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The GOP feels that POISONING US is a Great Idea! They Passed a Bill CUTTING EPA BUDGET 40%... So Rich People can make more money! THAT'S PURE EVIL!

Headline: House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent
 

Absolute proof that the Republican Party is Totally BOUGHT by Business... Bribery! Who could possibly be opposed to Protecting the Environment? Don't their Families Drink water and breathe the air? Why Vote for MORE POLLUTION??? WHY??? Corruption! 
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Republican Plan A: Shoot Themselves in the Foot, Blame Democrats. Plan B: Pee in their Own Canteen... Then... CROWN TRUMP KING!
Here are the Details of their Plan. No Money for War. Let's Keep the US House SHUT DOWN for 25 More Days! BIDEN Cannot Spend a Penny fo...


I Oppose Sending Any Money to Israel and I Oppose Cutting IRS Budget. Mike Johnson's Bill in the US House of Representatives.
END THE WAR! No Money for Israel. They Just Buy Weapons and Kill People. When they Run Out of Weapons They Can Fight Using Sticks... Much Be...


Are the Corrupt Supreme Court Justices In Danger? It's a Lifetime Appointment but... How Long is a Lifetime? Just Asking the Obvious Question...
"The Future's Uncertain and the End is Always Near..." - Jim Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2_X4VTCoEo Someone in...


Bad Day For tRUMP: His Lawyers Plead Guilty. Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro FLIP! His Candidate for House Speaker FAILS and then Gives UP! Jim Jordan: Officially a Three Time Loser!
The US House is STILL Broken so Republicans Go On Vacation... No Plan for ACTUALLY Doing anything to Make America Great... NONE AT ALL... MA...


GOP FAILS AGAIN! Jim Jordan WILL NOT Become Speaker of the House. #RUNAWAY FROM THE DISASTER PARTY. Republicans Prove They CAN'T DO ANYTHING to Make America Great. They Can't Do Anything AT ALL! THE HOUSE REMAINS BROKEN!
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-race-vote-10-17-23/index.html On the Second Vote, Jordan LOSES... Will there be a Third...


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UFOs Are Real - The US Navy Film is Absolute Proof... and The Phoenix Lights Were Seen by Thousands... Including the Governor. --- and--- The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident...
Real UFO Film by the US Navy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPn-YMp9vI We All Ought To Live More Like Star Trek. Many Different Races...


I See a Lot of Mockery of Belief in GOD on FaceBorg. Yes, The #RUNAWAY Movement is Gathering Momentum but... I Think That The AI Algorithm Has Determined that I Am an Atheist and Serves me MORE of What I Like. I also see Content about Ecology, San Jose, The Grateful Dead, The Democratic Party and Half Naked Women...
In My Humble Opinion Religion Really SUXX - I Collected a LOT of Anti-Jesus Memes... Allah, Buddha, KRSNA and Flying Spaghetti Monster Satir...


NO USA Money for Israel or Ukraine. NO US Soldiers to Fight Other People's Wars. If Those People Over There Want To Kill Each Other, OK... I'm Comfortable With That. I Believe there are Bad People on Both Sides.
Is Genocide Good or Bad? With Eight Billion People on Earth, I'm Grateful Whenever Lunatics Die OFF. Darwin said It's Survival of th...


Democrats WIN in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania - Republicans Win in Mississippi. It's a BLUE WAVE NATIONWIDE... The #RUNAWAY Movement Gains Momentum as Americans FLEE the GOP.

 

Democrats WIN in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky - Republicans Win in Mississippi. It's a BLUE WAVE NATIONWIDE...

Nov. 7, 2023, was Election Day in at least 37 states, and Americans cast their votes on everything from governorships to local referenda. When the dust settled, it was a solid night for Democrats and their allies: According to ABC News projections, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear won reelection in Kentucky, and Ohio voters passed Issue 1 to codify abortion rights in the state constitution. The AP also projected that Democrats won both chambers of the Virginia legislature and an open seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. However, there were a few bright spots for Republicans: ABC News projected that Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves beat back a strong challenge from Democrat Brandon Presley.

https://abcnews.go.com/538/live-updates/election-day-2023-live-results-analysis/?id=104679542

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats had plenty of good news to celebrate in Tuesday’s off-year elections and more evidence that they can win races centered on the national debate over abortion.

