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My Music Video: eARThsong - about Growing Our Own Food in Chico, Living With Horses...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tERVWVZUNyw

This Song was written at a time that we were living in Chico, California and were surrounded by a corral with 4 horses. We were also growing many plants including Morning Glory Flowers that eventually got so tall that they climbed up to the roof of the little house. The tomato plants produced an abundance of food... quite a miracle... especially to eat them hot off the vine... the earth in Chico is dark black and fertile... 

(lyrics) Bm A D G Planting, planting, planting seeds D A D May our garden grow... Bm A D G May God bless the earth and rain D A D And sprout the seeds I sow D A D And sprout the seeds I sow CHORUS: G Bm We've been tilling soil since the dawn of time A E The fertile loam of home is nature most divine G Bm The lady with the hand upon the plow A E is identical, then and now Weeding, weeding, weeding weeds feed 'em to the horses may God bless the new-born foal and teach it natures forces and teach it natures forces Riding, riding, riding steeds just like long ago May God bless the hay they eat and set their eyes aglow and set their eyes aglow

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another Video: White Rabbit
performed by the Dirty Cello Band...

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Question from 2021:

I Wonder Why Fresh Water from The Sacramento River Flows into the Ocean? Why Not Use It To Water Crops? After All, The Colorado River is Pumped Dry... and That's a BIG River... It Dug the Grand Canyon... 

We are Having a Drought Here in California... This Water COULD be used to Grow Crops, Water Livestock, Take Showers or Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks... But NO... It Flows Out into The Ocean at San Francisco... 

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Many People say we Need to Provide a Lot of Cool Water for the Salmon to Swim in... I Wonder... What if We Cared More about Human Life than Fish? What if the Salmon All Died in the Sacramento River... They Still Have The Klamath and Columbia Rivers to Swim in... What if We Just Pumped the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers Dry and Spread all that water over Farmland in the Central Valley... A LOT Would Evaporate and Fall as Rain When It Reached the Sierra Nevada... In Effect RECYCLING The Water... and Allowing the Hydroelectric Power Plants to Generate Electricity... In My Area, SMUD Generates all Electricity Using Power Plants on the American River... But They Create NO Electricity Without Rain... 

 

closeup of golden bear at the Klamath River Bridge - Yurok Reservation

Sadly... The Klamath is a River is Having a Water Crisis too... It is Home to The YUROK and HOOPA Tribes. When I worked at the Welfare office in Eureka I Had a LOT Of Contact With People from those Tribes... They REALLY Understand The Salmon as They Have been Living in Harmony for a Thousand Years... The Fish have a FIVE Year Cycle and If One Year (like 2021) has a Massive Kill then The Total Population is Reduced by 20%... The Four Years of Salmon living in the Ocean are not Affected... 

We Had a Massive Kill During the Presidency of George Bush the Son... Same Problem... The Potato Farmers in Oregon wanted the Water for crops but the Fishermen wanted to Keep the Fish Alive... My Brother in Law is a Tourist Fly Fisherman who came out here from Delaware on Vacation specifically to Fish the Klamath and Trinity River... 

What Finally Happened was there was a Huge Loss of Money for the Motel Owners, Tour Guides and Restaurants who depend on the Salmon to Attract Tourists... about ten times the Increase in profit of the Potato Farmers... 

Photo of the Yurok Golden Bear at the Klamath River Bridge

Photo of the Golden Bear on the Klamath River Bridge... This is where Highway 101 Crosses the River... It's the Location of the Tribal Headquarters... and I Always stopped there to Buy Gas (no California Taxes on a Reservation) and Get a big bottle of Coke...  

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Redwood Forest Hiking Trails in Eureka CA - Behind The Redwood Fields Baseball Park in Cutten... off Fern Street...


Redwood Forest Hiking Trails Eureka CA - Behind Redwood Fields Baseball Park in Cutten off Fern Street.

Out behind Center Field are some trails that are unmarked... just built by KIDS on Dirt bikes... 

Some people Camp Out there because it's Wild, Private and easy Walking distance to Murphy's Market...

I found these trails by looking at Google Map Satellite Pictures... 

While driving down Fern Street... as soon as you enter the Parking Lot... take the dirt road that goes to the Left... along the edge of the Baseball Field...

