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BUY AMERICAN MONTH = Shop at a Thrift Store. Here's a Guide to The Best Values in the USA. Remember: REFUSE TO BUY CHINESE JUNK.

The Profits are Donated to Charity... Fixing Broken American Lives!

Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop. 
1031 Broadway, Eureka CA, 95501

St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shop. 

528 2nd Street, Eureka, CA 95501

https://www.facebook.com/SVDPRedwoodRegion/

Tailwaggers Thrift Shop. 
2737 F St, Eureka, CA 95501

Miranda's Rescue Thrift Store. 
1694 Myrtle Ave. Eureka, CA

Anglin Second Hand. 
2016 Broadway. Eureka, CA

and with a bit of Internet Research... You Could Find Similar Stores in Your Home Town!

Remember! Buying Used Merchandise Keeps Your Dollars IN AMERICA! When You Buy a New Product Made in China, Your Money is Sent to the Corporations in China... By Simply Buying Used, Your Money is Used to Finance the Local Homeless People Shelter or Animal Shelter! Or Pay for the Free Meal! 


American Flag Christmas Ornament for sale...  and... "I Refuse to buy Chinese Junk!" - Slogan Painted on Gifts... T-Shirts, Christmas Ornaments, Rubber Stamps and Hats!  Everything Made in America! 
American Flag Ceramic Ornament

You May Change the Words on Any of These Gifts!





Vandals Might Deface Dollar Bills With this Slogan!
But That Would Be Totally RUDE!







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Silly Story!

Early in the morning in the middle of the night... Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to Back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A Deaf policeman heard the Noise and came and killed the two dead boys. If you don't believe this story is true... ask the blind man, he saw it too!

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Yesterday Upon the Stair, I Saw a Man that Wasn't There. He Wasn't There again Today... Oh How I Wish He'd Go Away!

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Nationwide STRIKE Right Now! The Boss Man Says: "Nobody Wants To Work." and That's True. THAT'S WHAT A STRIKE IS! and It's Not Just the Labor Union at John Deere... ALL WORKERS EVERYWHERE are Quitting... Higher Pay, Better Working Conditions, Health Care, Vacation With Pay...

Nationwide BOYCOTT! Simply Stop Buying Their Chinese Junk! Bring Back JOBS to America... Now All Their Plastic Merchandise is STUCK on a Boat off of Long Beach... TOUGH... I Refuse To Buy IT!

Refuse to Buy Chinese Junk


Economic Update: Signs of System Decline...


On this week’s show, Professor Wolff presents updates on the following topics: US wars lost: against Afghanistan, Iraq, and Covid; private profit from climate disaster; systemic infrastructure neglect; decline of whites in US; UK fears about US loss in Afghanistan; capitalism's profit-driven "long supply chains;" and lastly, workers power against employers in US today. **Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a@Democracy At Work production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads. Please consider supporting our work. Donate one time or become a monthly donor by visiting us at democracyatwork.info/donate or become a patron of Economic Update on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/economicupdate. Your contributions help keep this content free and accessible to all. Now more than ever, sharing Prof. Wolff's message is critical.


Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs through a Green New Deal.

Joe Munchkin, the Senator from West Virginia, is OPPOSED to Ecology because He Owns a Coal Mine... and He Earns His Living by Causing Climate Change!

Joe "DINO" Munchkin, West Virginia coal puppet
Joe "DINO" Munchkin, West Virginia coal puppet

Steve Bannon Meme - designed for FaceBORG My Story
Steve Bannon Meme:
designed for FaceBORG My Story

This Post by Michael Moore expresses my feelings exactly... What IF WE Had the Courage to Storm the Supreme Court and Hang Brett Kavanaugh* Or Shoot Trump*? Why is it always the Good Guys That Get assassinated? JFK, RFK, MLK, Gandhi and John Lennon? The Last time a "Trickle Down Economist" was Murdered was President McKinley... and that was in 1901... We DID Have some Action with the Weather Underground in the Late 1960s... But that's been 50 Years... On MY List is the CEO of DOW, The Surviving Koch Brother and That Guy from Lehman Brothers...