Abortion rights supporters won an Ohio ballot measure and the Democratic governor of beet-red Kentucky held onto his office by campaigning on reproductive rights and painting his opponent as extremist. A Democrat won an open seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after campaigning on his pledge to uphold abortion rights. And Democrats took full control of the Virginia statehouse, blocking Republicans from being able to pass new abortion restrictions and delivering a defeat to Gov. Glenn Youngkin that may douse any buzz about a late entry into the GOP presidential primary.

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Republican Plan A: Shoot Themselves in the Foot, Blame Democrats. Plan B: Pee in their Own Canteen... Then... CROWN TRUMP KING!
Here are the Details of their Plan. No Money for War. Let's Keep the US House SHUT DOWN for 25 More Days! BIDEN Cannot Spend a Penny fo...


I Oppose Sending Any Money to Israel and I Oppose Cutting IRS Budget. Mike Johnson's Bill in the US House of Representatives.
END THE WAR! No Money for Israel. They Just Buy Weapons and Kill People. When they Run Out of Weapons They Can Fight Using Sticks... Much Be...


Are the Corrupt Supreme Court Justices In Danger? It's a Lifetime Appointment but... How Long is a Lifetime? Just Asking the Obvious Question...
"The Future's Uncertain and the End is Always Near..." - Jim Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2_X4VTCoEo Someone in...


Pro-Choice Wins in Ohio. Republicans Chose the Wrong Side on this Issue as The Vast Majority of Americans are In Favor of Freedom. Keep Abortion Legal!
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Bad Day For tRUMP: His Lawyers Plead Guilty. Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro FLIP! His Candidate for House Speaker FAILS and then Gives UP! Jim Jordan: Officially a Three Time Loser!
The US House is STILL Broken so Republicans Go On Vacation... No Plan for ACTUALLY Doing anything to Make America Great... NONE AT ALL... MA...


GOP FAILS AGAIN! Jim Jordan WILL NOT Become Speaker of the House. #RUNAWAY FROM THE DISASTER PARTY. Republicans Prove They CAN'T DO ANYTHING to Make America Great. They Can't Do Anything AT ALL! THE HOUSE REMAINS BROKEN!
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-race-vote-10-17-23/index.html On the Second Vote, Jordan LOSES... Will there be a Third...


UFOs Are Real - The US Navy Film is Absolute Proof... and The Phoenix Lights Were Seen by Thousands... Including the Governor. --- and--- The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident...
Real UFO Film by the US Navy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPn-YMp9vI We All Ought To Live More Like Star Trek. Many Different Races...


I See a Lot of Mockery of Belief in GOD on FaceBorg. Yes, The #RUNAWAY Movement is Gathering Momentum but... I Think That The AI Algorithm Has Determined that I Am an Atheist and Serves me MORE of What I Like. I also see Content about Ecology, San Jose, The Grateful Dead, The Democratic Party and Half Naked Women...
In My Humble Opinion Religion Really SUXX - I Collected a LOT of Anti-Jesus Memes... Allah, Buddha, KRSNA and Flying Spaghetti Monster Satir...

Maine's Gun Laws Allowed a MADMAN to Own a GUN and He Murdered 18 People... OUTLAW GUNS, COLLECT GUNS, MELT GUNS. It's Not Complicated.

Maine's Gun Laws Allowed a MADMAN to Own a GUN and He Murdered 18 People... OUTLAW GUNS, COLLECT GUNS, MELT GUNS. It's Not Complicated.


Did You Know that Melted Guns can be Recycled to Build Useful Products? Cars, Washing Machines Air Conditioners and Refrigerators are all made out of Metal...

Currently People in Foreign Countries Mine Metal and Sell it to the USA... We Have an IMMENSE SUPPLY Of American Metal: GUNS! We Could Simply Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns and Melt Guns... That Would SAVE LIVES and Improve Our Import/Export Balance of Payments... DUH!


FUND THE POLICE. I'm Totally in Favor
of Police Arresting REAL CRIMINALS.
For Example:
TREASON, Insurrection, Murder, Rape, Fraud,
Income Tax Evasion, Robbery, Kidnapping,
Crazy People with GUNS, muggers, arson,
wife beaters, BRIBERY of Politicians and
Seditious Conspiracy.

