Chapter Zero: A Continuation of "The Violet Overgrow: An Eco-Warrior's Journey"
They Were Motoring West on Route 66 When Susan Said:
"Check This Out... I'm Reading this Website and The Guy Says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [Except Blacks and Women] that they are endowed by their Creator [Named Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Thor, KRSNA, Buddha or a Thousand Other Names] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”[Unless your Pursuit uses Marijuana or Psychedelics as a Sacrament] - DANG... So Many Disclaimers... Was This Written by a Freaking Lawyer? Pretty Damn Insightful... Ya Think?"
Billy Answered: " I Don't Worry About Stuff Like That. Being a White Male, All That Discrimination Talk is Not Interesting to Me. It's Like Rap Music... Endless Complaining About How Life SUCKS For Black People... Valid, True, Accurate BUT... I Just Couldn't Care Less..."
and they Eased on Down the Road...
"You Know What I'd Like to Do? Asked Billy "I'd Like to Feed the CEO of Dow Chemical a Couple of Cannabis Cookies and See if It's Possible to FLIP THE SCRIPT of His Life from DOING EVIL FOR MONEY to Doing Good For The Planet!"
"Ok" Said Susan... His House is Right on the Way... about a Thousand Miles Ahead...
and they Eased on Down the Road...
"Since You've Got Google on that Phone... Find out Who It Is..."
"It's Jim Fitterling.." Said Susan... "and Here are Directions To His Country Club... The Midland Country Club at 1120 W St Andrews Rd, Midland, Michigan... Thank You Google maps..."
"Next Stop, Where the Thumb Meets the Index Finger in It's a Mitten, Michigan!" Said Billy.
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| Map to the Villain's Lair... |
Then Billy Said: "Susan, You've Got That Faraway Look In Your Eye... What are You Wondering About?"
And Susan Replied: "I've always questioned what was happening BEFORE the Big Bang. Did Gravity Cause the Universe to Collapse into One Unstable point That Subsequently Blew UP? Was Our Big Bang One of Billions of Big Bangs? Stretching Back through time... Forever and Ever... Amen?"
Billy Said: "Well, We'll Never Know the Answer To That One, But... "
and at That Moment a Fully Loaded Logging Truck Blew Its Horn! HOOOONNNNKKKK! Billy, Lost in thought, had drifted over the Center Line on the Road and was Headed for a Fatal Car Crash... at The Very The Last Moment He Swerved and Saved All Three of Their Lives!
"Thank God You Didn't Run Head on into that Fully Loaded Logging Truck. Said Susan... "That's a Little Reminder that REALITY EXISTS No Matter What You Believe."
"Let's Go to an AA Meeting on the Way to The Evil One's Lair." Said Billy. "This Near Death Experience has Given Me a Great Desire for a Drink... and When I Have a Great Desire for a Drink, I Go to an AA Meeting... "
"OK, I'll Look Up a Schedule for a Nearby Meeting... BINGO! Here's One in the Town of Springfield. Right Next to The Legendary Four Corners... Where the States of California, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Colorado and New Mexico Meet." Said Susan...
and they drove on down the road... and Pulled into the Parking Lot... They Spotted that Familiar Circle and Triangle Symbol and All of a Sudden... They Felt at Home... They Shook Hands and Got a Cup of Coffee, Had a Seat...
After a Half Hour Billy Said: "Hello: My Name is Greg and I'm an Alcoholic."
"Hello Greg." said Everybody...
Billy Said: "I Never Use My Real Name Except Here... Here I Can Tell the Truth About Everything. I've Been Exploring Self Hypnosis as an Alternative to Drug Abuse. For Example: This Animation... It's a Dancing Mugwump! I believe That I Can Get Even Higher That I Got on Psychedelics... Maybe I'm Wrong but I'm Just Too Damn Old For Chemicals... "
And Then Little Timmy of the FBI Thought Crimes Division Quietly Stood Up and Walked Out to The Parking Lot... To Get Better Cellphone Reception... Supposedly... He Said into the Phone: "Honey Bunny, Get Me Major Wanker of GCHQ."
The Phone made a lot of Beeps and Boinks and then Major Wanker Was on the Line... All the Way From England!
Little Timmy Said: "Sir We Have Located Him... He's Right Here in the Four Corners Area of the USA."
and Major Wanker Said: "*#$%@#*&^%^!@#$**%**^$#**&^%$!#&:" Because at That Very Moment Their Scrambler Phone Lost It's Mind...
"Dang!" Said Little Timmy "Now I'll Never Know What To Do! I Guess I'll Do Nothing... Because That Way I Can Do Nothing Wrong."
"Good Plan, NARC!" Said Susan "I Saw You Leave the Meeting and Wondered What You Were Up To... So I followed You Out Here and Heard Every Word You said... and Every Word Major Wanker Said... You were Holding the Phone Away from Your Ear Because He was Talking So Loudly... Your Super Duper Data Encryption is Useless if a Person Can Just HEAR YOU TALK... Anyway... I Disabled Your Car and Here Comes Silly Billy in OUR CAR... so Sayonara! Hasta La Vista, Baby!"
and they Eased on Down the Road... Leaving Little Timmy Behind... and he was SO Sad... WAH!
Bill turned on the Car Radio: "Did You Ever Hear This?"
https://youtu.be/T1NN2AiT_Dc (AUDIO) Local Experts Record Chorus of Humpback Whales Singing Same Song Off the Humboldt Coast...
Soon they Arrived at [Location to be Determined by Random Location Program] and Billy Said: "Well, Here We Are!"
Map of Yellowstone - found by random location program
44°57'56.3"N 107°33'18.8"W
Suzy Asked: "Should We Drive West to Yellowstone or East to Standing Rock?"
all of a Sudden an Eagle was Spotted in the Eastern Sky... "Follow Me... It Said."
"Let's GO!" Said Billy "I Wonder if That was the Same Eagle That Named the Band..."
"What Band? Asked Suzy...
"The Eagles." Said Silly Billy...
"OH, Now I Get It!" Said Suzy...
"Great! Onward to Standing Rock!" Said Billy
and they Eased on Down the Road...
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| Meeting of the Condor and the Eagle |
"OMG!" Said Susan, "I'm Talking as if I was Texting! WTF!!!!"
"Relax" said Bob "It's only the lingering effects of your (~);-} training.
"Wow," said Susan "I never heard (~);-} pronounced before... That reminds me of a Story... "
"Oh NO!" Said Billy "Not another Boring Story! I've Got to Stay Awake While I'm Easing on Down the Road. and Who's BOB?"
"What?" asked Susan "He's The Hitchhiker You Picked Up an Hour Ago. Is Your Short Term Memory Going KaJiggers?"
"How the Hell Would I Know?" said Billy "My Entire Life is a Mystery!"
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"Anyway..." Said Susan "I'll Tell You The Story...
"A Million Years in the Future" by Purple64ETS:
The guard was looking at the pool of atomic waste... he wondered, what if I figured out a way to dispose of this Depleted Uranium... That would be wonderful... And he stood there and thought... just as his father had done, and his grandfather, and his great grandfather, great-great-great back through the millions of years they had been standing guard... But he had no idea... so he stood there and guarded the atomic waste and trained his son to be a guard... maybe my son will find the answer...
TO BE CONTINUED... A BILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE...
The guard was looking at the pool of atomic waste... he wondered, what if I figured out a way to dispose of this Depleted Uranium... That would be wonderful... And he stood there and thought... just as his father had done, and his grandfather, and his great grandfather, great-great-great back through the millions of years they had been standing guard... But he had no idea... so he stood there and guarded the atomic waste and trained his son to be a guard... maybe my son will find the answer...
TO BE CONTINUED... A BILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE...
"That Story Sucks" Said Bob "It Doesn't Even Have a Happy Ending! All Good Stories Have a Happy Ending Where The Good Guys Win."
"OK, Mister Wise Guy. YOU Tell a Story." Said Susan and Billy Together...
"Fine... It's Called "Everybody's Laughing at Ayn Rand" by Benjamin Ghazi" Said Bob.
"Everyone's Laughing at Ayn Rand Because She took Social Security Checks from The Government In Her Final Years. True Believers of Her Philosophy feel that was a Betrayal of Her Core Values. However, What they FAIL to Realize is That She was a FICTION Author That Made Up Wild Tales About an Ideal World That Could Never Exist. It Was The FANS That Exaggerated The Significance of the Plots Until they Became Marching Orders for Libertarians Worldwide. A Blueprint for the Creation of a New World Order... She Just Thought, FREE MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT... WHEE! or Maybe That's Not What she thought at all... Maybe Her GRAND PLAN FAILED and Starvation Drove Her to Give Up Her Beliefs... We'll Never Really Know... But One Thing is Certain... [DRUM ROLL] Reality Exists No Matter What You Believe. The End.
"Well, That's a Pretty Good Story... It Had That Mockery of People That Have Crazy Ideas and Millions of Followers... Like The TrumpNiks of America in the 2010s... He Was an Obvious Fraud but They Believed Every Lie He Told!" Said Susan
"It got so bad they Gathered in Large Groups and Infected Each Other with a Disease Called "Trump's Coronavirus" Even When ALL The Doctors Said 'DON'T DO THAT! You'll DIE!' They Just Kept On Behaving Stupid Until They Became Extinct."
"I Did Not Know That." Said Bob "I Guess That was the Start of the Three Party System in the USA. Green, Democrat and Libertarian... No Need for a FOURTH Party... Dead People Don't Vote... (Except in Chicago)"
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Author's Note: Are You Wondering About the Safety of 5G? I worked for 6 Years designing Computers for the Air Force Complying with TEMPEST Requirements. EMI/RFI Shielding Prevents All Radio Waves from Passing... Transmit radio waves at a grounded steel plate and they just stop. SO... In Fact... Aluminum Foil Hats Prevent Radio Waves from Entering Your Brain. YOU CAN COOK MEAT USING POWERFUL ENOUGH MICROWAVES... So Holding a Cellphone up to your ear is in fact COOKING Your Brain... But NOT Cooking it Very Much... RARE MEAT... Not Well Done... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
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| Aluminum Foil Hats in the Movie Signs |
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"LOOK!" Said Susan "And They Saw ____ ______ ___ ___.
(To be Determined by a Random Vision Generator Program)
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| Logging Truck, Fully Loaded on Highway #299 During a Construction Work Traffic Jam. Humboldt County, CA |
"That Random Image Program Works Pretty Good." Said Bob "That Reminds Me of a Story."
"Oh NO!" Said Billy "Not another Boring Story! I've Got to Stay Awake While I'm Easing on Down the Road... and Who's BOB?"
"He's The Same Hitchhiker Who's Been Sitting in the Back Seat for Hours!" Said Susan "Your Brain is Definitely Fried! Go Ahead BOB... I'm Listening."
"Anyway, It's Just Free Advice to How to Avoid Traffic While Driving Thru Summertime Construction Zones. First, They Have a Flagman Stop All Traffic Because of a One Lane Road Ahead. Then, After waiting 10 Minutes (that feels like hours) Everybody Drives Forward Really Fast in a Tightly Packed Bunch.
AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY... Pull Off the Side of the Road and Take Photographs of Nature for Five Minutes... By That Time, ALL THE CARS HAVE PASSED and You are Driving with Zero Traffic... They are all Racing Ahead at Breakneck Speed... and Since All The Cars Behind You Are Blocked by The Flagman... You Won't See Them Either... If You Have a Tendency to Drive Slower Than Average You will Never See another Car until You Get to the NEXT Construction Zone.
"Thanks Bob, That's Great Advice." Said Susan.
"I Learned That Driving over Highway #299 From Arcata to Redding, CA. One time It was So Hot That I Thought I Was Going to Die... After the Flagman Let Us Go, I Saw a Swimming Hole in the Trinity River and Jumped In. I Drank a Lot of Cool, Clear Water... So Much that I Became Intoxicated! That Was FUN!"
