I went to Humboldt State University. I RECOMMEND IT To All Californians... First of all, You May take out Student Loans and Live WORK FREE for Four Years... FAFSA - The Loans paid enough to Pay rent and Tuition and Food and Gas for my little white truck... ZERO EMPLOYMENT - FREEDOM FROM WAGE SLAVERY

and Then I was Instantly Hired at a Government Job Working for the County of Humboldt.  At The Highest Rate of Pay I Ever Earned. I Put my Student Loans on Automatic Pay from my Paychecks and Was All Paid Off in Six Years... Yep... I Got a Clean Safe Job working in the Welfare Department Determining IF People Should be Paid Welfare, Food Stamps and Medical Benefits... 

Of Course, This Entire System Depends on Graduating in a Practical Major... I Studied Computer Information Systems and There is Plenty of Work for US... I Made Sure that I Didn't Smoke any Marijuana because Doing Homework and Attending Class is Impossible While Stoned. 

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I was Lucky Enough to Live in Chico, California for about Six Years... 1973-74 I went to college... and then DREAMED of Returning During the Eighties and Nineties... and then Moved Back in 1998-2001... But Then We Escaped the HEAT for Fifteen Years in Eureka and Arcata... Now THAT'S An EPIC Place to Live... After I Graduated, I Immediately Got a Job With The County of Humboldt Government. They Had a Tendency to Hire All HSU Graduates. "Hey, If You Can Put Up With The University Education System for Four Years... We Have a Place for You at Our Office!" was the Slogan. 

I took Journalism at HSU. I was a Computer Science Major and as an Elective I Worked on the Lumberjack Newspaper. I Wrote Seven Articles and Uploaded a Hundred Photographs for Everyone to Use in Their Articles. My Guidance Councilor, Dr. Harold Campbell, Recommended That I Take That Class Because They Were Creating the Very First Online Edition of the Newspaper. The Class Had 20 Journalism Majors and Five Computer Science Majors. We Were There to Help Them Accomplish Their Mission. Dr. Campbell Said That This Would be Good Work Experience to Help Non- Computer People Get Stuff Done... 

My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

My Experience With Smoking Marijuana was that I Stayed High for ONE MONTH after Smoking a Pound of Oregon Legal over an Eight month period. Then I Quit entirely because I Wanted to Go on a Driving Vacation in California and Nevada where Weed is Illegal... and I Remembered to NOT Possess Illegal Drugs in My Van While Touring... I Meet a Lot of COPS while Sleeping in the Van... and then I went to the Hospital for an Infected Blister on my Foot and they Tested My Blood for THC... and I Still Tested Positive a MONTH Later! AmaZING!

During that Month I Experienced Events That Did Not Happen... It's Called Cannabis Psychosis... and It's Interesting!

