Remember: Trump Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... HJ RES 40... and now we have Madmen Committing Murder again and again and again... the Laws are Tragic... Insane!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40 

If a person gets a Social Security Check due to INSANITY They No Longer have to Report That Fact on a Gun Purchase Background Check... 

LINK to All My Outlaw Guns Merch at Zazzle Gregvan

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Deep Dots

On FaceBorg FG Said: 

We don’t practice meditation for the purpose of attempting to fix ourselves, and the practice does not have to do with self-improvement or becoming perfect. Inner freedom is far different and much more relaxing than perfection. Our purpose in practice is not to become a better meditator but rather to know a happiness that lies within. We train the mind to access intrinsic peacefulness and a sustained current of joy. This joy is not the opposite of grief, but a current that runs underneath all of life. The question is how to access and swim in this current.

As we know, there are many scientific studies that point to the beneficial effects of a dedicated meditation practice. The one I like best has to do with what has been termed the “feel-good” gene. Scientists have found that because of a genetic variation in the brain, some people are naturally less anxious, and thus happier, than other people are. Those who have this genetic variation find it easier to let go of past painful experiences. This genetic mutation produces higher levels of anandamide in the brain, which is a neurotransmitter that produces a sense of well-being. The name given by scientists for this gene, anandamide, originates from the Sanskrit word ‘ananda’, which translates as internal bliss, joy, happiness, or delight. It is sometimes known as “the bliss molecule”. Ananda was also the name of the Buddha’s attendant. Other than having to say to visitors, “no, you can’t see the Buddha right now, he is resting,” it was likely to have been quite the blissful job.

About 20 percent of the population is born with this genetic makeup. We either have it or we don’t. I was not born into this life with this gene. Yet, the anxiety I began with has dissolved over a lifetime of meditating. It is clear to me that the practice of meditation has made up for the absence of this genetic predisposition. I have observed this same shift in many practitioners, the easing of anxiety and an increase in well-being. For most of us, if we meditate over time, it does not matter whether we were born with the feel-good gene or not. Knowing this inner sense of well-being is one of the benefits of training our minds.

One thing Dad told me was: “Scots Wah Hey, We Wallace Bled.” In English: We are Scots. Men of William Wallace. Like in the Movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson...

He also bought me a book: “Born Fighting” by Jim Webb about the history of the Scots/Irish in America. Remember the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd? That’s our people!

In the 1990’s I often drove around with my Dad. One time we were cruising down Vista Ave near our home and he said “At least I raised you right, that man’s son became a “Merry Prankster”…and he pointed to a neighbor’s house. I have forgotten who the boy was but I’m sure he was older than me… more like my big brother’s age. And definitely NOT Neal Cassady. He lived in a Different part of Los Gatos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady

I was living in Willow Glen at that time and Working at Radio Shack and he would often come over an we would get a cup of coffee and sit on a sunshiny bus stop and “solve the problems of the world”. He often wrote letters to the editor and they usually got published in the San Jose Mercury News. One letter recommended putting a stop light on Almaden Expressway at a dangerous intersection and soon the city installed one there. Saved some lives…

My mom’s family lived in “The Heart of the Willows” and I remember going to Christmas Parties there. My uncle made apricot white lightning and I would eat an apricot, get drunk and then dance with my cousin. The adults thought it was funny to have small children experience sexual desire before puberty… HA HA! The way he made the liquor was to fill a mason jar with pitted apricots and rock candy (sugar) then pour in vodka. Set that jar on a shelf for a year and the liquid was nearly 100% alcohol.

He also went to a bar named “Chick Letty’s” during prohibition. Willow Glen was an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County just outside the border of San Jose. The laws were not enthusiastically enforced in the County… Decades later I went to the same bar and purchased illegal marijuana in the parking lot. SO, nothing has really changed… He bought illegal booze and I bought illegal reefer…

Mom’s grade school has been recycled as a Senior Center and Dad went there to participate in their bus trips to Eureka. It was a voyage to the Bear River Casino in Lolita but he just used it as a handy way to travel to see me.

