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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, October 24, 2007
As usual, having moving experiences is painful. In fact, I
have two damaged fingers, one on each hand. And some of
my arm, back, neck, and leg muscles are sore.
What happened? First, we had loaned a futon and had to
retrieve it when the loanee no longer needed it. All went well
until son Mike and I carried it to his trailer and tilted it (the
futon). Mike, who has a logical mind, is smart enough to keep
his fingers out of bad places.
Unfortunately, his father isn’t quite that smart. Or logical.
Therefore, the futon cleverly folded when it was tilted, resulting
in the three main fingers between my little finger and thumb on
my left hand being compressed between two pieces of metal.
Yes, it hurt. Quite a bit. But only one “bad” word escaped my
lips. (I was trying to set a good example).
It could have been worse. I only suffered visible damage
to the nail and cuticle on my ring finger. There was blood, but I
did not faint. Still hurts, but it hasn’t hampered my typing,
which is the most important result.
Next, Jan and I decided to rearrange three rooms at our
house. This, of course, (for those who never relocate anything)
means that all the “stuff” and furniture has to be moved. And
that means that muscles must be used.
It also means that for some careless people, which could
include me, the edge of some items that are somewhat heavy
end up on, oh, let’s say my right index finger. Equal opportu-
nity, that’s my goal.
So I’ve got the two fingers smeared with antigerm goop,
and held in place with Curad bandages. Gives me a kind of
workman air, I think. Yeah, a clumsy, inept workman. But
heck, the bits and pieces of our lives are being moved from
one room to another, which achieves the desired result.
All through the relocation of items and furniture, our cats
watched us vigilantly and somewhat suspiciously. Cats do not
work, as you know, but they seem to thoroughly enjoy watch-
ing their “masters” in their labors. However, they are wary too,
possibly because they’re fearful that they’ll be asked to help.
No cat will ever hurt its paw by moving a futon.
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*Sun., Oct. 14 68 - 44
*Mon., Oct. 15 58 - 45 0.20
*Tue., Oct. 16 56 - 45 0.31
*Wed., Oct. 17 54 - 42 0.83
*Thurs., Oct. 18 58 - 46 2.17
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WOPR called ‘beast
of failed Interior Dept.’
From William Mondale
Selma
The Bureau of Land
Management’s “Western
Oregon Plan Revi-
sion” (WOPR) is a beast of
the obviously failed Bush
administration’s Dept. of the
Interior.
That federal corporate
lapdog’s local mouthpiece is
the Medford BLM office.
Its staff cites their failure to
accomplish timber-selling
goals as the fault of the
Northwest Forest Plan and
what Josephine County
Commissioner Jim Raffen-
burg likes to call an
“environmentalist industry.”
Medford BLM chief
Tim Reuwsaat said during a
radio interview that without
adoption of the WOPR, tim-
ber would run out in three
years. What he is revealing
is that BLM’s prior timber
practices have depleted our
forests.
Now he wants the
WOPR to permit the timber
corporations to continue the
same ecological criminality
with the old-growth. When
that’s gone, nothing but fire-
prone shrubs will be left
with no hope for profitable
tourism.
I want Raffenburg to
know that there is no envi-
ronmentalist industry. There
are only voters collectively
protecting the forest’s
beauty, and people who be-
lieve that an intact forest is
the best hope for keeping
our valley prosperous. Con-
sider that the courts only
stop timber projects that
break the law.
In WOPR, BLM pro-
poses actions that guarantee
an ecological and tourism
deficit. But what else is new
in the Bush administration
and its BLM?
Measure 49: ‘Dark Politics
of Public Deception’
From Rep. Dennis
Richardson (R-District 4)
Central Point
The truth about Meas-
ure 49 has now been pub-
licly exposed, and, regard-
less of how one feels about
Measure 37, the story of the
manipulation and abuse of
power used to place Meas-
ure 49 on the November
ballot is an embarrassment
to Oregon and a blow to
citizen confidence in our
state government.
Private emails produced
in a recent lawsuit have dis-
closed that Oregon state
officials and 1000 Friends of
Oregon representatives care-
fully crafted the language of
Measure 49’s Ballot Title
and Explanation. They then
passed House Bill 2640,
which circumvented all laws
that ensure Oregon voters
get fair and balanced Ballot
Titles and Explanations to
use when deciding how they
should vote on a Referral
from the Legislature.
And it is now revealed
that Oregon’s AFL-CIO
Union President Tim
Nesbitt (whom Gov. Kulon-
goski made a “Deputy Chief
of Staff” shortly after the
union helped ensure the
governor’s re-election in
2006), used the “Governor’s
Opportunity PAC” money
to conduct polls, hire con-
sultants and determine what
wording would encourage
voters to vote for a ballot
measure that would rewrite
Measure 37 and effectively
restore Oregon’s pre-
Measure 37 land-use laws.
The results became
Measure 49 by circumvent-
ing all protections voters
usually have to ensure fair-
ness and neutrality.
A Willamette Week arti-
cle discloses how Nesbitt
performed his subterfuge in
collaboration with Bob Sta-
cey, Director of 1000
Friends of Oregon, who
“wanted to make sure any
prospective ballot title would
reflect proponents’ views,”
rather than neutrality.
