Eclectic Courtyards & Passageways of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea: #40 & #41

Map Delineating 40. Hampton Court and 41. Reimers’ Stonehouse Terrace 40. Hampton CourtEntrance to Hampton Court, S/s 7th Av. between San Carlos St. & Dolores St. View of Hampton Court View of Hampton Court View of Hampton Court and Entrance to Passageway in background Entrance to Hampton Court, W/s San Carlos St., south of 7th Av. Shops, Businesses and Gallery: Nancy Dodds Gallery A charming gallery that is home to the work of some of Northern California's most engaging contemporary artists. Features delightful watercolors, etchings, oil on paper, lithographs and monotypes. Includes works by artists Jane Mason Burke, Carolyn Lord, Stephen McMillan, Chris Newhard, Gail Packer, William Hook, Teresa Onoda and many more. Alan Bienenfeld Fine Jewelry Salon One of Carmel's premier jewelry designer, offering the best in reputation, quality and craftsmanship. Quality jewelry purchased. Exclusive Realty by Judy Ivey Judy Ivey Exclusives is a premier property management and real estate sales business. Over 25 years as licensed real estate agent, Ivey Specializes in highly personalized service and offering only prime properties for rent and sale. Artista Studio Creative Safaris for Women Manifesta Safaris has offered World Premier Vacations for Women for nearly ten years. In 1997, founder Bev Sanders and friends launched Las Olas Surf Safaris for Women with the idea that women can learn more easily in the company of other women. Manifesta Corporation Travel Discovery Adventure Manifesta Safaris offers women's vacations that combine fun, relaxation and new experiences, while fostering friendships, confidence, and self-esteem. The Manifesta team operates successful art, golf, and active safaris for women. Tiara Accessories 41. Reimers’ Stonehouse TerraceReimers’ Stonehouse Terrace Sign Entrance to Reimers’ Stonehouse Terrace, W/s San Carlos St. between 7th Av. & 8th Av. Close-Up of Entrance to Reimers’ Stonehouse Terrace, W/s San Carlos St. between 7th Av. & 8th Av. View of Reimers’ Stonehouse Terrace Entrance to Reimers’ Stonehouse Terrace, W/s San Carlos St. between 7th Av. & 8th Av. Shops, Businesses and Restaurants: La Dolce Vita Italian. La Dolce Vita has a cozy dining room and rooftop patio seating, providing a romantic and charming atmosphere to enjoy Italian and Mediterranean food in Carmel. The Pasta Palate Fresh Pasta Factory Wittpenn’s Antiques A wide selection of Antiques, Art and Collectibles. Buys and Sells Antiques, Art and Collectibles. A Bead Above A full service bead store that sells beads from around the world - glass beads from India and Germany, beads from Japan, stone beads cut in China, beads from Africa, fresh water pearl beads, garnet beads, many semi-precious beads, metal beads, as well as beading supplies, beaded jewelry and much more. All the colors of the rainbow in glass plus semi-precious gemstones, wood, shell, crystal, metal and bone. They also have a large selection of size 11 seed beads, as well as bead findings and unique centerpeices. Everything you need to create beautiful beaded jewlery. Nancy’s Hair Design An original Carmel salon in the true tradition and creative spirit that is Carmel. For 37 years they have offered the comfort, relaxed atmosphere and warm hospitality you would expect in Carmel. They specialize in special-occasion updo's, weddings and on-location services, color and color correction, permanents, highlighting and precision haircuts. Also feature permanent makeup using pigments, not dyes and offering multiple color choices from dramatic to soft and subtle tones, suitable for your personality. Monterey Peninsula Appraisers Monterey Peninsula Appraisers was established in 1972; a full service Real Estate Appraisal Company serving Monterey and San Benito Counties. Provides quick, affordable and high quality appraisals for Sales, Refinance, PMI Removal, Relocation, Divorce, Litigation, Insurance Claims, Property Settlement, Mediation, Trusts, Partial Interest and Retrospective Valuation purposes. The Carmel Pine Cone Carmel's weekly newspaper founded in 1915, which covers politics, the environment, the arts and real estate news from Big Sur, Carmel Valley, Pebble Beach and Monterey. The newspaper is published every Friday. Flipside Design, Inc. Flipside Design provides design and strategy services for all of your product development and package needs, trademark design for brand image and package prototyping and injection mold design and tooling of product components for presentations, focus groups and patents. Nancy Callahan, CPA, CFP Accounting/Auditing/Bookkeeping Law Offices of Michael Lykken

