FREE ART MANDALA --- by gvan42 --- Go Ahead and Pirate These Images and Use Them Wherever You Need to Automatically Zone Out in a Trance...

I spend a lot of time playing with the art program on my computer... When it is running I cannot see the clock or the TV... And I'm in a Zone where time and space don't really exist... So here's an example of the art that I've been doing in the computer... Fun! Better than watching TV news... Endless bad events that I can't do anything about...

I repaired my old Toshiba laptop by downloading Linux onto a thumb drive and making that the boot disc... Then I activated email and an art program called Pinta... it is very similar to the ancient art program called Paint by Microsoft... So now... I drew a squiggly drawing in Pinta and emailed it to myself and then transmogrified it using the Google Chromebook running a program called Photopea... And this is the result... 

I refuse to accept the trend of laptops being disposable... Use them until they break down then throw them away and get a new one... Since the Google Chromebook is available for $50 online... There is an obvious movement by corporations to make these things disposables... And I don't care for that... So I repaired the old Toshiba that had been sitting in a drawer for 2 years... And now I have a 32 GB thumb drive that I'm not using because I already downloaded Linux and I don't need the source code anymore... So I wonder what I'll do with that!

The one mistake I made when going to college was to challenge the computer science course that taught Microsoft Word and Excel. If you could pass the final exam you didn't have to take the class. So the teacher had one week training that covered the basics and I took that and I passed the exam and... I really wish that I had learned everything possible about those two programs... Because at work the only computer program that I ever used was Microsoft Word and Excel... And having knowledge would have been super handy... For example: one day my boss said: "Damn it! I've erased this long letter that I just wrote... Can you find it in the computer and bring it back?" And I did not know how... So she had to rewrite the letter again... If I just taken that class I would have learned that all former versions of any word processing document are saved... And I could have been the hero... But I ended up being the zero... 4 years of college turned out to be pretty much useless... At work... So the lesson learned was... If you're paying big bucks to go to college... Get every Penny's worth... I was employing those guys too put knowledge into my brain and I just said: "No Thanks!" Because it was exhausting to be a full-time college student and it seemed like a good idea at the time to just challenge that class... 

However I did learn how to find instructions on the internet in order to do what I want to do... The training and step by step instructions on how to download Linux and use it to boot my windows based Toshiba laptop was essential... I tried to download Windows... And it failed... I Tried to download Google's Chrome OS... And it failed... But Linux worked! Excellent!

Phil Valenti 
Why does everyone keep calling Iran our enemy? What exactly did they do to the United States?

And I replied:

Not everyone is calling Iran our enemy... I for one do not call them that... Nor do any of the people I know! And that guy that does the travel shows on PBS, Rick Steves did a tourist visit to Iran and the people seemed quite friendly and interested to see an American TV show being filmed... I think the only people call Iran are enemy are Trump and his evil Munchkins... One thing about Iran is that the guy that started the religion BAHAI was an Iranian... Also the organization called the assassins were Iranians...

And then some guy on Faceborg asked:

Did the dead play live shows while under the influence of acid?

And I replied:

Yes... But they didn't like to... because... When you're scheduled to play a concert, you're forced to go play and hopefully do a good job... And when under the influence of LSD... Sometimes you want the freedom to do something completely different... Go take a hike in the woods... Or dump a bucket out of water on your head... But performing in public is work... Remembering all those words and chord changes and all that... 

Watch the performance of the song "Ain't no Cane in the Brazos" from the movie Festival Express... Bob is obviously High...

This Image Shows What Colin Powell's 2003 UN Press Conference Would Have Looked Like. He Was Promoting the Insane Bombing of Civilians in Iraq... Just Like Pablo Picasso's Guernica Painting... That was COVERED BY SHEETS so it would Not be Visible During the Press Conference...

Colin Powell gave a Press Briefing at the United Nations

where he explained the Reasons for going to War in Iraq.

Press Briefings are always held in front of Picasso's Painting "Guernica" that depicts Insane death from the sky.

Powell was proposing starting a war that would have a lot of

Insane Death from the Sky... 

SO HE HAD JANITORS COVER THE PAINTING AND HE SPOKE IN FRONT OF A WHITE SHEET...

