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AIN’T NO SANTA CLAUSShame on all you politicians, pundits and talking

heads trying to convince the childlike millions of voters that Trump really won the election. Sooner rather than later they will find out the truth, and you will get nothing but coal in your stocking.

Yes, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus, and Trump didn’t win the election.

—Michael T. Hinojosa, via email

MERRY MASKED CHRISTMASWhy do so many “Christians,” who are used to

bowing to authority and honor a man who gave up his life for them, reject wearing a paper mask to save their neighbors?

Check “facts” you believe and pass around. Online “information” is often incorrect. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data shows an average of 102 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes per day, nowhere near the 3,000 COVID-19 deaths per day touted in one letter to the Lynden Tribune.

Don’t trust the government? Why does the Senate hold citizens hostage for help in order to protect large corporations from being sued for not protecting their workers? Who is being manipulated and lied to?

Consumption and jobs can resume when we reach a 2 percent infection rate. Unmasked Lynden and Nooksack residents keep our county numbers

high. Those who want to bring numbers down, back to economic participation and protect others by wearing masks are getting tired of waiting for non-maskers to take this problem seriously.

You flaunt economic stability in the name of liberty. Give all of us the opportunity to get our lives back—not just your bubble group which now produces 55 percent of new cases.

Merry Masked Christmas!—Donna Starr, Blaine

5G COUNTER-REVOLUTIONOccupy Bellingham will sponsor a global day

of protest against 5G (5th generation) Wi-Fi and low-orbit satellites in Bellingham, on Solstice, 4-5pm Sun., Dec. 20. Masks and social distancing are required. This is part of a worldwide protest begun by Norwegian Ragna Heffermehl against the 5G assault on human and animal health.

Tech giants such as Verizon and Amazon assume they can launch transmitters and satellites without public consent.

We will do a light brigade presentation on the downtown Rocket Donut building, and invite anyone to bring their own signs describing their Wi-Fi pollution concerns. Those who follow Jon Humphrey articles in Whatcom Watch and Northwest Citizen on technology and EMF will be familiar with this topic. See Facebook groups “Whatcom Citizens for Safe Technology,” “Stop 5G Bellingham,” and the Bellingham-

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Early Monday morning, Sandra Lindsay, the director of critical care nursing at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first person in the United States to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Lindsay, 52, told the New York Times she was not trying to make history, but had volunteered in an effort to appeal to people of color who are skeptical of vaccinations. “It is rooted in science, I trust science, and the alternative and what I have seen and experienced is far worse,” she said. “So it’s important that everyone pulls together to take the vaccine, not only to protect themselves but also to protect everyone they will come into contact with.”

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made movie 5G Beware by Greater Earth Media on YouTube.

We need publicly owned fiber, as proposed by Humphrey in his journal articles.

New Hampshire created a commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G, with 15 recommendations, including a ban on Wi-Fi in schools. The very young and old are the most vulnerable. The commission wonders why we have thousands of peer-reviewed studies, including the recently published U.S. Toxicology Program, a 16-year, $30 million dollar study, that shows a wide range of DNA damage, brain and heart tumors, being ignored by Trump’s FCC. This includes damage to pollinators and an intolerable increase in carbon usage and global warming.

Much safer is underground fiber to the home. Our city could lay fiber each time they dig any construction project, as they have done in Skagit County.

We do not approve of telecom company representatives on Bellingham’s Broadband Advisory Committee, only experts representing the public interest, and we object to the “Internet of All Things” that put us all in a giant microwave oven.

—Dianne Foster, Occupy Bellingham

MISGUIDED GUIDANCE Please ask the “Science Advice

Goddess” to update her science.A person who slams doors in anger or

throws things is not “music” to any ears that value safety. Abusing things could lead to abusing people, and a human being should be able to control their temper—or find themselves where they can’t harm anyone. No one needs to be saddled with the extra emotional labor of tiptoeing around a sullen and possibly dangerous person, especially in their own home.

The stuff about the systematizing “male” brain and the empathic “female” brain has been debunked. I’m surprised anyone still believes it after all these years—it’s the same stale stereotypes as in the ’50s, all dished up anew. For the corrective, check out these: Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine; Gender and Our Brains by Gina Rippon; Inferior by Angela Saini; Same Difference by Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers; Love of Shopping is Not a Gene and The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris. For starters. These authors have read the stuff not all of us have gotten to, and done the science.

