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Showing posts with label thinking. Show all posts

Sadly, NOT Great Books: David Horowitz is a Confused Person that has written about 30 Books. He was Wrong in the Sixties and Continues to be Wrong Today.

He Awakened my Knowledge of Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies When He was Interviewed on C-Span BookTV by Eric Metaxas... For Example... He says: Since Scientists Do Not Know the Original Origin of Life on Earth, They are Therefore Wrong about Climate Change. Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, BOGUS! He says: The "Green New Deal" Will Pay People To Do Nothing. He is Confusing "Universal Basic Income" with "Green New Deal." They are two different ideas. REALLY... The Green New Dead DOES Propose to Take the US Government Subsidies for Fossil Fuel and Spend that Money replacing Diesel School Buses with Electric Vehicles. Actually, That's a Smart Idea! 

During the Sixties and Early Seventies he wrote books Singing the Praises of Joseph Stalin and Communism. You had to be a TOTAL RETARD to believe that... Everybody Knew that the Mass Starvation in Both the USSR and China Proved that System Flawed. The only system that Communism is better than is MONARCHY... and that's why both the USSR and China did Communism briefly... Throw the CZAR OUT! but then they GOT A CLUE and rejected Communism. How Could David Horowitz Still Believe in Marx/Lenin all the Way up until 1974? I believe in Groucho Marx and John Lennon... Much Better... Anyway, He WOKE UP when the Black Panthers (that he was working with) Murdered a Woman he Knew... and All His Friends Blamed The White Society... Very Odd Ideas... 

SO, He FLIPPED and became a "Conservative" - Another Failed Economic System. Ronald Reagan's "VOODOO ECONOMICS" has proven to be a Disaster. The Entire Concept of "Give More Money to the Rich and then MAGICALLY they will share." Just Doesn't Happen. They also Call this System "Trickle Down" Economics... Because the Super Rich Take a Piss on the Working Class and Call it Rain. The only Economic System that could POSSIBLY WORK is "Bubble Up" Economics. Raise Wages and All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Gets Spent at American Businesses, Increasing Profits. Causing Businesses to Hire More People to Handle the Extra Sales. Reducing Unemployment Insurance Costs, Increasing Income Taxes Paid. EVERYBODY WINS. 

He Does Spend a Lot of Time in this Interview Wondering IF GOD EXISTS and How someone could Prove It or Disprove It... That Sounds Like a TOTALLY TRIVIAL QUESTION. Go Ahead, believe whatever you want... Just Don't Kill People that Don't Believe Like You Do. The Christians and the Muslims have been murdering each other for over a Thousand Years OVER NOTHING! 

Then he Declares that Democrats Favor Using Totalitarianism to Force Hundreds Of Millions of People to Give Up Their Gas Guzzling Cars... Somehow he has Confused Joe Biden with an EARTH FIRST! Eco-Warrior. I hope that for his NEXT BOOK he Pulls His Head Out of His Ass. 

https://www.amazon.com/Mortality-Faith-Reflections-Journey-through/dp/1621578135/ref=asc_df_1621578135/

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My Bookshelf at Home - Arranged by Height - gvan42

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Psychedelic Art by gvan42 - Clock Tower at HSU Arcata, CA

clock tower hsu arcata ca

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/50th-anniversary-of-summer-of-love.html

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...

The culture of the United States was 
radically different After the 1960's... 
LSD Psychedelic Art by Greg Vanderlaan vandergreg gvan42 purple64ets gregvan

The conformism of the 1950's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.

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The Diggers of San Francisco were a street theatre company famous for their slogan "Today is the first day of the rest of your Life." They provided free food in Golden Gate park to needy Hippies during the Summer of Love. They also created a "Free Store" where all the merchandise was free. I suppose that they were skilled in getting donations. They also walked around Haight Street with a giant picture frame that passers by could step through in order to change their "Frame of Reference." The Diggers were part of the SF mime troupe, Bill Graham worked for them also as a benefit dance promoter/arranger to raise funds  by having local bands play and selling tickets. He later became the most successful rock music show promoter in the USA.

