Biological Warfare Testing on Americans. The US Military Intentionally Exposed People Just to Find Out What Would Happen in a BioWar.

Over and over again, the military has conducted dangerous biowarfare experiments on Americans.

https://www.businessinsider.com/military-government-secret-experiments-biological-chemical-weapons-2016-9

On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and into the city's famous fog. The military was testing how a biological weapon attack would affect the 800,000 residents of the city.

VA: Chemical and Biological Warfare Testing.

https://benefits.va.gov/BENEFITS/factsheets/misc/chembio.pdf

The Department of Defense (DoD) conducted chemical and biological warfare testing in support of Project 112 and Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD). This testing used: • Biological and chemical warfare agents • Simulants • Tracers • Decontaminates

Historical Background of the U.S. Biologic-Warfare Program.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233494/

Organisms and materials that were considered by the scientific community to be "safe" were selected (U.S. Army 1977). A total of 160 tests using various simulants were conducted at 66 locations (both military and civilian targets) in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and Canada.

United States biological weapons program.

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

The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Research continued following World War II as the U.S. built up a large stockpile of biological agents and weapons. Over the course of its 27-year history, the program weaponized and stockpiled the following seven bio-agents (and pursued basic research on many more):

• Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
• Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
• Brucella spp (brucellosis)
• Coxiella burnetii (Q-fever)
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
• Botulinum toxin (botulism)
• Staphylococcal enterotoxin B

CBS NEWS: US Admits BioWeapons Tests

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-admits-bio-weapons-tests/

The United States secretly tested chemical and biological weapons on American soil during the 1960s, newly declassified Pentagon reports show.

The tests included releasing deadly nerve agents in Alaska and spraying bacteria over Hawaii, according to the documents obtained Tuesday.

QuackAnon Says: Trump's Coronavirus Is a Bio-Weapon Invented by the US Military and Deployed to Harm China. But It Got Out of Control. BLOWBACK. Fort Detrick, Maryland...

Supposedly, Russian Media Outlets are Blaming the Coronavirus on the United States. Conspiracies pushed by Kremlin-linked sites allege the epidemic is an American bioweapon.  ARE THEY WRONG? 
Remember When Ronald Reagan Sold ANTHRAX to Saddam Hussein?
Remember Project MKULTRA? 
Remember the FBI's CO-INTELPRO?
Remember NSA's ECHELON? 
Who Murdered Martin Luther King?
Who Really Murdered JFK? BOBBY?
After SO MANY LIES... Where is Truth?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/02/russian-disinformation-coronavirus/

NO ONE Really Knows What they Do at Fort Detrick, Maryland... Except... Some Buildings Have Been Buried in Concrete In Order To Keep Whatever is Inside from Getting OUT!

Blowback is a term originating from within the American Intelligence community, denoting the unintended consequences, unwanted side-effects, or suffered repercussions of a covert operation that fall back on those responsible for the aforementioned operations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93196647
Fort Detrick, Md., was created in the middle of World War II and became the center for America's biological warfare efforts. But that role shifted in 1969, the government says, to focus solely on defense against the threat of biological weapons.

Then called Detrick Air Field, the science and research facility housed four biological agent production plants.

Anthrax was considered the most important agent. Simulants were tested, and one bomb was readied for production in 1944. One million bombs were ordered, though the order was canceled when the war ended in 1945.


During the 1950s, the biological weapons program was among the most classified within the Pentagon. There was an emphasis on biological agents for use against enemy forces as well as plants and animals.

The Army says no biological weapons were used during the Korean War, though such allegations were made by the Chinese and the Koreans.

Growing Protests: One plan at Fort Detrick in the late 1950s was to use the yellow fever virus against an enemy by releasing infected mosquitoes by airplane or helicopter. Detrick's labs were capable of producing a half-million mosquitoes per month, with plans for up to 130 million per month.

It Just Won’t Die: Russian Claim That Virus Began As U.S. Bioweapon

https://www.polygraph.info/a/it-just-won-t-die-russian-claim-that-virus-began-as-u-s-bioweapon/30523610.html
Is This REALLY BOGUS? Maybe It's ACCURATE! Maybe Coronavirus is a Bioweapon Invented by The US Government and DEPLOYED in China... and Then It ESCAPED... Classic BLOWBACK! Remember MKULTRA? Is This REALLY That Different?

SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent's Home in Los Gatos, CA - In the Sixties, They Raised Funds to Pay for Freedom Riders in the South. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

I Remember That We Had a Black Man Talk. My Folks PACKED The House With People and Took Donations. 

In General, The Civil Rights Movement was Successful. President Lyndon Johnson Signed Laws That Allowed Black People to Vote and Live in White Neighborhoods. My Parents Helped!

