Gavin Newsom for President 2024. We MUST Beat The CULT of TRUMP... and Gavin has a Better Chance Than Joe... Here's Joe Biden's Email Address so you Can Ask Him to Retire... With Gavin and Jennifer it will be Camelot 2.0

Contact President Biden HERE!

Please be polite: You Could Say Something Like... 

"Gavin Newsom for President 2024. Dear Mr President: Please Retire... You did a Great job but now is the time to Bow Out Gracefully... The Most Important Thing is to Beat Trump... With You as a Candidate, there is a real danger of our Losing."

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all of the following was written on 6/15/2022...

so it's dated...

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First, lets see what happens in November 2022... If Republicans win the House they Could Impeach Biden... Remember: No ACTUALLY Impeachable Offense needs to be Committed, just a Majority of Votes... and If Biden is Not Convicted in the Senate, they Could Impeach Him Again... and Again... and Again... Taking Time Out only to Impeach Kamala Harris a few times... and the New SCOTUS Justice Jackson... Will Joe be in a Place to Run Again after being Impeached Three or Four Times?

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We Need 1,000 More Fire Fighting Helicopters in the USA. Please Take Action! Helicopters Can Simply Dip a Bucket in a Lake, Dump Water on the Fire.

The Entire West is Burning... Every Year there
will be MORE MORE MORE fires... and Two of
California's Massive Fires - Were Near Lakes...
One Near Lake Tahoe and One Near Lake
Almanor... and Both Lakes Had Water in them...




CDF Helicopter Dipping Water For
Fighting Fire -


Let's Bring Home the Helicopters From
Afghanistan or Use Pentagon Money to Buy
New Ones!


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Gavin's Letter to the Citizens of California.

NO RECALL Election Victory 2021:




Thank you.

I am humbled and grateful to the millions of Californians who voted yesterday and in the weeks before to reject the division, the cynicism and so much of what has defined our politics over the last several years.

I am especially thankful to the 250,000+ donors who made 600,000 donations to our campaign, almost 90% of them from California.

I am thankful to the volunteers who knocked on doors, made phone calls, and sent texts and had conversations with millions of Californians over the last several months, chasing down every last vote until the polls closed last night.

But the no VOTE on the recall was not the only thing expressed last night and in our work leading up to this win.

We said YES to a lot as well.

We said YES to science.

We said YES to vaccines.

We said YES to ending this pandemic.

We said YES to the right to vote and to do so without fear or fake fables of fraud.

We said YES to a woman’s fundamental constitutional right to decide what to do with her body.

We said YES to diversity, inclusion and pluralism.

We said YES to economic justice, social justice, environmental justice and racial justice.

We said YES to our values.

You know, one of the things that we have all learned throughout the Trump administration, since Joe Biden won in November, and through this recall is that democracy is not a football — something to be thrown around.

We may have defeated Trump, but if you look around, Trumpism is not dead in this country. The big lie. January 6. The assault on voting rights and constitutional rights. These things are still all around us.

So I close by saying I am humbled, I am grateful, and I am resolved at the same time.

We have a lot of work to do. Let’s get back to it.

- Gavin














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"The Path Forward" - 20 Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live...





If YOU Have Any Ideas, Tell Me and I'll Include them... gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]com


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1. Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks will Bubble
UP Throughout The Entire Economy. Raise the Minimum Wage to $15.00 and Increase All
Social Security Checks by 15% - People WILL
Spend that Extra Money at American Businesses Causing Higher Profits... and Increased Hiring
to Handle the New Customers. EVERYBODY
WINS!


2. Gerrymandering Allows Unpopular
Candidates to Serve in Elected Offices. By
Drawing Crazy Lines on a Map We Have Insane Monsters Represent Minority Viewpoints. A
Tool That Has Allowed the Republican Party to Rule... UNTIL 2020... In That Election Trump Backlash Caused the Democrats to WIN The
House, Senate and Presidency. A Total
Rejection of Trump AND His Evil Minions!


3. Trump's EPA=Enable Polluters Agency. Let
FLIP The Mission to Protecting the
Environment! Do It For The Children!


4. End Federal Subsidies for Oil and Gas. Start Subsidizing Solar and Wind. Create a "Manhattan Project" to Do Basic Research into Better Batteries... and Solar Powered Desalinization... We Need Clean Drinking Water...

