The best suggestion I can make for the success of Townsy Cafe is to not permit screen names, but to require actual human names of posters, and their photos.

Over the course of the pandemic, as a...

Thank you, everybody, for your kind words! They have really warmed my heart and given me a sweet afterglow for this endeavor. Big Smile:waccosun:




I am very happy to hear this! I've been in...

Yes, it is doable, but no, I won't do it. :fie:
I am not planning on sharing our user's email addresses with anyone. :angelsmilie:

OTOH, I can see sending out individual email invites to some...

Dear Barry,
You have made an immense contribution to our community. Wacco will be sorely missed. Where else could be found a web-based community site run by a generous person with good judgement? ...

What are you talking about? Barry is not censoring anything. Moving is not censoring. This discussion (or "thread") is about COVID-19 case statistics in Sonoma County and nothing else. It is not...

I've got one for you:

Prior to 1955, the incidence of polio was 13.9 cases per 100,000. This decreased to 0.8 cases per 100,000 in 1961 after the U.S. adopted the widespread use of the polio...

This is a really interesting and valuable TED talk. I hope everyone will take the time to watch it at least once. It might change your life.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvxJoUuG018

I...

I'd contact Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County:
1814 Empire Industrial Ct. Suite G, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
(707) 576-7999

Or:

Humane Society of Sonoma County
5345 Hwy. 12, Santa Rosa CA...

Are you kidding? Fire fighting is a skilled trade requiring a tremendously high degree of fitness and grit and has been a way out for young, low-crime prison inmates but to think that you could just...

Hey Folks,

Regarding the gas station and junk food store proposal at Llano & 12...

In case you have not heard, in a very unusual occurrence, the Planning Agency canceled the virtual public...

Taxpayers are going to be furious if we're asked to spend money to recall one of the best supervisors. Nobody doubts Stuart is righteously angry about the filth near his home, but the ad hominem...

As both a private and professional student and practitioner of "conscious relations," I offer this examination of how to own any projections of our less-than-lovely shadowy aspects, and be more...

The editorial “Love it or leave it” by Sonoma West Publisher Rollie Atkinson in your July 25 issue is one of the best editorials that I have ever read in my over 70 years. I have also been publishing...

Reheymann: Outside Andy's? Sounds like sheriff's deputies.

So cops shouldn't take coffee breaks? And they should be diminutive? And "weaponry" talk? Sounds like shop talk.

The Sherriff used...

My reply to this, as it is to the abortion issue, IS: Get your politics our of my uterus.

42155Amidst all the hoopla regarding the legalization of pot, this article in Common Ground: "Cannabis:Spiritual Friend or Foe" by Stephen Gray sticks out. It's a well balanced article, referring to...

<br><br>ChefJayTay,

Your stm "Economics is just an excuse" is a rather simplistic platitude.

I found this definition of "economics":

The theories, principles, and models that deal with how...

https://news.groopspeak.com/a-woman-just-stood-up-to-trumps-latest-outburst-on-twitter-and-america-is-cheering-her-on/

I'M BREATHLESS. STUNNINGLY ARTICULATE. INSPIRED AND INSPIRING! JUDE

I agree with Tommy. The front page of the current Sonoma West has a photo of people with signs such as "Love Trumps Hate." Yesterday, even in the rain, a group of people, mainly from Analy Hi, stood...

Being "quiet" has merit to it. In my opinion, the presidential and 5th District politicking has been way too loud, so I have had to tune it out, in search of some silence to think, feel, and decide...

10 Harsh Truths About Religion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfTh9HPySCg

Published on Aug 26, 2016
Subscribe now to ScienceNET!

Religion just doesn't make sense once these free-thinking...

This is my new political video which is a musical history of white male dominance and the divisive right wing rhetoric which has led to the rise of Donald Trump (American Pie Parody). It has a...

I don't know of any "mega hotels" coming to Sebastopol. The one that was planned for the Barlow had 85 rooms. Last I heard that wasn't happening. I think it was a flood plain issue. There is...