People That DO EVIL Really Need to Be Put
Behind Bars... For Example: Donald Trump...
#LockHimUP #ArrestTrump
and we ought to release all Cannabis Prisoners.
We'll need the Jail Cells to House Crazy
TrumpNiks®
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/10/fund-da-police.html


Remember: Trump Signed the Help Crazy
People Buy Guns Law... HJ RES 40...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-
congress/house-joint-resolution/40
If a person gets a Social Security Check due to
INSANITY They No Longer have to Report That
Fact on a Gun Purchase Background check...

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BULLETPROOF BACKPACKS 4 KIDS - 
Proof that the USA is INSANE - 
Why Not Simply Outlaw Guns? 
Then There will be NO NEED for
Bulletproof Backpacks...


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We Need to VOTE DEMOCRATIC EVERYWHERE
and Get those EVIL Republicans OUT of Office...
Then We Can Pass Some Laws that Will TAKE
GUNS AWAY from INSANE PEOPLE That Murder
Children...

Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker. Only FIVE Republican't Votes Needed to Win 217. It's Obvious that a BIPARTISAN House Working Together Would Get Something Done for the American People... We Tried CRAZY and It Didn't Work... Let's Try Working Together...

A bipartisan coalition is the way forward for 
the House. 

TV News Talking Heads Say: Republicans are BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE of Representatives ...and... ROCK THE CASBAH takes on New Meaning since Hamas Murdered 260+ People at a Music Festival!

Guernica by Picasso with a Child standing in front
Guernica by Picasso... 
Different War, Same Insanity




Mindless Vegetables in the Republican Party 
FAIL AGAIN! They remind me of the Song


Lyrics:
By order of the ProphetWe ban that boogie soundDegenerate the faithfulWith that crazy Casbah sound...

Headline: Hamas attack on Israeli techno festival leaves at least 260 dead and many missing...
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204950063/hamas-attack-on-israeli-techno-festival-leaves-at-least-260-dead-and-many-missin

Madmen Killing People Dancing??? We Certainly Don't Need PEOPLE LIKE THAT in The Future... Both Israel and Hamas are Killing Each Other. WONDERFUL... I believe there are Bad People on Both Sides... With 8 Billion People Alive Today, I'm Glad they are Taking Action to Reduce the Population! THANKS!

and Now, Israel has Commanded all Civilians to WALK SOUTH out of Gaza City... GTFO! Because Intense Bombing Will Kill People That Remain... Quite an Insane Twist of Fate as Hamas Has Commanded Everyone to Stay... So... Choose Death or Not... That's a Classic Darwin Survival of the Fittest Choice!

I'm not sure that Telling People to Walk South will Actually Work... After all, Americans Have been Telling Immigrants to Walk South and NO ONE Seems to Listen... Don't they KNOW that Brazil is Like, Totally Excellent?


"The Path Forward" - 20 Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live... 
#1. Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Will Bubble UP Thru The Entire Economy; Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits...EVERYBODY WINS!

2. OUTLAW GERRYMANDERING: That way We Could Have Majority Rule in the USA. In Fact, Most People Prefer Majority Rule... We Tried Corporate Rule and That Was a Disaster!

3. Trump's EPA=Enable Polluters Agency. Let's FLIP The Mission to Protecting the Environment;

4. Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All Cannabis Prisoners; We Will NEED Empty Jail Cells to House TRAITOR TrumpNiks!

5. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics; Let Doctors and Patients Decide What the Best Medicine Is... DUH...

6. End The Electoral College; Let The People Decide Who Becomes President.

7. Overturn Citizens United; Get Corporate Bribery OUT of Politics.

8.Cut Pentagon Spending in Half; Why Pay for BOGUS WARS?

9. Build Solar Powered Desalination Plants - We Need Fresh Drinking Water!

10. Wear a Mask, Practice Social Distancing and GET a Vaccine. Let's End Trump's Coronavirus!

11. Medicare for all. Costs Less, Works Better! Just Look At CANADA, They Pay Less Money and Live Longer... DUH...

Click Here for 9 MORE Simple Ideas!


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


TELEVISION SCRIPT: Allah and Moe Were Drinking a Beer at The Mecca Bar and Grill When Suddenly... (Absurdist Fiction by Gregory Vanderlaan)

In walked Angry Boy...
"Well, Look, Moe Ham Mad, It's Brett Kava Kava NOOGIE! When did you get Out, Brett?" - said Allah

"Arrgh!" - Said Angry Boy

"Oh, don't be like that Brett, We're Your Friends" - Said Moe

"Arf Arf Arf" - Said Angry Boy

"DUCK!" - Said Allah "It's Dick Cheney and he's Got a Gun!"

