Just watched What The Health and have decided to go vegan. Here's the URL where you can see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PkJ1MO-LNQ


The great thing about the movie for me is that it...

It's always interesting when these very old threads suddenly re-appear. I'm happy to report that my friend's son did receive treatment and he's now recovering. So, yes, treatment can be life saving....

Alzheimer's is truly a devastating travesty -- heartbreaking on both a human and economic scale. One I have personally experienced in the deterioration and death of my grandmother, an incredibly...

40897Two sweet and special girls for adoption to good home. These little girls were found by a friend by the side of a busy road at four weeks old, very shy and scared, most likely kittens of a feral...

Thanks for this post.
After my son died I had sleeping problems as well as deep grief. All of the doctors/counselors I saw wanted to give me anti- depressents or sleeping meds.
I'm an...

Keep looking at alternatives to allopathic medicine. I wish we could all trust ourselves to trust that we know more about ourselves than any doctor. Reads like your doctor gets it, legal drugs are...

I am so sorry to hear that you are having to endure this nightmare.

I believe that the benzodiazepine class of medications does much more harm than good, are being prescribed generally off label,...

Yes, i think side effect needs an upgrade in category, i googled benzo road, cutting edge info on the most powerful drugs, legally available. My nephew was dead out of soco jail, no clue or...

Wow, this reads like a very hard place to be in. I know a little about opioid addiction, is this similar? I wish you well on a difficult journey and agree that the pharmaceutical industry and their...

Call-ins Throw Seniors a Lifeline

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, Center for Health Reporting
December 26, 2016-San Francisco Chronicle

The phone rang the other afternoon inside 91-year-old Lynnie...

https://www.WaccoBB.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2016-12-19_20-41-58.pngWanted to share this book with you, written by a good friend and a very special woman - her only son was on death door with...

Here's a useful technique anybody can do to help out during difficult periods.
May you be happy! :waccosun:


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My understanding is that the 24 hr behavior is mating behavior.

I just use earplugs at night.

you can hire an animal communicator to mediate and let the birds know what you need keeping their needs in mind as well collaborating to find a win/win situation for both you and them

if you need...

Forget the pellet gun unless you want to go to jail and pay a very large fine. Mockingbirds often have two broods. Learn to co-exist.

Let America Be America Again


Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where it is free.

(America never...

It's too bad you can't get a degree for this. You, and so many others, deserve something more than a pat on the back and an overpriced apartment. There's a bay area organization, Poor News Network,...

Kathy, I think the owner has to have "just cause" to evict a section 8 tenant.
I posted about this earlier in this thread. Please look it up and, if you haven't already talked to them about it, take...

i haven't followed every bit of this thread, so don't know everything relevant (though i have been through the harrowing housing crunch myself recently),
but we 13,000+ subscribers of this list have...

I hope that this does not come to be true. I'm rooting for you.
There can be a waiting list at Sam Jones Shelter in S.R. Most prefer it to the Gospel Mission.
Call Catholic Charities and find...

I'm a supporter and client of the Section8 voucher program.
I'm disabled...and running out of time/money!
I'm alone in this doing all by myself..

So im losing the battle as I cannot be in two or...

I'm NOT GIVING UP!!!!!

The squeaking wheel gets the grease!

"You have to be VOCAL and seek out every avenue/agency that might be able to help you." This is so very true. Thank you parlyvous for the clarity and many suggestions.

This court victory can keep you from being evicted if you are a Section 8 Tenant. (It doesn't find housing, but it's important for those of us who have housing.) Please pass on. Contact the ACLU if...

THANK YOU for this information.
all this, especially the part about the advertising done HERE on this list, should be in the GENERAL COMMUNITY section, particularly given the current thread on...

I must confess, I too, am in the same boat. I do have ONE silver-lining bit of advice for you other folks like me out there, though:

*With a 'Request for Reasonable Accommodation' filled out by a...

SECTION8 housing choice vouchers help those persons wth incomes below poverty level...persons must have no felonies,not on RX maryjane, report income yearly and changes as to persons in home and...

There's not much you can do to change the minds of landlords who refuse Section 8 tenants. That's a fact that you have to live with. You may need to change your goal of finding a one bedroom home,...

Hey!!!!
I'm a good,clean,respectful SECTION 8 tenant,,,,ask my prop mngr..
I'm one of the good tenants...now find me a one bedrm home!
Please!

I too have a Section8 housing choice voucher,,,and have been issued a 90 day notice to move from my rental house of 11 years.
Most rental ads I spend 30 to forty dollars applying to do not want...

Snake, I have worked for/represented both good and bad landlords and I hope to never be one. I just wanted to provide a broader picture for people who are frustrated by the Section 8 Program.

I...

..."I am a renter myself and certainly not an apologist for landlords. There is still truth in the old saying, "There is nothing blacker than a landlord's heart"...
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Geez, love the...

Many years ago in another lifetime, I was a property manager in the East Bay for a man who rented almost exclusively to Sec. 8 tenants. His attitude was that although probably half the people he...

I too was very hopeful after being on the HUD

Thanks ... it's a difficult subject and I don't pretend to know the answers ... what's happened in Portugal is interesting ... it's seems as though making treatment the first priority is having some...

I am not an advocate for using tough love in dealing with relatives or off-spring who are addicts...boundaries, yes, but, please do not shun or give up on the person. Find a balance and offer your...

I had a long conversation with an old friend last night about drugs .... his best friend is losing his son to meth and he's devastated ... this child has been involved in drugs since he was 16 and...

Thank you Shandi ... you are a kind soul and we're lucky to have you in this community ...

I actually enjoy hard work and I was never a quitter ... my mom was a widely published human rights...

I remember hearing many years ago that the key to success was not to "work harder" but to "work smarter".
But most people don't know what that means, or how to do it. I only had an inkling of what...

I'm not against wealth, far from it ... I think that if you are motivated enough to come up with a product or service that is needed by the population then you deserve to succeed ... I'm also not...

Many of us have had to let dreams go that we've held on to. Being "stuck in senior housing" is something that many of us wish we could say. It's hard to know how fortunate we are with what we have,...

I agree with your statement "the whole game dies if the "little people's" money stops flowing." The problem is the "little people" are hypnotized by marketing that they subject themselves to...

Sonoma County is losing a lot of people due to the expensive housing. It is a serious problem and I don't see any of our elected officials addressing it. When I first moved to Sonoma County, in the...

Just saw this and thought I'd share:

Wisdom from the death bed of Steve Jobs.
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I have to respond to what Dread Tori wrote. I feel so much like you do.

I lived in San Francisco for years and always came up to the Russian River to get away from things. It was my idea of...

I've posted on this subject in several local online forums, as well as here on waccobb. As a native Californian woman in my early 60s, with a 30 year+ history of living here in Sonoma County, I'm at...

Are you a senior who has an extra room or two, and could use some financial help or around the house/garden or personal assistance of any kind, from a screened/background checked live-in person?...

I have a friend who thinks that all of the evil in the world is due to demonic possession. This must be a very useful theory for the perpetrators of these crimes as I've never heard of a demonic...

This 16 year old girl might have survived if her very catholic/religious/ignorant parents had not misdiagnosed their daughter's foaming at the mouth as a demonic possession.

How sad that religious...