CASEY’S Restaurant OPENS for DINE-IN

Roseburg, Ore-The owners of Casey’s Restaurant in Roseburg, Lance and Laurie Mounts, were encouraged when they heard about Governor Kate Brown exceeding her authority due to the 30 day limitation on her Executive Order. They had read the claims by the Willamette University law professor that Brown had possibly violated the Article 10A of the Oregon Constitution which states the Executive Order declaring an emergency cannot exceed thirty days from issue without legislative action and approval; if found to be true, the Executive Order expired April 7, 2020.

“We are not anti- government rebels” Laurie said, but we’ve got to save our business”. She said “It isn’t just a matter of the shutdown having an effect on us financially, but we bought this business from my parents two years ago and this is their retirement income also. And then there’s the 21 employees, they all have families and obligations to meet.”

Like thousands of business owners and employees throughout Oregon, the Mounts have had to improvise to stay afloat.

Initially, day one after the shutdown was ordered they began offering take-out meals, cutting their staff from 21 down to 2. And Lance said most of those who were laid off, are long-term employees, and some of them “haven’t even got their unemployment yet!”

But on Tuesday May 5th Casey’s was open for Dine-In service once again. The response from the public has been tremendous said the Mounts. And best of all they were able to call back to work all 21 of the original staff. But before the decision to open was made they had a meeting with the employees asking if any one of them had any concerns about their safety, or anything else. The response was unanimous; no concerns, it  was a green light to open back up!

However the State of Oregon didn’t see it that way. On Friday May 8, Mark Walker, Safety and Compliance Officer with Oregon OSHA visited Casey’s and issued them a “Red Tag” which states that the business was unsafe and must close their doors.

When we asked what safety codes or issues they had violated the Mounts said, “none”. In fact the OSHA Compliance officer said he observed them taking all the right steps at sanitation and doing a good job of meeting social distancing guidelines.

The response from their customers was again overwhelmingly in support. Many of them said “tear it down” in reference to the Red Tag. But the owners said they would not do that, and let the matter run its course as they remained open.

Walker told them on Monday May 11, with regards to their remaining open after the red tag “We’ve never encountered this before…” telling them that he and his superior as of that date did not know what steps OSHA would take, since this is unchartered territory for them. He did say they could be subject to a citation or fines, but none have been issued as of this writing.

Mother’s Day was a banner day for Casey’s; the place was busy from their 6:00 am opening to 8:00 pm that  night. At one point some patrons came in and presented them with a metal sculpture of an American flag and the words, God, Guns and Guts Made America Free cut out in the metal. Lance said he was overwhelmed by the gesture and encouragement, and when he thanked the group that presented it and all the patrons eating Mother’s Day meals, the whole place burst out into spontaneous applause! “I’m usually not an overly emotional guy” Lance said “but this really got me choked up.”

Patrons have said things like; “Thank you for letting us be Americans again”, “Gods Bless you Honey for opening back up”, and “Thank you for serving the people.” Clearly to the patrons of Casey’s it means more to them than just a hot meal, and a cup of coffee, but it’s the warm atmosphere, and for many a place where they can belong.

Lance and Laurie admit they don’t know what tomorrow will bring, but for more than 52 years Casey’s, now with a second generation family owner, has been right here, a Roseburg landmark. They say they are confident, and have a “total peace” about their decision and that their faith in God guides them through each and every day.

They also want to let the public know how much they have appreciated all the support that keeps pouring in!

A resurrection in the making…

I read something in a FaceBook post from a pastor I am unfamiliar with, Mario Murillo.

“Today, as I prayed, a strange and unexpected phrase leapt into my spirit, “Trump is about to have his Winston Churchill moment.” It stunned me because it seemed so inappropriate in the light of current events. This is no time for cheerleading or political grandstanding. We are in lockdown!”

Pastor Murillo went on to say that President Trump was about to show us more of the New Yorker in him.

“He is a New Yorker. I have always loved New Yorkers. My favorite area to preach has always been New York. My preaching doesn’t scare them there. The New York side of Trump is about to make an appearance. That thing that’s in the water that makes the pizza so great, is also in Donald Trump. You want to get something done? Tell a New Yorker it’s impossible.” 

He made a very interesting point about the “Churchill moment”. But Mario drew the absolute opposite conclusion as to the form of Trump’s Churchill moment than what concluded.

“He will inspire us to pay the price. So what if we have to sit at home and wait it out? So what if we have to risk our economy in order to defeat this menace? The fear is unwarranted. But the sacrifice is doable.” 

