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7-12-25, 6:48pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

ICE came over here again yesterday. Again they travelled all the way over the ocean, showed up in unmarked vehicles, and bagged a man who was...

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7-12-25, 11:43am

bae replied to a thread The HR 1 or Otherwise Known Stupidly as the Big Beautiful Bill in Simple Public Policy

Rural fire departments rely on grants from FEMA for firefighting equipment and training. My small department has about $1.4 million in grant...

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7-11-25, 7:39pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

I hate cooking geese. They render off so much fat it is just a mess. By contrast, the pheasants I released into the wetlands here have provided...

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7-11-25, 7:07pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

I could maybe get behind ICE if they'd keep the hordes of Canadian Geese from flying down here and pooping all over our island.

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7-11-25, 6:34pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

There are so many here, and they are so tame, you basically just need to hold an apple out in one hand, and have a baseball bat in the other. No gun...

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7-11-25, 6:32pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

Looks like ICE managed to kill someone in their raid in Ventura County, CA yesterday. Perhaps unrelated, UFW, who just issued some press releases...

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7-11-25, 5:44pm

bae replied to a thread Zohran Mamdani in Simple Public Policy

I'm not convinced it is wise to keep the bulk of one's assets in dollars at this moment in history.

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7-11-25, 3:22pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

I have about 40 acres of primo agricultural land here. I have about 8 acres of it in vineyards, and make ~2000 cases of wine a year. The rest is...

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7-10-25, 7:02pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

This week, ICE decided to: - take the ferry over from the mainland to the largest of my county's ferry-served islands, San Juan Island. They...

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7-9-25, 7:54pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

In Washington State, impersonating a public official is a class C felony. Building inspectors and Fire Marshals should have a word with the ICE...

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7-9-25, 5:53pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

And here's the Texas incident: https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/10-suspects-charged-july-4-attack-texas-ice-detention-facility

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7-9-25, 5:52pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

Ah, here's the SF incident: https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court

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7-9-25, 5:40pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

Oh my! The SF event from yesterday was just people yelling and waving/blocking with bicycles, and some protestor got run over by an ICE vehicle. ...

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7-9-25, 4:42pm

bae replied to a thread Artificial Intelligence - an end to simple living? in Simple Public Policy

This morning I have been working with an AI to walk me through ROTH conversions of my traditional IRA, RMDs, and all that good stuff. It has been...

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7-9-25, 4:37pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

I think I may have mentioned here before that I regularly participate in the large-scale training exercises in crowd control the Washington State...

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7-9-25, 4:30pm

bae replied to a thread Attack on ICE Facility in Simple Public Policy

I wish the ICE people were smartly-dressed. So many of the videos from the mainland I see of ICE raids show people in a hodgepodge of...

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7-9-25, 3:25pm

bae replied to a thread Trans Days… in Simple Public Policy

Sure takes the pressure off the first responder, and because it is a checklist, it doesn't get overlooked. And since often our medical supervision...

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7-9-25, 3:23pm

bae replied to a thread The HR 1 or Otherwise Known Stupidly as the Big Beautiful Bill in Simple Public Policy

This is what I do. It works quite well. Perhaps one year in 3-5 I realize a batch of income, the other years I look like I'm somehow living below...

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7-9-25, 3:13pm

bae replied to a thread I need your thoughts again--this time on Spirituality in Hobbies & Creativity

1: For me, "spirituality" means a search for meaning and connection to something larger than myself. Something that transcends the individual, and...

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7-9-25, 2:55pm

bae replied to a thread Trans Days… in Simple Public Policy

When doing EMT-type medical stuff on calls, my required checklist at one point asks the question of the patient: "Is there a chance you may be...

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7-8-25, 10:32am

bae replied to a thread Artificial Intelligence - an end to simple living? in Simple Public Policy

I had my water heater burst yesterday. I fed a poorly-lit photograph of the data plate off the failed heater to my AI friend. It contained very...

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7-5-25, 8:24pm

bae replied to a thread Zohran Mamdani in Simple Public Policy

Bingo.