Of Course... I Never Would Recommend Violins... Cellos? Yes... but Never Violins!

*Just Joking!

Did You Ever Notice that our DOJ is So Freaking Wimpy That Merritt Won't Even Arrest Steve Bannon? and The Law is OBVIOUS!

Insurrectionist Envy by Michael Moore.

Deep down, we wish we had their guts (minus the insanity & violence)

Fasten your seatbelts. I have something I want to say. Something I probably shouldn’t. Right now it’s just you and me here. The security cameras are turned off. The NSA guy who monitors my calls, Fred, has taken the day off. I’m glad, because I need to say something to you and I need you to admit you’ve been thinking the same thing, too.  

Aside from the violence, aside from their despicable racism and misogyny, aside from the fact that we vehemently oppose everything they stand for — the truth is, that deep down in your soul, as you watched what your eyes could not believe was happening, admit to me that in that appalling moment on January 6, 2021, you were — how do I say it —  jealous that it was the fascists who had risen up, and not us long before now. Again, not jealous of the unforgivable violence they unleashed. Rather, I’m suggesting that there’s a small piece of you and me that has wished for just once in our lives we had that kind of courage, that resolve, that rage of conscience and commitment to just not effing put up with this shit any longer. 

Deep, deep down we ask ourselves why didn’t we do this when there was a real theft of an election in November of 2000? We did not storm the barricades of the hanging chads in Florida. We did not surround the Supreme Court when they handed the White House to the man who lost.  

We did not storm the Pentagon in August of 1964 on the day after Lyndon Johnson lied to the American people, telling us that the Vietnamese had attacked one of our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

And last week, as the Republican politicians in Texas declared their ownership of the reproductive organs of all women in Texas, we the majority did not rush to Austin and nonviolently encircle the state capitol building, take down the Texas flag, and refuse to leave until they removed their filthy hands from the bodies of the 173 million American women they wish to control. We are just months away from the Supreme Court’s own grubby hands doing just that — and what, my friends, are we going to do about that? Right now the Trump Court should be quivering in their boots, not from fear of our violence (we are nonviolent), but simply because they know WE are the majority, WE elected a House, a Senate, a President who believe what WE believe — and as long as this barely remains a Democracy and there are millions more of us than there are of them, they need to fear our wrath, the wrath of this Democracy, that WE are nonviolently coming for them and WE are not leaving until they back down from their stated desire to declare women 3/5 of a man. 

But they do not fear us. They will not only force the majority gender to give birth by edict, to make women reproductive slaves against their will, they and their fascist minority will continue to eliminate voting rights, suppress the vote of Black and Hispanic Americans, force the poor to work for $7.25 an hour, force our students to be saddled with 30 years of student debt, force millions of single parents to leave a sick child at home alone because there is no day care, and force many of you to die a lonely and broken death because tens of millions of you don’t have the resources to pay a goddamn specialist to heal you and let…you…live. 

Why wouldn’t ANY of these assaults on our lives, our bodies, our children not make us get up right now and nonviolently storm the Capitol? THIS IS OUR LIFE! THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN! If the State is going to use its power to physically hold you down to forcibly birth a baby against your will — I mean, please, people! What exactly will it take to make you and millions of others run down Pennsylvania Avenue screaming bloody murder and nonviolently prohibiting those Justices from entering that Court building?!

Tens of thousands of you have been wrongly turned away from the voting booth, stripping you of your constitutional right to elect YOUR representatives. You’ve been shown the door, tossed to the curb like the garbage they say you are. Why is it not your very next move - and we, your neighbors, OUR very next move - to put on our Viking headgear and run like wild men and women with the force of hundreds of thousands of us, nonviolently storming the chambers of our state Capitols and NOT LEAVING until they give us back our voting rights?