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| Trinity River in Hoopa, Humboldt County, CA Photo Taken From the Shady Place to Park. |
"What About You, Bob? Have You Got a Story?" Asked Susan.
"Well..." said Bob. "Years Ago..." and He Hesitated... Paused... as His Fried Brain Performed a Search... and the Computer Displayed a Random Photo...
Bob Said: "Here's One... Do the Math: a silly story… Absurdist Fiction! Not one word is True... [wink, wink]
During the early 1970’s a gentleman and his wife were working in Palo Alto, California and he discovered the key to enlightenment. He published it as a book and became a leader of a religious group very popular with the high tech crowd surrounding Apple and HP. To put it briefly, the key is 01101011001110110100010001… and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn a million dollars from royalties… 11010011100001110101100110.
A few years passed and the wife made a public statement: “While my husband is a fine fellow and a wonderful father to our children, I sadly must inform you that he is almost entirely wrong about the key to enlightenment. I have been doing the math and can state that there is a missing part… it is:10010100110001001011101110… and it went on like that for a hundred pages finally ending with the amazing conclusion that astonished the world and allowed the couple to earn another million dollars from royalties… 00101100011110001010011001.
And the people of the world did the math… and she was right… while each of the strings of zeros and ones by themselves showed part of the key to true enlightenment, if you add the two numbers together, they equal:1111111111111111111111111…. and it goes on for a hundred pages finally ending as you would expect… 111111111111111111111111111.
and THAT'S How You Become One With The Universe!"
Hey! That's Great." Said Susan. "Anyone Else?" and She Pushed the Button to Display a Random Photograph...
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| The Elfin Glen Store Redwood Chainsaw Sculptures on Highway #101 - Humboldt County, CA |
"I Don't Get anything From this Picture. Try Again." Said Tom
"Who the Hell is TOM?" asked Silly Billy.
"Oh, That's The Other Hitchhiker We Picked Up an Hour Ago. He's Kinda Quiet." Said Susan "Anyway, Here is another Photo."
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| Impossible Object That forms the Core of the Infinity Drive. Discovered at Roswell, New Mexico |
"I'm Getting an Image in My Mind!" Shouted Billy "It's The Space Brothers From That Old Comic Book about the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Mr. Natural... and He's Holding a Four Wheeled Hand Truck! Gee, That's a Major Improvement over the Two Wheeled Hand Trucks I Used at the Old Paint Store. Maybe Friendly Aliens DID Help Ancient Humans to Invent Technology. Look! There Goes One Now!"
[Author's Note: As I was writing this a Lady Walked by using a four wheeled hand truck to deliver a Box Spring from a Bed. Using One Hand!]
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| Friendly Alien Waving at YOU from inside His Flying Saucer |
as They Were Easing on Down the Road Towards Standing Rock... Silly Billy Said: "Let's Stop Here! [insert location found on Google Maps on the Actual Path to Standing Rock] Evans Plunge Mineral Springs... 1145 N River St, Hot Springs, SD 57747 - I Feel Like a Soak in the Hot Tub."
"Fantastic!" Said Susan "We Can Get Naked and Fool Around Just Like We Did at Woody's Hot Springs on Highway #70 in California."
"No We Can't. This is Just Not That Kind of Place." Said Silly Billy... http://www.evansplunge.com/ "For thousands of years, the valley of healing waters, called "wiwila kata" by the Lakota (meaning warm waters), was prized for the warm spring-fed river. Both the Lakota and Cheyenne utilized the natural river of warm water springs that flows through present-day Hot Springs."
So They Soaked for Hours... and Then... They Eased on Down The Road... They Met a Girl in the Hot Tub That wanted to Join The Band of Intrepid Travelers... Her Name Was... [Random Named Chick] and She Wanted to Go to Standing Rock Also.
"I've always admired the Standing Rocks at Stonehenge. And Now I Find Out We Have a Standing Rock Right Here in the USA." Said [Random Named Chick]
"I Don't Know If They Have an Actual ROCK There... Mostly It's About Protecting the Water from an Oil Pipeline. Here, Read This: https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2016/standing-rock-activist-account It'll Give You a Clearer Picture..." Said Susan,
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| Standing Rock Village |
https://www.standingrock.org/content/visit-us
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Bldg. #1 N Standing Rock Ave.
P.O. Box D
Fort Yates, ND 58538
(701) 854-8500
Standing Rock Sioux Nation straddles the North Dakota/South Dakota boarder on the western portion of both states. Currently the reservation is about 1,000,000 total acres.
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| Map of Standing Rock Reservation |
"Dang! It Appears that We Are Freaking Lost... We Should be Heading Towards Bismarck, North Dakota." SAID EVERYONE ALL AT ONCE!
"We Should Have Gone North on #85 and Then East on #12. When We Got To STURGIS We Were Going the Wrong Way." Said Silly Billy.
"Yeah, But I Always Wanted to See STURGIS... It Was Interesting Even Off Season When There Were Not a Gazillion Bikers... Maybe Even Better!" Said Susan...
"And That Side Trip To Devil's Tower Was EPIC... Do DO Do Do DUH!" Sang [Random Named Chick]
Suzie Turned on the Car Radio and A Talking Head Said:
"I See on the TV News That a Remote Controlled Machine Gun Killed the Top Iranian Nuclear Scientist. My First Reaction was: Can I Get One for Christmas? What are the Controls Like? A Gameboy? Joystick? and Then after Further Contemplation I Wondered... What IF We Murdered ALL Nuclear Scientists Worldwide? They DO EVIL for a Living! Exterminate The #MAGACrazies!"
"Well," Said Silly Billy... "That's Different... I Guess out here in the Wilds of Middle America People Think Differently Than on the Coasts..."
and they eased on down the road...
and... Pretty Soon they Had Arrived at the Country Club where Jim Fitterling was a Member... Billy Said: "Hey Dude ( Guy Guarding the Entrance) "How do you get a JOB at this Place? Specifically, a Catering Job?"
and the Dude Replied: "Try the D'Alessandro's Catering Services at 801 East Wackerly St, Midland, MI 48642 - Phone: (989) 631-3824 - I've Got Their Card Right Here... Tell 'em Johnny Sent You."
and so the Intrepid Travelers turned around and Drove Over to 8-1 East Wackerly Street...
When they Got to the Caterers office Billy Said: "Hello... I'm Looking for a Job Here... I've Got Years of Work Experience and... Not only can I Prepare and Serve Food but I Can Work as a Bouncer in Case any of the Guests BECOME A MENACE TO SOCIETY."
and The Dude behind the Counter said: "Excellent! It Just So Happens that one of Our Guests Thinks He's God because He's The CEO of DOW. After a few drinks... He Thinks Everybody Ought to Be the Mother of His Children... Even if that's BIOLOGICALY IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Great! I Can Start Today... and I'll Beat Him Like a Piñata! Just Grab a Stick and SWING AWAY!" Said Billy, Silly Willie!
So our Band of Merry Men (and a Merry Woman) went off in search of a Bag of Weed... "Susan said: "Let's Prepare "Magic Oregano" Spaghetti AND Alice B Toklas Brownies! That'll Double the Chance That Mr. "God's Gift to Women" will eat some Cannabis and Have a Religious Experience! Possibly Changing the Future of the World!"
They drove over to the wrong side of the Tracks and Parked the Car... They were Walking down the Street Just a Having a Think when a Snake of a Guy Gave Susan an Evil Wink...
"Hey Dude... Got any Weed?" asked Susan... "We Plan to Open the Doors Of Perception."
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| Open the Doors of Perception gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan - Self Portrait |
and the Dude Said: "We Got Everything! I Run a One Stop Drugstore Just Like Walgreens... Except... No Legal Drugs... Go See Them for that!"
"Fantastic! One Ounce of Humboldt's Finest if you Please... Sinsemilla..." Said Bob
"Well, I Do Have a Sinsemilla That was Grown in the Ozarks... They Call it "The Mule" 'cause it Kicks You In The Head!"
"SOLD!" said Everyone... "Gotta Pipe?"
and they Partook the Gift of the Gods...
Susan Said: "Let's Just Bribe the Guy at the Caterers to Put our infused Food on the Table at the Country Club. I Bet he would do it for $500 Dollars..."
Silly Billy Said: "Great Idea! That way we can be OUT OF TOWN When Everything Goes Down... Ya Got Any Money?"
"Well Sure... Ever Since You Showed Me How to Embezzle from the Deutsche Bank Cloud I've Been Rich!" Replied Susan
"I'm Glad I Bought That Book 'How to Embezzle from the Deutsche Bank Cloud' - I Just Wonder... Why is the Author Selling it for Money? Doesn't He Have Enough using his own Plan?" Asked Silly Billy
and they Did the Deed... The Guy at the Catering Service was Totally On Board with their Plan... Especially after Eating a Brownie... They Made Sure that He Understood That They Would be Reading the Midland Newspaper for Evidence that the Crime Had Actually Been Committed. If He Just Ate it all himself... or shared it with his friends... "I'll Be Back!"
and They Eased on Down The Road...
The next adventure took them to... Beautiful Downtown Burbank... The Home of the Laugh In TV Show. NBC Studios for Fifty Years!
"All I Remember About That is the Chimes... Ding, Ding, Ding..." Said Fred...
"Did You know that the NOTES PLAYED by the Bells are "G", "E" and "C" - The Name of the Corporation that Owns NBC is General Electric... So The Bells Play the Name of the Company...
Said "Mustang" Sally "So Its Subliminal Programming... a Concept for Brainwashing that went out of Style in the 1960s... To be replaced by BRUTE FORCE REPETITION... Like all those TV Advertisements for Pharmaceutical Drugs that show Ecstatic Dancing... No Matter What You DO... You Believe that Product X will turn you into a Happy Beautiful Person... "
"Yes... I Noticed That!" Said Silly Billy "And Trump Uses the Same Mind Control Propaganda Technique Pioneered by Hermann Goering of NAZI Germany During WW2."
"You don't seem to be too concerned about the Strangers in the Back Seat anymore." Said Susan "I Guess that's all Part of the Hollyweird Lifestyle!"
"YES! Let's Go To The Beach!" Said Fred
"The Closest Beach is the World Famous Santa Monica Pier!"
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| Santa Monica Pier Map |
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| Harry Perry Guitar Player that Rollerblades down Venice Beach Boardwalk |
Billy Said: "Have You Read that Book Called "The Blind Art Critic" By Gregory Vanderlaan --- It Starts out --- "I Have No Knowledge about Subatomic Physics and That's Why I Don't Express Opinions on that Subject... Many Other People Are Comfortable in Expressing their Views With ZERO FACTS... We Call Them Republicans."
Susan Replied: "Oh Course I Have Not Read That Book... He Hasn't Written It Yet."
"Well" Said Billy "I Got an advance Copy in my Email... gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]com and It Included Pictures as well as The Words of Wisdom. Look!"
NO NUKES! Beware of this Guy... He was a principal scientist in the German nuclear weapons program during World War II. He was also instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe, together with a research reactor in Munich, in 1957. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg
I Googled Werner... He Was Pure EVIL a Nazi ATOM BOMB Scientist... Really! Thank God He Failed... Or Hitler Would Have Won the War... PLEASE BE AWARE OF WHO YOU ARE QUOTING when You Retweet a Meme You Found... Of Course, ALL Nuclear Scientists are EVIL... Atomic Bombs and Atomic Power have made the world a worse place to Live... AWAKEN! Thankfully He's Dead So He Can't Do Any More Evil...
Of Course, I Myself Have Done Evil for Money... So Who am I to Ridicule Werner Heisenberg? He Just Went Along With The Evil German Government... Einstein Got the Hell OUT of Germany but He was the Exception... not the Rule...