One time when he visited we went on The Hammond Trail in McKinleyville to look at the Mouth of the Mad River. It is visible from a park bench there. We had a long and meaningful talk about Mom. I’m really glad that I got sober and became my Dad’s friend in the last years of his life. I was drinking heavily when Mom died and missed that event. OOPS! Mom worked as a secretary in Fisher Junior High School Library in Los Gatos and Lexington Elementary School. The kids loved and respected her. Dad proposed marriage to mom on the top of the hill behind the Novitiate in Los Gatos. There is a trail that goes to Lexington Reservoir and from the top you can see all of Santa Clara Valley. (Filled with apricot trees).

I did experience Aunt Alberta’s last years. Dad bought a Television at my Radio Shack store and we drove over to her house and installed it in her bedroom. She had a TV in the living room but when she became beridden she spent her entire time in the bedroom. I remember tht I wanted to explain to my Cousin Dianne how to use the remote control but she said hat it didn’t matter because Aunt Alberta couldn’t tell one station from another. She was taking morphine at that time but hated it. Too much nausea…

Grandpa Malek worked as a carpenter (general contractor). He would build entire houses. Mom’s family would live in the houses while they were being built and then move on to the next house when grandpa sold it. Our family house on Hedding Street in San Jose was built by grandpa. We had to move because it was under the flight path for airplanes to the San Jose Airport and the entire neighborhood became uninhabitable when JET airplanes were invented. We moved to Los Gatos and the house was put onto a truck and moved to Almaden. The house was valuable enough to justify moving it instead of simply tearing it down. Grandpa became a carpenter right after the 1906 earthquake. He was living in Oregon when the call went out for all able bodied men to go work rebuilding the city of San Francisco. He also built a house on “The 17 Mile Drive” a neighborhood of palatial mansions in Carmel. Mom, Dad and Grandpa built a Redwood Deck on the back of our house in Los Gatos in 1960. The deck is still there today. https://www.pebblebeach.com/17-mile-drive/

Grandpa Vanderlaan worked as a minister. During the 1930’s the people that attended his Church had NO MONEY to put in the collection plate. Ministers feed their families with the money from the collection plate. Grandma, dad and uncle Marc went camping on the Trinity River because there was good fishing, hunting and NO RENT. Dad and Uncle Marc were very good at fishing and hunting during the 1930’s because that was a major source of food. During the great Depression Grandpa came to the realization that God did not exist. So he quit his job with the Church and became a math teacher. He also was a founding member of the Humanist Society. It’s an alternative to Christianity. My dad was an atheist until the day he died. My brother became a Unitarian and I became an Acid Head. Grandpa Vanderlaan wrote a book about Religion… I tried to read it a couple of times but got bored in the early chapters and never finished it.

We went to Christmas parties at Dorothy and Leland Lea’s home in the hills behind Oakland. My cousin Gary and I would play guitars and sing. Gary also played the family piano and the drums in a rock band of his friends from high school. Leland had a huge collection of tiny liquor bottles. The size they give you on an airplane… Surprisingly, after Leland passed away Gary sold the collection to someone on the internet. Before he shipped them to the customer he emptied all the bottles and poured the booze down the sink. It’s illegal to ship liquor across state lines but empty bottler are Legal…

Gary Lea taught me about the Visual Mantra he used to quit smoking tobacco. Whenever you had an urge to smoke, think of the O’Neil Surf Shop Logo and remember that if you don’t smoke you will have a longer life and more opportunities to go surfing… Good Idea!

We went to Sacramento on Thanksgiving to Uncle Marc and Aunt Peg’s home. They had two daughters, Robin and Jill. Uncle Marc became a criminal defense attorney in Sacramento and Aunt Peg was a Social Worker. Jill became a lawyer and moved to Seattle and Robin went to work at Uncle Marc’s Law office. One time a client of Aunt Pegs did a Bank Robbery and was holding hostages. The police called her and said that the only person he felt comfortable talking to was his social worker… She negotiate the release of the hostages.

Martin’s wife Patti took me to my first AA meeting at Lake Tahoe. Thanks! It allowed me to live a lot longer.

I remember going to Martin and Adrienne’s wedding on a Boat in Long Beach Harbor. We wore funny hats (Yarmulke) and I danced holding up a chair the she sat on.