We all talk a good line about climate and the environment and the destruction of our planet — but really folks, if you TRULY and ABSOLUTELY believed that the end of the world is near, you’d be right now running and screaming down the middle of the West Side Highway like your hair was on fire, on your way to Wall Street with nonviolent clubs in your hands, or storming down Grand Boulevard to General Motors HQ in Detroit to shut them the fuck down, or flying like crazed banshees down Market Street in San Francisco to PG&E and nonviolently show them what it would look like for their executives to be without power, or a million of us in the Potomac on anything that floats and nonviolently surround Joe Manchin’s yacht and tow that bastard away, safely, so he doesn’t cause harm to anyone else. 

You would do that, wouldn’t you, because you believe the earth is at its end, because you believe women’s bodies are their own and no one else’s, because you believe the police do not have the right shoot a Black kid in the back and laugh about it later, and because you believe your sick baby has a HUMAN RIGHT to see a doctor! And for THAT you would join MILLIONS in the street, right now, to demand that this State violence, these corporate attacks on WE the people must end and we will not relent until this madness ends. 

But you and I will not do that. Why? Because we’re afraid? Because if the planet isn’t worth dying for, then the planet won’t be worth living on. That’s the ultimate fight and it’s been that way throughout history, throughout all the struggles to make people free. And if your children, your control of your reproductive organs, your right to vote, and the death of this planet aren’t worth the fight, then let’s just say that out loud, be honest with ourselves and get back to arresting the hooligans of January 6th because that’ll show ‘em — and it will make us feel better about ourselves because we would never do what they did! And because we will not rise up, well, the shame of knowing that about ourselves and revealing it to the White Supremacists who at least have the courage of their sick convictions — that’s just too much to bear. In the summer of 2020 we showed the world the largest nationwide demonstrations ever and the murderous cop was sent to prison and Trump was sent packing — and then what? So all we have left to do is throw Steve Bannon in jail? And then we can get back to the real fight of recycling our pop bottles, putting some solar panels on our roofs and whatever else our environmental leader Mike Bloomberg and his Sierra Club tell us to do? Because we all know, deep, deep down, the fix is in, our Democracy is in shreds, Black Lives don’t really matter and it’s too late now to stop Planet Earth from spinning off into the sunset of its demise because we ignored the real radical environmentalists and the teenage student from Sweden and went with the sell-outs instead. All this, because we secretly admire how the Right fights, wins, stands their ground, and never backs down. Even when they KNOW there are far many more of us than there are of them. They don’t care. This is THEIR country and we can either go eff ourselves or just go whine in the corner, wringing our hands about how “we’re going to lose the House and the Senate next year! And Trump will be back in 2024!” By the Democrats failing to deliver on most of Biden’s promises, we may depress the vote in 2022 and make that our self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, we secretly admire the Right — not because of their bigotry and fascism, but because they get the job done. 

We could get the job done, too. But that would require all of us going back out into the streets like we did after the murder of George Floyd, following the lead of our youth, and women and people of color. And we would have to be relentless and never leave those streets or the offices of our governors, or the other halls of power. And we must finally look like we fucking mean business — out with the filibuster! Eliminate the Electoral College! Four new permanent seats on the Supreme Court (because when they made it nine seats in 1869, we had only 39 million people in the country and now we have 333 million — nine is not enough Justices to handle the backlog of cases in a nation that is now almost nine times larger!). We need to get serious, have it our way and if some kids end up nonviolently breaking a few windows at the neighborhood branch of Chase Bank, then so be it. When we win, and we hold true power, we promise to replace those windows free of charge, because that’s how liberals roll. 

How did we get to this place where an overwhelmingly conservative, caucasian and male group of citizens -- many of them well-off, snobby and as entitled as the former President they were fighting on behalf of -- how have they become America’s radical insurrectionists? Maybe it should not have come as a surprise; white, male rage at progressive changes is not new —and January 6th was the latest manifestation.

