Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts

LET'S KEEP RAINWATER IN CALIFORNIA... Don't Let it Flow into the Ocean at the Golden Gate Bridge. We could simply pump All The Water out of the Sacramento River onto farmland and grow food...

The San Joaquin River as well... But for some strange reason we allow the water to flow into the ocean... Madness!
We could simply pump water out of the Sacramento River onto farmland and grow food... The San Joaquin River as well... But for some strange reason we allow the water to flow into the San Francisco Bay and then the ocean... Madness!

I wonder why the Sites Reservoir (near Red Bluff, CA) is taking so long to build... It seems to me that it could be completed in one week... But they say it will take years! 
Sites Reservoir: Water for Dry Years... 
Sites Reservoir is an environmentally beneficial, off-river reservoir that will capture excess water from major storms and save it for drier periods, helping California’s farms, businesses and cities continue to supply reliable water when other sources are low.
map of the Proposed Sites Reservoir Northern California
Map of Where Sites Reservoir will be... 
Google Map of Where Sites Reservoir will be... Northern CaliforniaHalfway between Clear Lake and Chico. 

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Photos of The River near Chico, CA 
Scotty's Bar and Boat Launch - Swimming... 
It's an EPIC River for Inner Tubing... 
Sacramento River - Near Chico
Mike J

Scotty's Bar on the Sacramento River - Near Chico
Scotty's is a legendary Bar 
and has a stage out back for live music.

Scotty's Bar on the Sacramento River - Near Chico
Boat Launch and Swimming.

Scotty's Bar on the Sacramento River - Near Chico
Looking Downstream towards San Francisco

Scotty's Bar on the Sacramento River - Near Chico
Scotty's Sign

Rest Area on Highway 5... My Home on the days I didn't want to stay at a Motel. That's my Ford Windstar Van with the Mattress in the Back.
Rest Area on Highway 5...
My Home on the days I didn't want to stay at a Motel.
That's my Ford Windstar Van with the Mattress in the Back. 

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Shredded Rainbow Spiral Business Cards For Sale.

https://www.zazzle.com/shredded_rainbow_spiral_business_card-256163553649539936 <--- Click on the Link!

Shredded Rainbow Spiral Art for sale as Business Cards on Zazzle gregvan

Link to Spiral Art Painted on Bling: 

Link to Rainbow Art Painted on Bling:

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~


On a Related Subject... 
a Post of Mine Was Deleted from This Blog
because I Dared to Ask the FORBIDDEN QUESTION:
"Why do we allow fresh water from the 
Sacramento River to flow into the Ocean?"

after all... 
We Pump the Colorado River Dry before it Gets to the Ocean in Mexico... and No One Complains About THAT!

all the water from the Colorado River is used to Drink, Water Crops, Fill Swimming Pools, Shower, Water Animals and Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks Beverage... 

SO... Someone Reported My Question to Google
and That Post was Deleted... 
WE MUST ALLOW NO QUESTIONS!
OBEY THE ECOLOGY NUTS!
NO THINKING!
Sat Image of Sacramento River
Sacramento River Satellite Photo Google Maps - Delta - 2021 ~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~ and another response:
I say leave Nature ALONE but cut down on human reproduction to reach for a better, more equitable, balance. Humans have already altered, disrupted and destroyed far too much on the planet!  So much in fact, we’re causing thousands of species of animals, plants and insects to go extinct by the day! Enough is enough!  This Central Valley used to be home to deer, antelope, bear, and thousands of other species of both animals and plants.  Now they are crowed out by humans for growing endless mono-crops for human a cattle feed and housing.  Its selfish, greedy and insane. And not just here, the whole Earth is  being similarly destroy for human USE and its  the only home we have in the Universe!  All  because of not having the foresight to control our own  f’g numbers!

Of course, power hungry world and church leaders with politicians leading the way, like more and  more people to fill their coffers!!
back to the story now in progress: California Rice Farmers Pump Water from The Thermalito Afterbay Downstream from the Oroville Dam to Water Their Crops. This Year the Oroville Dam is at Historic Record Low Water Levels. So Low that the Hydro Electric Power Generating Station was TURNED OFF...

Thermalito Afterbay Downstream from Oroville CA


What IF? Would Pumping all that water out of the River and Into Fields that are Growing Crops Change the Climate of California's Central Valley? In the Summer, all that water would evaporate and then fall as rain when those clouds meet the Sierra Nevada Mountains... In General, the Wind Flows from West to East... WE NEED RAIN...