Redwood Forest Hiking Trails in Eureka CA - Behind The Redwood Fields Baseball Park in Cutten... off Fern Street...


If you turn right when entering... Another Trail Starts at the End of the Parking Lot... Walk to the Left Behind those Flags on the Outfield Fence...

Redwood Forest Hiking Trails in Eureka CA - Behind The Redwood Fields Baseball Park in Cutten... off Fern Street...




Great Documentary Movies: I Spend Almost All My Time Online. Watching TV and Blogging. I Get Thousands of Free Documentary Movies and... Many are about Subjects I Have Never Heard OF. For Example:

Great Film: The Endless Summer is a seminal surf movie released in 1966... 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Summer

A Short Animation done by Monty Python: "Boom Bust Boom" - All About Economics and The 2008 Disaster... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-QSpz-Guck


Interesting Film: Focuses on the Federal Reserve's Fault Causing the Disaster of the 1929 and 2008 Stock Market Crashes..."Money For Nothing: Inside The Federal Reserve" is an independent, non partisan documentary film that examines America's central bank in a critical, yet balanced way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_for_Nothing:_Inside_the_Federal_Reserve


The "Magic Music Band" from Boulder Colorado... A Late Sixties Folk Rock Commune... https://youtu.be/N6w-1VzsXCk

The Biography of a Lady that Was Born on Steven Gaskin's Farm in Tennessee and Grew up in that Legendary Hippie Commune...
https://youtu.be/AaToe1m7DGU

The "Prankster Movie" - Ken Kesey's Magic Trip: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8qlsx8tdA
Kesey Showed the Raw Footage of this Film At His House until he Got Tired of all those people coming over... So he Moved the Screening to Other Locations and CALLED IT THE ACID TEST. and Hired the Grateful Dead... 

A Massive Hippie Commune in Los Angeles: The Source Family and Restaurants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6xeLuxXMRg

One of our country’s longest-running hippie communes, the Hog Farm was a ragtag group of free-thinkers helmed by Hugh Romney, later known as Wavy Gravy. Shortly before the Hog Farm set up an ad-hoc free kitchen at Woodstock, they conscripted a 300-pound pig named Pigasus to embark on a cross-country campaign trail bound for the presidential convention in Chicago, touting the pig as the so-called Yippie Party candidate. The whole thing was chronicled in The Hog Farm Movie, a 37-minute odyssey originally shot on 16mm film in 1967-1968, almost lost but now digitally restored in HD and finally available for public viewing on iTunes.
https://hightimes.com/culture/movies/psychedelic-documentary-the-hog-farm-movie/


The Jejune Institute, a mind-bending San Francisco phenomenon where 10,000 people became "inducted" without ever quite realizing what they'd signed up for. Was it a cult? Was it an elaborate game? Told from the participants’ perspectives, the film looks over the precipice at an emergent new art form where real world and fictional narratives collide, creating unforeseen and often unsettling consequences. Fusing elements of counter-culture, new religious movements and street art, THE INSTITUTE invites viewers down the rabbit hole into a secret underground world teeming just beneath the surface of everyday life. https://www.theinstitutemovie.com/

Biography of The Real Guy who was in Charge of Psychic Soldiers and Remote Viewing ESP... The Plot was Made into A Fiction Movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats" - "The First Earth Battalion" was the name proposed by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon, a U.S. soldier who had served in Vietnam, for his idea of a new military of supersoldiers to be organized along New Age lines. A book of the same name was published in 1982. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion



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AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once. Ever since 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. 


Read a Book - My Favorites MEME - a part of the gvan42 FREE COLORING BOOK - Print this art and Color using Felt Pens - Gregory Vanderlaan
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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: Vietnam. After 10 years of fighting, we lost and then The Surrounding Countries DID NOT Fall like Dominos... Believe it or not, There was a "Domino Theory" proposed by Vice President Richard Nixon that Stated that, If we lost in Vietnam, the neighboring Countries would become Communist and then the Entire World would GO Commie and we will have Reds Ruling Mexico! And Attacking the USA! I'm not making this up... There were people that really believed this theory... and were willing to send other people's children to die because they were Fighting Communism. Danger Danger! If we don't beat the Reds in Vietnam they will come right up to our border... ABSURD! For those of you that have never heard of Dominos, it's a game with numbered tiles that you could stack in rows so that if you pushed one over, it would hit the next and that one would hit the next... and on and on and on... and they would all fall down. This was popular before Video Games. 


