BOYCOTT CHEAP CHINESE JUNK. Consume Wisely. Buy Used Clothes at the Thrift Store. Keep the Phone You ALREADY HAVE and LOVE it. Repair stuff that breaks down.

I use a HP Computer that is 15 years old and I had a local guy replace the RAM when it failed. Buy Food at the LOCAL Farmer's Market. I was surprised to learn that COTTON Clothes are often made in the Orient. Can't we grow COTTON in the American South? Employ Americans to Grow Cotton and weave it into fabric... What an IDEA!

We bought clothes, furniture, silverware, plates, pots, pans and a Piano at OUR Thrift Store. It's called the Saint Vincent DePaul Store in Oldtown Eureka.  We also shop at the EUREKA RESCUE MISSION STORE AND THEY DELIVER BIG HEAVY OBJECTS FOR FREE. They employ Homeless Veterans and Ex-Convicts... It's difficult to get a Job after being released from Prison or the Army but They are a Place that believes in Forgiveness and New Beginnings. Do yourself a favor, get better quality for less money by buying used. Help Employ LOCAL PEOPLE...

I have bought Four used cars... The first was an old Chevy Luv Mikado [Isuzu Pup]... I got that at THE WELL in Chico, CA. It's a halfway house for Ex Convicts that Live in a Grand Old Motel and Work Repairing and Cleaning Cars. I didn't have enough money to pay the $1,000 price so I paid some and shook the man's hand... I promised to pay the rest. He called my boss at the Factory and verified that I was employed and so... we did the deal... Quite a different experience in comparison to Getting a Loan from Chrysler Credit at a High Interest Rate... and paying it off for Five Years... After Four and a Half Years I had a Worn Out Car and the payments still needed to be paid...

The other three were sold at Eureka Auto Wholesalers. A Dodge Die Nasty, a Ford Windstar and a Chrysler Town and Country. They buy used FLEET vehicles at auction and sell them retail to people in Eureka. Their Business Pan is to Make a small profit on every car but SELL A LOT OF CARS. Deep Discount for Cash. All those vehicles had about Five More Years of life in them. Fleet Vehicles owned by The County Government get serviced at Jiffy Lube on time every time. I went into Jiffy Lube to get an oil change and they showed me the Service Record for that VIN... My Ford Windstar liven it Sacramento for Ten Years... One time I went into the Ford Dealer in Chico to get an Idiot Light fixed and he said I owned the Oldest Windstar he had ever seen... 

and then a guy on GAB said... This "getting woke" shit is saving me tons of money. How? you ask. Well, I stopped drinking soda, alcohol (only on rare occasions), No fast freaking food, use clippers not razors, started buying food from local markets, completely cut junk food, No Netfilx and no professional sports. Besides saving money, I'm now healthier, happier, sleep less, wake up super early, learn new skills everyday, less pain relief needed. The way I see it, Liberals did me a huge favor with their wokeness.

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*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

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*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

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...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
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History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

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

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







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