The real question I want to raise with you today is this: if we truly believe what we say we believe, and if our warnings about the peril we are in are all true  then wouldn’t we have brought our Nation’s Capital to its knees by now? Shouldn’t we have grinded the wheels of the apparatus to a halt, and done so, many times over? How many more times can we declare a state of emergency, or claim that the next election is the most important of our lifetime, but yet not be willing to storm the gates of power, be they financial, political or military, and thus make them all shiver in fear? 

In short: where is our insurrection?




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SAVE MONEY by NOT BUYING CHINESE JUNK! Thrift Store Treasures are "What's Happenin'" Now!

I See in the News That There is Trouble Unloading Cargo Ships from Overseas... Well, SO Freaking WHAT? 

I Already Have Everything I Want... The Secret Trick is NOT Wanting Much! That Way It's Easy to Get Everything I Want.

http://www.eurekarescuemission.org/Thrift_Store/Thrift_Shop.html Link to The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop on Highway 101 in Eureka, CA... I Bet with a Little Research You Could find a Similar Store in Your Town! Goodwill, Saint Vincent de Paul, Volunteers of America... 


Remember! Buying Used is 
Ecologically Friendly! 

Refuse to buy Chinese Junk - meme

I won't be Buying any of This...

boats waiting to unload cargo

When You Buy a New Product, the Corporation Has to Replace It. Their Computers Automatically Order another Product to Keep the Shelves Stocked... 

They Mine Raw Materials, grow plants (like cotton) using pesticides and herbicides, Log Forests, Employ Slave Laborers in the Orient, Burn Gasoline Shipping the Plastic Crap Here From China... and on and on and on... Used Products ALREADY EXIST and so Buying Stuff at The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop (my local store) does NOT Harm the Planet. Actually, They Hire Local People to Work as Clerks and Do Delivery. We Bought ALL our Living Room Furniture there. Three Chairs and a Sofa... and Men Delivered It Upstairs in Our Home. NO WAY could I Move those Heavy Objects Up That Staircase... I Tipped those Guys $10 Each... and they were really Thankful. Yes, I Could Have Spent a Fortune at Sears or KMART but... I Prefer to Keep The Money IN MY WALLET. I Like Employing Guys That Live At The Rescue Mission. The Mission Does Good Work Here in Eureka and I've Met a LOT of Real People That They Help. I did buy new Beds at Sears. Somehow, those were just too Personal to Buy Used... also, I Do Not Buy Used Underwear... BUT, Clothes? YES! It's actually fun to find thrift stores in Super Rich Neighborhoods and Live Like the TV Show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous..." A Great Place to Shop is North Shore Lake Tahoe... Snow Bunnies often Donate Extra Stuff When the Season is Over... and There is Also DUMPSTER DIVING in College Towns at the End of the School Year... FREE STUFF! 

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On the Other Hand... You Can Buy Stuff that's Already Made in the USA... For Example: Zazzle/Gregvan offers Gifts that are Made in Reno, Nevada... and The Corporation Headquarters is Located in Fremont, CA... 




A Cosmic Button...

Link to ALL my Buttons:

and Remember...
 
All my Royalties are Donated to Charity... 
No CEOs Addicted to Corporate Greed Here... 

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It's the 50th Anniversary of Richard Nixon's Failed War on Drugs. June 17th, 2021... Doing the Same Thing Again and Again and Again While Expecting Different Results IS INSANE!

"Everybody" says that the Failed War on Drugs Has Caused Massive Incarceration of Black and Brown Men... While that is True... Is that a Bad Thing? YES, It's a Bad Thing. 



Isn't the Failed War on Drugs Just a "Sneaky" Way to Perform Genocide? While those Men are Locked Up, They Certainly are NOT Fathering Children... Making Entire Generations of Americans Whiter... Because Women Select a Sperm Donor from the UN-Incarcerated Population... A KKK Dream Come True... 

