Climate Change is Causing Massive Wildfires in Florida. While Trump Tweets Lies Stating that Climate Change is a Hoax, Reality Actually Exists! And it's possible that Trump's Hotel Mar-A-Loser will Burn to the Ground!

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What is Bubble Up Economics?

How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady

66  Million Dead Trees pose a Fire Hazard in California. Fortunately, we have Many BIOMASS Power Plants that are able to Use the Dead Wood to Create Electricity... A Practical Alternative to Coal, Nukes or Natural Gas. Sadly, the Federal Subsidies that Fund the Biomass Power Stations have dried up and MOST of California's Biomass Power Plants Have Been Closed, due to Market Conditions... Endangering People and Animals to Wildfire Hazards. SEE: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Turn-California-s-dead-trees-into-electricity-9204001.php


Arrest William Barr...  He Helped Trump Make CRIME LEGAL for his Friends. Billy is Obviously Corrupt... Lock Him UP! ---> 1,100 Former DOJ Employees Call On Barr To Resign After Intervening In Stone Case https://www.npr.org/2020/02/16/806525297/1-100-former-doj-employees-call-on-barr-to-resign-after-intervening-in-stone-cas

Classic... Trump CAUGHT LYING Again... No Great Photographs of Trump's Trip? Use a Picture of George Bush's Trip instead... The Baby TrumpNiks Won't Know the Difference. ---> Trump campaign manager deletes dramatic Air Force One photo after people point out it's from 2004 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/16/politics/parscale-tweet-daytona-500-air-force-one-photo/index.html

Climate Change is Real and Caused by Human Action... Stop all that Flying Around in Jet Airplanes... Drive Cars and Trucks Less... MUCH LESS. Why are people rushing around so madly? Where are they Going? What is the NEED? Why Not Grow Where You Are Planted? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/13/climate/manila-san-francisco-sea-level-rise.html

Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/lets-build-solar-powered-desalinization.html

Practice The "Scientific Method" - Collect Fact, Draw Conclusions... It's The Opposite of The "Republicrime Method" - Ask the Rich what they want to Hear, Create Facts to Support their Desired Conclusions. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/do-you-trust-science-these-five-factors-play-big-role

COAL KILLS. Remember the London Fog? We are all living in a London Fog Situation Right Now... Here is an article Trumpeting the Wonders of COAL... Written by A "Reporter Prostitute" - Whatever You Pay Her to Say, She will Say it... and No Opportunity to COMMENT on this Article... NO FEEDBACK or DEBATE Allowed... Pure Propaganda... https://www.inforum.com/opinion/letters/4952761-Grande-A-dangerous-push-towards-renewables

We went to Disneyland... We ALSO went to Fairyland at Lake Merritt in Oakland. The Place that INSPIRED WALT DISNEY to build Disneyland. My Favorite Ride at Disneyland was The Carousel of Progress... Here is a Behind the Scenes Look at How The Robots are Programmed... Quite Revolutionary...
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 EPCOT is Better... In Orlando Florida... The Experimental Planned Community of Tomorrow - AND - The Magic Kingdom - AND - Other Bizarre Shows Nearby Like the Medieval Jousting Dinner Theater... I Camped Out There for Five Days and Visited Epcot Every Morning, then slept during the heat of the day and went back at Night... Too Many Mosquitos...