Marijuana Tourism - my trip to Washington State, The Space Needle, The Experience Music Pavilion and then Oregon. As legalization spread across the USA I wanted to experience LEGAL weed as soon as possible. When I retired from work I did a lot of driving around sleeping in the back of my VAN... I was like a turtle with my home on my back. First I drove to Utah with my friend Mike Jensen to attend the Rainbow Gathering... After we were done with that I took a drive to Washington State to experience the Legal Weed. On the first visit I was unable to find any... I asked some local kids and asked for directions but there were very few stores and they were often closed... On the Second Trip I picked up a hitchhiker who had some hash oil and he gave me some as a thank you gift for picking him up in the rain... Later I decided to go home and attend the Kinetic Sculpture Race at home but... and this is a big but... I smoked some hash oil... then I got onto Highway #5 and I accidentally put the van into gear #2 and turned on the radio... When I hit 70 miles per hour the transmission exploded and then the engine caught fire... OOPS! I pulled over to the side of the freeway and said the Serenity prayer... I walked down the freeway and over to a Lumber Mill. The security guard called me a tow truck and I was towed to a motel... I had the van towed to an auto repair place where they said it would cost $8,000 to repair my Ford Windstar. I paid $3,000 to buy it used so I decided it was Uneconomical to repair... Eventually I gave it to the Humane Society as a donation to help animals. I did not allow this disaster to interfere with my vacation. I rode the AMTRAK to Seattle, Bought and ate TWO Marijuana Cookies, drank some of that rocket fuel coffee and rode the Monorail to the Space Needle and the Jimi Hendrix Experience Music Pavilion. (also a Nirvana Museum) Both musicians lived near Seattle. They had a musical instrument for tourists to play... It was 20 Tubular Bells that random people could whack with pool balls hung from a wire. VERY popular with children. I loved it too. Then I rode the Monorail to downtown Seattle Business District and arrived at Quitting Time on a Sunny Friday afternoon. The first big weekend of Spring. I was impressed with the JOY of the office workers and the BEAUTY of the Secretaries. One effect of a heavy Cannabis Dose is that it makes women appear more beautiful... I really had to piss and was in the center of the city with no public bathrooms... so I peed my pants... I didn't care. I stayed at motels for a few weeks and walked, rode the train, rode the bus and taxi and eventually got home. Quite a tricky walkabout. I enjoyed the friendship of kids in Centrailia, Washington... Great People! Then I bought another Van for $3,000... I wanted to not only experience LEGAL WEED but I wanted to Vote with my Money and reward Washington State politicians who voted for Legal weed. The next year Oregon legalized Marijuana, Then Nevada and California... Soon... the entire USA.

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Writings of Justin Duff Vanderlaan - My Father - How the Airplane got to Oak Meadow Park Los Gatos California...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/writings-of-justin-duff-vanderlaan-my.html

I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/06/taking-my-parents-to-iran-contra.html

Dad's 90th Birthday Party in Los Gatos, California - Justin Duff Vanderlaan Family Photographs

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/dads-90th-birthday-party-in-los-gatos.html

Vanderlaan Family Photographs from Our Book - "Ancestors Memories and Simple Gifts" - The History of the Vanderlaan Family - and Many Many More Pictures I Found Online!

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/vanderlaan-family-photographs-from-our.html

Here is an Article from the Lumberjack Newspaper Today: Written by a Student...  

HEADLINE: Unless you spent the past five years in a coma, blissfully unaware of the world around you, you know the news has been deeply weird and distressing.

I genuinely believe that the past four years have left a profound impact on my mental health, and that of many people across the nation. I have friends who have stopped reading the news entirely so they can go about their day without feeling hopeless. I’ve read articles about the Biden administration by journalists that seem positively shocked at how boring the policy details are. These past four years have left this country traumatized, a trauma we only now can begin to reckon with.

I was still in high school when Trump was elected. I vividly recall my blind confidence the weeks before the 2016 election, when my young, dumb, optimistic self bet my best friend ten dollars Trump would never be president. Fast forward to that infamous night. I was crying as I stared at the television screen, watching the electoral votes tick upwards as I envisioned the worst. That night I contemplated walking into traffic to spare myself the agony that awaited a mixed-race queer in the new America.

Time passed. I handed over the money. I went to the Women’s March. I learned that democracy was a sham. For the next four years, I checked the news, I opened social media, I watched television and every single day it was something new.

and the Article Goes on from there...

https://thelumberjack.org/2021/03/05/four-years-of-handling-headlines/

INCA Sun God -  FREE Coloring Book Art by gvan42 

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When I was a Teenager, My Goal in Life was to Become an UNDERGROUND CARTOONIST Like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. Sadly, No Talent Drawing or Writing Jokes... So I Became an Electronics Draftsman... and Drew Drawings of Computer Circuit Cards & Mechanical Engineering... and After 11 Years of Drawing with a Pencil, I Learned CAD... and Now that I'm Retired I Still Love Drawing Using My CAD Program! Feel Free to Print these Drawings and Color using felt pens or pencils... OR POTATOSHOP... More Drawings on Google using the Search Term "gvan42" 

Connect the Dots at the Sanders Institute -
free coloring book by  gvan42 - greg vanderlaan

Classic Time Tunnel - Drawn in Paint Dot Net

Bullseye 60 degree Red Colorwheel by gvan42
Free Coloring Book Art

GOOGLE "gvan42" 

for a Hundred More Drawings!

