As a Nation, We Need to Forgive Each Other and Work Together to Build a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow... Red and Blue People Coming Together to Make Purple...

Focus Your Attention on this Perfect Rose - AHHHH

How do we "love 'til there is no enemy"? A spiritual message for polarized times from Larisa Stow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?__s=r9mo2z66lkfdpb6es3d4&v=bAxRb5TYbK8&feature=youtu.be <--- Click on the Link!

Photographs of Chico, California - In the Central Valley of California – 100 Miles North of Sacramento. Nestled near the Foothills of Mount Lassen. Famous for Swimming in Chico Creek and Big Al’s Drive in Restaurant… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/photographs-of-chico-california/

BE SAFE! Wear Masks! Do Not Gather in Large Groups! Wash Your Hands! PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE SMART HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF SURVIVING CORONAVIRUS! #IgnoreTrumpAndPence #TheyGiveBadAdvice 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/benefit-art-sale-all-profits-donated-to.html

Joe Biden is in Favor of Solar and Wind Power. tRUMP Was Bribed to Promote Oil and Coal. Any Questions?

Coal Barons Who Donated $1 Million to Trump’s Increasingly Suspicious Inauguration Fund May Get Huge Favor... BUT THE FAVOR FAILED AND MURRAY COAL WENT BANKRUPT ANYWAY! 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/joe-biden-is-in-favor-of-solar-and-wind.html

Peace and Love - Free Coloring Book Art... Print as Many Copies as You Want and Share With Your Friends... Dozens of Drawings...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

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I was an Unpaid Participant in Project MKULTRA... The CIA PAID Ken Kesey to find out what LSD DID... and IF it Could be Used as a Weapon...  and then they LET Kesey Steal a Lot of  LSD and Hold ACID TEST Parties... and Somehow, that evolved to Massive Group Trips at Grateful Dead Concerts with Very Little Law Enforcement... AND IT WAS FUN... It was an EXPERIMENT to see WHAT IF a million People Took LSD... Well, They Wouldn't KNOW What Would Happen until they Invented That MARKETING SCHEME of Deadheads Going on Tour Paying their Way by Dealing LSD and Tie-Dye T-Shirts... and so... THE CIA DEPLOYED LSD ONTO THE ENTIRE USA... and the rest is American History. 

On a related Subject: I've Always Been Moved by the PLATO STORY - "THE CAVE." When I Heard it first I Said... HEY, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! THAT'S MY LIFE! I've Left the Cave and Seen MORE than the Shadows on the Wall. Thank You, Dr. Albert Hofmann. --->Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but are not accurate representations of the real world. Three higher levels exist: the natural sciences; mathematics, geometry, and deductive logic; and the theory of forms.

Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not reality at all. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

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Links to My Wordpress Blog:

“Lessons Learned” by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial and Error Yielded These Words of Wisdom…

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/lessons-learned-by-gregory-vanderlaan-a-lifetime-of-trial-and-error-yielded-these-words-of-wisdom-or-something-like-that/

It’s Important That We #DumpTrump Now. He Helped the Democrats Win in 2020 by The ENDLESS FAILURES During His Years as President.

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/its-important-that-we-dumptrump-now-he-helped-the-democrats-win-in-2020-by-the-endless-failures-during-his-years-as-president/

NO NUKES! We REALLY Need to Guard the Atomic Waste at PG&E’s Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka California

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/no-nukes-we-really-need-to-guard-the-atomic-waste-at-pges-abandoned-nuclear-power-plant-near-eureka-california/

AWAKEN! You Giant Made of Sand… [FICTION] by Gregory Vanderlaan

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/awaken-you-giant-made-of-sand-fiction-by-gregory-vanderlaan/

Links to My Music Videos. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/links-to-my-music-videos/

SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent’s Home in Los Gatos, CA https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home-in-los-gatos-ca/

Elizabeth Warren has some GREAT Ideas: Tax the Rich… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/elizabeth-warren-has-some-great-ideas-tax-the-rich/

CRIMINAL Prosecution of Donald Trump is What’s Needed Now https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/criminal-prosecution-of-donald-trump-is-whats-needed-now/

PARLER is Online Again and I’m Posting #RUNAWAY From tRUMP Messages. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/parler-is-online-again-and-im-posting-runaway-from-trump-messages/

“IMPEACH BIDEN” TRUCKER HAT for sale… It’s Not Too Early to Start the Campaign… Kamala for President! Buttons! Stickers! Coffee Cups! T-Shirts! https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/impeach-biden-trucker-hat-for-sale-its-not-too-early-to-start-the-campaign-kamala-for-president-buttons-stickers-coffee-cups-t-shirts/

