"No electoral system is perfect, but we believe ranked-choice voting has improved San Francisco's elections in ways that are not fully appreciated. For example, thanks partly to ranked-choice voting,...

Right on, Shandi! And thank you, Dixon, for your dependable geezing and codging. "Chronologically gifted" is a hoot! Of the choices offered in the poll, i picked Boomer, which i'll always be. I...

Very possibly everyone reading this already knows, but: Never buy anything from a store that sells puppies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvT6XTMv1ag&feature=youtu.be

I second coming up with other income sources. You need something immediately, though, and for that i'd suggest Legal Aid. A lot of the staff have worked in human services offices and know how to...

First, a technical note: The second link, the one with peace in it, got me a "Server Not Found" message.
I think the real reason we don't have lasting peace is much simpler than any large-group...

I [Cory] periodically take in homeless cats, fix them up & find them a home. Zelda was a homeless cat who was abandoned about 2+ years ago. No one was taking care of her, so I brought her home....

I worked for 35 years with, as it was called then, the anti-FGM campaign, and i see no reason to mutilate anyone's external genitalia even to the extent of actual circumcision. (What's usually...

There's plenty of difference between Romney and Obama--the latter simply isn't free to act on his
wishes for the country. Why not? -- Does JFK ring a bell? We can't know what's going on behind the ...

'Prayer can help with high blood pressure, asthma, heart attacks, headaches, and anxiety; moreover, it can alter enzyme activity, blood cell growth, and the germination of seeds. [Larry] Dossey...

OK, this is the first time I’ve gotten a real explanation from a Green: The Greens don’t exclude the possibility
of socialism. That’s a relief. Back before everyone had computers, I wrote the...

Can some Green explain to me how Greens figure we can meet the goals of the Green Party
under capitalism? The only second party with ballot status (I refuse to refer to the Demican/Republicrat ...

Barry and Linda, i'm so pleased for both of you!

US military contractors are further increasing their profits by conning people into slavery.

Slavery still exists in the 21st century – and it’s being supported by money from American taxpayers....

See
www.lostapet.org
and
https://blog.aspca.org/content/finding-lost-pet

Please send letters to the editors of whatever papers you care to, through firedoglake.com, asking them to increase coverage of Manning's trial, and to the White House, asking the Commander-in-Chief...

I know i've posted this information before, but it bears repeating: Go to lostapet.org; also put up
at least a hundred fliers--with the word Reward displayed prominently--and replace each one ...

I completely agree and would also like USPS employees to stop putting Christmas decorations
on public counters. Here's the tangent: What i'd really love is to get Andrew Jackson's
bloodthirstily...

This is very well put, and the little things do add up; i wish there were some way to get out from under
the influence of the mega-corporations and still benefit people living with both feet in...

This is free neutering week at the Humane Society on Hwy. 12 just west of Santa Rosa. This eliminates any possible excuse for putting a non-human animal through a lot of misery.

The following is only a partial list of the Hayden's Law provisions Brown plans to repeal. I wrote him, "I am against rolling back the non-human animal protections for which so many have worked so...

No, i've heard too many stories, from people close to the sufferers, of ill consequences
from the shot. If i'm around someone who's sick--or around a lot of people in general--
i do a nasal rinse...

Occupy Erie has faced 7 devastating raids but refuses to quit, thanks in-part to people's support.
Their liaison Mark H. writes, "While the supplies sent have been greatly welcomed,
the knowledge...

Make this a county of refuge for immigrants. Instruct all police officers and sheriff's deputies
to refrain from reporting undocumented immigrants, who have committed no crime, to ICE.
After the...

Personally, i'd call both actual, male infant circumcision and female juvenile "circumcision" ageist;
the people to whom it's being done volubly disapprove of it.
All the parent(s) of an...

Please do anything you can--write a letter to the editor; hold a fund-raiser house party; write Obama, the Secretary of Defense, the Chief of Staff of the US Army. We mustn't let this wonderful man...

Sign the petition at the link below to urge tax cuts for the 99%

https://www.middleclasstaxcutsnow.com/

Thank you for sharing so much personal information about yourself; it sounds as though, like me,
you wisely made an early decision to do better than the adults around you--and it's worked!

The main thing i'm doing now, as much as i have gas money for, is holding a sign at an Occupy site.
Our goal, as i imagine you know, is to get control of the government out of the hands of the...

Thank you for coming to my defense, Peggy. When i look at Shandi's posts, though--non-human animal support,
sharing practical information, concern that donations reach their intended targets--i...

Thank [a lot of people's] goodness! Whew, that was a cliffhanger! You might try contacting COTS with your resume.

Until we get control of the US government out of the hands of the big corporations,
i'm living on less than $10k/year. If the agencies to which you've been referred don't pan out,
would the...

From Alternet:
There is a fascinating new study coming out of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. It's titled “$29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed’s Bail-out by Funding...

Both in Santa Rosa and in Sebastopol, people often ask me, "What does the Occupy movement want?"
The correct answer is, "To take control of the government out of the hands of the big corporations."...

This Open Letter was first adopted by the Nov. 15 General Assembly of Occupy Cal, the largest GA in the history of the U.S. Occupy movement, with more than 5,000 students, faculty, and campus...

The point of the Occupy movement is to stop the running of the government by the mega-corporations,
e.g. the big banks. If you have an account with Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Bank of Apartheid...

Sebastopol City Council member Patrick Slayter's statement that there's illicit drug use at Occupy Santa Rosa
is simply not true. I've been there most of the time--at all hours of the day and...

The wishlist is on Occupy Santa Rosa's web site, at https://www.occupysantarosa.org/?page_id=128
the list ought also to include nasal rinse bottles.
Too, we appreciate very much all the food,...

Saturday, protesters will start occupying Sebastopol in the plaza near Whole Foods.

Some things i know we need are:
a big, battery-powered clock (Half of us don't have watches.)
nasal rinse bottles (This will become very important to health.)
colas or other forms of low-dose...

The best succinct answer i can give is a quote from Jeffrey Sachs: "social movements take off when people see
that other people are suffering. They know they are not alone." To give something...

I want to underline what Carl says about not being afraid to come to the occupation whenever you can: Not only do you not need to fear the police (so far), but you need not be shy about coming into a...

As i understand it, she'd been active in the Civil Rights movement for years and knew where to get the support
her action would need in order to make a difference. What i think the problem is with...

I can't be certain what Hedges had in mind, & i have a lot of the same puzzlement, for the same reasons, you have; but where i've started is by getting together with other people who have the same...

[ PRIVATIZATION ] It's not just about the money


by Gene Messick of Earthhome.us Monday, Sept 26, 2011
URL for this article: https://earthhome.us/<wbr>Corporate_Fascism.html

This is a...

On the Big Island please follow the advice of the park rangers, found at the National Park. They aren't trying
to be wet blankets, they're trying to save your lives. (Tourist deaths are so hard on...

This from Amanda Marcotte, in AlterNet:
Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without religion telling them not to do it,
especially a religion that backs up the...

I'd rather people boycott ready-made alcoholic beverages; you can make your own wine -- any flavor you want --
and not have to give money to the Pentagon (because there's US tax on alcohol) in the...

"End of Summer" Cat Adoption ...

Ditto Shandi.
Also, please see my post "Small Animal Retrieval."
I bless Patch to come safe home.

The URL is lostapet.org.
What necessitates urgency isn't rain--it's the criss-crossing of the scent trail with other animals' (or vehicles') scents.