"Is Noah's Ark a True Story?" : No its a teaching story. period. what you "learn" from it or any other parable is up to you. period. Ultimately "Omnivores eat vegetarians and other thing too!" or as...

I went back in this thread and read this article that was previously posted on 8/11/13 by MissElaineE
https://realitysandwich.com/176721/womens_circle_pyramid/
Wow.
I joined one of these pyramid...

Unfortunately, no one can keep the women of Sonoma County or any women safe. Predators exist, and will prey on the weak. We are a vulnerable gender, but there are things that we can do to keep...

Tomcat,

I appreciate your statement of the facts we know for sure, and those we don't know.

If he had gained access to her apartment, who, can say, without a doubt, and with prior knowledge of intent, that he would have raped her? Looking (peeking) in a window, or even trying to get in a...

I've shopped at Grocery Outlet in RPk for several years, and haven't noticed any deliberate mis-leading prices. I do know that in any store, we have to be very vigilant about prices on items.
Also,...

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...

Friends—

Like half the world's billions, we publish a weekly blog that offers commentary or rants or enlightenments from myself, from my mate Elizabeth, and from our joint alter ego, the Fool, who...

"wescounty", you're setting up a false dichotomy here. It's not an either/or choice; one can care about the police issues you cite as well as caring about who's posting what, so as, for example, to...

I care as well.
What you are asking for is for the police to be accountable for their actions.
Don't you think it's kind of ironic you refuse to be accountable for yours? :waccosun:

I'll allow...

If a representative of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an agency with an anti-pot bias (notice that it's called "Institute on Drug Abuse", not "Institute on Drug Use" or "Drug Benefits"), says...

I must respectfully disagree with getting too involved with your neighbors. I do not feel that it is necessary to snoop around on some website to check out what your neighbors are doing and why.There...

yes these are roughly similar to my thoughts, all backed by observations and reported history. it is a lot of info to take in, very dense. one clarification, pige users are required by puc to pay for...

by Dixon Wragg
WaccoBB.net

Column #18: Pyramid of Betrayal



"I was on the women's gifting circle and lost about $6000.00 and now stay away from them..."

"I personally know several...

from S.F. Chronicle, Feb. 13:


We must stop utilities from strangling rooftop solar
Ann Hancock
February 12, 2014

If you have solar panels on your roof -...

Duuuuude! We have already covered this subject adinfinitum, it is solidly driven deep into the ground. Efren went through treatment, is in recovery from alcoholism, is in his 30s, which in Sonoma...

I sent the email below to CVS CEO Larry Merlo at [email protected]
Helen asked me to post it on waccobb, so here it is:

Dear Mr. Merlo,

I wholeheartedly applaud CVS for deciding...

I have sent occasional emails to Merlo, CEO of CVS/Caremark and they've not bounced.Try this address:

[email protected]

I do encourage all to write to him.

:thumbsup:

Helen...

Regardless of how people may feel about CVS in general, or their proposal to move to downtown, I think that their commitment to no longer sell tobacco is a courageous, progressive and positive action...

New word definition:

wac-co-ize
/wak/o/īz/
tr. v wac-co-izid, wac-co-iz-ing, wac-co-izes,
Wac--co-ized
1. To be personally called out by name and humorlessly attacked online after posting...

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....

Sara (and others who have the same question), just above the box wherein you type your reply, there's a toolbar that includes a symbol that looks like a stylized comic-book word balloon. If you...

:shitstorm:Tomcat, for a discussion with examples of the "confirmation bias", see my Wacco column here. As a bonus, there follows an extremely long and heated comment thread in which I get rather...

The only way to have your day in court is to plead not guilty, if you plead guilty there is no trial, no anything, the judge will sentence to whatever his opinion of the matter is according to...

I am honestly sick of seeing the eagerness of the mob, as seemingly endlessly represented here, to jump to judgment. We have a court system precisely because of this sort of "decision" making by...

Thanks to Dusty for the clarification. Community Market is a NOT FOR PROFIT, and it is "worker run" NOT worker owned-- which means that nope, there are no "profits" that are divided among the...

Tom ~ There's LOTS of info on-line about fluoride's insidious presence in agriculture, even in organic produce. Here are some articles (with excerpts) for you to check out in more details:

1)...

Damage to Plants and Flowers by Fluoridated Tap Water
Five studies from four countries illustrate the damage to plants and flowers from water contaminated with fluorides at the concentrations used...

They won't get cavities. Big Smile

Community Market is a business entirely run and owned by the workers. Workers get all the profits and make up the board of directors. Worker-directed businesses are the best answer for how to fairly...

Yes, you are correct that the harder question is whether GMOs are too dangerous to pursue. Too bad the people who have already pursued them didn't even attempt to evaluate that.

I think the story...

Hey, Podfish, I wasn't just replying to you; I was writing for anyone who wanders into this thread. You'd be surprised at how many people don't know that soil is alive. I apologize if I came off...

I don't agree that GMOs may be a "promising technology" as you say. Here's why- we needed to assess the REAL cost of these before introducing them into the environment. (That's called the...

To Tom- oh yes they CAN "keep this up forever."

Unfortunately, Monsanto and the rest of the 'Big 6" bring in BILLIONS every year; they can easily outspend any labeling campaign "forever." ...

perhaps the area was waccoland then too. the irish rioted in boston against the civil war draft and there were many here who supported succession before during and after the civil war. it is a...

as part of the english speaking world i doubt there was admiration round here for the russians in sevastopol holding out against the english french turks and whatnot. don't believe the spin on the...

Urban legend.. promoted by Herb Caen

it's pretty hard to support claims about how people talked fifty or more years ago; memories aren't typically that reliable!!
written words last, though.
...

My favorite name for the town is "So-pass-the bowl"

So, on the basis of what your family and their friends call San Francisco, you're willing to make absolutistic generalizations about what every San Franciscan calls that city? Or are you saying that...

Frisco…Sebastopolian

Thanks garden maniac, I was thrown by the statements that locals never call it Frisco. Parts of my family have lived in "the city" from the 1890's, and we always called it...

honest--"pool" is how it was said by everyone half a century ago.

Thanks_Giving.....is a European colonizer holiday....the beginning of much suffering for millions of native peoples.....while we run around enjoying the festivities, i do think that some people...

Language is many nuanced. Not to offend anyone God forbid, my experience is that locals who pronounced it Sepastopool were either from England or said it with that air of English superiority.

This was posted on another BB I used to follow:

"Almost EVERYONE in Bayview, Tenderloin, and Fillmore call it "Frisco". So maybe it's the clueless, borderline racist yuppie (probably trying to...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2013-11-27_15-18-40.pngHappy Hanukah to my fellow MOT's out there. Remember to take a moment to commemorate and celebrate this very first victorious...

Thank you, Barry, for your wise words around this issue.

I already posted about restorative justice and within that framework I could see Efren doing an intensive "class" in the impacts of...

Thank you, Shepherd, for your thoughtful response to the question about the appropriate punishment for Efren.

As someone who spent years working with juvenile and young adult offenders in a...

I must say that I appreciate the humor, play, and fun that has risen in response to this discussion. We need to get beyond labeling mere differences as meaning that the other person is wrong, mean, ...

I think Efren has been "punished" quite a bit already. He has endured wide spread disdain, disgust and ridicule throughout the county, a persistent stain on his once sterling resume and no doubt...

My own thinking would be that Mr. Carrillo will not resign or be recalled. The process that I would like to see is not one of punishment but of reconciliation and forgiveness. My thinking is that...