Churchill, like Trump, had the deep state, members from his own party, as well as the opposition party, at his throat, nonstop from the moment of his swearing in. Parliament and Neville Chamberlain wanted Churchill to surrender and cut a deal with Hitler. He decided to fight instead, and the people were with him. His decisive actions literally saved England and all of Europe. Just  as Trump’s decisive actions will be required to save America and the free western world from the globalists who are bent on destroying both. But Mario  interprets that as ‘staying the course’ and as I see it, hiding in fear from the virus.

That’s not the New York, Trump way, hell; it’s not the American way! We will face it head on, not shirking in a corner. Just as we’ve faced every other threat or challenge in our nation’s history.

President Trump was damned from the get-go with this Corona thing that was formed against him and us. Do too little and you’re endangering lives, do too much, and you’re endangering even more lives and the entire wealth of a nation.

The president has walked a tight rope, and no matter what he has achieved, as for the party of hate and disruption, it can never be enough. He has had to rely on dubious statistics, and computer modelling, both of which have now fallen suspect.

According to the CDC reports as of April 7, 2020 the new reported cases has fallen to just one yesterday (4-6-2020). And they had peaked on 3-26- 2020 at 8,321 new cases that day (see charts on front page). But you have heard none of this.

Not one news story has revealed what is actually happening on the ground across the U.S.

It is going to be very difficult for the state to release its absolute authoritarian grip it holds over everyday ordinary working Americans.

There are still nine states with no lockdowns, and those are all states with Republican governors.

According to the government’s IHME Covid Tracking, projected need for hospital beds for April 5, 2020 were set at 179, 267 beds, but actual beds in use on that day 22,158. The projections were 800 % higher than the actual numbers. Same thing for ICU beds, projected at 33,176 while the actual number in use that day was 5,207.

The projections were 640% higher than needed. And ventilators projected at 26,544 were actually only 656 in use, a discrepancy between projected and actual of 40.5 times.

What the agencies who have reported the hospital counts have done since the decline is stopped reporting them altogether. Meanwhile the economic chaos left in the wake of the shutdowns continues unabated, in fact new restrictions mount daily.

It looks as though President Trump’s original target of returning to normalcy at Easter time wasn’t far off at all. And it looks like there may be a resurrection of the American way of life soon.

The data suggests we’ve turned the corner, and that also we’ve been played.

Trump’s “Churchill moment” will come as he unleashes the power and the courage of the American people and beats these globalists at their own game. And as Americans……we shall never, never, never.... give up!

Plant concert goes over like a Led Balloon!

Okay a few of you will have to indulge me this week with my stroll back down rock n’ roll lane. Last week we had tickets to a Robert Plant concert over in Bend at the Les Schwab Amphitheatre. The tickets were expensive, but we felt at the time, well worth it to see a legend from the early days of hard rock, the lead singer/front man for Led Zeppelin! Yeah I know for many of you, not your cup of tea, but bear with me the story will interest you.

It was a brisk October day in Bend, snow had fallen there just a week prior, but the skies were clear and as the sun set over the stadium it would reach a chilling 42 Fahrenheit. But all things considered I was in a good mood; following a nice drive up the McKenzie River highway, with fall colors bursting forth in the lush wooded corridor. We arrived in town, staying in the Old Mill District, had a magnificent dinner at Anthony’s (highly recommend this) and walked over the foot bridge to the amphitheater in perfect time to find our reserved seats and settle in for some great entertainment. Or so we thought.

In fact I had just remarked that the venue was so nice, very minimal security, unlike some of the concerts today with almost a lock-down mentality and waaay too much para-military feeling, searches, scans, etc. Not here though. So kudos to the Les Schwab Amphi-Theater folks! So there we were, the show about to begin, exchanging nice pleasantries with our neighbors seated next to us. Actually some very nice folks!

So after the opening act, the moment we had all been waiting for was getting near. The sun had gone down, and the down jackets were our sanctuary against the cold, as the stage lights came up, the crowd cheering in anticipation, roadies doing the last minute placements of equipment and mics, and then….the unthinkable happens!

Up on the giant fifty foot screen comes the ten times larger than life image and shrill voice of the new icon of climate change, Greta, from Sweden. The sixteen year old mentally unstable, psychotic prop from the Global Climate Show at the UN, assaulted us with her communist rant. As she points her finger at all the Zeppelin fans and sneers at us warning “change is coming whether you like it or not!”

