A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted


When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,
Time takes on the strain until it breaks;
Then all the unattended stress falls in
On the mind like an endless,...

WaccoBB is now CLOSED!

Thanks for willing to create community with me!

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish! :wink:

With Love and Gratitude,
Barry
:waccosun:

In line with: 'If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.' I think this topic needs great care and consciousness around it. All our thinking is being influenced in various ways -...

:waccosun: WaccoBB is closing on Friday, February 5th at 2pm. :waccosun:

:rip:


I'll be online from 1:30 to 2pm for any last comments.

It's been real
(or, rather, virtual! :wink:)

As the virus gets under control the madness of Q will fade, at least to a tolerable level. Most of this stuff comes directly from Alex Jones radio show. He has a podcast. Every once in a while I...

Why I Urge You to Do What You’re Passionate About


When Rilke travelled through Russia
and studied Saint Francis
and fell in love with the married Salomé
and wrote poems for The Book of...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/townsy150.pngA friend called me yesterday because another progressive, west county friend of hers has been absorbed in the national delusion known as...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GTYbsI6UYEI found a lovely reading of this story.

Thanks, Deborah, for drawing my attention to this book.

Gorgeous watercolors.

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2021-02-02_09-42-55.pngI'm reminded of a great book written for children but sage for all of us...

"Old Turtle and the Broken Truth"...by Douglas...

Actually, lots of studies show that online communication fosters incivility. There is something about the online experience that emboldens people, whether called TruthTeller or Sam Jameson, to say...

"Incivility" generally wasn't a big problem, in my opinion. There wasn't much rudeness. And while people often did use handles, their real names were generally available on their public profiles.
...

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...

As a journalist, I live in a world of facts, and the fantasies of the internet, while of interest to me as subjects for stories, aren’t on an equal footing in my mind. The erosion of the whole notion...

Fool, you DISHONESTLY continue to ignore the threat of long COVID. How about a double lung transplant for starters.

covid lung transplant surgery
...

When a child is born, it is obvious who the mother is, but it is not obvious who the father is.

In a matriarchy, where all property passes through the mother's line, there is no doubt about the...

Yes, that appears to have something to with some malware that has attached itself to WaccoBB :computervirus:
If you don't click on the spammy link should be nothing to worry about.
It's among the...

You have the right to be a fool but not when interferes with someone getting a vaccine they want.
...

One persons nutball is another's free thinker. Everyone on this or any other forum needs to use their own BS filter and keep it well tuned. The internet often is not a place of truth. It's a place...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRbbzpw7CNo
The Lincoln Project, Jan 22, 2021

You Had It All, Josh

You threw away your career, your reputation, and your duty to this nation. Was it worth it,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0PzmRfxvz0
The Lincoln Project, Jan 12, 2021

Mike Pence for President

As Vice President, Mike Pence has proven that even in the face of a constitutional crisis...

OK, looking back at our COVID section, I agree we went overboard. There is obviously a way to responsibly discuss each one of these bulleted topics. What I was trying to get at was ‘Don’t be a...

If women are ever going to be fully liberated and empowered then they must have reproductive independence. All women, with no exceptions, even if married, must have the legal, cultural, and ethical...

A really interesting conversation is taking shape on Townsy Cafe about what will be allowed on the discussion boards and what won't be. Please add your comments ... they are important to me and I am...

How to Climb a Mountain


Make no mistake. This will be an exercise in staying vertical.
Yes, there will be a view, later, a wide swath of open sky,
but in the meantime: tree and stone. If...

Here on WaccoBB, I have been adamant that


The COVID-19 pandemic is real and deadly dangerous;

Wearing masks and maintaining physical distance from others can reduce the spread of the...

I presume your are referring to this aspect of the Townsy Community Guidelines:



If you, or anybody else, has thoughts/comments about that guideline, you comments are welcome on this thread on...

In most cases the virus is treatable, but a signifiant percentage of the "survivors" suffer extremely debilitating long-term effects (LongCOVID). I have yet to see one of the vaccine-scare-monger,...

What will the dead say . . .

to those who mourn the restless souls
who died alone and drowning
hands held by surrogates—

free us from these chains of neglect
and abuse by the many who...

"Older adults are managing the stress of the coronavirus pandemic better than younger adults, reporting less depression and anxiety despite also experiencing greater general concern about COVID-19,...

hey, you're gonna believe what you're gonna believe. So I guess that fits the definition of 'entitled' - it's not possible to stop people from believing anything. Just look at all the people who...

NPR has several problems, but excessive bias in favor of their contributors doesn't seem to be one of them. Far more problematic is their tendency to shape stories to fit their format. Steve Inskeep...

I also quit listening to NPR many years ago. In this case, they were reporting the South Coast Air Quality Management District's press release (the link is in the part I quoted):
...

I have bad news ... and good news...

Given that the end is near for WaccoBB, I am going to end this thread. Thanks for all your gratitude and comments (both public and private).

Trump wasn't...

People are scared and abandon truth-tellers quickly... Vanessa Beeley has more integrity in small finger - let alone her reporting - than most. She however was hosting articles by someone else et...

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines DO NOT HACK YOUR CELLS DNA!!! Contrary to assertions, it won’t turn you or anyone else into a GMO. mRNA stays in the cytoplasm, where the ribosomes are. It does not...

I'm not naming anyone, but there are several people on WACCO who are pushing Russian-style disinformation to the effect that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus. You are doing active harm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzsO2ZTRarU
WHY!, May 16, 2020

Hey TRUMP Supporters This Is Your Dear Leader *Hilarious*

Compilation of proof showing the incoherent mess that is the 45th...

Still no ill effects from my first Moderna vax on Jan 20, 2021---just glad to be on deck for the next one---toward AFTER COVID--
the new A.C.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html

Underselling the Vaccine

“We’re underselling the vaccine,” Dr. Aaron Richterman, an...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2021-01-22_14-01-27.png

To fill the void left by the imminent closing of WaccoBB, Townsy Sebastopol has opened a new bulletin board called Townsy...

I know the forum won't be up a lot longer, but I thought I'd report an issue I've been seeing in the past couple or few weeks.

Following links from email message notifications to the website...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j1l-MICZk
Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jan 6, 2021

Angry Trump Mob Storms the Capitol

Jimmy gives his thoughts on the angry mob of Trump supporters storming the capitol...

50881Townsy Cafe West County is now up and operational. It's new, and all of us (including the moderators Jameson Rush and Laura Hagar Rush) are new to it. Please go and explore. Create and respond...

still nothing but the injection site prick tenderness second day aft my first moderna covid vax---I was informed that the true effect isn't on until 2 weeks after the 2nd vax---like the shingles vax....

Yes, there may be some risks to the vaccines - any vaccine. But for me the risks of COVID by far outweigh the risks of the vaccine.

The bumbling clueless father is a major figure in advertising. If you do see commercials take a note of how many feature a strong woman who makes decisions because the husband is too impotent to do...

The crises facing America can be best understood using a psychological model, rather than a political or historical model. The psychological model encourages us to look at the phenomenon of...

On the Pulse of Morning




A Rock, A River, A Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9nTt2F0Kdc
Hosts to species long since departed,
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens

Wacco BB closing reminds me of good friends who lived on Mark West Road talking about how the fires fractured their long term community; I have been on this forum since 2004 if I recall correctly,...

(OT) it's big in the tech world, more common than 'snafu'.