Trump Is Right. Bring American Soldiers Home From Iraq and Afghanistan. There is NO VALID MISSION. VETO The NDAA. #DefundThePentagon — Refund That Wasted Money to the Taxpayers. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/trump-is-right-bring-american-soldiers-home-from-iraq-and-afghanistan-there-is-no-valid-mission-veto-the-ndaa-defundthepentagon-refund-that-wasted-money-to-the-taxpayers/

“Doing Evil for Money – a Novel” by Gregory Vanderlaan [another NSA Kiss and Tell Book] https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/doing-evil-for-money-a-novel-by-gregory-vanderlaan-another-nsa-kiss-and-tell-book/

The Path Forward… Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live… Let’s Heal America… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/the-path-forward-simple-suggestions-for-making-the-world-a-better-place-to-live-lets-heal-america/

Top Ten ART Gifts on My Zazzle Webstore – The People Have Spoken! With Their Wallets – All Royalties Donated to Charity – Psychedelic Art https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/top-ten-art-gifts-on-my-zazzle-webstore-the-people-have-spoken-with-their-wallets-all-royalties-donated-to-charity-psychedelic-art/

The COSTS of all those TV Advertisements for Prescription Medicines are PAID FOR BY THE PATIENTS. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/the-costs-of-all-those-tv-advertisements-for-prescription-medicines-are-paid-for-by-the-patients/

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics – Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves What is the Best Treatment.

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/legalize-medicinal-psychedelics-let-doctors-and-patients-decide-for-themselves-what-is-the-best-treatment/

gvan42 – Free Coloring Book… Print as Many Copies as You Like and Share With Friends… BIG FUN for the Whole Family! https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/gvan42-free-coloring-book-print-as-many-copies-as-you-like-and-share-with-friends-big-fun-for-the-whole-family/

TRUMP FAIL: ISIS Fanatics Break Out of Syrian Jihadi Prison Camp after it is bombed by Turkish army following pull-out of US forces...

#Impeach tRUMP Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE!

Most Americans are in Favor of Impeaching 

tRUMP and Removing Him From Office... 

and then LOCK HIM UP for Corruption...

#Impeach tRUMP Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan

Five terrorists have escaped from Navkur in northeastern Syria after shelling struck near the prison today...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7563793/Desperate-ISIS-fanatics-break-Syrian-jihadi-prison-camp.html

Republicans slam Trump's Syria pullout: 'Disaster,' 'Betrayal,' 'Mistake'
Senate Majority Leader #Moscow Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the "withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria would only benefit Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime." https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/disaster-betrayal-mistake-republicans-slam-trump-s-syria-pull-out-n1063251


Lindsey Graham on Trump's Syria decision: "He's putting the nation at risk" 

https://www.axios.com/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-syria-withdrawal-e103594e-2417-4355-a5af-46a0f197e838.html

In an interview with Axios on Tuesday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) condemned President Trump in his harshest language yet for deciding to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, suggesting Trump is violating his oath of office by allowing Turkey to move in and attack the Kurds.

"He took an oath of office to protect the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. There's no bigger enemy to our nation than ISIS. And there's no way we can protect the country from radical Islam without partners like the Kurds." 

#IMPEACH TRUMP LARGE TOTE BAG FOR SALE!

It's The Right Thing To Do! Slogan in Large Letters... 

You MAY Change the Words if YOU Want To!

#IMPEACH TRUMP LARGE TOTE BAG
by gregvan

PATRIOTS ARISE! Help Campaign for Amy McGrath for Senate in Kentucky... Beat #MoscowMitch Like a Pinata! He is a Corrupt TrumpNik - Obeying His Master, Vladimir Putin - Register and Vote! Throw all the Corrupt Old White Men OUT. 

 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/amy-mcgrath-for-senate-in-kentucky-beat.html

15 Photos with Captions of Humboldt Nation in Northern California - EPIC Redwood Trees - A Painted BUS! - The Rugged Coast... It's Like Visiting Here but Without Actually Flying in an Airplane! Virtual Travel...

Path thru the Forest at the Trinidad Rest Stop... Reminds Me Of the EWOK Village in Star Wars That was Filmed Nearby

A Wind Blown Tree on the Coast near McKinleyville

A Rainbow Painted City Bus in Eureka

The Carson Mansion
as Seen from the Docks at The Woodley Island Marina

Ferns in the Headwaters Redwood Forest

A Large Green Plant in The Plaza of Arcata, CA

Three Sailboats, a Kayak and the Humboldt County Library

Crystals in a Store Window on Arcata Plaza

The Beach at Luffenholtz looking at Trinidad Head

The Restaurant at Moonstone Beach

A Chainsaw Bear at Elfin Glen Gift Shop on Highway 101

Odd Mushroom Cloud from the Biomass Power Plant
NO WIND in Fairhaven

Remote Beach near Luffenholtz - Trinidad
I Have No Idea How or IF You can Get there.

