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Home Schooling is a Bad Idea. Guaranteed to Raise Poorly Educated Children That are Susceptible to QAnon Brainwashing... and MUCH MORE Goes on at Public School... For Example:

Team Sports... Children Learn How to Get Along With Other People and Work Towards a Common Goal... and IN LIFE there Will Be Many Other People... For Example: AT WORK... It's Useful To Have Years of Practice Getting Along...

The Bottom Line is That REAL TEACHERS Are Better at Teaching... Especially Science and Math... There Really is More to Science than "God Did It." There is More to Math Than Pushing Buttons on a Calculator!

and I'm in Favor of Teaching ACCURATE American History... For Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOaUnSmJr8

The Song "Teach Your Children" by Crosby Stills, Nash, Young and Garcia has an Excellent Animation... all about American History...

Another Thing we Learned in School was SEX EDUCATION... I'm Really Glad I Learned Where Babies Come From... It Isn't STORKS!

ALSO... I was a Member of the Drama Club and Performed in School Plays... I played Music in Bands and Performed at School Assemblies and At The Teen Club... You Can't do that with Home Schooling...

AWAKEN QAnon FREAKS!

This Post was Motivated by:

Some Guy on FaceBorg Said:

Ugh I just got an email from a far right group saying homeschooling is best to avoid indoctrination of 'our' children. I've been teaching my son how not to be indoctrinated by anyone, including myself. He will not be indoctrinated in the home and he won't be indoctrinated outside it if I've trained him well enough in critical thinking, reasoning, and respect for opinions across the spectrum of human thought.

One teacher said : "Parents, I don't have the persuasive or indoctrinating powers some of you might think I have. If I had those powers, I'd probably be using it to instill good hygiene and study habits in your kids, but alas I don't" (paraphrase). I loved all of my teachers - even the 'bad' ones as they taught me something else entirely.

HEY KIDS! Never Play Football - Injury is Not Fun - Remember: Pain is Nature's Way of Telling You Something's Wrong...

Never Play Football meme Injury is Not Fun

There are PLENTY of Sports that Don't Involve Doing Harm to Your Body... Swimming, Running, Tennis, Surfing, Basketball, Baseball...

Concussion leaves you LESS SMART... Damage to Your Spine Causes Chronic Pain When You Get Older... and Many People Become Addicted to Opioid Pain Killers Due to Endless Back Pain...

I Wonder...

Is Football is a Form of

SELF HARM?

How to Deal with Self Harm...

We all need healthy ways to cope with the hard stuff. We’re here to help you find a healthy alternative to self-harm.

https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/self-harm/#what-is-self-harm-1

Cutting and Self-Harm: Warning Signs and Treatment...

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/cutting-self-harm-signs-treatment

Suppose You are Pressured to Play Football by the Society You Live in... Remember: It's Possible to Think for Yourself and Question Authority...

I was on the Football Team for Three days in 7th Grade... Once I Found Out that Practice Involved Great Pain I Quit... It Seemed Like an Insane Way to Spend my Afternoons...

and Here we are 50 Years Later... and the Captain of the Football Team is a Cripple and He Rolls Around in a Wheelchair... While I'm Dancing!

If you are reading this in the Future... This post was Motivated because a Football Player got Injured and it was a BIG DEAL on all the TV News...

Damar Hamlin in critical condition after collapse during Bengals game. Here's what we know...

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2023/01/03/damar-hamlin-suffers-serious-injury-during-buffalo-cincinnati-game/69771881007/

Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin remained in critical condition Tuesday after collapsing on the field during the Monday Night football showdown with the Bengals.

The game was officially suspended about an hour after the incident and about 30 minutes after Hamlin was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The NFL said Tuesday afternoon the game would not resume this week.

Medical center officials had not given an update on Hamlin's condition as of Tuesday afternoon, but the Bills said Tuesday afternoon Hamlin, 24, spent Monday night in the intensive care unit and remained in critical condition.