Author's Note: I spent 6 Years working for the US Military Designing Computers That BLOCKED RADIO WAVES FROM ESCAPING from the Equipment. Project TEMPEST. The Goal was to Prevent The Russians from Eavesdropping on Our Computers and Reading Our Secret Messages. The Basic Idea was to make the BOX that the Computer Circuit Cards were housed in out of Metal... with small holes for LEDs and Switches on the front panel. and More Tiny Holes on the Back for Input and Output Connectors and Wires... In Shielded Conduits... This is Specialized Knowledge that I ASSUMED everyone knew because I Knew... OOPS... Such a Classic Mistake... Just because I UNDERSTAND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS... I Often Assume that Everyone Else Has a Similar Grasp of Reality... When 98% of Americans have No Idea At all... So When I Observed that the Employees at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba were Bombarded with Microwaves... and that Was What Made Them Sick... The Solution is ALUMINUM FOIL HATS!
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| Aluminum Foil Hats that protect the Brain from Microwave Radiation... This Really Works! |
and My Friends Laughed at Me... That was Because they Do Not Understand Electrical Engineering and Physics... QUITE COMMON! They Need to Be Educated! Not Ridiculed...
When I Googled the Word TEMPEST I found out from the Wikipedia Article that The WORD is an Acronym...
TEMPEST (Telecommunications Electronics Materials Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions)[1] is a U.S. National Security Agency specification and a NATO certification[2][3] referring to spying on information systems through leaking emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations.[4][5] TEMPEST covers both methods to spy upon others and how to shield equipment against such spying. The protection efforts are also known as emission security (EMSEC), which is a subset of communications security (COMSEC).[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
and then Billy asked: "Have You checked to See if the Caterer Actually Served the Infused Spaghetti To The Corporate Elite at Jim Fitterling's Country Club?"
Susan Did Some Research On Her Phone and... NO Evidence of a Wild Party... Nothing! She Said: "Nope, That guy who worked at the Caterers turned out to be a Rat Fink! What do you want to do about that?"
"Well," said Billy "Let's Just Forgive Him for the Time Being. Send him an email reminding him that we KNOW HIS SECRET. Let's Just Publish a HOW TO Manual on the Internet Describing our Plan and Maybe One of the Hundreds of Thousands of Gregory Vanderlaan's Blog will GET 'ER DONE!"
and that's exactly what they Did!
[ TO BE CONTINUED AS SOON AS I HAVE AN IDEA.]
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On a related Subject: I've Always Been Moved by the PLATO STORY - "THE CAVE." When I Heard it first I Said... HEY, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! THAT'S MY LIFE! I've Left the Cave and Seen MORE than the Shadows on the Wall. Thank You, Dr. Albert Hofmann. ---> Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but are not accurate representations of the real world. Three higher levels exist: the natural sciences; mathematics, geometry, and deductive logic; and the theory of forms.
Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not reality at all. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
That reminds me of a Story... About a Debate I've Been Having on Facebook about the Advantages and Disadvantages of Atomic Poison Power...
I Said: They want the Three Mile Island Property Taxes Set to ZERO... Massive tax cut sought for TMI, as Exelon says closed nuclear power station isn’t worth a dime... REALITY...
VK said: But I'll bet they won't sell the property. If they did sell it (for a dollar, if it's worthless) I could make some $hring charging BASE jumpers for the chance to dive inside the cooling towers! And install those little knobby things on the inside and out for free-climbers!
I Replied: That is a Valid Question... What to do with all those abandoned Nuclear Power Plants? I lived next to one in Eureka. They just built a Real power Plant around the Failed Nuke and Kept the swimming pool with the Atomic waste. That way they had guards to prevent people from stealing the waste and building a Dirty Bomb... and That's Important! here's a Photo of a Truck Taking away Toxic Waste from Humboldt Power Station... They have at least one truck a day every day for about a year... 
VK Said: — Nothing compared to the ecological damage coming from trying to dispose of/recycle all those dead solar panels. That's a "Dirty Bomb" that will cause worldwide damage, and it's due to the massive subsidies (more massive than the nuke industry) that caused these uneconomic and toxic panels to proliferate: https://www.cfact.org/2019/09/15/the-solar-panel-toxic-waste-problem/
Yes, Every method of Generating Electricity Has Ecological Problems... It's Just that The ACTUAL DECISION MAKERS at PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD select Solar and Wind. The People That WRITE CHECKS and Hire Construction workers Disagree with You. The only people in Favor of Nukes are People that have Recently Graduated from College with a Degree in Nuclear Engineering and FIND THAT NO ONE IS HIRING in Design or Construction... Plenty of work in DECOMMISSIONING abandoned Nukes... so they Join "Think Tanks" and Write Papers about how wonderful Nukes are... I really enjoy these debates... It's Like the Book Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card... Ender's Brother Peter and Sister Valentine Debate the Topics of the Day in order to influence public opinion...
I do notice the Quotations you use "Dirty Bomb" - That's secret code for NOT an Actual Dirty Bomb... It's Backwardsworld Talk... In Fact a Terrorist Who Takes a Stick of Dynamite and Wraps solar panels around it will cause Shrapnel... a Terrorist that Takes a Stick of Dynamite and wraps it in Atomic Waste will create an actual Dirty Bomb... Plutonium is Forever... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJ_73_8kzo
That is a Valid Question... What to do with all those abandoned Nuclear Power Plants? I lived next to one in Eureka. They just built a Real power Plant around the Failed Nuke and Kept the swimming pool with the Atomic waste. That way they had guards to prevent people from stealing the waste and building a Dirty Bomb... and That's Important! here's a Photo of a Truck Taking away Toxic Waste from Humboldt Power Station... They have at least one truck a day every day for about a year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/.../John_Hall_(New_York_politician) John Hall rode that No Nukes Concert all the Way to Becoming a Congressman in the US House of Representatives... 2007 - 2011
Did You Know: It's easy to Type FACT CHECK into Google and Expose Lies Published online... For Example: Solar Power Subsidies ARE NOT Larger than Fossil Fuel Subsidies. Please Publish Truth Online... It Cheapens Your Opinions When You Get Caught Lying... "While renewable energy skeptics have criticized the ITC for being a costly taxpayer-funded stimulus, the reality is that this short-lived subsidy represents only a small fraction of the money that U.S. taxpayers are spending each year to subsidize fossil fuels. Without any subsidies, solar is likely the cheapest energy source in the world, as demonstrated by record low power purchase agreements in countries like the United Arab Emirates and Chile. And solar’s low cost trajectory is likely to continue: unlike oil, gas and coal, solar PV is a technology not a fuel – meaning that its costs will continue to fall every year as research continues and technology improves." SOURCE: https://news.energysage.com/solar-energy-vs-fossil-fuels/
I read the Book RAGE by Bob Woodward and... He and Trump say: China KNEW they had to Quarantine to save Lives but... They Looked at the Economic Problems of Being the ONLY COUNTRY to have this Disease and LET IT OUT OF CHINA INTENTIONALLY... If we infect the entire world, we won't be at a Economic Disadvantage...
I found out on Jeopardy That Zoroaster was from Iran. Just Like Baháʼu'lláh. and Mohammed was from Saudi Arabia Just like Osama bin Laden. That part of the world sure has a Lot of Those "I Talked to God Guys." and Jesus and Moses too... From Israel... Interesting!
My Favorite Movie theater in Washington DC is the UPTOWN on Connecticut Ave near the Zoo. They Have a GIANT MOVIE SCREEN and a ROCK CONCERT SOUND SYSTEM. We saw "The Wall" by Pink Floyd there and That Caused a Mild Psychedelic Effect. When we left the theater it was as if I Had Actually Eaten 100 Micrograms of ___ [redacted-Facebook brain police] . THANKS! We also saw "The Right Stuff" and "Koyaanisqatsi" - The Other great Movie Theater is IMAX at the Air and Space Museum. "The Dream is Alive" and a 3D Japanese Animation called "We Are Made of Stars" - If You are ever in DC... GO!
They Used to Give Away Free Food in Lafayette Park, Right Across the Street From the White House. (now in the green zone) Where do People Go Now? The Big Time Catering Services would distribute leftovers from Fancy Pants Dinner Parties to Homeless People that Lived in the Park... and Anti-War Demonstrators... Serious Question.
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On an Electric Guitar... Whammy Bars are More Trouble than they are worth... IMHO... I Find it makes tuning the strings difficult... and... I just put a REALLY LONG SCREW thru the time control on a digital echo box and WIGGLED THAT WITH MY FOOT... Totally Whammed!
I Tie Dyed a Bed Sheet and a Rock Band used it behind them as a Backdrop... Their Logo was Three Interlocked Hearts and That was Pretty Easy to Paint with Acrylics in the center... and Then The Backup Singers Took some tie dyed material and Made Dresses... Wonderful...
Here is a Pot Pipe made out of a Gallon Orange Juice Container and a Standard Tobacco Pipe... Fill the Chamber with Smoke, wait for it to Cool and Take a Nose Hit...
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I DID Eat Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms and Survive... Some People Don't. It all depends on the Dosage... I Ate about a quarter of a gram... and then waited... and ate another Quarter of a Gram... and Did That for Hours... and YES... They Are Psychedelic Mushrooms BUT... Psilocybin is Better... and Safer... people That Die from these Mushrooms Generally Eat MANY ENTIRE MUSHROOMS... I Found them Growing Wild on a Golf Course in Columbia, Maryland... and My Curiosity was Satisfied...
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I'm really impressed with the Philip K Dick Technique of Throwing the I Ching in order to Determine to direction of the Plot in his book. In the Story, a Character Throws the I Ching to Determine his actions... and Dick did the Same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
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I wonder what the Legal Consequences are of Revealing US Military Secrets 32 years later. The NSA Has Declassified Project TEMPEST but I still feel creepy about publishing my own experiences working for Pulse Engineering of College Park, Maryland. Where can I get some legal advice about writing a "Kiss and Tell" NSA book? A LOT has already been written. I remember when we were not even supposed to say the NAME of the place [we] worked... No Such Agency... Never Say Anything... I was always a civilian and worked for defense contractors and the Customers were the NSA and the USAF. My First Ex-Wife worked for "the Agency." We went to many parties at the homes of other employees. Whenever they wanted to talk about secret subjects they would just start talking in Russian... The Women from the CIA Threw the Best Parties. Many CIA Employees were Women Doing Office Work. At Her Parties They had a keg of Beer and Volleyball court in the backyard of the house. They invited a whole bunch of boys... One weekend they invited Deadheads, Pizza Drivers and Drug Dealers. The next weekend they invited the Engineering Department of Westinghouse Defense Systems... By Co-incidence, I fit into both groups.
https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/tempest.pdf
http://www.wired.com/2008/04/nsa-releases-se/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
http://www.wired.com/2008/04/nsa-releases-se/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
"No Such Agency - Project TEMPEST" - Absurdist Fiction by Gregory Vanderlaan
Chapter Zero:
In Fact, It is possible to use a Specially Designed Radio to Read the Words on Other People's Computers. Eavesdropping. Spying. The US Military and I Spent a Lot of time and effort keeping our communications secure. The NSA has Recently Declassified Project TEMPEST and it is NO LONGER a Felony for Me to tell my Tale.
Looking back at those years when Ronald Reagan was President It seems to me that we really didn't need to fight the Russians and the "Cold War" was just a Marketing Tool of the Military Industrial Complex. However, I was glad to take the money being handed out by the Pentagon. And as my Dad Said, While you are Busy Questioning Authority, be sure to Take the Money... What IF you are wrong and you missed out on all that dough?
But Then... I started hanging Out in Lafayette Park across from the White House and talked to all those NO NUKES! & Anti-War Demonstrators and... My Attitude changed... The next time I got laid off from a defense job I started working in the engineering department of the US Postal Service... It was a much better feeling to work all day DOING GOOD instead of DOING EVIL... We designed machines that Sold Postage Stamps and Sorted Mail... That's Morally OK...
Did you ever stop to realize that real eyes see real lies?