I remember going to Nicole’s Wedding in Laguna Beach. Again, funny hats! No chair dance that I remember… It was at a really elegant Golf Course and we had a lot of regular dancing… We met Brodie’s Family for the first time. Martin bought us a Hotel Room at the fancy Hotel… it was where Hollywood Film Stars wen to party in the era of Charlie Chaplin. Big Fun! I also got to go to an Anti Iraq War protest march at the Beach. Every year we had protest marches in Eureka and I was afraid that I’d miss out if I went to Laguna Beach… But the people there hated the Iraq War Also!

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2017/07/17/how-bubble-up-economics-works-give-all-working-people-a-raise-and-we-will-spend-it-in-american-businesses/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/compulsive-hoarding-of-money-disorder-leads-to-global-economic-collapse/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/we-can-no-longer-afford-to-have-a-government-that-behaves-like-mindless-vegetables/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/no-nukes-stop-vogtle-georgia-usa-they-are-building-a-fukushima-chernobyl-tmi/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/all-earth-beings-are-being-called-upon-arise-violet-overgrow-is-calling-you/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/green-forest-brand-toilet-paper-is-an-alternative-to-koch-brothers-products-100-recycled/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/please-post-liberal-concepts-to-conservative-social-networks-to-help-educate-the-brainwashed/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/try-the-scientific-method-observe-reality-collect-facts-analyse-the-data-draw-conclusions-its-the-opposite-of-the-republicrime-method/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/the-day-the-power-went-out-speculative-fiction-in-the-what-if-genre-note-this-was-written-by-hand-in-pen-on-paper/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/comparative-religions-so-many-different-gods-many-loudly-proclaiming-that-they-are-the-one-true-god-absurd/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/im-in-favor-of-genetic-engineering-of-humans-lets-design-better-people-smarter-would-be-great/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/one-thing-dad-told-me-was-scots-wah-hey-we-wallace-bled-in-english-we-are-scots-men-of-william-wallace-braveheart-mel-gibson/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/i-accepted-jesus-as-my-personal-savior-in-1976-if-christianity-turns-out-to-be-the-correct-religion-im-saved-but-im-betting-on-thor-valhalla-i-am-coming/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/feeling-patriotic-eat-some-sweet-and-sour-pork-with-soy-sauce-have-an-almond-american-farmers-are-getting-royally-fcked-by-trump-tariffs/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/unemployment-rate-increases-due-to-trumps-trade-war-tariffs-cause-layoffs-harm-to-american-salmon-fishermen-soybean-farmers/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/tower-of-jewels-plant-eichium/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/psychedelic-art-for-sale-cosmic-buttons-posters-coffee-cups-postcards-and-stickers-my-zazzle-webstore-gregvan/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/my-autobiography-growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in-the-60s-by-gregory-vanderlaan-chico-santa-clara-washington-dc-eureka-orangevale/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/rainbow-gathering-photos-and-mystory-california-2004/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/chant-hey-hey-nra-how-many-kids-did-you-kill-today-nra-chief-calls-for-more-guns-at-school-arming-teachers-well-that-wouldnt-have-done-anything-to-prevent-the-las-vegas-mass-murder/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/murals-on-the-freeway-overpass-in-chico-california-bidwell-park-by-gregg-payne/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/07/02/its-a-global-dump-trump-movement-vote-against-allrepublicrimes-in-2018-then-impeach-trump/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/i-have-experienced-cannabis-psychosis-i-saw-things-that-were-not-there-but-i-believed-that-they-really-existed/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/07/03/speechless-epa-boss-scott-pruitt-is-accosted-in-a-dc-restaurant-by-a-mom-cradling-her-young-son-who-accuses-him-of-ruining-the-environment/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/its-a-great-idea-to-confront-trump-administration-employees-in-public-they-are-evil-and-should-be-reminded-that-we-know-who-they-are/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/legalize-medicinal-psychedelics-great-book-how-to-change-your-mind-what-the-new-science-of-psychedelics-teaches-us-about-consciousness-dying-addiction-depression-and-transcendence/

https://gregvan.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/magic-mushroom-visions-original-potatoshop-creations-by-purple64ets-legalize-medicinal-psychedelics-let-doctors-and-patients-decide-for-themselves/?unapproved=3149&moderation-hash=1a77d65335c5ee2fcc888cab3578dc80

OMG Trippy Art FREE - This One Reminds Me of The Phoenix Bird arising out of the Fire... Pirate these Images at Will!