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-signs-civil-rights-act

Years Later I Bought a Condo in a Black Neighborhood near Washington DC. There was a DEEP DISCOUNT if You Chose a Black Neighborhood. The Same Condo in Virginia cost $39,000 but in Beautiful Oxon Hill, Maryland the Price was $26,000. It Turns Out That the Peter, Paul and Mary Lyric is Accurate. "They Say that Property Values Will Go Right Down if The Family Next Door is Blue." --- I Selected the Discount. Because I Don't Care What Color My Neighbors Are. at Least I'm Not Going to PAY EXTRA For White Neighbors... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SywxNX6u_s

Of Course, Racism is Accurate... You CAN Predict Peoples Behavior by Looking at Skin Color. FOR EXAMPLE: Black Men are Better at Playing Basketball. It Would Be Absurd to Have Affirmative Action in the NBA... Help for Short People So They Could Compete with Tall People... Help for Slow Runners Who Can't Jump... So We Would Have a "Fair" Balance of Players... BUT... We Don't Do That... Because Affirmative Action is [REDACTED - FACEBOOK COMMUNITY STANDARDS] 

White Man are Better at Walking on the Moon... White Men Are Better at Being President of the United States... White Men are Better at Inventing Machines... After All, Apple and Microsoft and Google and Facebook and IBM and Oracle are All Built by White Men... 

In the Department of Defense, Affirmative Action is TOTALLY IGNORED in Jobs That are IMPORTANT... My First Ex-Wife Worked at The National Security Agency. The ONLY Thing They Considered Was Quality of the Applicant When They Were Hiring. They Were Totally Colorblind... AND They Were Gay Friendly because Gay People are FAMOUS for Being Excellent at Computer Science. But You Had to Be "Out of the Closet!" - People That Tried to Hide their Homosexuality were Rejected for being a Blackmail Risk. And Marijuana Smokers Were Tolerated as Long as You Told the Truth About Your Drug Use History. LIARS were Not Welcome... 

If You Investigate CRIME Patters By Location in the FBI Database... You Will Find that Murders Happen More Frequently in Black Neighborhoods... There are Many REASONS Why this is True but NO ONE Disputes That It IS TRUE... That Condo I Bought was about Three Miles from "Southeast DC" - at One time the Murder Capitol of America. It was in Competition with "East Palo Alto, CA" and "The South Side of Chicago." - Remember the Song Bad Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPRm5UMe1A

Barack Obama worked as a Community Organizer on the South Side of Chicago... No Need For a Community Organizer on Lakeshore Drive... I Read Obama's Biography and It's Great! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88061.Dreams_from_My_Father

He had a White Mother and a Black Father Who Moved to Africa when Obama was a Child. Obama was Raised By Two White Grandparents and His Mom. In Hawaii he was Exposed to Japanese Culture and Native Hawaiian Culture. He Also Lived With His Mother's Second Husband In Indonesia... 

So... In the Age Old Question of "Nature vs Nurture" ---

Genetically, Obama was 50-50 Black and White. But CULTURALLY He Had No Contact With Black People. He Was Raise With Mostly White Values... 

I Had a Question While Reading That Book... WHO PAID OBAMA TO ORGANIZE THAT COMMUNITY? 

When you stop to THINK About It... Who Benefits? For Example: I Would Pay a Person to Install a New Roof on my House... and I Would Pay a Person to Calculate my Income Taxes... and I Would Pay a Person to Unclog the Kitchen Sink... 

But I Would Never Pay Someone to ORGANIZE A COMMUNITY! What Does That Job ACTUALLY DO? 

After a Lot of Internet Research I Found the Answer. The Catholic Church... They Paid His Salary and The Rent on the Office... It's a Part of The MISSION STATEMENT of the Church to Help the Poor... Just Like Buying Desks for School Children in Africa... or Buying Food and Medicine for Poor People in Central America... THAT'S WHAT THEY DO!

Obama - Biden - Hillary - in the war room on the Day
Osama bin Laden was Killed

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-side-effect-of-joe-bidens-1994-crime.html

A Side Effect of Joe Biden's 1994 Crime Bill That Caused Mass Incarceration of Black Men is... Eugenics... Genocide... REALLY!

Millions of Incarcerated Black Men Did Not Father Children. Causing a Great Whitening of The Population because Black Genes Were Locked UP.  

Women Selected White Men to Father Their Children BY DEFAULT. The Men Available are Mostly White, Hispanic, Oriental etc etc etc... This is an Example of GENOCIDE... Years ago it was Called Eugenics... Whatever... White Genes were passed on to the Next Generation While Black Genes Were Prevented...

READ MORE: Click Here!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS [Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once]

Ever since VJ Day (Victory in Japan), All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. One time there was a Need to Defend the Country and The Military Failed Completely. Civilians took down the Airplane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001. 

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Often The USA chooses sides in Someone Else's Civil War, Gets Real Excited about Fighting Communism (or whatEVER) and then We Get Bored, Retreat, Lose and the Total Effect is ZERO. 

For Example: READ MORE! Click Here!

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home-in-los-gatos-ca/

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Here is a Link to Another Website of Mine: Google Sites...

https://sites.google.com/view/gregoryvanderlaan/Home

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Working at Domino's Pizza as a Delivery Driver in Fort Washington, Maryland and Mount Vernon, Virginia for five Years in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s...

One time when I was laid off from a Drafting Job, I was Loafing around the Condo in Oxon Hill, Maryland and Eating a Lot of Domino's Pizza. The Guy Delivering the Pizza offered me a Job as a Driver. When Unemployed, The Correct answer to that question is Yes... 