Trinidad Pier at Night

The Old Fisherman Statue in Eureka
and a LOT of Sky and Water

Closeup of the Octopus Mural in Old Town Eureka

Mouse and Rainbow Spiralism Drawing with Glitter
Giraffe and Magic Glasses

and... Photographs from Other Locations 

in "The State of Jefferson"

Ocean Sparkles in Brookings Oregon

Driftwood Sculpture on the Beach in Crescent City, California

Mount Shasta with almost NO Snow
during the Summer of 2014 Drought

Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park. Chico, CA
Lava Rocks from Mount Lassen

Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park. Chico, CA
Lava Rocks from Mount Lassen

Redwood Chainsaw Carving of a Mermaid
and Crab Pots in Crescent City

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and now an advertisement for my Art Store

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JUST SAY KNOW COFFEE CUP For Sale!

Satire of the Slogan printed on a Psychedelic Background. YOU MAY CHANGE THE WORDS OR REMOVE THEM IF YOU WANT TO. There are Two Layers of Letters - a White Layer that outlines the Black Layer on Top.

JUST SAY KNOW MUG
by gregvan

Trump has DONE NOTHING to fix our Infrastructure. As the Nation Crumbles, It's "Promises Made, Promises Broken" Week Again...

Headline: White House Admits Trump’s Infrastructure Promise Isn’t Happening... 

While nobody knew just what was going to happen in the immediate wake of Donald Trump’s election, one outcome that seemed foreseeable was the passage of a major infrastructure law. Democrats had long favored such a measure, and Republicans, who had blocked it largely to deny a victory to President Obama, no longer had any such incentive. The opposition was eager, or perhaps simply obligated by the pretense of bipartisanship, to cooperate. “As President-elect Trump indicated last night, investing in infrastructure is an important priority of his. We can work together to quickly pass a robust infrastructure jobs bill,” announced Nancy Pelosi. Trump’s building background made him not only eager to pass such a bill but — unlike almost every other policy question he faced — he actually possessed at least a modicum of understanding of the issue.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/trump-admits-infrastructure-promise-isnt-happening.html

Senator Cory Booker delivers an Inspirational Speech at Netroots Nation Conference.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?449357-1/senator-cory-booker-remarks-netroots-nation-conference
Makes me believe... He would be a powerful Presidential Candidate in 2020

Netroots Nation: Inspirational Speeches from Mayors... Especially New York City... He ended Stop and Frisk and IMPROVED Safety, reduced Arrests.

https://www.netrootsnation.org/ 

Netroots Nation has hosted the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing thousands of attendees from around the country and beyond.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/NetrootsNation/videos 
Speeches by Many Leaders... 

https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156414909524827/
Mayor Bill de Blasio Closing Keynote Netroots Nation 2018

Great Book: "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself" by Amanda Marcotte

https://www.amazon.com/Troll-Nation-Trump-Worshipping-Monsters-Liberals/dp/1510737456/ 

In Troll Nation, journalist Amanda Marcotte outlines how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment. For years now, the purpose of right wing media, particularly Fox News, has not been to argue for traditional conservative ideals, such as small government or even family values, so much as to stoke bitterness and paranoia in its audience. Traditionalist white people have lost control over the culture, and they know it, and the only option they feel they have left is to rage at a broad swath of supposed enemies ― journalists, activists, feminists, city dwellers, college professors ― that they blame for stealing “their” country from them. 

Conservative pundits, politicians, and activists have abandoned any hope of winning the argument through reasoned discourse, and instead have adopted a series of bad faith claims, conspiracy theories, and culture war hysterics. Decades of these antics created a conservative voting base that was ready to elect a mindless bully like Donald Trump.

Great Book: "Troll Nation" by Amanda Marcotte. How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself

https://www.amazon.com/Troll-Nation-Trump-Worshipping-Monsters-Liberals/dp/1510737456 

The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become the president of the United States? How did Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land? The American right has spent decades turning away from reasoned discourse toward a rhetoric of pure resentment―it’s this shift that laid the groundwork for Trump’s ascendency. 

In Troll Nation, journalist Amanda Marcotte outlines how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment. For years now, the purpose of right wing media, particularly Fox News, has not been to argue for traditional conservative ideals, such as small government or even family values, so much as to stoke bitterness and paranoia in its audience. Traditionalist white people have lost control over the culture, and they know it, and the only option they feel they have left is to rage at a broad swath of supposed enemies ― journalists, activists, feminists, city dwellers, college professors ― that they blame for stealing “their” country from them. 

Conservative pundits, politicians, and activists have abandoned any hope of winning the argument through reasoned discourse, and instead have adopted a series of bad faith claims, conspiracy theories, and culture war hysterics. Decades of these antics created a conservative voting base that was ready to elect a mindless bully like Donald Trump.