5. Increase Federal Spending on Our Crumbling Infrastructure. We Can Pay For It By Cutting
Defense Spending In Half. Remember: Since 1945,
The US Military Has Never Defended The Country. NOT EVEN ONCE. All Those Taxpayer Dollars are
Just BOGUS Welfare for The Military Industrial Complex...


6. Start Training Classes For the Police So They
Stop Murdering Unarmed Black People. This One Simple Trick Will Save Billions of Dollars Currently Wasted on Rebuilding Cities from Riots! There
Simply Will Not BE Riots! and No Million Dollar Settlements With the Family of the Murder Victim. DUH!
$12 Million Awarded to Breonna Taylors Family
AND Countless Millions Spent on Riot Control...
The Police Don't Work For Free!


7. Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free
All the Cannabis Prisoners. Use the Empty Jail
Cells as a Homeless Shelter. Just Remove the Bars
and They are Already Set Up With Food, Medicine, Showers, a Library and Basketball Court! This
Would Cause a Massive INCREASE In Voluntary
Taxes and a Massive DECREASE in Government Spending... EVERYBODY WINS!


8. Fund Basic Research into Fighting
Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome. It's
an Epidemic! Destroying The USA By The Blood Sucking Leeches of the Ruling Class... This
Mental Health Disease Manifests Itself By The
Super Rich Purchasing Senators and
Congressmen That Pass Laws Benefitting the
Super Rich... at The Expense of 99% of Americans... The only Solution I Can Think of
is #FRANCE1789... #OccupyWashingtonDC
There is a CrazyLaw® Called Citizens United
That Needs to Be Reversed... It Legalizes
Bribery of Politicians... WITH NO RECORD of
Who Spent What... Enabling Russian Funding
of The NRA and the GOP...


9. #ImpeachBrett #ImpeachAmy - Remove
Bratt Kava Kava NOOGIE from the Supreme
Court. Remove Amy Too... No Reason Needed...
Just Have the House File Impeachment Charges and The Senate Convict Them... Before They Do
Any More Damage to the USA...


10. Allow ARREST of a Sitting President by the Department of Justice... There is a DOJ
OPINION that Says We Cannot Indict a Sitting President... EVEN IF HE IS GUILTY OF A CRIME... That's a Crazy Idea... In Effect, It Made Crime
Legal for "HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED" and
His Friends... #fuBARR is a Co Conspirator...
It's Just an Opinion... The Supreme Court Has
NOT Ruled That It's VALID...


11. Overturn Citizens United. Remove Bribery
From US Elections...


12. End the Electoral College. Most Americans Prefer Majority Rule... The Electoral College allowed the TWO WORST PRESIDENTS IN
AMERICAN HISTORY to serve... George Bush
The Son and Donald Trump The Insane...


13. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let
Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves
What Treatment is Best. Get Corrupt
Lawmakers OUT of Medicine... They Are
Just Puppets of Big Pharma. The GOAL of Pharmaceutical Corporations is PROFIT, NOT HEALTH.


14. We Could Provide Shelter for Homeless
People in the Unused Jail Cells that Once
Were Used to Incarcerate Cannabis Prisoners... Once you remove the Bars, a Jail Cell has a
Bed, Food, Medicine, Showers, a Library and Exercise... Everything Needed to Rebuild a Life...


15. Get Vaccines for Your Children. They Save Lives. Not Just Your Own Children's Life but Everyone In The Community.


16. End Trump's Trade War With China. That
Would Let American Farmers Sell Them More Food...


17. Let's Cut the Budget for NSA Spying on Americans. And CIA, FBI, DIA, DARPA and EIEIO Spying on Americans Programs... Those
Program has Proved to be Useless and a Fundamental Invasion of Privacy... a Violation
of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution... Hey, If You're a Freaking NARC, UckFay OuYay...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_
Amendment_to_the_United_States_
Constitution


18. Wear Masks, Practice Social Distancing and Wash Your Hands. It's Not Complicated. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/11/wear-
masks-practice-social-distancing.html






19. It Ought to be Illegal for People to Go on
TV and Call for Murdering Other People. Like
Steve Bannon, Rude Julie Anna and Trump's
Lawyer Joe DiGenova Did.