The "School of Life" Youtube channel has a highly interesting and entertaining collection of hundreds of educational videos. Although I have some strong disagreements with some of the things they...

Thank you Lisa, for that clear and concise analysis. I've been saying to people that part of a decision about who to support should be an analysis of who the endorsees and financially supports...

Here is a video of why I'm running for Supervisor:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC_pQZ7D014

On the page below you can see more information (and video) about each of issues:
...

CVS is a nasty corporation. There are many nasty corporations. Maybe we have to live with them. But we don't have to be polite to them or buy anything from them. I certainly won't.

As a vegetarian, I am an unlikely customer at the new restaurant at Gravenstein Station, but I wanted to give the new business a quick kudos on wacco.

I met the owners of the new Apple Junction...

Here's another expose about the Red Cross

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2016-01-03_14-14-54.pngWHEN GAIL MCGOVERN WAS PICKED to head the American Red Cross in 2008, the...

Hi Tommy,
I appreciate that you evoked Jesus. As you may be aware, I am an ordained United Methodist minister who used to spend many hours reading and studying the Bible. Jesus may have drunk wine,...

Learning

A piccolo played, then a drum.
Feet began to come - a part of the music. Here comes a horse,
clippety clop, away.

My mother said, "Don't run -
the army is after someone
other...

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gif
Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance

By EDWARD J. SNOWDEN
JUNE 4, 2015
...

As an investigative reporter, I have long subscribed to the practice that "sunlight is the best disinfectant" to transform backroom politics that do not serve "We, the People."

The power of...

Dear Peacemaker,
You ask good questions, which are hard to answer. I hope that this will be an ongoing conversation with various participants on what I consider to be one of the most important...

Yea! The dangers that high tech present to the Earth, including to its human habitants, is the greatest danger that we have ever faced, especially with respect to drones and military weapons. Human...

The following is my incomplete list of amazing, mostly unique and non-commercial local community treasures. I'm sure you will have your own favorites. Deep gratitude to all of them for helping to...

The clearest conclusion that I've come to is that it is improper public policy to medicate drinking water against many people's desire. Let the people who want their drinking water medicated buy...

Lost Dog (beloved Kohlee) has been found, thanks to yet unknown angels who'd begun the journey of getting her back safe and sound.

Your article implies that Smith may have a hidden business agenda for trying to keep hospital open. Maybe it’s the same agenda in which he shelled out a couple of million many years ago to keep the...

It was five weeks ago, soon after I started investigating the Palm Drive closing, when I attended the April 23 hearing.

That's when I first started hearing the allegations of "conflict of...

Remembering Michael Kyes, Sebastopol's Most Courageous Leader

By Jonathan Greenberg
For WaccoBB.net
May 26, 2014

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2014-05-26_14-43-53.pngIt...

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...

A Second Chance—25 Years Later
By Shepherd Bliss with Assumpta Ortiz
WaccoBB.net

A “Second Chance,” after 25 years of absence and silence, was recently offered Shepherd by Assumpta. Her email...

<section class="sector two column col10wide"> Published in the Wall Street Journal
By Scott Weems

March 21, 2014 7:09 p.m. ET
<article id="articleBody"...

So be it. In the sage words of Popeye the Sailor-man, “I yam what I yam.”

As to the bullshit of the world, I feel we all live our lives under the tail of the bull, and while it may do some good...

After the Lecture

for Martin Luther King Jr.


A woman said I was not polite
to the opposition,
that I was...

Turn! Turn! Turn!

To everything - turn, turn, turnhttps://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2014-01-28_10-38-54-1.png
There is a season - turn, turn, turn
And a time for every purpose...

Hi, all you Waccos. By now, most of you know about Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that, strangely, made it official that corporations are people and money is a form of speech....

Get Up, Please


The two musicians pour forth their souls abroadhttps://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2013-12-29_14-26-48.png
in such an ecstasy as to charm the audience
like none...

thank you ... this most entertaining piece made my day!