The crowd responds, shouting turn that crap off! Yeah I helped, adding to a growing chorus of boooos! But it wasn’t all anti-Greta, several cheered for their climate comrade. Then it became a tense moment or two as the greedy capitalists who paid hundreds of dollars to watch this spectacle, began to yell at each other. So much for the nice chill…friendly mood of the pre-concert. Now we had a literal division of the house, or in this case the yard. People yelling back and forth at each other, as we all had to endure the babbling psychotic Swedish teenager. It is really sad that this disturbed teenager has been used as a prop to sell the false narrative of climate change.

But I will tell you this; I for one did not come to listen to this eco-BS propaganda! And how about this Robert Plant; you want to do something about CO2, Plant a tree! But don’t bring your FAKE science and fraudulent climate message to what you billed and marketed as a night of musical entertainment.

I might have expected this garbage at a Jackson Browne concert. But you crossed the line.

You committed fraud, just like the climate hucksters you’re pushing. Lots of people left the concert early, us included. We had these tickets for at least four months, and had looked forward to some great music. And on the subject of musical performance, Plant was very mediocre at best, his voice is gone, his new music is lackluster, and his performance dull. Maybe Keith Moon from the other British super-group The Who, was right when he first heard of the formation of the Plant, Page ensemble, stating this will go over like a lead balloon. Which actually inspired the name the band chose Led Zeppelin. And there was never a bigger Zeppelin fan over the years than yours truly…oh well…. times change.

Too bad these performers don’t stick to what got them their success in the first place. Oh, and how about a little respect for the greedy capitalists who support you with ticket and album purchases.

And how did you get her to America, which you sneered at? Did you row over in a canoe? No?

Private jet I imagine, like you boys used to fly around in all the time. So much for carbon sequestration! As far as I’m concerned Plant, you can stay on your side of the pond, sell your socialist dogma to your pals over there, but don’t bother coming back here.

I for one won’t be fooled again!

Words Have Meaning

I have been watching, with increasing disdain and concern, the recent uptick in dialogue about “Climate Change”. When this psychotic depressed child from Sweden, Greta Thunburg, was thrust literally out onto the ‘World Stage’, from out of nowhere, at the United Nations conference, to boost the absolute fallacy of anthropogenic climate change, it energized and emboldened the leftists in a profound way.

The One-World globalists who are pushing this nonsense have been very effective in getting the discussion to almost always start, and end with, “it is settled science”, and the “vast majority of scientists agree”. When in fact they do not agree.  And if they did, that is not even the point. Science is not a matter of consensus. It is based on data collection, then hypotheses, which undergo rigorous testing and proving, or disproving. Science is not undertaken by majority rule.

And the data definitely does not support the failed hypothesis of anthropogenic (man caused) global warming. We are in fact currently in a fifteen plus year cooling pattern. And further, the rise in CO2, if it is occurring, is at such a nominal rate that it could not have any effect upon our climate. 

But even the republicans have bought into the left’s choice of words, and have, even if unwittingly conceded ground on the CO2 issue. According to Dr. Don Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus of Geology, at Western Washington University, “CO2 cannot possibly cause global warming” primarily because it is a trace gas which has only increased in atmospheric content by only eight one thousandths of one percent.

But when we use their terms like climate change and Carbon sequestering, we concede ground and ultimately lose the argument. We cannot afford to give them any credence for their fraudulent claims. One example I observed recently was at the Timber Unity rally on the Oregon State Capitol mall, where thousands were gathered to protest Governor Kate Brown’s notorious Cap and Trade bill. Timber and Agriculture were represented there, as they should be, for their survival and way of life are threatened by such regressive and costly legislative quagmires. But one spokesman for timber actually took the stage and started with, “we have to do something about carbon emissions but this isn’t it”. And that’s exactly the problem. Admitting or confessing to a crime that we haven’t committed.

This entire climate change discussion is based upon fake science, with no data to support it! And our only response should be to counter their lies with the truth. They are giving us false alternatives to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist. I don’t know how much more simply it can be put than that. It is simply a case of a solution in search of a problem.

There is no global warming, we are in a fifteen plus year cooling trend, and no amount of taxing the productive industries in this country will solve anything, period.

Climate Change is a hoax, from top to bottom! And those promoting it are trying to bring about economic collapse so that they can merge us all into one big socialist family. It is time to call them out on this fraud, every time it comes up, and not concede any ground!

Dump the Destroyers in 2020

I had the distinct honor of attending a private reception this past weekend for one of President Trump’s chief economic advisors, Stephen Moore. Among the many encouraging things Moore had to say to our group was that we should pray that Elizabeth Warren is the nominee the democrats choose.

Well, it’s far from over, but it is looking like there may be an early answer to our prayers (see Beacon front page today, Warren Now Front Runner).

