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Housing Subdivisions With a Waterway to Dock Your Boat in Back and a Motorway to Park Your Car In Front. Satellite Pictures... King Salmon, Venice, Marina Del Ray, Discovery Bay, Tahoe Keys and Delta Cove

Map of King Salmon...
Just South of Eureka, California
Link:
https://goo.gl/maps/nx5HS2NJvkzmcd749

King Salmon, CA Closeup Satellite View

King Salmon Satellite View
Including Gills Restaurant and PG&E
and That Very Gentle Beach for Wading.

Venice California - canals - satellite view
https://goo.gl/maps/fSbZNqaxZ4oBP4RB9

Marina Del Rey Apartments
With Boat Docks near Venice
https://goo.gl/maps/P5xvX49qKtTzaoK79

Discovery Bay in the Sacramento River Delta Area

Delta Coves Subdivision Planned Boat Community in the Sacramento River Delta Area

Delta Coves Subdivision Planned Boat Community
NO HOUSES YET!
in the Sacramento River Delta Area

and... Tahoe Keys - South Shore Lake Tahoe...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/acPtPG39529dw1y29

There is growing concern about the spread of aquatic invasive and nuisance plant species which cover over 90 percent of the Tahoe Keys lagoons. Despite the considerable management and financial investment of the Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association (TKPOA) to control this problem, weeds continue to spread and management costs continue to mount.

https://tahoekeysweeds.org/

Virtual Journeys: Travel Without Leaving Home

Virtual Avenue of the Giants Tour. “Drive” thru the Giant Redwood Trees… Beautiful Humboldt County, California, USA

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2024/01/virtual-avenue-of-giants-humboldt-co.html

Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest – Now a State Reserve… Near Eureka, CA – Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/two-pinecones-in-humid-weather-and.html

Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA… Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th… and As Soon as I Know, I’ll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here…

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/12/rainbow-gathering-2023.html

Duane Flatmo Murals in Eureka, California – As they were being Painted – and the Kinetic Sculpture Race – An Art Tourists Delight!

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/06/duane-flatmo-murals-in-eureka.html

JET SETTERS: When Will They Ever Learn? Causing Air Pollution and Climate Change is No Longer “Totally Groovy”

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/do-not-fly-on-jet-airplanes-you-all.html

Carson Mansion – Zipper Carnival Ride – Fireworks – Eureka California – Kinetic Sculpture Race – Photographs from California’s Rugged North Coast

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/carson-mansion-zipper-carnival-ride.html

Travel Causes Climate Change – JUST DON’T GO! Burning Gasoline in Cars to Go to Grandma’s House? That’s CRAZY!

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/11/stop-climate-change.html

Virtual Journey: Eureka, Arcata, Trinidad – Visit Northern California’s Coast. We Have Our Own Little World Here Behind The Redwood Curtain!

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/eureka-arcata-trinidad.html

Virtual Journey: New York: Excellent Places to Go! Autobiography…

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/06/virtual-journey-new-york.html

Virtual Journey: Canada Tourist Guide & Autobiography. Excellent Places to Visit…

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/05/canada-tourist-guide.html

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

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/highway-299-virtual-journey.html

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.

LINK: 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.

LINK: 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!

LINK: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/journey-to-san-francisco.html

Train Trail from San Francisco to Humboldt Bay

More than a century ago, a railroad was constructed to shuttle passengers and redwood logs between San Francisco and Humboldt Bay.

Now the since-abandoned train track could be transformed into a 307-mile pathway through remote, wild country along California’s North Coast, a move advocates hope will create a world-class outdoors destination and jump-start the economy.

The Great Redwood Trail moved closer to realization this week with the release of a document mapping out the planning, construction and management of the trail in Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties, or the northern portion of the envisioned path. Segments in Sonoma and Marin counties will be planned separately.
“I would put it in the category of the Pacific Crest Trail, the Appalachian Trail — these large, landscape-scale trails that provide an experience for people to see areas that they just would never have access to otherwise,” said Caryl Hart, chair of the California Coastal Commission and board member of the Great Redwood Trail Agency, which is tasked with developing the path.

If realized, the project would be the longest so-called rail trail in the country, generally following the defunct track through towering redwoods and along rushing rivers teeming with salmon. The relatively flat trail would accommodate hikers, bikers and horseback riders while potentially providing an economic infusion to small towns struggling amid the decline of logging and rise of legal cannabis.

Officials say it’s probably 20 years away from completion but will move forward section by section.

What have you done to decrease your dependence on using oil? a FaceBorg Discussion With Many Good Ideas!

