Owning a Gun INCREASES the Chance of Having an Accident. Suicides increase too... More Family Lives are LOST than Lives SAVED Defending Yourself from the So-Called "Bad Guys."

Bow and Arrow Hunting is a Great Alternative to Using an Assault Rifle to Kill Bambi. It has the potential to turn Hunting into a SPORT.

Of course, I am a Great Supporter of the Second Amendment as written... MUSKETS SHOULD REMAIN LEGAL. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution... Rifles, Machine Guns, Bazookas, Rocket Launchers and Hand Grenades had not been invented yet AND ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT... 

And anyway, with the invention of Viagra, there is no real need for guns... Limp NRA "Members" can achieve a "Standing" Militia by just eating a Pill! Did you ever read one of those Magazines about Guns? In the back are Endless Advertisements for Erection Help... I guess they know their readers... 

Trump signed the
HELP CRAZY PEOPLE BUY GUNS
Law. H.J. Res 40

If you are Getting a Social Security Disability Check FOR INSANITY... That Fact Is No Longer Reported on a Gun Buying Background Check... H.J. Res 40 - Trump Signed That Law in 2017...

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I posted on Facebook:

The Number One Cause of Death by Gunshot is Suicide. That's A Blessing as It Reduces the Number of "Gun Nuts" Alive.

KD Replied: Not a very nice thing to say Greg! You may want to rethink this post or remove it.

BAH Said: Not all gun owners are nuts. Moving to Idaho I discovered most here own them as there is hunting season here. I now own one for the purpose of going to a range to do target shooting. A common sport here and it is fun. We have very little gun crime here. And, I am not a nut.

I Replied: Go right ahead... Risk your life and your families lives... In 2017, 39,773 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. Though they tend to get less attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. https://www.pewresearch.org/.../what-the-data-says-about.../

MD Said: According to your rationale, might as well stop driving a car too

Approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year; on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads. An additional 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries, often resulting in long-term disabilities.

I Replied: I don't own a car... I Only leave the house about once every three months and I Use Uber or Lyft... However... Cars provide a useful service... Guns Do Not. Absolutely useless... I truly Believe That the desire to Own Guns is a Genetic Trait. If Your Grandfather Owned Guns and your Father Owned Guns... it's Likely that You and Your Children will Own Guns... There is a "Gun Nut" Gene... and the Human Race would be better off when That Gene Goes Extinct... Did You Notice that Automobile Exhaust is a Major Cause of Climate Change? I have Often Ridden the City Bus to and From Work... It's Great... Especially in Eureka... I walked three City blocks to the Stop, Got On and the Bus Driver woke me up when we got to work... Then On the Ride Home I Chatted with a Pretty Girl that Worked at Costco... You Can't Meet Women if You Drive by Yourself in a Car...

JJ Said: Yeah. That doesn’t work on BART.

I Replied: Many Kind Services like the Bus Driver Watching out for me Fail IN THE CITY... That's The Beauty of Living in Small Town USA. I FLED San Jose in the Late 1990s and Moved to CHICO... and Rode My Bike Everywhere... then in 2001 Went to Humboldt State University in Arcata... It's almost Impossible to Believe that the "Real World" Exists when Living behind the Redwood Curtain... I see on TV That Those People Over There are Behaving Crazy and their Lives Suck... but then I Change the Channel...  

JJ Said: Ya know. This has been debated. Argued. Yelled. Screamed. Legislated.

All ineffectively.

Two reasons.

1. Criminals do not follow any laws.

2. Congress does not want to piss off donors.

Stop and search laws were considered unlegal after implementing due to the overzealous actions of police.

Since this will always occur with military style police departments, it will prove to be ineffective continually unless other legislation is used to describe when and where to use stop and search techniques. You think since we have an all Democratic Congress right now that this would be possible but in fact most elected officials are so incompetent they can’t see through their own fucking glasses to get things done correctly. Actually writing legislature such that in very high crime cities are high crime parts of cities within certain boundaries, stop and search techniques are allowed, and only for the purpose of capturing weapons. Violators are not arrested their weapons are just taken away and they are put on a list that says who they are and what was taken from them. If they get caught a week later with another weapon then you can deal with them legally. But the law can’t just give police carte blanche to stop and search any car anytime anywhere if it’s not in one of the exceptionally high weapon crime areas.

