....calm down Todd

This will be the first.... and last retort...... to clear the air from the slanderous  facebook.com/riolindaonline statements made a few days ago. I refuse to get into a pissing match that only diverts the real issues present by this blog. I apologize in advance to any reader that hates this sort of garbage. John Todd is the black print......


A new website focused on our community. Curiously, the writer has chosen to spew his hatred for Rio Linda anonymously.
Curiously....the new site was announced on my personal Face Book site. 

It's the same guy that had a chance to make changes to the Farmers' Market but instead QUIT
I did accomplished change....Moore and you did all of my recommendations including a new logo that was created. Taco trucks to the music. Historic archives on my pages and email transactions will show this. Please go ahead and take the credit if you wish...I and the community just wanted change and got it. Quit? More like RAN when I saw the business file that Moore shared with me.

It's the same guy who's so embarrassed of Rio Linda that he misrepresents where his business is actually located.
Now you are getting silly as hell..and most here knows that. 

Now that we are on the subject of  "misrepresents".......on each and every one of your on line sites .....you claim to be a news organization. The word news is plastered all over the Face Book pages. I see that yesterday 8/25/14 you dropped the word "news" on your banner. ....replacing it with a new "rocky" background  banner. Rocky suits your site perfectly.

 The comment section of your site(s) and mine.....are loaded with negative reviews about you....how you misrepresent your pages being a newspaper on line. You are not a accredited news agency. You simple copy and paste. In fact......many of the pictures you post are copyright infringements....please contest this :-)  Some those historic pictures are watermarked.......for example. Also....the comments are about how you ban those that disagree with you....or how you edit out their comments.

Now Johnny boy.....why did you ban me yesterday? Afraid of a little debate of truth?  Hell dude....you make  FOX News look wonderful!

[Update: I am "unbanned" from his site 8/21/14 3:21 pm]
[Update: I am "banned" from his site 8/28/14 11:12 pm] 


 It's the same guy that (probably) complained to the Parks and Rec District about the jams and jellies and baked goods being sold at the farmers market.
Will John Todd....I be happy to go down the where this complaint is and give them permission to disclose this anonymous person if it was me. The county has had numerous crackdowns in the past...... in or nearby Rio Linda. A simple call to the county will get you records of these inspections. With the three ring circus you created down there with all the food trucks...It was a matter of time before the county stuck their nose in there. If you are going to operate a Farmers Market ....do it correctly and legally. Just don't blame me for all of your mistakes down there because you didn't do your homework on running a Farmers Market.

Your slanderous and desperate statement shows your true colors. You really think that most of your followers really believe this garbage?
I do have knowledge of a few "issues" that would certainly knock the RLFM into the Twilight Zone.......but I made it VERY CLEAR on my blog and web page weeks ago that I was satisfied with the results of the FM getting their act together. It's all way dated stuff...so why would I snitch out the FM? Bad try John Todd and don't be surprised that you get a nasty summons for making slanderous statements. Lawyers are free for this type of litigation.  

I saw this on your "Not Rio Linda News"site: Charlea Moore, David Adams and myself met with KOVR13 and Good Day Sacramento today to talk about the County Health issues with homemade foods at the Farmers Market.

Good Gods! You both admitted that you knew you were breaking the county rules...... on T.V. ? You call the station to make a bitch.....and you said that? Who was watching that DID NOT laugh their asses off at this interview?

The guy that's new to the community from Southern California.
You are full of misinformation or outright story telling. I have lived in Sacramento since 1969...went to school at CA Jr High as the first of many schools. Lived with my family on Land Park Drive. Green heaven. Fair Oaks. Davis. San Francisco. Downtown Sactown. From Southern California ? Yes....45 years ago!