The examples Amy Alkon provides invite some scrutiny. I have known some “feminine” individuals who could be quite systematizing in organizing parties and recipes—or forming vicious little cliques. The suppression of emotions necessary for combat should be expected also in mothers who are ready to defend their young. A person not wanting to fight would have better chances of

survival if they bail instead of just crying. And as for what is “rules-driven” or predictable, I suspect that many a hunter would describe their prey as not the most predictable thing around.

In an earlier column, I seem to recall Alkon claimed that men tended to be more “things-oriented” and women “people-oriented.” So then why do men play team sports and women go shopping? I suspect it’s more of a case of women having to do most of the people-care work and not having enough time to enjoy things, to develop scientific curiosity and artistic talent and so on—look up “emotional labor,” for instance. So if they aren’t shopping, they use their modicum of spare time and creative energy to sew and quilt and knit and so on—crafts that have been too long devalued, as have their makers.

People’s hormone levels, and what they do or do not cause us to do, are more variable, more influenced by social input as well as chance, than many suspect. The social input takes many forms, some quite subtle and not yet widely recognized. Then factor in individual differences, including the power to make one’s own decisions, the determination to improve a skill, and the fact that evolution is still going on. Our natures are a lot more variable than Baron-Cohen seems to claim. The hunting women and so on that she mentions show all this. It will show more and become clearer as freedom, fostered by true inquiry and observation by people like the authors I recommended, continues to open. This freedom must never be closed down. And part of that goal will necessitate recognizing when something touted by some big name as natural or innate is in fact learned or extraneous. The way things seem to be now is not the way they have to be forever. A statistical bell-curve can shift over time, a ratio can move toward equality, and so can one’s attitudes.

If you can’t find an advice columnist whose knowledge is based in the 21st century, maybe you should just put in more cartoons. Or better yet, a Skagit-interest section.

—Kerrick Mainrender, Mount Vernon

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12.16.20BY CAREY ROSS

RESTAURANT NEWSNOW (RE)OPEN

A couple of local favorites have modified their operations to suit our current circumstances and are open and ready to satiate your appetites. Temple Bar, which is sharing a snazzy outdoor seating area with its partner restaurant Mount Bakery, has reopened, as has Bellewood Farms’ Ten Mile Cafe, which is offering takeout and tables outdoors.

CLOSED (FOR NOW)With the extension of the ban on

indoor dining comes more temporary restaurant closures. The Black Cat is shutting down its takeout operation until further notice and the Splitz Grille at Park Bowl is doing the same. Unrelated to COVID-19, Saltadena Bakery, which has hit a whole new level of hustle in recent months, is taking a much-deserved break Jan. 4-20, so get your cream puffs now.

BIG GAY CHRISTMASBlack Drop Coffeehouse has erected a

glorious rainbow Christmas tree they’ve

dubbed their Big Gay Tree—and now they want us to deck their halls, with some help from Northwest Yarns. Stop into the yarn shop and grab supplies to fashion an ornament for the tree. When it’s done, drop it by the Drop, score a free coffee and a chance to win gift cards at both businesses.

BREAK OUT THE TAKEOUTViking Food, likely the busiest crew

in town as they scurry hither and yon to keep us all fed, are donating $1 from every order through Dec. 20 to Lydia Place to help Whatcom Families in need. Consider that the justification you were looking for to order takeout from your favorite local restaurant via Viking Food.

WITNESS THE FITNESSWEEK OF WELLNESS

If your pandemic lifestyle has got you feeling a little sloth-like—no judgment, you’re in good company—you might want to take advantage of the week of virtual wellness classes happening Dec. 14-19. Several local yoga and fitness studios—including Flow Shala, Bellingham Training and Tennis Club, Intent Hot Yoga, 3 Oms Yoga, and more—have teamed up to stream classes in everything from yoga for stress reduction to basics of indoor cycling. Find out more at www.flowshala.com.