Keywords: EMI, RFI, Echelon, Mugwump, Sigint, EIEIO, MIL-TFD-41, LBJ, IRT, 4th Street, USA, The Youth of America, LSD, Hair, Musical, USAF, OZ, Wizard, KARMA, DOGMA and DARPA
But Then... I started hanging Out in Lafayette Park across from the White House and talked to all those NO NUKES! & Anti-War Demonstrators and... My Attitude changed... The next time I got laid off from a defense job I started working in the engineering department of the US Postal Service... It was a much better feeling to work all day DOING GOOD instead of DOING EVIL... We designed machines that Sold Postage Stamps and Sorted Mail... That's Morally OK...
Did you ever stop to realize that real eyes see real lies?
Keywords: EMI, RFI, Echelon, Mugwump, Sigint, EIEIO, MIL-TFD-41, LBJ, IRT, 4th Street, USA, The Youth of America, LSD, Hair, Musical, USAF, OZ, Wizard, KARMA, DOGMA and DARPA
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Remember the Math Wizard from The Preface? He DID Attend Sales Conventions... He Sold Stuff and That's What Justified His Paycheck... and Since We Were Selling Data Encryption Equipment, He Was the one who Came up with the Idea of Using Limericks as Plain Text Data to demonstrate how Scrambled the Messages Were When Encrypted... You Know...
"There Once Was A Lady From Niger...
Who Smiled as She Rode on a Tiger...
She Returned from The Ride...
The Lady Inside...
and the Smile on the Face of the Tiger..."
and When Encrypted... It's all Random Numbers and Letters... No Pattern That a Human Can See... Nor Could a Russian Computer...
He also Used Filthy Limericks to Amuse Customers at Sales Conventions... LIKE:
"There Once was a Man From Nantucket..."
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I quit after 50 Years of Roll Your Own Bugler and Unfiltered Camel Cigarettes... I used Fear of Death as a Motivator... Raw Fear... My Brother Got Lung Cancer and I Knew that Cancer Runs in Families... so... I Just Started Eating Cigarettes... Really... Just take a Pinch of tobacco and chew it and swallow... Crazy but it worked... That was so disgusting that I Just Quit it all... and Suffered withdrawal symptoms for a month... NOW... I Have not Smoked for 4 Years and Refuse to Start Again because I Never want to Suffer that Month of withdrawal again... My Brother Survived... after a massive journey to the Hospital... and maybe a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Doctor Bills... I Don't Know and I'm Not Going to Ask... He Had Health insurance from Work and Medicare so... We never discussed money... He Had a Bone Marrow Collection of DNA and They Grew Medicine Based on his own DNA... and then 3 Months of Isolation because of a Reduced Immune System... BUT HE SURVIVED... I'M GLAD I QUIT SMOKING... It's Such a Hassle. I've walked in the Snow to the Corner Store during times when the roads were undriveable... I've collected Unsmoked Cigarettes from Ashtrays outside of Stores when I Had no Money... Remember: Don't Start and if You Have Started Quit. My Cousin did a weeklong Backpack trip with Much Drumming and Chanting... Hypnosis... He was Taught a VISUAL MANTRA... Whenever he wanted a smoke, just remember this image...
BAH Replied: Congratulations on kicking it. You have to be strong because it’s really tough to quit.
I had help... My Care Giver said... "Residents are forbidden from having Cigarette Lighters in their room." - Fire Hazard... Dementia... SO Whenever I Wanted a Smoke I Had to ask her for my lighter... and she always gave me a dirty look... so I simply asked fewer and fewer times... and then one day I Stood Up after Finishing a Smoke, Got Dizzy and Fell Down... boinking my head... and Never Smoked again!
I Just Introduced My Nurse to "The Grateful Dead" - When I Said those Words She Said WHO? She's from The Philippine Islands and The Name Was Unknown to Her BUT... She Typed It Into Her Phone and "Touch of Grey" Came Up. She Had Just finished my Laundry and Wondered If That Black T-Shirt with a Pocket was Mine... Could have been the other guys... and I Showed Her the Skeleton Wearing a Black Shirt...
The Song Ball of Rain... Was Inspired by Photo of The Whole Earth from Space... a BALL of Clouds and Water... Misunderstood Lyric... Changed to "Box of Rain" on the Record." - Bob Weir Interview on Ari Melber MSNBC TV Show... That Makes Sense to Me... I Always imagined a Wooden Box at the Bottom of a Downspout from a Roof... as a Way to Store Drinking Water in a Remote Cabin... but... THE ENTIRE EARTH as a Ball Of Rain is Much More Like Robert Hunter... He was a BIG PICTURE Guy! IMHO... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r8aycpHmY0
Yep, I'm Obsessive... I Always Keep my Wallet and Car Keys in my Front Right Pocket. My Cigarette Lighter and Any Coins in My Front Left Pocket. My Camel Non-Filter Cigarettes in the T-Shirt Pocket and some Twenty Dollar Bills in my shoe... That way I Can Check to See If I've LOST Anything... When High on LSD in a Strange City Far Away from Home, It's Essential That I Retain Possession of My Car Keys and Wallet... Sometimes I Get Worried about That and so I Dance With my Hand in My Pocket... When Smuggling a Half Pint of Whiskey, a bag of Weed or Mushrooms Into a Rock Concert, I Put Them in my Underwear Between my Legs. Never in My Life has a Security Guard Grabbed Me There... One time I Was Concerned About The Security Guard Finding My Mushrooms so... I Just Ate them All... NO WAY Would they Find them in my Stomach... OOPS... Way Too Much! Scary Trip... But In General... This is My Plan and it works. I'm very sure to NOT Bring Too Many Things to Keep Track Of... Like, I Never Bring a Pipe because I can Just say to the Person Next to me... "I Got Some Weed, You Gotta Pipe? Problem Solved.
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I've always wondered About the Validity of Hanging Onto Every Word of a Dead Guy... What Does Jesus or Baháʼu'lláh Think About Atomic Power Plants... or Facebook Privacy... or the Rise of Corporations to become more Powerful Than Nations? Do they Like Dropping LSD and Dancing at Grateful Dead Concerts? The ONE Dead Guy I Like Reading is Plato. His Allegory "The Cave" is So Meaningful to Me... Hey, I DID THAT! He's Describing MY LIFE!
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I'm a Hands off Investor... My Guy Knows What He's Doing and I Give Him No Advice... I Have a History of Guessing Wrong... BUT... I Believe Companies that Make AIR CONDITIONERS will sell a lot. Especially in France. Almost No One Owns an Air Conditioner in France... and It's Starting to Get so Hot that it's Fatal. I Invested in General Electric... and then Their Nuclear Power Plant Blew up in FUKUSHIMA and the Stock Went Way Down... I Also Invested in Pacific Ethanol... They found out it cost more to make a Gallon of ethanol than they could sell it for... "Lose a Little on Every Sale but Make Up For It in Volume."
My One Great Stock Pick was Varian... I Read a newspaper Article Stating that they were doing research into making a Migraine headache drug using ERGOT. That is Exactly what Dr Albert Hofmann Was Doing when he invented LSD. It seemed to me that they might hit pay dirt again! Anyway... I Told my dad and He Did Some Research, Bought some stock and made money... because, in fact, they DID come up with something of Value...
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Great Book: The Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/extraordinary-popular-delusions-and-the-madness-of-crowds/91102/
I'm enjoying this book... will read more... I think the United Nations is a Valid Idea... I Wonder What Baháʼu'lláh Has to Say About Multi National Corporations Like Google, Amazon and WikiLeaks... They Seem to be as Powerful as Nations... Maybe MORE Powerful... I Guess His Wisdom only Really Applies to Questions That were Asked a Hundred Years ago... any Baháʼu'lláh Opinions on Nuclear Energy or Weapons?
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and Then A Grateful Dead Fan, Jeffrey Hellman, Told the Story of Tape Recording Concerts... From my taper’s section post...Once upon a time, in 1979, my friend Jimmy Hirshberg had a great idea. Let’s rent one of the Harbour Cruise ships and throw a party. We’ll set up a PA on all decks and play live recordings of Grateful Dead concerts. The first one sold out and was a smashing success. We donated a portion of the proceeds to a charity, I forget which one, Jimmy would remember and invested the rest in audio gear upgrades. One of my favorite parts, was to splice together jams from different shows as seamlessly as possible onto a 10 inch reel. There was a problem, though. At this time it was very difficult to get early generation recordings, something that was key for replaying over a good PA, unless you had something to trade. So, I bought a portable recorder and set out to m make my own recordings. The first one was unusable due to crowd noise. My microphones were just above the heads of the audience. So, I thought the problem through and put together two boom arms which would effectively get the mics up to 6 feet over head. On May 11th 1979 I managed to get the recording gear into the arena. It was a general admission show and there were several spots I could choose to set up. By now, I knew two things; there was tacit unspoken approval for recording and you don’t set up between the stage and sound board. The deal, if you can get it in and stay out of the way, you’re cool.To the best of my knowledge, no one had ever tried throwing mics up so high it was obvious what you were doing. My thinking was, I would set up to the left of the soundboard. If they didn’t want me to record this way, I’d take it down. One thing in my favor was there were not many people behind the board area so I wasn’t interfering with anyone.First set, no one shut me down. During set break, someone comes over, looks at my recorder, looks at me and looks the mic stand up and down and I’m sure I’m about to be shut down. But no, he walks away and I’m feeling like I made some good decisions. Just before 2nd set starts, Robbie Taylor comes up to me, hands me a business card and tells me to send him copies of my recordings. Freddy Feir(sp?) was a ticket guru in Boston. He had the best tickets and library of recordings from all of the area music venues. He heard about our cruise and contacted us. I did some recording work for him In exchange for some recordings of Dead concerts, the best of which was 5-8-77. When I told him about Robbie Taylor wanting copies of my recording he told me to make copies, go to the next shows in NYC and show his card at the backstage entrance and send a message to Robbie that I had his tapes.Robbie came up the ramp, took the tapes and handed me a backstage pass. I wasn’t sure of what to expect, I didn’t expect a pass. I didn’t record those shows, I just danced my heart out. It is only recently that it occurred to me that my setup at Billerica may have played a small part in the creation of a taper’s section. Whether it did or not, I thought the story was worthy of sharing to this group.
I Replied... Thanks, Interesting Story. I Liked Dancing Right Behind the Sound Board Because... The Sound was The Very Best and... The Crowd was Thinner - You Couldn't See The Band... But... I Had Already SEEN The Band and They Were Not Very Interesting Visually... and There was Less Boinking From Random Elbows... ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~I think we are heading in the right direction. Trump's Loss is Proof of Awakening... And we do have the opportunity to explain things to the people in charge. I Email President Biden, My Senators and My Congressman Frequently. It's Especially FUN to Email Biden at the White House because I Start Every Email just Like a Formal Letter... "Dear President Biden: Congratulations! and then I Say what I Have to Say... " and I Know That Trump's Staff Read My Message... for another 56 days... https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ I do believe Birth Control and Abortion Should Be Legal and FREE Worldwide... Remember: Osama bin Laden had 41 Brothers and Sisters... His Father owned a construction Company that Built Roads, Airports and THE MOSQUE at MECCA... With That Wealth he Bought Himself a Harem and kept Them Pregnant Constantly... That's Not a Great Plan...
