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A poster designed by #GilbertShelton for the headshop that he started with his friends in Austin.
Austinite Leea C. Mechling remembered, “They sold Johnny Winter his first pair of sandals, the black straps dark against his pale while calves. They started taking homemade items on consignment like beaded necklaces and chicken bone necklaces. They sold pipes, papers, scales and other types of paraphernalia. They expanded into selling toys, books and underground comix, clothing, used records, beaded curtains, batik bedspreads. They would hold book signings by local artists and give away free local art posters to shows at the Armadillo World Headquarters and Soap Creek Saloon calendars of band appearances. They had the very first black light poster room in Austin, perhaps in all of Texas. A cat named Lisa who liked to sleep on the cash register provided security.”
Austinite Leea C. Mechling remembered, “They sold Johnny Winter his first pair of sandals, the black straps dark against his pale while calves. They started taking homemade items on consignment like beaded necklaces and chicken bone necklaces. They sold pipes, papers, scales and other types of paraphernalia. They expanded into selling toys, books and underground comix, clothing, used records, beaded curtains, batik bedspreads. They would hold book signings by local artists and give away free local art posters to shows at the Armadillo World Headquarters and Soap Creek Saloon calendars of band appearances. They had the very first black light poster room in Austin, perhaps in all of Texas. A cat named Lisa who liked to sleep on the cash register provided security.”
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Top 10 Reasons for Voting Democratic... Please Share These Facts Nationwide... This is important!
1. Expanding healthcare access and lowering costs. Democrats have worked to expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and preserve protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
The party has committed to lowering the costs of prescription drugs, and recent legislation allows Medicare to negotiate the price of some drugs.
They support achieving universal, affordable, quality healthcare.
2. Addressing climate change and investing in clean energy. Recent platforms emphasize tackling the climate crisis and building a clean energy economy.
Democrats support investments in new clean energy technologies and infrastructure through laws like the Inflation Reduction Act.
3. Growing the economy and supporting workers. The party promotes creating more well-paying jobs, including union jobs, and focuses on lowering costs for families.
They advocate for a fair tax system where the wealthy pay more and have supported measures to expand overtime pay.
Some Democrats have pushed for a higher federal minimum wage.
4. Protecting reproductive rights. Democratic platforms support restoring Roe v. Wade as the law of the land and protecting access to reproductive care.
Pew Research Center reports that the vast majority of Democrats believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
5. Strengthening Social Security and Medicare. The Democratic Party emphasizes protecting and fixing Social Security and Medicare to ensure the long-term viability of these programs.
6. Advocating for gun reform. Democrats generally advocate for stricter gun safety laws, including universal background checks.
7. Advancing civil rights and social justice. The party platform supports civil rights for LGBTQ+ Americans and addressing systemic issues of racial inequality.
Democrats often align with broader movements for social justice and equality.
8. Reforming immigration. Recent Democratic proposals have called for fixing what they describe as outdated and broken immigration laws while investing in smarter, more effective border security.
Some progressive wings of the party advocate for more liberal immigration policies and paths to citizenship.
9. Investing in education. Democrats support expanding access to affordable education, from early education programs like Head Start to easing the burden of student loan debt.
They advocate for providing a high-quality education to children in every zip code.
10. Protecting voting rights and democratic institutions. Protecting and expanding voting rights is a core Democratic issue, with many focusing on making it easier for citizens to vote and pushing back against alleged voter suppression efforts.
Some Democrats oppose the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote.
The party has committed to lowering the costs of prescription drugs, and recent legislation allows Medicare to negotiate the price of some drugs.
They support achieving universal, affordable, quality healthcare.
2. Addressing climate change and investing in clean energy. Recent platforms emphasize tackling the climate crisis and building a clean energy economy.
Democrats support investments in new clean energy technologies and infrastructure through laws like the Inflation Reduction Act.
3. Growing the economy and supporting workers. The party promotes creating more well-paying jobs, including union jobs, and focuses on lowering costs for families.
They advocate for a fair tax system where the wealthy pay more and have supported measures to expand overtime pay.
