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- Written by: Carolynn Jarrett
As a voter and a citizen, I don’t feel “warned,” I feel threatened. His exact words were: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole … country.”
I consider that a direct threat. He did not say precisely whose blood will be flowing: election officials, Democratic voters, or perhaps just citizens in the street.
He also stated that if he didn’t win, “I don’t think you are going to have another election, or certainly not an election that’s meaningful.”
Obviously, Mr. Trump never played Little League where kids are taught how to be good at sports about winning and losing. Instead, he vows to kneecap the opposing team if they score more runs, and cancel any future games.
Mr. Trump, you are a disgrace! Your behavior would not be tolerated on any tee ball field and yet here you are running for the highest office of the land.
Your threats to voters and citizens are both pathetic and dangerous. Is there nothing that can be done about these overt calls for violence against the American people?
Carolynn Jarrett lives in Clearlake, California.
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- Written by: Brian Fisher
The Kelseyville Business Association, or KBA, was founded in the1960s for the purpose of promoting the economic interest of the town and the surrounding area. Today it is a 130-plus member strong business association made up of tattoo artists, candle makers, masseurs, shop and bar keepers, ministers, teachers, Realtors, electricians, small manufacturers, innkeepers and, most recently, a native owned dispensary.
All of these industrious, community focused people are keeping the retail space in town at near 100% occupancy.
Membership is hardly exclusive. Any member of the community is welcome to contribute $80 and fill out an online form to join.
This membership provides a number of benefits to members and a portion goes to enabling a number of community-wide amenities including the free wi-fi KBA offers to any and all visitors.
The organization funds www.visitkelseyivlle.com, the longest continuous operational website of any town in Lake County.
KBA also operates the largest, most followed Facebook page of any town in Lake County which just this week received over 251,000 unique visitors, almost four times the population of Lake County.
People of the KBA are of all colors and flags: Farmers, retirees, involved citizens sharing a common goal of economic prosperity who live in a town with no city council, no management boards, no home owner associations.
KBA is made up of people who do for themselves. KBA members install their own street lights and maintain them, install and plant street gardens and water them, install garbage cans and empty them, hire bands to perform at street dances open to everyone to attend at no charge, and host huge festivals celebrating the diversity of our town and bountiful land.
And, every November KBA members dig out holiday decorations from a self storage unit and, on a borrowed forklift, decorate the town for the holiday season. And, then they open their businesses offering food and drink to everyone free of charge before the huge ”Christmas in the Country” parade makes its way down Main Street with Mt Konocti in the background.
Comments like those offered by Mr. Fletcher makes it feel like the KBA and our community is being thrust into the bullseye of today’s cultural war and being told by people who don’t live here to pay with our name.
And to add insult to injury, we are then being forced to take a new name in which we had no voice in choosing.
And, yes, we do dream of an arch that might one day welcome people to what we think is The Friendliest Country Town in Lake County.
Brian Fisher is owner of www.suiteonmain.com and a KBA member since 2006.
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- Written by: Jon Hochschartner
For those who aren’t familiar with the term, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. It has the potential to dramatically reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions, pandemic risk and the suffering we inflict on animals.
“Cultivated meat is one of the solutions to the climate challenge,” Katrín Jakobsdóttir said. “The Icelandic authorities are determined to pave the way for the adoption of new solutions in Iceland and we are eager to see the development of [a European Union] regulatory framework for cultivated meat.”
Instead of attempting to ban this new protein, as some American politicians have, our leaders should help advance the technology behind it.
For instance, cultivated meat is currently too expensive to mass produce. This can be rectified with increased public funding for cultivated-meat research, which legislators should support.
Jon Hochschartner is a journalist and author who has written about animal rights. He lives in Granby, Connecticut.
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- Written by: Carolynn Jarrett
He said: “We overestimate crime’s frequency because it dominates the news. Random violence is newsworthy since it’s rare. Routine kindness isn’t reported; it’s too common. Relax! Our world’s doing better than you imagine.”
It’s so easy to be dismayed by the cruelties and suffering of war and the injustices that exist, we tend to overlook the kindness, cooperation and consideration that we receive from friends, family and strangers.
Carolynn Jarrett lives in Clearlake, California.
