Since I was 17 years old, I have been coming to the Pacific Northwest to do soul searching. I remember arriving in Seattle on the Greyhound bus in March of 1994 for the first time, and I had been to a few other places in my life, but never anywhere close to the Pacific Northwest. At that time the farthest I had been from Utah was Sault St. Marie, Ontario Canada (and we took a train in Canada, but I can’t recall where we went to, but it was a good long ride, and beautiful). However I had never been north California on the West coast, and I had never been to Washington or Oregon. Despite that I had literally no reservations, no friends no work in Washington. When I got to Seattle I found access to day labor, passing out flyers, working at Pink Elephant car wash (strange and rewarding experience in itself), and within 2 months of being there I was getting paid to get signatures for petitions for medical marijuana. I was getting smoked out and getting paid some cents per signature. It wasn’t hard to get a bunch of signatures in Seattle for that. So I got paid a decent amount. I believe I was 18 by then, because I don’t recall having any problems cashing the check. I met a lot of like minded people. Musically minded people like my friend Charles, of the band “Fucko”, or my friend Yushi from a band I believe they went by Face Down, but he was in a few bands, he played bass and slung ink, and I was covered with some of his first work (which is actually my best work too, he was a natural tattooist).

I met and got engaged to four women, well, young women. But after spending enough time together, in time, we both realized we weren’t good for marriage. Long term commitment at 18/19 is really difficult. Or even 21/22.. But I always preferred the idea of monogamy, and to this date, have only ever practiced monogamy. So when dating got serious, it seems that one of us jumped the gun in a marriage proposal. It was never very eloquent I suppose. Just random banter, and “marriage this and that”, and lo and behold, I found myself engaged 4 different times before I met my wife. My wife and I fell quick. Made my head spin.

I was actually just writing on my website when we met, about how she had a photo of her holding a semi-auto rifle and being decked out in full camo. But I can not find that picture. She is beautiful though.

They were all PNW girls that I had a marriage arrangement before I met my wife in SLC. She was a transplant, but from white-bread Pocatello Idaho. Which was basically just like Utah, where I grew up for most of my life.
So it wasn’t hard to convince each other to go on a wild adventure together. Just, it has never stopped.
So many adventures. And yet, still right now I sit here in Washington. Without her.
This is the strangest feeling, and the most torn I have ever felt in my life. I love the PNW. She needs Hawaii. We both constantly talk about coming back to Seattle. But when it comes down to it, no place or thing can turn me from my destiny. Whatever it was that made my wife and I click 18 years ago, was the most moving thing that I have ever experienced in my life. More than Washington, more than singing in punk bands, more than a heart to heart with someone who needs it. The things that give me the biggest rush in life, can’t seem to compare to my lovely lady.

Sorry getting off on a tangent This blog is supposed to be comparing my two favorite places in North America. Which is Hawaii and Seattle. But I can’t help but think about what and where my lovely lady is.

Getting back to The Pacific North West. It is a very sentimental topic for me. Also, getting back to bands. There was “Blue Collar Love”, which my case worker at the Christian street ministry that I ate at played bass for. When I first arrived in Seattle when I was 17, there was a Street ministry on Summit Ave that fed kids between the ages of very young to probably 20 years old. Somewhere in that range. I remember calling them once when I was in a really desperate place, and I was probably 20, and they were able to help me. It was/is called New Horizons. They are in Belltown now. Chris, Mary, Liz, Ron, and then the woman and man Penny and Leroy (RIP) Babbitt who basically adopted me, invited me in to their family, and even to this day, I seem to have a place in that family. At least some very good friends to lean on, that were put in my life by God through this ministry.

Beyond my teenage years in the PNW, when I returned later after my first daughter was 2 or 3 years old. Which she was born in Colorado, but we made our way back through Utah first, and then to the PNW for several years.
And despite moving here and there, we kept coming back to the Pacific Northwest, owning and renting properties on the east side in Spokane, and north of Spokane on some very beautiful properties. One on Deer Lake, and for a while we had a horse ranch with a single horse in Deer Park Washington.

We owned our first boat in Tacoma Washington. When we first bought the Roanoke, this 80 year old beauty was sitting in a large slip in Point Defiance Washington. We were living and working for a man who owned a 4 million dollar home, and we had been there for 2 years.

But we never had an actual lease with him, because we were just trading work for a place to live. So we never got comfortable in the lakeside mansion in Bellevue, and when we found that beautiful twin V8 50′ cigar boat, she was sassy like prohibition itself. She was a floating speak easy. We had to have her! We had good times on that boat, we some amazing bands like Jug of Punch (traditional Irish band) and a hand full of signer/guitarists. We enjoy the Tall Ships festival multiple rotations. We very much enjoyed floating across the Puget Sound to visit some of the islands.

