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WhenwewereinSan Francisco the day after the election, we saw a large group of young people, per- haps 300, assembled by the wharf, but no signs at 10:30 a.m. As we drove to see The Lion King, about 1:30 p.m. there was a mass of young people heading eastward on Market Street with signs "Black Lives Matter" and something about Trump, yelling slogans. It is time for President Obama and the Democratic Party to become presiden- tial and make them stop. ••• The following is a story from the Seattle Times re- garding those protesting the results of the election. Craigslist yanks Seattle group's ad for activists to fight 'Trump agenda' By David Gutman Seattle Times staff re- porter There are, it's fair to say, a lot of people who are not happy with the idea of President-Elect Donald Trump. The Washington Com- munity Action Network (CAN) is a left-wing activ- ist group that focuses on issues like racial justice, immigrant rights and pro- gressive taxation. Trump launched his po- litical career by question- ing the birthplace and le- gitimacy of the first black president. He wants to build a wall on the Mexi- can border and has prom- ised a "deportation force" to deal with undocu- mented immigrants. His tax plan would give an av- erage $1.1million tax cut to each of the richest 0.1 per- cent of the population, ac- cording to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, and a $110 tax cut to households in the poorest 20 percent. Trump and Washington CAN disagree on a lot. So, it shouldn't have been shocking when, after Trump's election, Wash- ington CAN started re- cruiting employees to op- pose his policies. "Fight the Trump Agenda," said the recruit- ing ad, posted to Craigslist Thursday morning. "We're hiring Full-Time Activists (Seattle)." "We are questioning his platform and his values; this is not against the presi- dent-elect himself," said Ro- salind Brazel, communica- tions director for Washing- ton CAN. "His values and agenda go against what we fight for." Sean Hannity, a well- known Fox News talk-show host and Trump supporter, caught wind of the ad and posted about it on his web- site on Thursday afternoon. "Leftists Already Putting Out Ads For 'Full-Time Ac- tivists' To Fight Trump," Hannity's staff wrote. What happened next: Washington CAN was in- undated with angry calls and messages from people across the country. "There was an onslaught of negative phone calls that came in here yester- day from Trump support- ers," Brazel said. "We got threats, foul language. It's a pretty volatile day here." Craigslist has since re- moved the ad, noting only that it "is being held for re- view." They offered no explana- tion for removing the ad, Brazel said. Craigslist did not imme- diately respond to a request for comment. And Washington CAN has reposted its recruit- ment call, with slightly dif- ferent language. "Organize to stop Trump Agenda," the new ad says. "Be Civil, but Don't Back Down." Reportsfoundonthe Internet The following items were posted recently by conser- vative websites and col- lected here: Paid protestors planning to disrupt Donald Trump's inauguration. They're told to wear black and disrupt. That's their motto. Oh, be sure to wear thermal un- derwear, because Jan. 20th is typically the cold- est day of the year in Wash- ington, and the National Mall is a big, wide-open space through which the cold wind off the Potomac blows. And you are going to have to walk a long way to find a place to get warm. Now, if you are arrested — which is quite possible — at least you'll be out of the cold. But then your future earning power will be sig- nificantly reduced for the rest of your life. Of course, you won't realize this for another 20 years. From red- statewatcher.com. ••• Now, courtesy of a Zero Hedge reader, we have vi- sual confirmation of how a substantial portion of these professional, paid protesters arrive at the site of the protest, in this case Chicago. As our reader notes, "I have a video of 5 city blocks on the West side of Chicago lined with busses from Wisconsin (Badger Bus Lines) bring- ing in protestors. The Sears tower is visible in the background." The video was taken at 3:30 p.m. on South Canal Street in Chi- cago on Saturday. As our reader points out, hun- dreds of the participants that took part in the down- town Chicago protests from Nov. 12 were bused in using these vehicles. Oth- ers arrived by train. From www.zerohedge.com. ••• Breitbart reported: More than 50 percent of the anti- Trump protesters arrested in Portland, Oregon, in the days following the election did not bother to vote. A search of state election re- cords was conducted by a Portland television sta- tion which reported that of the 112 protesters that were arrested, 69 of them could not be found to have turned in a ballot or were not registered to vote in the Beaver State. The local NBC affiliate in Portland took the names and ages of those arrested to Mult- nomah County election of- ficials who did a search on the state's voter files, re- ported KGW-NBC. Only 25 of those arrested voted in 2016 in the state. From www.breitbart.com. ••• Almost