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HEY, ECO-WARRIORS! I Loved Riding the Bus and Light Rail in San Jose and EUREKA, California. I Remember I was able to get to work on the Bus ...and... Drinking and Driving is Not Only Illegal But Actually Dangerous While Drinking and Riding the Bus is FUN...

Magic Bus in Eureka California gvan42

 On Halloween, I Brought My Guitar and Sang for the Party Goers on the San Jose Light Rail... BIG FUN!

 More Importantly, I Rode from Almaden to the San Jose Public Library and Used the Free Computers there to Build a Website in the Late 1990s. Tripod and Yahoo Geocities... I didn't know what I was doing but the Other Patrons were Happy to Help. My Content is Still Online 23 Years Later! http://www.oocities.org/gregvan/

Massive #ArrestTrump Movement on Social Media. Millions of Americans are Demanding That The DOJ "Lock Him UP!" Read More at:
Click Here to Help Defend Democracy! Post Your Own Memes, Videos and Rants! or Like and Share Mine... 


My Favorite Photograph... Taken Just Before I put the Camera in my Pocket, Joined Hands With the People and Chanted OM... Remember: It's More Important to LIVE LIFE than Document Life...
Rainbow Gathering California July 4th Chanting OM
Rainbow Gathering California July 4th Chanting OM

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My Gift to the World: A Free Coloring Book: Print as Many Copies as You Like and Share With Friends. Color with Felt Pens or Pencils... ALL FOR FUN! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html
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Creepy Eye Wall Dark Side of the Moon Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42
That Creepy Eye from the Backside of the Dollar Bill, Pink Floyd's Wall and The Dark Side of the Moon Prism...
American Indian Wearing a Headdress - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42
American Indian Wearing a Headdress 

Trump's EPA Siding with Corporate Polluters and Against People's Health... Totally Evil... Yes, Roundup Causes Cancer. Appeals Court upheld verdict against Bayer's Monsanto, maker of the weedkiller Roundup. Reduced Penalties to $78 Million.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roundup-weed-killer-is-safe-epa-says-giving-bayer-a-win/
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Bayer a boost when it decided that its Roundup week killer didn't cause cancer.
  • Two recent court cases found just the opposite, ruling against Bayer and Roundup.
  • Environmental advocates, including the National Resources Defense Council, denounced the EPA's decision.

THE EPA HAS BECOME THE ENABLE POLLUTERS AGENCY... 

Roundup Redrum Advertisement Satire MEME by gvan42
Roundup Redrum Advertisement Satire MEME



https://www.npr.org/2018/10/23/659848853/california-judge-cuts-award-to-78-5-million-in-monsanto-weedkiller-case

A superior court judge in San Francisco has upheld a jury verdict against Bayer's Monsanto, maker of the weedkiller Roundup, but slashed the punitive damages by more than $200 million.
The jury had awarded $250 million in punitive damages and $39.25 million in compensatory damages to Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper and pest-control manager at a Northern California school district who contracted cancer.
But San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos wrote on Monday that the ratio between the compensatory damages and the punitive damages was required to be 1 to 1 — thus, she reduced the amount of punitive damages to $39.25 million.

It's amazing that I see Advertisements on TV SELLING ROUNDUP and other ads SELLING LAWYER SERVICES TO HELP YOU SUE MONSANTO... At the same time!
The ads selling poison ARE REALLY CUTE CARTOONS! Very similar to the style of "Rainbow Unicorn Butterfly Kitty"... 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/roundup-sellers-boost-advertising-as-lawsuits-mount-for-weedkiller-11556738038

Roundup Sellers Boost Advertising as Lawsuits Mount for Weedkiller


Bayer AG and Scotts Miracle-Gro spend millions of dollars on expanded marketing

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On a Different Subject... 
a Post of Mine Was Deleted from This Blog
because I Dared to Ask the FORBIDDEN QUESTION:
"Why do we allow fresh water from the 
Sacramento River to flow into the Ocean?"

after all... 
We Pump the Colorado River Dry before it Gets to the Ocean in Mexico... and No One Complains About THAT!

all the water from the Colorado River is used to Drink, Water Crops, Fill Swimming Pools, Shower, Water Animals and Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks Beverage... 