Additional legislation would also be required to stop people with mental problems, histories, and could be even taking a step further that before you become a gun owner, you have to have a psychological profile done. Of course all these open up more and more lawsuits and so it would have to be vetted properly and conducted properly and taking into account the persons history, social media etc.

it also help if there was a database that showed what people were considered irresponsible, racist, volatile and these people are not allowed to have a gun. They would say it’s a violation of their constitutional rights but in fact, if Congress looked at the constitution correctly, they would understand that the purpose of the second amendment was to provide for a quick militia to be available if necessary. It wasn’t intended to let mentally ill criminals or violent people have a gun so they can use it inappropriately. Making that distinction of intent from the constitution is an important part of providing new laws that serve the times that we’re in. But the problem again is that our Congress is too ignorant to actually decipher these realities and propose and pass adequate legislature that takes into account the intent of the militia, which really no longer applies in 2021, and defers gun ownership to people who it is inappropriate for them to have.

and Yet, Guns Serve no Useful Purpose... Many People BELIEVE That Owning a Gun Will Protect Their Family BUT That Belief is FALSE. More People Die from Suicide, Accidents and One Family Member Killing Another Than There are Lives Saved Protecting Your Family From Bad Guys...  

Instead of Hannity, Try Sanity! Why Watch Talking Heads on TV Screaming DANGER DANGER About Problems You Can't Do Anything About? Is That Entertainment? Don't Be a Sucker, Unplug Tucker!

I Refuse to Watch FOX News. In General, What They Talk About Makes No Difference In My Life At All. And If There WAS Something Important, It's On NBC, CBS or ABC.

The FOX NEWS Marketing Plan is Hate Speech for High Viewer Ratings. CNN & MSNBC Target Different Demographics BUT... I'm Tired of Being a Target! I Read Google News Instead. 

Actually, I Prefer to Take a Walk in the Garden and Photograph Roses... Like This Pink and Coral Blend... AHH

Perfect Pink Rose at Home
I Intentionally Search for Beauty

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/i-refuse-to-watch-fox-cnn-or-msnbc-news.html

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Texas Being Their Own Country Would Be Great... They are a FAILED STATE and the USA Spends a Lot of Money Keeping them Afloat. FEMA, Welfare, Border Security...

Imagine if They Just Solved Their Own Problems instead of always running to Uncle Sam for a Handout?

House Passes Bill to Make Washington DC a State... We Can Keep the 50 Star Flag if we Simply Threw Texas OUT! 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/politics/allen-west-texas-kfile/index.html

New Map of the
50 United States
Texas Gone -
Washington DC Added

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/04/texas-being-their-own-country-would-be.html

• Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns, Melt Guns. It's Not Complicated.

   

  

  Remember: GUNS DO NOT SAVE LIVES... They Make Your Family Less Safe.  Suicides, Accidents and Murder by Family Members VASTLY Outnumber The Lives Saved by Defending Your Family from "Bad Guys."

  If Your Plan of Owning a Gun to Defend Your Family WORKED IN REALITY I Would Be In Favor of it. But Sadly, It Doesn't. 

  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/ 

  "Conclusions: Guns kept in homes are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal accidental shooting, criminal assault, or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense."

  People Who PROFIT From Gun Sales Have Been Publishing FALSE Information To Frighten People Into Buying More Guns. The NRA Sells Memberships... Their Trick is to Scream Danger Danger You Need a Gun... Gullible Members of the Public are FOOLED... 

Immigration Solution: One Way Airplane Ride Right Back Where They Came From. That Worked Great for the People from Haiti.

Much Better Than Putting People in Cages... They are STILL In Cages and We Are STILL Paying for Room and Board! Classic tRUMP FAIL...

Immigrants from Haiti at Texas Border.
We Sent 'em Right Back Where They Came From. 

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Ask Yourself: How many White People are Walking from the USA to Guatemala? Zero... Everyone wants to ESCAPE from Latino countries. Remember the PEACE CORPS? White People Teaching Non-Whites HOW TO LIVE... 'cause they Can't Figure it Out Themselves... 

It's a Worldwide Trend... People Are Escaping FROM Africa sailing to Europe... NO ONE trying to go to LYBIA... People are Fleeing Islamic Countries and Moving TO Europe... and England... 

I visited Mexico ONCE... I was shocked by all the STARVING CHILDREN... I never went back... Why would I spend my Vacation Money and Time going to a place that is Horrible... Years ago Americans Retired to Mexico because their Social Security Checks were worth more money... NO LONGER... Too much Crime prevents retirees from moving there... 