SEASON OF GIVINGBRANCHING OUT

For four decades, Master Gardener Marcy Plattner has been cultivating plants and customers at the Garden Spot. But she’s ready to retire, and so has sold the Sunnyland stalwart to employee Paige Lanham, who promises to continue the nursery’s tradition of growing both greenery and community. Stop in before Dec. 30 to give Marcy the sendoff she so richly deserves.

BLANKETS AND BURGERSFiamma Burger and its counterpart,

La Fiamma, have invested in high-tech

warming devices called “blankets” in order to ensure the comfort of their outdoor diners. The blankets are a mere $3, and when you’re done with your meal, you can take them with you or leave them behind to be washed and donated for folks in need.

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non-essential travel restrictions with the United States until Jan. 21. The decision was made to continue to prevent the spread of COVID-19. [BC Government]

12.14.20

MONDAYWashington’s 12 electors cast their bal-

lots for Joseph R. Biden for president and Kamala D. Harris for vice president, both of whom won the popular vote in the Nov. 3 General Election. With 2,369,612 votes (or 57.97 percent) for the Biden/Harris ticket, the nominees for president and vice presi-dent who received the majority of Washing-ton's popular vote in the General Election received all 12 of the state's electoral votes. After the roll call of electors, ballots were cast and then presented to the Secretary of State, who signed and certified the results. [Secretary of State]

The Office of the Secretary of State con-demns a website that threatens her and other election officials around the country as efforts continue to intimidate officials and politicians for administering the vote that led to President Donald Trump’s loss. The site includes images of the officials,

with crosshairs over their profiles, and home and email addresses. “This continued escalation of harassing and threatening be-havior in the public sphere has to stop,” Secretary of State Kim Wyman said. “Sites like this are appalling, and have no space in our democracy and the peaceful transition of power.” The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are investigating the website. [Secretary of State]

12.15.20

TUESDAY Gov. Jay Inslee announces a historic eq-

uity policy package for the upcoming 2021 legislative session, including $365 million in investments to address systemic racism and eliminate racial disparities within state gov-ernment and Washington communities. “These proposals begin the long process of tackling inequities that have plagued this state and country since our inception,” Inslee said. “We have seen Black, indigenous and people of col-or historically and disproportionately impact-ed because of long-standing racial gaps and socioeconomic factors. We need our policies and budget to reflect our dedication toward disrupting the harmful systemic cycle of rac-ism and inequity.” [Office of Governor]

12.09.20

WEDNESDAYWith an additional 49 deaths reported, the death toll from the coronavirus in

Washington has surpassed 3,000, according to state health officials. The total number of confirmed cases in the state is now nearing 190,000. Health officials also reported that a total of 11,996 people have been hospitalized in the state because of the virus. [WSDOH]

A man enters the Spokane Teamsters labor union office and repeatedly threatens to blow up the building. A witness reports the man claimed to be carrying a bomb in a backpack and handed her a manifesto that appeared to be filled with political remarks. The building houses the Spokane County Dem-ocrats. The suspect was taken into custody. The Spokane Police Department’s Bomb Squad is working to determine if the device carried into the building was an explosive. [KREM-TV]

A member of a neo-Nazi group will spend 16 months in prison for threaten-ing journalists and activists. Johnny Roman Garza, 21, pleaded guilty in Seattle court to delivering posters threatening violence to advocates for minority groups and to journalists, including a KING 5 reporter. Former Blaine resident Kaleb Cole and another leader of the group go on trial next March, while a fourth member has also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in February. [KGMI]

Washington’s Attorney General joins 22 other states to urge the courts to reject Texas’ last-minute attempt to throw out millions of lawful votes and overturn the election. The Texas lawsuit would attempt to throw out the re-sults of the election in four battleground states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Mich-igan, and Wisconsin. “This lawsuit has no legal or factual basis,” the AG notes. “It will not succeed in overturning the will of the voters.” [AGO]

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees that Texas has no standing to object to how other states conduct their elections, and rejects review of the argu-ments. [AGO]

12.11.20

FRIDAYThe U.S./Canada border closure is officially extended into 2021. Cana-

da’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency notes that Canada is extending

The

Week that WasBY TIM JOHNSON

DECEMBER 09-15

LAST WEEK’S

NEWS

WILDFIRE SMOKESCREEN

Conservation groups are blasting a Trump administration decision officials said will reduce wildfires by stream-lining environmental reviews of timber salvage projects. WildEarth Guardians, Western Watersheds Project, and seven other groups say the rules fast-track projects to benefit logging, grazing and mining while eliminating public comments. The Trump administration said the streamlined reviews on land administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will reduce wildfire threats while increasing job opportunities. Experts say there is a link between climate change and bigger wildfires, but President Donald Trump has blamed poor forest management.