50th Anniversary Nixon's Failed War on Drugs 6/17/2021

Marijuana has become Legal in Many States... Over Half!

Psychedelic Plants have become Decriminalized in Many Towns... So... Nixon's Attack on Hippies Failed... HA HA... LOSER... 

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics - gvan42


Now I Read in the Newspaper that Black and Brown Men are Dying from Fentanyl Overdoses... Huh... Isn't THAT Convenient? 

An Absolutely Certain Way to Prevent Their Genes from Showing Up in Future Generations... 


Here's a Classic Sermon on this Subject: 

June 17, 2021, will mark 50 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared drugs to be “public enemy number one,” launching a national campaign to criminalize drug use. War on drugs policies have led to mass incarceration, civil liberties abuses, over-policing and mistreatment of people of color, and human rights violations in the United States and around the world. Meanwhile, nearly 500,000 people died in the United States alone from opioid overdose in from 1999 to 2019, with death rates still accelerating steadily. 

To mark this milestone, faith leaders, as part of Open Society grantee Faith in Harm Reduction’s sermon series, will memorialize the victims of the war on drugs and affirm that people who use drugs are deserving of life, dignity, and rights.

IS THAT TRUE? ARE THEY VICTIMS?https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/sermon-series-50th-anniversary-of-the-war-on-drugs

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It's Amazing that Within a Week of the Thousands of Haiti Refugees (Black People) were Spotted Living Under a Bridge in Texas... They Were Airlifted Right Back Where They Came From... 

That Same Week the Federal Government Allowed Thousands of Refugees from Afghanistan to Immigrate to The Good Old USA... 

Obviously Racist... 

Legalize Hemp and Marijuana - meme


ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF “WAR ON DRUGS,” POLL SHOWS MAJORITY OF VOTERS SUPPORT ENDING CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR DRUG POSSESSION, THINK DRUG WAR IS A FAILURE... https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/50th-anniversary-war-drugs-poll-shows-majority-voters-support-ending-criminal


Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics - swirling colors

I Heard It Said That LSD Was Invented at the Same Time as the Atom Bomb... In Order to Balance the Universe... 

ask your doctor meme


"War, Ungh, What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing... say it Again... Headline: After 50 Years Of The War On Drugs, 'What Good Is It Doing For Us?' https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1006495476/after-50-years-of-the-war-on-drugs-what-good-is-it-doing-for-us


Digital Rainbow Spiral by gvan42


America has spent over a trillion dollars fighting Richard Nixon's Failed war on drugs. 50 years later, drug use in the U.S. is climbing again. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html


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BUY NO CHINESE JUNK for CHRISTMAS... Inflation Got You Down? Simply STOP Consuming... Buying Low Price Bad Quality Merchandise DOES NOT CAUSE HAPPINESS! Just Frustration When It Breaks Down...


Remember: Buying Used Stuff at a Thrift Store Does NOT Cause Ecological Damage Like Buying NEW Stuff Made In China... and It Finances the Local Rescue Mission... a Place for Homeless People... and It Employs Homeless People... That's a WIN-WIN Situation!



Get More or Want Less
Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want.
Get More or Want Less.

Headline: Cargo ships anchored near Los Angeles and New York ports face a 4-week delay to dock, raising further fears over the global supply chain... https://news.yahoo.com/cargo-ships-anchored-near-los-113422286.html


Dozens of cargo ships stuck waiting off New York's coast amid port staff shortages and surging demand for goods... and Oakland, Long Beach California...

https://www.businessinsider.com/cargo-ships-stuck-coast-new-york-shipping-delays-labor-shortage-2021-9

If You MUST CONSUME...

Ornaments Made in the USA

Here is a LINK to All My Artwork
Painted on Two Sided Ornaments:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products?qs=ornament&dp=252980704774124324
Actually Created in RENO, Nevada.
All my Royalties Donated to Charity.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/cxfg3f-1000


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Buying Used Stuff at Thrift Stores DOES NOT CAUSE ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE Like Buying New Stuff Does. When You Buy a New Product, the Corporation Has to Replace It.

