What Kind of Times Are These


There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill
and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows
near a meeting-house abandoned by...

<br><br>Glia, actually it does not matter whether any one new where my son was walking to or from...its the fact that the dispatcher rushed a cop out to check on a random person walking down main st....

I do not disagree that there are issues with vote counting, as well as disenfranchisement of poor and minority voters, what with all the new voter ID laws, police harassment on election day, etc....

Dear Sophiopia,

With all due respect, I cannot think of a worse way to register one's protest to the system. When you don't vote, it makes the votes of those who do vote that much more powerful,...

Hi Joe,
I agree with you completely. One distinction. The caller's mirror was broken at 9 pm. He made a call to dispatch then, but I didn't get a copy of it . Wish I had. The "noise" was about 11 pm...

There’s new evidence in the “My son was racially profiled” thread, and what better time to address it?


The transcript of the (police, dispatcher, reporting person) communications is online...

I'm reviving this thread to let folks know about a city hall general meeting coming up this Tues. April 3, 2012 in which we will be sharing this issue, including the dispatch transcript. Please go...

wow, Lynn, sorry about that childhood.<br><br>I find this pretty offensive, SM - I don't want to violate Lynn's privacy that much. <br><br>This is an example of what I think UMH (from another...

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...

Thanks for posting this Star Man.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is composed of hundreds of the largest corporations and large numbers of state and national legislators. They...

absolutely. There's more but this piece is pretty intractable. I have no clue how this issue will play out. The development of modern scientific medicine with its ability to treat pretty much...

that's a good defense -- and accurate. Probably, though, the ambiguity is appropriate because it's ambiguous where Mark stands vis a vis those words.<br>It's not a severe indictment of Mark or the...

I was going to let this pass till this:


I guess didn't read his own post.

https://www.sonoma-county.org/Images/homepage_images/homepage_current_abc6.jpg



I don't think this has reported elsewhere, but the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, at their March 20th,...

I've got a problem with these kinds of ideas. It's simple - they seem to assume that everything stays the same except for a change in one little corner of the situation. In this case, it's in...

Star Man,
Thanks for posting this. I have been a teacher all my life and currently tutor students of all ages as a reading specialist. I also work for the Institute of Reading Development, a...

I am volunteering for the LabelGMOs campaign and have been saddened and dismayed by some folks' reactions to paid petition gatherers. I've had an opportunity to talk to quite a few and nearly all...

American High School Students Are Reading Books At 5th-Grade-Appropriate Levels: Report

Posted: 03/23/2012 3:25 pm Updated: 03/23/2012 3:35 pm ...

Irrelevant followup: "Heads up" (without the apostrophe) is for a less dire situation.
If you want them to shift their attention to something headed their way, rather than dive for cover, it works!

I respect the sincerity of your beliefs. The issue I've taken in the past, and the reason I wouldn't support you for president despite my agreement with much of your agenda, is this overconfidence in...

Lani, ("foxrosie"), I accessed the Snopes Koobface page through the Snopes home page, and compared it to the page brought up by the link in the initial post in this thread. They are the same page. I...

On 24 March 2012, Central American presidents are convening in Guatemala to discuss alternative strategies to the failed war on drugs. The host of the meeting, President Otto Perez Molina, has said...

If I Were President

If I were President, I would create a Universal Mental Health Care Program to supplement the Universal Health Care Program (Single Payer) that would be a central piece of my...

:plumber::peepwall::shitstorm::hitfan::duck: ... ...LOL!!

Now that it's been mentioned tailgating is one of the problems associated with not being able to merge safely. Tailgating is one of my pet peeves. I don't like being tailgated. Talk about...

It seems rightious that there is anger in response to the takeover of the SRFM. Just because Dan has deep pockets does not mean that he can run roughshod over the hard work of farmers who have built...

Mark, until you show some sort of proof that any of these planes you see are below 5k ft. no one can answer your questions. Most of the links you put out above don't work at all, and none of them...

I agree with Miles (maybe I'm putting words in his mouth; sorry if it's incorrect) that you followed up a perceptive and well-reasoned article by incorporating some of your favorite themes as if they...

...and tends to sidetrack that legitimacy to places somewhere else.

Agreed. ...It discredits legitimacy of the actual...

I agree with that. It is reasonable.
I do exactly that which you describe.... ...However there are traffic metering lights in some merge lanes in LA area that do just that, they literally stop you a...

I agree with you. The thing is, I kindof agree with the fearmongering too, at least a little. Skepticism about government motives is always appropriate. It's just that when the reaction is so...

I know, huh?

After watching the video on post #9 and reading the posts and going to the government website and reading some of and scanning other parts of the E/O there; I come to the conclusion...

Mark,
You sure like to cloud up your posts with lots of gibberish. A distraction, I suppose, but most can see through that. You say I'm not responding to your questions, but all three of them...

then I fail to see the point of the post. :hmmm:

March 20, 2012

Fracking wells as far as the eye can see - stretching from Sacramento to San Diego, with zero regulation.

That's the oil and gas industry's dream for California, and it's...

Star Man, I myself have tried, in at least one thread here on Wacco in the past, to get Waccovians to address in some honest way the fundamental darkness, bigotry and brutality of all colonial...

For the record, I have placed Mr. Miles on my Ignore List.

Star Man

Yet, Star Man continues his self-admitted trolling:

"For my part, Mr. Miles, I commit to never "rattling your cage" again (which I admit to having done) regarding the Green Party or the ...

Yes, Mark has been very cagey on explaining how he makes this "guesstimate" which he also calls "constructive geometry". He posted some pictures of what look like ordinary contrails back around post...

how 'bout some citations? which sections do you think give these new powers?

But of course, when people are cruising along at 50-60 mph or more, "a little space" is waaaaay insufficient. "A little space" at those speeds equals tailgating, which equals extreme stupidity and...

seriously, almost never. Part of that is probably because my definition of "yield" is pretty generous. If I've matched speeds with one car whose bumper is ahead of me (often by only a few feet) and...

(Elizabeth here) --

Well, I, for one, was glad to read the article. I always read what Zeno and Geomancer post, mostly because I can rely on those posts to be thought-provoking, whether I agree...

I agree, Jay's added some real concrete information. I don't agree that the why/how questions are the first questions for Mark to address, though. Too often that ends up with nothing more than...

Hi Mark,

For me, Jay Reynolds has put this chemtrail discussion to bed and I fail to see why you keep asserting something you have shown no proof is real. You see contrails in the sky, big deal. I...

The video qualifies as irresponsible advocacy by prompting
militarisation and detracting from Uganda's real problems.

By Adam Branch
aljazeera
March 12, 2012
...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbL3zRgZUBo&feature=related

[one of the distinctions Mooney discusses is how conservative moral biases lead them to act much more in lockstep than the left does. For example, take their near silence over deficits under Bush,...

Mark,
Until you document your claim that planes are spraying you from low altitude, a claim that your neighbors aren't agreeing with so far, there is no reason to offer you the explanation you are...