This reminds me, I need to track down some old photos. So this will be updated in the future.

It is true a lot of the same things that I love about the PNW, I also love about Hawaii. I meet a lot of Hawaiians here in the Seattle area. I think the two areas are very compatible, even with the vast differences between the two places.
Having a bit of both is a real blessing.

My wife and I also took our PADI dive classes in the PNW by an awesome instructor named Cindy, when we owned that boat. I got squeeze (sinus pressure and pain) really bad, and half way through Kim got pregnant. When this happened, Kim had a major desire to have a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) and Washington Hospitals refused, and claimed it to be an insurance issue. So we ended up abruptly moving from Washington after being there for years, and we moved to Idaho, to be closer to family. That turned out to be a really terrible idea. We were in Idaho for 3 months before leaving. It goes beyond words. I’ll leave it at that.

I think the Asian influence, the honor system in a lot of ways, and the creative spirit of Seattle is what always draws me. Of course the beauty of the PNW is awesome. I love both the West and the East side in Washington and both climates are vastly different. Kind of like (but in different ways) the difference between Puna and Kona. Or the East and West side of the Big Island.

So as it stands, I love both Hawaii and the PNW equally but for different reasons, and also some of the same reasons. I wish distance wasn’t such an obstacle. But then again, I kind of appreciate how distance is an obstacle
I do worry about Hawaii sustainability a lot more than I worry about Washington’s economy. Hawaii is skating on thin ice, while depending on basically one fragile industry, which is tourism.

So there are pros and cons on both sides of the pond. I think I love Hawaii and Seattle equally but for different reasons.

I have promised myself that I would post 12 completed positive posts. My first one was yesterday with the post about Hawaii. This is the second one, about the Pacific Northwest. I will continue on past 12 potentially. However I will report the fact that I think are vital, whether the report is positive or negative, based on assessed necessity.
It feels good to just post thanks and gladness! Some times the world is too dark, and its time to count my blessings.

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On the topic of false accusations, I have witnessed one which I tend to call “The Not So Accidental Police Informant”.   This story started 16 years ago for me, when I first met my wife, and then shortly after I married her.  Within four months of us meeting, we married.  Inbetween us meeting in June and us getting married in October, I was asked by my fiance to do my brother-in-law a favor and give him a job at an upcoming construction project that I was hired to be on.   Because of our marriage coming up, and my lack of savings at the time, I quit my job as a Tier 3 technician at MSN/Qwest, so that I could get the 12-18 hour days at this job building gun traps for a company called Action Target for a law enforcement shooting range in Baton Rouge Louisiana to pay for the wedding.   I agreed to take her brother, despite not ever having met him before, and not knowing a lot about him, other than my wife was 17 years old when she left her parent’s house because he was always causing some kind of drama.  But I didn’t do a background check on him or verify any references, I just took their word that he would work.  After getting to the job, it was quite clear he had never worked a hard days work in his life.  Within a week, he refused to leave the hotel and go to work.  He then went to the emergency room, where I waited for him until late in the evening, in which then I had to wake up at 4am the next morning for a 16 hour day in the hot sun, while he lounged around the hotel room.  All night he moaned “Why does God hate me”.  Then the next day and for the next 3 days he refused to go to work.  But he refused to quit.   On the fourth day he went to work, but once again refused to lift a finger.  He was getting paid like the rest of us but was not working.   So he was fired.  He told me how unfair it was, and asked me to get his job back.  Which I did.  The boss hazed him and told him he would be hired back at one dollar less per hour.  This pissed the kid off, and for 3 more days, he went around the job site talking shit to the project managers that were onsite from different crews, trying to get us to lose our contract or something.   He was sent home after that.

For every day after nearly for those 16 years, he has harassed our family, either on social media, or by sic’ing his stepdad on me, or at the end just a few years ago he was calling the police on me.

1.  Incident where he sicd his stepdad on me
2. Where he called the police on me telling them that I was a domestic terror threat

So I looked up his police record when he started calling the police on me.  I thought, surely this couldn’t only be happening to me?   After pulling his record at  www.idcourts.us (Idaho Court Repository), I found some interesting details that I was pretty sure I would find before I even started my search.
The crimes that stuck out to me, beyond the theft and violence, was that he had several crimes such as;

1. Phone Harassment (x2)
2. Making terroristic threats (x2)
3. Making false accusations (x2)

Long history of harassment
Case:  CR-2006-0015919-MD
Case:  CR-2003-0011040-MD

Year > 2002 | Case > 0001846 or CR-2002-0001846-MD| County > Bannock

Year > 2003 | Case > CR-2002-0011040-MD| County > Bannock

Year > 2003 | Case > CR-2002-0015919-MD| County > Bannock

At this point, the search is useless, some of the cases beyond 3 years are not listed.  But I can give you a full list as I was able to do a background search on this fella, when he was calling the police on me, and sending his daddy to my house to fight me.   https://www.intelius.com/criminal-records-search

