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Re: “Revealed: The Man Behind 'Who Is Stacey Lawson'”
Bottom line, Lawson has not gone the route of digging into Soloman, Huffman or Adams' past to negative campaign on a spin of lies. I have heard nothing negative come out from her campaign about others and she had money to do it well if she wanted to go that route ... That's integrity. Huffman seems to have some too so far.
Re: “Revealed: The Man Behind 'Who Is Stacey Lawson'”
Integrity? You just decided to vote for Stacey Lawson? Sure.
Re: “Revealed: The Man Behind 'Who Is Stacey Lawson'”
My God. Is anyone paying attention to these horrible actions by Paul Andersen. Happy Susan Adams will not get elected if this is the kind of people she trusts and has on her staff. I can only imagine Norman Soloman is just as bad ... spending big bucks to slander another candidate.
What ever happened to integrity?
Stacey Lawson just got my vote. The only "real" candidate in the race who is focusing us, the people. Seriously a sign of strength to keep the focus on us and our needs.
Re: “Letters to the Editor: May 30, 2012”
I bet you could ask almost any American today why the U.S. was fighting in Vietnam and they couldn't give you a good reason. You know the reasons that Johnson and Kennedy gave?--"We're fighting for freedom for the Vietnamese. We're fighting to protect free South Vietnam Well, whether they wanted to be or not they wound up not being free, the U.S. lost the war and North Vietnam took over!
Really now, how many Americans really cared about the Vietnamese being free or not? How many American boys would have been happy to go over there and give their lives to free the Vietnamese? How many had such idealistic ideals? They don't know what they fought the Korean war for either, which they lost. They also don't know why they fought the Grenadian war or why they fought the Panamanian war. They don't know what they fought these wars for.--And they know just as little about why they're now going to be made to fight and die. I don't even think most of them would be willing to go there and die for the oil.
Ted Rudow III
Re: “Letters to the Editor: May 23, 2012”
I like trains. Lagunitas, Forest Knolls, Woodacre, Fairfax, Pt.Reyes Station were all villages founded along a train that could get you to school, work and shoping all the way to San Francisco. All the houses were built within walking distance (1 mile) of the stations , which in the Valley were often just a mile apart.
You just can't set a couple stations miles apart on top of sprawl and expect the ridership to support a train to nowhere. I like trains, I just don't like profiteering at taxpayers expense.
Thanks for acknowledging my Pacific Sun endorsement.
Alex Easton-Brown, Candidate for Assembly, Lagunitas Alexeastonbrown.com
Re: “A Stained Degree”
http://shameonssu.org
There is much more regarding this to be learned here. Spread the word... there will be a Day of Shame on SSU on May 12th.
Re: “Here's the Crazy "Personal Journey" Post that Stacey Lawson Doesn't Want You To See”
Another good source of information on Stacey Lawson is at http://www.staceylawson.info
Re: “Quad City DJs”
I don't think it's fair or logical to even suggest that rape and sexual assault has any connection with the word bitch in a rap song. Whats next a ban from playing Katy Perrys Last Friday Night because the drinking theme in her lyrics are going to cause drinking and driving deaths? If people rape or drink and drive their not doing it because a song told them its o.k. A college campus shouldn't be a place that buries its head in the sand and trys to be void of pop culture. If a couple of songs have references to drugs, liquor, weed or even drop the word bitch a few times it isn't a time to go running to the president of the college and asking him to intervene, its time for you to get more involved with whatever group is responsible. Or at least walk up to the DJ or some other person with that group and let him or her know how you feel about certain songs before you go running to the president. And what if it was a female DJ playing songs with the word bitch in it, or a female artist like Alanis Morissette singing "Im a Bitch" what then? Are they inciting rape?
Alex-SRJC student
Re: “April 20: Mike Birbiglia at the Wells Fargo Center”
I love love love Mike Birbiglia.
Re: “Judi Bari, the FBI, and the Press Democrat: Reporter Mike Geniella on an Unsolved Case”
Mike is right, I knew Judi after the bombing, but got to know her quite well, she did not bomb herself, and Daryl didn't do it either. Bet the FBI would deny they have a file on me too, that would be a lie too. Hope this all gets figured out, glad the lawsuit against the FBI was won. Miss Judi a lot and I am looking forward to seeing the movie "Who Bombed Judi Bari."