"BLANG BLANG BLANG A Rat a Tat Tat" - Said Dick with his GUN.




The Bartender Grabbed his Face and slid under the Bar...

"Oh Great, you Numbskull, Now we will have to serve our own Beer..." - Said Moe Ham Mad.

BANG BANG BANG Said Dick...

and when the smoke cleared, Dick Cheney was lying Dead on the Floor and Condoleezza Rice was Standing over him with her own GLOCK .45 with a snide grin on her face...

"I've wanted to do that for years... Where is Ronald Dumbsfield? He's on my little list too... They made me look like an accessory to mass murder... like I was one of the Manson Family..."

Then George W [The American Idiot] said... "Please find in in your heart to forgive them Condi... after all, they were really just following my directions... and George Tenet's LIES"

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG said Condi Rice "Eh? What did you say? I'm Having trouble understanding you with all those bullet holes... and I don't like the directions you gave ME either. So There! Were Even. "

"Blargle Fargle Blorp" - said George W - "I'm Melting"

"That reminds me of a Story." - Said Allah... - "It's all about Remembering US, Allah and Moe...

READ MOE!


2,017 Years Ago, Three Wise Guys Saw Jupiter and Saturn Align and Said: "ROAD TRIP!" - Got on their Camels and Headed West... Found a Homeless Woman With a Baby and...

Said: "This Kid is Going to Be Special." and In Fact He was Special... SO... If any of Your Friends Have a Baby this Week... Check to see if they are a God!


1/21/2020 Jupiter and Saturn Right in the Center of the Photo...

I'm Looking for Information About a SUCCESSFUL LIBERTARIAN UTOPIA. a Town, a Commune... ANYTHING! I'm Writing a Book About Libertarian Ideas and It Appears That THEY ALWAYS FAIL! Please Name Names in the Comment Section Below... or Email Me gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]comThanks!

Maybe Like "Warp Drive" in Star Trek, Their Beliefs Work Great in FICTION But Never in Reality... Remember: The Unseen Hand of the Free Market CAUSED The Power Failure in Texas in 2021... Without Federal Regulation, The Power Company FAILED to Winterize Their Natural Gas Generators and DISASTER!

It would Really Suck if I Published this Book and then Found Out That Their Ideas ACTUALLY WORK!

Why Do Ayn Rand's Grand Ideas Always Fail?
Because They are a FICTION PLOT DEVICE
not an Actual Plan for Running the World... DUH...

Classic Stories: "THE UMMAGUMMA OF CAMBRIDGE" - by gvan42 - "The Golden Spoon of Montezuma" - "The Origin of Popcorn" and "The Glazier with a Rock" and Trippy Mushroom Drawings!



When the aliens found out that their spaceship was infested with Ummagumma they stopped at the first planet (eARTh) and dumped them. The place was called Stonehenge. The Ummagumma are an annoying life form that supports themselves by petty thievery. They were first reported in Dickens books...you know... Oliver Twist...Pickpockets...They also have an annoying habit of taking things apart and not putting them back. Have you ever noticed that for some unknown reason things just "go on the blink" ? That's the work of the Ummagumma. For centuries they lived in the swamps near Oxford (Cambridge, England - the land of Eng) but one day they walked down to the docks and snuck aboard a boat. When the captain found out that his boat was infested with Ummagumma he stopped in the first port and dumped them. He threw them right overboard and into the San Francisco bay. They swam to shore and quickly blended into the population. You see, they are short and brown and could be mistaken for Chinamen...............................Stay tuned... next time they disassemble Sutro tower in a futile attempt to "call an intergalactic taxi". ............................And then they wander down the coast and climb... Mount UMUNHUM... The giant box on the mountain overlooking the city of Saint Joe. ...................................................The Ummagumma always stowaway and they just had to get off the planet eARTh. This planet's just too boring. Got to get back to the Swinging Planets in the Crab Nebula...That's where all the Fun Is. and so, gentle reader Ta Ta For Now...

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Psychedelic Poetry - "CEREMONY AND RITUAL" - a story - Fiction - written by Gregory Vanderlaan about a Trip to Philadelphia - Grateful Dead at JFK Stadium and The Spectrum Arena - deadheads: stories from fellow artists



OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING
COLONIAL ANIMAL…
FLOWING IN THE
CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire !


IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.
THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,
FEEL THE HEAT…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!


WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL
REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.
THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION
AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!
MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND
I RICCOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM
ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.
A CROWD OF DEADHEADS
SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES…
THEY JUST…know… THAT I WILL LAUGH…
adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!


THANK YOU DR. ALBERT HOFFMAN
***************************************
This was written after attending a Grateful Dead concert in JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was sitting up above the crowd in the bleachers and could see the dancers move more enthusiastically during peaks of the music… less motion during gentle passages… as the dynamics of the improvisation ebbed and flowed, the dancers moved accordingly… like sea anemones moving in the currents of the ocean… I also mention the Spectrum in Philadelphia… It has many blinking advertisements for Atlantic city casinos in the area where refreshments were being served…



Trippy Mushroom Drawing by gvan42 - psychedelic Art - psilocybin - magic mushroom - hippy freakout - quest for knowledge - inner space journey - Original Image: Gregory Vanderlaan - copyright free art - Pirate at Will! - more images at gvan42.blogspot.com





"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [Except Blacks and Women] that they are endowed by their Creator [Named Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Thor, KRSNA, Buddha or a Thousand Other Names] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” [Unless your Pursuit uses Marijuana or Psychedelics as a Sacrament]

DANG... So Many Exceptions! Were the Founding Fathers Racist and Sexist Pigs? Betsy Ross Can Sew a Flag While We Manly Men Go Kill Us Some Brits!




Classic Stories: "The Glazier with a Rock" - and - "The Golden Spoon of Montezuma" - and - "The Origin of Popcorn"

"The Glazier with a Rock"
(a glazier is a person that replaces broken windows)

When I lived in Maryland in an apartment complex with 500 units there was a man who replaced broken windows... When there were no windows to replace he hired children to throw rocks thru windows... Then he had work to do and got paid for replacing the broken windows. This plan is not that unusual... I have heard that firefighters in Trinity County, California often are arsonists... Start a fire, get work as a firefighter...

~~~~~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~~~~~

"The Golden Spoon of Montezuma"

When Cortez arrived in Mexico, he was interested in GOLD. He also wanted to impress the people he met with how rich and powerful his KING was. He told an Indian that his King was so rich that he used a golden spoon for EVERY meal and then discarded it after he was done. His King was so rich that he could afford to THROW AWAY gold. The Indian was not impressed. The Indian said that HIS King was so rich that he could afford to use a NEW GOLDEN SPOON for EVERY BITE! How was this possible? Well, Montezuma used TORTILLAS for a spoon. He would scoop up his food using a tortilla chip (golden spoon) and so he used a new "golden spoon" for each bite. I love telling this story when I'M eating Mexican food at a restaurant.

~~~~~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~~~~~

"THE ORIGIN OF POPCORN"

Way out in the Ozark mountains Sandy Chapin built a house out of rocks.He found an old farmers fence that had fallen down and he just moved it onto his land and stacked it up. Near the front door he put two abalone shells. Here in California, abalone shells are quite common but out there in the Ozarks they caused quite a fuss. The hillbillies came from miles around to see the "pearls as big as a possum". Pretty soon rumors got around that the "pearls" were magic. Folks said that they helped the old folks with their bones on rainy days. You know how people talk around the stove in the general store. Tall tales indeed. They said it was a cure for Rheumatism and arthritis. Then the shepherds got into the act. When they get to talking the stories get exagerated all out of proportion.

Pretty soon animals were lined up down the road all the way to the creek. A mooing and a quacking like you never heard. Barking dogs and oinking pigs. But the old dog 'zeke just lay there on the porch. Night fell and the moonshine appeared. Who brought it? The moonshiners, of course. They cooked it in a still and squeezed the goodness out of the corn. By the light of the moon the corn sparkled. A wind came up and the stalks moved like they were dancing. Waves of motion like they were dancing to a string band. Somebody started a fire to bar b-q a pig and that's when things really started popping. You see, the wind blew the glowing coals out into the field and the cornstalks caught on fire. Pretty soon the whole field was in a conflagration and presto chango ... POPCORN!

Sandy is a real person and does live in the Ozarks with a dog, Zeke in a rock house...






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