(reference;  www.idcourts.us)  (the Idaho Court system has a new court repository as of 2019, which has limited data on it, but using the case numbers from the images above, one can go directly to the court to get the case information)

More on this at:   https://opinions.clovisstar.com/trolls

While he has multiple of these charges on his record, I will say that he was only convicted of one each.   I can also say that none of his charges have anything to do with me, I have never once called the police on him.  When the police have asked me (after he sent them to me), if I want to press charges, I have declined.   I have that evidence of a police interaction where I declined to press charges here;

Public complaint against Officer Tyler Evans

However, the interesting thing to me was that he was getting charges several times a year, up until the point where it is clear he was offering up information to the police on other people, which was the third charge I listed  “Making false accusations”.
While at first he was being penalized for it, subsequently in years to follow, he had charges that were sealed by the court, and he stopped getting arrested anymore, pretty much since the last time that he snitched on someone.
So first he started snitching “False accusations“, then when he would be arrested after that, the court would seal his records, and now he doesn’t get arrested anymore.

Brandon Wade Hertel Cases sealed by the court

So regardless of if he is a paid police informant or just someone who drops information to the cops from time to time, it is clear to me that he is a police informant.

Brandon Hertel Police Informant

The point is, that watch your back.  Filter who is close to you.   I jumped in too quick with my wife, we both agreed on that.
It’s not that if we waited longer we wouldn’t have gotten married.  However, waiting would have given us more time to set ground rules and barriers for friends and family.
From what I learned in this, it is a good idea to date for at least a year before getting married.
We are still happily married after 16 years, but we have cleansed our life of family drama.

Information about Idaho Police Informant policies;

Can Idaho Confidential Informants Use Drugs?

A fair warning to those who wish to become a CI (Confidential Informant) the consequences can be deadly, and the cops don’t give a shit about low-level criminals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suQRO4YIimA

Snitch: Frontline, PBS (documentary)

**Amended on 12/2019 to update relevant links and court information, as the public court repository URL has changed

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For me I have a dim understanding of diseases, and pandemics. I will not pretend to know on any qualifying level any of the specific medical/biological/viral details of this issue. I will give sources to the experts at the end of this post, and I will attempt to provide opposing opinions from two reputable experts on the topic.

For me, I am counting the numbers, and the projections of what a major global economic recession looks like to the many hundreds of millions of very poor people around the world that have to work day to day to barely feed their families. Many of these families living on less than $1 a day. The go out for work in the day, to eat that night.
With a global economic shutdown, and lockdown/martial-law like situations, many of these people are going to starve to death. There will be uncounted many who die from the results of this economic shutdown.

When I compare the deaths, and even the potential deaths that humanity could see due to COVID-19, but then I compare that to human abortions, and there is nearly 50,000,000 (50 million) abortions in the world every year.

If 5000 deaths is going to cause a huge country of 330,000,000 (330 million) people. Then there is something that I am missing to this equation. Why did we not close borders and issue martial law-like stay at home orders under H1N1?

I am curious what is so different about this latest various of COVID that makes COVID19 so much more difficult to deal with, than the other previous pandemics that have sprung up due to COVID strains of virus.

Ron Paul had some wise words on this, and I had included that in a post from a few weeks back.
https://disruptarian.com/updates-about-the-covid-19-virus/

This is the video that I made that I addressed this issues of global financial recession, and what that means for the very poor.

Further more, these are some of the related sources of this information.

This video shows the forgotten soon-to-be casualties of this fight against COVID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xm4RKDTbgg

More reference to this: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/india-covid-19-lockdown-means-food-work-rural-poor-200402052048439.html

More about the very similar H1N1 (also a COVID strain) https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html

The value of the USA Retirement industry (27 TRILLION) https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2018/01/02/heres-what-the-27-trillion-us-retirement-industry/?slreturn=20200304184234

More on the demographics and causes of death related to COVID-19

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I wanted to note a few things that I reviewed today about the COVID-19 virus.
One thing that I want to emphasize, is Ron Paul’s warning that the US government, as well as other governments, have sort of a “perfect storm” in that they have plenty of reason to capitalize on the fear and gain for themselves more power. This must be examined and appropriate measures should be taken to address this if Ron Paul is correct.
Reference:

https://www.facebook.com/ronpaul/videos/656748105081884/
(this is probably on youtube as well)

Ron Paul who is a long time medical doctor would have to explain his reasoning for saying what he said in that video. I suspect that he is more accurate than one may suspect, he has a habit of being correct about things like this.