So, Trump Wants Republican Fundraisers To Stop Using His Likeness... NO MENTION Of Democratic Fundraisers! Do This Just To Piss Off Trump! Help a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased Again... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... Share this meme AND LINK Worldwide. https://www.gofundme.com/f/cxfg3f-1000

One Thing They Don't Tell You... It's Really INTERESTING To Play Improvisational Music with Friends... I Had to THINK Constantly for Hours... FOCUS My Attention and ask Difficult Questions. like: What Note Should I Play Next? - Just Repeat what I Played the last Bar or Modify it to Guide the Group in a Different Direction? Play NOTHING? and Let the other Guys Have some space? Turn up the ECHO on the Guitar? ... Step on the Phaser? Distortion? - and then when I was Playing the Analog Synthesizer... the CHOICES were Endless... and When You Do That for Hours... It's a Form of Guided Meditation... and a WORTHY USE OF MY TIME. It Causes a Trance!

"They" Keep on Releasing Interesting Recording of Live Concerts... For Example: The Grateful Dead Have 211 Albums... Two Hundred and Eleven! and there are THE OWSLEY TAPES that are still in the Vault... Owsley Made a Tape every time he worked as The Sound Man for a Dozen San Francisco Rock Groups. NRPS, Airplane, Quicksilver etc etc etc... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/owsley-stanley-archive-new-riders-of-the-purple-sage-920234/

Subject: Human Be-In... (Someone Online Posted)

I noticed yesterday that a color video of the Dead at the Human Be-in on 1-14-67 has been posted on Voodoonola. Some have remarked that Pigpen is not on stage at the Be-in, but there he is, although, like Phil, low in the audio. This is definitely the Be-in of 1-14 with Rosie McGee dancing on stage, the kid waving the flag, and many iconic images from still photographs. Tim Leary grinning. Ferlinghetti (I think). I wonder if the 1-14-67 audio is a new source? I prefer it slightly. I am now convinced that the VLB on the archive as 1-14-67 is from the Be-in. Cheers. https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grateful-dead-golden-gate-park-1-14-1967/

and A sound recording from the Human Be-In ... Including The Grateful Dead Playing Good Morning Little Schoolgirl With a FLUTE SOLO and Random RAP... 

 https://archive.org/details/gd67-01-14.sbd.vernon.9108.sbeok.shnf/gd67-01-14d1t03.shn

Interview: Jerry Garcia's acid story. "I Had To Play For My Life! and They Let Me Live."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grQ8f5oOcY4

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Republicans are the Obvious Puppets of The Super Rich... The 1% - Let's Start a CLASS WAR NOW!

Why is it so Windy at Candlestick Park? All Those Giant Fans.

I Drew this Art on a Map of Utah after Coming Home from the Rainbow Gathering... I Did My First "Tapping" Guided Meditation There with Sonya Sophia... I Still Do That online...

another Pen Drawing on a Map.