Plastic is made from Oil. I reduced my use of Plastic by stopping buying water in Bottles... Got a Filter Pitcher instead. Stopped Drinking COKE Too...

JB Commented:

I don't use a vehicles bigger than I need for the situation. I have a bicycle, e-bike, motorcycle, and SUV. Mostly for my own personal enjoyment but it does save lots of gas. I also live in a basement apartment because it suits me better than a house. I use rechargeable LED lights that go on and off by themselves most of the time.

JB SAID:

Some of the things I've done to decrease my carbon footprint.

Using LED Lighting

Using one room at a time during the cooling season.

Using a well-maintained fuel efficient 4-cylinder.

Using LPG instead of oil

Using a tankless:

Heating & Hot Water system.

Working at Home

SE SAID:

all electric house fed by nuclear plant, 50 mpg hybrid car, 24 solar panels.

DF SAID:

Nothin....I'm keep'n my cadillac. my furnace is running as we speak. 'central alberta'. Alberta is oil country. I do my part to keep the industry going. Oil, means a good life, good solid high paying jobs. The Big machine runs on oil.

JW SAID:
I've stopped flying overseas. I use the car only 2xs a week (it's a 2017 and there are fewer than 23,000 miles on her). I stopped taking showers every day (actually, pandemic led me to that). I collect rain water for toilets and plants. I compost. Buy local.

GG SAID:
Drive only when necessary, find the most fuel efficient way to drive somewhere and never drive during rush hours. I have a 2010 Mazda 3, I bought in 2009, I have only about 60,000 miles on it.

I SAID:

Drive My Car Less... I Hardly Go anywhere anymore... and when I do, I have a valid reason... I stopped Flying in Jet Airplanes. The Last Flight was in 2001 to meet my New In-Laws... I Have Not Gotten Married Since then so... No Real Reason to Fly! We Have our Family Christmas Party on Zoom... Years ago everyone drove to Our Uncle's House...

GJ SAID:

Well before 2010, 100% renewable energy electricity plan.

2011 installed solar panels on the roof.

2017 bought an all electric car, which I charge at home.

2023 turned off the natural gas to the house.

OWK SAID:

Nothing. We rent. But we don't really drive. But depend on Walmart and Amazon to deliver. So I guess we depend on them to find efficient ways of delivering our stuff. So that is something.

Freight Hauling Bicycle in Europe. Cargo Bike! Made by Larry vs Harry: the creators of the Bullitt. Danish design. ZERO POLLUTION. an Alternative to Cars and Trucks.

https://www.facebook.com/LarryVsHarryCargobikes

Freight Hauling Bicycle in Europe. CargoBikes! Made by Larry vs Harry: the creators of the Bullitt cargo bike. Danish design.

When I was Delivering Pizza for Dominos... Everyone Used a MOPED at Crystal City in Arlington Virginia... Because Driving a Car and Parking was Impractical... Most deliveries were to Hotel rooms...

SEE? There is an alternative to Cars, Trucks and Vans. Remember: It's Possible to Ride the Bus to Work...

Solution Over Pollution Sign - a Bicycle and an Upside down Car

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/04/human-energy.html

THIS is Human Energy... Convert Body Fat into Electricity using a Stationary Bicycle Generator... CHEVRON IS LYING! They are NOT the Human Energy Company... They are the OIL Company that is Using Their MASSIVE PROFITS to Broadcast Feel Good TV Commercials...

12 Volt Bicycle Generator - Actual Human Energy

Diagram of Bicycle Power Electric Generator

Bicycle Power Electric Generator - Humboldt State University

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/11/email-peloton-ask-em-to-build-electric.html

What if we installed electric power generators on every exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt State University
http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_human_energy_converter

POWER by John Hall - No Nukes

          G                        Bm
Just give me the warm power of the Sun
              Em                  D
Give me the steady flow of a waterfall
              Am                        C               G       D
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay
                 G                      Bm
Just give me the restless power of the wind
                Em                      D
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire
                Am                   C           G
But won't you take all your atomic poison power away
 
 
           G                    Bm
Everybody needs some power I'm told
                           Em              D
To shield them from the darkness and the cold
                Am              C                         G     D
Some may seek a way to take control when it's bought and sold
              G           Bm
I know that lives are at stake
           Em                           D
Yours and mine of our descendants in time
                    Am                  C
There's so much to gain and so much to lose
  G                     D
Everyone of us has to choose

GOP Plan: End Medicare, Social Security and Veterans Benefits and Give the Money to the Super Rich...