Yes, people say I'm Biased and before I make a Judgement about another people's Culture I should look at it without my American Value System clouding my vision. 

However, No matter how I twist my viewpoint... I can't see STARVING CHILDREN as a Wonderful Way of Life... and now those people want to come here... because we have a VALID SYSTEM... Our Lifestyle Makes Sense...

I say LET THEM IN... We have enough wealth here in the USA to feed their Children... 

AND... WE NEED TO HIRE IMMIGRANTS TO DO ALL THE JOBS WHITE AMERICANS REFUSE... Who will take care of the elderly? We need to hire CARE GIVERS Nationwide... We need Gardeners... we need Farm Workers... People that will Cook and Clean for us... Look at Donald Trump, he hires many Illegal Aliens to work as Maids and Groundskeepers at his Golf Clubs... 

In the 1960s White People VOLUNTARILY selected to use the Birth Control Pill. Therefore, White people have small families... Especially College Graduates... Not enough children to take care of the Elderly... Hispanic People are often Catholic and believe that Every Sperm is Sacred... They sometimes have as many as Fourteen (14) Children... I'm not kidding... I know a Family like that... In Central America, the quality of life is VERY BAD... Over-breeding has lead to Horrible Conditions... THAT'S WHY EVERYONE WANTS TO ESCAPE FROM LATINO COUNTRIES... MUY MALO!

I recently read two Biographies about Americans that moved to foreign countries... On family became Farmers in Rural Ireland and they were happy. The other family was a Doctor and his wife and Daughter who moved to Iran... They were very unhappy. WHY? Because the Culture of IRAN is horrible... Insane... "Oh Come ye Back to Ireland" by Niall Williams and Christeen Breen... and... "Not Without My Daughter" by Betty Mahmoody and William Hoffer... The real secret to life is to avoid living in Countries inhabited by Crazy People... DUH...

Did you know that More People Live in Brazil than the USA? True... And yet, while the People in the USA are Famous for Going to the Moon, Inventing Airplanes, Cars, Trains, Electricity, Light Bulbs, Telephones, Record Players, Computers, Television and Radio... Brazilians are famous for inventing The Tango and The Samba... Both of them! As a matter of Fact, The people near the Equator are famous for Inventing... Oh, I Can't Think of Anything... Sorry...


The MAIN FLAW with Trump's Plan to Build a Border Wall is that It WILL NOT ACTUALLY WORK. Foreigners are coming into the USA by Airplanes, Cars and Boats... They will just Fly over the Wall... How can we prevent boats from crossing the Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatan to New Orleans? NO, a wall will not work... Foreigners like Melania Trump are let into the Country on "Student Visas" or "Work Visas" and then they OVERSTAY THEIR WELCOME... That's how most Foreigners Get in... 

People forget that the Chinese Exclusion Act was SUCCESSFUL... It Really prevented millions of Asians from moving to the West Coast... That's one of the reasons the Supreme Court Upheld Trump's Muslim Travel Ban... Everyone can agree that we do not need any more Towelheads!

People forget that Simply Dropping Two Atomic Bombs on Japan transformed their entire Society from "Let's Invade Countries" to "Let's Build Great Cars, Motorcycles and Electronic Equipment"... Foreigners CAN BE TRAINED!

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Emotional Freedom Technique Webinar - Sonya Sophia Leads a Online Group Where We Speak Positive Messages while Tapping on Our Body's Acupressure Meridian Points...

"I've Found That This is a Valid Way to Improve My Health." - Gregory Vanderlaan 

Short Sample of a Session: 

'From Anxious to Ahhhh' 

a Relaxing Nano Tap.

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

another Short Session:  

LOVE - The Energy That Heals Us: 

Mini EFT Tapping Session

https://youtu.be/qhpCyBSp4MA

In 2012, American researchers assessed 238 first-year college students using the Beck Depression Inventory and found 30 students met the criteria for moderate to severe depression. They were randomly assigned to either an EFT treatment or control group. The EFT group received four 90-minute group sessions of tapping, whereas the control group received nothing. Those who received EFT were found to have significantly less depression three weeks later, with an average depression score in the non-depressed range following treatment, compared to the control group who demonstrated no change in depressive symptoms.(...)

The 11 adults then attended an eight-week, 16-hour group treatment program. This was two hours per week. (...)