as soon as Don- ald Trump became the president-elect, protests began breaking out all across America as hoards of triggered college stu- dents and illegals took to the streets to complain that life wasn't fair. These protests have con- tinued for almost a week now and have increas- ingly turned violent. Fox News reported that sev- eral reports have surfaced on the internet indicating that these protests may not be as spontaneous as they seem. Reportedly, several ads have been found on Craig- slist seeking to employ people to come out and protest Trump. The ads of- fer to pay people $15 an hour, and don't worry, no previous experience is needed. Almost as soon as Don- ald Trump became the president-elect, protests began breaking out all across America as hoards of triggered college stu- dents and illegals took to the streets to complain that life wasn't fair. These protests have con- tinued for almost a week now and have increas- ingly turned violent. Fox News reported that sev- eral reports have surfaced on the internet indicating that these protests may not be as spontaneous as they seem. Reportedly, several ads have been found on Craig- slist seeking to employ people to come out and protest Trump. The ads of- fer to pay people $15 an hour, and don't worry, no previous experience is needed. These liberals have no skills and can't be hired anywhere else, so they see this as an opportunity to get enough money to move out of their parents' base- ment. From conservative- tribune.com. JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. JEANBARTON Reactions to protests over election outcome By Madison McCarty Red Bluff FFA reporter The Tehama County Farm Bureau held an ap- plication period recently for young teens to apply for their yearly award, Young Farmer of the Year. This award is pre- sented to the most active young farmer in Tehama County. Reed Pritchard, Red Bluff FFA vice pres- ident, applied for and re- ceived the award with a detailed resume and a cover letter that ex- plained why he should be chosen as Young Farmer of the Year. Pritchard is highly ac- tive throughout agricul- ture production. He has been an entrepreneur in the beef industry since the age of nine. Raised on a ranch where he has learned a substantial amount of ranch hand ac- tivities; mug, brand and vaccinate are few of many skills he has learned over the years. Pritchard is a four-year FFA student having two years of office experience — 2015-2016 treasure and the 2016-2017 vice-presi- dent. When asked what his future holds he said that he would love to stay in the agriculture field and eventually get a degree in agribusiness. The Red Bluff FFA chapter is proud to have the 2016 Young Farmer of the Year in the agricul- ture department. RECOGNITION Pritchard ReedPritchard named Young Farmer of the Year Pritchard is a four-year FFA student having two years of office experience — 2015-2016 treasure and the 2016-2017 vice- president. By Scott Smith The Associated Press FRESNO The California drought has killed more than 102 million trees in a die-off of forests that increases the risk of cat- astrophic wildfires and other threats to humans, officials said Friday. The latest aerial survey by the U.S. Forest Service shows there are 36 mil- lion more dead trees since May in the state and there has been a 100 percent in- crease since 2015. "These dead and dying trees continue to elevate the risk of wildfire, com- plicate our efforts to re- spond safely and effectively to fires when they do occur and pose a host of threats to life and property," U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement. California has endured five years of drought marked by a record low mountain snowpack and warm temperatures. The drought has left trees thirsty and prone to infes- tation by bark beetles. Late last year, Gov. Jerry Brown formed a task force charged with finding ways to remove the trees that threaten motorists and communities. Vilsack called on Con- gress to act, saying more federal funding goes to- ward fighting fires than forestry management, such as removing dead trees to improve forests' health. Officials are pushing to turn more trees into lum- ber, burn them in energy plants or dispose of them in incinerators to eliminate them as fuel for wildfires. Some environmentalists argue, however, that a die- off is part of a healthy for- est's life-cycle. They favor leaving the trees that need to be cut down on the for- est floor to decompose and serve as wildlife habitat. Most dead trees are in the central and southern Sierra Nevada, officials say. However, they're also beginning to find dead trees in Northern Califor- nia counties such as Siski- you, Modoc, Plumas and Lassen. More trees are expected to die into 2017, U.S. Forest Service officials say. People assume the tally amounts to too many dead trees, but fire suppression has created unnaturally green forests with far too little wildfire and dead trees, said Chad Hanson, a forest ecologist at Earth Is- land Institute's John Muir Project. "We don't want too much and we don't want too little," he said. "This is not too much." 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