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2,369Estimated number of restaurants that have permanently or indefinitely closed

since the coronavirus pandemic began in Washington. The hardest hit have been coffeeshops and Asian restaurants.

46Percent of Washington restaurant owners surveyed who say it's unlikely they will

still be in business in six months if there are no additional relief packages from the federal government.

110,000Estimated number of restaurants that have permanently closed nationally during

the pandemic, or roughly one restaurant in six. In a letter to Congress, the National Restaurant Association declared, “more than 500,000 restaurants of every business

type—franchise, chain and independent—are in an economic free fall.”

30 4Number of Washington’s 39 counties that had rates of COVID-19 exposure above 200 new cases per 100,000 residents following the Thanksgiving holiday. The seven-day

rolling average case count in western Washington was more than eight times

higher on Nov. 20 than Sept. 12.

Factor by which daily hospitalizations for COVID-19 increased in western Washington since the beginning

of October. If hospital admissions continue to grow, hospital occupancy in Washington could double every two

weeks, health officials estimate.

45New cases of COVID-19 reported in Whatcom County in the most recent weekly public health update. Whatcom County has now confirmed 2,879 cases and 52

related deaths during the pandemic.

62,000Estimated number of doses of the Pfizer vaccine expected to be distributed for

Washington’s initial allocation. Health officials expect additional allocations for a total of about 222,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of December.

SOURCES: Washington Hospitality Association; National Restaurant Association;

Washington State Dept of Health; U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

index

ANTI-CLAUS IS GOING TO TOWNOn Nov. 4, Whatcom County Sheriff ’s deputies learned a vehicle was dragging something down Portal Way in Ferndale, causing sparks to fly. Minutes later, deputies received a report of a burglary nearby at the Grandview Business Park in which two safes were missing. Inves-tigating deputies located a storage unit complex where two people were found with two safes they were trying to force open. After the safes at the storage unit were positively identified by the owners, deputies arrested a 35-year-old Deming man and a 33-year-old from Bellingham. A 27-year-old woman from Blaine was also later arrested. Deputies received a search warrant on one stor-age unit and uncovered stolen property that included a stolen motorcycle and close to 100 tools stolen from a local home improvement store. Deputies con-tinued to serve additional search war-rants on two other storage units. Other items stolen include $800 in cash, blank checks and keys to houses and vehicles. The value of the stolen property is esti-mated at approximately $19,000.

On Dec. 8, Anacortes Police officers re-sponded to a complaint from a local mo-tel. Motel managers requested that some guests that were still in their room after checkout time be removed from the prem-ises. Officers contacted three women and were able to identify them as suspects in a theft at an Anacortes supermarket that occurred earlier that morning, as well as another from a business in Burlington. The women were taken into custody and a large amount of suspected stolen prop-erty was located in the room they had stayed in. Their vehicle was impounded after stolen property was seen inside and Anacortes Narcotics Detection K9, T-Bone, grew suspicious of other con-tents. A search warrant was served on the vehicle and the stolen property was seized—a large portion had been stolen from various businesses in cities along the I-5 corridor. In total, several thou-sands of dollars’ worth of stolen property was recovered—including baby formula, electronics and clothing items—along with meth, heroin, cocaine and suspect-ed synthetic psychedelic drugs.

PEOPLE WITH ISSUESOn Dec. 4, a Bellingham woman called po-lice to report a man was outside her home brandishing firearms and yelling. He point-

ed the guns at her while demanding to see a man in the house who he claimed owed him money. Officers located the man and his companion in their truck and found a short-barrel shotgun, an AR-15 style rifle, a handgun and lots of ammunition. Both men are convicted felons and not allowed to possess guns, police reported.

On Dec. 9, Blaine patrol officers noticed an open window on the side of the house with loud music playing. Officers contacted the homeowner and asked her to turn down the music. She said she was playing the music to upset her neighbor. The officers explained to the woman that she would re-ceive an infraction if she did not turn the music down. The homeowner turned the music off and closed the window.