However, Hughes Aircraft, Dow Chemical and other Defense Contractors MADE A FORTUNE... People that sell Bandages, need Bleeding Soldiers to use them up... and then they make a Sale Restocking the Military. Helicopters, Agent Orange, Napalm, Boots, Boats and Food were all wonderful businesses to be in... Soldier Have to Eat... We can sell more MRE if there is an active war than during peacetime... To Quote Country Joe McDonald: "Come on Wall Street Don't Move Slow, Why Man this War's a Go-Go. There is Plenty Good Money to be Made, Supplying the Army with the Tools of the Trade! Just hope and Pray when they Drop the Bomb, They drop it on the Viet Cong..." Defense Contractors kept the war going for a long as possible. Nixon's Campaign Promise was to End the War but he kept it going an extra FOUR Years. If you think about it, We could have Won that War in ONE DAY. A Hydrogen Bomb on Hanoi would have Ended The War. Totally. We knew HOW to WIN since we we Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan. BUT, we selected to Lose. 


One real effect of that war was: we got a LOT of immigrants. Vietnamese Boat People and Hmong... They came here by the Thousands... and then the Country of Vietnam became a Capitalist Manufacturing Country... Go Figure! They did not like being Commie after all. In general, the refugees were nice people and no one can imagine WHY we would go to war with them... 


I don't know much about the Korean War. All I really know is the M*A*S*H TV Show and The Manchurian Candidate Movie. Somehow we fought for a while, quit and those people over there solved their own problems... or not... Hey, It's their country, they should do whatever they do without the USA's Help.  


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On One Occasion The US Military Did a Fantastic Job in 2011... President Obama commanded a small band of brilliant soldiers to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. Mission Accomplished!

One of the Many Reasons Obama is loved as the Best President Ever. Thanks, President O!

While George Bush The Son LOOKED for Osama bin Laden for YEAR and FAILED... Obama just sent American Soldiers to Do The JOB. Truly a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...

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Hey Farmers! Simply Grow Your Cannabis OUTDOORS IN THE FREE SUNSHINE and There is NO Need for Electric Grow Lights. That Electricity Has To Come from SOMEWHERE... Causing Pollution... Causing Climate Change...

Coal Burning Power Plants, Nukes, Biomass, Natural Gas... And They All Cause Pollution... There Already Exists a Perfect Light Source Designed to Use The Photosynthesis That Evolved in Plants over Billions of Years! USE IT!   https://phys.org/news/2021-03-insatiable-demand-cannabis-giant-carbon.html

Mushroom Cloud at the Fairhaven Biomass Electric Power Plant Near Eureka, CA - gvan42
Mushroom Cloud at the Fairhaven Biomass
Electric Power Plant Near Eureka, CA - gvan42

Since Sun Valley Floral Farms Has GIANT GRENHOUSES they will not need electric powered gro-lights like most farms us indoors... well, maybe just a little... Ecological Marijuana Farming using Free Sunshine.

HEADLINE: Arcata Bottom mega-grow in the works.

https://madriverunion.com/arcata-bottom-mega-grow-in-the-works/

Arcata Land Company, LLC, an entity controlled by Lane Devries of Sun Valley Floral Farm, is seeking county approval for a 38-acre cannabis cultivation operation on two parcels located between 27th Street and Foster Avenue (see map). 

According to an Initial Study filed with the county, the area is zoned Heavy Industrial with a Qualified Combining Zone, the new project involves only cultivation. Processing of the cannabis would be conducted at an already-approved processing, manufacturing, and distribution facility located to the north.

Cultivation will take place in four areas totaling about 22.9 acres. Some 6.2 acres of existing hoop structures will be converted from flower production to cannabis. About 16.7 acres of new hoop houses will be set up in the northeast and southwest areas of the property. 


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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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SEE? Behave Like a Crazy TrumpNik® and they LOCK YOU UP! Wasn't the Plan to Lock Her UP? Hillary is Free... TRUMP FAILED AGAIN... So Much Failure... #TotalFailureTrump is What They Call  Him... https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/judge-rejects-qanon-shamans-bid-474455

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Underground Power Wires are Safer Than Wires on Poles That Set Forests on FIRE like PG&E Did in Paradise, CA...