The Objection to Pumping the Sacramento River Dry is That Salmon Need the Water to Survive... and They Would Go Extinct... In That One River... Other Rivers, Like The Klamath and The Columbia and Rivers in Canada and Alaska would NOT Be Changed... and The Salmon Would Continue to Survive There...

and... What IF Salmon Became Extinct? The Drought is The Western USA Is Putting Salmon in the Klamath River in Danger Right Now... Even With The Dams being Removed...
It's Entirely Possible That Salmon are Not Important...



Kapow-Un-Dam-the-Klamath-River-All-Species-Parade-Arcata-CA
Protest Sign Says:
Kapow! Un Dam the Klamath River
in the All Species Parade: Arcata CA

Golden Bear Portrait Klamath River
Golden Bear Sculpture on The Klamath River Bridge.
Highway 101 - Northern California

The San Francisco Bay would Become Salt Water flowing In under the Golden Gate Bridge... Currently it has a Mixture of Salt Water and Fresh Water...

salt flat san jose
That's Surprising because there are Salt Harvesting Businesses Near San Jose... They Just Let the Bay water Evaporate and Collect the Remaining Salt...

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

My Gift to the World: A Free Coloring Book: Print as Many Copies as You Like and Share With Friends. Color with Felt Pens or Pencils... ALL FOR FUN! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~


Here is a Post on that same subject that was NOT Deleted on Facebook... "I Wonder Why Fresh Water from The Sacramento River Flows into the Ocean? After All, The Colorado River is Pumped Dry.
We are Having a Drought Here in California... This Water COULD be used to Grow Crops, Water Livestock, Take Showers or Make Ice Cubes for a Scotch on the Rocks... But NO... It Flows Out into The Ocean at San Francisco... "

in the news today!
In anticipation of a multi-day, significant atmospheric river in Northern California, Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order that would make it easier to divert and store excess water from incoming winter storms. The Governor signed the order after he received a briefing on the latest forecast for the storm.

The executive order also directs the Department of Water Resources and other state agencies to take action to maximize diversion of those excess flows to boost the state’s water storage in Northern California, including storage in San Luis Reservoir south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. These actions will help California replenish above-ground and groundwater storage that remains depleted in many parts of the state following multi-year droughts. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/31/governor-newsom-issues-executive-order-to-help-california-capture-and-store-more-water-from-upcoming-severe-storms/

Banner: 28 People Killed by ICE - NO KINGS Protest 3/28/2026 San Francisco & Mount Shasta, California...

I had no idea that so many people had been killed by ICE! I was only aware of two people... Renee Good and Alex Pretti... TV News and the Online Newspapers failed to mention the 26 other people!



Link to the Human Rights Working Group

The banner shown above was created by UUSF and displayed at the protest March 28th

<~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~>

Here's a film of the No Kings protest March in the Tiny Town of Mount Shasta, California... 

<~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~>


a member of my family is in this sign.... Thank You!

a video taken on the ground while people were at the beach...

Bruce Springsteen...

No Troops in San Francisco - a letter to the editor...

Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce, issued a statement that he would welcome federal troops being deployed in San Francisco, if it would reduce crime.


Letter to the Editor, San Francisco Chronicle. October 12, 2025

Dear Editor,

Oh No!! Marc Benioff has drunk the Trump Kool-Aid! He mistakenly thinks that Trump sends troops to US Cities to fight crime! No, these deployments are theater, intended to generate TV footage for Fox News and to make Trump look strong and manly. What personal insecurity is he compensating for?

If it is theater that he wants, let’s give it to him! If National Guard or Marines show up here, wear your best Bay-to-Breakers costume. Come in Drag, or nothing at all. If they want TV footage, we can give them more than they bargained for. Wear flowers in your hair and bring extra flowers to give to the troops.

During the Vietnam War Pete Seeger recorded a song that should be updated for the current situation. The original song included the lines:

If you love this land of free,
Bring all troops home from overseas.
Bring ‘em home. Bring ‘em home.

If you love your Uncle Sam,
Support our boys in Vietnam.
Bring ‘em home. Bring ‘em home.

Someone with better song writing skills than I might try something like this:

If you love this land of the free,
Keep the troops out of our city.
Send ‘em home! Send ‘em home!

If you love your Uncle Sam,
Get the troops out of Portlan’
Send ‘em home! Send ‘em home!

Thank you, 
Benjamin Kenobi
(aka Obi-Wan Kenobi)

Salesforce Tower San Francisco


Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Let Doctors and Patients Choose What Medicine is Best for Themselves... No Need for Bribed Politicians Making Medical Decisions... They are Puppets of Big Pharma!

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!


I Also Emailed a Scott Weiner, State Senator in San Francisco using a Fake Address and Phone Number I Found on Google Maps... 

 https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/contact

I Just Emailed My California Representative and Senator. HERE IS HOW To Find Your Own! 