I worked there for 5 years at The Fort Washington Store run by a Black woman, Angela Powell. An Air Force Brat that Lived on Andrews Air Force Base with Her Sister and another Black Lady. There were other Store Managers... for example: Stosh, a Russian Immigrant. 

There was a Giant Map of our delivery area on the Wall so We Could Find the Exact Location we were driving TO. We wrote instructions about how to find houses that were tricky... For Example, Many Houses Had no House Numbers on them or some people wanted you to go around back and knock on the basement door... Because the Landlord Lived in the Upstairs House and they were renting out the basement. We had a Rule that the Pizza had to be Delivered within 30 Minutes or the Customer Got $3.00 Off. The Delivery area was designed so every home was within 20 Minutes of the Store. There were some areas in the Forbidden Zone... Places we would NOT deliver to because of the Danger from Armed Robbery. We Would meet those customers in front of the 7/11 on the corner... 

In General, it was a High Pay Job. We Got Minimum Wage, 18 cents per Mile and Tips. That added up to about $15.00 an Hour. What the flaw with this way of earning a living is... You Wear Out Your Car and Can't Work Anymore after it Breaks Down... The 18 cents a mile is supposed to pay for Gasoline and Repairs... But it Does not Pay for replacing the entire Car...  OR... If you get in a Car Wreck, You Can't Work Anymore because Your Car is wrecked... and you are Unemployed, in the Hospital and in General... F*CKED... All these UBER Drivers Nowadays are in the Same Boat. 

We had Two Armed Robberies When I Worked There. One Trouble with That Business is PILES OF CASH! Maybe $3,000 a Night. The Drivers were all given a Locked Box on the Wall of the Pizza Parlor for us to Drop any Extra Cash after a Delivery. Supposedly, We were Never to Have more than $20.00 in our pocket during a delivery... to make Change from a Cash Sale. Everything was Cash at that time... Late 1980s... No Cellphones, No GPS. 

One Night, When I was NOT There, A Man Came Up to the Front of the Pizza Parlor Waving a Pistol. The Manager Quickly Locked the Front Glass Door. The Robber Fired the Gun and the Glass VANISHED! into a Pile of Broken Glass on the Floor. The Robber asked for Money and the Manager Gave Him Everything in the Cash Register... Help Yourself! What the Robber Did not Know was the Vast Majority of the Cash was still in our individual lock boxes... SO, Obviously, The Robber was NOT a Former Employee... 

Another Night, The Manager took ALL the Money and Drove it to The Bank where he Planned to Put it in the Wall... a Masked Man with a Gun said... Give me that Bag... and Took Off... Every Night at about 3:00 AM the manager Drove the Deposit one Block to the Bank... That robbery was Probably Committed by a Former Employee... Because He Knew The System. 

On a delivery I Met a woman named Betty-Lou and She Moved Into my Condo and we lived together raising her daughter. She was an Obese White Woman with a Half Black Child. 

Eventually I quit that job due to Murders of Delivery Drivers at the Capitol Hill Pizza Parlor... I delivered in a suburb that is populated by Black Government Workers and other Black Professionals. We Did Have a Yacht Club. Many of the Homes Had Waterfront Access on the Potomac River. Vast Wealth. G Gordon Liddy (of Watergate Fame) Lived in Our Delivery Area but Always Came Into the Store to Pick up his Pizzas. We were all warned to Never Accidentally Get lost and Turn down the Long Driveway to His Home. 

On Most Mornings I Smoked Marijuana before Going to Work. I did win a Safe Driver Award. $500.00 for No Accidents, No Tickets... On Friday and Saturday Nights I Would Often Work 13 Hours... Lunch, Dinner and Past Midnight... 

After the first Murder I switched to delivering in Mount Vernon, Virginia and Fort Belvoir. A Safer (Whiter) Neighborhood. 

Delivering to the Secret Army base was interesting. On sunny days they enforced security protocol and I was not allowed into certain buildings. However, if it was snowing, the guards just ignored security because it was cold outside... I Delivered to The Barracks, The PX, The Base Hospital and the Majors Street... Fancy Houses for Majors... an Officer's Rank. 

That Delivery Area also Had The Mansion at Mount Vernon. I Delivered often to The Park Rangers at George Washington's Home. In that same neighborhood there were MANY Old Mansions... Built in the 1700s and Still Owned by the Same Families. I Delivered to the Culpepper Family... They Have a County Named for them... 

On another Occasion, I took my Mom and Dad to see Mount Vernon as a Tourist Trip and On the Way Back it started to Rain... That Area is in a Very Humid Climate and It Rained so Hard I Couldn't Drive my Car... so I Pulled off the Side of the Road and Waited Five Minutes... and the Rain Ended!

On Yet Another Occasion, My Brother Martin, His Wife Patti and Daughter Nicole came to visit and we went out for Pizza at a Restaurant on Connecticut Ave... It Had Outdoor Seating... and there was a Thunderstorm Nearby... This was the VERY FIRST TIME My Niece Nicole (age Eight) had Experienced Thunder... She Freaked Out but we Calmed her Down. She grew up in SoCal and they Just Don't Have Massive Tropical Rainstorms there... 