Eclectic Courtyards & Passageways of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea: #42, #43 & #44

Map Delineating #42 Bell Tower Court, #43 Heather Glen Court and #44 Sunset Terrace 42. Bell Tower Court Entrance to Bell Tower Court, E/s San Carlos St., south of 7th Av. Entrance to Bell Tower Court, S/s 7th Av., east of San Carlos St. Shops, Businesses and Gallery: Renate Fine Art Gallery Tiger Lily Florist & Gifts Extensive selection of orchids, other exotic flowers and assorted plants. Specializes in loose European design and carry a unique line of gifts. Weddings are their forte. Heart 2 Heart The Elegant Set More than 20 years in the same location, features the most elegant assortment of crystal and table linens on the Monterey Peninsula. They sell the finest crystal made - Lalique, San Luis - and the highest-quality hand-worked linens in the world. All the items in the shop are purchased individually, usually in their country of origin, by owner Ken Derrick. 43. Heather Glen Court Heather Glen Court Sign Entrance to Heather Glen Court, W/s Mission St., north of 8th Av. View of Courtyard Shops, Businesses and Law Offices: Coastal Luxury Management Carmel Coin & Stamp Shop Thomas V. Nash, Attn Aggressive Trial Counsel with Extensive DUI Experience • DUI in Monterey County • DUI • CA Department of Motor Vehicles & DUI • Drug Crimes • Domestic Violence • Juvenile Cases • Other Felonies • Other Misdemeanors • White Collar Crimes Catalyst Wealth Management, LLC. Synergist Wealth Advisors LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor, provides comprehensive, integrated financial strategies to individuals, executives, institutions and families. (Catalyst Wealth Management LLC, the holding company) Jill’s of Carmel Fashion Boutique Jill's of Carmel features one primary designer women's clothing line at a time. Rotates the brands every 4 to 8 weeks, giving the customer an opportunity to return frequently to an absolutely new shopping environment! Linda M. Masten Attorney At Law Mast Restaurant Management Carmel’s Best Restaurants. Anton & Michel, the Grill on Ocean Avenue, PortaBella, Village Corner Mediterranean Bistro, Merlot! bistro and Flaherty’s 44. Sunset Terrace Entrance to Sunset Terrace, W/s Mission St., north of 8th Av. View of Sunset Terrace Entrance to Sunset Terrace, N/s 8th Av., west of Mission St. Shops, Businesses and Restaurant: Knapp Hardware Complete hardware department. Plumbing and electrical building materials. Plywood, power tools and specialty items. Prefab cabinets, shutters and Corian and formica counter tops. The Mane Attraction Hair & Nail Salon Sunset Massage Therapy Scott D. Flewelling, CMT • Swedish • Deep Tissue • Therapeutic • Hot Stone • Sports • Chair • Relaxation Nationally Certified through NCTMB, Member ABMP J.L DiBenedetto Construction General Contractor Carmel Appraisal Service H.K. Bartron SRA Reed Bartron Members Appraisal Institute State Certified Residential Appraisers Mark S. Askew Appraisal Service Real Estate Appraisal Level Ledgers Bookkeeping & Payroll Services Richard Vieille, PhD Psychologist Specialties include Anxiety or Fears, Personality Disorders, Depression, et cetera. Hanagasa Japanese Restaurant Sushi Bar Japanese.Hanagasa Japanese Restaurant features authentic Japanese food and a full sushi menu.