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Currently, a peaceful village called Arcata, California thrives using the basic concepts of Flower Power. It's on Highway 101 near the Oregon Border... Home of Humboldt State University...  If you want to experience the bliss yourself, take a loan from the Federal Department of Education and go to college at HSU. Arcata also is the center of Marijuana farming in the USA. The vast majority of the Grass is grown in Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties... The extreme North Western corner of California. http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/did-you-ever-notice-arcata-california.html


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"Beyond Counterculture" Book is the History of the Hippies who fled The Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco and Moved to MATEEL in Southern Humboldt County to Earn their living farming Cannabis. Originally a Doctoral thesis.

Between the Eel and Matole Rivers, Garberville and the Lost Coast.
Mateel is a Sunny and Warm.
Once PALCO logged the area, the land was really cheap. Perfect for growing Marijuana Outdoors. This location is Not on Google Streetview.

Beyond Counterculture: The Community of Mateel 

Paperback – June, 1990 by Jentri Anders.

https://www.facebook.com/jentri.anders

http://www.amazon.com/Jentri-Anders/e/B001KIM0T0/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/annotated-map-of-northern-california.html


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psychedelic art by gvan42


Cosmic Art Show - Absurdist Images created in Potatoshop by Greg Vanderlaan

Free Psychedelic Art - Global Awakening is Real and Happening Now

Rainbow Gathering Idaho 2001: A Gathering of the Tribes...
I went to the gathering with a specific goal in mind. I wanted to play my guitar and sing in public. Yes, mission accomplished. I was Living in Chico, California and working at the plastics factory. When there was a layoff, my wife suggested that I borrow the car and drive over to the gathering. My friend Mike Jensen wanted to go and so we checked the oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid and water and set out on a classic American road trip. We made it as far as Reno the first day and slept by the side of the road.... READ MORE:

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Grateful Deadhead ART and MyStory... American History...

 I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them.

He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly,
creative THINKING.

One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.

Our English teacher
stopped working for the school system that year and has never been heard of since. That has happened often to people that go to see the Dead... They change their lifestyle and start associating
with a different set of people... READ MORE:

Grateful Deadhead Tribute Webpage. Pictures and Stories. 
Many thanks to all that made the Grateful Dead an American Miracle... Just remember, if our lives together were written as a fiction story, everyone would dismiss it as being unbelieveable... Yet it all really happened!

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20 simple ideas for making the world a better place. #1 Solar Powered Desalinization - Change Seawater into Drinking Water, Salt and Electricity.

1. We ought to build a giant solar power desalinization plant in Southern California at Camp Pendleton. It would use solar reflectors to boil seawater and create steam. That steam would be used to drive turbines and create electricity. When the water Cools it Condenses into Pure H2O...  NaCl (salt) and Many Other Trace Elements Useful for Building High Tech Devices can be Harvested. 
Solar Desalination Illustration - simple - effective - infinite - Drinking Water
Staff Locator for the EPA 
including EMAIL Addresses and Phone Numbers.

The water would be sold to people for drinking, washing, watering livestock and watering plants. The salt could be sold...

Camp Pendleton near San Diego would be an ideal location. Southern California is in need of water. There is a current proposal to use pipelines to move fresh water from the Sacramento River to be used by farmers and residents in SoCal. An alternative would be to just get the water from the ocean... 

There is an Recent Engineering breakthru using solar power to pump the water out of the ocean but using membranes to do the purification. That's the same technology that is used in those drinking water dispensers you see out front of Liquor Stores.


Diagram of Solar Powered Desalinization Factory - gvan42 - convert seawater into drinking water
Diagram of Solar Powered Desalinization Factory
 Convert Seawater into Drinking Water

We should also stop watering lawns in California. It's a cultural norm that is not practical in a state that is suffering drought. What if it became fashionable to have rock gardens or cactus? That's what they do in Arizona...

