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While Watching the January 6th Committee on TV... I Thought... I Wish I Was There! In Person... Raising a Ruckus! I Ought to Go Live in Washington DC...

If I Could find a Room for Rent in Georgetown... That would be a Great Life!

I Have to Live in a Place Where I Can Live a CAR FREE Life... Taking the Bus or the Metro or UBER... Taxi... or Just Walk and Bike Ride...

The Only Trouble is WINTER... That Would Suck...

but in the Spring, Summer and Fall I could GO to Protest Marches... Visit Congressmen in Person... Volunteer for Ecology Activist Groups... Meet a Woman, Fall in Love... Anything is Possible! I bet the AA Meetings are Intense There...

Since there are so many services that deliver food... Amazon Grocery Shopping... etc etc etc... I think Surviving the Winter Could be Possible... Walking Down to the Grocery Store in the Ice and Snow is a Horrible Experience... BUT... That Driver Can Talk all the Risks of Falling... Breaking Bones...

In Order to Get There from Here... I Would take a Train Ride from Sacramento To Union Station near the US Capitol... Then Taxi or UBER to My Room...

I lived near Washington DC for 12 Years and It was Wonderful Going to The Smithsonian... and Protesting in Lafatette Park across from the White House... Anti-War, Legalize Marijuana and NO NUKES!

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and now for something completely different

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Christmas Cards on the Fireplace Mantle

Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - 12 way kaleidoscope

Green Swirling Pattern

Javascript Circle Program

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https://youtu.be/XQnD2esFiMc

Sonya Sophia Guided Meditation:

Purely Positive - Accupressure

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I Contacted the Department of Justice and said: "Please Arrest Donald Trump - There is a MOUNTAIN of Evidence That He Committed Crimes... I Recommend That You ENFORCE THE LAW... He Has been Accused of Four Specific Crimes... and He Deserves to Have his Day in Court, To Defend His Actions Before a Judge and Jury... OUTLAW CRIME!"

https://www.justice.gov/contact-us

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and now for something completely different...

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptable-words-elimination-of-harmful-language-initiative-11671489552

Parodists have it rough these days, since so much of modern life and culture resembles the Babylon Bee. The latest evidence is that Stanford University administrators in May published an index of forbidden words to be eliminated from the school’s websites and computer code, and provided inclusive replacements to help re-educate the benighted.

Here's the List!

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguage.pdf

For Example: Instead of Using insane: Replace that word with surprising/wild: Because Insane is Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with mental health conditions.

Stanford’s ‘Harmful Language’ List Mocked for ‘Sheer Insanity’

‘ORWELLIAN’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stanfords-harmful-language-list-mocked-for-sheer-insanity

CIA Cocaine Contra - The US Government Imported Cocaine by the Ton in order to Fund Reagan's War in Nicaragua. Investigations and Hearings Were Held... CONCLUSION: Yes, the CIA DID Import VAST Quantities of Cocaine... NO, we can't change History... They PROMISE to not do it again... Really... Scout's Honor!

Gary Webb wrote the Initial Newspaper article that Exposed The US Government. This was at the time that Ronald Reagan [Mr Alzheimer's] Started the Failed War on Drugs... Just Say NO!

After Congress stopped funding the War in Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration turned to Cocaine Smuggling and Arms Sales to generate money to finance the Contras. Most famous was the Iran/Contra Hearings that exposed weapon sales to Iran but The CIA ALSO imported Cocaine and sold it as "CRACK" Nationwide. A newspaper reporter named Gary Webb wrote a series of Expose Articles leading to Congressional Hearings that ultimately lead to Public Acknowledgement by The US Government that, YES, WE IMPORTED VAST QUANTITIES OF COCAINE in the 1980s but that is History and Some Bad Employees Did Evil in the Past and We Promise Not To Do It Again... REALLY! No one in CIA Leadership was arrested but Low Level Drug Dealers did do time. Specifically , Freeway Rick Ross...