Colored Felt Pen Drawing on a Map of San Francisco

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One thing that Kinda Pissed me off was... When I Went to to the Mental Hospital The Psychiatrist was UNFAMILIAR With Cannabis Psychosis... He Kept on Trying to Treat SOME DIFFERENT Problem... With Lithium... and I Had a Bad Reaction to THAT... I Told Him that I Smoked a Pound of Oregon Legal Weed over an Eight Month Period... and Experienced Events That Did Not Happen... but the OBVIOUS CURE is to Stop Smoking... Nothing Else Is Needed! He Did Not Know That! OR... The Other Alternative Is TO JUST ENJOY THE MADNESS... I DID See an Imaginary Cat about the Size of a German Shephard Dog... on my Front Porch...

but When I Gt Up To Pet It, It was Just a Trick of the Street Lights as Seen thru a Hedge Flowing in the Wind... BUT At That Moment... I Was Delighted! A WILD CAT! and... I Did Not Actually Win $10,000 at that Casino... I DID Win Some Money but NOT THAT MUCH...

and AK Responded of Facebook: I don't have a lot of faith in psych doctors. Unless one is completely mad to the point of needing to be institutionalized, patients are basically free roaming science experiments.

and I Replied: They Kept Me Involuntarily for 15 Days then released me because THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG. I believe they were just declaring me 5150 in order to MEET THEIR QUOTA at Butte County Mental Health in Chico, CA... After All... If You Never Have Patients, How Do You Justify Your Paycheck?

 I did have FUN at the Mental Hospital. There were some very beautiful women... and I Liked Talking to them... I Never had Sex but... flirting was excellent... and the food was wonderful... and I Did Get to Play Basketball with The Inmates... a Lifelong Dream of Mine... ever since that weekend I Spent in County Jail in Beautiful Upper Marlboro, Maryland...

Heritage Oaks Hospital

4250 Auburn Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95841

https://goo.gl/maps/zHJGxvd3X1AizdTk9

I've become Really Tolerant of The People that have Dementia in My Home... I figure that I'll Be TOTALLY Out of Touch With Reality Myself Before I Die. The Advantage is That I Will Not NOTICE My Own Death... I Watch the Other Residents Here Gradually Become Ill, Then Stay in Bed All the Time and then Eventually an Ambulance Takes Them Away Never To Return... The Care Givers Help the Residents Eat and Go to the Bathroom and Wash... That's Gonna Be Me Someday! - Unless I Die of a Heart Attack on One Day... Who Knows!

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/no-nukes-we-really-need-to-guard-the-atomic-waste-at-pges-abandoned-nuclear-power-plant-near-eureka-california/

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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Barn Jam 2 - 1 Hour Forty Four Minutes of a Supergroup Made Up of Cipollina, Garcia, Crosby, Frieberg, Lesh, Hopkins, Saunders, Weir and Hart... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwFqaodwsI

The Grateful Dead at Mickey Hart's Barn

The Grateful Dead and The New Riders of the Purple Sage
at Mickey Hart's Barn

While Listening to the "American Beauty" Album I Wrote...

Originally the Song "Box of Rain" was Called "Ball of Rain" because Robert Hunter saw a Photograph of the Earth from Space and It LOOKED Looked Like A BALL of OCEANS... There was a Typographical Error in the Recording Studio... and Someone Accidentally Changed the Name... (according to Bob Weir in an Interview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGJnrVUF5qY

Sugar Magnolia is My Favorite Song. Because It Reminds Me of Dancing with my Wife at Concerts... AND EVERY WORD WAS TRUE... and then Ripple is Her Favorite Song... The Album American Beauty Has Both...

The Interview with Phil Lesh in the Documentary "Classic Albums: From Anthem to Beauty" Talking about Practicing Singing "Box of Rain" while Driving to Visit his Dying Father in the Hospital is Heartfelt... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259336/

The Chord Progression in "Till the Morning Comes" is Especially Wonderful... Complex, Difficult to Learn BUT Ultimately Very Satisfying to Play on Guitar... It's Just INTERESTING! I Can't Play the Chords AND SING at the same time so... It's an Instrumental song for me... https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/grateful-dead/till-the-morning-comes-chords-69200