Vote NO on Prop 26 & 27 in CA. People Losing their Rent Money in a Casino will CAUSE MORE HOMELESSNESS. Casino OWNERS Are Paying for the Endless TV ADS.

Online Casino Owners Say: Lose Your Money At OUR Casino (27)... Brick and Mortar Casino Owners Say: Lose Your Money At OUR Casino (26)...

NO Actual Homeless Advocates Recommend Losing Money at a Casino as a Cure for Homelessness...

Online Gambling

Lose Your Rent Money

Become Homeless... DUH!

The ad essentially points to DraftKings and FanDuel as liars.

“We will continue to explain to Californians to not be fooled by the deceptive campaign being waged by out of state corporations who wrote this measure to boost their corporate profits and take sovereign rights from Californian Indian tribes,” No on 27 spokesman Rob Stutzman said via press release.

Online Gambling will cause more homelessness when people lose the rent money to a casino in a phone...

and...

All the TV Ads say:

Lose Your Money At MY Tribe's Casino.

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and Then I Got an Email from my Brother Saying VOTE NO 26 & 27

On the November CA ballot are 2 propositions promoting huge expansions of Tribal Gambling throughout the state. Prop 26 is sponsored by 3 of the largest and most profitable Native tribes to selfishly increase their riches with no sharing with non-gaming tribes, nor contribution to any other social good. Alternately, Prop 27 was qualified for the ballot by 2 Eastern corporations that, despite contrary messages, have written the measure to assure that 90% of the projected hundreds of millions to be garnered in new profits will go to their out-of-state corporations.

The first Prop 27 ad I saw literally made me sick viewing a small Indian band that had willingly sold out themselves and their entire nation for a few dollars. Fortunately, the wayward group either came to their senses or were fired by the carpetbagger promoters when they failed to gain the support of larger tribes.

TV ads for the measures -- predominately for Prop 27 -- have overtaken the airways with literal non-stop messaging. To date, spending for the two gaming measures is approaching $400,000, the most ever spent for any Calif ballot proposition. Neither measure will promote the general welfare, nor will enhance any public or social good. Both measures share the same motivation -- insatiable, overwhelming Greed. Please read on for more detail.

Proposition 26 & Proposition 27
Vote "NO" on Both

The 2 propositions appear to be related, but their differences are beyond substantial and both are exceedingly harmful. Proposition 26 would result in "Vast Expansion of Gambling Methods within Indian Lands and will Extend to Calif Racetracks."  Proposition 27 would result in "Vast Expansion of Present Methods with the New Authorization of "Online" Gambling Beyond Indian Lands with No Limitations." Progressives previously supported the establishment of Indian gaming -- in respect for Native sovereignty. Neither of the current measures, however, have measurable Indian support.

Proposition 26

This measure, somewhat related but unlike Proposition 27, was initiated by a small group of leaders of the largest tribes. Their motivation sprang from furthering their personal enrichment, not from either demand or need.  The authorized program of permitted gaming methods at Indigenous Casino sites is constitutionally limited. Proposition 26 would remove the present standards and will permit unlimited gambling methods and selections at Casino sites expanding to Calif racetracks. Methods would include wagering on sports events, like horse racing, sports teams, auto racing, boxing, wrestling, and a host of events broadcast into Casino platforms.

The institution of Indigenous Casinos has been a needed boon and supplement to mandated federal and state financial assistance that is perennially  insufficient. The result of tribal-sponsored gaming has brought tremendous uplift in the political, economic, health, and social life of Indian tribes and peoples. Casino profits are shared with non-casino tribes and these efforts, though lagging, are continuing and constantly improving.

There is not much to analyze about Proposition 26. While Indian casinos are thriving and producing admirable widespread improvements, tribal leaders of some of the largest casinos initiated Proposition 26 with the goal of slyly piggy-backing on the hopeful success of Proposition 27, solely due to Greed, not need for new unlimited revenue. VOTE "NO"

Proposition 27

Proposition 27 was put on the ballot by deceptive propaganda. Signers were told by paid signature collectors that "this new measure will raise money to end homelessness in California." Proposition 27 was not initiated, nor promoted by California Indian tribes, but by out-of-state corporations that sought to take advantage of Calif voters' universal desire to end homelessness and the compassion of state voters to lift up the plight of California's Native peoples from the violent repression of the past.

