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I remember going to Disneyland as a Child. AND NOW... There is a Giant Addition All About Star Wars. I want to go! It Looks Wonderful on TV...

We also went to Fairyland in Oakland... The Star Trek Ride in Las Vegas... and the World's Fair in Seattle... and Recently, the Experience Music Pavilion - dedicated to Seattle's Jimi Hendrix and Curt Cobain. That was fun as they had a Giant Musical instrument (Tubular Bells) that visitors could play together... and so we EXPERIENCED MUSIC... However, the very best is EPCOT in Florida. I spent Five (5) Days there... Everybody told me that Space Mountain was the best ride and So, I Went to the Park just before it opened and ran to Space Mountain in order to avoid long lines... It's a roller coaster in a Dark room with Giant Movie Screens and Puppets... Since I was in the Dark, I was totally Fooled by the effect. 

I also liked the Kraft Dancing Food Show. Perky Bottles of Milk and Bananas etc all singing some UPBEAT Song... Very similar to a ZAP Comix Cartoon... I went there every day from dawn to noon, went back to the Campsite and slept during the heat of the day and then went back at Night. At the Big Lake there is a Classical Music Show with Fireworks, Fountains, Incandescent Lights and Lasers. They project a map of the world on the Giant Silver Ball and then Make it Spin... Laser Animation... Quite Spectacular!

However, the VERY BEST was the Carousel of Progress... That Song! and The Wonders of Technology... Everybody Sing! "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! - Written by The Sherman Brothers... they also wrote "It's a Small World after All" 

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

One of the Song and Dance Numbers at Kraft Foods Was:
"Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit" by Colander Combo and the Fiesta Fruit... Night sounds, Latin percussion, and low lighting set the mood for this number, as the produce (broccoli, tomatoes, bananas, etc.) began to chant "Veggie-Veggie-Fruit-Fruit! Veggie-Veggie-Fruit-Fruit!" Bonnie Appetite, now in a Carmen Miranda-style carnival outfit, and perched upon a crescent moon that descended from the ceiling, sang "I simply have to tell you that my friends who are singing are...delectable!" Here, another running gag was present. A broccoli piece said "cha cha cha!" at times while his glasses flipped off, but the glasses resumed their spot.

On a Different Subject: David Koch Died Today. I Guess he will Stop Funding Evil Now. 

I wonder what Motivates People to Do Evil for a Living. For Example: There are People Who Work for Monsanto Discrediting Reporters That Exposed the Dangers of RoundUP WeedKiller.

Someone was working Full Time Studying Neil Young looking for ways to harm him for Making the Record "The Monsanto Years."

HEADLINE: I’m a journalist. Monsanto built a step-by-step strategy to destroy my reputation by Carey Gillam. I knew the company didn’t like me reporting about growing unease in the scientific community regarding research that connected Monsanto herbicides to human and environmental health problems. And I knew the company did not welcome the 2017 release of my book, Whitewash – The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science, which revealed the company’s actions to suppress and manipulate the science surrounding its herbicide business.

But I never dreamed I would warrant my own Monsanto action plan.
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/monsanto-roundup-journalist-documents


Roundup Causes Cancer MEME - Satire of their CUTE Cartoon Advertisement - Murder Redrum - gvan42

There are People who work in Hong Kong for the Police Beating Protesters with Nightsticks... and there are a LOT of those People... In France there are "Les cochons" that shoot Tear Gas at Yellow Vest Protesters. 

In Brazil, 45 Million Workers Staged a General Strike... HEADLINE:Brazil cities paralysed as Bolsonaro faces first general strike... https://www.france24.com/en/20190614-brazil-cities-paralysed-bolsonaro-general-strike-pension-reform

Someone at CNN and MSNBC News Decided that their Viewers Should not know about this Strike. They decided that We Needed to See YET another Repetition about the Latest in the Beautiful Hollywood Actress uses Bribery to Get Her Daughter into College story. There were 50 People arrested in that Scandal but ONLY TWO People were shown on TV and BOTH Just Happened to Be Beautiful Women... What a Coincidence... 

There are People That Write for the Heritage Foundation. Famous for Using Backwards Science to Support Corporations That Do Evil. First, they Write a Conclusion that Shows That Their Bosses are Saints. Then They Do "Research" to find "Data" that Proves their Conclusion is Accurate... That's the EXACT Opposite of the Scientific Method. Remember: anything That Comes out of George Mason University is "Research" Paid for by The KOCH Brothers... They Came Up With an Economic Theory that Allowed The Super-Rich to Write Laws That Would Steal From The Poor and Give to The Rich... and then they Put it into Practice in South America... and That Country Went Bankrupt... Economic Disaster... and they all Agreed to Never Speak of How their Plan was a Failure, Just Keep on Repeating it as If It Was a PROPOSED THEORY... 