Youtube Automatically selected VOLUNTEERS by the Jefferson Airplane after I Finished Listening to American Beauty by the Grateful Dead... "We are Forces of Chaos and Anarchy... Everything They Say We are We are... and We Are Very Proud of Ourselves... Tear Down the Wall... Up Against The Wall M*THERF*CKER" - Lyric by Paul Kantner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmvskHZc8b0

"Up Against the Wall Motherfucker", often shortened as The Motherfuckers or UAW/MF, was a Dadaist and Situationist anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This "street gang with analysis" was famous for its Lower East Side direct action and is said to have inspired members of the Weather Underground and the Yippies.[by whom?]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Against_the_Wall_Motherfucker

A Digital Rainbow Spiral drawn by gvan42
 Gregory Vanderlaan

In Fact, Ministers Earn their Living by Passing the Collection Plate. That Pays the rent and buys food and repairs on the Church. In the 1930s the Money Dried Up and The Collection Plate was Empty. So My Grandfather Quit his Job as a Minister and Became a High School Teacher. He Concluded that God Did Not Exist. 

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In 1972 We Made a Rock and Roll Teen Club at Forbes Mill in Los Gatos, CA...  I was a Part of "Youth Unlimited" and Worked as The Security Guard Making Sure No One Broke Any Laws on Our Property. I Said: "Go Thru That Hole in the Fence to Little Vietnam to Smoke Your Weed and Drink Alcohol." --- I also Talked to The Police Whenever They Visited... Just to Tell Them We were Not Breaking Any Laws... and Everything Was OK... and One Night They Arrived WHILE I WAS HIGH ON LSD... and I was Able to "Maintain" Enough to Hold a Conversation and Get them to Leave... Just Like a Real Boy! EPIC PRANKSTER ADVENTURES!

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I'm The Hero! They LOST The Remote Control on the TV In the Living Room at my Group House and Many of the People Here Have Dementia so IT COULD BE ANYWHERE... In the Garden? Maybe! SO They Couldn't Watch TV. I Found a Spare Remote and Set It Up... and Tuned it to PBS - and It's Fundraiser Time with Concert by The Smothers Brothers, Barry McGuire, Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, PP&M, The New Cristy Minstrels... and I Thought... It's Kinda Sad That Republicans Can't Enjoy Peace and Love Songs... BECAUSE THEY ARE IN FAVOR OF EVIL... When Barry McGuire Sings "Eve of Destruction" and They Think Back to Their Own Youth When They Were in Favor of the Vietnam War... and Then HISTORY Proved that They Were Wrong... I Guess They Don't Have Much FUN Listening to That Song... or "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" (They Think That's a Gardening Song) --->All Their Heroes Are Dying OFF<--- Rush Limbaugh is a Part of Ancient History Now... Remember Back in the Bad Old Days... When the President Was Insane and Incompetent? - and Selling HATE? Well... Trump Lost! He was the Only President In History That Lost The Popular Vote Twice and Got Impeached Twice... and Caused the LARGEST Stock Market Loss in History... and Over Half a Million Dead Americans from Trump's Coronavirus... The People That Love Trump Seem To Be Unhappy and Angry All The Time... Well, FAN FREAKING TASTIC... Go Right Ahead... Believe Lies... Put Gullible Tool as a Bullet Point on your Resume... WE THE PEOPLE will get along Just Great if You Fail to Wear a Mask, Get Sick and Die. DARWIN RULES!

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home-in-los-gatos-ca/

Here is a LINK to Everything About 

ME on Google...

"The Path Forward" - 20 Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live... #1. Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Will Bubble UP Thru The Entire Economy; Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits...EVERYBODY WINS!

2. OUTLAW GERRYMANDERING: That way We Could Have Majority Rule in the USA. In Fact, Most People Prefer Majority Rule... We Tried Corporate Rule and That Was a Disaster!

3. Trump's EPA=Enable Polluters Agency. Let's FLIP The Mission to Protecting the Environment; 

4. Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax It and Free All Cannabis Prisoners; We Will NEED Empty Jail Cells to House TRAITOR TrumpNiks!

5. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics; Let Doctors and Patients Decide What the Best Medicine Is... DUH...

6. End The Electoral College; Let The People Decide Who Becomes President. 

7. Overturn Citizens United; Get Corporate Bribery OUT of Politics. 

8.Cut Pentagon Spending in Half; Why Pay for BOGUS WARS?

9. Build Solar Powered Desalination Plants - We Need Fresh Drinking Water!

10. Wear a Mask, Practice Social Distancing and GET a Vaccine. Let's End Trump's Coronavirus!

11. Medicare for all. Costs Less, Works Better! Just Look At CANADA, They Pay Less Money and Live Longer... DUH... 

LINK to 9 MORE Simple Ideas!

If YOU Have Any Ideas, Tell Me and I'll Include them in this eBook. gregvan[at]yahoo[dot]com

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Ham Radio... Selling Equipment at Radio Shack in the 1990s - I Met a Lot of Interesting and Obsessive People who were Amateurs.

It was Really Fun to Be Introduced to The Ham Radio Culture... a World I Had No Contact With...

Dot Dot Dot DASH DASH DASH Dot Dot Dot (SOS - Save Our Ship)  

One Man Had a "Mobile Command Center" Built into an Old School Bus. His Plan was that When All Communication Failed During an Earthquake, He and His Ham Radio Friends Could Help Firemen, Policemen and the National Guard... A Pretty Likely Occurrence in San Jose, CA... There Have Been Major Earthquakes in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Gatos... or... Maybe this Old Hippie Just wanted a Valid Excuse for Living in a BUS... With a Sure Fire Way to Avoid Police Harassment was to BE Part of the Law Enforcement TEAM... 

We DID Sell Amateur Radios that Require a Licence from the FCC to Operate. We DID NOT Check to see if the Customer HAD a License... or Planned to Have a License... However we Did Inform Every Customer of the NEED for Them to GET a License to Operate the Radio Legally... But anything that Happens OUTSIDE The Store Was NOT Our Responsibility...

Many Ham Radio Operators Who DO Have a License Say That They HUNT DOWN ILLEGAL OPERATORS as a Fun Hobby... Using Triangulation to Locate the Bogus Radio Operator... and Reporting Then to "Friendly Cousin Charlie." Maybe this is a False Story but... Who Knows!

I do know that Getting a License is Difficult. They require that you understand Electrical Engineering and The Basic Physics of How RADIO WORKS... and They also Test Your Speed and Accuracy in Morse Code... I knew a Ham Radio Operator who said the Morse Code Training Helped Him with his Piano Playing... a Deep Understanding of Rhythm... 

A Bigger Problem was Citizens Band Radios with an Illegal Linear Amplifier. CB Radios May Operate without any License BUT there is a Maximum Power Output for legal Radios... Well, People DO Sell Illegal BOOSTERS that allow a CB Radio to Work over VAST Distances... One Customer said he could talk to Guatemala on his CB... It Saved him a LOT of Money on his Telephone Bill... BUT... That much Power Interferes With... TV Reception, AM and FM Radio Reception, Police Band Reception and Fire Truck Communications... THAT'S WHY There is a Limit to the Power Output... FCC Laws... So Everyone Can Play Nice and Share the Airwaves... Those FCC Laws are also the Reason That WOLFMAN JACK Had His Radio Station in Mexico... No Laws to Limit His Broadcast Range. 

One Blessing of Working at Radio Shack was the Requirement That I Learn Electronics Theory... and How things Work. The Corporation Found out that More Products GET SOLD and STAY SOLD if the Clerks Understand Electronics. Selling Someone the Wrong Part Does NOT Make a Profit... It only wastes the Customer's Time and Patience... SO... We Were Required to Study and Pass Tests in 14 Different Subjects... I Learned the Physics of Antenna Design... How A VCR Works... How a TV Works... Etc Etc Etc... FREE COLLEGE ON THE TIMECLOCK... 