2. Convert human fat into electricity using exercise bicycle power generators. The kinetic energy created by people pedaling can be converted into electricity by using an alternator, diode and battery. Many people use stationary bicycles for exercise and these currently unused sources of power could be used to create electricity. People could sell the electricity to the power company.


Stationary Bicycle Electric Power Generator - CCAT - HSU - gvan42
Stationary Bicycle Electric Power Generator - CCAT - HSU

3. We ought to cut spending at the Department of Defense and use the money for valuable projects. Simply stop the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Africa and all those secret locations. Bring the soldiers and the weapons home. We currently waste a vast fortune on wars that accomplish nothing. We could spend the trillions currently wasted on Medicare for all, infrastructure, teacher's salaries or school supplies. Remember that the US Military has not DEFENDED the USA since 1945. We have only invaded other countries... Often, our invasions cause disaster. For Example: When we helped Saddam Hussein become President and then blew up Iraq. Not a brilliant idea. Then we left stockpiles of weapons that were stolen by ISIS, Arming Terrorists. If we had just stayed home we could have saved six trillion dollars... The War in Afghanistan is impossible to win. Why not "Declare Victory", bring the troops home and have big parades?

4. We ought to legalize and tax marijuana nationwide. Release all cannabis prisoners. This would reduce government spending and increase VOLUNTARY taxes collected. The prisoners could spend their time working for a living and supporting their own families. That would reduce the costs of welfare and food stamps.

5. We ought to impeach Trump. He is taking the country in the wrong direction. His agenda is to cut taxes for the rich and reduce pollution control costs in corporations. He wants to increase drilling for oil, gas and coal mining. That causes more pollution. Burning fossil fuels causes global warming. Climate Change will make large parts of the USA uninhabitable. The Gulf Coast and the East Coast will have hurricanes every year. The destruction will become more than we are able to repair.

6. We ought to fund basic research into clean energy projects. Better electric cars, solar energy, wind energy and wave/tidal power plants. Better batteries... Better air conditioners... We are fighting for our lives. This should be funded like The Manhattan Project of World War Two or the Moon Landing.

7. We ought to reduce the amount of electricity used. Marijuana farms often use grow lights indoors to simulate sunshine needed for plants to grow. We could simply move all farms outdoors. These indoor farms often use stolen power that is unregulated. I have seen explosions at the Humboldt Bay power plant due to unforeseen surges of electricity use. The criminals tap the power on the street side of the power meter to avoid paying for electricity. That makes the power companies guess about consumption and how big transformers need to be. Another way to reduce demand is to teach people that transformers consume electricity even when not being used if they are connected to the wall outlet. We should teach people that a power strip with an on/off switch can cut their bill.

8. We ought to reduce the amount of gasoline used by commuters by moving the office closer to home. Every day people commute to work and if corporations moved the location of office buildings to residential locations, we would save gas, increase time spent away from work and increase happiness of workers. For Example: Silicon Valley and San Francisco have many jobs for people that create software. The tech corporations have headquarters where the employees work. People drive many miles thru traffic jams to get to those headquarters. A better plan would be to split the corporate headquarterss to many different locations in the suburbs. The people could co-ordinate their labor using the internet. The price of housing in Silicon Valley is very expensive in comparison to towns in the central valley. People should pay attention to commute time as an important factor in selecting a job. Currently people pay attention to pay rate, benefits and child care when selecting which job to take. They ought to have a choice of shorter commutes as well. It's an insane waste of time to drive to work. Riding the bus is much more fun.

9. We ought to change the EPA from Enabling Pollution Agency to Environmental Protection Agency. Under the Trump Administration we have seen a reduction of enforcement of laws prohibiting corporations from polluting the environment. Scott Pruitt wants to cut the costs corporations pay for ecology. And in a bizarre twist, he wants to change the rules for scientific research to prohibit health studies that protect the privacy of the people studied. HIPPA requires health information to remain private in any study of people's health. He also wants to prohibit reports from scientists that do business with the EPA while allowing reports from people hired by lobbyists. This would shift the reports in favor of polluting companies.

