Hi I feel your pain in this posting ,the longing to help is strong .Some prefer the "homefree"lifestyle, I am reminded of the missionaries wo approached the pennyless outdoor living Aborigines in...

I just read one of the most important local articles that the Press Democrat has published in my 24 years in Sebastopol. It appears on p.1 of this Sunday's Towns section under Napa Valley. The...

People are really fed up. You can feel it. Globally, nationally, locally - there's a lot that has been heaped on the proverbial plate to deal with. People were distraught over Palm Drive, pissed...

:stoptheinsane:


This is not the location for a project of this type, of any size. The water, the event lighting, the left turn through opposing traffic, the inevitable stacking of cars at the...

The thing I find so interesting (not shocking, given the history of the Barlow shopping center, but interesting) about this proposal is the sheer audacity of the proposal itself. I am assuming it is...

Why don't you begin your recall effort by giving wacco a name, preferably your real name. I noticed you joined yesterday, an early indication of a possible troll. You want to put yourself out there,...

What happened, the thread is gone?

Efren Carrillo reached out and requested a conversation. We spoke and came to an understanding. He explained himself and his position convincingly. We've...

Behind Palm Drive Hospital's Closing Part II: Wells Fargo Bank & the Shutdown Playbook

How A Bondholder-Friendly Shutdown Playbook Secretly Sunk Our Hospital

By Jonathan Greenberg
For...

Dear Inhabitants of WaccoBB-Land,

At Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio spoke of a "post-industrial society." That was the revolution that terrified the FBI, the CIA,...

I reached out to Chief Weaver for some statistics and got back the very informative message below. It does not compare Sebastopol to other towns, though.

As for my own 2-cents. I'm terrified to...

Obviously you are too OLD to remember what is was like to be young and full of piss and vinegar. Or probably you never were, so sorry. Efren will have his day in court. With all due respect to you,...

While your point is worthy, Nancy, (though I think misplaced regarding Sara), your venom is not welcome.

There's lots going on the CVS issue. It's a big chain right at the center of Sebastopol,...

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (1918-2013)

In memory of Nelson Mandela:

Invictus


Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

Recently, I came across this and was deeply moved.

https://caretakersofmotherearth.com/

More elephant farts from the recall Carrillo group

I was not at the Board of Supervisors meeting. If I had been there, I would have spoken emphatically in support of Efren Carrillo staying on the job.

Why wasn't I there? Because my professional...

This is the most informed and insightful post regarding alcoholism that I've seen on this or any other related wacco threads. The fact that our "consciousness community" seems so clueless regarding ...

Not to get too tangential, but I urge you (and everyone) to get out of the habit of thinking/talking as if alcohol isn't a drug. That denial/distortion underpins the phony, oppressive "war on drugs",...

Alcoholism is generally accepted as a disease. What disease it's get's compared to is immaterial. The notion is that extends beyond bad judgement or even character flaws. From a employment point of...

Peacetree, your statement here is wrong, in my opinion:

" I do not think anyone who is in the position of needing treatment for this condition is in any position to be making public statements...

by Ernie Carpenter
WaccoBB.net

Recently, I met up with my friend, famous local en plein aire artist Bill Wheeler, at the Union Hotel in Occidental. It was Community Night which features spaghetti...

W.S. Merwin wrote this poem 40 years ago, but he was talking about people like Paul Hobbs:


The Last One

Well they made up their minds to be everywhere because why not.
Everywhere was theirs...

I hope this poem has the same effect on you as it did on me

"Walk with me as I get Older"

A BEAUTIFUL POEM ABOUT GROWING OLDER:

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2013-05-27_13-22-13.png

♥ MY GREYING CROWN ♥

I’m wearing my hair
grey brindle brown
Getting used to it this way,
no more denial,
me on...

jbox wrote : There should be ONE market, at the Barlow.... forward in a better direction with a bigger, better market at the superior location.

i strongly disagree . Sebastopol Plaza Market is the...

Celestial Seasonings is owned by the Hain Celestial Group, as you know. HCG's major stockholders are Heinz and Monsanto.
I have been doing this research for the past two months and my information...

Sad, but I can't say I'm real surprised. For quite a long time it's seemed to me that everything Hain touches turns to sh*t. How the company that gave health food a bad name ever got in a position to...

Not all the teas tested were this high but all but one tested positive for pesticides and "exceeded Federal safety and/or California safety limits". That, right there is enough for me (as I have...

Here is a list of products and companies owned by Hain:

https://www.hain-celestial.com/brands.php

This covers a pretty extensive list of "health food" and "health care" items.

https://www.bigcatcoffees.com/store_gfx/brand_img/K-Cup_Celestial-Seasonings_lg.gifCelestial Seasonings teas loaded with pesticides!

In fact, they contain shockingly high levels of pesticides.
...

CVS & Chase remind me of Mephistopheles in Faust's tale who sought out those who sold their souls to the devil (metaphorically speaking.) For this reason, we must be unwilling to be led by others who...

[I'm posting this for Paula, the Sebastopol Farm Market Manager]

To Melissa and Deb and Barry and All our Wacco friends...

This is Paula, manager of the Sebastopol Farm Market. I can,...

Hey Barry - I don't know if this is related - there's some sort of HTML problem with the digests - frequently it self-sizes to way wider than my screen and becomes nearly impossible to read. Is...

OK, I've had my fill of the personal attacks and counter attacks, and I bet most readers have too. I think we've beat the core question of racial profiling to a bloody pulp long ago...

If you...

https://front.moveon.org/scribbling-sharpie-illustrates-the-truth-about-our-economy/?id=28085-14994982-Gw%3DazFx


It's former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explaining what went wrong with...

I appreciated this a lot as I'm spending more time outside and have questioned the usefulness of chemical sunscreen (even "natural" ones). This article seems to answer a lot of my questions:
CS...

Old news. Recently (maybe last 5 years) the population has skewed so far that girls are a "premium". The tradition of having the parents move in with the daughter is changing as there are too few...

First: Sorry I did not mark the final comment with LOL for the humor impaired; I thought it would be obvious that since the radiation from smart meters is 1/1000th of cell phone, and there are more...

Which is why it's so odd that population control is never talked about w.r.t. global warming, climate change, pandemics etc. 1.3 B chinese, 1.2 billion indians, .3 US, .25 Indonesia. At least China...