and then Cheryl Ford Painter Posted on Facebook: I would say that I am a very driven person. I am an academic, as well as being a very spiritual as opposed to a religious person; hence, a life long learner in a wide array of scientific, spiritual, human rights, and cultural issues. This is my perceptual reality.One's perceptual reality or point of view is how one chooses to think and act based on the truths he or she clings to, life experiences, upbringing, religion, spirituality, and ethical propensities. One’s perceptions create his or her unique reality and influence his or her attitudes and actions. Thus, the way one experiences and views the world is based on his or her personal filters, expectations, and interpretations. Perceptual reality is often viewed as one’s imagination. This imagination can be based on truth, logic and reason or can be based on ideas, perceptions, and views of the world that are not true or real. A perceptual reality that is not not based on truth, logic or reason often leads a person or people to be influenced by a phenomenon known as groupthink or herd mentality. I believe Trumpsters perceptual reality falls in the latter category. They are in a groupthink mentality, According to Griffin (1997), Janis originally defined groupthink as “a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.” According to his definition, groupthink occurs only when cohesiveness is high. When colleagues operate in a groupthink mode, they automatically apply the “preserve group harmony” test to every decision they face. Groupthink and distorted perceptual reality has divided our country. Our Nation needs to heal. We need to Live, Laugh, Love, and Respect each other. We need to have Faith, Hope, and Love for each other. We need to strive to restore kindness and honesty. We need to be courageous and forgive. We need these moral virtues to Restore the Soul of our Nation."Virtues are the essence of our character and when we keep the practice of virtues at the heart of everyday life, we live with purpose. Virtue, by definition, is the moral excellence of a person. ... They are honest, respectful, courageous, forgiving, and kind, for example" (Homiack, 2019).Intellectual virtues are also important in restoring the Soul of our Nation. Intellectual virtues involve understanding the world in terms of empirical or scientific knowledge as well as comprehending the social, cultural, and civic considerations in achieving the goal of restoring the Soul of our Nation.Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are a necessity for an individual to yield power. - Aristotle paraphrasedBiden and Harris posses both moral and intellectual virtues. This gives me hope. I hold an ethical predisposition of utilitarianism. Utilitarian theories conclude an action’s morality determines whether that action will benefit the most people affected by that action. I am very passionate about certain issues. Issues that involve fairness and equality for all are very important to me. I strive to find the serenity that forgiveness provides. However, until very recently, that serenity has eluded me because I had not truly forgiven those that have hurt me in the past. I had not yet forgiven myself. By replacing love and kindness for un-forgiveness offers freedom from fear and all that fear brings with it such as anger and resentment. Forgiveness and kindness are the true soul cleansers!!! I believe in giving people a second chance, but not at the expense of my own happiness. Thus, the need for boundaries. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I have learned that Karma truly exists. But, I have also learned that how someone treats you is his/her Karma - how you REACT to how someone treats you is your Karma. Thus - the vital importance of forgiveness via love for one's brother, sister, and oneself.
an d then Michelle Ceo replied: This was very good. I enjoy your writing. Blob got to his flock because he speaks for them. I moved from the city to country 15 years ago. Got to really know folk. They do not speak with big words. They listen to friends at church. When I worked the polls I met more Republicans. All folk want is to live in peace, raise the kids, die. Nothin complicated. Poverty is our enemy.
and then Sandy Erickson Said: People constantly complain about the health orders, but in many cases, those health orders are the only reason people are doing the right thing. I've heard many, many people say that they only wear a mask when they're required to wear one, like when they go into a store. If they weren't required to wear one, they never would. If stores weren't required to put those social distancing markings on the floor, people would line up inches away from each other, and most would be maskless. You may think it's irritating that these rules exist, but people can't be trusted to follow the guidelines unless they're mandated to do so. It's a shame that people don't care enough about slowing the spread of a deadly virus that they will do the right thing without having to be told.
and then JJ Johnson Posted on Facebook:Who died before they collected Social Security?KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTILEVERYONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT.THIS IS SURE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THEGOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL SECURITY IS THEY FORGOTTO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security but your employer did too.It totaled 15% of your income before taxes.If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.Read that again.Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny?We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a government bank to insure you and I, that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government.Now they are calling the money we put in an entitlement when we reach the age to take it back.If you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what the Government pays on the money that it borrows).After 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTONHAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEMETHAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.Entitlement my foot; I paid cash for my social security insurance!Just because they borrowed the money for other government spending, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!Remember Congressional benefits?--- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days.Now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money.Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?It was supposed to be in a locked box, not part of the general fund.Sad isn't it?99% of people won't have the guts to SHARE this.I'm in the 1%I JUST DID!
and I Replied: I started Collecting Social Security at 62. Because A Guy at work Died at 59. He and I were almost exactly the same. Office workers, White, Overweight, Smoker... I quit work as soon as My Father Died. I did the Math. With my Retirement check from my Government Job, social security and my inheritance. NO WAY WAS I GOING TO WORK MYSELF TO DEATH LIKE BOB DID.
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I Did Not Like Richard Warren Field's Book, "The Sultan and the Khan"... EXCEPT FOR THE FACTUAL PREFACE AND AFTERWORD. Those were worthy. World History about a Grandson of Genghis Khan Overtaking Baghdad, Iraq and murdering all Islamic People but Sparing all Christians... in 1258 AD - I knew nothing about that. ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~
a Quote from the Bahai Teachings... Leaders of religion, in every age, have hindered their people from attaining the shores of eternal salvation, inasmuch as they held the reins of authority in their mighty grasp. Some for the lust of leadership, others through want of knowledge and understanding, have been the cause of the deprivation of the people. By their sanction and authority, every Prophet of God hath drunk from the chalice of sacrifice, and winged His flight unto the heights of glory. What unspeakable cruelties they that have occupied the seats of authority and learning have inflicted upon the true Monarchs of the world, those Gems of divine virtue! Content with a transitory dominion, they have deprived themselves of an everlasting sovereignty. Thus, their eyes beheld not the light of the countenance of the Well-Beloved, nor did their ears hearken unto the sweet melodies of the Bird of Desire. For this reason, in all sacred books mention hath been made of the divines of every age. Thus He saith: “O people of the Book! Why disbelieve the signs of God to which ye yourselves have been witnesses?” And also He saith: “O people of the Book! Why clothe ye the truth with falsehood? Why wittingly hide the truth?” Again, He saith: “Say, O people of the Book! Why repel believers from the way of God?” It is evident that by the “people of the Book,” who have repelled their fellowmen from the straight path of God, is meant none other than the divines of that age, whose names and character have been revealed in the sacred books, and alluded to in the verses and traditions recorded therein, were you to observe with the eye of God.~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~Renee Fry Said: Time to repost this : tRUMP will be known as the Worst President Ever, in the History of Presidents of the United States. His followers will be remembered as CULT members, his enablers will be remembered as Leaders with no Spines.Really look at what Trump hasn’t done for America. He took over America after Obama lifting us out of the worst recession in 100 years! It’s common knowledge financially and economically that Trump hasn’t improved anything as far as the economy. His unemployment was at an all time low 6 months before the virus began! He will be the only President in the history of the United States to leave office with the unemployment rate higher than it was when he came in! What tax breaks has he given the middle class? Answer - none! If you make less than 400k a year , you haven’t benefited at all from his tax cuts. I could go on and on, but again for me, I need a president that I can be morally proud of, and Trump is not it. He is a rapist, a habitual liar, a con,his stupidity is staggering, his incompetence is devastating, his lying is insidious, his cruelty is barbaric!Plus, he separated children (some of them babies) from their parents and put them in cages (some of them have died, btw), he cut funding to the CDC, fired the Pandemic Response Team, downplayed a virus calling it a "Democrat hoax" and told people not to wear masks even though he damn well knew that the virus was real and deadly, played golf while thousands of Americans died from the virus, knew about the Russian bounties and did nothing, to this day he hasn’t said anything about those Bounties, nor has he implemented any sanctions against Putin, has incited acts of violence against innocent people (some of them got killed), he abandoned innocent Kurdish people (US allies) who got killed after he abandoned them, attacked gold star families and POWs, and called veterans who died in war, "losers and suckers", was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell his introduction to Malania, was through them, becoming the "president" of the USA, praised dictators, got chummy with Putin who's the president of a country who's USA's number one foreign enemy (and blatantly and brazenly even asked help from Russia to win the election), stole money from children's cancer charities, cut taxes to the rich, thinks that tax payers money is his personal bank account, denied climate change ($$$), attacked a 16 year old autistic climate activist girl, refuses to show his tax returns, blocked people from testifying against him, mocked a disabled reporter, the misogyny, the constant bullying, the many rape accusations (including the rape of a 13 year old girl), the bragging of sexual assault, the blatant racism and how he always sides with white supremacists, etc., etc., Trump and his list of negatives so long:𝐇𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐢𝐱𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐖 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭.𝐈𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐢𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬 – 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩.Trump snuffed out my confidence, flickering but real, that we could go only so low and forgive only so much. With him we went lower — or at least a damningly large percentage of us did. In him we forgave florid cruelty, overt racism, rampant corruption, exultant indecency, the coddling of murderous despots, the alienation of true friends, the alienation of truth itself, the disparagement of invaluable institutions, the degradation of essential democratic traditions.
MAZ Replied: Not only did he separate children from their parents at the border and over 600 still have not been reunited, BUT the trump administration had the phone numbers of these parents all along, but did not give that information to the courts even though they were ordered to years ago. What kind of cruelty is this. And what furthermore upsets me is why is not the MSM all over this.
I Replied: FACT CHECK: Pfizer Took NO MONEY From Operation Warp Speed to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine. tRUMP CAUGHT LYING AGAIN. Pfizer Vaccine’s Funding Came From Berlin, Not Washington. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/12/fact-check-pfizer-took-no-money-from.html
MD Replied: Gregory Laan Yes! It is important for people to know EVERYTHING that Trump has lied about and continues to lie about!! SO disgusting to see him trying to take credit for all the vaccine work after ALL of his science-denying and incompetence through this entire pandemic period!! 😡🤮~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~Shawn Skylark Posted on Facebook:It might be time to begin the conversation about secession. Even a cursory study of our nation's history reveals this undeniable fact: Issues which divided us during our EARLIEST stages continue to do so, to the detriment of us all.We are continually wringing our hands over the fact that we are such a divided nation. The resulting political gridlock and power struggles have steadilly and increasingly undermined our ability to effectively govern ourselves.Let the Red States and Blue States meet, and choose their name. They can form committees to amend or rewrite the Constitution to suit their new nation. Then we begin negotiating the terms of the divorce. It will be complex, difficult and slow, but doable.Once the process is complete we can draft legislation allowing the country to be divided into two countries. It will require a constitutional amendment, which means a significant majority of our nation must approve the plan before it can be implemented.States can hold elections to determine which nation they choose to join. The fact that this may result in a lack of contiguous borders is not likely to be a problem. Alaska and Hawaii are doing fine..There will have to be a long transition, as we divide the assets. What to do about the military will of course be a difficult issue, but not unsolvable. I suggest we begin by calculating the average percentage of federal tax revenue received from each state, and they would be entitled to that percentage of national assets. All the states comprising the newly-formed unions can pool and assign their assets as they see fit.Provisions would have to be made to financially assist citizens who prefer to relocate.But I have been thinking about this quite a bit, and since I believe the end result would be in the best interest of both parties, negotiations made in good faith should begin, and one by one the relevant issues should be considered.JMK asked: So Leftists in Red States, like Me, are SOL?Shawn Replied: well my friend, this will not be easy. And as I tried to express I have of course not completely thought this through, I'm just suggesting it's worth considering. If it were up to me once the new nations are formed there would be funds allocated to assist leftist like you to move. Ultimately you will likely be better off. Seems like you are already SOL..??DS Replied: Yep and the red states would live in poverty and the blue in wealth. But heh, I’m OK with that. The red states have been feeding off of the blue states for decades.I said: It would be Wonderful if Trump States Became another Country. Then They Would Stop Trying to Break the USA
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I'm wondering if there's a generational difference in the way people are reacting to the COVID restrictions - meaning, the generation of your parents. I feel like people who were raised by baby boomers or Gen X (which is my generation) are the ones who are most likely to be angry about the health orders and view it as an infringement on their rights. I wonder if the reason I don't feel that way is because my parents are from the Silent Generation. They were born during the Depression, and they have clear memories of what the world was like during World War II. All my life, I've heard stories about the hardships people went through back in those days, how they had to go without so much during the Depression, and then they willingly made sacrifices during the war. I was always taught to be grateful for the things I have, and to never expect to be given anything. If there was something I wanted, I would ask for it for Christmas and then patiently wait to see if I would get it. If I did get it, I was always grateful because I never felt that anyone else was under any obligation to just give me everything I wanted. If I truly wanted something, I could save up my money and buy it for myself...but if someone was going to give me something, that was something special and not to be taken for granted. And I always took excellent care of my stuff because if someone gave me something once, I would never dream of expecting them to replace it if I somehow broke it, so I made sure I never broke it. I view these health orders as a sacrifice that I'm willing to make for the greater good, not as some kind of assault on my personal freedom - and maybe that's because I'm aware of the sacrifices people made in previous generations, and I've always felt lucky that I was born in a time when I didn't need to make the same sacrifices that my parents had to make...but now the time has come when I need to make some sacrifices, and I don't mind doing so. I wonder if some of the later generations like the boomers and Gen X didn't teach their kids about sacrifice or being grateful for the things they have, and maybe that's why some people truly feel like this is an assault on their personal freedom instead of just a normal part of life. I don't have kids, but I've often looked around at the way my generation raises their kids to be super entitled and to expect to have everything handed to them, and I don't understand it and I don't think it's right. If people were taught to be grateful and to maybe have to occasionally go without everything they wanted when they were kids, I think they'd grow up to be more caring and empathetic adults.