Eclectic Courtyards & Passageways of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea: #45

Map Delineating #45 Sunset Community and Cultural Center Terrace and Plaza 45. Sunset Community and Cultural Center Terrace and Plaza View of Terrace View of Terrace View of Terrace View of Plaza from Terrace View of Plaza towards Terrace View of Plaza Office, Rooms & Tenants: Center for Photographic Art The Center for Photographic Art is a non-profit organization that presents major international photographic exhibitions throughout the year, as well as educational workshops and lectures. The organization endeavors to promote a better understanding and awareness of many different approaches to the photographic medium. CPA is celebrating over 30 years of fine art photography exhibitions in the same gallery, which was originally established as the Friends of Photography by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and other classic artists. Sunset Center Office Executive Director: Peter Lesnik The Sunset Center is a community gathering place, where citizens of the region meet to enjoy the full spectrum of performing arts, view visual-arts exhibits, exchange ideas, learn, and attend organization meetings and educational events. The Center is also home to some of the region’s leading performing-arts organizations, visual and arts service organizations, and volunteer groups. Artists, local citizens and regional neighbors come together to share talents, ideas and enjoyment of one another in a carefully maintained, state-of-the-art historic facility, governed in a fiscally prudent manner that responds to the dynamic environment of the region. Marjorie Evans Gallery Ongoing art exhibits. Gallery is open Mon - Fri 9am to 5:00 pm. Bingham Room Chapman Room Arts Council for Monterey County Executive Director: Paulette Lynch The Mission of The Arts Council for Monterey County is to improve the quality of life in our region through the arts. Our programs nurture and promote access, participation and excellence in all arts disciplines. The Arts Council provides arts education to over 10,000 students thanks to support from local PTAs, foundations, businesses and individuals. We provide promotional, technical and financial support to over fifty arts organizations thanks to funding from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Babcock Room Sunset Theater The historic Sunset Center Theater is an ideal venue for live performances – from piano recitals to lectures and debates, musicals, rock-n-roll, operas, ballet to full-sized orchestral and theatrical productions. The 718 seat theater allows for several stage configurations, including an orchestra pit or thrust forestage. Complete lighting and sound controls, the option for an in-house sound board and backstage amenities ensure that staff and artists can plan a program for the optimal enjoyment of the audience. THE END

They Can't Let Him Back In, Michael Anton

They Can't Let Him Back In

Michael Anton

July 28, 2022

Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump. The regime can’t allow Trump to be president not because of who he is (although that grates), but because of who his followers are. That class—Angelo Codevilla’s “country class”—must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want.

Plan A is to use the Jan. 6 show trials to make it impossible for Trump to run again, or barring that, to win again.

Plan B is for the Jan. 6 committee to lay the groundwork for an indictment of Trump.

Plan C, if none of this works, is to have Trump declared ineligible under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Plan D—just beat him at the ballot box—is also risky.

Plan E is to cheat.

Which leaves Plan F,…but they have made clear that “under no circumstance” can Trump be allowed to take office again.

Forest, Parks & Beach Department: Only 3% of City’s Annual Budget

ABSTRACT: Items involving the Forest, Parks and Beach Department are presently, including a recent expenditure for weed abatement in Mission Trail Nature Preserve and budgetary items from the adopted budget. Comments are made with respect to the City’s failure to adequately fund the Forest, Parks and Beach Department. Carmel-by-the-Sea October 2007 Check Register 113984 10/9/07 CARMEL GARDEN & IRRIGATN $ 8,613.00 WEED ABATEMENT-MISSION TRAILS PARK & FLANDERS PROPERTY CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA CALIFORNIA ADOPTED BUDGET FISCAL YEARS 2007/08 THROUGH 2009/10 FOREST, PARKS AND BEACH The Forest, Parks and Beach Department manages and maintains the City's urban forest, parks and beach in order to preserve the windbreak protection, abate soil erosion, enhance the natural beauty, and maintain the outdoor recreational facilities of the community. Revised 07/08: Salaries / Benefits $ 274,909 Materials / Services $ 182,752 Total $ 457,661 NOTE: FY 2007/08 Salaries of $182,376 is $8,364 less than FY 2006/07 Salaries of $190,740, while FY 2007/08 Outside Labor of $129,431 is $25,000 more than FY 2006/07 of $104,431. City of Carmel-by-the-Sea ORGANIZATIONAL CHART FY 2007-2008 PUBLIC SERVICES FPB Forester Tree Care Specialists (2) 66 Full-Time Employees COMMENTS: • With a Forest, Parks and Beach Department mission of managing and maintaining “the City's urban forest, parks and beach in order to preserve the windbreak protection, abate soil erosion, enhance the natural beauty, and maintain the outdoor recreational facilities of the community,” the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea cannot fulfill its mission with only an Acting City Forester, two Tree Care Specialists and a budget of $457,661 for Fiscal year 2007/08. • $457,661 Forest, Parks and Beach FY 2007/08 Budget represents only 3% of the total Revised Budget of $13,094,894 for FY 2007/08. And 3 Full-Time Forest, Parks and Beach employees represent only 5% of the total number of city employees (66) for FY 2007/08. • The October 2007 expenditure of $8,613.00 to Carmel Garden & Irrigation for “Weed Abatement” in Mission Trail Nature Preserve and Flanders Mansion Property would be unnecessary if the City Council staffed the Forest, Parks and Beach Department with an adequate number of employees. Moreover, the advantage of having full-time employees as opposed to outside consultants is their commitment to the City and their institutional memory which allows them to anticipate the needs and requirements of the forest, parks and beach and swiftly act to accomplish those needs and requirements. • In view of the recent reports entitled “Suggested Replacement Trees for Use in the Carmel Forest”, “A View of the Future Forest of the City of Carmel” and “Results of a Review of Trees in a Two Block Transect of Carmel” by Consulting Arborist Barrie Coate, why hasn’t there been a City Council agenda item on drastically increasing the Forest, Parks and Beach budget to reflect the dire need of the City’s urbanized forest alone, especially in the context of the announced $1.9 million surplus?