The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 correctly acknowledged the sovereignty of Indigenous people and the right of tribes to operate gambling Casinos on tribal land. This Act has successfully improved the quality of life for Indian tribes and produces millions in revenues that are shared among both casino and non-casino tribes, which bureaucratic federal and state government financial assistance could never replicate.

Proposition 27 would astronomically expand to unlimited types of gambling well beyond being confined to Casinos on Indian land to online phenomena available to everyone -- even minors -- with a cell phone or access to varieties of digital devices. The measure blatantly lies in many ways:
that revenue from online gaming will uplift poorer non-casino Indian tribes. Impartial analysis shows that at least 90% of revenue from the expansion will go into the pockets of the out-of-state carpetbaggers who wrote the measure specifically for their selfish enrichment;
that revenue from the measure will end homelessness. Besides there being little revenue to allocate, voters need only to recall that the "selling point" years ago for approving the State Lottery was the promise that revenue from the Lottery "would forever end the problem of funding education throughout the state";
that minors will not be able to gamble online. No procedures are indicated that will weed out anyone with a digital device from "online" access.
Additionally, because Blacks, people of color, and those of lower income are lured in larger numbers to games of chance with the hope of improving their financial status, Proposition 27 would instead aggravate economic inequality. The availability of unlimited online gaming opportunities will provide increased attractions that will further worsen the already weak financial condition of marginalized people.

Practically all California Indian Council tribes oppose Proposition 27 as a boondoggle that will proliferate gambling throughout California life and institutions degrading lifestyles of minors and the elderly, by which these out-of-state corporations will realize uncountable wealth with practically nothing positive accruing to California, its residents, or its many intractable issues.
VOTE "NO."

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James E Vann
Social-Political-Housing Progressive
Oakland, California

Photographs of Antique Logging Equipment in Eureka, California - Steam Driven Machines used in the Timber Industry. Including the Dolbeer Steam Donkey.

An Exhibit by the Timber Heritage Association

https://timberheritage.org/

Antique Logging Equipment Show in Eureka, CA - photograph - Redwood Acres Fair Ground - gvan42

Antique Tractor used to Haul Logs

Buffalo Springfield Paving Machine
The Band Named Themselves After a Tractor...
I Guess That Made Sense in the Sixties...

Machine designed to Pick Up a Log

Chopping Competition - Hand Ax

Dolbeer Steam Donkey
a Machine designed to haul logs out of the forest
replaced animal power

Steam Train used to haul logs

Dolbeer Steam Donkey

Let's use The Bark from Redwood Trees to Prevent Weeds instead of RoundUP! We use Bark in our garden and it works great. AND! It doesn't kill people... It's a One Time Cost for the Farmer and the Money is Kept within the State of California... Currently, a Giant Barge of Redwood Bark and wood chips Leaves Eureka, California Every Week headed for China... We also ship entire logs... They don't want the logs sawed up into boards because they have their own sawmills... and it's cheaper to employ Chinese Slaves to do the Work.

Farmers have to pay for RoundUP every year and The Costs of all those Lawsuits MUST be passed on to the Farmers and the people that buy the Food. AND! We Eat That Poison! We could have healthier Food if we just used Redwood Bark and Wood Chips to Prevent Weeds.

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BIOMASS Electric Power Plants Could Dispose of the Millions of Dead Trees in California that are a Fire Hazard. Before we have another Disastrous Wildfire like we had in Paradise last summer, we could remove the fuel from the forests and use it to generate electricity.

"The number of biomass plants, another option for disposing of trees, has fallen to about two dozen from 66 in the 1990s, in part due to the expiration of government price subsidies." - according to the California Energy Commission.

Why not REOPEN those unused BIOMASS plants and clean up our forests before we have a Disaster?