They Mine Raw Materials, grow plants (like cotton) using pesticides and herbicides, Log Forests, Employ Slave Laborers in the Orient, Burn Gasoline Shipping the Plastic Crap Here From China... and on and on and on... Used Products ALREADY EXIST and so Buying Stuff at The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop (my local store) does NOT Harm the Planet. Actually, They Hire Local People to Work as Clerks and Do Delivery. We Bought ALL our Living Room Furniture there. Three Chairs and a Sofa... and Men Delivered It Upstairs in Our Home. NO WAY could I Move those Heavy Objects Up That Staircase... I Tipped those Guys $10 Each... and they were really Thankful. Yes, I Could Have Spent a Fortune at Sears or KMART but... I Prefer to Keep The Money IN MY WALLET. I Like Employing Guys That Live At The Rescue Mission. The Mission Does Good Work Here in Eureka and I've Met a LOT of Real People That They Help. I did buy new Beds at Sears. Somehow, those were just too Personal to Buy Used... also, I Do Not Buy Used Underwear... BUT, Clothes? YES! It's actually fun to find thrift stores in Super Rich Neighborhoods and Live Like the TV Show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous..." A Great Place to Shop is North Shore Lake Tahoe... Snow Bunnies often Donate Extra Stuff When the Season is Over... and There is Also DUMPSTER DIVING in College Towns at the End of the School Year... FREE STUFF! 

Oddly, I Expressed These Opinions during a Group Discussion at an Ecology Class at Humboldt State University and ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS SAID I WAS WRONG... They said that Used Stuff Still Requires Ecological Damage to Exist at All... I tried to explain that the Manufacturing Damage Happened IN THE PAST and it is impossible to Change History but Buying New Stuff CAUSES Purchasing Agents at Corporations to Hire People to Create New Stuff IN THE FUTURE to Fill the Shelves At The Store. No One Grasped the Concept. But I Did Make The Other Students Think. and That's a Good Thing. It's a difficult concept... I Wish I Could Explain it in a Shorter Sentence... Maybe YOU can Re-Write the Concept Better and Post it in the Comments Section... Thanks!

Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want. Get More or Want Less. and... You Can Get More Stuff Per Dollar At The Eureka Rescue Mission Thrift Shop... or Your Own Store... Did You Know that There is a Fashion "Thing" where Corporations PRE-RIP Clothes? Intentionally Making Them LOOK USED! Really! They Hire People to Rub Jeans over Rough Surfaces to SIMULATE Wear and Tear of Normal Use... I'm Not Making This UP! All the Pathetic Dupes are Wearing Clothes Like That! On My Own Webstore... I Offer Hats that have been "Distressed" to look like they are Old... It's an Option... I wish I could write a Mocking Slogan Poking Fun at this Fashion Trend... Then I Could Sell a Hat with That Saying... Sort of like the Question: "Can You Imagine a World Without Hypothetical Situations?" or The Page that says: "This Page Is Left Blank Intentionally." A Cosmic Haiku Slogan... I do sell a Hat that says "PRESS" so people can wear it at Protest Marches and Avoid Being Bashed on the Head By The Police... I Do Not Really Know if It REALLY Helps Avoid Police Violence... I Do Know That People Made T-Shirts Saying "Backstage Pass - Shoreline Ampetheater - Bill Graham Productions" and Used them to sneak past Security Guards... I admire the Guy that Made a Sign that Says "This is a Sign." Was That Absurdist Theater or End Times Warning?

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“I saw a post the other day by a lady who said she always grabs vintage casserole dishes when she sees them at thrift stores or yard sales and uses them when she brings a meal to someone! She said often they are cheaper than disposable ones and the family can either keep for themselves or pass on to someone else who needs a meal in the future! So in the spirit of reduce, reuse, renew & recycle... I thought this was a neat idea worth sharing!”
casserole dish



"Life is More Complex than a Slogan on a Hat." FOR SALE!