YES, THE CIA DID IMPORT COCAINE BY THE TON TO FINANCE THE WAR IN NICARAGUA... Since the CIA Contra-cocaine scandal surfaced in 1985, major U.S. news outlets have disparaged it, most notably when the big newspapers destroyed Gary Webb for reviving it in 1996. But a New York Times review of a movie on Webb finally admits the reality... https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/10/05/nyts-belated-admission-contra-cocaine

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CIA involvement in trafficking is usually alleged to be connected to the Contra war in Nicaragua and the Iran–Contra affair during the Reagan Administration. In 1986 its spokesman acknowledged that funds from sales of cocaine smuggled into the US had helped fund the Contra rebels, but said that the smuggling was not authorized by the US government or resistance leaders.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking

The Subcommittee "did not find that Contra leaders were personally involved in drug trafficking,"[2] but it did find "substantial evidence" of drug smuggling by "individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots, mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters."[2]

The Kerry Committee report found that "the Contra drug links included ".... Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies."[3] The US State Department paid over $806,000 to known drug traffickers to carry humanitarian assistance to the Contras.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report

The CIA, the drug dealers, and the tragedy of Gary Webb
In 1996, journalist Gary Webb began looking into links between Nicaragua's drug-running Contra rebels and the CIA. As a recent film shows, what he found killed him... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11485819/kill-messenger-gary-webb-true-story.html

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...

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

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.

https://www.nps.gov/pisc/planyourvisit/ncf.htm

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

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

Read more of my autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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

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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The REAL GOAL of tRUMP's Impeachment Hearings is to EXPOSE Republicriminal Senators as CORRUPT PUPPETS... If They Find Mad King Donald NOT GUILTY They Will Face the Rage of Patriotic Americans... and Then They Will Have Plenty of Time to Pursue Their Lifelong Dream of Learning to Play the BANJO on the Front Porch of a Cabin in the Woods...

The GOP Calls Their First Impeachment Witnesses: The Ghost of Frank Zappa, Scoobie Doo, Benjamin Ghazi, George Carlin and Bender Rodriguez...

Remember: Turn the SOUND OFF Whenever Jim Jordan Speaks. There is NO CHANCE That He will say Anything of Value and so... Just Mute Him... People say I'm Homophobic Whenever I Criticize Jim Jordan but... EVEN IF HE WAS NORMAL, I would find him to be a SWAMP CREATURE.

It is FUN to Watch the Crazy Antics of GOP CLOWN Matt "Captain Kangaroo" Gaetz... What a Pathetic Wanker... I read that he was THROWN OUT of a Hearing by Adam Schiff... Fantastic! and Next week That BOGUS Mugwump will be on LIVE TV doing his Mental Patient Routine... Obviously he Learned His Shtick from watching "One Flew Over The COOKOO's Nest."

and... Devin Nunes' Cow Demanded that Adam Schiff Testify... and Adam Said... uckFay ouYay evinDay

Impeachment Hearing of Donald J Trump Has Started. Corey Lewandowski First Witness... and he says... Lying on TV News is Good... No Reason to Tell the Truth unless Sworn In At A Hearing...

But Mostly He Says NOTHING! Corey Refuses to Answer Questions by Congress Members About Meeting with Trump. Claiming BOGUS White House Privilege...

and then... The Hearing Devolves into a Media Circus... With Lots Of Shouting... But Nothing Really Done...

EXCEPT.... PLENTY OF NEGATIVE TV TIME DEVOTED TO WHAT A SLIMEBALL DONALD J TRUMP IS...

MEME- gvan42 - Corey Lew, Master of Trumpspeak. The Sun Shines at Night - Two Plus Two Equals Five... More MEMES at Google Image Search Keyword gvan42

We Live in an Orwellian Nightmare World Now...
(Literary Reference Totally Over
The Heads of TrumpNiks
Who Cannot Read a Book... 1984...
Fiction or Accurate Prediction? )

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