Republicans are Stupid People... But It's Not Their Fault... Many Were Born That Way... Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Like Nikolas Cruz, the Mass Murderer of Parkland High School, Florida... #MAGAKILLER

They Believe That if They Win, Life will be Like the "Leave it to Beaver" TV Show... They Can't Tell the Difference Between Reality and The LIES They Have Been Told... Classic Brainwashing... Mind Control... MKULTRA...

They Expect "Happy Days" and "Father Knows Best" - That's the Underlying Meaning of Make America Great Again... They Want a Time Machine to Go Back To the Time When America Was Great! The 1950s... a Time When a High School Graduate Could get a Job that would Pay for a House, a House Wife, a Car and Kids...

Back to a time When Blacks knew their Place and We Didn't Have Women's Liberation or Gay Rights... and Mexicans worked in the Fields but we Never Talked to Them... They Spoke Spanish!

Here's a Photo of a House in My Neighborhood... Celebrating Halloween... and the Republicans are now freaking out about Halloween because THAT'S WITCHCRAFT

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DON'T CUT OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE

A vote for the GOP is a vote 
for you, your family, 
and everyone you know, 
to be enslaved, 
to be subjugated, 
to be suppressed, 
by a ruthless autocracy,
a tyrant,
a dictator. 

A vote for GOP, 
until the grip of Trumpism (aka Putinism) is lifted from the radical right and they come back from mass delusion, 
is a vote 
AGAINST 
Democracy,
Freedom,
Liberty,
and all our Rights.

A vote for GOP, 
because you’re pissed that prices are going up 
in a world wide wave of inflation,
caused by PUTIN’s evil war against democracy, 
is in fact handing power 
over your life 
and your freedom 
to election deniers 
drunk on mass delusions and 
fantasy conspiracy theories.

If you can’t be bothered to vote at all, 
that is in fact an action in itself,
in support of 
a GOP dictatorship, 
which may 
destroy our democracy, 
our freedoms, 
and our way of life. 

REGRET is a horrible thing. 
Don’t risk living the rest of your life with the deep regret that
if only I had voted 
against GOP autocrats,
if only I had convinced and supported more democracy-loving friends and family of the urgency to vote this year, 
to keep our freedoms,
that we would not have 
lost it all. 

2020 was the most important vote in our lifetime, 
to remove a dictator in the making, while we still had the right to vote,
but even then,
on Jan 6th,
the mass deluded radical right  
still tried 
and came close 
to taking it all away from us.

2022 is the next test of our resolve 
to remain Free, 
to remain a democracy. 

What is your 
Freedom and Liberty 
worth to you?

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE

VOTE to keep our 
freedom and democracy

WHAT WILL YOU DO?