The first hypothesis asked whether Clinical EFT resolved major depressive disorder as a diagnosis. The data revealed that while the diagnosis was not completely resolved immediately after eight weeks for everyone, two members no longer met criteria. In addition, all 11 adults no longer met diagnosis for one or more other disorders they had when they started. These were disorders such as social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. So EFT impacted those diagnoses through OUT program too. The second hypothesis asked whether Clinical EFT was effective at reducing the symptoms of major depressive disorder. In several cases individual adults reported clinical differences in symptoms. That is, the difference was enough so that if measured in a clinical setting, it would indicate treatment was successful. Therefore a clinically valid difference was achieved. The third hypothesis asked whether the treatment effects of Clinical EFT were sustained after three months. Improvements were maintained, and many of the group members experienced continual improvement in their symptoms over time.

– The Science Behind Tapping: A Proven Stress Management Technique for the Mind and Body.

The Video Above is a FULL Tapping Session Plus a Description of What Tapping IS and How It Works... An Introduction for Newcomers... 

https://youtu.be/o2r0I8VoxJY

Let's Suppose That You Truly Believe that Tea Exists... and That Tea Cups Exists... Well, You are Much More Likely to Get a Cup of Tea than Someone who Refuses to Believe in the Possibility of Tea. and...Well, EVERYTHING IS LIKE THAT... Believe that it's Possible for You to ______________ (fill in the Blank) and you have Started on the Path to Achieving _____________ (fill in the Blank) - Teachings of Sonya Sophia

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How I Met Sonya Sophia

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At the Rainbow Gathering in Utah, 2014... I walked from the Welcome Home Kitchen (where I was Staying) to the The Big Shady Spot at Main Meadow. At high elevation, sunburn is a major problem so our campsite was the very best!

I saw a group of people congregating at the Smaller Shady Spot at Main Meadow and I wondered... "What are those people doing?" and Then they all came over to our campsite... A Lady asked me if she could teach a healing seminar at our location... I said "SURE, have fun. I was wondering what the crowd of people was for, and was considering walking over there to find out but you came over here..." and she said: "Sometimes Mohammad goes to the Mountain and sometimes the Mountain Comes to Mohammad." Her name is Sonya Sophia and she taught a seminar of Self Help - Acupressure. We put pressure on locations of out body by tapping lightly with our fingers while she told us reassuring statements and we would all repeat what she said... Like: "I Love and Respect Myself." It was a good seminar and I enjoyed it so much that I took her business card and attended once a week internet sessions. 

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July 4th OM Chant at California
Rainbow Gathering in Modoc County 2004
Near the Town of Likely...

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How to Become AWARE...

Easy Step by Step Instructions.

Go Outdoors and

Find 5 Things You Can See,

Four Things You Can Hear,

Three Things You Can Smell,

Two Things You Can Touch

and One Thing You Can Taste.

Notice That None of these Things

are on Your Computer Screen,

Phone or TV...

Reality Exists...

GO VISIT!

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Burning Man Wisdom Tale: "The Canteen" - Traditionally, 

at Burning Man, You Share Water with People You Meet. 

Hand the Canteen to a Person and They Hand it to Another 

Person and ALL THE TIME, You are Worrying... "Will there 

Be Enough Water FOR ME?" Well, What if YOU DRINK 

FIRST and Then Pass the Canteen to Your Friend... That 

Way, All that Time You are Enjoying the Pleasure You Gave 

Others Without Worrying about Running Out of Water and 

Dying of Thirst in the Desert. Remember: Take Some ME 

Time First. You deserve it. - Story by Sonya Sophia

Just Bliss Out - MEME 

Portrait of an Alien 

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In the Year 2121... What Do You Think the World Will Be Like 100 Years from Now? State Your Opinion in the Comments Section Below!

I Don't have much hope for the Future... I Believe there will be a Global Economic Collapse and the Only People Left Alive will be Subsistence Farmers... As Soon as Money Becomes Valueless, Grocery Stores Will FAIL... One Billion People Will Survive... 

Many Disasters Could Trigger this... 

The USA Defaulting on Its Loans by Failing to Raise the Debt Ceiling... 

A Computer Virus or Ransomware Makes the Internet FAIL Completely...

 Gasoline Price Rises to $30.00 a Gallon Making Driving a Truck filled with Food to the Grocery Store Impractical...

Climate Change increasing to the Point where the Entire Western USA Burns and 100 Tornadoes blast the Midwest and Hurricanes Wipe Out the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Seaboard... 