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Yet another one gets cancelled - Pepé Le Pew will be no longer - part of the purge of most everything - well just everything as 99% of everything has now become offensive to someone.  Such a shame- I am sure that purple dinosaur of our kids admiration will be soon as well. And most of the muppets as well... 

I Responded: "Everybody" Has Become WHINERS... BOO HOO... "Wah, You Giys are Being So Mean." The Only People It's Safe to Satirize are Straight White Men... all those "Others" are CRYBABIES...

It's Just a Cartoon... What about the Itchy and Scratchy Show? Where is Your Contrived Outrage? HUH? Why Not Censor the SIMPSONS? Homer Teaches Young Fathers To Choke Their Disobedient Boys...  and El Barto Glamorizes Graffiti! Lisa Ridicules Vegetarians and Eco Warrior Feminists! Let's All Freak Out About Nothing! EVERYBODY BOYCOTT The Second Longest Running Show on TV... Gunsmoke had 635 Episodes - It's #1... a Show Glorifying Violence using GUNS! 

and Then "Someone" Posted: Gregory simmer down snowflake.

And I Replied: Don't Insult me with Your Hate Speech... "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore." I Recommend They Censor "Gone With The Wind" because Butterfly McQueen "Miss Scarlet, I Don't Know Nothing bout Birthing Babies." - Is Insulting... So Authentic... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy90YiCon3M

If we are Going to Cancel Bad Roll Models... What about The Movie "The Rock" with Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris... Vietnam Vets Suffering because of No Pensions for Black Ops... It Glorifies Violence as a Way to Solve Problems... and It Makes a Criminal Look Like a Hero... and Sean Connery was NOT a Great Father!

What About Censoring The Marx Brothers? Who Dat Man? Why It's Gabriel! (A Day at the Races)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyEm-K3BGg

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Here are Some GREAT Videos!

Canned Heat Let's Work Together - TotP Audience Feb 1970  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hom0fYd5uX4

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco [HD] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcyRLtwUVY

The Troggs - Wild Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg

The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Live, 1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTsRFZ75abQ

Eric Burdon & The Animals : San Franciscan Nights (Live 1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4G3KPP1Nts

Sky Pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSJI58bMMM

I'd Love to Change the World - Alvin Lee & Ten Years After https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYFJB7o9ZQ

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (Live at Hyde Park 1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_G0IRLEx4

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k

Quote: They seek him here,/ They seek him there,/ Those Frenchies seek him everywhere./ Is he in heaven,/ Or is he in hell?/ My own elusive Pimpernel. ... #FRANCE1789 What Exactly IS The Cure for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome? #ClassWar 

The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRc0yaMW7Mw


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On a Different Subject: Here is a Collection of Beautiful Nude Women Doing Topless Dancing - Animated GIFs

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/beautiful-nude-women-animated-gifs/ <--- LINK!

I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.

It seemed so Important and the Senators were really Grilling the General with Very Significant Questions. I remember that he got away without going to prison. He Plead Guilty of Lying to Congress and Got Two Years Probation. He also was involved with Air America (CIA Opium Smuggling) During the Vietnam War. A Classic Example of Doing Evil For Money... 

We also went to the National Colonial Farm Park and my Mom went off with the docent for a private tour of the herb garden. That's a Park Very Close to The FORT in Fort Washington, Maryland. I Do Remember Going to That Fort but I Can't Remember Who Went With Me.  

Now is the Time for Me to Forgive my Mom and Be Happy we Met... I Missed her Funeral because I was Living on the East Coast and Drinking Heavily... SO... I Couldn't Be Bothered to Fly Out! She Died of Cirrhosis of the Liver... and Her Death DID Motivate me to Join AA and Stop Drinking... Saved My Life! Thanks! In This Photo she is all the way to the Right.
Vanderlaan Family at Thanksgiving Dinner in Sacramento, CA
Vanderlaan Family at Thanksgiving Dinner 