Some Democrats have pushed for a higher federal minimum wage.
4. Protecting reproductive rights. Democratic platforms support restoring Roe v. Wade as the law of the land and protecting access to reproductive care.
Pew Research Center reports that the vast majority of Democrats believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
5. Strengthening Social Security and Medicare. The Democratic Party emphasizes protecting and fixing Social Security and Medicare to ensure the long-term viability of these programs.
6. Advocating for gun reform. Democrats generally advocate for stricter gun safety laws, including universal background checks.
7. Advancing civil rights and social justice. The party platform supports civil rights for LGBTQ+ Americans and addressing systemic issues of racial inequality.
Democrats often align with broader movements for social justice and equality.
8. Reforming immigration. Recent Democratic proposals have called for fixing what they describe as outdated and broken immigration laws while investing in smarter, more effective border security.
Some progressive wings of the party advocate for more liberal immigration policies and paths to citizenship.
9. Investing in education. Democrats support expanding access to affordable education, from early education programs like Head Start to easing the burden of student loan debt.
They advocate for providing a high-quality education to children in every zip code.
10. Protecting voting rights and democratic institutions. Protecting and expanding voting rights is a core Democratic issue, with many focusing on making it easier for citizens to vote and pushing back against alleged voter suppression efforts.
Some Democrats oppose the Electoral College in favor of a national popular vote.
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The above paragraphs were written by Google A.I.
My opinions below...
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Democrats need to do Everything Possible to Win the Midterm Elections. Including Abandoning "Total Weirdo" Causes... The Majority of Voters Reject CrazyTalk® For example: Most people don't care one way or another about homosexuality... But somehow, the GOP has painted the Democratic Party as being "Pro Gay"... Including letting Boys play in Girls Sports in School...
It's important to remember that Gay Pride is more than Parades, Musicals and Riots, it's also countless hours spent at the hospital watching your friends die of AIDS... And listening to them cry about what a mistake it was... To choose Gay Men Sex...
The other thing the Democratic party needs to dump is DEI... It's the Exact Opposite of Dr Martin Luther King's dream... Where people were judged by the quality of their character rather than the color of their skin... DEI says: Discriminate Against White Men... Imagine if we had Bizarro hiring quotas in the National Basketball League... Right now, almost all the players are tall black men... That obviously discriminates against Chinese people... Should we require that short people be hired at the NBA in order to balance height discrimination? Of course not!
A friend of mine worked at the NSA and she said that they never paid attention to any affirmative action quotas at all because: "What we do here is Really Important and we have to hire the best and the brightest no matter what."
Here's a video on how to remove DEI from your office or workplace... Satire, mockery and ridicule...
It's Obvious: DEI= Racism against White Men.
I remember an application for a scholarship by Microsoft that said "Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply."--- the only people who are NOT Women or Minorities are White Men... So I assumed that White Men were NOT encouraged to apply... I found out later that that quotation printed on the application was totally meaningless and they still awarded all the scholarships to White Men anyway because... "What we do here is really important and we have to hire the best and the brightest no matter what!"
After the midterm elections maybe we'll go back to fighting the good fight... But right now, we have to WIN a Democratic Victory and we can't do that and accomplish all those other goals as well... And when it comes to the Next Presidential Election, Let's Remember that Women Always Lose. 100% of the Presidents of the United States have been Men... And 98.9% have been White Men... Barack Obama had a White mother and a Black father and as soon as the time came around to actually raise the child, the black father ran away and moved right back to Africa... Barack was raised in the White Culture with a White Mother and Two White Grandparents... And also had the Hawaiian influence of Japanese people, Indonesian people and native Hawaiians... Absolutely no inputs from any kind of Black Culture at all...
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One thing we could do is
Promote Popular Ideas!
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David Hogg: Activist and Parkland shooting survivor ran and won the Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. He Wants Democrats To Hear Uncomfortable Truths...
But now the Democratic party has thrown him out! Because they'd rather lose elections than give up their sacred cows... We got to get all the old people out... They should retire and go to the beach... Learn to play the banjo... Whatever...