 

Keywords for Further Research: MKULTRA, CIA, NSA, FBI, DOJ, DOD, NRO, DARPA, EIEIO, LSD, LBJ, IRT, 4th Street, USA, HAIR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LENNON, GANDHI, Mantra, Karma, Dharma, Ram Dass, 1968 Police Riot in Chicago, Levitation of the Pentagon... 

and then some Middle East Experts Commented on the Madness in Israel... 

My Humble Opinion: I believe there are Bad People on Both Sides. Those People Over There Are Behaving Crazy Again. I'm Sure Glad They Aren't Near Here... Eight Billion People is Too Many and I'm Always Grateful When Weirdos Die. In Today's News, I See That Israel and Hamas are Killing Each Other... WONDERFUL! At the end of the Day there will be Fewer FREAKS Alive...

Darryl Cherney 

This is what happens when you re-elect a thrice-indicted leader who weaponizes the judiciary, diverts resources away from the poor, continues to drive the natives off their land, continues the policy of disenfranchising people from voting, and dehumanizes the majority of people who live in a divided country.

and someone replied:

This is what you get when you have a system that allows a minority coalition of the worst elements of your country to supersede the will and interests of the majority. And, when you have a cynical enemy with no interest in peace willing to sacrifice its citizens for the benefit of public opinion. Malignant sociopathy thrives on chaos and fear, and there is no shortage of malignant sociopaths there or here.

and then Darryl Said:

Spread all around on all sides and it's a pretty sad state of affairs. It occurred to me that part of the strategy involves the fact that the US is bogged down in Ukraine with funding coming up in doubt. So... allies of that bloc, figured great time to strike. US and others stop sending aid to Ukraine an divert it to the middle east or they keep sending aid to Ukraine and have limited ability to help Israel. Win-win. Just my thought for the night. Oh, yeah, and WW3, it's all connected.

Technical Diagram of a Box of Rain... 

How things come back. That's just a cistern. They had them all the time in 1800s buddy's house still has one..he feeds the garden hoses with that water for animals, garden, anything outside..but can flip into house hold if he ever had too.

Do some soul searching and remember what was likely to TRIGGER THE BRAIN POLICE ALGORITHM... It searches for FORBIDDEN WORDS... Try posting the same Content without the FORBIDDEN WORDS...

In the months leading up to and following the 2020 presidential election, potential House speaker and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan prolifically pushed false stolen election rhetoric.

After then-President Donald Trump lost the election to Joe Biden, Jordan urged Trump not to concede, spread conspiracy theories, supported lawsuits attempting to disqualify the legitimate results and discussed plans to object to the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021.

He would later be applauded by Trump in his speech to supporters on January 6, 2021, calling the Ohio Republican one of the “great ones” for his efforts. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/09/politics/jim-jordan-january-6-2020-election/index.html

Somehow, I feel that using an AI Content Generator to Write my Blog is Wrong. My Readers Deserve to Read My Own Words... I tried using a Blog writing program and YES... IT DID WORK... but I'm going to continue to Generate Text the Old Fashioned Way...

"Take Drugs and Type Like Crazy!" - That Technique worked for Philip K Dick, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack Kerouac and Lewis Carroll and... uh... Wait a Minute... I'll think of something to say in a minute... duh... OH YEAH! That's Good Enough for me!

The real trick for Blog Writing is to Post TEXT that is not published elsewhere on the web... ORIGINAL WORDS... and The Google Search Engine Defines Original Words as Text that it can't find ON THE WEBSITES IT HAS SEARCHED... Well... There is NO Evidence that it Searches FaceBorg... SO... Copying and Pasting Paragraphs that I Have FOUND HERE... is All Original Text... and WORTHY...

and always remember to include at least one Picture... Readers Love Pictures! and They have a Tendency to CLICK on Pictures... and TEXT that is Embedded in a Picture is NOT Read by the GoogleBot... so Plagiarism is Not Noticed! For Example: This Timothy Leary Quote...

and CSH Said: 

Be brave. Write on!