The second issue I wanted to talk about is President Trump’s proposal to give struggling family’s $1000 for each adult to add stimulus to the economy during the Corona Virus hysteria.
I will say a few things. First, Bankers just got somewhere in the neighborhood of $700,000,000,000 ($700 Billion) dollars from the federal reserve, as I understand it and other money from the government, once again called “Quantitative Easing”. If these folks need that money so much, then I believe they need it no less than the rest of the country. Ron Paul would say “let the banks fail, that is how the market works”. It’s true, poor performers or those who take risks and lose, pay the price by going out of business. It makes sense and gives other banks a reason to do things right.

This is what is being proposed for cash payments to needy families during this crisis.

$1000 one time payment per adult
$1000 per adult per month during the crisis
Up to $4000 per family.

It appears to have support from both sides of the isle.

Reference:

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/487939-gop-sen-cotton-calls-for-monthly-cash-payments-to-americans-during

Reference:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/coronavirus-trump-mnuchin-1000-check-economy

Reference:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/geraldo-rivera-give1000-dollars-every-american-coronavirus-economy

I would rather end the Federal Reserve or the IRS. Or both hopefully. But until then, it doesn’t hurt to get a bonus refund on your taxes!

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Imua TMT Panel: What’s Next Step For Thirty Meter Telescope Project? (Feb. 16, 2020)

Also last week, you can hear Sam Wilder King II speak about his problems with the TMT protest and the words that they use to describe those on the other side. For example, many of these protesters will call someone like Sam King II, or Kalepa Baybayan “fake Hawaiians” for having a different point of view than the protesters.

Reference to this IMUA TMT Panel:

This also from February 10th 2020:

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Why I don’t want to be involved with corporate media. This is also why I don’t take donations usually. I received a donation in December of $600 of gift cards for our radio show, a donation that I had turned down in November just the month before.

The person called me and said that she had already sent Christmas gifts for our kids in the form of gift cards and that I was not allowed to turn it down. So I spent them on Christmas. I bought our kids’ toys with the money. But then today (January 6th 2020) the same person informed me that she is mad that I reported some details about the Thirty Meter Telescope’s budget issues. She was upset that I rebroadcast the New Your Times article on the subject from December 23rd 2019. She said I should not have “bashed the TMT”. After some filthy words and accusations were sent my way, only two weeks after she sent the gift cards, she is asking for me to return them to her.

I told her that I would return what I didn’t spend on promoting the video that she asked me to produce for her. In the video below I show where on facebook alone I spent $254 of that on ads to promote that media. Then I also advertised on Youtube and Twitter. When I calculated all of the money that I spent promoting this campaign, I spent over $700. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGTpFQGkUbc

That doesn’t even include the time I spent editing and producing the media at her request.

But who asks for a Christmas gift back? That sounds like some asshole shit to do to someone. But this is also why I do not like to take donations from people for my media. I talk about it more at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RifWnP-Io

And in the following video, this is what I referenced in the video above, about the censorship that Monsanto pushed on Fox News, and when Fox News censored their “investigative news team” so that they didn’t lose Monsanto advertising dollars.

When I made that video in 2011 about Corporate Media vs. Social Media, my point was the same. My fear was also the same. Any time in the past 20+ years that I have been sent a donation for a media project that I am working on, regardless of what it is. I seem to get the same consequence if I accept the donation. Someone wants to control my media or my behavior.
This is also why I encourage other people do their own media. So that there are no slaves and no masters when it comes to free expression. Those slave and master days are over thanks to the internet!

In my video above I say that I have been doing media since 2006, but actually it goes farther back than that.
I started www.Behindzioncurtain.com back in 1999. Then it was www.UtahPirateRadio.com, and then a flurry of others along the way. One of my most attended to social media blogs was www.xCannabis.com (and www.xcannabis.net), and then we did print newspapers with www.clovisstar.com for about 4 years in 3 different states. I interviewed a lot of people in Hawaii via https://www.blogtalkradio.com/sensilife about the “green 14”, and other cannabis initiatives that we were working on.

So that is a lot of media. We have had a lot of guests and a lot of guest hosts through the years, and a few times we even accepted donations. However I would say 8 out of 10 times that we have accepted donations, it has turned into “since I gave you that donation, you need to behave this way”.

Well, the point of blogging, rather than working for a media corporation, is no bosses. No one gets to tell me how to write, or vlog, or print newspapers. I own the media, and I have no bosses. That IS the point.

So I will not bend on this TMT issue. I still support the TMT, but I have some genuine concerns about it right now.

Reference:

If you treat me right, I will treat you right. Regardless of donations, payments, work, or anything financially related.
I don’t care if you have given me a million dollars, Im not going to kiss your ass or let you treatment poorly because of it. Nor will it change my point of view. I change my point of view based on good facts and logic, nothing else.

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