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I'm Glad That I Made A Difference With My Life. At Work, I Helped People... So Many People Do Evil Because It Pays a Lot of Money... That's CRAZY!

I Thank My Parents For "Raising Me Right." We Are in Favor of Doing Good and Opposed to Doing Evil... 

For Seven Years I Worked at The Welfare Office in Eureka, California Helping Poor People Get Jobs, Food Stamps, Medi-Cal, Social Security Disability, and General Relief (Free Rent) ... We Also Had a "ONE WAY Bus Ride" Out of Humboldt County. Very Popular and Truly Useful... GTFO!

Many People Wind Up as Homeless People in Eureka... Some are Veterans Who Have PTSD... Some are Battered Wives... Some are Recently Paroled From Prison... and... Some are Kids Who Came Here to Work as Trimmers at the Marijuana Farms. That is Seasonal Work and When the Harvest is Over... They are all Laid Off and Are Broke, Homeless, Stoned, Confused and Hungry... We Feed 'em and Send them Right Back to YO MAMA's House... I Cannot Count How Many People I Have Helped... and they ALL were in Desperate Trouble... We Also Helped People Find a Room To Rent, Find a Doctor and FIND OUT WHERE THE FREE MEAL IS... There are Two... The Eureka Rescue Mission on 2nd Street at "C" and the Betty Chin Truck at the Corner of Koster and Washington Streets... (that's where the Welfare office is)



Gregory Vanderlaan wearing a Lightning Bolt Skull Mask... Just Printed the Grateful Dead Logo and Used Scissors to Cut Eyeholes - gvan42
Gregory Vanderlaan wearing a Lightning Bolt Skull Mask...
I Just Printed the Grateful Dead Logo and Used an Exacto -Knife to Cut Eye Holes and added Rubber bands to hold it to my head... Big FUN!



Coffee Cup for Sale.


and Now All the Other People Who Worked With me at the Welfare Office in Eureka, CA on Koster Street:

I'm not Naming Names Because...
They Might Not Want Their Pictures Published.

















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I Also Spent Six Years as a Clerk at Radio Shack... Helping People Solve Their Electronics Problems... Our Store Not Only Sold Products BUT WE ALSO GAVE FREE ADVICE. Many People Can't Figure Out How to Change the Time on their Digital Watches,,, and You Have to Do That Twice a Year for Daylight Savings Time... Many People Do Not Know How to Hook Up Their Cable TV... We Would Draw a Diagram and Collect all the Parts and Wires Needed... and Once a year I Sold about 65 Packages of Hearing Aid Batteries to a Man Who Flew them to Czechoslovakia... He Says Hearing Aid Batteries are Difficult to Buy there... 

My Life was NOT Always Doing Good... I DID Work for Six Years Making Electronic Equipment for the US Air Force... High Pay but Evil Work... Making Weapons... However, I Grasped The Concept of "Right Livelihood" and Switched to Designing Machines for the US Postal Service... Much More Fun to DO GOOD! We Also Designed Computers to Prevent Bank Robbers from Stealing Money using an ATM... and We Designed Computers that Remembered The Patients "Chart" for Doctors. That was a Big Deal in 1976... Now, ALL Doctors Store Patient's Information on a Computer... Useful!


photo of Gregory Vanderlaan at Mount Shasta.
Gregory Vanderlaan at Mount Shasta.

Consider the Fact That There are People That Work at Dow Chemical, Monsanto or Dupont... Making Horrible Poisons and Causing Sickness... Harming People... All for Profit... Imagine Being the Guy Who Invented Agent Orange or Napalm... Or RoundUP... or Plastic... WOW... all that Stuff is Killing Life on Earth! On Their Deathbed They Can Look Back on a Life of Evil... Every Day Making the World a Worse Place To Live... Imagine Being the Guy that Invented the Gasoline Powered Leaf Blower... That's Basically an Expensive, Noisy, Polluting RAKE... A Total Disaster!