And then SE said:
I get really sick and tired of people bashing California and saying things that aren't true. Yes, it's extremely expensive to live here, and yes, there are a lot of homeless people here, and yes, that's a bad thing. But it's NOT TRUE that our streets and sidewalks are covered with human waste. I realize that homeless people living in encampments don't usually have access to a proper bathroom, so they have to go somewhere, and that's not good. But they're not just using the streets and sidewalks everywhere. That is ridiculous, and it's a lie being perpetuated by right-wing media...but other people are hearing that lie and repeating it as if it's the truth, but it's not. If you listen to right-wing media, they'll lead you to believe that the streets of San Francisco are covered with feces and syringes and that there's tons of crime everywhere, like some kind of war zone or something. But every time I go to San Francisco, it looks exactly the same as it always has. I've never seen human waste anywhere on the streets or sidewalks of San Francisco or San Jose. I'm not denying that it's probably there somewhere, probably in areas with the biggest homeless encampments. But unless you're walking through an encampment, you're not going to see that. San Francisco is a beautiful, vibrant city with a lot of energy and a lot of interesting things to see and do. It's not some filthy war zone, and it gets really tiring having to explain that to people who blindly believe everything they hear on Fox news.
From what I've been told by multiple different people, homelessness is a problem in big cities all over the US right now. The right-wing media loves to focus on San Francisco, and they love to say that it's only cities run by Democrats that have homelessness. But from my understanding, this is absolutely not true. Big cities all over the country are dealing with homelessness, and it has nothing to do with whether or not the city is run by Democrats. Again, this is a right-wing LIE.
The only thing wrong with California is overcrowding. This is due to too many people wanting to live here, and we just don't have room for so many people, so the cost of living keeps going up and the homeless population continues to grow. Many people think the solution to this is building more housing. I have mixed feelings about that, because they ARE building housing on every available piece of land, and yet the cost of housing continues to go up. Every new high-density apartment building is more expensive than the last. So basically, what they're doing is building housing that only the wealthy can afford. If they would actually build housing which is affordable to lower-income people, then maybe I'd agree that it's a good thing. But endless luxury housing is not helping the situation.
Bottom line: people want to be here. They can't build housing fast enough to keep up with demand, and it doesn't matter how expensive the new housing is, people always pay whatever it costs because that's how badly they want to be here. Do you think people would be willing to pay $5000 a month for an apartment if the streets were really littered with human waste and syringes? If that were true, CA would be a barren wasteland of empty apartments because nobody would want to live in such a filthy place. But it's NOT filthy. It's beautiful and desirable, and that's why people are willing to pay so much to live here. Don't believe the right-wing LIES.

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Civil Rights Group Issues Warning Against Travel to Florida... They Have GUNS, Floods, The Giant Stinky Seaweed Blob and The Red Tide.

It's A Horrible Place to Take a Vacation!

https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/civil-rights-group-issues-warning

Gay men, lesbians, transgender Americans and others are being warned to curb non-essential travel to Florida as a result of a spate of recent actions taken by Sunshine State Republicans, led by Gov Ron DeSantis.

That's the unprecedented warning from an organization which calls itself Florida's largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for the state's LGBTQ residents.

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Senate Panel Holds SCOTUS Ethics Hearing Amid Mounting Conflict of Interest Scandals.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a contentious hearing on ethics standards for Supreme Court justices, following a series of revelations around conservative justices’ financial entanglements. This is Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: “The Supreme Court is playing out of bounds of the ethics rules for federal judges. Justices read the ethics rules in unique and eccentric ways, and when they’re caught out of bounds, they refuse to allow any investigation of the facts.”

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George Mason University's Law’s tight ties to SCOTUS.

George Mason University’s law school has cultivated an “unusually expansive relationship” with conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, creating an environment where “their legal views are celebrated, they are given top pay and treated to teaching trips abroad.”—New York Times

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I don’t typically post anything on here but this morning I was out with my dog at the coopers gulch and I spoke with a city employee and asked what he was spraying and he told me he was spraying ROUND UP!!.

The main reason I am posting this is to let anyone who has taken there dogs to the park (next to the skatepark) and if your dog gets sick please take them to the vets and tell them that they have been exposed to ROUND UP or better still stay away for 48 hours, and the same thing for children too..

Sorry about the complaining but this made me pretty upset as they were doing this at 6:00 am so no one is there to see it, in my opinion.

May 4th, 2023

and SG Said on FaceBorg:

(I`m asking for just 5 min. of your time to read this. Some historical reminders and present day situations important for you to reflect upon, and especially make others aware of, please) ~

When Hitler and The NAZI Party took power in Germany of the 30s there were major changes that had to be made to ensure their absolute power. These things should be all too familiar to us as well now as they were also implemented first by Trump and continuing with HIS NOW GOP, with more to come be assured. Without any stretching of the imagination these are the NAZI ploys THEY have also imitated to hopefully ensure THEIR power should things continue in the direction THEY desire.

The first things Hitler and his NAZI Party implemented were to totally disregard Germany`s Fed. rights guarantees for ALL of it`s citizens and make it apply only to their selective demographics. That also involved tearing up Germany`s present Constitution.

Next for the NAZIs to attack was Germany`s legal system, and firing and replacing hundreds of judges which of course meant only members of the NAZI Party could be judges (of course all Jewish judges removed). Starting to sound familiar yet? What was the first thing Trump did when he took office? The firing of over 300 Fed. judges and replaced with his personal picks for judges. No Presidents in America`s history ever did that even on a small scale of only a few. Doesn`t end there in what went on and continues either.