ALSO... It's interesting to read my words years later... and Modify the Blog Posts as I Learn and Conditions change... I wrote an Entire Novel that Quickly Became totally out of Date! It was all about Eco-Warriors that traveled Across the Country to Assassinate President Donald Trump... Well, Once he became "The Former Guy" That book Became Dated... So I Added a Disclaimer at the Beginning! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-violet-overgrow-by-gregory.html

It was interesting to do research for that novel... I wanted to know IF a sniper could hit the President if he was in the Rose Garden and the Sniper was Standing on the Roof of a 15th Street Building... YES HE CAN! The Internet has Information about the RANGE of Sniper Rifles and Google Maps allow people to Measure Distances! [SPOILER ALERT] - In My Novel, The Assassin Was Unsuccessful because the Secret Service Guards standing on the Roof of the White House SHOT FIRST and Killed the Sniper before he made the shot... What an Excellent PLOT TWIST! 

Flip Flops With ART!

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Some Guy on FaceBorg Posted: 

If it were up to me, Medicare Advantage plans would be illegal. They are part of a scheme to bankrupt the Medicare Trust Fund.

and I Replied: 

They are Intentionally Complex and It's Difficult to figure out which one is best for me... One REALLY Horrible thing is... IT'S ELDER ABUSE! Asking Old People to Make Complex decisions and providing a bewildering array of choices that are all cloaked in misinformation, disinformation and outright flim flam is a Horrible thing to do to people at any age... but truly evil to do to people on their 65th birthday! I made My Decision by selecting the Plan offered by My Labor Union at work... I figure that the best deal would be the one negotiated by SEIU... My Sister in Law Chose the Plan that was Endorsed by AARP... They are a Trusted Organization... None of US Were able to Figure out the Actual details of the Plans and so Made our decisions on "WHO DO YOU TRUST."

Here's another Example of Using FaceBorg to Help Writing a Blog Post... I Originally Uploaded this Photo... 

Andersen's Split Pea Restaurant... http://www.peasoupandersens.net/ We always stopped there when Traveling South from San Jose to Santa Barbara... Taking my Brother to UCSB...

and Someone Commented:

We always stopped there too. Love their pea soup. There is also an Andersen's on Highway 5 in Santa Nella, just south of Los Banos, but I hear it's not nearly as good as the original.

and I Replied:

When I visited their website I see that there is a second location (on 5) that I never knew about either... This is a Classic Example of Marketing By Billboards on the Road... It's pretty difficult to drive by without stopping after reading the advertisements for hundreds of miles... and In My Humble Opinion... Pea Soup is Pretty much the Same no matter WHO the cook is ...

and then I read:

About 75% of my fb feed is “Amazon Must Haves” articles and it’s become a bit of an issue. There hasn’t been one article I’ve seen and not opened (which would explain why fb has decided my feed should consist of nothing but these articles). And there isn’t one item on any of these lists that I can’t convince myself I don’t need. My “Amazon cart” is more like an “Amazon 18 wheeler” filled with the most ridiculous things that I will never actually purchase but can’t bring myself to delete from said 18 wheeler. Send help.

and I Replied: 

FREE YOURSELF from the Grips of Consumption!

Remember: There are Two Ways to Get Everything You Want... Get More or Want Less!

QUESTION CONSUMPTION: Coronavirus Has Taught Us That Buying More More More Plastic Crap is Totally Optional! Ecstatic Dancing is Possible Without Buying Chinese Junk from WAYFAIR!

 and then I Read:

We're nearing the end of our journeys here on planet earth.

Sharing our losses publicly makes us more human and in turn, more humane . It is weird how we can share disease, but not the preventative solutions that could ease our lifetimes.

My own family has what I term poor people's diseases:hbp, diabetes, arthritis, dental disease,heart disease; to date I've avoided many because I chose a different path to maintain health.

All roads lead somewhere, right?Eventually we come to our road's end bruised and in need of a place to rest.

So many of us with no one to hold our hand. No one with whom to share a memory.

and I Replied:

You can Share Your Memories With Me... I'll Listen... I find that typing on FaceBorg is an Excellent way to Fill Up My Time now that I'm Retired... There are People Here that I Enjoy Talking to... and Experiencing Their Journey Thru Life With...

and she replied: 

Thank you so much Gregory! I, for one, am not afraid to show my scars to the world. Especially if it means I improve my humanity.

and then I Read:

What does "from scratch" mean on a working farm? My mom's chores for her family of 10 meant early rising for her and her sister, Alma. Bring in 2 loads of firewood, and start the fire in the kitchen cook stove and the pot-bellied heating stove...Go out to the barn and gather the eggs. Run out the kittens or king snake sometimes, too...(It is real, guys. I had a king snake while visiting 1 summer, and had egg gathering as my chore.) Then, time to milk the cow...Mama hated the smell of milk till the day she died because of this. But, I was never bothered by it. I loved milking the cow...