When will we OUTLAW GUNS, COLLECT GUNS and MELT GUNS? Murder at Superbowl Parade... and at a Houston Church... and... and... and...
Please write to Your Senators and Representative in the US House and Say:
END THE MADNESS!
I wrote... You Can Too!
Did You Know? Trump Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law. If a Person is Getting a Social Security Disability Check Due to INSANITY... That Fact Can Now Be Kept SECRET on a Gun Purchase Background Check...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-made-it-easier-mentally-ill-get-guns-when-n1039301
President Donald Trump responded to the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings by insisting Monday that “mental illness pulls the trigger not the gun,” but shortly after taking office he quietly rolled back an Obama-era regulation that would have made it harder for people with mental illness to buy guns.
Trump did so without any fanfare. In fact, the news that Trump had signed the bill was at the bottom of a White House email that alerted the media to other legislation signed by the president.
And it came after the House and Senate, both of which were Republican-controlled at the time, passed a bill, H.J. Res 40, which revoked the Obama-era regulation.
Trump did so without any fanfare. In fact, the news that Trump had signed the bill was at the bottom of a White House email that alerted the media to other legislation signed by the president.
And it came after the House and Senate, both of which were Republican-controlled at the time, passed a bill, H.J. Res 40, which revoked the Obama-era regulation.
OUTLAW ASSAULT RIFLES - Americans Have Had ENOUGH Murder. Put It To A Vote In Congress To Find Out Who Is EVIL.
Contact Congress and Tell 'em: "END THE MASS MURDER BY ASSAULT RIFLE. Pass a Bill to Outlaw Them!"
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BUY AMERICAN MONTH = Shop at a Thrift Store. Here's a Guide to The Best Values in the USA. Remember: REFUSE TO BUY CHINESE JUNK. The Profits are Donated to Charity... Fixing Broken American Lives!
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Stock Tip: Sell Exxon BP Chevron - Obviously ExxonValdez, BP and Chevron are Destroying The Planet... I switched my investments to Carrier and Trane because Air Conditioners are Wonderful... Old People Die in Extreme Heat!
Oil companies rake in huge profits amid consumer squeeze... https://thehill.com/policy/3709759-oil-companies-rake-in-huge-profits-amid-consumer-squeeze/
#ArrestTrump - Contact the DOJ and Tell 'em "Do Your Job!" - Here's the Link to Email the Department of Justice.
They Won't Enforce the Law Unless You Tell 'em:
"OUTLAW CRIME!"
The Midterm Elections Are Over.
The Time Has Come To #ArrestTrump.
No More Excuses, No Special Commissions.
TODAY Would be a Great Day to
#LockHimUP
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Trump Received Money From Russia. GOP operative convicted of funneling Russian donation to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Why Hasn't Trump Been Arrested and Convicted for This Crime?
Republican political operative Jesse Benton was convicted in federal court of funneling $25,000 from a Russian businessman to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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My Best Pictures - Psychedelic Art and Travel Photos of California by Gregory Vanderlaan - Felt Pen Drawings and Potatoshop Freakouts!
While Reviewing the Thousands of Pictures I Stored in Google Drive... I Found these Gems!
More My Best Pictures: A Psychedelic Art Show & Travel Photographs of my Journeys in California... With Comments about What the Pictures Show!
CALM Medic Tent at the Rainbow Gathering California... It was an Excellent Experience to Sit in the Forest and Draw... While Campers Walked By... CALM is a Volunteer Health Center... Most Famous for Healing Blisters on Feet... and Providing Hot Tea to Cure a Cough...