After the Second Murder of a Dominos Pizza Driver in Washington DC I drove to California... Crack Cocaine caused insanity among the residents and there was a lot of Gun Violence. I abandoned the Condo and the Mortgage company foreclosed.

My Dodge Omni Automobile Had No Brakes or Heater. If I wanted to Stop the Car, I Pulled up on the Parking Brake... I Also used Votive Candles to Warm the Car. Of Course, the Heat from the Engine did keep my feet warm even without the Fan Blowing... So I was Driving thru Tennessee and it was late at Night and Snowing so I Pulled into a Rest Stop and Lit a Candle and Went to Sleep. I Woke Up a Couple of Hours Later FREEZING... So I Drove on Down the Road to Heat up the Car... With 18 Wheelers Spraying Slush on my Windshield... Scary! and I Drove Coast to Coast... Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Finally... California... The First thing I Did Coming Back to California After Living on the East Coast for 12 Years was... Buy a Carl's Jr. Star Hamburger... 

READ MORE of my Autobiography at:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

We Bought a Condo at 527 B1 Wilson Bridge Dr in Oxon Hill, Maryland ... one of the 500... On the Right as You Drive down #210 towards Indian Head... Couldn't sell it when I wanted to move... so, I simply refused to pay the Mortgage and forced Arlington Mortgage to foreclose... Let THEM lose more money on a Bad Investment. https://www.trulia.com/p/md/oxon-hill/527-wilson-bridge-dr-oxon-hill-md-20745--1005875498

The High Point in My ART Career was: I Painted a Bedsheet with the LOGO of a Rock Band and they Hung it on the Back of the Stage During Concerts.

It Was a Simple, Bold LOGO. Three Interlocking Hearts. Two pointing Down and One in the Middle Pointing Up. The Lead Singer Designed the Idea for the Logo and I Simply made a Heart Shaped Stencil out of a Piece of Paper and Outlined that with Fluorescent Pink Paint. Then Painted Squiggly Lines Radiating Outward using all the other colors in the paint set... They Played a Concert at a Farmhouse in Rural Maryland and a Guy Filmed it. When the Fireworks Blew Up, the Painting Changed Colors... At Least that's what the Singer Said... I Never saw the film. BUT He was Happy and He Kept the Painting.  At the same time, I Tie-Dyed some Unbleached Muslin Fabric and one of the Backup Singers Made Two Dresses for the Performance. 

In 2005 I Made an Online Webstore at Zazzle where My Digital Art is For Sale printed on Coffee Cups, Buttons, Stickers and T-Shirts. Earned about a Thousand Dollars in Royalties. And... It will continue to sell art after I'm Dead. I arranged for Royalty Checks to Be Sent to my Heirs. 

Read More at: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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I see that Johns Hopkins is Going to Study the Medicinal Properties of Magic Mushrooms. I briefly thought about volunteering as a test subject for this Scientific Research but... realized that I Have Already Learned Everything that is Possible to be Learned using Psychedelic Drugs. and So, I would be a poor subject for any tests... there would be no BEFORE AND AFTER in my case... anyway... I Don't LIKE large doses of magic mushrooms... small doses, yes that's fun but large doses are scary... that's the exact opposite of LSD... Small Doses often cause me to be anxious but giant doses are wild and out of control... and therefore NOT anxious... 

I Did the Shopping for Both of Us Quite Often with my Second Wife. One Day I was Reading the List She Made and Looking at Peanut Butter. She Did Not Specify CREAMY or CHUNKY... and I Did Not Know...

... live with someone for 16 years and I never noticed... That reminded me of a Simpsons TV Show where Homer could not tell Marge what color her eyes were... and she got upset about it. Anyway, I selected one of the jars of peanut butter and went on my way. I do not recall if she was happy with my choice but... I guess I would have Remembered if she was UNHAPPY. I personally don't really care for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches because they always remind me of poverty. Times when all I could afford was PB&J. Also in the realm of POBOY Delights is Canned Jack Mackerel in Tomato Sauce and Fritos Corn Chips. At one time in my life I lived in a Mexican Neighborhood in Beautiful Willow Glen, San Jose, California. At the Store on the corner they sold wonderful fresh burritos when I had enough money but on other occasions, I Ate Canned Jack Mackerel in Tomato Sauce and Fritos Corn Chips... the fish has a lot of bones but they are eatable... just chew them up and swallow... and a Can with chips is Enough!

Embrace Rainbow Spiralism Mug FOR SALE:

Classic Art of a Digital Tie Dye 

I wonder if they had Tie Dyes in Ancient Greece Deadheads talking about Plato and The Cave...