Re: “Judi Bari, the FBI, and the Press Democrat: Reporter Mike Geniella on an Unsolved Case”
I'm dubious about "dubious about Bari." There were two bombs in this case, not four, unless you count two of the several pipe bombs exploded in cars by FBI bomb school instructor Frank Doyle on Louisiana-Pacific property a few weeks before the Cloverdale and Oakland bombs. By the way, those bombings happened in 1990, not 1991.
There were no bombs involved in either the Santa Rosa Airport fire or the Isla Vista Bank of America fire, and there's no rational case for trying to link them to the Bari case.
Sign me "Dubious about Sutley and Gehrman"
Re: “Judi Bari, the FBI, and the Press Democrat: Reporter Mike Geniella on an Unsolved Case”
Hopefully the Bohemian will do a series of articles on the yet unresolved bombing in Oakland in 1991. There are four bombs (at least) in this story. The Isla Vista Bank of America in the early 70's, the 1980 Santa Rosa airport conflagration, the 1991 Cloverdale lumber compay, and a few weeks later the Oakland car bomb.
Re: “Winners of the Straight Up Vodka Cocktail Competition and Tasting Benefit”
Looks so pretty with the blossoms floating atop. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I don't think I've ever bought German ice wine yet. This will be something new for sure.
Re: “Dancing in Unity”
Thanks, Juliane, for this wonderful article on the Petaluma dance. I've been contra dancing a number of years now and found the contra dance community to be welcoming no matter where you're dancing. Besides that it's fun, it's a good workout, it clears away the cobwebs from working in front of the computer, and I like being part of and carrying on a tradition that goes back a ways but is evolving (there's now "techno contra" although we haven't pulled that off yet in the North Bay!).
Besides the official website, readers can find us on Facebook too - there's an article there called "What Is Contra Dance?" that answers the most commonly asked questions about it: “Will it be difficult? Will anyone ask me to dance? What do I wear? What if I make a fool of myself?!…”
http://www.facebook.com/groups/12536559162…
We have contra dances each week – 1st Sunday in Petaluma, 2nd Saturday in San Rafael, 3rd Friday in Santa Rosa, and 4th Saturday in Sebastopol.
And for those who can't quite overcome the dizziness problem with all those hot swings, you can get that same great sense of community with less G-force at the Sebastopol English Country Dances on the 1st and 3rd Sunday afternoons. Here's a link: http://www.nbcds.org/english.html
Thanks,
Moira Hill
Co-founder NBCDS
Re: “Dressed to Kill”
Wouldn't mind having a list of actual green cleaners here in Sonoma county, did you compile a list of these companies while researching for this story?
Re: “Final Frontier”
It was love at first sight according to Ranger Rick, who I called Richard. Over time, I felt the same way as I noticed he always brought a smile to my face, even the one night I talked him out of the idea of me holding a ladder while he climbed up on a rooftop. His life ceremony was filled with tears, laughter and wonderful stories that lightened our hearts. Thank you Frank, for the best salute to this quirky man we will all miss,
Re: “Protecting Their Own Power”
My American Government teacher (Rabinowitsh) was just telling us about this on Tuesday (the rich guys from the East taking over City Council)! He said that it's also partially because City Council members make about $800 per month, so it's always folks who can afford to deal with that reality.
Re: “March 10: Spring Jazz Festival in Calistoga”
$36 is advanced ticket sales and $40 at the door! www.calistogavisitors.com for full line up
Re: “Protecting Their Own Power”
I don't know, Gabe... as a proud average citizen myself, I lost you at "Last week". Of course, I'm known to have a very short attention spa
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Re: “Judi Bari, the FBI, and the Press Democrat: Reporter Mike Geniella on an Unsolved Case”
No bomb in the Santa Rosa case!? I guess what Talbot and Helvarg saw wasn't a real bomb and Bari's admission that her husband was involved was a figment of their imagination. DAS&G needs to start making up better lies.