My First Wife JoAnn and I went to a private wedding reception at a Georgetown Club. Rubbing elbows with the ruling class. The bride was the daughter of one of Dad's friends and she was a student at Georgetown University. The club only had a small brass plate marking the entrance but inside it had a large garden area... surrounded by the building. That Style is Popular in Mexico so the Owners of the House are Safe from the Peasants... I did not like the people in the ruling class. I Did Like the String Quartet. That was the Only Time I Got to Go To one of THOSE Insider's Parties. I went to Many Parties for Low Level Employees of the NSA and CIA. Those Agencies Employ Many Women to Perform Office Work. JoAnn Listened to Intercepted Russian Phone Calls and Wrote Down What she heard into a Computer for Analysts to Read. 98% of the Phone Calls were Unimportant. Regular People Talking About Regular Stuff. Mostly Complaining... as Life in Russia Generally Sucked. The Lady That I Knew from the CIA Read Newspapers in 10 Different Languages. Boring Work. 

I liked going to The Biograph Movie Theatre in Georgetown. I saw Atomic Cafe, Starstruck, (and then I wrote a song that night walking down the street. "City of the Future"). Liquid Sky (The UFO movie that had an Alien that ate heroin brain waves and Sex Orgasm brain waves. Brother from Another Planet and That John Waters Movie in smell-o-vision; POLYESTER. That was a Disaster because all the different odors merged into one horrible smell... and they did NOT air out the Theater between Shows. 

At Tower records. I Liked walking from one sound proof room to another and the music switched from one genre to another. Open the Door and Flow from Rock to Jazz... and then to Classical... 

I also bought 10 Grateful Dead tickets for Oakland at Tower and then flew to Los Gatos and sold the tickets to high school friends... I ended up taking a trip with Friends of LGHS Classmate Richard Bergholdt... "Laser" Lester, Marsha And the POND Family. Sunny Walden Pond and Merry Walden Pond and their mom... One of them wrote lyrics in my miss Piggy Songbook and I later put chords to those lyrics when I was visiting Walden Pond in Massachusetts... At That Concert "Laser" Lester and I Purchased LSD and I Had a Trip With the Overwhelming Wonderful Feeling of FAMILY... Later I Rode Home in the Back of a Pickup Truck... Outdoors on the Freeway... and Played my Guitar, sang songs... What a Fantastic Blessing it is To Have been Alive After the Invention of LSD... 

Some People Say LSD was Invented at the Same time as The Atom Bomb in order to Balance the Universe... Increasing Spiritual Wisdom When It Was Truly Needed... Others (Crazy Politicians) Say it's a Schedule One Drug... and Then the US Government Made it ILLEGAL... I Believe that The government was Afraid that People Were BECOMING DISOBEDIENT and would no longer Fight their CrazyWars® ... That's True! Hippies Have No Interest in Risking Their Life for Someone Else's Corporate Profit!

I Remember Making Diffraction Grating Glasses... I Bought a Three Inch Round Plastic Sheet at the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC and Cut it into Four Pieces... Enough to make Two Pairs of Glasses... Then Scotch Taped Them In Place of the Lenses in Paper 3D Glasses... It Causes Rainbows All Over Everything... Especially Intense at NIGHT Riding around the Freeway... WITH SOMEONE ELSE DRIVING... This Picture is What ONE WHITE LIGHT looks like when wearing the Glasses. IMAGINE 20 CAR HEADLIGHTS MOVING... and Taillights and Stationary Streetlights... buildings... THE MOON! COSMIC! 

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I was once Employed to Redraw German Machine Drawings DONE IN METRIC so American Companies could bid on jobs. I Had to Convert Metric to inches... Difficult Job because of the rounding off errors... I did the Math and the Calculator showed a number with 8 places to the right of the decimal point... well... you can't give a number like that to a factory... so I rounded off to Two decimal places... and then the errors added up... I still don't know why the USPS (my employer) didn't just send out metric drawings for bids... It's Pretty simple...

Rainbow Spiralism - Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics - art by gvan42
Rainbow Spiralism 
Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics 

Photo of a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops ...and... Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... We Have a Couple of Redwood Trees... AND NO RIOTS!

On a Weekend that has the People on the TV NEWS Rioting, I Noticed that Things are Pretty Good Here in Rural California. Those People Over There are Behaving Crazy and Not Having Fun... Glad I'm Here and Not in the City! 

a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops in Orangevale, California - gvan42
a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops

I Often Question IF the People I See On The TV NEWS Are Real... and then I Change the Channel, Turn Off The Sound and focus my Attention on the Birds Chirping... 

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