20. Net Neutrality. Let the Internet be a Level Playing Field.

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and the People Bowed and Prayed... to the Neon Orange God they Made... and CNN Flashed Out a Warning! DANGER DANGER! He's a Traitor!

[FICTION - None of this Actually Happened]

To be continued... 

Tucker Carlson Says: ‘Obviously’ We’re ‘Speeding Toward Assassination’ of Trump. Is Tucker Trying to Motivate a Madman to Pull the Trigger? Revenge for Trump Getting Him Fired at Fox? DO NOT KILL TRUMP. THAT WOULD BE WRONG.

According to Carlson, “both parties have decided that there’s something about Trump that’s so threatening to them, they just can’t have it.”
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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/09/assassination-of-trump.html

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There is a tradition that when taking a selfie video in front of the Armless statue... that you wave your arms wildly because you CAN and she CAN'T...

Someone ELSE for President 2024 - I Don't Like Any of the Current Candidates. Joe Biden Really F*cked Up when He asked for $106 Billion to Buy BULLETS, BOMBS AND ROCKETS for Israel & Ukraine... THAT'S CRAZY!

Remember, Kamala Harris is set to Become President if Joe Dies. Keep that in Mind when Voting for Really Old Men... Trump is Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hell's Door also... and We don't know WHO his Vice President Will Be...

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In 2024 I Will Vote for Joe Biden if He Survives until Election Day... Because Kamala Would make a Fine President... and We MUST BEAT TRUMP LIKE A PINATA!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine ..medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitch-hiking .. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem . You did not have Play stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms(well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were
Credit: Susan Jones

and I Replied: 

Yes... we survived... But the world has changed permanently and we have to modify our behavior to the new circumstances... 

I survived having sex without a rubber (before AIDS was Invented) 

I Took LSD Made by Criminals who were Working High during the manufacturing process... but NOW... Kids are Dying from Fentanyl... I do remember cutting the LSD gelatin squares into four parts and only eating One Quarter of a Dose just to see if the quality was good... if it wasn't good I'd give away the rest... 

My Wife and I were riding bicycles without helmets and she had an accident and whacked her head - so she sat down on the side of the road for 30 minutes... and then felt like continuing the bike ride... I WISH WE HAD HELMETS... 

and One Last Comment... Many of our Parents read the Dr. Spock Book: Baby and Child Care... That was a Major Influence for the "Baby Boom" Generation... 

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

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care is a book by American pediatrician Benjamin Spock and one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946 and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998.^[1] As of 2011, the book had been translated into 39 languages.^[2]
Spock and his manual helped revolutionize child-rearing methods for the post-World War II generation. Mothers heavily relied on Spock's advice and appreciated his friendly, reassuring tone.^[3] Spock emphasizes in his book that, above all, parents should have confidence in their abilities and trust their instincts. The famous first line of the book reads, "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."^[4]

As a practicing pediatrician in the 1930s, Spock noticed that prevailing methods in pediatric care seemed cruel and ignored the emotional needs of the child. He wanted to explore the psychological reasons behind common problems seen during practices like breastfeeding and toilet training, in order to give less arbitrary advice to mothers who came to his practice. He thus became trained in psychoanalysis, emerging as the first pediatrician with a psychoanalytic background. Seeking useful ways to implement Freudian philosophy into child-rearing practices, Spock would try out his advice on patients and their mothers, continuously seeking their response.^[11] He contradicted contemporary norms in child care by supporting flexibility instead of rigidity and encouraging parents to show affection for their children.^[12]

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Why Not Let Doctors and Patients Decide What Medicine is Best? Get the BRIBED Politicians OUT! They Are Puppets of Big Pharma!

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“Robert Crumb”
Bronze statue Commissioned in 2002-03 by Felix Dennis for his “Garden of Heroes & Villains” in Dorsington, England. 

ZAP Comic Cover:

The first poster to bring Wes Wilson to the doorstep of future fame back in 1965.... I've got my original and rare first printing framed in very fitting chrome barbed wire with blood red barbs that I made. One of the very first posters that Wes signed for me over 50 years ago!
We're not too far off the mark these days.... more than ever!

Mountain Girl and Bus

The Merry Pranksters are a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus enigmatically and variably labeled "Further" or "Furthur". Their early escapades were chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Wolfe also documents a notorious 1966 trip on Further from Mexico thru Houston, stopping to visit Kesey's friend novelist Larry McMurtry. Kesey was on the lam from a drug charge at the time.