I Replied: I Personally Have Not Been Inconvenienced Much. I'm 66 Years Old. Live in an assisted Living Facility for the Elderly. I have not Gone anywhere nor had to wear a Mask in about a Year. The Care Givers do the Shopping and Cooking. Actually, I Find it's BETTER to do My Yearly Doctor Visit on ZOOM instead of Actually going to the Doctor's Office. I Have also Declined to take any Blood Tests. We Agreed that blood tests could wait a Year... Of Course, I'm Retired. If I Had to Work this would be a MAJOR TROUBLE... Especially If I Got Laid off and Had to survive on Unemployment Checks... I do miss going to the Folsom Senior Center for Parties and The Weekly Group Sing Along Chorus I'm a Part of. We Sing Old Time Songs [Yankee Doodle Dandy - Daisy] and Christmas Carols. And Every Year we go on tour of Retirement Homes in the Area... That's really fun but all of that was Cancelled. VM Replied: My husband and I are pretty depressed here. We temporarily moved to New York City to be closer to my family and to experience all the city has to offer in July of 2019. We were also looking forward to being way closer to Europe and the Caribbean for occasional trips. Our original plan was to be here 1-2 years. We got a good taste of things and were having the time of our lives when Covid hit. Of course we have been following the rules but the sad part for us is that this is a temporary situation and we will most likely leave here without doing most of the things we wanted to do. We do not feel entitled at all and I am a total rule follower. It just makes me sad that we could be in such a better situation if things were handled way differently in the beginning. I am super jealous of New Zealand. They did everything right, all people listened and they are returning to a new normal whereas we have a long way to go.Sandy Replied: I agree, it really does suck for so many people. I also feel jealous of New Zealand, and it makes me so angry because that could have been us if people hadn't been such assholes about it from the very beginning. If people had been willing to lock down and make a temporary sacrifice for a little bit longer back in the spring, we could be where New Zealand is now. But so many Americans are so entitled and impatient, and now the pandemic is just going on and on and on because so many people STILL won't follow the guidelines...and now hospitals are filling up, and yet people don't care, they just resist every attempt to try to get this thing under control. So we just have to live with this, month after month after month instead of getting it under control. It's such a sad situation.
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An easy way to "GAME" The Facebook AI Machine is to Intentionally "LIKE" Posts You DON'T ACTUALLY LIKE... and... Join Groups of People That Hold Views OPPOSITE of What You Believe... I Joined a Buncha Brainwashed TrumpNik Groups so I Could Post FACTS... and They HATE FACTS AND TRUTH... REALITY Really Angers Them and I Find That It's FUN to Post that The Emperor HAS NO CLOTHES! It's Really Pointless to Post Messages to People that ALREADY THINK LIKE YOU... The Way to become a True Internet Influencer is to Have Your Words of Wisdom Read by People that DO OT ALREADY KNOW THE TRUTH... Remember ---> Every time you click a reaction button on Facebook, an algorithm records it, and sharpens its portrait of who you are. The hyper-targeting of users, made possible by reams of their personal data, creates the perfect environment for manipulation—by advertisers, by political campaigns, by emissaries of disinformation, and of course by Facebook itself, which ultimately controls what you see and what you don’t see on the site...
~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~Nuclear Waste Disposal Solutions: Just shoot it into the Sun... Expensive but That would actually work... Rocket Ships filled with Atomic Waste flying OFF the Earth... Another Successful Atomic Waste Disposal Plan was... Make the Depleted Uranium into BULLETS and Fire them off in a war... Uranium is very dense... It Makes a Metal piercing Round that will burn it's way right thru the wall of a Tank... We Used Nuclear Metals' Shells in the War in Iraq... and That left a Giant Quantity of Radioactive Waste in IRAQ... Causing Miscarriages forever... All Part of the Genocide... Prevent Those People Over there from Having Children... https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm I Certainly Agree with Dr. Koman that Not One More Penny Should Be Spent on the Current State of the Art Nuclear Power Plants... All funding should be Spent on Nuclear 2.0 - Places Like Vogtle are an Insane waste of Money. Bribery, Corruption... Georgia Has a LOT of That! Here is the POWER SONG from NO NUKES! Concert: https://youtu.be/xKJ_73_8kzo Remember: Avoid Malibu... It's Downwind from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and the Woodley Fire... VK said: Very interesting. It would be the first time something traditionally associated with the "right-wing, pro-business, pro-energy" segment of the economy was supported by Facebook's censor. For me, the best way to get rid of nuclear waste is to find ways to extract latent energy from it (there's a reason it's called "hot") until it transmutes all the way down to lead. That would require freedom to innovate, something forbidden by the NRC. It's only downwind when the Santa Ana winds are blowing. Sea breeze regularly blows fresh ocean air across Barbra Streisand's manse. If Malibu really IS a toxic deathtrap, please don't tell all the rich liberals who live there. 😄 and I replied: The Santa Anna Winds were Blowing during the Woodley Fire... AMAZING LUCK... Because Santa Susana Field Lab Not Only Had an Atomic Power Plant Meltdown... but Rocketdyne spilled a lot of Jet Airplane Fuel on the Ground... AVOID THAT AREA... all that toxic waste burned... and floated out to sea...
Google Says: "Our large-scale procurement of wind and solar power is a cornerstone of our sustainability efforts, and has made Google the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy. To date, we’ve signed more than 50 long-term contract commitments to buy energy from wind and solar farms around the world, totaling more than 5 GW of new generation capacity since 2010." NO NUKES FOR GOOGLE... THAT WOULD BE CRAZY... REMEMBER: DO NO EVIL... https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/renewable/Remember that Google Put a Server Farm Right Next To the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River... Because they Wanted Cheap Reliable Electricity to Power All Those Computers. and all the GIANT FANS to Keep 'em Cool.
Candlestick Park... It's Windy Because of all those Giant Fans... ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~On 12/21/2020 - We Are Halfway thru the Winter and Halfway thru the Pandemic. We Have HOPE that We will survive the Winter Because The Days are Getting Longer... and We will Survive Coronavirus because Pfizer and Moderna are Shipping Vaccines! JGC REPLIED: Receiving Vaccines will be a huge relief that will certainly help us to overcome this pandemic! We may be in a huge spike in numbers, but there is hope on the horizon. 🌟AND I SAID: Just Like the Coldest Part of Winter is Late January and Early February... Because the Actual Weather Lags Behind the Winter Solstice... The Coronavirus Deaths Will be Highest in the Next Month or Two Because the Vaccine will not be preventing as many Infections as the CHRISTMAS PARTIES will be Spreading the Disease.
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and then on Facebook Jeff Whitehall Said: This is a VERY long read, but I agree that nobody and nothing in our nations history comes remotely close to what Trump and the GOP have done. The idea/theory that to allow it with little or no repercussion/accountability in the name of healing and bringing sides together has another side of the coin. To allow this without accountability sets a very bad precedent, , , not for one side but for all sides, , , for whoever holds the office, the position of power of the Presidency in the future. I'm not talking conservative verses liberal or democrat verses republican. I'm talking right verses wrong, , , and I'm not talking retribution, but justice. These acts would be horribly wrong no matter which side or sides made them. The rule of law must be imposed, , , now and later. To fail to do so is to demonstrate that there will never be accountability for any who follow, no matter how corrupt of self-serving. We owe it to Americans of today and to all the generations who follow.and Then A Grateful Dead Fan, Jeffrey Hellman, Told the Story of Tape Recording Concerts... From my taper’s section post...Once upon a time, in 1979, my friend Jimmy Hirshberg had a great idea. Let’s rent one of the Harbour Cruise ships and throw a party. We’ll set up a PA on all decks and play live recordings of Grateful Dead concerts. The first one sold out and was a smashing success. We donated a portion of the proceeds to a charity, I forget which one, Jimmy would remember and invested the rest in audio gear upgrades. One of my favorite parts, was to splice together jams from different shows as seamlessly as possible onto a 10 inch reel. There was a problem, though. At this time it was very difficult to get early generation recordings, something that was key for replaying over a good PA, unless you had something to trade. So, I bought a portable recorder and set out to m make my own recordings. The first one was unusable due to crowd noise. My microphones were just above the heads of the audience. So, I thought the problem through and put together two boom arms which would effectively get the mics up to 6 feet over head. On May 11th 1979 I managed to get the recording gear into the arena. It was a general admission show and there were several spots I could choose to set up. By now, I knew two things; there was tacit unspoken approval for recording and you don’t set up between the stage and sound board. The deal, if you can get it in and stay out of the way, you’re cool.To the best of my knowledge, no one had ever tried throwing mics up so high it was obvious what you were doing. My thinking was, I would set up to the left of the soundboard. If they didn’t want me to record this way, I’d take it down. One thing in my favor was there were not many people behind the board area so I wasn’t interfering with anyone.First set, no one shut me down. During set break, someone comes over, looks at my recorder, looks at me and looks the mic stand up and down and I’m sure I’m about to be shut down. But no, he walks away and I’m feeling like I made some good decisions. Just before 2nd set starts, Robbie Taylor comes up to me, hands me a business card and tells me to send him copies of my recordings. Freddy Feir(sp?) was a ticket guru in Boston. He had the best tickets and library of recordings from all of the area music venues. He heard about our cruise and contacted us. I did some recording work for him In exchange for some recordings of Dead concerts, the best of which was 5-8-77. When I told him about Robbie Taylor wanting copies of my recording he told me to make copies, go to the next shows in NYC and show his card at the backstage entrance and send a message to Robbie that I had his tapes.Robbie came up the ramp, took the tapes and handed me a backstage pass. I wasn’t sure of what to expect, I didn’t expect a pass. I didn’t record those shows, I just danced my heart out. It is only recently that it occurred to me that my setup at Billerica may have played a small part in the creation of a taper’s section. Whether it did or not, I thought the story was worthy of sharing to this group.