The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop, LEE SMITH

The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop

How a country’s political corruption, institutional decay, and moral decline can be summed up in one sad family saga

BY LEE SMITH

JULY 26, 2022

The U.S. spy chiefs who signed that infamously misleading letter—including John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, and James Clapper—had directed America’s foreign intelligence services while Biden was vice president and before that chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They knew what his son Hunter was doing abroad, because it was their job to know what foreign services know about leading U.S. officials and their families, and how it might affect U.S. national security.

But none of these powerful and experienced men, presumably dedicated to defending the national interest, lifted a finger to stop Hunter Biden—and really, how could they? He was Joe Biden’s son, after all. And by doing nothing about him, the pillars of America’s intelligence community became the curators of the Biden family’s scandal.

It hardly needs to be said at this point that, contrary to media reporting on the left and right, there is no actual investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop. In August 2020, an FBI agent who played a role in framing Trump as a Russian agent dismissed the laptop as Russian disinformation. This assessment, according to a recent letter from Sen. Grassley, caused the FBI’s investigative activity to cease. It doesn’t matter how damning the laptop’s contents might be, or whether they include child pornography or photographs of Joe Biden cashing checks from China. Whatever investigation might exist is performative, meant to show that the agencies are treating the president’s son like any other U.S. citizen. It’s a Potemkin investigation, obscuring the wasteland that was once the constitutional order before 9/11 legitimized the intelligence agencies’ ruinous attacks on it.

Senator Chuck Grassley Outlines “Systemic Institutional Corruption” Within Dept of Justice and FBI, Sundance

Senator Chuck Grassley Outlines “Systemic Institutional Corruption” Within Dept of Justice and FBI

July 26, 2022 | Sundance |

Yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter [pdf HERE] to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, notifying them of whistleblower allegations from within the FBI that senior leadership in both Main Justice and FBI are involved in a coordinated effort to cover-up criminal activity related to Hunter Biden.

The whistleblower allegations, in combination with the documented history of DOJ and FBI misconduct, culminate in Senator Grassley stating:

“If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law. Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies.” (LINK)

Our friend Techno Fog breaks down the outlined allegations succinctly HERE. 

~ Read Techno Fog for Details on the Grassley Letter ~

IMF Data, Global Output Contracted in Second Quarter, Sundance

IMF Data, Global Output Contracted in Second Quarter

July 27, 2022 | Sundance |

The radical new energy program contained within the Build Back Better agenda, is the root cause of the supply side inflation.  The drop in the production of oil, gas and coal in the same western nations that are following the BBB agenda is origin of the massive spike in energy prices

Everyone knows what is happening; everyone knows the root causes; yet no one will say it directly.  Instead, they blame ancillary issues and Russia.