My brother a local "income property" owner i,e, landlord, says that print media is no longer the place to list offerings. Craiglist is it.

I've had good luck with bulletin boards, at Community...

Copy of an email I just received from Emily Rusch, CALPIRG State Director ([email protected]


Since I wrote to you last week about the crisis in Japan, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about...

Sara,

I have no great or original ideas. What we can do is keep spreading the word, keep organizing. Strength in numbers and all that.

Wow. That was quicker than I even expected...

In the end the debate about whether or not new nuclear power plants, big or backyard, will be built, along with what to do with the existing ones,...

I received the same form letter from Feinstein Claire. Don't you just love how politicians essentially say, "Got your message, here's a regurgitation of the issue as it currently stands, here's a...

Claire, Everybody,

The premiere source of information and educated scholarly opinion on energy and other natural resource issues, is our own Sonoma County / Santa Rosa's, Post Carbon Institute....

What'sa matta you! You don't want an all powerful Police State to protect us from the bad guys gettin ahold of this stuff? What are ya? Some kind of Terrorist Symp? Unpatriotic? Get WITH THE...

Zenekar/Attila,

During WWII P. Bush and H. Ford did not support the Nazis, they were supported by the Nazis, from investments they'd made in Germany that profits on were being paid into their...

https://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2011/03/22/this_modern_world

Barry,

While Libya is a muslim country, it is fairly secularized. The politics going on there are more about the populace rising up against their dictator, when they thought they had a chance,...

Claire,

I noticed this on a different map the other day.

Kind of puts pay to the standard comment from easterners and mid-westerners, "You Californians are crazy! How can you live there? I...

You're welcome!

There are no new plants under construction in the U.S. There is a concerted push to build them. The cost of insurance in the early eighties, along with the work of our anti-nuclear...

Waccoons!


The best info I've seen for local radiation level and types readings. Things around these parts look as good as can be expected, given the debacle in Japan. Cry for and remember what...

The first instinct of government officials, when there is a crisis, or some dirt may come out about their institution, is to control the information, avoid having to take the fall, and manipulate the...

Sorry, It's A New Dawn,

President Obama is on record as PRO Nuclear Power. His administrations policy is to develop new nuclear power plants. They are shepherding loan subsidies through Congress...

So, I want to know what we're going to do about this outrage!!!

Which was reported three years ago...

And if/when this bacteria escapes into the forests, and starts eating the trees and turning them into alcohol, what then?

I suspect strongly that if "we" arm the insurgents in Libya, a primary motivation will be to stabilize the petroleum market. Given the current state of affairs, there's a lot of instability in the...

Buy low, sell high. That's as old as the oldest profession.

Remember that oil was at a record high price in the fall of 2008? It's not emphasized in the analysis of the housing and financial...

Ban plastic, keep paper (preferably made from recycled wood pulp, or some other more sustainable plant fiber).

Plastic lasts practically forever, contributes to pollution and the ocean plastic...

Saw a pretty interesting interview on Charlie Rose the other night, with a leading geneticist, Nobel laureate. In part of the interview the issue of Global Warming came up. The scientist, Sir Paul...

Nothing is important.

I'm kind of agnostic on the Smart Meter issue, I rent so I don't have much say in the matter, and I don't suffer from electronic sensitivity, as far as I know. Unless hours a day in front of this...

Essentially, nothing is essential.

Hey there "global warming debunkers", when you deny validity to those who you disagree with, because they haven't met your challenge to show what they're doing to help the environment, you're making...

Barrie,

I take it you've read the various accounts on the website I've provided?

Don't drink the koolaid. Even though I've played my role as a rabble rouser off and on, sometimes the loudest...

Barrie,

The infighting at KPFA and Pacifica in general has been going on for a long time, it's complex and there's a deep history to it. The "Save KPFA" faction are the ones who have nearly...

I'm torn on the whole gun control issue. I believe I weighed in on it here on waccobb some year's back. But like a bad penny...

On the one hand I'm a tactical pacifist who won't call himself a...

Hey Waccoons,

I just sent this email to my Environmental Activist lists:

Sonoma County Environmental Politics

Final Dutra Asphalt Plant Vote, 12/14, Supervisors Meeting

Dear Friends...

My Friends,

I haven't weighed in on this debate thread because:

I've been busy with other things.

This topic has been thoroughly reviewed and argued in previous Waccobb threads.

I don't...

Wrote a great retort, got flushed by unfamiliar and sticky software. May this suffice:

The deadliest dogs

Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, has conducted an unusually detailed...

When the EMP burst hits, or the oil runs out and the grid goes down, or the Reptilian Overlords tear off their human mask disguises and start harvesting people off the street for the feeding tanks,...

The tunnel people of Las Vegas: How 1,000 live in flooded labyrinth under Sin City's shimmering strip



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Claire,

Please ma'am may I have another?!

I feel just fine. My hide is considerably thicker than many others. Apparently.

It's what it takes to be an apologist for a "high official" bent on...

LightBrownLeghorns,

I find your retort to Clancy to be hyperbolic, bordering on the hysterical. (No, it's not a sexist word, even if the origin can be painted with that brush, it means...

I had to google "pwog". Hey Norm! You're named personally in this article! Doubt you'll like what he has to say. I found it quite cogent.
The Collapse of the Dems Continues

...

War creates horrors and bestiality. This has been documented for millennia. Not to excuse the behavior of members of the IDF.

But I'm wondering. The original thread is almost two years old. Why...

Guys, it's called road maintenance. They have a schedule, and the focus is on the most heavily used ones. You can't do resurfacing in the middle of the winter rains. So you get ahead of the curve to...

From a friend with reasonable political acumen. It may be too late for some, but perhaps not everybody. I have no way to check this against other sources. But it's the only list of recommendations...

The chances of recalling Efren are slim to nil. He has a strong Latino base in Southwest Santa Rosa (i.e. Roseland) where he's a hero, a local boy made good. (By boy I mean he grew up there, not in...

If Torliatt loses to Rabbitt, that'll be at least two votes for the Dutra II plant.

I hope she wins. There's been a lot of sliming of her in the PD, the letters to the editor, the editors...

Nicely put Edward/VO,

But. You're wrong about Great Britain. They have a parliamentary proportional representative legislature. Parliament. There are currently three viable parties there. The...

Very good points Tars.

You neglected to mention that the vast majority of waccobb.net subscribers / members get it as an email digest. They never look at it on the website. So the stats you use,...

Proposition 19: A Black Perspective

https://colorofchange.org/prop19/yeson19.pdf

Edward/VO,

Just did a search on the Bohemian site and came up with this:

Doc's Horrortorium - Haunted attraction paired with "Blind Scream," a second haunted house. Proceeds benefit a...

Veeja,

Proposition 19 does not change 215 state law and county / municipal regulations one iota.

It only applies to non-patients. Not patients.

Your fears are completely unfounded, and...

Veeja,

Thanks for your previous post complimenting my refudiation, oops! I mean refutation, of the anti - 19 rhetoric.

But I'm puzzled. I'm a fairly close reader of the news, although I am no...

OK, since no one else has bitten the bullet, here goes:

True 19 isn't total repeal of prohibition. But it's a big step in that direction. As for the new civil infraction, you can be fined, it will...

Somebody I know well, but won't name, has been hammering home the point that most of the primo bud nowadays is grown indoors. And that this kine takes lots of electricity, fertilizer and chemicals to...

I'm replying to the last few posts. You're writing as if Efren was an enviro who has turned pro-development. That's not my read of the history. Look at who endorsed him, look at who contributed to...