The NAZI party only had a small base that ever voted for them so they set about resolving that problem. Once in power they put all elections on hold, but told the German people when (and if) they would resume not all people`s votes eligible to be counted (of course elections never did resume). Republican Governors in states like Texas, Florida, and other Red States have implemented many vote restricting laws targeting specific demographics that typically vote for their opposition. Minorities, senior citizens, students enrolled in colleges, and some others that have swung away from the Republican Party.

Going back to The NAZI Party ignoring established individuals rights eventually leading to tearing up Germany`s Constitution, the GOP have exactly those same plans for us should certain things continue in their favor. Republican leadership in recent yr.s made it very clear to their voters that whenever there is again a Republican Pres. with control of both houses of Congress that they will convene a new "Constitutional Convention" that they said will only be to "update" the present one. Translation: They will do as the NAZI Party did with Germany`s and tear up and replace it with one to guarantee future Republican Party control over America.

To finish, you can be sure what is now The 1st Amend. will look greatly different with selective speech allowed and our becoming a GOP "Christian"(?) theocracy. The present 2nd Amend. they seem to be in love with won`t even exist in their new Constitution. With them in total power it will be Republicans in power that will outlaw individual gun ownership (especially those equal to our military`s). So, Republicans want history to repeat itself their given a chance. 1930s Germany`s happening on American soil that is. FACT not opinion be it known by us all. Tell others what you have read here so we can all stand together (especially in 2024) to stem the tide of Republican fascism they destine for our country. Thank you for what I know will be your concern, my REAL Americans.

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Evidence is the only way to determine if something is true. - Richard Dawkins - Great Books: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - John Marks The Monkeywrench Gang - Ed Abbey

I saw a TV Show called "9/11 The Towers and The Pentagon" that had a lot of film that I had not seen before. However, there are still no photographs of an AIRPLANE at The Pentagon. Quite mysterious...

Unsolved Mysteries - Why are there No Photographs of an Airplane at the Pentagon on 9/11/2001?

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Laura Flanders TV Show: Trump's budget for the USA reduces the amount spent on people and the environment and increases the amount spent on the military.
17 years of war in the Middle East has left the USA in more danger than before. Terrorist Organizations use our bombing to recruit new members.
The War has caused great destruction of the countries in the Middle East. Clearly spending money on the Military is a bad idea.
It didn't help Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Great Books:
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - John Marks
The Monkeywrench Gang - Ed Abbey
I Robot - Isaac Asimov
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
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Ancient Aliens TV Show - Legendary Times Magazine - Giorgio Tsoukolos
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Save Richardson Grove Redwood Trees in California. On Highway 101 on the way towards Eureka from San Francisco the road goes thru a stand of old growth Redwoods. The road twists and turns in such a way that it's easy for cars and trucks to drive thru but not Two Trailer trucks. Corporations have been trying to widen the road for decades but tree huggers have prevented the removal of the forest for increased profit. There is another way to get merchandise to Eureka from San Francisco...
Use boats... Both cities have great harbors.
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bioneers.org mushrooms and bee life extension. Paul Stamits. Bees that eat certain mushrooms that grow on birch trees live longer. It fights viruses that grow on mites. Old growth forests are intelligent. We cannot talk to them because of our lack of a common language. The bees knew that they should eat the mushrooms.
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It appears that the Gods are angry at us. Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Forest Fires. I think there is a message... Global Warming is Real and we ought to do something about it. Drive our cars less, exhaust causes air pollution and increases Greenhouse Gasses in the atmosphere. Use less electricity... Power plants often burn coal or natural gas and pollute the air. If it becomes normal to have two Hurricanes every year in the USA a large coastal area will become uninhabitable. From Texas to Florida and up the east coast all the way to New York will become a disaster zone.
Maybe we need Aztec or Mayan Priests to sacrifice a virgin on top of a pyramid. Maybe that would appease the Gods. I read an article in the newspaper that says the best place to survive global warming is Eureka, California. I hate reading such articles because those of us that are already here don't want a bunch of immigrants moving here. It would wreck everything... Too many people cause traffic jams, increase rental prices and cause long lines at the grocery stores. So, don't come here... keep on going North to Oregon! It's great there!
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Let's build cities using Disney's original EPCOT Design. Concentric circles connected by monorails.
Work in the center surrounded by home/shopping then parks and farms. That way people would not waste so much time commuting to work. Less money spent on gas for cars, less air pollution, less global warming and fewer hurricanes. For example consider San Jose California. There is a lot of work available at computer companies. However there are not enough homes for the people that work there. Many people commute over an hour from the bedroom communities of Santa Cruz or Tracy. If we moved the jobs closer to where the people live, the workers would be happier since they would not be spending an hour stuck in a traffic jam every morning before work. Also the employees would not be spending so much money on housing and automobile fuel. We could move offices by creating a database of where the employees live and building new work locations near those locations. Under the current system, zoning laws separate factories from homes. That made sense when factories
caused air and water pollution and people did not want to live near that pollution. However, many jobs today are office work where people sit at desks and work on computers all day. No pollution at office jobs. We could have these employers move to the suburbs. Maybe they could use the abandoned shopping malls. Amazon's business model has caused traditional retail businesses to go bankrupt. It is simply more efficient to shop online and have the USPS deliver the products than for the shoppers dive to the shopping mall and buy the products there. I see that Amazon is planning to build a second headquarters where they will be hiring 50,000 people. A better plan would be to create 10 mini headquarters employing 5,000 people each. Each of these mini headquarters could use the EPCOT model. Experimental Planned City of Tomorrow. It's simply better.
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My Journey to The Rainbow Gathering in Pennsylvania in the 1980's... Autobiography... and EPCOT in Florida, Niagara Falls, Canada...

