and nature were just so foreign to them. And their fearless leader, Shireene, was entirely predisposed to the eco fear approach. <br /><br />Does that make sense?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-55440385855084428532013-03-29T07:54:19.419-07:002013-03-29T07:54:19.419-07:00A bit off topic I guess, but:
Question: How many ...A bit off topic I guess, but:<br /><br />Question: How many socialists does it take to screw in a light-bulb?<br /><br />Answer: None. There's nothing wrong with this light-bulb. We think it works.<br /><br />I thought Orcas Issues was business?<br /><br />Anyway we don't have socialist enterprises anymore. We have social enterprises funded by impact investors. <br /><br />We don't call them donors any longer. Welcome to the Brave New World.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-57552930141569937432013-03-29T07:09:20.357-07:002013-03-29T07:09:20.357-07:00Orcas Issues is begging for donations...for F sake...Orcas Issues is begging for donations...for F sakes, every socialist enterprise fails miserably but the idiot kool-aid drinking lever-pulling clowns just keep trying...fail....fail...fail...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-43869050198019557192013-03-29T06:36:41.858-07:002013-03-29T06:36:41.858-07:00Or at least the lovely Lovel's fabulous recent...Or at least the lovely Lovel's fabulous recent makeover. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-52782710632409870902013-03-29T04:41:12.274-07:002013-03-29T04:41:12.274-07:00“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that g...“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.” <br /><br />― Karl Marx<br /><br />Now we know what is motivating Lisa & Lovel....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-16453112583672872172013-03-29T04:38:55.819-07:002013-03-29T04:38:55.819-07:00“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to...“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” <br /><br />- Karl Marx<br /><br />Damn...who knew 'ol Karl was prophesying about San Juan County?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-40377199444072982892013-03-29T04:35:06.209-07:002013-03-29T04:35:06.209-07:00You shall be assimilated, resistance is futile.You shall be assimilated, resistance is futile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-27632275038401251222013-03-28T22:43:43.778-07:002013-03-28T22:43:43.778-07:00@9:20pm
I'm not sure what you are referring to...@9:20pm<br />I'm not sure what you are referring to as a county recorded documents page.. using the County's <a href="http://sjcgis.org/SJCGIS/Welcome.html" rel="nofollow">Polaris</a> site, all the recorded documents still appear to be accessible (just like all the rest of ours) for tax parcel # 271151013000. BTW, this is the system the current Council just voted to spend an unbudgeted $140,000 for new aerial photos. Apparently FREE google earth pictures are just not good enough for SJC, where our Commissioners never say no to spending more taxpayer funds for things the taxpayers don't prioritize, need, or even want. <br />Hey Commissioners, how about more public access to the water? How about bike trails on the islands? How about public swimming pools for our kids? How about accountability for our sanitation "services?" How about keeping vast tracks of land ON the tax rolls (how much is 'enough' for the Land Bank?)? How about focusing on the citizen's (aka Your Employer's!) quality of life? This county got hijacked sometime over the last few years. It's time to take it back and clean house. "Vote. Vote. Vote against the Machine!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-76168457264983885362013-03-28T22:14:14.747-07:002013-03-28T22:14:14.747-07:00No, no, we can buy guardrails & consultants.No, no, we can buy guardrails & consultants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-17673180864213321712013-03-28T21:35:26.430-07:002013-03-28T21:35:26.430-07:00A couple of unicorns and a rainbow just don't ...A couple of unicorns and a rainbow just don't buy as much nowadays as they used to. These be tough times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-19875455542174303872013-03-28T21:20:34.294-07:002013-03-28T21:20:34.294-07:00I find it very interesting that a couple of days a...I find it very interesting that a couple of days ago if you searched Lisa Byers, you could find, on the county recorded documents, page. The sale of the OPAL property that Lisa lives at. Now it does not show any of her activities. Previously it showed the purchase price to be in exchange for Love and Affection.... Well, I guess she didn't have to pay anything for her abode. That's sure low income!