On Dec. 3, a Blaine woman was arrested and charged with attempted murder after she reportedly threatened her neighbor with a hunting knife. The victim told What-com County Sheriff’s deputies that as she left her house to go to work, her neighbor, 64, charged at her with a hunting knife and repeatedly threatened to kill her. The vic-tim defended herself with a lawn chair and eventually got inside her car after a strug-gle, was able to flee and call 911.

JUST SAYING HIOn Dec. 5, a Blaine resident told police that a teenager rang his doorbell and ran away. He just saw the back of the teen as he was running down the street. “This is the second time someone has rung the doorbell and ran off,” police noted. “The first time occurred about three weeks ago. Blaine officers checked the area for the suspect and did not locate him.”

On Dec. 14, a man dropped by the Bell-ingham Police station to discuss harass-ing letters he had received.

ALL TIED UPOn Dec. 8, a man believed to be asso-ciated with a temporary tent encamp-ment near Bellingham City Hall secured the main doors to the Whatcom County Courthouse by using a rope.

CRITTER CRIMESOn Dec. 9, a Blaine resident reported she was walking her dog when another loose dog without a collar chased after her pet. A police officer arrived and located the loose dog. The owner was located and warned about the leash law in Blaine. The owner said their dog got out through an open door and was very sorry.

On Dec. 4, a Bellingham Police officer scolded the owner of a little dog that has behaved aggressively toward other residents in the Lettered Streets neigh-borhood.

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SudokuINSTRUCTIONS: Arrange the digits 1-9 so that each digit occurs once in each row, once in each column, and once in each box.

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ACROSS1 “Breaking Bad”

sidekick6 Written test format11 Some mainframe

computers15 Follow, as an impulse16 Pleas18 QUESTION, PART 120 Cry bitterly21 Blows away22 ___ St. Soul (U.K.

R&B/soul group)23 Controversial ride-

sharing app25 Fall back, as a tide26 ASPCA part29 QUESTION, PART 234 “Forrest Gump” actor

Gary35 “The Man Who

Mistook His Wife for ___” (1985 best-seller)

36 “Laugh-In” comedian Johnson

37 Like many indie films38 “Buon giorno,” in

Brisbane39 Go over the limit40 Green Day, e.g.41 “Sorry if ___ you

down”42 NBA team formerly

from Minneapolis43 QUESTION, PART 3

46 Charlemagne’s realm, for short

47 Device program48 Cranberry sources49 Greek letter after

zeta50 “Battlefield Earth”

author Hubbard52 Director Van Sant55 ANSWER TO THE

QUESTION61 Closest to the

ground, stature-wise62 Otherworldly63 Mgr.'s helper64 Creator of Yertle the

Turtle65 Laundry cycle

DOWN1 Movie score with a

famous two-note motif

2 Bounce back3 Aimless attempt4 Imbiber5 Grind to a halt6 Milne’s mopey donkey7 Flaky precipitation8 Comedians Gilliam and

Goldsmith, for two9 Rainbow shape10 “While that might be

true ...”11 “___ be here soon”12 Took the bait13 “I really don’t care”14 157.5 degrees from N

17 It’s a likely story19 “You ___ one”23 Sleep aid brand24 Like a shopping

mall on Black Friday, ordinarily

25 Online selling site26 Wall, for one27 Playful aquatic

animals28 Dated term for

college students29 Site for reflection?30 Prompt31 Corvair investigator

Ralph32 “They went ___-way”33 Actress Lauren of

2020’s “The Wrong Missy”

34 Louis Armstrong’s nickname

38 Unidentifiable cafeteria food

39 Did some karaoke41 Repercussions42 “Ghost Town” actress

Tea44 Irritate45 Fastening bars

shaped like letters49 Louisiana, to Louis50 In ___ of (replacing)51 Monica Geller’s

brother52 Jack-o'-lantern look53 College team from

Salt Lake City

54 “Auld Lang ___”55 “Don’t text and

drive” ad, for short56 Acuity measures that

don’t really matter57 Questionable, in

“Among Us,” slangily58 Hustle, quaintly59 High-jump hurdle60 Peyton's sibling

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