From the article it ap-
pears that Nesbitt and Stacy
organized a team of pollsters,
consultants and lawyers.
They conducted polls and
focus groups to determine
the precise language needed
to obtain a “Yes” vote from
confused voters who would
think they were voting to
"fix" Measure 37, when, in
essence, they would be re-
moving its key provisions
and retaining the very land-
use problems that Measure
37 was intended to correct.
Measure 49 is sold as
creating an “express lane”
for approving three homes,
and in other circumstances
up to 10 homes, for those
land owners who have been
deprived of land-use rights
and values by government
land-use laws. In reality,
complying with Measure 49
requirements are so burden-
some, time-consuming and
expensive that few land
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In a page 9 article in the
Oct. 17 issue, it incorrectly
was reported that a Barlow
spokesman confirmed that
work on Rockydale Road
constituted a mine. The arti-
cle should have stated that
some residents contend that
the operation is a mine. Illi-
nois Valley News regrets the
confusion and error.
owners would ever be able
to qualify it under the meas-
ure's provisions.
Measure 49 is a bill
being sold as a solution,
while delivering nothing but
more expense, delay and
broken promises to Oregon
citizens.
Measure 49 violates the
fundamental democratic
principle of fairness. Every
citizen who values honesty
in government should vote
against Measure 49. Regard-
less of how they might feel
about Measure 37, Voting
“No” on Measure 49 is a
statement against dirty poli-
tics. Defeating Measure 49
would force those who have
attempted to abuse their po-
litical power to go back to
the Legislature and craft a
Measure 37 compromise
using the political system as
it was designed to operate.
‘America, Have You Lost
Your Soul?’ he wonders
From Raymond Ronald
Karczewski© -- A Living
Christ
Cave Junction
“Land of the Free and
Home of the Brave.” That
was once said of Amer-
ica. Does anybody still per-
ceive that to be true?
I have been observing
the public’s reaction to the
Ed and Elaine Brown stance
regarding the legal issue of a
nongovernmental, private
corporate position adopted
by our courts and justice
system of arresting and in-
carcerating elderly Sover-
eign Americans over non-
existent laws, laws they can-
not produce, and jurisdic-
tions they cannot prove.
What happens to Amer-
ica when any one of us can
be handcuffed, tazered, and
tortured in a torture cell over
a law that does not exist?
What happens when the
perpetrators are not legiti-
mate peace officers, but pri-
vately armed corporate se-
curity forces serving the
interests of their corporate
masters?
Our courts are no longer
Article III Constitutional
Courts as defined by the
U.S. Constitution.
Each and every one of
the sleeping sheeple are just
that -- cattle, chattel, human
resources, property of the
State, whose life, death and
freedom lie in the hands of
Satanic facilitators who sit in
the highest offices in the
land.
The sheeple have lost
their freedom, courage,
backbone, integrity. The
sheeple are no longer Sover-
eign Sons and Daughters of
God -- living, breathing,
flesh-and-blood, sentient,
natural men and women,
sovereign masters over their
own lives.
The call of the day must
be Habeas Corpus for Ed
and Elaine Brown. Let
Americans restore order to
our justice system when our
corrupt courts cannot. We
are the Sovereign Peo-
ple. We are the law.
If our servants will not
serve us as per their oaths,
get them the hell out of of-
fice and our courts peace-
ably through boycotting,
accompanied by “Show us
the law; show us your juris-
diction.”
Those two questions
remain unanswered for a
very good reason. Should
they be answered, the whole
house of cards of a corrupt
court system and govern-
ment would tumble down.
If I can stand up to
those forces, then anyone
can, and should, en masse.
See The Patriot and the Pi-
rate, Part III at
www.arkenterprises.com/
dialch222.htm1#Pirate and
The Two Million Dollar
Traffic Stop at arkenter-
prises.com/gptraff.html.
Shouldn’t churches
pay taxes, he asks
From Wally Hardie
Selma
This is a small response
to those who do not think
religious institutions should
pay their own taxes.
In May 1995 the New
York State Board of Real
Property Services issued
“Exemptions from real
property taxation in New
York State.” New York is
trying to make up a $230
million deficit that threatens
the school systems, while in
New York alone church-
owned property in the
amount of $5.8 billion is
free of 93.60 percent of the
real property tax.
In addition, residences
for the clergy totaling $3.4
billion received a 47.14 per-
cent exemption. New York
State as a whole has a stag-
gering $13.8 billion of
church real estate that is 97
percent free of property tax.
It is conservatively esti-
mated this would exceed
$800 billion across the
United States. A religious
tax exemption violates the
Establishment Clause and
the First Amendment.
When schools must cut
lunch programs, welfare and
health programs for the eld-
erly, and the religious or-
ganizations still have hun-
dreds of millions to pay for
the lawsuits of molestation,
and the continuing lawsuits
of child molestation, should
they not pay their real estate
tax bills?
When these statistics
were first published in 1995,
political pressure was ap-
plied; it has never been pub-
licly printed since. I wonder
what our county tax would
be if churches were paying
their share. Police and fire
agencies, along with the rest
of city services, also serve
them at our expense.
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