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-30980128071494884902013-03-28T19:58:22.222-07:002013-03-28T19:58:22.222-07:00Oh wow. That came right from the heart off the key...Oh wow. That came right from the heart off the keyboard. Thank you so much. You have captured the sense of heartbreak and outrage that's nearly impossible to express, and simmering just under the surface for so many folks here. I hope your words take wing and fly over the islands and touch everyone so they will pause and think about what is at stake. Bless you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-46500042542178418302013-03-28T19:51:51.989-07:002013-03-28T19:51:51.989-07:006:01 Rest assured, your mind is clear, you know th...6:01 Rest assured, your mind is clear, you know the truth. Now get some signs out there or something, we gotta win this one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-58013949491529032962013-03-28T18:01:56.615-07:002013-03-28T18:01:56.615-07:00hmmm. Lisa bought into an OPAL low income house. ...hmmm. Lisa bought into an OPAL low income house. She is staying there. She makes $75,000 a year and has a "partner" living w/her who probably also has some income. She is trying to prove something.<br /><br />My "partner" and I don't clear Lisa's income alone. But through creativity and HARD work we bought..in about 2001 or so...our 5 acres and a modest house. The real estate market was going nuts right then and we found a jewel in the rough and amazingly are still hanging in there. <br /><br />I am so glad to have any sort of feeling that it is ours. And I feel that we are extremely respectful of the earth and "our" land. We're paying for the privilege of some sort of control over it.<br /><br />Lisa and Lovel believe that the government will lovingly take care of us and our land and our people. But who is the government? It is not a who but a ridiculous series of "studies" etc...funded by special interest groups. <br /><br />Obama apparently has benevolently bestowed the ownership of the San Juan Islands to the country. What does that mean? Who makes decisions now? Someone in Washington DC? Holy %$#^! Like they know squat about my beloved islands!!!! <br /><br />My ancestors came here LOOOOONNNNGGG before Lisa or Lovel or Obama or Dehlendorf or Alderton (not necessarily in that order)....it takes many many lifetimes to understand a place. <br /><br />I'm appalled by their attitude of ownership and control and superiority. It makes me feel sick. I wish they had never come and I wish they would go away. They are all newbies and know nothing about the tides and the seasons and the heart here. And they pathetically think they do. Oh I dislike them and their influence so very very much.<br /><br />Where are the other old time islanders? I want to hear from you! We have a unique and special perception that is valuable!<br /><br />At least that's what I think.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-18866709115450533622013-03-28T16:07:10.601-07:002013-03-28T16:07:10.601-07:00Off topic, but slightly aligned with the Odlin Par...Off topic, but slightly aligned with the Odlin Park Fiasco.<br /><br />Public Works has obtained a "Safety Grant" for Guardrails. Those huge ugly steel devices used on every corner in urban settings.<br /><br />It must be a big pile of money, because on SJI there are pictures showing the intent of Public Works to put these things all over the place.<br /><br />This is typical grant funded nonsense. The County without this money would probably list such guardrails as just about dead last in a list of capital improvement projects.<br /><br />And, once installed these really ugly things carry with them significant increases in maintenance costs. IE: a worker cannot used the truck mounted mower, he or she must spend hours with a weeder cutting the dry fire hazard grass around each of several hundred posts. Does the grant cover maintenance costs??? bet not.<br /><br />Once again a grant is controlling us and making us do things we probably would never do.<br /><br />GRANTS! Some people love em, and some people hate em. I'm one of the latter, and feel we at least should elect people who QUESTION the real essence of a grant BEFORE we take the money. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2025252027978265531.post-25923789250722661242013-03-28T14:46:08.335-07:002013-03-28T14:46:08.335-07:00The notion of permanent affordability is worth of ...The notion of permanent affordability is worth of discussion.<br /><br />However, it has always been my view that the community land trust model was intended primarily as a stepping stone, especially for young working families, to then ladder up to home ownership elsewhere as able.<br /><br />It is nice that Lisa has been able to work the same job in San Juan County for nearly twenty years. And to be able to live in the same home. At some point was she and her partner in a position to move on to full equity ownership? Perhaps, it seems likely.<br /><br />However, this issue involves Lisa only to the extent that she is the executive of the OPAL Corporation. But I guess she is only the manager. We heard from the OPAL Corporation President yesterday.<br /><br />The issue for Lisa is whether she supports the actions of the OPAL Corporation in this matter, or not, and Lisa is the only person who can speak to that. Should the OPAL Corporation repair substandard construction issues because "It is the right thing to do?"<br /><br />Or, not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com