Embrace Rainbow Spiralism Mug
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I remember that when I was working at Dominos pizza in a Black Neighborhood in Washington DC the most popular pizza was called the "Home Boy Special" - Pepperoni, Sausage and Double Cheese... or as we called it... PS2C... I worked there for Five (5) Years. It was fun and I got Stoned on Marijuana Almost Every Morning before going to work. The Store Manager was a Black Woman named Angela and she was fun to be with. There actually were Five (5) Angelas that worked there... all Black or Mixed Race...  This was in Fort Washington, Maryland just outside the Beltway... That was the place to live if you were Black and Rich. Hard to believe but there were thousands of Government Employees, Doctors, Lawyers and Business Executives that had Beautiful Homes there and a Yacht Club on the Potomac... Their Children ordered a lot of Pizza... and tipped well... The neighborhood that I lived in was Closer to DC and Not so rich. My neighborhood was harmed greatly by the CIA Invention of Crack Cocaine. 

The CIA imported TONS of Cocaine to Fund the Contra War in Nicaragua. Their Marketing Trick was to sell Crack to Black people because you could get high for $10.00 as Opposed to Powered Cocaine which cost a LOT More. While this story is difficult to believe, it is true. There were Newspaper Articles written by Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News (go ahead and Google him) that Caused Government Hearings with Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Maxine Waters... 

The Conclusion was: A Successful Cover-Up by the CIA with the Help of the Washington Post and the New York Times Newspapers. They Published Stories Claiming that the CIA Employees were SAINTS! Choirboys! - They Did Not Report That: Yes, the CIA Imported Cocaine by the Ton to Fund the Contra War in Nicaragua and... Yes, they were sorry... and No, They would Never Do It again... Promise, Scouts Honor... and anyway, the War was Over so there Is No Need... 

Oddly, Gary Webb Committed Suicide by Shooting Himself in the Head TWICE... So, Remember... Don't Expose the CIA's Crimes... they won't like You.

I remember Baltimore. It has a Super Inner Harbor District. Intentionally designed to be a Wonderful Tourist Destination. The Architect was the same man who designed Columbia, Maryland. Where we first lived when we moved to Washington DC.

The Baltimore Aquarium has a Glass Covered Terrarium on the top floor. This is especially interesting in Winter... The Terrarium is Warm and Simulates a Tropical Paradise. Quite a contrast on a Snowy Day. They also have a shark pool. I enjoyed the Endless Mirror Escalator. By placing parallel mirrors on both sides of an escalator the reflections go off into infinity. There was also a super Touristy Amusement Park dedicated to Phileas Fogg. The Man who went around the World in 80 Days. Actually, I found it a Lame imitation of Disneyland. We went in the Late 1970s and I doubt that it is still there... There was also a Science Museum and a Giant Farmers Market/Crafts Shop/Barn. Selling fresh fish, hand made Amish Furniture and Quilts and Many Restaurants... 

Drawing of the Baltimore Inner Harbor

I remember Working in Baltimore. I was a Draftsman who was assigned jobs from an Temporary Employment Agency. We were assigned to Measure Ancient Townhouses and Draw Floor plans for an Architect that bought abandoned Buildings from the City. His deal was that he would buy the building for a Dollar and then had to put $20,000 worth of repairs into it. SO, he needed accurate floor plans and reports about the safety of staircases etc etc etc... We Went in teams of Three Men. One man to hold each end of the Tape Measure and one man to watch the Truck. This part of town had a Lot of Homeless people standing around barrels burning lumber that they had removed from abandoned buildings. In General, those squatters were not happy about Gentrification. So the guy who watched the truck was a Black Man... Needed to Talk to the Locals. When we finished the Construction work, they would no longer be able to Live in those abandoned Buildings. 

There is a Museum at Fort McHenry where Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner song. As you drive over Key Bridge I got a view of the abandoned Sparrows Point Steel Mill. It is a vast industrial complex that was owned at one time by Bethlehem Steel. Boats would come up the Chesapeake Bay loaded with Iron Ore and Coal. The soil was dark grey/brown... A reminder of times of long ago. https://www.nps.gov/fomc/index.htm

I had another Job at Ward Machinery in Towson, Maryland. That's a Suburb of Baltimore on the North Side. I drove to work during the winter and THAT was a very scary commute. Ice and Snow on the Beltway... I kept on singing the Beach Boys song "Don't Worry Baby" to calm myself down on the way to the Factory. I worked in the drafting department drawing wiring diagrams for the custom installations of Cardboard Box Manufacturing Machines. One Day, the Atomic Power Plant called Three Mile Island had an Accident. The man who sat at the next desk was a Nuclear Engineer and he said. "Don't worry, it takes about ten things to go wrong simultaneously to have a real problem... and we are at about eight!" and then he left. We were about 50 miles away. I do not believe we were Nuked... This was a Real industrial machine factory and an eye opener for a Silicon Valley Draftsman. Giant riding drill presses and big dark rooms for punching metal. They made "Crown" Rollers to hold conveyor belts. These were cylinders of aluminum that were slightly wider at a few locations. The Crown. Belts will ride towards the crown when rotating... Who Knew?