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Photographs of the Avenue of the Giants - on the Eel River Humboldt County California - Chainsaw Carving of Bigfoot - Dolos make the Harbor Jetty

Mom's Car under the trees

Eel River

Chainsaw Carving of Bigfoot at the Elfin Glen Gift shop on Highway 101

July 4th Carnival

Dolos - giant Concrete Shapes
used to Make The Jetty Protecting
the Channel into Humboldt Bay

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue OX
at the Trees of Mystery

Mural of St Francis in Willits

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox Sculptures at the Trees Of Mystery - Roadside Attraction - Highway 101 Northern California - One Adventure That I Failed to Do was RIDE the SKY RIDE... It's Gondolas That Float thru the Redwood Trees High above the Ground... OOPS! Next Time I Go I'll Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride!

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue OX

Mural of Salmon at
The Forest Cafe across the street

Redwood Trees

https://www.treesofmystery.net/

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I was a Fan of the Washington Bullets Basketball Team - 10 games a year, right behind the basket on the floor.- GREAT Seats.

My boss at Analytics was a big basketball fan and went to games with his son. Sadly, his son died accidentally and Ed was stuck with an extra ticket to 10 games. So I went... Kinda creepy being the surrogate son but... it turned out to be fun.

We sat very close to the court right behind where the Cheerleaders danced. Very Sexy up close! When the giant men were fighting over possession of the ball they were VERY CLOSE. Loud, violent struggles. One set of Forwards was called "The Beef Brothers" and another was nicknamed "Thump and Bump". I believe they played for the Philadelphia 76ers. - The Arch Rivals. Larry Bird also played at our games against Boston.

We sat right in front of the dressing room and when the players went by I could slap them on the back and shout GOOD JOB!

This all happened in The Capital Center - a 19,000 seat arena... It was very loud with all the cheering and a guy playing the big drum and running all over the place encouraging madness.

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I also went to the Capital Center for Rock Concerts: Michael Jackson played there and I bought TEN tickets, then sold nine for a slight profit to friends of mine... I made enough that I got to buy a Grateful Dead ticket with the profit. Sadly, the Michael Jackson concert started with Very Bright lights pointed at the audience and I was blind for the first few minutes of the show. That pissed me off. Going to a show that I couldn't even see? WTF?

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I remember dancing to the Grateful Dead's song "Sugar Magnolia" with my wife JoAnn at the Capital Center. That feeling was the best in the world. Being in Love while dancing to a Love Song.

I really liked going to rock concerts at RFK Stadium. I bought ten tickets to Paul McCartney and sold nine... Paul announced that he would be giving away for free the unsellable seats behind the stage for the next show. I picked up a pair of free tickets and a friend of mine arranged for a blind date with a lady that worked at the CIA as a newspaper reader. We had a fine time at the concert and she invited me to a kegger she was hosting the next weekend in her backyard. Volleyball, beer and many female CIA office workers. Most of the men invited were either Pizza Drivers like me or Deadhead drug dealers. It was a classic party... CIA ROCKS!

At a Grateful Dead show at RFK we had a Thunder and Lightning storm with torrential rain. It turned the lawn of the football field into a Sea of Mud. People were running and sliding just like they did in the movie "Woodstock". Some Unknown Person "Dosed" me with excellent quality LSD and I danced in the mud. After the show I did a POWERWALK like I was in a Carlos Castaneda book. I took ONE STEP and waited until I GROKKED that location, then I took another step and GROKKED that completely different location... so I walked extremely slowly all the way to my car in the parking lot... a spiral of deadheads surrounded me laughing and ridiculing me... "Watch OUT! That man is walking Extremely Fast and You better get out of his way or you'll be RUN OVER!" Silly People... I met some Deaf Students from Gallaudet University and we partied until Dawn. They had "Liberated" an electric cart and were driving silly all over the parking lot until the Security Guards stopped them and "Suggested" that they pick up trash and cart it to the dumpster... No need to arrest the people for stealing a cart, just put them to work!

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