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Sacramento River near Chico... at Scotty's Boat Ramp and Bar... Plenty of Water. This swim reminded me that We let Fresh Water Just Flow out into the Ocean at the Golden Gate Bridge... What a Waste... We Ought to Pump the water onto fields to grow crops...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/11/more-my-best-pictures.html
The Human Be-In, also remembered as the “Pow Wow” & The Gathering of the Tribes, was held in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco 57 years ago on this day back in 1967, in which the world was invited to join in spiritual togetherness. It is generally considered to be one of the most important events in the hippie/counter culture movement. A prelude to the San Francisco Summer of Love, the gathering promoted key ideas of the counterculture ... personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological awareness, and higher consciousness. Music, dance, and spoken word conveyed these messages. It featured “All S. F. Rock Groups,” including the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Country Joe & The Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and a host of others including LSD guru Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Dick Gregory, Lenore Kandel, and Jerry Ruben. Timothy Leary, set the tone for the Human Be-In with his famous phrase "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out." Several different posters and handbills were made for the event. This one was designed by Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, and Michael Bowen. I am fortunate enough to have the original plates to the poster & handbill here in my archives!
Also seen here is the Original Artwork to the poster…just WoW!
This was another incredible event that helped usher in my involvement in the Hippie movement as a kid of just 16 years. It was a beautiful day in SF. LSD was provided en mass by the legendary chemist Owsley “Bear” Stanley, who was also the sound operator for the Grateful Dead and is the namesake behind the famous Grateful Dead dancing bears. The Diggers provided free food to the crowds, which were estimated in excess of 30,000. It was a day I will NEVER forget! This gathering changed a lot of lives.....
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Hofmann Collection
The Albert Hofmann Collection is a collection of around 4,000 scientific articles related primarily to LSD, but also psilocybin, BOL (an obscure relative of LSD), and a handful of other psychoactive chemicals. These articles were nearly all cut from original journals and then bound with tape into 93 cloth bound binders. It covers almost all of the world's scientific literature about psychedelics through the early 1980s.
While Albert Hofmann was working at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, where he first synthesized LSD, he and his staff collected any journal articles, news stories, and mentions of LSD that they could find, cutting them from journals or copying them, taping them into binders, and organizing them into a sequential physical library.
In 2001-2002, with Albert Hofmann's knowledge and permission, Erowid accepted the boxes of Hofmann's binders' from the Albert Hofmann Foundation. We carefully disassembled the binders and scanned the documents. The digital documents were entered into a database while the physical collection was returned to Switzerland. The result is this digital archive, The Albert Hofmann Collection, available to the public through Erowid.
Will post link to collection in comments
#PsychedelicSynchronicity
“It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation. I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.” - Albert Hofmann, Speech on his 100th birthday
Malaria drug Trump touted as Covid cure increased chance of death.
Study calculated that there was an 11% increase in mortality associated with cases involving the use of hydroxychloroquine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/hydroxychloroquine-covid-increase-chance-death-trump
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The Catholic Church... Prohibiting Birth Control has CAUSED over-breeding and starving children... The Parents want a Better Life in a Country where they can FEED their Children...
The consequences of Over Breeding.
and I said:
reading about someone having a "Religious Experience" is so freaking LAME... Eat Psychedelics and have a religious experience yourself! Especially PEYOTE... It's Very similar to Moses and the Burning Bush...
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My brother wrote: We Went To the annual memorial for those who died on the streets of San Francisco this past year. About 300 names read.
I was moved by this funeral... And Confused... I worked with homeless people for 7 years for the county of Humboldt and I had three clients die... Three... Of course that was a different era and Fentanyl had not been invented yet but... It seems like someone could be doing a better job of serving the homeless community...
One of my dead clients was an old wino sleeping in the rain and he died from exposure... He stayed at the mission a lot but they don't let you drink... He also stayed at the Humboldt County Jail a lot...
Another one of my dead clients was very rude when he was in the office... He was very angry all the time... And evidently he behaved like that out in the real world as well... Because he was mouthing off to a man that cut fish at The Cannery... And those fillet knives do an excellent job on murdering a loud mouth...
And the third client, took advantage of our transportation assistance program... Where we buy gas for your car so you can drive to some other location in the United States... Sadly... He took the money and bought heroin... And died...
I keep on thinking that the county of San Francisco probably has job openings for eligibility workers...
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Here is a Psychedelic Art Kaleidoscope Mandala Animation - Use Scrollbars to View Full Screen!
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