Then, the mules had to be fed because Grandpa was up by now and getting ready for the fields. It was around 5 am. Roosters were crowing, and life was awake. Bacon and ham were gathered from one of the 2 smokehouses. The grocery store was in your yard...Gather the coldest water in the world straight from a hand-pump beside the long, wooden porch...The day Grandpa modernized that pump I was there, and it broke my heart. I haven't seen one since then. It was easy enough to use..By 4 pumps, water was on its way, so WHY ?? (If it AINT broke, don't fix it !!)

The breakfast was sausage, ham, bacon, eggs, grits, toast, homemade biscuits, jelly, jam, apple butter and fresh water or milk...The part bought here would've been the flour and grits. All else was farm supplied...including that "frigging" butter and cheese...(Granny tricked me into churning it one time. I ran from then on if she had the churn out. Your arms will fall off and you can NOT stop or it ruins the process.) Sometimes, the lard was homemade too.. When the hogs were killed, nothing was wasted. Huge black cauldrons were fired up, and the hides were boiled. The scraping off the insides of these hides made "country lard."

One son, my uncle Charles, would finish his breakfast and head to the hitching barn. A team of the best country mules around the area were about to head into a sunrise to begin their day on the 104 acre George Hammond farm in Belton, South Carolina.

(My family is gone now, but these memories will never die of an AMERICA that is dying herself now... I am gonna share my mom's chicken and dumplings here today, and how they cooked them on that farm from "scratch." If anyone can get it more country than that----then, have at it !!) Be patient...i gotta work first awhile...keep watching...and thanks for reading, and allowing me to share these memories.

and I Replied:

We all just worked until everything that needed to be done, was done... We had Four Apricot Trees... and Wanted to Dry the Fruit to eat in the Winter. So we went over to a Neighbor's that had a Smoker and We were free to use it any time as long as we worked cutting their Cots...

and I Wrote:

My Sister in Law Asked: "Why did they tear down Winterland?" - a Concert Hall in San Francisco... and I said: So they Could Build Condominiums on that Land... But That's not the Entire Answer... That Rock Concert Hall only Sat 5,000 people... and the Audiences became so large that Bill Graham started Holding his Concerts at A Basketball Arena in Oakland (seating 19,000) or at the Football Stadium (60,000) - and That allowed Everyone that wanted to Go easy access to a ticket... and Some of those Day on the Green Shows Were EPIC... Kezar Was Excellent Too... SNACK and Led Zeppelin with the TUBES!

Here's a Song about America's Love for the Land... and The People That have Left the City to enjoy the Rural Lifestyle... I always think of Remote Humboldt County Marijuana Farmers when They Play this Song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAFZF9EfZMs - Listen to the Thunder Cry "I Am!"

Grateful Dead ~ Weather Report Suite ~ 07.19.1974

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/grow.html

The Annotated "Weather Report Suite: Part II (Let It Grow)"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd

Someone asked WHAT ERA was best for the Grateful Dead Concerts...

and I Replied:

The era where they Played Giant Football Stadiums Was EPIC... Being in a Crowd Of 60,000 people was Special... But MY PERSONAL FAVORITE was Winterland 1974 when they Filmed the Movie. The Guys in the Band Were REALLY TRYING HARD to make a Great Movie... The Wall of Sound Worked Perfectly... and The LSD was Excellent!

On FaceBorg: I typed my Name into the Search Box in the Upper Left Hand Corner and Found a FaceBorg Account with NO PICTURES and NO WORDS... So I requested It Become My Friend!

BIFF ROSE Wrote:

yahoo blurb in the meddle of the night..

