I haven't visited Waccobb for some time, so I took a peek today to see what's going on in my old neighborhood and see that I should probably respond to this thread.

I left Sonoma County a year and...

Pardon the long reply, but I think George Carlin says it best, and it's pretty darn funny too :)



George Carlin on Victim Groups

Excerpt from Braindroppings, 1997, by George Carlin
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It's hard for me to take criticisms of Indian casinos seriously; not that the criticisms aren't in varying degrees valid, but rather because the Indian casinos are teeny, tiny potatoes compared to...

To Greg Sarris and the members of the Graton Rancheria,

Please consider including an IMAX theater in your casino, that would be such a hugely welcome addition to the entire North Bay community....

This is so bad on so many levels, yet so predictable. We're playing a horrific monopoly game for resources, that's that root cause of all our wars and occupations. When the world (and the American...

By David Sirota
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_bizarro_fdr_20110804/

Barack Obama is a lot of things—eloquent, dissembling, conniving, intelligent and above all, calm. But one thing he...

The following excerpt is from;

Stopping Obama's Next Betrayal
by Mark Engler
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/04-3


Progressives felt hugely let down last December when President...

I sincerely think it's a mis-characterization to say that Obama surrendered, capitulated, lacked backbone etc. It takes brass balls and a sociopathic heart to so consistently and blatantly betray...

https://www.truth-out.org/ransom-paid/1312207122
From the comments section of the above link;

What does an industrial country look like after committing suicide, as we apparently are about to do?...

While RW whackos call Obama a 'socialist' and a 'communist' as a sort of misdirecting political chaff, he's doing what he's done from his first day in office: serve the banksters and the corporate...

Virtually all of his positions and opinions are repeated ad naseum on RW blogs, bulletin boards, 'news' sources and talk radio, all day, every day. Try watching Fox News or listen to Rush Limbaugh...

Speaking of conformists, your self-defined victimhood was as predictable as the rest of your heartless, warmongering, extremely conformist RW screed and sleazy corporate-apologist tactics.

You are correct, but color has nothing to do with it.

Every president, Dem or GOP, since Ronald Reagan has been little more than a spokesperson for the moneyed elite. Here's a brief but shocking...

The windfall Wall St and the banksters will get when Obama guts SS and Medicare will more than make up for the bad press from this necessary theater. The public wouldn't accept the theft of SS for...

This is an obscene lie.

Everybody pays myriad kinds of taxes, and the poor pay the highest percentage of their income in taxes of all.

If over 50% of the people paid no taxes, there'd be no...

I'd be very skeptical of anything Thomas Friedman is promoting. He's an extremely militaristic champion of US global imperialism and corporatism, there's nothing 'radical' about anything he promotes,...

Just seems particularly fitting as our nationwide orgy of kinetic action begins...

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If we complacently pay for the ongoing horrors being done in our name, are we not just as guilty as the torturers?

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Late last week, Thomas James Ball reached his breaking point. Driven to desperation by a system that bankrupted him and destroyed his family, Ball walked up to the main door of the Keene County, New...

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See I gotta draw the line I cant take it...

I agree, astronomy and cosmology are far more interesting than politics. Here's some info about Betelgeuse from Space.com;

https://www.space.com/10662-betelgeuse-sun.html

"Betelgeuse is losing...

The source for your opinion piece is a subsidiary of Cfact, an unabashedly pro oil, gas and nuclear industry shill site.

Science has no chance when it runs up against industries with trillions of...

(oops, I meant to post this to wacco reader, not wacco talk)
https://www.desmogblog.com/have-we-found-real-“climategate”-scandal

Despite overwhelming evidence that anthropogenic climate change is...

Warning! This interesting article requires actual thinking to understand, but it will reward those who spend a few minutes...

https://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=19549
...

The "climategate" emails are nothing but a tempest in a teapot, created by organizations that have a financial interest in denying reality.

Newsweek: Climategate Doesn't Refute Global Warming...

Amazing. When shown proof that record highs are happening twice as often as lows you simply ignore it. Talk about a lack of critical thinking; watching your evasions is genuinely unsettling.

Yes, it's true that there are many record low temperatures being set. What you're intentionally ignoring is that there are TWICE as many record HIGH temperatures being set at the same time. If there...

Didn't you just make a post lamenting how stupid Americans have become? The very same scientific method used to record the low temperatures you cite also shows that "June was the 304th consecutive...

There's a huge gap between saving the world and intentionally looting the treasury for the benefit of billionaires. The former is pie-in-the-sky, the latter is what actually happened.

The sad...

If the American people understood what this corporate puppet has accomplished, they'd be rioting in the streets and burning down buildings. Not only is Obama maintaining the worst of the Bush era...

Social Security is not some form of welfare like the ongoing corporate bailouts, it's paid for by each individual American, all of their working lives. Hundreds of millions of Americans over many...

No one is disputing that toxic chemicals are found all over the globe, even in the most remote areas. That does not prove that anything is being intentionally added to jet exhaust by governments,...

Uh, Dude, no one but me is even talking about it. That was my point. It's silly to be wringing our hands over a possible conspiracy to inject hydrocarbons and heavy metals into the air when almost...

Just as many contrails "fan out" from the south of Sonoma County, because LAX, SFO, Portland and Seattle are roughly in a north/south line.

I give up. Sorry if I've distressed anyone. Chemtrails...

No, you're not wrong in the sense that we're fouling our air, water and soil with myriad heavy metals and very nasty chemicals; we're doing it in many ways, not just via jet exhaust. We're also...

Excellent article. I also appreciated the reader comments in response...

"If there is any doubt in the minds of clear-thinking individuals, ask yourself why if the Democrats had two years with the...

They're not "spraying", anymore than you are "spraying" exhaust from your car. Yes, jet engine exhaust is changing the weather and degrading the environment, in exactly the same ways as car engine...

This is not a failure of local leadership, it's a local symptom of a financially collapsing global empire.

I recently read that Sonoma County's share of the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars...

Excerpts from;
https://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_death_of_the_liberal_class_20101029/

by Chris Hedges

The inability of the liberal class to acknowledge that corporations have...

The following excerpts are from a larger piece here;
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_democracy_dies_lessons_from_a_master_20101011/

by Chris Hedges

The ancient Greek playwright...

Yes, that seems obvious. What perplexes me are the equally naive people who think that the democrats have not sold out just as despicably to corporate America.

For instance, Obama's largest...

This is the silliest, most narcissistic, bordering on solipsist development in so-called New Thought philosophy of all. Taken to its inevitable conclusion, there's no point in interfering with child...

excerpts from;
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/do_not_pity_the_democrats_20100913/
By Chris Hedges

There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the...

Does no one on this bulletin board understand that during Obama's first year, republican opposition was virtually irrelevant because, for the first time in thirty years, the democrats held a super...

I do enjoy talking heads that articulate my values, at least as much as the Tea Partiers enjoy Sarah Palin, but they're outliers, and have little influence on the dem/GOP war party's direction.
...

Kucinich and Lee are irrelevant to national policy, they're token liberals who do nothing but contribute to the illusion that we still have a democracy. Corporate America runs the show, and now that...

Except when 'mistakes' are made...

Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Baxter International Inc. in Austria unintentionally contaminated samples with the bird flu virus that were used in laboratories in three...

Now I think we can safely add Antisocial Personality Disorder to the long list of things Xango Juice doesn't cure...
InteliHealth:

Just some of the unproven and illegal medicinal claims made by Xango International, there are many more in the FDA's warning letter to the MLM company
The FDA letter to Xango | Mangosteen Xango...