I Replied... Thanks, Interesting Story. I Liked Dancing Right Behind the Sound Board Because... The Sound was The Very Best and... The Crowd was Thinner - You Couldn't See The Band... But... I Had Already SEEN The Band and They Were Not Very Interesting Visually... and There was Less Boinking From Random Elbows... ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~I think we are heading in the right direction. Trump's Loss is Proof of Awakening... And we do have the opportunity to explain things to the people in charge. I Email President Biden, My Senators and My Congressman Frequently. It's Especially FUN to Email Biden at the White House because I Start Every Email just Like a Formal Letter... "Dear President Biden: Congratulations! and then I Say what I Have to Say... " and I Know That Trump's Staff Read My Message... for another 56 days... https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ I do believe Birth Control and Abortion Should Be Legal and FREE Worldwide... Remember: Osama bin Laden had 41 Brothers and Sisters... His Father owned a construction Company that Built Roads, Airports and THE MOSQUE at MECCA... With That Wealth he Bought Himself a Harem and kept Them Pregnant Constantly... That's Not a Great Plan...
and then Cheryl Ford Painter Posted on Facebook: I would say that I am a very driven person. I am an academic, as well as being a very spiritual as opposed to a religious person; hence, a life long learner in a wide array of scientific, spiritual, human rights, and cultural issues. This is my perceptual reality.One's perceptual reality or point of view is how one chooses to think and act based on the truths he or she clings to, life experiences, upbringing, religion, spirituality, and ethical propensities. One’s perceptions create his or her unique reality and influence his or her attitudes and actions. Thus, the way one experiences and views the world is based on his or her personal filters, expectations, and interpretations. Perceptual reality is often viewed as one’s imagination. This imagination can be based on truth, logic and reason or can be based on ideas, perceptions, and views of the world that are not true or real. A perceptual reality that is not not based on truth, logic or reason often leads a person or people to be influenced by a phenomenon known as groupthink or herd mentality. I believe Trumpsters perceptual reality falls in the latter category. They are in a groupthink mentality, According to Griffin (1997), Janis originally defined groupthink as “a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members’ strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action.” According to his definition, groupthink occurs only when cohesiveness is high. When colleagues operate in a groupthink mode, they automatically apply the “preserve group harmony” test to every decision they face. Groupthink and distorted perceptual reality has divided our country. Our Nation needs to heal. We need to Live, Laugh, Love, and Respect each other. We need to have Faith, Hope, and Love for each other. We need to strive to restore kindness and honesty. We need to be courageous and forgive. We need these moral virtues to Restore the Soul of our Nation."Virtues are the essence of our character and when we keep the practice of virtues at the heart of everyday life, we live with purpose. Virtue, by definition, is the moral excellence of a person. ... They are honest, respectful, courageous, forgiving, and kind, for example" (Homiack, 2019).Intellectual virtues are also important in restoring the Soul of our Nation. Intellectual virtues involve understanding the world in terms of empirical or scientific knowledge as well as comprehending the social, cultural, and civic considerations in achieving the goal of restoring the Soul of our Nation.Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are a necessity for an individual to yield power. - Aristotle paraphrasedBiden and Harris posses both moral and intellectual virtues. This gives me hope. I hold an ethical predisposition of utilitarianism. Utilitarian theories conclude an action’s morality determines whether that action will benefit the most people affected by that action. I am very passionate about certain issues. Issues that involve fairness and equality for all are very important to me. I strive to find the serenity that forgiveness provides. However, until very recently, that serenity has eluded me because I had not truly forgiven those that have hurt me in the past. I had not yet forgiven myself. By replacing love and kindness for un-forgiveness offers freedom from fear and all that fear brings with it such as anger and resentment. Forgiveness and kindness are the true soul cleansers!!! I believe in giving people a second chance, but not at the expense of my own happiness. Thus, the need for boundaries. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I have learned that Karma truly exists. But, I have also learned that how someone treats you is his/her Karma - how you REACT to how someone treats you is your Karma. Thus - the vital importance of forgiveness via love for one's brother, sister, and oneself.
an d then Michelle Ceo replied: This was very good. I enjoy your writing. Blob got to his flock because he speaks for them. I moved from the city to country 15 years ago. Got to really know folk. They do not speak with big words. They listen to friends at church. When I worked the polls I met more Republicans. All folk want is to live in peace, raise the kids, die. Nothin complicated. Poverty is our enemy.
and then Sandy Erickson Said: People constantly complain about the health orders, but in many cases, those health orders are the only reason people are doing the right thing. I've heard many, many people say that they only wear a mask when they're required to wear one, like when they go into a store. If they weren't required to wear one, they never would. If stores weren't required to put those social distancing markings on the floor, people would line up inches away from each other, and most would be maskless. You may think it's irritating that these rules exist, but people can't be trusted to follow the guidelines unless they're mandated to do so. It's a shame that people don't care enough about slowing the spread of a deadly virus that they will do the right thing without having to be told.
and then JJ Johnson Posted on Facebook:Who died before they collected Social Security?KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTILEVERYONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT.THIS IS SURE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THEGOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL SECURITY IS THEY FORGOTTO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security but your employer did too.It totaled 15% of your income before taxes.If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.Read that again.Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny?We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a government bank to insure you and I, that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government.Now they are calling the money we put in an entitlement when we reach the age to take it back.If you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what the Government pays on the money that it borrows).After 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTONHAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEMETHAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.Entitlement my foot; I paid cash for my social security insurance!Just because they borrowed the money for other government spending, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!Remember Congressional benefits?--- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days.Now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money.Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?It was supposed to be in a locked box, not part of the general fund.Sad isn't it?99% of people won't have the guts to SHARE this.I'm in the 1%I JUST DID!
and I Replied: I started Collecting Social Security at 62. Because A Guy at work Died at 59. He and I were almost exactly the same. Office workers, White, Overweight, Smoker... I quit work as soon as My Father Died. I did the Math. With my Retirement check from my Government Job, social security and my inheritance. NO WAY WAS I GOING TO WORK MYSELF TO DEATH LIKE BOB DID.
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I Did Not Like Richard Warren Field's Book, "The Sultan and the Khan"... EXCEPT FOR THE FACTUAL PREFACE AND AFTERWORD. Those were worthy. World History about a Grandson of Genghis Khan Overtaking Baghdad, Iraq and murdering all Islamic People but Sparing all Christians... in 1258 AD - I knew nothing about that. ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~
a Quote from the Bahai Teachings... Leaders of religion, in every age, have hindered their people from attaining the shores of eternal salvation, inasmuch as they held the reins of authority in their mighty grasp. Some for the lust of leadership, others through want of knowledge and understanding, have been the cause of the deprivation of the people. By their sanction and authority, every Prophet of God hath drunk from the chalice of sacrifice, and winged His flight unto the heights of glory. What unspeakable cruelties they that have occupied the seats of authority and learning have inflicted upon the true Monarchs of the world, those Gems of divine virtue! Content with a transitory dominion, they have deprived themselves of an everlasting sovereignty. Thus, their eyes beheld not the light of the countenance of the Well-Beloved, nor did their ears hearken unto the sweet melodies of the Bird of Desire. For this reason, in all sacred books mention hath been made of the divines of every age. Thus He saith: “O people of the Book! Why disbelieve the signs of God to which ye yourselves have been witnesses?” And also He saith: “O people of the Book! Why clothe ye the truth with falsehood? Why wittingly hide the truth?” Again, He saith: “Say, O people of the Book! Why repel believers from the way of God?” It is evident that by the “people of the Book,” who have repelled their fellowmen from the straight path of God, is meant none other than the divines of that age, whose names and character have been revealed in the sacred books, and alluded to in the verses and traditions recorded therein, were you to observe with the eye of God.~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~Renee Fry Said: Time to repost this : tRUMP will be known as the Worst President Ever, in the History of Presidents of the United States. His followers will be remembered as CULT members, his enablers will be remembered as Leaders with no Spines.Really look at what Trump hasn’t done for America. He took over America after Obama lifting us out of the worst recession in 100 years! It’s common knowledge financially and economically that Trump hasn’t improved anything as far as the economy. His unemployment was at an all time low 6 months before the virus began! He will be the only President in the history of the United States to leave office with the unemployment rate higher than it was when he came in! What tax breaks has he given the middle class? Answer - none! If you make less than 400k a year , you haven’t benefited at all from his tax cuts. I could go on and on, but again for me, I need a president that I can be morally proud of, and Trump is not it. He is a rapist, a habitual liar, a con,his stupidity is staggering, his incompetence is devastating, his lying is insidious, his cruelty is barbaric!Plus, he separated children (some of them babies) from their parents and put them in cages (some of them have died, btw), he cut funding to the CDC, fired the Pandemic Response Team, downplayed a virus calling it a "Democrat hoax" and told people not to wear masks even though he damn well knew that the virus was real and deadly, played golf while thousands of Americans died from the virus, knew about the Russian bounties and did nothing, to this day he hasn’t said anything about those Bounties, nor has he implemented any sanctions against Putin, has incited acts of violence against innocent people (some of them got killed), he abandoned innocent Kurdish people (US allies) who got killed after he abandoned them, attacked gold star families and POWs, and called veterans who died in war, "losers and suckers", was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell his introduction to Malania, was through them, becoming the "president" of the USA, praised dictators, got chummy with Putin who's the president of a country who's USA's number one foreign enemy (and blatantly and brazenly even asked help from Russia to win the election), stole money from children's cancer charities, cut taxes to the rich, thinks that tax payers money is his personal bank account, denied climate change ($$$), attacked a 16 year old autistic climate activist girl, refuses to show his tax returns, blocked people from testifying against him, mocked a disabled reporter, the misogyny, the constant bullying, the many rape accusations (including the rape of a 13 year old girl), the bragging of sexual assault, the blatant racism and how he always sides with white supremacists, etc., etc., Trump and his list of negatives so long:𝐇𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐢𝐱𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐖 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭.𝐈𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭, 𝐢𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬 – 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩.Trump snuffed out my confidence, flickering but real, that we could go only so low and forgive only so much. With him we went lower — or at least a damningly large percentage of us did. In him we forgave florid cruelty, overt racism, rampant corruption, exultant indecency, the coddling of murderous despots, the alienation of true friends, the alienation of truth itself, the disparagement of invaluable institutions, the degradation of essential democratic traditions.
MAZ Replied: Not only did he separate children from their parents at the border and over 600 still have not been reunited, BUT the trump administration had the phone numbers of these parents all along, but did not give that information to the courts even though they were ordered to years ago. What kind of cruelty is this. And what furthermore upsets me is why is not the MSM all over this.
I Replied: FACT CHECK: Pfizer Took NO MONEY From Operation Warp Speed to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine. tRUMP CAUGHT LYING AGAIN. Pfizer Vaccine’s Funding Came From Berlin, Not Washington. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/12/fact-check-pfizer-took-no-money-from.html
MD Replied: Gregory Laan Yes! It is important for people to know EVERYTHING that Trump has lied about and continues to lie about!! SO disgusting to see him trying to take credit for all the vaccine work after ALL of his science-denying and incompetence through this entire pandemic period!! 😡🤮~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~Shawn Skylark Posted on Facebook:It might be time to begin the conversation about secession. Even a cursory study of our nation's history reveals this undeniable fact: Issues which divided us during our EARLIEST stages continue to do so, to the detriment of us all.We are continually wringing our hands over the fact that we are such a divided nation. The resulting political gridlock and power struggles have steadilly and increasingly undermined our ability to effectively govern ourselves.Let the Red States and Blue States meet, and choose their name. They can form committees to amend or rewrite the Constitution to suit their new nation. Then we begin negotiating the terms of the divorce. It will be complex, difficult and slow, but doable.Once the process is complete we can draft legislation allowing the country to be divided into two countries. It will require a constitutional amendment, which means a significant majority of our nation must approve the plan before it can be implemented.States can hold elections to determine which nation they choose to join. The fact that this may result in a lack of contiguous borders is not likely to be a problem. Alaska and Hawaii are doing fine..There will have to be a long transition, as we divide the assets. What to do about the military will of course be a difficult issue, but not unsolvable. I suggest we begin by calculating the average percentage of federal tax revenue received from each state, and they would be entitled to that percentage of national assets. All the states comprising the newly-formed unions can pool and assign their assets as they see fit.Provisions would have to be made to financially assist citizens who prefer to relocate.But I have been thinking about this quite a bit, and since I believe the end result would be in the best interest of both parties, negotiations made in good faith should begin, and one by one the relevant issues should be considered.JMK asked: So Leftists in Red States, like Me, are SOL?Shawn Replied: well my friend, this will not be easy. And as I tried to express I have of course not completely thought this through, I'm just suggesting it's worth considering. If it were up to me once the new nations are formed there would be funds allocated to assist leftist like you to move. Ultimately you will likely be better off. Seems like you are already SOL..??DS Replied: Yep and the red states would live in poverty and the blue in wealth. But heh, I’m OK with that. The red states have been feeding off of the blue states for decades.I said: It would be Wonderful if Trump States Became another Country. Then They Would Stop Trying to Break the USA
~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~Sandy Erickson Said:
I'm wondering if there's a generational difference in the way people are reacting to the COVID restrictions - meaning, the generation of your parents. I feel like people who were raised by baby boomers or Gen X (which is my generation) are the ones who are most likely to be angry about the health orders and view it as an infringement on their rights. I wonder if the reason I don't feel that way is because my parents are from the Silent Generation. They were born during the Depression, and they have clear memories of what the world was like during World War II. All my life, I've heard stories about the hardships people went through back in those days, how they had to go without so much during the Depression, and then they willingly made sacrifices during the war. I was always taught to be grateful for the things I have, and to never expect to be given anything. If there was something I wanted, I would ask for it for Christmas and then patiently wait to see if I would get it. If I did get it, I was always grateful because I never felt that anyone else was under any obligation to just give me everything I wanted. If I truly wanted something, I could save up my money and buy it for myself...but if someone was going to give me something, that was something special and not to be taken for granted. And I always took excellent care of my stuff because if someone gave me something once, I would never dream of expecting them to replace it if I somehow broke it, so I made sure I never broke it. I view these health orders as a sacrifice that I'm willing to make for the greater good, not as some kind of assault on my personal freedom - and maybe that's because I'm aware of the sacrifices people made in previous generations, and I've always felt lucky that I was born in a time when I didn't need to make the same sacrifices that my parents had to make...but now the time has come when I need to make some sacrifices, and I don't mind doing so. I wonder if some of the later generations like the boomers and Gen X didn't teach their kids about sacrifice or being grateful for the things they have, and maybe that's why some people truly feel like this is an assault on their personal freedom instead of just a normal part of life. I don't have kids, but I've often looked around at the way my generation raises their kids to be super entitled and to expect to have everything handed to them, and I don't understand it and I don't think it's right. If people were taught to be grateful and to maybe have to occasionally go without everything they wanted when they were kids, I think they'd grow up to be more caring and empathetic adults.