We went dancing at a Disco in Downtown Baltimore. It was called Girard's and had colored flashing lights. and extremely LOUD Disco Music that played Forever. Truly a Disco just like you see in The Movie "Saturday Night Fever." We also went to another Disco in the Suburbs called Reflections that had a flashing Light Floor. This was in the Late 1970s and I feel certain that those places are gone but they are replaced with whatever kids do today. My Wife was working at the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland and we went to Parties and Clubs with Women from Work. All recent college graduates who had just gotten their first real job and were hunting for husbands. Right next door was Westinghouse Defense Systems and that business employed many Men who were Engineers. A match made in Disco Heaven... 

We went to an Outdoor Bar BQ Party at a place on the Chesapeake Bay Upstream from Baltimore. The water is Mostly fresh but some ocean water is mixed in... depending on the tides... We all went swimming... I remember that the Cook made Vast quantities of Chicken but it was Not Cooked enough... still red inside but we were too polite to complain... I wanted to complain but my wife asked me not to... 

We also went to a Halloween Party and I went as an Ax Murderer (with my real ax) and My Wife went as a Victim with a Split Skull Mask. We were covered with fake blood and... surprise, surprise the other people at the party were scared of me. I forget that they might be concerned about a drunk giant with an ax. Those were fun times... The next year I went as the Jolly Green Giant from the canned vegetables advertisements... much more fun... 

We went to a Grateful Dead Concert at the Baltimore Civic Center. This was at a Time when the Dead were not all that popular and so they were not playing the really big Stadium Shows that I went to Later. I got in a fender bender accident after the concert because I put the gear shift into forward instead of reverse... OOPS... I gave the other drive $50 and My wife drove us home. Too much Booze... I had another Car accident during rush hour one day. I was leaving Ward Machinery and was going to pick up my wife at Fort Meade. Since I was North of Baltimore and She was South, I decided to take the freeway to the center of town, drive around downtown, and then find the freeway heading South out of town. Bad Plan because I got lost downtown and was in a hurry and then... I saw the freeway entrance, made a quick left hand turn from the right hand lane and CRASH a car from my blind spot hit me. We exchanged Insurance info, talked to a Policeman and Drove Away Unhurt... Just a bit of Bodywork needed to be done. In retrospect, driving around the beltway, while longer geographically, was shorter in time... than going straight thru town... 

I remember much later, there was an ENERGY CRISIS. People were sold Gasoline on alternate Days... and There were long lines at Gas Stations... It was all a Fake Crisis. I saw about a DOZEN BOATS parked in the Chesapeake Bay filled with Gas... but they DID NOT park at the Baltimore Harbor... For some unknown reason, the people that own the Gas Stations just stopped delivering gas... I guess they got what they wanted and so, surprise, surprise there was PLENTY OF GASOLINE... 

My cousin Dian and her husband Dick Kryniki lived in Towson and they were slightly older than us and they had three teenage boys. John, Ken and Steve. When we visited we were put in the middle of the family fight as Referees... Total Generation Gap Troubles. One of the Teenagers grew up to be a Professional Artist. After he left home he squatted in an abandoned building in downtown Baltimore at an ARTISTS COMMUNE... Sounds like fun but I don't know how they survived during the Winter. 

My Cousin Dian Recommended that we move to Columbia, Maryland when we moved from Santa Clara... Excellent advice. The Year We lived there was wonderful. I went to Howard Community College studying Computer Programming and Jo-Ann was Studying how to Transcribe Russian telephone calls for the NSA. Sadly, she had the desire to BUY a Condo in Oxon Hill, Maryland and we left. Bad Move. The price was low because most of the neighbors were black. SO... we chose the low price... an Identical Condo in a white neighborhood cost about 25% more... I didn't really care id the family next door was black... it wasn't until I tried to SEEL that condo that I understood... By That time the neighborhood had gone CRACK CRAZY and there was gunfire at night... Everyone that bought a condo there lost money because they were unsellable... anyway, I simply refused to pay the mortgage for three months and the bank HAD to take it... 

In General, I hated the Winter... Since I'm from California, I Can't Imagine why people would tolerate Snow... I Didn't... So I Left. 

In General, Baltimore is an Interesting OLD City. Founded before the American Revolution it has Historical Significance... and it is a step backwards in time to the Industrial Revolution Steel Mill Days... 

Tesla's Tower of Power

Woodstock 50 - FREE CONCERT! At Merriweather Post Pavilion in Beautiful Colombia, Maryland... How to get Free Tickets "to be announced" ... Well, at the very least, the parking lot scene will be EPIC...

There are parking lots in Symphony Woods and a giant shopping mall right across the street... SHAKEDOWN STREET -  "Don't tell me this town ain't got no HEART!" boomp, boomp, boomp; bompa, bompa, boomp...  tweedleet!

Remember: Do not bring a lot of illegal fireworks... I remember that the Grateful Dead were "forbidden" from playing there because the people in the parking lots shot off a lot of fireworks, endangering the forest... Since people often drive South of the Border into South Carolina and buy Rockets that shoot up into the sky and explode... it's a real health hazard to play with them in Symphony Woods. 

https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/27/woodstock-50-free-concert-donations/

Woodstock 50 will be a free show to those lucky enough to get their hands on tickets ... though which performers will officially take the stage is still up in the air.


Sources familiar with the event plans tell us, organizers have decided to release tickets in the coming days free of charge. We're told a limited number of seats will be available for the show -- which has been moved to Maryland -- and instructions on how to get tickets will likely be posted by the end of the week.