SO... Someone Reported My Question to Google
and That Post was Deleted... 
WE MUST ALLOW NO QUESTIONS!
OBEY THE ECOLOGY NUTS!
NO THINKING!
Sat Image of Sacramento River
Sacramento River Satellite Photo Google Maps - Delta - 2021 Here is a Post on that same subject that was NOT Deleted on Facebook... "I Wonder Why Fresh Water from The Sacramento River Flows into the Ocean? After All, The Colorado River is Pumped Dry.
We are Having a Drought Here in California... This Water COULD be used to Grow Crops, Water Livestock, Take Showers or Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks... But NO... It Flows Out into The Ocean at San Francisco... "

What IF? Would Pumping all that water out of the River and Into Fields that are Growing Crops Change the Climate of California's Central Valley... In the Summer, all that water would evaporate and then fall as rain when those clouds meet the Sierra Nevada Mountains... In General, the Wind Flows from West to East... WE NEED RAIN...

The Objection to Pumping the Sacramento River Dry is That Salmon Need the Water to Survive... and They Would Go Extinct... In That One River... Other Rivers, Like The Klamath and The Columbia and Rivers in Canada and Alaska would NOT Be Changed... and The Salmon Would Continue to Survive There... and... What IF Salmon Became Extinct? The Drought is The Western USA Is Putting Salmon in the Klamath River in Danger Right Now... Even With The Dams being Removed...



Kapow-Un-Dam-the-Klamath-River-All-Species-Parade-Arcata-CA
Protest Sign Says:
Kapow! Un Dam the Klamath River
in the All Species Parade: Arcata CA

Golden Bear Portrait Klamath River
Golden Bear Sculpture on The Klamath River Bridge.
Highway 101 - Northern California

The San Francisco Bay would Become Salt Water flowing In under the Golden Gate Bridge... Currently it has a Mixture of Salt Water and Fresh Water...

salt flat san jose
That's Surprising because there are Salt Harvesting Businesses Near San Jose... They Just Let the Bay water Evaporate and Collect the Remaining Salt...

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Free Coloring Book by gvan42


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Photographs of Arcata, CA


Located on Highway 101 in Northern California near Oregon. Arcata is a UNIQUE Town… Home of Humboldt State University and Countless Artists, Musicians and Hippies!

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Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42


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Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Medicine is Best…


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Photos of The Sacramento River near Chico, CA


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Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All the Cannabis Prisoners

A Dramatic Savings of Government Spending CURRENTLY WASTED On Law Enforcement and Incarceration and a MASSIVE INCREASE IN VOLUNTARY TAXES! Everybody Wins! We Could Use the Extra Money to Pay for Education and Healthcare for All.

If you don’t smoke you wouldn’t pay a cent. It’s a Win-Win situation. More money going into the Treasury and Less going out.  In addition, states that have legal medical marijuana have fewer deaths due to opioid addiction. Some people simply choose the safer drug… DUH…

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/06/11/legalize-marijuana-nationwide-tax-it-and-free-all-the-cannabis-prisoners/

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LEGALIZE VOTING – Fight the GOP Attempt to Overthrow of the US Government... 

DEMOCRACY is Vastly Better than MONARCHY… Especially Mad King Donald… LOCK HIM UP!


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Let’s Stop Advertising Prescription Drugs on TV. Those Ads COST a FORTUNE and The Patients Pay for Them in Higher Drug Prices!


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Secret Trick to Life: Learn How To Do a FACT CHECK on Google.

That Way People CAN’T Lie to You. Because You Refuse To Believe Their Lies… Simply Type the Words “Fact Check” and the Statement You Want to Verify… Read the Results… It Can Be Quite Eye Opening!

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/secret-trick-to-life-learn-how-to-do-a-fact-check-on-google/

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1619 Project: #MoscowMitch McConnell is Reviving Interest Again… Now, It’s a GOP CANCEL CULTURE CAUSE!

He Wants the US Government to BAN Teaching the History of Slavery in the USA… In Public Schools…



I Did a Scientific Experiment On How Drugs Effect My Skill Level Playing Chess.

Results: Coffee Made Me Play Better. Alcohol and Marijuana Made me Worse. LSD Made Me Reject the Entire Idea of Tests and I Refused to Play Games…

It was a Simple Test and You Could Recreate it Yourself for a “PEER REVIEW” – I owned a Chess Computer that Played at Different Skill Levels… I Took Those Drugs – I Played against the Machine and Determined What Level I Could Beat the Machine… and That’s Why… all these years later… the only drug I take is Coffee… and a Dozen “Doctor Drugs” That Don’t Seem to Do Anything but Don’t Seem to Do Any Harm Either… After All... “One Pill Makes You Larger, and One Pill Makes You Small… and The Ones That Mother Gives You Don’t Do Anything at All…” – Grace Slick

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/i-did-a-scientific-experiment-on-how-drugs-effect-my-skill-level-playing-chess/ 

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The Grateful Dead Farewell Concert - Santa Clara 6-27 and 6-28 2015 - Photos and MyStory - A Rainbow Appeared over the Concert... Many Felt It Was Jerry Garcia Visiting from BEYOND...