Christmas and New Years Eve Superspreader Parties this year... Millions of Americans At Family Gatherings will spread the COVID-19 Virus... No Masks, No Vaccines... Massive Kill Off of Idiots... 

Pretty Damn Likely One of these Will Happen...  

and as the Entire World Self Destructs... Will Someone Set Off All the Atomic Bombs? Will the Only Life forms that will survive be Insects and Plankton? 

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Maybe I'm Wrong... Maybe We'll have Global Economic Collapse within 20 Years... What if Czar Donald the INSANE declares the USA Bankrupt?  That's What He Does Best!

If the GOP wins the House in 2022 and Appoints Trump Speaker... and Then Impeaches or [REDACTED] Both Biden and Harris... Instant CZAR Donald. They will Outlaw Elections... Replace Democracy with Monarchy...  

Some Hydro, Solar and Wind Electric Power Plants will Continue to Function and a Civilization will be rebuilt... by people that live in remote areas and grow goats, sheep, cattle and vegetables... Like the Islands off Scotland... or Iceland... Indians on the Yucatan... Bedouins... The'll be Drinking Camel Milk and Eating Dates... Just Like They Have Done for Ten  Thousand Years...

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The Only Thing that gives me hope is... I've been Predicting Global Economic Collapse since the 1980s... and It Hasn't Happened Yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sP7wGwfGdw

and Maybe I'll be Dead before the Disaster Strikes... I'm 67 Years old and You Kids will be left with the Mess we Made... 

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SE on FaceBorg Said: I took this picture of my TV yesterday during a news broadcast. In case anyone is unaware of the difference in El Nino 2016 vs El Nino 1998, this proves it. El Nino 2016 has been a joke.

I Replied: I remember El Nino 1998. I was working at the Saratoga Ave Radio Shack on Quito Road. It Rained so much I felt Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and took a Vacation to Las Vegas to Improve My Mood... The High point of that trip was the Star Trek Ride at the Hilton. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Experience

SE SAID: I remember it too. I was so happy. I remember how it rained and rained for days on end. I spent a weekend staying with a friend in San Francisco, and it rained the entire time. I loved every second of it. Now, every time I go to San Francisco, it’s SUNNY. Whatever happened to that beautiful fog which SF was famous for? Nothing but sun, sun, sun now. I HATE IT.

I Replied: Climate Change is Real... Expect Phoenix Like Weather From Now On... Plant a Cactus Garden...

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On a different subject! 

Conservatives point to the Fall of the USSR as Justification for all the Trillions of Dollars and Thousands of Lives wasted on the Cold War, The Vietnam War and The Korean War. They say "SEE? It was all worth it because WE WON!" --->A Temporary Victory at best<--- Putin has Come Back as Strong as Kruschev if Not Stronger... 

Did we REALLY "Win" The Cold War? Now There are Three Superpowers... China, Russia and the USA... And Russia has become so powerful that they put their Agent as President of the United States! We Built Thousands of Atom Bombs... Financed the Mujahideen  in Afghanistan and 58,000 Americans Died in Vietnam... and The War Against Godless Communism FAILED... They Still have not Converted to Christianity! and BOTH of the Other Superpowers have reworked their economic system to be Capitalist... 

Communism was Doomed to Fail Simply Because it was Absurd! No Need for the USA to Pay Pay Pay to Fight Proxy Wars Like Korea, Vietnam or Afghanistan... 

In 2021 The Pentagon Budget is Even Larger than Ever Before... We Ended the War in Afghanistan and so a "Peace Dividend" is due to the American Taxpayers but... NO... Lockheed, Raytheon, General Atomics and DOW Want More Money to BUILD POINTLESS WEAPONS! I'm especially angered by having to pay for DRONES... Killer Robots in the Sky like the Terminator Movie!

Check out the Movie Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts... all about Winning the Cold War... 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War_(film)

Part of the Financing of "Freedom Fighters" in Afghanistan was the CIA Training Base that was used by Osama bin Laden... Was THAT "Winning?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden

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and on another different subject!

While Listening to the "Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe" Show... We Were asked to Name our Most Influential Teachers... People that Made a Difference in our lives... Many People mentioned RAM DASS... and I Too Have learned from Him... and then I started thinking about WHO Really Changed the World... many Mentioned Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, John Lennon, John F Kennedy, Paramahansa Yogananda, Buckminster Fuller... 

and Then I Made May Own List... 