DEMOCRATIC POLICIES QUITE POPULAR, GOP  NARROWMINDEDNESS, GREED APPALL MOST AMERICANS: SO LET'S KEEP THE FOCUS ON THE ISSUES  
By HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
October 18, 2022 (Tuesday)
   In their year and a half in power, Democrats have put in place policies that are widely popular—indeed, the infrastructure projects provided for under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act are so popular that Republicans who voted against the law are nonetheless taking credit for them. Voters have long called for Medicare to be able to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies (83% in favor), now made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, which also caps certain drug expenses, including the cost of insulin.           Between 80 and 90% of Americans want basic gun control laws—the Democrats just passed the first one in decades—and a majority want funding for action against climate change (65%) and relief for educational debt (55%). 
   Support for supplying Ukraine against Russia stands at 73%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken in early October. Support for Ukraine was a bipartisan commitment that changed only after Trump had the 2016 Republican platform, which had expressed support for Ukraine, watered down. 
    What has not been popular in the past year and a half, in fact, what has been quite unpopular, is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. About 62% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while only 8% believe it should be illegal in all cases, and 28% believe it should be illegal in most cases. 
    Since June, when the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision, the news has reported multiple cases of raped children unable to obtain abortions in their home states, girls and women unable to obtain medications to treat long-term illnesses because those drugs can also induce abortion, women diagnosed with cancer who cannot get treatment, women whose fetuses have conditions incompatible with life and who cannot terminate the pregnancy, and women whose health is at risk as they are unable to obtain the healthcare they need as they are miscarrying—all of this just as abortion rights advocates warned would happen if the court overturned Roe v. Wade. Since the Dobbs decision, Democrats have outperformed expectations in four special House elections and one state referendum. 
    The popularity of the Democrats’ agenda and the unpopularity of their own appear to have pushed the Republicans to go for broke, courting their base by demanding the utter destruction of Democrats’ policies and the reinstatement of their own. 
Since the 1980s, Republican leaders have embraced the idea that cutting taxes and concentrating wealth at the top of the economy will spark economic growth, although “supply side” economics has never produced as promised. They insist the programs Biden and the Democrats back are “socialism,” and their base agrees. Their base also hates abortion rights. 
    To sidestep the gulf between their base and the majority of voters, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declined to announce any sort of an agenda before the midterm elections, telling donors that party leaders would just attack the Democrats.
There have been signs, though, of what the Republicans will do if they regain control of one or both of the houses of Congress, and top of the list was cutting the programs at the heart of our social welfare system: Social Security and Medicare. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) called for sunsetting all laws every five years and repassing them; Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) called for making Social Security and Medicare part of the discretionary budget, meaning their funding would have to be reapproved every year. 
    Republicans have also said they would pass a law to make the 2017 Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations permanent, a move economists say would increase inflation. “The trick is to put the president in a position of either getting defeated in 2024 or signing your stuff into law,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich told Jeff Stein of the Washington Post. “Republicans will make it a priority to continue the Trump tax cuts, because it puts the Democrats in a position of being for tax increases and against economic growth.”
    Recently, though, Republicans have been much clearer, warning that they will refuse to raise the debt ceiling in order to force Biden to agree to their demands to “reform” Social Security and Medicare by raising the age of eligibility and means testing. (Democrats have said they would stabilize the programs with higher taxes on the wealthy.) 
    This is a huge deal. While Trump has urged MAGA Republicans in the past to use the threat of the debt ceiling to get concessions, responsible Republicans have refused to play chicken with the global financial markets and with our own financial future, for defaulting even for a matter of hours will wash away our financial might. Raising the debt ceiling is not a future blank check, it enables the U.S. to meet bills it has already incurred, and refusing to do so will throw the U.S. into a catastrophic default. Congress has raised the debt ceiling repeatedly in the past forty years, but Republicans have apparently come around to Trump’s position that playing to their base is worth taking the U.S. hostage.
Republicans are also signaling a change in U.S. support for Ukraine. Although current Republican leaders have supported aid to Ukraine, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested today that if the Republicans regain the majority thanks to more MAGA candidates, they will oppose giving more aid to Ukraine in the war with Russia. Putin has just launched the largest wave of airstrikes against Ukraine since the early days of the war, hitting civilian areas with the plan to cut off gas and electricity before the winter. 
    And, of course, after the Supreme Court justified striking down Roe v. Wade by saying abortion should be a state decision, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a bill to ban abortion nationally. (Today, Biden pledged to push a law protecting abortion rights if voters return the few more lawmakers Democrats need to accomplish that.)
    Republicans have sold their unpopular program in part by maintaining a narrative vision of the world that tells MAGA supporters what they want to hear. Since the beginning of Trump’s term, a key part of that narrative has been that the FBI investigation of the ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian operatives was a witch hunt. In April 2019, Trump's attorney general William Barr tapped U.S. attorney John Durham to discredit that investigation.
    Journalist and professor Bill Grueskin collected the headlines from the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page for the past year. They read: “Durham Cracks the Russia Case,” “Durham Delivers on Russiagate,” “John Durham Shows How the FBI Lets Its Informants Mislead It,” and so on.
        But that’s not how it panned out. Durham ultimately indicted three men. One pleaded guilty to altering an email in a different case; he got probation. Durham accused another of lying to the FBI; a jury acquitted him. Durham indicted a third, Igor Danchenko, for lying to the FBI; today a jury acquitted him as well. Durham used the trial to rail against the FBI, but his inability to win a conviction after more than three years of work undermines the MAGA narrative that Durham was going to find the goods to pin a witch hunt on bad FBI agents and acquit Trump once and for all. 
    A new audiobook from veteran journalist Bob Woodward tore down another MAGA story today when it revealed an audiotape of Trump calling the letters he wrote to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “top secret” in January 2021. Clearly, he knew they were classified, despite his claims now that he didn’t take anything special. Further, he let Woodward see and transcribe the classified documents.
    Will the puncturing of these narratives matter? At some level, no; they are about mythmaking and social identity. Today, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) celebrated her visit to the Wilder Monument at the Chickamauga (she misspelled it) battlefield in Georgia. She identified the monument as honoring Confederate soldiers and boasted that she “will always defend our nation’s history.” But, in fact, the Wilder Brigade, also known as the Lightning Brigade, was not Confederate; it was from the United States.
    The point, though, was likely not accuracy: it was to “own” the “Libs” by celebrating the Confederacy.
    Will reinforcing that identity for the Republican base be enough for the party to win the midterms? It’s anyone’s guess. But today, the first day of early voting in Georgia smashed the state’s previous record for first-day votes cast in a midterm election. In 2018 the first day of voting brought in 71,000 voters. Today that number hit more than 130,000.