What gets me is that this guys hasn't done ANYTHING for the community. Not one thing. He goes on and on and on, but does nothing. I've never seen him at a Water Board meeting, never seen him at a Visions meeting, never seen him at a Chamber meeting, never seen him at a CASA meeting... but he's good at sitting behind a keyboard and pecking at the letters.
The same day you posted this retort this on your site...you had 42 entries on Face Book, Twitter and Google Circle. Who is pecking? 42 entries. :-)

Well I did go to a CASA meeting. Couldn't really understand anything because there was no close caption or sign interpreter. As you will know John Todd after spending weeks with me on the Rio Linda Farmers Market issue...you know that I am 84% deaf. I can hear fairly good close up....but not at a distance. You knew. Everyone knows this that has conversed with me. You invited me to several town meetings and I explained to you that was not really an option for me. Why in the hell would I go to a meeting where I couldn't hear it? Another disparate statement from you.....a total disregard for the hearing impaired. BTW: you can go to hell for using my disadvantage to gain attempted advantage. You pick on cripples too?

I am curious though.....how do you really know what I do or not do for this community? You don't. Just like that guy in the smoke shop that you never knocked on the door to ask him questions...you just blasted him like a bully for attention. You never asked me what my participation is in this town and yet you blast non truths.

Oh....I do a lot as anyone can read my posting about the events I do here Rio Linda at the churches, The Historical Society. The food closet(s) where I donate time and money......The Rio Linda Library Fair.....and one hell of a lot more. I give tours of the farm to the Girl Scouts....to the local home school groups...and the elderly. We help four families that cannot afford our farm stand produce for medical reasons. Say...how bout that free community compost program we had this year....over 1000 cubic yards were given to the citizens of Rio Linda. Need I continue this listing.....just let me know.

Funny...I never seen you at any of these events :-)

The people that change the world show up and participate.
That is one way. There are other ways to stand up and make change. Blogging, protesting, going for political office....not just your way.

I'll tell you this; I've never misrepresented where I was from, and never not been proud to be from Rio Linda. I've invested in my community with time and money. I've never, ever hidden who I was and where I'm from and what I've written. I've made mistakes, and I've owned up to them.
I think we covered this "misrepresented" crap above. Let me see now.... for some simple investments but not all of what we have done here in Rio Linda: Bought this land here in Rio Linda. Leasing 12 more acres "to buy". Funding for building this farm from the dirt up. Rebuilding the house...using local folks. Buying equipment within this community. Hire from this community. That's only within the last 5 years.Thats a lot of dough dished out. Way....way....way over a half of million.

You were unemployed til a year ago or so....and now you are living at your Mother in Laws business/home? Some investments you have made.

I've made mistakes too John. Lots. No secrets there from anyone that knows me well here in Rio Linda. 

One of the biggest was getting involved with "that guy".
Really? Then why all the good words about me just a few months ago? I quote from your frozen or defunct (?) website(s):
By John Todd on February 20, 2014  (Today I reprint an article originally posted at The Natomas Farm blog by Deno McFez. Deno is building a farm here in Rio Linda and is smart enough to see the beauty in our town that so many people miss. Please drop by the Natomas Farm blog, or the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TheNatomasFarm to let him know how much you appreciate and understand his writing, his passion for farming and his perspective on the place we all call home.

 ......his perspective on the place we all call home.
 ......his perspective on the place we all call home
......his perspective on the place we all call home.
 .....his perspective on the place we all call home.

    So, read over his point of view and decide for yourself... why is he writing this? Who does it serve? Despite what you might think of my occasional strongly worded opinions... what good does his commentary do for the community?
What good are your bully stories you present at your so called "news" on line? Why pick on one building and yet four blocks away there is a building under the same exact circumstances. Friends? We get it John, we do :-) 

 How bout calling the homeless BUMS? So I ask the same question about you: what good does his commentary do for the community?
There a whole bunch of undertone hate coming from your site. Look at the commentaries...on your site ...you allow hateful conversation to remain posted.

Enjoy. I know I will.
I don't think you did. Your reaction from my post was incredibly child like. Hell....you were just slushing out accusations like a machine gun to shed the light off of you.  

Now.....I merely answered to the bogus statements you made the other day. Will I attack you now...since payback is sweet? Oh no.... I refuse to stoop down to your standards.

Next week we get back to the good, the bad, and the ugly of Rio Linda. Enough of this Todd ugliness. Coming up: The Good.....amazing people of Rio Linda that dont need a public audience.