Dr, Albert Hofmann... He Invented LSD... 

Abbie Hoffman: Founder of the YIPPIES!

Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead... 

Sonya Sophia and the World Tapping Circle Webinar... 

don Miguel Ruiz: author of The Four Agreements Book... 

Carlos Castaneda: author of the Teachings of don Juan and a dozen other books... 

Mark Sims: Leader of the Harmonic Convergence a Group Online Contacting Aliens Event... 

William Wilson: Creator of Alcoholics Anonymous... aka Bill W. 

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak: Founders of Apple Computer.

George Carlin and Thomas Chong... Comedy...

Dr Timothy Leary 

Firesign Theater... Comedy!

The Whole Earth Catalog... Stewart Brand... He also was a test subject of Project MKULTRA at Stanford University with Ken Kesey and Robert Hunter (Lyrics Grateful Dead)

The Diggers - a Street Theater Group from the San Francisco Haight Ashbury District late 1960s... 

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What Names Have I Forgotten? 

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Speaking of Paramahansa Yogananda... there is a Commune in Northern California of His Followers... Right Now it's Closed to Outsiders due to COVID-19 but... I'd like to Visit it Someday... In the Foothills near Grass Valley or Nevada City... 

 https://www.anandavillage.org/

While I was Listening to the Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe show... I Noticed that Every Guest had a Website... Where they Show Their Special Talent... 

 So... I Did a Total Makeover of MY Blog to Create a Positive Space... and Make it Easy for Random Web Surfers to Find What They are Interested In... I decided that MY One Biggest Talent is the Black and White Line Drawings that I Ask People to Print... and Color using Felt Pens or Pencils... Hopefully there will be Thousands of My Drawings Worldwide... 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-digital-paintings-of-ezekiels-wheel.html

I have Published My Words, Pictures and Songs... and I Realized that by using FREE Platforms... my stuff will be Online After I'm Dead... Google Blogger, Youtube, Wordpress and a Dozen Social Media Sites... If you pay a FEE, Your Content Vanishes when You Stop Paying...

A Collection of My Artwork is at Google Image Search=gvan42

LINK! https://tinyurl.com/gvan42-art

Story Plot: That Came to me in a dream last night... 

One day a man who worked as a scientist was working in his lab and... a stranger kidnapped him and made him think of new ideas or die... Held the Scientist Hostage! anf the Scientist had the most productive week of his life... and then the stranger just took the Ideas that he had written down and said... "Thanks! You are free to Go About Your Life... " and Let the Scientist Go... 

and It Turned out that The Scientist was only one of a Dozen People Held Hostage that week... by a Dozen Strangers... and ALL the Ideas were published for free on the internet that week... 

Then The Police tracked down the Kidnappers and arrested them, put them in Prison for years... 

Time Passed... 

and Another Scientist, A Lady, was thinking back to her Own Time as Hostage and said: "I'm Bored. I Haven't Done Anything Revolutionary Since That Time I Was Forced to Think or Die."

So She went to Visit The Original Hostage and... They Spent a Week Making Love and Designing the Future... and They Published all their Ideas online... "That was FUN! Why Didn't we Think of that Before?" - "Well... I Guess we didn't have a Gun To Our Heads! and THAT'S Why we didn't Have The Mind Sprout... "  

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*JUST JOKING* A Step by Step Guide to the Violet Overgrow of the Ruling Class - A Novel by Gregory Vanderlaan *JUST JOKING*

Step #1: 

Boycott Everything Until Prices Come Down. 

Corporations owned by the 1% keep on raising prices and collecting windfall profits. They will keep on doing that until people quit buying. If they could, they would charge $100.00 for a Quart of Milk... 

Step #2: Sneak Marijuana Cookies onto the Buffet Tables of the Hotels near Capitol Hill in Washington DC. If the "Suits" that Run the Government had a Cannabis Trip... maybe they would think twice about doing evil for a living. Place some Cannabis Edibles in the Senate Dining Room also... At the very least they would change the CrazyLaws® about Marijuana... 

Step #3: Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. This will really anger the Ruling Class as They Profit Greatly from Corporate Welfare. Remember: Since 1945 the US Military has Never Defended the USA... Not Even Once... So all that money being spent at the Pentagon is Just a Way to Transfer Wealth from the Taxpayers to the Owners of Defense Corporations...  The same Owners Finance the Campaigns of the Senators and Congressmen that Write the Bills that Fund the Pentagon... So the Money Travels in a Tight Circle... and YOU GET NOTHING... 