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ Click on this Link and Type In Your Home Address... California... 

I Said: "Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Treatment is Best... Legalizing Recreational Psychedelics is a Great Idea TOO. 

Legal LSD Would Be Manufactured by High Quality Scientists and PURITY, QUALITY and ACTUAL DOSE would be Regulated. Often ILLEGAL ACID is Not LSD at all but some other chemical, Like DOM (STP) a Three Day Nightmare Trip... People That Buy Ecstasy Often Do Not Get Actual MDMA but get A Bizarre Combination of Methamphetamines and WHO KNOWS WHAT!

Legalize Psychedelics For the Public's HEALTH...  Criminal Chemists Pose a Hazard To The People's Sanity! FDA Approved Psychedelics Would Be Better... Do It For The Kids!"


Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Treatment is Best - meme - gvan42


Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics by gvan42

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics by gvan42



Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Treatment is Best - meme - gvan42

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves what Treatment is Best - meme - gvan42

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

*JUST JOKING* A Step by Step Guide to the Violet Overgrow of the Ruling Class - A Novel by Gregory Vanderlaan *JUST JOKING*

Step #1: 
Boycott Everything Until Prices Come Down. 
Corporations owned by the 1% keep on raising prices and collecting windfall profits. They will keep on doing that until people quit buying. If they could, they would charge $100.00 for a Quart of Milk... 

Step #2: Sneak Marijuana Cookies onto the Buffet Tables of the Hotels near Capitol Hill in Washington DC. If the "Suits" that Run the Government had a Cannabis Trip... maybe they would think twice about doing evil for a living. Place some Cannabis Edibles in the Senate Dining Room also... At the very least they would change the CrazyLaws® about Marijuana... 

Step #3: Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half. This will really anger the Ruling Class as They Profit Greatly from Corporate Welfare. Remember: Since 1945 the US Military has Never Defended the USA... Not Even Once... So all that money being spent at the Pentagon is Just a Way to Transfer Wealth from the Taxpayers to the Owners of Defense Corporations...  The same Owners Finance the Campaigns of the Senators and Congressmen that Write the Bills that Fund the Pentagon... So the Money Travels in a Tight Circle... and YOU GET NOTHING... 

Step #4: Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Corporations. "U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing new fossil fuel exploration, production, and consumption, which directly affects how much oil, natural gas, and coal gets produced—and how much clean energy doesn’t." https://generation180.org/the-absurd-truth-about-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

Step #5: YOUR IDEA HERE! Email Me: gregvan (at) yahoo (dot) com 

Project MKULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Experiment That Escaped The Laboratory and Got Out Onto The Dance Floor! Was "The Sixties" Really a Test to Just Find Out What Would Happen IF A Million People Took LSD?

At First, The CIA Allowed Millions of Doses of LSD to be Distributed at Grateful Dead Concerts JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE CURIOUS... and then Later, The CIA Deployed All Those Vendors BECAUSE IT WORKED! Many People Who Took LSD Became "NOT A THREAT" To The Ruling Class. People Became interested in Learning How to Play Guitar instead of Being Interested in The Violet Overgrow of the US Government... People Became interested in Organic Farming... Again, Remote Marijuana Farmers and Organic Vegetable Growers DO NOT POSE A DANGER TO THE IVY LEAGUE EAST COAST ESTABLISHMENT... 

They Even Had a CIA Consultant Touring Coast to Coast Advising Young People to "Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out." Yes, Dr Timothy Leary Worked for the CIA Designing the Leary Personality Test. --- AND --- People who "Drop Out" are Mostly Harmless... There were a Couple of Exceptions: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin Started the "YIPPIES" and Protested Against the Vietnam War... Causing Thousands of People to Surround the Pentagon to Try and Levitate It. They also Created the 1968 Chicago Riots... 

READ MORE: 

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~


I Did a Scientific Experiment On How Drugs Effect My Skill Level Playing Chess.

Results: Coffee Made Me Play Better. Alcohol and Marijuana Made me Worse. LSD Made Me Reject the Entire Idea of Tests and I Refused to Play Games…

It was a Simple Test and You Could Recreate it Yourself for a “PEER REVIEW” – I owned a Chess Computer that Played at Different Skill Levels… I Took Those Drugs – I Played against the Machine and Determined What Level I Could Beat the Machine… and That’s Why… all these years later… the only drug I take is Coffee… and a Dozen “Doctor Drugs” That Don’t Seem to Do Anything but Don’t Seem to Do Any Harm Either… After All... “One Pill Makes You Larger, and One Pill Makes You Small… and The Ones That Mother Gives You Don’t Do Anything at All…” – Grace Slick

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/i-did-a-scientific-experiment-on-how-drugs-effect-my-skill-level-playing-chess/ 

MKULTRA: The mystery of Mary Pinchot Meyer. She was a friend of John Kennedy and supposedly gave him Marijuana and LSD while at the White House as a guest. Then, a few days after his assassination, she was killed and the crime has never been solved. Her family gave the CIA her diary to help them figure out what happened, and they claim to have burned the diary-unread... She was a friend of Timothy Leary.