I Replied: I Personally Have Not Been Inconvenienced Much. I'm 66 Years Old. Live in an assisted Living Facility for the Elderly. I have not Gone anywhere nor had to wear a Mask in about a Year. The Care Givers do the Shopping and Cooking. Actually, I Find it's BETTER to do My Yearly Doctor Visit on ZOOM instead of Actually going to the Doctor's Office. I Have also Declined to take any Blood Tests. We Agreed that blood tests could wait a Year... Of Course, I'm Retired. If I Had to Work this would be a MAJOR TROUBLE... Especially If I Got Laid off and Had to survive on Unemployment Checks... I do miss going to the Folsom Senior Center for Parties and The Weekly Group Sing Along Chorus I'm a Part of. We Sing Old Time Songs [Yankee Doodle Dandy - Daisy] and Christmas Carols. And Every Year we go on tour of Retirement Homes in the Area... That's really fun but all of that was Cancelled. VM Replied: My husband and I are pretty depressed here. We temporarily moved to New York City to be closer to my family and to experience all the city has to offer in July of 2019. We were also looking forward to being way closer to Europe and the Caribbean for occasional trips. Our original plan was to be here 1-2 years. We got a good taste of things and were having the time of our lives when Covid hit. Of course we have been following the rules but the sad part for us is that this is a temporary situation and we will most likely leave here without doing most of the things we wanted to do. We do not feel entitled at all and I am a total rule follower. It just makes me sad that we could be in such a better situation if things were handled way differently in the beginning. I am super jealous of New Zealand. They did everything right, all people listened and they are returning to a new normal whereas we have a long way to go.Sandy Replied: I agree, it really does suck for so many people. I also feel jealous of New Zealand, and it makes me so angry because that could have been us if people hadn't been such assholes about it from the very beginning. If people had been willing to lock down and make a temporary sacrifice for a little bit longer back in the spring, we could be where New Zealand is now. But so many Americans are so entitled and impatient, and now the pandemic is just going on and on and on because so many people STILL won't follow the guidelines...and now hospitals are filling up, and yet people don't care, they just resist every attempt to try to get this thing under control. So we just have to live with this, month after month after month instead of getting it under control. It's such a sad situation.
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An easy way to "GAME" The Facebook AI Machine is to Intentionally "LIKE" Posts You DON'T ACTUALLY LIKE... and... Join Groups of People That Hold Views OPPOSITE of What You Believe... I Joined a Buncha Brainwashed TrumpNik Groups so I Could Post FACTS... and They HATE FACTS AND TRUTH... REALITY Really Angers Them and I Find That It's FUN to Post that The Emperor HAS NO CLOTHES! It's Really Pointless to Post Messages to People that ALREADY THINK LIKE YOU... The Way to become a True Internet Influencer is to Have Your Words of Wisdom Read by People that DO OT ALREADY KNOW THE TRUTH... Remember ---> Every time you click a reaction button on Facebook, an algorithm records it, and sharpens its portrait of who you are. The hyper-targeting of users, made possible by reams of their personal data, creates the perfect environment for manipulation—by advertisers, by political campaigns, by emissaries of disinformation, and of course by Facebook itself, which ultimately controls what you see and what you don’t see on the site...
~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~Nuclear Waste Disposal Solutions: Just shoot it into the Sun... Expensive but That would actually work... Rocket Ships filled with Atomic Waste flying OFF the Earth... Another Successful Atomic Waste Disposal Plan was... Make the Depleted Uranium into BULLETS and Fire them off in a war... Uranium is very dense... It Makes a Metal piercing Round that will burn it's way right thru the wall of a Tank... We Used Nuclear Metals' Shells in the War in Iraq... and That left a Giant Quantity of Radioactive Waste in IRAQ... Causing Miscarriages forever... All Part of the Genocide... Prevent Those People Over there from Having Children... https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm I Certainly Agree with Dr. Koman that Not One More Penny Should Be Spent on the Current State of the Art Nuclear Power Plants... All funding should be Spent on Nuclear 2.0 - Places Like Vogtle are an Insane waste of Money. Bribery, Corruption... Georgia Has a LOT of That! Here is the POWER SONG from NO NUKES! Concert: https://youtu.be/xKJ_73_8kzo Remember: Avoid Malibu... It's Downwind from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and the Woodley Fire... VK said: Very interesting. It would be the first time something traditionally associated with the "right-wing, pro-business, pro-energy" segment of the economy was supported by Facebook's censor. For me, the best way to get rid of nuclear waste is to find ways to extract latent energy from it (there's a reason it's called "hot") until it transmutes all the way down to lead. That would require freedom to innovate, something forbidden by the NRC. It's only downwind when the Santa Ana winds are blowing. Sea breeze regularly blows fresh ocean air across Barbra Streisand's manse. If Malibu really IS a toxic deathtrap, please don't tell all the rich liberals who live there. 😄 and I replied: The Santa Anna Winds were Blowing during the Woodley Fire... AMAZING LUCK... Because Santa Susana Field Lab Not Only Had an Atomic Power Plant Meltdown... but Rocketdyne spilled a lot of Jet Airplane Fuel on the Ground... AVOID THAT AREA... all that toxic waste burned... and floated out to sea...
Google Says: "Our large-scale procurement of wind and solar power is a cornerstone of our sustainability efforts, and has made Google the world’s largest corporate buyer of renewable energy. To date, we’ve signed more than 50 long-term contract commitments to buy energy from wind and solar farms around the world, totaling more than 5 GW of new generation capacity since 2010." NO NUKES FOR GOOGLE... THAT WOULD BE CRAZY... REMEMBER: DO NO EVIL... https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/renewable/Remember that Google Put a Server Farm Right Next To the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River... Because they Wanted Cheap Reliable Electricity to Power All Those Computers. and all the GIANT FANS to Keep 'em Cool.
Candlestick Park... It's Windy Because of all those Giant Fans... ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~On 12/21/2020 - We Are Halfway thru the Winter and Halfway thru the Pandemic. We Have HOPE that We will survive the Winter Because The Days are Getting Longer... and We will Survive Coronavirus because Pfizer and Moderna are Shipping Vaccines! JGC REPLIED: Receiving Vaccines will be a huge relief that will certainly help us to overcome this pandemic! We may be in a huge spike in numbers, but there is hope on the horizon. 🌟AND I SAID: Just Like the Coldest Part of Winter is Late January and Early February... Because the Actual Weather Lags Behind the Winter Solstice... The Coronavirus Deaths Will be Highest in the Next Month or Two Because the Vaccine will not be preventing as many Infections as the CHRISTMAS PARTIES will be Spreading the Disease.
Links to My Music Videos on Youtube... gregvanderlaan - singing and playing Guitar... Original Protest Songs --- Plus Four Kinetic Sculpture Race Art Bicycle Videos - Arcata, CA
Main Videos Page: Chords and Lyrics Provided so You Can Learn Them and Make a Hit Record!
https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos
Currents of the Sound: https://youtu.be/FFBQMhBJihk
Ted Cruz Abandoned Texas: https://youtu.be/RHHFnBrd2CQ
Kama La La La - La La - La La: https://youtu.be/6DAv1xTCGT4
Jingle Bells: https://youtu.be/cJQBQ4_oE1U
Rudolph The Red Knows Rain Dear: https://youtu.be/cKCNaM7zqyI
We are Coming Into Alignment: https://youtu.be/s7FQGtr-GOE
Everybody's Laughing at Trump: https://youtu.be/fz4Q3CYYHaA
Did You Ever Notice Reality? https://youtu.be/nPthFNI07Qo
The Lock Him Up And Throw Away the Key Blues: https://youtu.be/lS1v90vwlSo
Vote For Joe. He's Not Insane: https://youtu.be/qcUJm5N8Cjw
City of the Future: https://youtu.be/x8nqMq05V8U
I Like Trees, Big Old Trees: https://youtu.be/K40_CrkjLjs
I'm Feeling Optimistic: https://youtu.be/XGomyskdw0k
Trump's Giving Away Free Money: https://youtu.be/qCzDiuNQvG4
Say Their Name and they Live Forever. My Ancestors. https://youtu.be/YzbljIKw1_4
Happy Tune: No words, Just a Positive Emotion. Chords: G, D and C: https://youtu.be/tEQliEZRXKI
What is Bubble Up Economics? Speech: https://youtu.be/3kSBGRM3d2s
California Is Burning: https://youtu.be/HwRgS4i-9qg
Free All The Cannabis Prisoners: https://youtu.be/7Z7C0t31hww
Chernobyl, F*ck You! Shima and Three Mile Island: https://youtu.be/vDInJ3gdwsY
tRUMP'S A Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: https://youtu.be/GclJBZgxhhU
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home: https://youtu.be/V7_jZfFElH4
MELT the GUNS: https://youtu.be/ml5ziDRoqcc
Teenage Alien Dance Party: https://youtu.be/YaXgAAl3bAE
Television is a mirror (with a feedback loop): https://youtu.be/--HfGCqCxT8
GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE (Genre:Bubble Gum Techno-Pop): https://youtu.be/9sP7wGwfGdw
Mescalita: https://youtu.be/yxOCAbaaVmg
Wilson Bridge: https://youtu.be/cDAE0H0tGhg
Big Medicine Song: https://youtu.be/u7uD_aWmymg
eARThsong: https://youtu.be/tERVWVZUNyw
I'm a Vidiot: https://youtu.be/GY8CmLL5vwU
Simple Treasures: https://youtu.be/CLWIRyF0YnQ
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Shark:https://youtu.be/EMV6_iVsC90
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Wild West Wagon: https://youtu.be/1QWIh98dYs0
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Star Ship Enterprise: https://youtu.be/IquyAQNupWI
Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Pirate Ship: https://youtu.be/wP6pCgEw_P8
St Francis song: https://youtu.be/0FUueoT9ym8
Shasta The Cat Running: https://youtu.be/pQUHWAVDTv0
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