Music so good it changes the weather. On 6/27 there was a Rainbow over Levi Stadium and then it Rained. Just a very light sprinkle, but we all felt it. 
photo of Rainbow at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

sunset at the same time...
photo of Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Portrait taken by a helpful fan...
quite a good picture... Thanks!

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
http://youtu.be/tF3sOpVcgIQ 
Short Video: a tiny part of Dark Star 
and a Lady with a Pink Blinking Headdress dancing. 

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We should do a scientific study to see if loud music directed skyward can cause rain... It was a cloudy day in Santa Clara but when the music was playing... Magic Happened... California is experiencing a drought and maybe THIS is the answer... could be... AmerIndians do a Rain Dance... 

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The highlight of the concert was Mickey Hart playing The Beam... insane industrial noise... That's what I wanted... Too Much! I could feel the sound in my stomach... 

https://www.mickeyhart.net/news/did-you-feel-it-5281

photo on the road to the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
"On the Bus" Traveling South thru Humboldt County Redwoods

photo on the road to the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Laytonville, CA... 
The Kate Wolf Music Festival at Black Oak Ranch.

photo on the road to the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
San Francisco Bay as viewed 
from the bus on the Richmond Bridge 6/26/2015

photo on the road to the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Amtrak train in Martinez, CA Station

photo on the road to the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Under the Bridge at the Carquinez Straits.
Where the Sacramento River enters the San Francisco Bay.

photo on the road to the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Sunset over the San Francisco Bay 

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
The train stops right next to the Stadium. As soon as I got off... I heard the band doing a soundcheck. They were practicing St Stephen. It has lyrics that state:

"Lady finger, dipped in moonlight....
Writing `what for?' across the morning sky.
Sunlight splatters dawn with answers... 
Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye."

I can easily visualize the picture of a lady's finger writing in the sky at dawn...
in a script typeface... 
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/stephen.html



photo at the motel - Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
swimming pool at night at the motel
photo at the motel - Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

the next day... 6/27/2015
Many Deadheads in the Pool
photo at the motel - Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Pool at the motel... 
we smoked grass IN the hot tub while 
waiting to the concert to start...

and then the next night, I slept in a field behind a 7/11 store... no motel ticket for my unexpected second show... so, from the lifestyles of the rich and famous to hanging out with the "house-free campers"... good to see many sides to this experience... after the 2nd show there were helicopters telling everyone to go home and I took the free light rail train to Winchester Blvd in Campbell. A lady from Los Gatos said that we could find a 24 Hour Safeway there and we could buy food, cigarettes and booze... It's true! 
We had a group sing along on the train as someone had a phone that played music... We sang "Godzilla" by Blue Oyster Cult... 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65rW_SIzg0

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Silicon Valley Transit: 
Light Rail and a Giant Fan's Bicycle

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Short Video of the Beach Ball Bouncing.
https://youtu.be/EDxoza2Rl2E
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Many people helped to blow up the beach ball.
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA


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photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
I spent all day 6/28 relaxing under the palm trees on the grassy knoll... Bought Chocolate bar Imported from Costa Rica from these people... for extra energy to dance...
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Our Oasis... Palm Trees, Shade and free music... The guitar player shown had the courtesy to NOT play while the band was doing their soundcheck...
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA


photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
at the same spot... we overlooked a parking lot...
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
There were many group sing along songs played at the concerts... Everyone knows the words... for example: "Lately it occurs to me... What a Long Strange Trip It's Been!" and some songs have a Chorus that everyone can remember the lyrics too... "I Need a Miracle. Every Day!"

 and so many of the songs moved me personally... "Cumberland Blues" makes sense to me as I am a Workingman...

 and "Brown Eyed Woman" tells the story of a Moonshiner that lived on the Trinity River [Big Foot County]. Jerry Garcia's father drowned in the Trinity on a family camping trip... My Father, Grandma and Uncle lived on the Trinity during the Great Depression because it was a place to camp for free and good fishing. Dad said it was essential to survival to have good hunting and fishing... Grandpa was working as a Minister and during the Great Depression there was no money in the collection plate so he sent his wife and children to go be homeless people in Humboldt County.

 "Well, it's T for Texas, and it's T for Timbuktu...
it's T for Texas, and it's T for Timbuktu...
and it's T for right here in California where the little girls know what to do!"

