I Oppose War Between the USA and Russia. Let's say NO to the "No Fly Zone" Requests. Let's Say NO to Supplying Ukraine with Fighter Jets. It's THEIR WAR Not OURS.

"Those People Over There Are Behaving Crazy Again. Sure Glad It Isn't US."

Let's Continue to send Humanitarian Aid But Not Get Involved Militarily. Too Much of a Chance for a Nuclear War and the End of Life on Planet Earth. 

The BEST Hope for Peace in Ukraine is if the Russian Oligarchs Arrest PUTIN. The New President Could Simply End the War and Blame Putin for all the Troubles.  I Like the Sanctions... The More Money Russian Businessmen Lose the Faster They'll Have Putin Removed... 

I'm Totally in favor of Hackers attacking Russian Businesses, Military & Government Online... The DDoS Attacks by Anonymous Have Been Effective. Thanks! I Might as Well be In Favor Because They Certainly Are Not Looking For My Opinion or Approval... I Hope They Disrupt Supply Chains... 

Put Putin in Prison - and Putin's Puppet Too!
Put Putin in Prison - and Putin's Puppet Too!


I Wrote to These Four People. Told 'em my Opinion... They'll Never Know What I Think Unless I Tell 'em. 





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Find Your Representative:
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

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President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S. will ban all Russian oil imports, Natural Gas and Coal toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, but he acknowledged it will bring costs to Americans, particularly at the gas pump.

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Why Biden Is Exactly Right to Reject a 'No-Fly Zone' for Ukraine

Shooting down Russian planes and bombing Russian anti-aircraft sites would greatly increase the risks of escalation, up to and including a nuclear confrontation.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/07/why-biden-exactly-right-reject-no-fly-zone-ukraine

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On a different subject:

Interest in Eastern Religion is Fundamentally BEATLEMANIA. Teenagers Going Ga Ga over The Fab Four's Adventure. We must Remember that Back when India was a Colony, Young Men in England Often Went there as a Coming of Age Ritual. Serving in the Military or as Employees of a British Corporation... It's No Surprise That The Beatles Made that Same Journey... It's Kind of a Phase People Go Thru... Like American College Students Read "The Russians" as a Part of their Undergraduate Education... or Spending the Junior Year in Europe... Investigating Eastern Religion is a Step on their Spiritual Journey... and Once We Have Done That Step, it's time to Move On... It would be really silly to be Chanting Sanskrit in Your 40s... "Oh Wah, Tofu, Liam... Oh Wah, Tofu, Liam... Oh What A Fool I Am..."

Another Example of "Lads Gone Native" is the Tale of Lord Greystoke... also known as Tarzan... In Fact, Many British Men went to Africa to Build Railroads and Entire Towns in the Colonies. A Great Movie about this is "The Ghost and the Darkness" - it's a 1996 American historical adventure film starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.

Of Course, "After Bathing at Baxters" (Eating LSD) there is an Automatic Interest in Eastern Religion... Mainly because one of the Standard Effects of Psychedelics is that "True Enlightenment" Feeling... I Felt like I Was The Buddha... Watching a Sunrise While Sitting in a Field in Chico, CA - Many People Have a Religious Experience and Almost None simulate what Happened to Jesus... Most Simulate Moses or Buddha or KRSNA. And then Later it's FUN to Read Books Like "Remember, Be Here Now" that appeals to American Teenagers Just Like Any Other Comic Book Would. Most of that Book is Wonderful Illustrations with a Few Words Explaining the Fundamentals of Hinduism... It's Ironic that the Man who taught Richard Alpert to Be Here Now was a Laguna Beach Surfer Named Kermit Michael Riggs. So They Both went all the way to India to Get California Teachings! But Seriously, They Both Had Many Interesting Experiences There and Met a Guru... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavan_Das_(yogi)

It's pretty Obvious that Vladimir Putin Has Not Had the LSD Experience. He Still Has that Pre-Psychedelic World View... Some People Missed the Magic Bus and It Shows... SAD... 