"Elon Musk Joins Anti-LGBTQ+ Libs of TikTok to Mock Fired Employee'

BIFF: They SHOULD mock everything and everyone. We live in a Mockracacy........if you wanna live in a DEmocracy....then.....but who wants THAT? To DEmockratize mean you have to stop mocking and what will the birdies do den de poor tings...they'll fly to the South with a vurm in dare mouth...und tuck dear head unter dare vings de poor tings.......it's going to be a lon-n-n-n-n-n-n-ng Vinter

I replied:

I always use the letters GBLT+Q to refer to the Great Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Sandwiches... PLUS CHEESE! (Queso) ... Remember the AIDS QUILT when Promoting "Pride" - Being Gay is Not Just Parades and Riots, It's also Spending Countless Hours in the Hospital with Dying Lovers... https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt-history

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/jeopardy-champ-amy-schneider-testifies-ohio-transgender-care-ban-rcna57488

This Sad Man is Speaking in Favor of Puberty Preventing Medicine and Sex Changes for Teenagers... ABSURD!

"I truly believe that all of us here have the same goal: to keep Ohio’s children safe and healthy," she said.

But, she added, the “Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act" — which seeks to restrict doctors' ability to provide puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery to minors — would put some children "in grave danger, and a danger that not all of them would survive."

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I feel that It is Unfair That Julia Collins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Collins_(Jeopardy!_contestant) 

is No Longer the Best Woman JEOPARDY! Player... "They" Say Amy Schneider is the Best BUT SHE'S NOT A WOMAN! She's a Man that Had a Sex Change and That's Different! 

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

How to Do the "Bait and Switch" EMAIL Marketing... Remember: If the Person Getting your email deletes it unread... your words of wisdom are pointless... SO... I Include Something that They are Likely to be interested in as the Subject Line... and then Deliver What I Promised as the First Sentence of the Body of the Email... Most people will continue reading down to see what I want to say! and maybe they will even Scroll down further! For Example: I believe most of the people in my family ignore all my emails... WhatEVER! So Today's Email Subject was: AI Generated Portrait of Grandpa Vanderlaan. EXCELLENT! and Then I Included the Picture and a Link so they could do their own... Then I Wrote what I wanted to Write About...

and Then SE Said on FaceBorg:

I don't know what it takes to find lasting friendships in this world. I can occasionally find someone to hang out with for a day, but then they always seem to disappear. Other people seem to have friends who stay in their lives. I wonder why that is so elusive to me? If I hang out with someone and we have a nice time together, why can't we hang out again? Where do they disappear to?

Romantic relationships are a joke at this point. I should have been more focused on that when I was younger. That ship sailed years ago. I untied the rope myself and pushed the ship away from the dock, thinking another ship would come along shortly. I didn't understand that that was the only ship. Once it sails, it's gone forever.

The main thing I care about now is just having someone to spend time with who cares about me. A friend would be fine. Yes, I know I do have friends, but most of them aren't local, or they aren't available to spend time with me because they have their own relationships that take priority, and there's nothing wrong with that. But you'd think it would be easier to connect with other single people in my area. You'd think other single women would be looking for a single friend like me to go out and have fun with every once in a while. There is so much I want to do, but I don't want to do it alone. I've got a good job now, and I can afford stuff. Can I buy a friend? Just kidding...but really, I would if I could. I've tried going out alone hoping to make friends, but that's impossible when nobody else is alone. Everyone else is always with other people, so I go out alone and remain alone the entire time. Meetup groups in my area aren't very good either. I've tried a few, but they tend to be cliquey. Hard to make friends in groups of people who have already formed a clique.

and I Replied:

That's always been a mystery to me too... I DID meet many friends in Alcoholics Anonymous... but That's a Club that you Might Not Qualify to Join... In order to Join you have to have a Drinking PROBLEM... and from what you have written... you don't have a PROBLEM...

We will be leaving for Texas in a few days for Thanksgiving. We are driving there. I've been really looking forward to that part, because the time I drove to Texas in 1994 was one of the coolest experiences I've ever had. I've never been able to afford to do much interstate traveling, and I remember how cool it was to be out on the open road, and to be able to stop and see all kinds of interesting things along the way. I also remember the miles and miles of saguaro cacti in Arizona with the beautiful red rock formations in the background. This trip will be a lot speedier, though, so there won't be time to stop very many places along the way. I'm a little worried about what to pack (I tend to get anxiety about packing for trips), and I'm also a little worried about spending time in a red state with COVID still out there. Probably should get a booster before we go, although I hate the fact that it might give me side effects and slow me down for a few days, but I feel like it wouldn't be smart to travel to a red state without getting boosted first because right-wingers have made COVID into a political issue instead of a health issue, which is still so bizarre to me. But I know there is a much higher likelihood of encountering unvaccinated people in Texas than there is in CA, and that does make me a bit uneasy.

and I Replied:

It IS a Beautiful Drive. Have Fun. Wear a Mask... and Be Grateful That Right Wingers were More Likely to Get Sick and Die... We Certainly Don't Need People Like That in the Future.