10. We ought to outlaw assault rifles. We outlawed machine guns and hand grenades in 1934. There is no need for assault rifles. NRA members often say that they need guns for hunting... So, we ought to allow rifles but not assault rifles. NRA members often say we need guns to protect our families... So, pistols can protect our families. We do not need bazookas, rocket launchers or anti-aircraft guns... We ought to protect our citizens from insane gunmen with assault rifles. Las Vegas, Columbine and Florida would not have been a mass murder without absurd firepower. Remember, when you have a gun in the home there is an increase in the chances of a gun accident. Suicide, shooting a family member during an argument and kids playing with guns actually increase the danger at home. NRA members say that we need guns to defend ourselves from the government. In a "Police State" the government keeps the people enslaved by first, taking away all the guns. They point to the USSR as an example. However, the police and US Army have vastly superior firepower and any defense of liberty by We The People is doomed to fail. Remember WACO and Ruby Ridge?

11. Police ought to stop murdering black men. Not only is it morally wrong to commit murder but it costs the taxpayers a lot of money. There is very little murder of white people by police but the culture of the police force seems to encourage murder of blacks. We ought to replace metal bullets with rubber bullets in all of our police forces. Rubber bullets do not kill people but they do cause a suspect to fall down and become easy to handcuff.

12. Remove corporate money from politics. Individual real people should be allowed to contribute to candidate's election fund but artificial "people" like corporations should be prohibited. They are only used to allow rich people to exceed limits of how much money anyone can contribute. This leads to what is in effect bribery. Politicians do what they are paid to do... pass laws that benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class and poor. What we have now is one dollar one vote not one man one vote like the founding fathers wanted. PAC (political action committees) are another way to allow rich people to exceed limits.

13. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients decide what drugs are beneficial treatment. There is a body of medical research that says some illegal drugs help people with mental health problems. For Example: Termanilly Ill people who fear their own death could be given psychedelics to ease their fear. That would be compassionate... What is gained by prohibition? The patients are going to die anyway... We simply do not know enough about health benefits to make an informed decision about medicinal psychedelics. We ought to learn.

14. Make companies that sell addictive opioid drugs pay extra taxes to fund treatment for patients that want to quit using their drugs. They caused a problem and profited by it... they should pay to clean up the mess.

15. We ought to take action to defend our elections. The Russians interfered with our election in 2016 causing Trump to win. Without Wikileaks, Trump would have lost. We also should stop using the electoral college. Majority Rule is a better system. Twice we have had the loser in the Presidential Election serve as President. Both times were disasters.

16. Free birth control and abortion for all. No one should be forced to give birth to an unwanted child. Choice should be available to anyone including people who cannot afford it.

17. Outlaw fracking. It causes drinking water pollution. The only people who benefit are the stockholders of oil companies. Water pollution causes health problems... real people get sick...

18. Outlaw ROUNDUP herbicide. It causes cancer. This chemical is widely used in the farming of California's central valley. Non Hodgskin's lymphoma is killing real people who work on the farms.

19. Close all Nuclear Power Plants. They create Atomic Waste that stays Radioactive for thousands of years. AND POISONOUS... The waste has to be stored safely and guarded to prevent terrorists from building a "Dirty Bomb" using the Depleted Uranium. Vast salaries will be spent on Armed Security Guards and warehouses.

20. Teach "Critical Thinking" in High School. Knowing when someone is lying to you is a valuable survival skill.
Introduce students to "Logical Fallacies" so they will be able to recognise them.

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VOTE - 2018 is the year we throw the Republicrimes out!
and there was a Giant Blue Wave... But the Evil ones 
Retained control of the Senate... 
#MoscowMitch McConnell is still there. 

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