This event really started at the Spectrum Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at a three day Grateful Dead concert. That's When I Got an Invitation to The gathering. A Card given to me by a Guy Who Believed I Was Worthy.

It eventually turned out to be a five month vacation traveling from Washington DC to Key West, Florida to Niagara Falls, Canada looking for the best beach on the East Coast. IMHO... It's Fernandina Beach In Florida Near the Northern Border. 

I drove up from Washington DC and camped out in the Spectrum parking lot in my car. During the daytime, we were able to swim at a public pool across the street. The local residents had the lifeguards pull a rope across the pool so we swam on one side of the pool and they enjoyed the other... sort of like segregation except the black people were the ones that wanted us over on the other side of the rope...

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One afternoon I ran into a fellow from Manassas, Virginia that called himself "Lumpy the Biker". He asked if he could rest by sitting in the front seat of my car. He had injured his leg in a motorcycle accident and had trouble standing. So we were relaxing in the car and he told me that he didn't really LIKE the Grateful Dead and did not have a ticket. He was just here to have fun at the parking lot party and to score some acid for resale back home in Virginia. By this time I had already eaten a dose...

I decided to wander over to look at the railroad tracks and admire the trains. They were underneath of some freeways and reminded me of an Escher Drawing.

When I got back I found out that "Lumpy" had been dealing out of my car. He was selling bottles of Visine LSD: Each drop of water had one dose in it. Somehow, someone had started the rumor that since he was dealing out of my car, that I must be his supplier... Therefore, later that night at the concert, people came up to me and thanked me for the excellent quality of the acid. Then they asked if I wanted any and I stuck out my hand, they squeezed a couple of drops and I licked my hand... many times...

this was a classic case of an unknown large dose...

I ended up dancing in the concourse area where the refreshments were sold. There were many flashing lights on the advertising billboards for the Atlantic City Casinos. Many other Deadheads encircled me to tell me stupid jokes because they Just KNEW that I would laugh... A friend wrote in the dirt on the back window of my car "Mush Brain"... I got his address and visited him in New jersey later that summer. He was a teenager that had built a shack way out in the woods for a party house. I have quite a bit of admiration for creative construction like that! At some time during those three days, someone gave me a card with an invitation to the Rainbow Gathering to be held at an undisclosed location somewhere in Pennsylvania July 4th. I put the card on the dashboard of my car and forgot about it...

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As luck would have it, I got fired from my job that week for lack of attendance. I just did not show up for work and a couple of days later my boss knocked on my door and told me to not come in... He was not amused... So, there I was, time on my hands and money in the bank... I had been working steady for about six years and had been throwing my loose change in a dresser drawer for the whole time. So, I pulled the drawer out and put it in the trunk of my car and headed towards Florida. As I headed down the road, I picked up some hitchhikers and they informed me of the location of the Rainbow Gathering. I had no Idea what it was but from their description, it sounded like fun. I dropped them off and went to Epcot Center and Disney World.