Step #4: Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Corporations. "U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing new fossil fuel exploration, production, and consumption, which directly affects how much oil, natural gas, and coal gets produced—and how much clean energy doesn’t." https://generation180.org/the-absurd-truth-about-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

Step #5: YOUR IDEA HERE! Email Me: gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com 

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/digital-monkeywrench-silly-science.html

and then on FaceBorg: 

SE SAID: 

When you go out to hear live music, please DON’T ask the band if you can go up on stage and sing with them. You are not a member of said band, and you have no business expecting them to allow you to perform with them as if you were. You can make a request, but it’s up to the band whether or not they want to play your request - and if they do, THEY will be the ones to perform it, not you. The band is working and playing music to entertain you, and all you have to do is listen and enjoy the music. If you don’t like the music, you are free to go. But if you choose to stay, please show some respect and appreciation for what they do.

MM Responded:

So last night a young well groomed inebriated man started requesting a song for us to play. Before we could respond he said that he would like to join us onstage and sing it.

We said NO.

We’ve tried to be polite and said we do not play that song. He walked away and then a few minutes later came back to demand again. Again we said NO and we explained that if he wanted to do anything like that with us, he needed to audition and rehearse with us beforehand. We didn’t know him nor his singing abilities at all.

But he felt entitled to keep on harassing us to demand the song of us. We politely said we do not play the song (and it’s not a song that we would play—Hootenanny has stringent criteria about what tunes are acceptable for our list) and it’s not on our list of rehearsed songs. He then started to tell us that it’s only four chords—C Am… but we said that we are NOT a karaoke band nor a jukebox, and that he should get his own band.

“Worst band ever!” was his response as he staggered off. He probably won’t even remember any of this exchange tomorrow.

Meanwhile we also had a scruffy homeless guy visit us. He was a bit loud and all, but he was very appreciative of our music. His deep appreciation showed as he gave me two crumpled one dollar bills from his pocket afterwards, looked me in the eyes, and said “thank you” to me. He really meant it. Who knows what sort of battles he was fighting in his own head to get to the point where he became homeless but he was grateful enough to give back for entertaining him. Those two dollars were a gift of extreme value coming from him. I graciously said thank you back to him.

The young drunk man left us no tip. He danced with his partner for many songs too. We didn’t matter to him—we were beneath him. It was all about him and his needs.

In a weird Sci-fi twist ending, it would be weird if these two completely different people were one in the same—separated by 30 years of life lessons. My mind works like that sometimes.

and MM Continued:

Thanks SE. It doesn’t happen all the time—but on occasion we get someone who thinks that we can simply download from the cloud how to play a song into our brains, especially if it is a simple tune. Personally, I know how to play Stand by Me on guitar, bass and drums—but that doesn’t mean an audience member can ask us to do it so that they can sing it onstage with us. The good people that join us for a number or two—we know them and we know that they are good enough to sit in, or have rehearsed with us beforehand.

There are karaoke bands out there that can play pretty much any tune they can look up. We don’t do that. And the stuff we do is often deceptively simple but in reality quite challenging for a trio. Some people simply think musicians know all the songs by every artist. Yes, we’ve heard the song. We may even like it. But that’s not the same as rehearsing the song several times and getting the parts right before playing it. I think it’s the Disney sitcom mentality that people get used to—that someone asks for a song and the band miraculously plays it flawlessly without ever rehearsing it. Maybe for a piano player at a bar who can fake their way through a song on their own, but for a real life band it’s not as easy.

and I Replied: 

Quite an unusual story... I don't think I've ever heard of a member of the audience joining a band onstage... It would be totally rude! It would be really easy to just go find a Karaoke Bar and Sing there! 

I've played guitar and sang in public in the Central park in Chico and on the street... I was delighted to be in the center of a group of singing people... "Yellow Submarine" is a good group sing along song... so is "People are Strange" by the doors... and "Witchy Woman" by the Eagles... mainly because people can really freak out when they get to the lyric "Oooo, oo, oo, oo, ahh, oo, oo, ahh, ahh, ahh, oo, oo, oo, ahhhhhhhh, Who!" and then I liked to play the song "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" a Traditional Spiritual... That Way I Took the People to the Gates of HELL and then Brought them Back into the Light... saving their Souls at the Last Moment!