Amateur Radio Operators Collect Cards from Each Other Proving that they were able to Contact People Far Away. When they are Chatting, they ask for a Name and Street Address and then Mail a Postcard with the Other Person's Call Sign on it. Then they POST those Cards on the Wall of Their SHACK... 
My Friend Had a card from a Man named Fletcher on Pitcarin Island... a Descendant of the Mutiny on the Bounty... I guess if You Live on an Island in the Middle of the Ocean a Radio would be handy for Contacting People On Different Islands or The Mainland... 

Two Way Radios Either TALK or LISTEN. But Not Both at The Same Time, Like a Telephone. That's Why People say "Over" when they have finished Talking... and they release the BUTTON... People say "10-4" to tell the other person they Heard What their Friend Had to Say and Understood the Words... 

We sold a Lot of Personal Communicators that had a Short Range but 49 MHz FM Quality... They Were Small and Trendy... People Bought them for Communication While Skiing... or Going to The Mall... or Organizing a Stage Show... You Could Wear the Microphone and Speaker on Your Head, and have the Radio Clipped to Your Belt... a Really Trendy High Tech LOOK... 

I remember the Watergate Burglars Used Radio Shack CB Radios to Orchestrate Their Crime... Those Radios DO NOT WORK WELL INSIDE BUILDINGS... In G Gordon Liddy's Book "Will" he complained about the Quality of the Radios... HOWEVER... He Simply Did Not Buy The Right Product... a 49 MHz FM Radio would Have been Wonderful For Their Job... BUT... I Bet Liddy Did Not Explain His Intended USE to The Clerk... Being all HUSH HUSH and Clandestine... Dumbf*ck! His EGO caused His Failure... 

Of Course, all this is Ancient History because Cellphones are What People Use Now... 

HEADLINE: Best Music Playlists For Psychedelic Therapy Are Explored In New Johns Hopkins Study....

Examples of Psychedelic Music ignored by the Johns Hopkins Study: The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Buffalo Springfield, Donovan... None of these were Included in the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Therapy Music Study... deadheads: stories from fellow artists

Psychedelic therapy sessions often incorporate music—and typically that music is of the classical genre. But new research out of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggests there may in fact be no special value in playing a Mozart concerto or Chopin étude for tripping patients.

Gongs could work just as well, if not better, the study found.

 https://www.marijuanamoment.net/best-music-playlists-for-psychedelic-therapy-are-explored-in-new-johns-hopkins-study/ 

Escalator to Heaven

Consider This:
How is it Possible to PURCHASE a Stairway to Heaven
When The Stores are all Closed?

FREE Chart of Where the Notes Are on the Guitar and Piano. Print As Many Copies as You Like and Give 'em to Friends... or Strangers That Are About to Become Friends!

A Brief History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" - During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world.

We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and fallout shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs. During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "the Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was that one by one those countries over there would turn Commie and soon they would take over Mexico and threaten the American Way of Life. President Eisenhower and Kennedy sent advisors to help the South Vietnamese soldiers fight the North Vietnamese soldiers. Then President Johnson sent even More American Soldiers to fight the Viet Cong. Then President Nixon continued the War for another 5 years before eventually he decided to allow the South Vietnamese to fight their own war and we left. Quickly the South lost and thousands of Boat People fled South Vietnam because they thought they would be killed. As it turned out, The Domino Principle was false. Communism did not take over the world. The entire war was a waste of lives and money.

The main reason we ended the Vietnam War was the huge protest movement against the war. Lead by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin of the Yippies, The Students for a Democratic Society and The Weatherman staged immense protest marches expressing the desire of the American People to end the war. Eventually the US government got the message...

and History Has Proved that William F. Buckley Was A Freaking Idiot. He was a TV Talk Show Wiseman Pundit... Popular With Pro Vietnam War Enthusiasts... or as they are know as today: Brainwashed Sheep!