I ended up staying there for five days. I found a campground and every day woke up early, went to EPCOT for a few hours, went back to the campground when it got hot and took a nap, then went back to EPCOT near sunset. The place is totally different at night. The most impressive spot is at a lake near the big sphere. They project LASER light that looks like the planet Earth... Outlines of the continents... and then animate the globe to give the impression that it is revolving... at the same time, they have fountains dancing in colored lights, fireworks and loud classical music. Specifically, the Russians: Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky... Quite the sensory overload. Everyone had told me that the best ride was Space Mountain but it's only good the first time when it has the element of surprise... So, for the first day at EPCOT, I took LSD and pretended that I was a secret agent with a goal of climbing space mountain... handy to remember that while tripping in public it's a good idea to maintain one's composure or the Munchkins would throw you out of the park! Space Mountain was excellent but standing in line for a half an hour was difficult while the faces of the people were distorting... Yes, it was an astounding ride.

I also rode the Monorail over to the hotel and went to the top roof and admired the fine view from 10 stories up of Florida... Remember that when tripping, it is not a good idea to wear a t-shirt with a physics joke on it... The "straights" won't understand the joke and will ask you to explain... I made that mistake... I had a shirt with the picture of Einstein wearing a policeman's hat with the saying "186,000 miles per hour, not just a good idea, IT'S THE LAW!"

I also liked the Kraft Foods singing and dancing fruits and vegetables show. They had a giant refrigerator onstage and food came out and did song and dance numbers... Just like in ZAP COMIX by Robert Crumb.

and the Carousel of Progress will stay with me my whole lifetime...

especially the SONG!

"Now is the time, now is the best time,

now is the best time of your life!

Right here and now, you've got it made...

The world's forward marching and you're in the parade!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_of_Progress

originally, the General Electric Display at the New York World's Fair, it shows the same happy family and their technology thru time... A diorama shows them in the 1800's using oil lamps, then we sing the song and the Audience rotates to view the next era... electric lights! The song was written by the same fellows that did "It's a Small World" and most of the other Disney classics... The Sherman brothers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Brothers

My hitchhikers said the Gathering was at the intersection of 6 and 666 in Pennsylvania.  I drove there by myself and was greeted by a man that said "Welcome Home, Brother".  I parked and walked in carrying a backpack and sleeping bag... no tent... so the entire time I was sleeping in random different locations... When I arrived at the main campfire circle I noticed that the Gathering was located on a creek and so I wandered downstream to find a nude swimming hole... There by the creekside was a sweat lodge and a group of  bathers. I went swimming and waited for the opportunity to go into the lodge. By this time I had been approached by someone's child who recommended that I not smoke tobacco during my time at the Gathering... I took that advice and soon was feeling the withdrawal symptoms from my addiction... A group left the sweat lodge and I went in... a person asked me to leave as there were two couples that wanted a private sweat and I was a fifth wheel... I got angry because I had no knowledge of a queue waiting for the sweat lodge... and I was freaking from the tobacco "JONES"... I left after arguing a bit and later got to sweat with many other men... The sweat was very therapeutic and helped with my nicotine anxiety. I wandered up to the main circle and met a fellow that manufactured plate glass xylophones and wooden marimbas. I borrowed one and played at the main circle. Then went over to a stage near the entrance and joined a group performing there. I was not wearing any clothes... It's the one time in my entire life that I have performed on stage nude... We mostly played songs like "JINGO" by Santana... that classic beat... And the song "Infinite Sun"

Lyrics:

We are all one 'neath the Infinite Sun,

forever, forever, forever...

I will never forget you,

I will never forsake you,

forever, forever, forever...

Later that day I met some women and retired to their blanketed campsite for a back rub... One was named Terri and we became friends... Traded phone numbers... She decided to leave the Gathering Early because she wanted to go to the Bob Dylan and The Dead concert at RFK Stadium in Washington DC. I selected to not go because the Gathering was a better event... In my opinion...

On July 4th at the main circle I found a bowl of Peyote unattended... It had a sign saying Sacrament, Help Yourself... and I did... For the entire day I ate small bits of Peyote... Just a small amount and then wait a half an hour, then another small amount and wait... after about 12 hours I had eaten a LOT and truly got the Mescaline High without barfing. The flavor of Peyote is quite bitter and many people find it to be so bad that they barf... I prefer the slow, steady approach.

I wandered over to a stage made out of hay bales and enjoyed the music. There was a cable slide built into a tree and I rode that often. How it worked: there was a steel cable leading from a platform about 15 feet up in a tree scratched taughtly to a stake in the ground... A person sat in a leather seat that was attached to the cable by a free spinning wheel and chain... Jump off the platform and ride the cable to the ground... whee! swing the seat back up the cable for the next rider... That was an amazing ride, home made by Rainbow Gatherers just for our own amusement... Thanks!!!