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7-4-25, 10:11pm

bae replied to a thread Happy Independence Day in Holidays

I spent some of this evening restoring the pintle mount on my yacht, so I can quickly mount my .50 Browning M2, in case my application for a Letter...

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7-4-25, 4:40pm

bae replied to a thread Happy Independence Day in Holidays

It is usually the busiest day of the year for me, as the island is packed with tourists, and the weekend packed with activities. Which causes our...

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7-2-25, 8:15pm

bae replied to a thread The HR 1 or Otherwise Known Stupidly as the Big Beautiful Bill in Simple Public Policy

To be fair, the last draft of the bill I looked at will benefit me quite a bit financially. If I were only concerned with my own wallet, well, …

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7-2-25, 12:37pm

bae replied to a thread The HR 1 or Otherwise Known Stupidly as the Big Beautiful Bill in Simple Public Policy

It will be disastrous for my community.

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6-29-25, 4:27pm

bae replied to a thread Artificial Intelligence - an end to simple living? in Simple Public Policy

It seems to think my diet plan has been working better than it has :-)

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6-29-25, 1:12am

bae replied to a thread Artificial Intelligence - an end to simple living? in Simple Public Policy

OK, I have a specially-trained AI. Some of the training inputs are essentially every keystroke I have made since 1979 or so. Emails, written...

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6-28-25, 10:13pm

bae replied to a thread Passkeys in Consumerism & The Media

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6-28-25, 1:57am

bae replied to a thread Trans Days… in Simple Public Policy

Good article in Washington Post: "I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine" archive.is link to avoid...

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6-27-25, 3:30am

bae replied to a thread Iran on the Ropes in Simple Public Policy

Congress abandoned its Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 sole power to declare war decades ago. Congress has abandoned a lot of its powers and...

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6-21-25, 7:13pm

bae replied to a thread Hot! Hot! Hot! in Environmental Issues

51F here today and foggy. Woodstove going.

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6-17-25, 5:51pm

bae replied to a thread Protests in Europe over tourism in Open Forum

The small house on the beach here that I bought for my mother for ~$400k is now > $2.5 million. Thank goodness Washington State has the...

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6-17-25, 2:39pm

bae replied to a thread Protests in Europe over tourism in Open Forum

My island has ~5500 year-round residents. We get ~ 1 million tourist visitors a year. Real estate is totally unaffordable for anyone who works...

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6-17-25, 1:07pm

bae replied to a thread Privacy in Open Forum

I'm not too worried. Once they find me they have to swim across 20 miles of killer whale-infested stormy seas, then climb halfway up the tallest...

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6-17-25, 4:32am

bae replied to a thread Do you do this? in Open Forum

I don't flash my lights to warn speeders. I call dispatch to report them :-)

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6-15-25, 4:52pm

bae replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago when we met for dim sum in San Francisco to talk about what to do about the Steve Jackson Games...

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6-15-25, 2:59pm

bae replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

Here's a good resource for that: https://www.eff.org/issues/border-searches

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6-14-25, 11:48pm

bae replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

Well, it’s such a small community that we try not to let political differences divide us too much, as we all have to work together to make it...

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6-14-25, 11:26pm

bae replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

There were lots of American flags at my village's event, large and small, new and old. Some small number flown upside down. The format was "open...

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6-14-25, 11:19pm

bae replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

The coolest flag I saw today was flown by a friend of mine who moved here from the Florida Keys about 40 years ago.

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6-14-25, 11:15pm

bae replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

Great turnout on Orcas Island today on our Village Green. I counted ~400 people, which is 7.3% of our year-round population. Lots of good music, good...

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6-14-25, 3:02pm

bae replied to a thread Government Coup in Simple Public Policy

My Dad attended the “No Kings” protest this morning in Ellsworth Maine, and reported an attendance of 600+ people. In a town of about 8000. My...

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6-13-25, 9:33pm

bae replied to a thread Iran on the Ropes in Simple Public Policy

I was in high school during the Iranian Revolution of 1978/79. We had two sisters attending my small boarding school, from Iran, daughters of a...

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