Another Example: There are People Who Work at Wall Street Doing Mergers and Acquisitions... They Do Hostile Takeovers of Actual Businesses, Lay Off Employees, Sell Equipment and Make a Huge Profit for themselves... 

A Classic Example of this is Charles Hurwitz of MAXXAM Corperation and Michael Milken, The Junk Bond King. They Bought The Pacific Lumber Company of Northern California. Vastly Increased The Logging of Old Growth Redwoods... Hid the Profits in Shell Companies, Stole the Employee Pension Fund and Then... When the Highly Profitable Trees Were All Cut Down... Hurwitz Declared bankruptcy and Went Back To Texas... Keeping The Money. 

The Employees Suffered, The Trees Died, The Ecology of the Forest was Damaged (mudslides) and Animals Were Harmed When their Homes (Trees) Were Clearcut. All Because ONE MAN Was Insane... and He's NOT DEAD YET! 


He was also Part of the Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s... Costing the American Taxpayer 1.6 Billion Dollars... and a Hostile Takeover of Kaiser Aluminum and It's Bankruptcy.

What Does a Hedge Fund Manager DO? Do They Create Goods? Jobs? Services? Anything? A Classic Example of a Parasite... 



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REGROOVING is THE CURE for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome... It is the Technique of Using ANY MEANS NECESSARY to Enlighten Greedy People to Become Interested in Something ELSE... There ARE Subjects OTHER THAN GETTING MORE MORE MORE MONEY.

 For Example: ART, Music, Poetry, Enlightenment, Gardening, Ecology, Environmentalism, Woodworking, Carpentry, Backpacking, Camping, Dancing, Organic Farming, Weaving, Knitting... There are So Many Things to DO With Your Life...

AWAKEN CORPORATE GREED FREAKS! 


MEME - Regrooving - THE CURE for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome - gvan42

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/regrooving-is-cure-for-compulsive.html

Did You Ever Notice that Corporate Greed
is Not Interesting to Hippies???


MEME - gvan42 - Wake UP!



Repeal and Replace tRUMP'S Tax Cut for the Rich Law. It's Bankrupting America. Tax Cuts for the 99% would Stimulate Our Economy. BUBBLE UP ECONOMICS WORKS! 



Why not Learn How to Do a FACT CHECK on Google? 
Go to https://www.google.com/ and type in the words 
"FACT CHECK" and the Statement you are Questioning... 
Press Enter and READ The Results! 

OR... Continue to Be a Gullible Fool...
YOUR CHOICE!



Peace and Love - Coloring Book Art... Print as Many Copies as You Want and Share With Your Friends... or People That Are GOING TO BECOME Your Friends...


Find MORE ART at Google Image Search using the Words: "gvan42 Coloring Book"

You may Contact Me At gregvan@yahoo.com

Creepy Eye Wall Dark Side of the Moon Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42
That Creepy Eye from the Backside of the Dollar Bill,
Pink Floyd's Wall and The Dark Side of the Moon Prism...
American Indian Wearing a Headdress - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42
American Indian Wearing a Headdress 



What is the Cure for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome - Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42
What IS the CURE for
Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome?
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

I have NOT Participated in any Protest Marches in 15 Years... Many People are Interested in BLACK LIVES MATTER and I Applaud Their Action... However... As an Old White Man... I'm NOT Motivated... I Didn't Participate in any Gay Rights PRIDE Parades Either... but I'm Glad they Can Get Married... I Remember that in 1969 Homosexuality was Illegal... and People were Fired from Government Jobs... The "Lavender Scare" - Stonewall Riots... SEE? WE ARE EVOLVING! Slowly, People are AWAKENING! Just WAKE THE F*CK UP!

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