Then I started dancing with a lady that had coarse brown hair... we became friends and were kissing on the ground when she suggested we go on stage and sing for the rest of the tribe. By this time I was very high on Peyote. She gave me a choice of three songs to perform... the names of the first two songs were incomprehensible so I selected Kumbayah, the third choice. We did go onto the stage and sang for the rest of the tribe... by that time she selected to go to her campsite and we parted ways... I located my sleeping bag and found that another lady was in it... I told her to not worry or leave and we slept together like spoons...

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

In my reading about the Native American Church, one of the things that happens is that a person high on peyote meets Mescalito and is taught their song... then they perform it for the tribe... My experience was similar... I felt as if the woman with the coarse brown hair was Mescalita and we did perform my song...

MESCALITA (APACHE INDIAN GOD)

I MET A GIRL NAMED MESCALITA

WITH COARSE BROWN HAIR.

SHE TAUGHT ME A SONG IN A DIFFERENT KEY.

NOW I LIVE THERE.

MESCALITA, MI HIJITA.

YOU SHOWED ME HOW TO LIVE.

MY LIFE WAS FILLED WITH SORROW.

BUT NOW I CAN GIVE.

I USED TO SING IN THE KEY OF "E"

A KEY OF BLUES AND PAIN.

NOW I SING IN THE KEY OF "g"

AND I'LL NEVER GO BACK AGAIN.

MESCALITA,MI AMIGA, YOU SHOWED ME HOW TO DANCE.

MY LIFE WAS FILLED WITH SORROW.

BUT I'LL GIVE LOVE ONE MORE CHANCE.

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

My Chevy Luv Mikado Truck with a Heart
Painted on the Hood...
Like an American Flag! gvan42

Psychedelic Poetry: This was written after attending a Grateful Dead concert in JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I was sitting up above the crowd in the bleachers and could see the dancers move more enthusiastically during peaks of the music… less motion during gentle passages… as the dynamics of the improvisation ebbed and flowed, the dancers moved accordingly… like sea anemones moving in the currents of the ocean… I also mention the Spectrum in Philadelphia… It has many blinking advertisements for Atlantic city casinos in the area where refreshments were being served…

OUR MINDS HAVE BEEN FUSED INTO ONE SHIMMERING

COLONIAL ANIMAL…

FLOWING IN THE

CURRENTS OF THE MUSIC…

adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire !

IN THE SHADOWS,TORCHES FLICKER IN THE BREEZE.

THE ORACLE BEGINS TO SPEAK,

FEEL THE HEAT…

adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

WE DANCE OUTSIDE OF THE TRADITIONAL

REALM OF TIME AND SPACE.

THE CROWD ERUPTS IN OUTBURSTS OF FREE-FORM MOTION

AS THE INTENSITY OF THE JAM PEAKS

adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

MY BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A PINBALL AND

I RICCOCHET AROUND THE SPECTRUM

ARENA BOUNCING OFF THE FLASHING LIGHTS.

A CROWD OF DEADHEADS

SURROUND ME INTENT ON TELLING ME STUPID JOKES…

THEY JUST…know… THAT I WILL LAUGH…

adrenaline, serotonin, synapses on fire!

THANK YOU DR. ALBERT HOFMANN!

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https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

A Journey to the Rainbow Gathering in California 2004. Photographs and My Story... and Memories of The Gatherings in Idaho, Utah and Pennsylvania...

What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in the band…

Thousands of people go backpacking for a couple of weeks… Every year during the end of June and the beginning of July… The location is different every year but it is always in a National Forest… It’s an intentional temporary village…

This is a description about my trip to The Rainbow Gathering in California 2004… I wrote this to help me remember…

Thousands of People chant OM. This photo was snapped just before I decided it was time to put away the camera and experience the event… Yes, it’s important to remember to LIVE LIFE instead of DOCUMENTING LIFE.

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http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/my-journey-to-rainbow-gathering-in.html

 Eventually, I spent the night playing drums around a campfire there. They had fire dancers performing at night. They had torches doused with camp-fuel (white gas) that they spun around their heads. One performer accidentally set herself on fire and rolled around in the dirt to put it out. During breaks in their show, I did my LED dance of blue-green circles. Same dance as they did, but high tech. I got a positive reaction from the audience. “GO BLACK LIGHT MAN, GO !”

I spent some time near the “CALM” medicine tent and drew a pen and pencil sketch of it. They provide general medic services for free.

Photo of the CALM Medic tent…

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