Nancy MacLean Wrote a Book about This... 
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America"  
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stealth/dp/1101980966

ZERO OWNERS ARRESTED by ICE... 680 Illegal Alien Workers Arrested in Mississippi... 380 Released... OOPS, They were Not Illegal After ALL!

The People that HIRE Illegal Aliens are NOT ARRESTED or Punished AT ALL! WTF? Trump was CAUGHT Employing Illegal Aliens... and then he Promised to STOP... and then Months Later he was CAUGHT AGAIN... WHY NO JAIL TIME FOR TRUMP? 
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One of the Meat Packing Businesses was Called KOCH FOOD... It it owned by the Evil KOCH BROTHERS who Bankroll Republicriminals? 

WHO will pack our food? White People Refuse Jobs Like That. Low Pay, Hard Work... NO THANKS! We used to hire BRACEROS - Mexicans who Harvested our Crops in California's Central Valley... where a HUGE AMOUNT OF FOOD IS GROWN... and that system worked great... for decades... But with Trump... Farmers are having difficulty getting people to do the work... That's Why those Meat Packing Plants in Mississippi were Hiring Illegal Aliens. DUH! 

I Wonder if Building THE WALL will actually accomplish anything? Won't they just Use Boats in the Gulf Of Mexico to Go around the Wall? Or Fly Over IT?

Realize that Climate Change has caused Drought for Farmers in Central America and they will Starve to Death in their Home Countries... and Starvation is an Unstoppable Force... Just like the Irish Potato Famine... 

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Truly Creepy TV Advertisements... Power Past Impossible Pro Oil Propaganda... Trying to sell the idea that burning Fossil Fuels is Wonderful...

It has become obvious that Renewable Energy is our future but... all those people employed in the Fossil Fuel Industry are fighting for their lives to keep the USA purchasing increasing quantities of Oil and Gas... Their jobs depend on a steady flow of oil out of the ground into refineries and into our gas tanks... and all that plastic crap that is polluting the planet... Plastic does not "go away" ever... and we already see giant swirls of floating plastic in the oceans... The People that are employed by Exxon, Shell, BP, Halliburton and Koch have vast pools of money that they are now using to buy advertising talent to convince you and I that it is "cool" to buy gas... and plastic...

an alternative to buying corporate crap is to simply reduce the amount you travel in a car... In my youth it was fashionable to drive all over the USA following The Grateful Dead (an American Rock Band)... really... people (including me) would drive 8 hours or more to attend yet another concert... I'm not making this up... Well, now days traveling places is not really needed anymore... We can travel using the internet to see what's happening on the other side of the planet... It's all this driving around that is causing Climate Change.

Of Course, we all have to drive to work every day... Unless we live close enough to the office to ride the bus... Twice in my lifetime I was able to ride the bus to work. San Jose has great bus/light rail service and so does Eureka, California. One advantage to riding the bus is that you meet people... and become friends with them. In my case I met some women on the bus. I like women and was glad to have their friendship. We would sit in the back and chat for a half an hour every workday. VERY Pleasant...

Quit buying Plastic Crap. I'll say it again... Quit buying Plastic Crap. Just look for an alternative... One thing that is absurd is all the plastic bottles for drinking water... why not drink the water right out of the tap? The answer is that often tap water is poisonous... Well, what we need to do as a society is clean up the water that comes into our homes... really... Remember that showering in poisonous water is as bad for your health as drinking fracked water... and a coke at Taco Bell comes in a plastic cup... why not a waxed paper cup?

another alternative action  is to divest your stock market portfolio of oil and gas investments... Like we divested from tobacco companies... simply call your stockbroker and ask to switch ownership of stock from oil and gas to solar and wind... It's an investment strategy that will win in the long run.


https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/06/american-petroleum-institute-superbowl-ad-oil-power-past-impossible American Petroleum Institute Launches Pro-Oil Ad Campaign... In this latest case, the real question is why API decided to begin lobbying the public directly, rather than using its money and clout to influence politicians who actually create the laws and some of the regulations governing the oil and gas industry. The answer to that question is likely simple: The oil and gas industries are already maximizing the benefits they are receiving from elected leaders, and are now focusing on gaining public approval.



Now we allow Secret Funding of Lobbyist Groups... Even Russian Money... NRA and some other nonprofits will no longer need to identify their donors to the IRS...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/politics/treasury-irs-donor-lists/index.html

Some nonprofit groups will no longer have to give the IRS the names of donors who give them $5,000 or more.