READ MORE:

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

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Links to My Wordpress Blog:

“Lessons Learned” by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial and Error Yielded These Words of Wisdom…

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/lessons-learned-by-gregory-vanderlaan-a-lifetime-of-trial-and-error-yielded-these-words-of-wisdom-or-something-like-that/

It’s Important That We #DumpTrump Now. He Helped the Democrats Win in 2020 by The ENDLESS FAILURES During His Years as President.

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/its-important-that-we-dumptrump-now-he-helped-the-democrats-win-in-2020-by-the-endless-failures-during-his-years-as-president/

NO NUKES! We REALLY Need to Guard the Atomic Waste at PG&E’s Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka California

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/14/no-nukes-we-really-need-to-guard-the-atomic-waste-at-pges-abandoned-nuclear-power-plant-near-eureka-california/

AWAKEN! You Giant Made of Sand… [FICTION] by Gregory Vanderlaan

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/awaken-you-giant-made-of-sand-fiction-by-gregory-vanderlaan/

Links to My Music Videos. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/09/links-to-my-music-videos/

SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent’s Home in Los Gatos, CA https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home-in-los-gatos-ca/

Elizabeth Warren has some GREAT Ideas: Tax the Rich… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/elizabeth-warren-has-some-great-ideas-tax-the-rich/

CRIMINAL Prosecution of Donald Trump is What’s Needed Now https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/criminal-prosecution-of-donald-trump-is-whats-needed-now/

PARLER is Online Again and I’m Posting #RUNAWAY From tRUMP Messages. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/parler-is-online-again-and-im-posting-runaway-from-trump-messages/

“IMPEACH BIDEN” TRUCKER HAT for sale… It’s Not Too Early to Start the Campaign… Kamala for President! Buttons! Stickers! Coffee Cups! T-Shirts! https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/impeach-biden-trucker-hat-for-sale-its-not-too-early-to-start-the-campaign-kamala-for-president-buttons-stickers-coffee-cups-t-shirts/

Trump Is Right. Bring American Soldiers Home From Iraq and Afghanistan. There is NO VALID MISSION. VETO The NDAA. #DefundThePentagon — Refund That Wasted Money to the Taxpayers. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/trump-is-right-bring-american-soldiers-home-from-iraq-and-afghanistan-there-is-no-valid-mission-veto-the-ndaa-defundthepentagon-refund-that-wasted-money-to-the-taxpayers/

“Doing Evil for Money – a Novel” by Gregory Vanderlaan [another NSA Kiss and Tell Book] https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/doing-evil-for-money-a-novel-by-gregory-vanderlaan-another-nsa-kiss-and-tell-book/

The Path Forward… Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live… Let’s Heal America… https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/11/09/the-path-forward-simple-suggestions-for-making-the-world-a-better-place-to-live-lets-heal-america/

Top Ten ART Gifts on My Zazzle Webstore – The People Have Spoken! With Their Wallets – All Royalties Donated to Charity – Psychedelic Art https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/top-ten-art-gifts-on-my-zazzle-webstore-the-people-have-spoken-with-their-wallets-all-royalties-donated-to-charity-psychedelic-art/

The COSTS of all those TV Advertisements for Prescription Medicines are PAID FOR BY THE PATIENTS. https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/the-costs-of-all-those-tv-advertisements-for-prescription-medicines-are-paid-for-by-the-patients/

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics – Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves What is the Best Treatment.

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/legalize-medicinal-psychedelics-let-doctors-and-patients-decide-for-themselves-what-is-the-best-treatment/

gvan42 – Free Coloring Book… Print as Many Copies as You Like and Share With Friends… BIG FUN for the Whole Family! https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/10/08/gvan42-free-coloring-book-print-as-many-copies-as-you-like-and-share-with-friends-big-fun-for-the-whole-family/