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

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A Brief History of the War In Iraq. OOPS, We Blew Up The Wrong Country. On 9/11 Fourteen (14) SAUDI ARABIAN Hijackers Flew Airplanes into The World Trade Center. Five (5) Were NOT Saudis.

George W. Bush (the Son) felt that He Could NOT go to War with The ACTUAL people that Caused 9/11 so he had the CIA write FALSE Reports so he could start a War Against Iraq. Years Later We Learned that Iraq Had No WMD, Had No ties to Al Qaeda and Had Nothing at all to do with 9/11.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-brief-history-of-war-in-iraq-oops-we.html

PAINTING BY RON ENGLISH

One of the high points of my life was performing "Uncle John's Band" at the Rainbow Gathering in Idaho. I met a young man and showed him the Chords and Lyrics that I had written down in my spiral notebook... After we played that song, he said: I don't want to learn any more songs, let's just play this one again...

We were sitting in the shade at the "Relaxation Station"... the very first place everyone walked past after leaving the parking lot... A lady was doing Tarot Card readings and we were passing around a bottle of TEA with some kind of stimulant in it... Someone told me it was ephedrine...  it did make me feel alert and optimistic... Since there was a constant flow of people walking by, it made perfect sense to Play the Same Song Again and Again and Again... Give the people what they want... 

There was a big meadow surrounded by forest and most people were camping under the trees. THEN... all of a sudden... the people out in the meadow were pointing up at the sky... dozens of people were talking excitedly and pointing at SOMETHING... So I stood up and walked out to the middle of the meadow and saw... a giant "Sun Dog" rainbow covering half of the sky. Ice Crystals at a Very High Elevation refracted the sunlight to make an astonishing display of colors... That's why everyone was cheering! This Gathering was near the Sawtooth Mountains... a truly miraculous place to camp...

On another day I played the Song "Aiko-Aiko" many times and walked all the way around 5,000 people waiting for dinner. They were sitting in a series of big circles... The Rainbow Gathering serves a big free meal every day in the afternoon. Everyone meets at Main Meadow and relaxes while the Servers dish up the food... Usually a Vegetable Rice meal... In theory, all a person needs to bring to the Gathering is a CUP... because many people put a lot of effort into buying and cooking and there are usually a dozen kitchens set up all over... The concept is that IF EVERYONE BRINGS FOOD AND SHARES, WE WILL ALL HAVE ENOUGH. I brought a couple of cans of Bugler roll your own tobacco and donated it to the "Nick at Night" tribe. They roll up cigarettes and distribute them freely to the group... You certainly wouldn't want to run out of smokes at the Gathering and suffer withdrawal symptoms... It's more fun to simply BLISS OUT and enjoy the bounty...  

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For the Complete Story... 
I went to the gathering with a goal in mind. I wanted to play my guitar and sing in public. Yes, mission accomplished. Living in Chico, California and working at the plastics factory when there was a layoff, my wife suggested that I borrow the car and drive over to the gathering. My friend Mike Jensen wanted to go and so we checked the oil, brake fluid, transmission fluid and water and set out on a classic American road trip. We made it as far as Reno the first day and slept by the side of the road. Read More:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/rainbow-gathering-idaho-2001.html

Photo of a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops ...and... Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... We Have a Couple of Redwood Trees... AND NO RIOTS!

On a Weekend that has the People on the TV NEWS Rioting, I Noticed that Things are Pretty Good Here in Rural California. Those People Over There are Behaving Crazy and Not Having Fun... Glad I'm Here and Not in the City! 

a Perfect Red Rose with Dewdrops

I Often Question IF the People I See On The TV NEWS Are Real... and then I Change the Channel, Turn Off The Sound and focus my Attention on the Birds Chirping... 

Broken Automatic Watering System.
It Just Creates a Puddle in the Dirt.
The Lawn is Dying

Trump is in favor of killing people in Yemen... Lockheed's profits are more important that schoolchildren... what a sick person...

What, didn't his MOTHER teach him the difference between good and evil?

What ever happened to Moses and the Ten Commandments?

Thou Shalt Not Kill... was that a Mistake?

Music Video: "Ghost Riders in the Sky" by Stan Jones. Covered by Greg Vanderlaan Guitar, Vocals

https://youtu.be/66ubfWcm5jQ my father's favorite...