Water Ceremony - Group Meditation... Take a Full Glass of Water and Hold it Between your Eyes and The Sun... Say the Sun Prayer... Drink Half the Water...

"Great spirits of the sun we call to you this day, we thank you for the blessings of our lives, the lives of our children, and all of our relations we are thankful for our life."

and Then... Say a Prayer for the Dirt... and Dump the other Half of the Water on a Plant...

"Great Spirits of The Earth. We Call to You On This Day. WE Thank You for your Nurturing and Your Sustenance. and the Ground on Which We Stand. We are Grateful to Be Alive."

https://www.facebook.com/730553453/videos/501506571938863?idorvanity=68795145991

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and then I asked a ChatBot to:

Write an Article entitled "How Can I Make money on the Stock Market using AI?" 

It Said:

Many people believe that artificial intelligence (AI) could be the key to making money on the stock market. After all, AI has the ability to process vast amounts of data and make predictions based on that data.

So, how can you use AI to make money on the stock market?

There are a few ways to do this:

1. Use an AI-based stock trading platform: There are a number of AI-based stock trading platforms available. These platforms use AI to help you make money on the stock market.

2. Use an AI stock market advisor: Another way to make money on the stock market with AI is to use an AI stock market advisor. These advisors use AI to help you make investment decisions.

3. Use an AI stock market simulator: If you want to try your hand at making money on the stock market, but don't want to risk any real money, you can use an AI stock market simulator. These simulators use AI to help you make trades.

Whichever method you choose, if you're looking to make money on the stock market with AI, there are a few things you should keep in mind.

Firstly, remember that AI is not a magic solution that will guarantee profits. The stock market can be unpredictable and there will always be risks involved. However, AI can help you make more informed decisions and potentially increase your chances of success.

Secondly, make sure you do your research and choose a reputable AI-based platform or advisor. Look for reviews and testimonials from other users and make sure the platform has a track record of successful investments.

Lastly, don't rely solely on AI. Use it as a tool to supplement your own knowledge and research. Keep up with industry news and trends, and always be willing to adapt and change your investment strategy as needed.

In conclusion, while there is no foolproof way to make money on the stock market, AI can certainly be a valuable tool in your investment arsenal. Whether you choose to use an AI-based trading platform, advisor, or simulator, be sure to do your research and use it to supplement your own expertise. With patience, discipline and the right approach, you can potentially use AI to boost your investment portfolio.

Rather Insightful Article!

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• and Then I Asked the AI Chatbot:
• How can I Increase Sales on My Zazzle Giftshop?
• 
  
  1. Optimize your product listings: Make sure your product titles, descriptions, tags, and images are clear, informative, and professional. Use keywords relevant to your products to improve their visibility in Zazzle's search results.
  
  
  2. Promote your products: Share links to your Zazzle shop and individual product listings on social media, email newsletters, and other marketing channels. Consider creating targeted ads to reach your ideal audience.
  
  
  3. Offer promotions and discounts: Run special promotions, coupon codes, and sales to attract customers and encourage them to make a purchase.
  
  
  4. Improve your customer service: Respond promptly to customer inquiries and concerns, provide helpful and friendly support, and consider offering a satisfaction guarantee to build customer loyalty.
  
  
  5. Expand your product range: Create new designs, add new product types, and explore new niches to attract more customers and increase sales opportunities.
  
  
  6. Participate in Zazzle promotions: Participate in Zazzle's promotional events like holiday sales, site-wide discounts, and themed collections to increase visibility and drive more traffic to your gift shop.

So, That's what an AI Chatbot Sounds Like... and to tell the truth, No Epic Revelations! 

I Didn't Actually Learn Anything of Value... It was NOT WORTHY!