Among the groups that will no longer have to report donors are the National Rifle Association, various chambers of commerce, and groups focused on particular issues, such as Americans for Prosperity, which has been closely associated with the Koch brothers. But the ruling also applies to groups like the NAACP, labor unions and volunteer fire departments.

It was a long-sought goal of some of those groups -- particularly on the right.

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-nras-biggest-donors-will-now-be-allowed-to-remain-anonymous-heres-why-9799240
The NRA's Biggest Donors Will Now Be Allowed To Remain Anonymous



I did not vote in 2016 because both candidates were horrible. However, 2018 is our year. We have candidates that are Black, White, Red, Yellow, Brown and Paisley.

Why NOT try majority rule? We already tried Corporate Rule and that didn't work out too great.

Be aware that some "think tanks", "talking heads" and "pundits" are owned by the super rich. They simply write reports that support conclusions favoring the wealthy. In science, people collect facts and draw conclusions from those facts... The alt-right draw the conclusions first and then make up "facts" to support those conclusions.

For Example: Breitbart  News is funded by the Mercer Family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Family_Foundation

The Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute are funded by the Koch Brothers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Koch


In 2016 I campaigned for Bernie Sanders. I still think he has GREAT IDEAS!
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/content/join-us/
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Good Book "Democracy in Chains" by Nancy Maclean recommended by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America.

“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . [MacLean] takes the time to meticulously trace how we got here. . . . If you're worried about what all this means for America's future, you should be. . . . And if someone you know isn't convinced, you have just the book to hand them.”
NPR


As July of 2017 drew to a close, an extraordinary story unfolded in the halls of Congress. A GOP controlled House of Representatives had passed a bill that would deprive 24 million Americans of health insurance in order to give an 800 billion dollar tax cut to corporations and those making over $250,000 a year. A similar bill in the Republican controlled Senate stalled in part because several Republican senators felt it did not go far enough in stripping health insurance from America’s most vulnerable individuals.

Welcome to the race backwards toward the Gilded Age.

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stealth/dp/1101980966/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498775256&sr=8-1&keywords=democracy+in+chains

Labor Union Strike at Mental Hospital in Eureka, CA. Unsafe Working Conditions.

In 2015, Half of the Employees at our Mental Hospital (Sempervirens) Quit. The County of Humboldt Refuses to Hire Security Guards and an Employee got Hurt.

One rally attendee, Tim McDermond, explained the purpose of the rally to KHUM’s Mike Dronkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcYYz0L39s

http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/apr/28/union-workers-rally-outside-sempervirens/

So, this blog post is about the Labor Union Rally by AFSCME.

I really enjoyed the comments section of the newspaper website. Many people had interesting opinions but... Most of the Conservative Posts were from Anonymous People that used Fake Names and No Photo... Just a Grey Man Icon.  ...and... The Comments seemed to be Copied and Pasted from a Standard Template of Ayn Rand Philosophy. Tea Party Trolls. Paid Puppets of Koch Industries.

greg vanderlaan:
What's up with everyone using Secret Identities and Grey Man pictures for your thumbnail? Why not use your real name? Why not Upload a Picture of Yourself? Why be Anonymous when you can be A NOM NOM NOM MOUSE?

my thumbnail picture for posting comments

'face reality' replied: Bla Bla Bla

greg vanderlaan:
Many Grey Man Commenters are Paid employees of Koch Industries. They refuse to reveal their real names because often ONE employee can post under Many different screen names to give the illusion of a Grass Roots Movement when in fact it's just Astroturf. Come out of the closet 'face reality'... Are you the same person as 'you know why', 'Groff' and 'Go Team' ? Who Are You?

'you know why' Replied: Quack Quack Quack

'Groff' Stated...
'Go Team' Stated...
'aiko' Stated...

greg vanderlaan: 
Some County Employees are Simply Paid Too Much. Dr Phillip Crandall's 2009 salary somehow exceeded $215,000 despite the fact that his position's maximum annual salary is listed as $161,692. I wonder what it is now... If Dr. Phil could somehow squeak by on merely $161,692 we would have enough money to hire security guards... Source: http://www.northcoastjournal.com

greg vanderlaan: 
Thank You Tim McDermond! Unsafe working conditions at 720 Wood Street.

'DAV ' Stated...
'Not The 60's Anymore' Stated... 
'California Conservative' Stated...
'Jim' Stated...

greg vanderlaan: 
I prefer Private Sector jobs like Radio Shack also but they went bankrupt...

guest: 
Hey, Jim dude, you're swinging both ways on this thread. Below you support the generous public employee benefits but here you're critical of the same.

'Hillary didn't either' Replied...

'Curiouser & Curiouser' Summed it all up by Singing: I Don't Want to Work, Just Want to Bang on the Drum All Day! a song by Todd Rundgren...   


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