A group of women were turning on the top 1% of the men in society: political leaders, movie stars, artists, scientists and business leaders. The idea was to change the whole world by changing the minds of the leaders...
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_lsd.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer

On FaceBORG I Read in the Group:


Looking Into Death:
To begin to grasp the truth of death, it’s necessary to see how the human mind has made a concept of what is essentially an intrinsic part of life. Death is always perceived to happen in another body; the reality is that death is utterly subjective and occurs within the inner space of the outer form. Death intrigues and appals people in equal measure, since no-one can avoid the fact that it comes to us all in time. The psychological effect is to escape into the world as a projection of hope, the mantra of the masses being that death comes tomorrow and never today.
The fear of death is now deeply ingrained in the human race, which necessitates hope and is the last thing to go when all is lost. When the death process begins and the focus merges with the psychic vortex, all fear disappears and, with it, all hope of coming back. This is the state of peace and the freedom from existence, and can often be observed in the dying. It’s irrefutable that every body dies. But the life within doesn’t die; it merely withdraws, just as it does every night when the body goes to sleep. The only difference is that at physical death the thread which connects the senses to the surface awareness is severed. This signifies the end of that particular recurrence and the beginning of a new phase of life.
Prior to physical death, and sometimes in life-threatening situations or extreme shock, there’s a crossover between the normal fixed position of mind to an altered state of consciousness. This is commonly referred to as ‘an out of the body experience’. The body is not actually ‘left’ because the reality of the body extends beyond the physical limitations of material existence and has no definitive shape. So from this perspective the attention can appear anywhere, from a point of consciousness looking down upon the body to the deepest constellation in space.
Everyone is engaged in the process of death from the moment of birth, as the whole ageing system is a gradual preparation for the physical body’s demise. Just as the body is programmed for its eventual disintegration, so the emotional body prepares for death through the gradual detachment from the experience of sensory existence. The difficulty is that people become so attached to the continuity of life, particularly in their relationships to loved ones, that the transition in the death process is invariably distressing to some degree. Nevertheless, in life’s infinite compassion, the trauma is neutralised and the man or woman goes unconscious through the passage of death to awake into a new phase of life and incomparable wonder.
At the time of death, freed of the enormous strain of holding up existence in sense, the intelligence speeds up and opens up a new realm of heightened perception. After each living recurrence, the essence of the individual’s virtue gravitates towards the enlightenment point. The attachment to the world determines the depth an individual consciousness reaches within the gradations of reality. Someone who has been totally immersed in the external world during their lifetime may be more comfortable in the space nearer to the earth. Here they can experience the after-death process in a similar but less formal version of their earthly existence. Someone else, having made the search for truth a more conscious part of their life will gravitate to a deeper level of the psyche and participate in an even finer version of their inner reality.
To die consciously and pass from one state of being to the next is to participate in the totality of life everlasting. Similar to a vapour trail of a jet or the shimmering light of a shooting star, consciousness creates a celestial beam impressed upon the human psyche for others to draw upon during the crossing of death. The evolution of mankind is towards the bridging of the material and psychic worlds. It will be a world of immortality, with death effectively transcended as a necessary function of human existence. In future earth cultures, the immortal state will ensure that death is no longer a restriction to life.
Lance Kelly