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and then I read:

A man was asked to paint a boat. He brought his paint and brushes and began to paint the boat a bright red, as the owner asked him.
While painting, he noticed a small hole in the hull, and quietly repaired it.
When he finished painting, he received his money and left.
The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter and presented him with a nice check, much higher than the payment for painting.
The painter was surprised and said “You've already paid me for painting the boat Sir!”
“But this is not for the paint job. It's for repairing the hole in the boat.”
“Ah! But it was such a small service... certainly it's not worth paying me such a high amount for something so insignificant.”
“My dear friend, you do not understand. Let me tell you what happened:
“When I asked you to paint the boat, I forgot to mention the hole.
“When the boat dried, my kids took the boat and went on a fishing trip.
“They did not know that there was a hole. I was not at home at that time.
“When I returned and noticed they had taken the boat, I was desperate because I remembered that the boat had a hole.
“Imagine my relief and joy when I saw them returning from fishing.
“Then, I examined the boat and found that you had repaired the hole!
“You see, now, what you did? You saved the life of my children! I do not have enough money to pay your 'small' good deed.”
So no matter who, when or how, continue to help, sustain, wipe tears, listen attentively, and carefully repair all the 'leaks' you find. You never know when one is in need of us, or when God holds a pleasant surprise for us to be helpful and important to someone.
Along the way, you may have repaired numerous 'boat holes' for several people without realizing how many lives you've save. ❤️
Make a difference....

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and then I read: 

I DON'T THINK PISSED REALLY COVERS IT ! ! !

Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bxxxxds" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bxxxxxxt" to your incompetence.
Well, Captain Bxxxxxxit, I have a few questions for YOU:
1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bxxxxxxt, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.
And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.
That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.
And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bxxxxx.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!
I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years “It's my money”-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks .
EVERYONE!! If you agree with what a Montana citizen, Patty Myers, says, please PASS IT ON!!!!

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and on the Subject of The San Francisco Diggers and Humboldt County.

This far-ranging interview offers Jane Lapiner and David Simpson’s P.O.V. of the whole SF Haight/Ashbury experience, leading up to the beginning of the Back to the Land Movement and beyond. I’m honored to have provided the lead illustration, which came from an interview I did a few years ago with them in connection with their work with their theater troupe: Human Nature. (Look for it the the comments.)
I will have to go back through Jay’s interview to follow the many links to others connected to The Diggers and many other characters in the wider hippie/commune world.
Also, be aware of the connection with the current Women 2 Fierce Festival. On Thursday at 8 pm and Friday at 9:30 pm, Joyous Raven will present her one-woman autobiographical theater piece, “Breed or Bust,” where she “wrestles with” the big question, “to breed or not to breed.” Joyous is the progeny of Jane and David, who thankfully decided to breed.
When I interviewed her parents, they were touring around the world with a musical comedy titled, “What’s So Funny About Global Warming?” At the time Ms. Raven was aka Joyous Simpson, and in a bit of overshadowing, she was playing a character called Raven. Somewhere I have a Human Nature t-shirt with a Raven on it. I’ll have to see if I can dig it out.
Anyway, put aside some time to ramble through this long strange trip through our mutual history. And yes, the Grateful Dead make a fleeting appearance along with numerous fascinating people.
Diggers many years later


In 2010, I drove to northern California from my home in Joshua Tree to interview as many living Diggers as would talk to me. Each conversation over those few days felt like a breakthrough—a motherlode of historical detail and insight beyond what I had gleaned from book research. And each Digger I interviewed was excited to learn that I was headed to Humboldt County to interview Jane Lapiner and David W. Simpson at their forest home. This couple, together since April, 1967, was beloved by other Diggers. If I was interviewing them, it meant that I was really doing my work. Instant Diggers cred.
In 2022, the Diggers are little-known. But in 1966-8, such was the Diggers’ presence and notoriety that seemingly every reporter filing a story on the Haight included the Diggers in their account. “A band of hippie do-gooders,” said Time magazine. “A true peace corps,” wrote local daily newspaper columnist (and future Rolling Stone editor) Ralph J. Gleason. The Beatles’ press officer Derek Taylor would later write, “[The Diggers] were in my opinion the core of the whole underground counterculture because they were our conscience.”
Jane Lapiner and David Simpson were in their mid-20s during the Diggers period. Jane was a single mother from New York City with a background in leftist, avant garde dance; David was a Chicago-bred lefty dropout from the University of Wisconsin, who’d been a competitive boxer in high school, shared a house with pre-stardom Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs, served in the Coast Guard and was trimming trees in the East Bay when… But hold on, I’m telling their stories, instead of letting these award-winning storytellers tell it themselves.
What follows is a consolidation of conversations the three of us had one night and the next morning inside their farmhouse home, warmed by a wood stove and good food. I am grateful for their hospitality, and the life-example they continue to set. There are some ‘60s people who went back to the land and didn’t fail. Jane and David are those people.
(link to 18,000-word interview in comments)
photo: Bob Doran for North Coast Journal, 2010


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