Woodstock 50 Free Concert 

Once I was driving my friends to New York City to go see an Art Gallery Exhibit. It was Laser Holographs and at that time they were very new and rare.

We were all in my Dodge Omni (Ken, Ken the son, Mark and I) when the Police pulled over a group of cars that were speeding on #95... We were all going with the flow and traveling at 75-80 MPH... Obviously the correct speed and obviously illegal. I got a ticket and years later I learned that the State of Merryland had RECIPROCITY with the State of New Jersey. When I went to the MVA to pay my registration I was refused service unless I paid the bill and fines in New Jersey. I parked at the Newark Airport and we took a bus to Manhattan. We saw a Laser Lightshow at the Planetarium. The ART Gallery was Very Special (Museum of Holography) because the pictures were printed on clear plastic and had a rainbow colored portrait of a Woman blowing a kiss. as I walked left and right she reversed time and moved her hand to her lips and Blew the Kiss... Magic...

If all you know about New Jersey is the freeway #95 you miss a lot of The Garden State. The western part is farms and woods. I visited some kids who had built a cabin in the woods so they would have a place to smoke weed. It had logs for walls and a parachute for a roof. It was summer so the parachute was missing. The Jersey Shore has a couple of wonderful places... First I must say that Atlantic City SUCKS. I went there and won money and then was worried about walking to the car at night and getting mugged... I made sure to look sad when teenagers were checking us out... If I had a Happy Step, they might have realized I was a winner... We did hear Glenn Campbell Play Guitar and Sing. He played the guitar behind his head... and played the notes perfectly... Showmanship... 

The FERRY BOAT From Cape May to Delaware is EPIC. All along the Seashore are quaint communities of wooden buildings... and there are hundreds of places to go wading in the ocean. MANY have a Toll you have to Pay. ODD... All the way from Atlantic City to Ocean City Maryland there are lovely towns... People rent a house for a week and have fun. or just for the weekend... When I was working in Washington DC my co workers would often shout O.C. BOUND! on Friday Afternoon... We went with my cousins from Baltimore (Towsend) and everyone bought watermelon on the drive to Ocean City... There is a Boardwalk with rides, shops and Salt Water Taffy! Sadly, if you leave on Friday there is a MAJOR Traffic Jam at the Bridge over the Chesapeake Bay at Annapolis.  

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I remember that We used to Ride Bicycles all over town when I was Growing up in Los Gatos.

 I remember Barry Hill and I raced down from the Novitiate... too fast and I Hit a short brick wall, flipped over the handlebars and Landed in a Bush on my Back with my toes still in the toe clips... Bent that front wheel and we had to buy a replacement at the Flea Market...  I also Rode to the Rosicrucian Museum... That's a long ride... Once Joe Franck and I tried to Ride to Big Sur but I quit before I got to Summit Road... He and his other Friends Made it... Amazing... My whole family rode on Freeway #280 on the Day before it opened... Smooth White Concrete for miles... thousands of other bikers... Bikes were a way to have freedom of motion at ZERO Cost. No Need to ask my parents to drive me anywhere because I could Just Ride... and tell them where I was Going... and sometimes I even arrived at the Declared Destination!


Years Later My First Wife and I Rode from New York City to Washington DC. It Took about 2 Months... We Traveled LESS than 50 miles a day. MANY Days we didn't travel at all... It was a Vacation and often we stayed by the pool at the Campgrounds... In Rural New Jersey and Maryland many farmers have private campgrounds to make some easy money... We Went from One to the Next and the Farmers would call ahead, make reservations with friends of theirs. Once they came looking for us because we had gotten lost and didn't arrive on time... Thanks! I remember that it was downhill for 60 miles to the Delaware River... We Rode as fast as the Cars that were passing us... Maybe 50 MPH... and then... 60 miles uphill... 

I posted this on my Facebook Group... "Things I Remember Growing up in Los Gatos" and my Neighbor Victor Koman posted something... That reminded me of Driving my Dad around during his last year of life... We went Down Highway #9 towards Saratoga and Turned Left at The Library... Drove to the TOP of the Mountain and Visited a Subdivision Dad Built... Apollo Heights... On Orbit Road... There was Still an Empty Lot for Sale all these years later... You could Look Down on the Paul Masson Winery... see Moffett Field and Los Gatos... That subdivision was one of his greatest accomplishments... It was all just bare land when he started and the only way a Customer could visit their lot was by riding a Burro... He arranged for a road to be paved, electricity, water sewers... etc... I'm really glad we went... We had planned to Go to Vasona Park that Day but when the Park Ranger asked us to PAY ADMISSION... I refused...

The Grateful Dead were "Banned" from the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland because of too many fireworks in the parking lot... The venue is close to the State of South Carolina where people can buy rockets that fly up into the air and explode... SO...

I guess there was a danger of BURNING DOWN THE FOREST... anyway, the next Year the dead started Playing in a Basketball Arena... Maybe this is a true story or maybe they just wanted a bigger hall so more people could get in...