But if that isn’t good enough news that Trump gets to run against Pocahontas, Pelosi has given us perhaps the best possible Trump card to play in the 2020 election, a failed Impeachment attempt! She has finally caved in to the slathering mob of died-in- the-wool (Zombie) socialists in her party, including, but not limited to, the Squad; Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley.

I fully expect next to learn that Maxine Waters is apoplectic with joy over her political dream-come-true. Waters has been chanting this ‘Impeach him’ mantra since before President Trump’s inauguration.

I wrote an editorial back in June of this year entitled Democrats the 3-D Party. The three D’s I referred to, which sum up the Democrat Party of today, are Death, Dependency, and Deception. The Democrat of today is for the Death of the unborn and the infirm (elderly), they have been the party of Dependency by offering ‘free’ goodies such as; college tuition, healthcare, housing, food, cell phones, and yes even cash to their built-in constituency (minorities and now illegal aliens) for years, and lastly the party of Deception, creating false narratives about just about anything, but their favorite target these days is President Trump.

They have no agenda; no plan to bring order to our nation’s fiscal house, no attempt of any mind to secure our border against the ongoing  invasion, no plan to rebuild our infrastructure, no foreign policy objective, no attempt to stop the endless wars abroad or stop the ISIS threat, no attempt at stopping election fraud and abuse, and no effort to create American jobs, nothing, nada, zip!

They have nothing to offer but destruction!

They are the destroyers. Since Barack Hussein Obama was elected to bring unity and harmony we have experienced more racial tension than at any time since the Civil Rights struggle in the 60’s. We had come so far,  until the great uniter came along! Since those inglorious Obama days we’ve gotten “Black Lives Matter,

ANTIFA, talks of reparation, a complete revision of the real Civil War history and destruction of not only monuments commemorating that struggle but institutions and universities that paid homage to what we as a people overcame.

There is a great quote in today’s Beacon by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir; “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” Yet this is what the party of destruction, the Democrats, has been hell-bent on achieving for decades. They have nothing but hatred for our past, our great achievements, our triumph over past struggles, our victory over tyrants abroad, our prosperity within the reach of everyday men and women, and hold utter contempt for our status as the longest surviving republic in world history!

This past week I received, as a birthday gift from one of my sons, the movie Armstrong. Talk about a great American achievement! And coming at a time when we absolutely needed to conquer that new frontier, space. And yet the revisionists have been at it again. In the recent Hollywood production First Man, starring Canadian actor Ryan Gosling (which I refuse to watch) they show the moon landing sequence of Apollo 11 with Gosling portraying Armstrong, minus the historic placing of the American flag. Armstrong spoke with such eloquence “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”. I was but eleven years old when Apollo 11 captured the love and admiration and pride of a nation. And it was an American achievement, with American engineers, pilots, scientists, technicians, mechanics, and skilled labor of every kind that culminated on that glorious day July 16, 1969.

A brief movie review on the film Armstrong. It was very good, narrated by Harrison Ford, as Neil Armstrong, and some great insight into what made Armstrong the great pilot and astronaut that America needed.

However, I was very disappointed in the efforts of the producers to  try and recast the moon landing as a global achievement. But as a whole it is well worth watching, and reliving for some of us, that great memory when American ingenuity and perseverance paid off! This is what we should be teaching our children today!

Not the tripe that the party of destruction wants to teach our young; LGBTQ gender confusion, a narrative of shame about our past overcoming of slavery, and the evil greed of corporations and business owners.

Instead we should be teaching our young about the free-market economic system which has provided more prosperity to more people than any system in the history of the world. And paying tribute to a true leader President Donald Trump, who has delivered on every major policy agenda he was elected to achieve. A president unlike any other in my lifetime, and one who has restored our economy and created real increases in wealth and standard of living for all Americans.

Another great achievement of this president is exposing the Deep State and the horribly corrupt, agenda driven mainstream media for who they are.

Americans of all walks and every party are beginning to see the deception they’ve been sold for many, many, decades. This latest impeachment charade like all the other slanderous attacks against this president will be seen for what it is, bitter partisan, anti- American posturing by those who despise our nation and our history.

I am thrilled by our prospects in the 2020 elections.

It is fitting that the year 2020 is the year that metaphorically speaking our people will finally be able to see with clarity the promise America offers, not just for Americans but for all people of good will seeking freedom throughout the world. But if we are not diligent in the defense of this great nation, the consequences for mankind will be unthinkable.

Let us unite and throw out the destroyers, the party of Death, Dependency and Destruction in this coming election and continue America’s great legacy of freedom and achievement that have made us the envy of the world.