Notable members of the group include Kesey's best friend Ken Babbs and Neal Cassady, Carolyn Garcia (also known as Mountain Girl), Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, Stewart Brand, Del Close, Paul Foster, Kentucky Fab Five author Ed McClanahan (also known as "Captain Kentucky"), Gurney Norman, George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, Anonymous (Linda Breen) and John Page Browning (also known as "Rampage" or the "Cadaverous Cowboy").

A hippie was a member of a liberal counterculture, originally a youth movement that started in the United States and the United Kingdom during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie was first popularized in San Francisco by Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain, although by the 1940s both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date”. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom in 1970, many gathered at the gigantic Isle of Wight Festival with a crowd of around 400,000 people. I was there! In later years, mobile "peace convoys" of New Age travelers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge and elsewhere. In Australia, hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. "Piedra Roja Festival", a major hippie event in Chile, was held in 1970. Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society.

During the past few years, attempts to put on exhibits to expound on the Hippies or Summer of Love or of Woodstock was and is well meant, but somewhat futile as is like trying to capture lighting in a bottle….. Nice try, but (IMHO) …no cigar. The philosophies of the true Hippie does still live on but these days to run across a true Hippie is a lot harder than you may think. Alas…..keep your eyes open, they’re still out there just the same, but not always where you may think them to be.

Still lett'in MY Freak Flag Fly!

and then SC Replied:

I was born too late to be a TRUE Hippie (1962), but I am & always will be a Hippie in my Heart. I got on the Grateful Dead bus in 1980 & never got off 

 I've kept the ideals of peace, love & environmental activism my whole life! I'm married to a slightly older, late blooming Hippie as well. (40yrs next month!)

and then SD Said:

A hippie was a lifestyle choice not a person or thing we lived on in our lives with a acceptance mindset that went beyond being liberal it was being truer to our inner spiritual self and a willingness to accept that we may not change others but we could change ourselves I know many that have not changed a bit and some who have but I judge not least I believe in the inherent ability of our creator to give us strength to adapt to change and still be able to be a hippie at our core Loving caring forgiving gentle and generous humans...

and SOC Said: 

Very well explained and very accurate. I lived it and my inner Hippie lives on at age 70. I'm so glad to have come up in that Era, with all the great music, experimentation, play, and fantastic creativity. We were encouraged to be ourselves, not clones. We were colorful, to say the least. And we were well intentioned, with perhaps an air of too much naiveté....I so agree with you that the summer Hippie Fests are just so wanna- be and syrupy. You really had to live it to really get it. It truly was spontaneous and very organic. To recreate it just isn't possible in today's world. Blessed am I have to have been part of that scene while it lasted.

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One of the most rare and sought after psychedelic rock posters from any era. From the summer of 1969 comes this Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa by the late & legendary Rock Artist Extraordinaire Rick Griffin. It was for a show that was CANCELLED so the posters are very few and far between, only a couple of dozen are known to exist! Griffin did the first Aoxomoxoa for a series of shows the Grateful Dead did in January of 1969 at the Avalon ballroom, and the Dead in turn, flipped that artwork into the cover of their third album. Griffin reworked the art from those shows, into the Hawaiian Aoxomoxoa. This poster is SOOOOO VERY rare. It was for an event in Hawaii, that was supposed to be for three days at the Honolulu international Center in Honolulu Hawaii. Besides the Dead, It's a Beautiful Day was also on the bill. Can you imagine how many hours went into this poster ?!
The shows were cancelled, the promoter never paid the printer, and the printer threw most of the items in the trash can. Of course there wasn't a collectors market for these items at the time. Legend has it that Rick Griffin captured a few before they were thrown out and brought them back on the plane with him. A few of the cut ones, and a few of the ones with the handbills still not cut off of them. These are the ONLY remaining ones that have survived.
And so it was on this day 54 years ago that the Aoxomoxoa Tour with the Grateful Dead, It's a Beautiful Day and Starchild at the Honolulu International Center was "supposed" to take place. The second reprinting of this poster is somewhat smaller than the original and is recently beginning to rise in price as well. The second printing as seen here also has a white border while it is black on the original as you can see in my framed picture of the poster in the comments.

Aloha.... Share this rare one!
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