In Pittsburgh, PA I remember a lady had "Liberated" a Roll of bright orange Supermarket stickers that said "BONELESS" and she was sticking them on boys... I thought it was funny... Kind of a Pranksterish Thing to Do...  That was the Crosby, Stills and Nash & Dead Concert and there were many People from Canada and New York City attending... Great Show and The Three Rivers Stadium is a Perfect Circle with all the Echoes Cancelling near the Pitchers Mound... Yes, they did play "Teach Your Children" and Jerry Garcia played the Pedal Steel Guitar... 

At RFK Stadium in Washington, DC I men many Deaf Students from Gallaudet University... They said that Phil Lesh's Bass did not require Hearing using Ears as We could Feel it in the Stomach...

Photo of me demonstrating American Sign Language for the Phrase "Do you have any LSD?"

I love playing "Deal" on the Guitar... It's Really Simple... and Fun to Sing in Public... I Remember Playing that Song in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington DC and Some Homeless Guy said he Liked that song about a DEER... I guess I wasn't pronouncing the words accurately... In Contrast, a Homeless woman really hated "The Golden Road." The Lyric "She's a Neon Light Diamond, She can live on the Street" pissed her off...

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I attended a Live Performance of Seastones at Winterland in San Francisco... The record has a lot of Classic Analog Synthesizer Sounds... He turned up the Resonance on the Band Pass Filter and Modulated the Pitch using a Low Frequency Oscillator... You Know that sound... Like Spaceships Taking Off in 1950's Science Fiction Movies... Thanks to Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, Ned Lagin got a bit of NOTICE by the Deadhead Audience... Thanks Phil, for Finding him...

My real Gratitude is that I Bought an Analog Synthesizer and Played That Cosmic Outer Space Whoosh Whoosh Music Myself... Korg Poly Six and Roland SH-101 with a Micro Composer... 

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I saw the Jerry Garcia Band at San Jose State, California... That was the only concert that I got to Dance Right next to the Stage in front of Jerry... I remember that he was drenched in sweat... Those Stage Lights are HOT! and it was Just too loud for me so I moved back after a while... The big song of the Night was "Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton. That is a really PERKY Song with a Difficult to play rhythm... Jerry was able to play it well... I remember the Bright Orange Streetlights after the show caused a totally odd color scheme...

Jerry also was able to Master the Rhythm of "La Bamba" while all the other guys seemed to be scrambling to keep up... at a performance at the Capital Center in Landover Maryland...

Did Trump INSPIRE the Journalist Killer with his endless "The Media is the Enemy" statements? 5 Dead in Annapolis, Maryland. Shot Dead by GUNS. NRA=EVILAliens

Seems Likely... A brainwashed "Conservative" getting Revenge against a Reporter? Trumpers are Like that...

The president puts on a big show of assaulting his “opposition” in the news media.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/23/trump-loves-media-reporters-white-house-215043

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/donald-trump-newsroom-shooting.html

Take a break from the News and Play with Potatoshop... It's Fun!

During the year I went to Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland I studied FORTRAN and COBOL.

 I punched cards that were fed into a HP-3000 mini-computer. My final project for FORTRAN was to simulate playing a million games of Roulette to see if any betting system would be advantageous to a gambler. The answer is NO. For example: A betting system would be to place a bet on RED or Black: if you won-keep the money, if you lost-double your bet and play again. That way if you lost the first time but won the second time, you would still be one dollar ahead... The plan is to keep on collecting dollars... It would work unless you lost MANY times in a row. Eventually, the player either exceeds the table limit on how much a player can bet OR the player loses all his money and can't keep on playing. In general, this only happens if a player loses 7 or 8 times in a row... and in my simulation, I played a million games... and a losing streak always happened.

Then I took a couple of short term temp jobs thru an agency. One was working for an architechs office measuring old townhouses in downtown Baltimore and then drawing floorplans. We went out in groups of three. One man held one end of the tape measure and the other held the other end. The third watched the truck to make sure it wasn't stolen. The abandoned townhouses were being sold by the City of Baltimore for $1.00 but the new owner had to promise to put a lot of money into reconstruction. We were drawing the floorplans so the builders could estimate how much material to buy. Often these abandoned townhouses were very elegant... built at a time when people had marble fireplaces... but over the years they had fallen into ruin.

Another temp job was at Ward Machinery in Towson. They built machines that created corrugated cardboard for boxes. Every installation was a custom job and so my task was to draw wiring diagrams from polaroid photographs of the machines after they were installed. One day The Nuclear Power Plant at Three Mile Island had an accident. We were about 50 miles from TMI and one of the engineers in my office was a Nuclear Engineer. He said there was nothing to worry about because the system was designedd to be safe unless 10 things went wrong all at once... He said that we were at about #8 and he left the office to drive to safety. As it turned out there was not a gigantic Nuclear Disaster. However, peeople close to the power plant did report tasting a metalic flavor when they breathed... sure sign of Uranium in the air.

I was driving to work from Columbia to Towson in the winter and it was very scary to go on the Baltimore Beltway during rush hour in icy conditions. I'm sure glad to come back to California where it does not snow.

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