 Bob has to remember what city he's in when they play the "New Minglewood Blues".
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
While we were relaxing on the grassy knoll waiting for the 6/27 show... A skywriter attempted to draw a peace sign... but failed to get the last line in the right spot... oops... the Deadheads around me had a good laugh about the error... and great cheering! because... we are a tolerant people...
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
inside... at last!
psychedelic animated gif
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Mr Button Man
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Phil Lesh Bows to the Audience before the concert...
and the Audience Bows Back!

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Bob Weir asks... WHAT'S NEXT?

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He was rather insistent at the concert... putting the responsibility for going Furthur on the shoulders of US... Take this energy and DO something!
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
before the Concert... while waiting for the Bus to come by... In Eureka.

 Lyrics to "The Other One" and The Bus...

 "Escapin' through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on
That's when it all began
There was cowboy Neal
At the wheel
Of a bus to never-ever land...

 [Chorus]
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, comin' around in a circle
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle,
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle.

 Spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose.
It rainbow spirals round and round,
It trembles and explodes
It left a smoking crater of my mind,
I like to blow away.
But the heat came round and busted me
For smilin on a cloudy day... "
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/other1.html

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wave that flag, wave it wide and high!

and some of the songs had intense personal meaning to me...

 I played "Black Peter" on my parent's piano when I was 20 years old and confused about where my life was going... It's an old sad blues song and It gave me strength to go on... Mom liked me playing it.

 We played "Uncle John's Band" for [what seemed like] hours at the Idaho Rainbow Gathering at the Relaxation Station [take a break! you made it!]. It's the first place a person visited upon arriving at the Gathering.  I taught a kid how to play it using my hand written sheet music... After he learned the chords he said he didn't want to learn any more songs so we just played it again and again... and again... Perfectly valid show business concept as the audience was constantly changing... with new people arriving... they didn't know we were a band that only knew one song.

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 and "Wharf Rat" looks deep into my soul... Some Fans formed an AA/NA type group for Deadheads in recovery... I'm Greg and I'm an Alcoholic... and it could have been ME that was the old wino... down by the docks of the city... but Patti Post took me to an AA meeting that allowed me to survive until this day... Thanks Patti... may you Rest in Peace.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wharf_Rats

 Old man down...way down, down,
down by the docks of the city,
Blind and dirty
asked me for a dime--
dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but
I got time to hear his story:

 My name is August West
and I love my Pearly Baker best
more than my wine
...more than My wine
more than my maker
though he's no friend of mine

 Everyone said
I'd come to no good
I knew I would
Pearly believed them

 Half of my life
I spent doin' time for
some other fucker's crime
Other half found me stumbling around
drunk on burgundy wine

 But I'll get back
on my feet someday
The good Lord willing
if He says I may
'cause I know the life I'm
livin's no good
I'll get a new start
live the life I should

 I'll get up and fly away
I'll get up and
fly away...
...fly away

 Pearly's been true
true to me, true to my dying day he said
I said to him:
I'm sure she's been
I said to him:
I'm sure she's been true to you

 I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown
nowhere to go
just to hang around
I got a girl
named Bonny Lee
I know that girl's been true to me
I know she's been
I'm sure she's been
true to me

Words by Robert Hunter; Music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing.
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/wrat.html
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
The stage Day and Night.
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
The Moon and Planet Mars were very close...
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Sometimes the light's all shining on me... Other times I can barely see...
Lately it occurs to me... What a Long Strange Trip It's Been!
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
Grateful Dead Fans Admiring the Rainbow
(they are at the bottom of the picture)


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 https://www.mickeyhart.net/news/all-about-beam-baby-5211

 An unusual percussion instrument built for the sessions, variants of which have been built and later used in Grateful Dead concerts and Mickey Hart's solo touring bands, was "The Beam". This is a large (8 foot in length) aluminum I-beam (actually a "C" shaped beam facing down with the strings across the flat outside-top surface) strung with 13 bass piano strings all tuned to the note of D (a Pythagorean mono-chord at various octaves).

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_Beam

 The Beam was designed by John Lazelle in the early 1970s, and was first widely used by Francisco Lupica who built several out of iron. American child actor turned musician, Craig Huxley, created his own refined version of the Beam out of aluminum which was brought to fame in the soundtrack for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) in which composer Jerry Goldsmith used the instrument to create the signature V'ger sound. The instrument was also used by composer James Horner for several of his early soundtracks, including Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Michael Stearns for his score to the IMAX film Chronos, and in David Shire's soundtrack to 2010 (1984), which was co-written by Huxley. Huxley also played the instrument on the Quincy Jones song, "Ai No Corrida." Huxley successfully patented his design of the Beam in 1984.
photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA

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photo at the Grateful Dead Concert in Santa Clara, CA
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