Feeding the mind. by Michael Kewley
Although Dhamma is always very simple, it is rarely very easy to apply, even when we are able to see the mechanics of our mind, of our life and of our suffering.
Life as we usually experience it is a series of habits, recurring mind states empowered through unawareness, moment after moment. The more often we empower them the more we cultivate the habit of them and so the more often they return. Our life becomes cyclic as we find ourselves in the same kinds of situations over and over again, reacting in the same way over and over again, and always experiencing the same outcome, over and over again. How could it be different?
The International Meditation Centre, just outside Budh Gaya, in northern India, is the place where we would conduct our annual series of ten day highly intensive Vipassana meditation retreats, from November to February each year.
These were always well attended and the students who came to sit with us had many opportunities to observe their own habits of mind, both in the sitting meditation practice and in their limited daily activity.
We would begin our day at five o’clock in the morning with sitting meditation and so breakfast, two hours later, was always welcome.
Life on retreat is deliberately kept as simple as possible, principally to give space to the mind, and so breakfast was always the same meal consisting of porridge, a small banana and two cookies.
However, for whatever reason, the cookies were not popular with the students and so they would keep them to one side and then when they had finished eating, take them out of the dining room to feed to the dogs.
The International Meditation Centre had three dogs that would roam about the property freely all day, but every morning at breakfast time they would be waiting outside the dining room to be fed with cookies. The more they were fed, the more they came back. Every day was the same, no surprises and no changes. The dogs would appear, wag their tails, open their mouths and they would be fed. The relationship between the two forces never deviated. The dogs arrived and they were fed.
The mind is exactly the same. The more we feed it the more it returns - more dogs waiting for cookies. To change this habit we don’t have to kill or destroy the dogs, of course not, we only have to stop feeding them. Only in this way will they stop coming every day for food.
Dhamma is always very simple, though rarely very easy, but changing our life is mostly about remembering to be different. To stop feeding the habits of our mind and so be free.
May all beings be happy.

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Loving support: by Michael Kewley
Many years ago I led a retreat in the south of France at a private meditation centre. When the retreat had ended I was invited to give a public talk the next evening in the beautiful old walled city of Carcassonne.
I was driven there by my organiser and translator and the talk went ahead. After the talk we walked back to the car park to where the car was parked, but now the space was empty!
I said, “Your car’s not there.”
My friend immediately took her glasses out of her bag just to make sure she was seeing properly, but had to agree that the car was missing.
Very calmly she said, “O.K. we have to report this to the police and then call my husband to come and collect us.”
After we had arrived back at the retreat centre and sat with a cup of tea I told her that I had been very impressed by her calm manner and attitude when she realised that the car had been stolen (It was taken by ‘joy’ riders and found some days later completely destroyed).
“Thank you,” she said, “but it was only because you were standing next to me.”
We often think of ourselves in a small way, continually rejecting any idea of self worth and value, but the truth is that everything is affecting everything else, and our presence in any situation can be a support and even a blessing to others.
For myself I met this many times when I lived with my teacher. To see him responding in different moments in a wise and loving way was always inspirational. Never showing anger or irritation, but always being strong and clear.
When we are angry that has an effect in our life and everything that we come into contact with.
When we are loving, that too has an effect in our life and everything that we come into contact with. Of the two, love is better.
However, here is the spiritual paradox, if we try to be someone who manifests only certain beautiful qualities we miss the point of practice.
We train ourselves to let go of conditioned ideas of behaviour and simply allow the heart to emerge.
The heart (intuitive understanding) ‘just is,’ and so never tries to show itself. It responds to the moment without looking over it’s shoulder to see who’s watching. It does not look at the spiritual scoreboard to see how well it’s doing. The heart serves and asks for nothing in return and so is pure.
Purity of being is the highest practice.
Our own spiritual training is to let go of any limited sense of self identity and be one with this infinitely loving and generous heart.
In this way our life becomes a blessing to ourselves and then quite naturally, a blessing to all beings and situations that we meet.
May all beings be happy.

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Other Journeys

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

Virtual Journey: Canada Tourist Guide & Autobiography. We Went on our Honeymoon to Vancouver, BC. We Rode a Bicycle built for Two in Stanley Park... and Many More Wonderful Places to Visit.


Virtual Journey: Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad - Visit Northern California's Coast. We Have Our Own Little World Here Behind The Redwood Curtain! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/eureka-arcata-trinidad.html


Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Drive the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!


Virtual Journey: to the Star Wars Flying Motorcycles Redwood Forest on Hwy 36 in Remote Humboldt County, CA, USA - and the Bridgeville UFO Festival, The Town of Mad River. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/virtual-journey-hwy-36-remote-humboldt.html


Virtual Journey: Lost Coast, CA, USA on Highway 211 - From Victorian Ferndale to The Beach, the Mountains of Mateel to the Avenue of the Giants. Humboldt County. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-virtual-drive-thru-remote-humboldt.html


Virtual Journey to San Francisco - Boat Ride on the Red and White Fleet. Under the Golden Gate Bridge and Around Alcatraz Island... and MORE!


Virtual Journey: The Smithsonian and Washington DC. Instead of Buying Gasoline and Driving There, Take this Magic Trip Instead! A Guided Tour to the Places My Family Wanted to See... 

Popular Posts

You may Read More Blog Posts by Clicking On the Handy Labels Below... Or Share this Post By Using the Buttons!

Popular Posts

Popular Posts

Popular Posts