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Elizabeth Warren Proposes Free College Tuition Paid for by the Super Rich... Hey, They Got Money... WHY NOT DO GOOD FOR THE USA WITH THEIR BILLIONS?


The Best Idea would be to Increase Taxes on the Top 1% and CUT TAXES on the Bottom 99% - All that Extra Money Would BUBBLE UP Thru the Entire Economy... INCREASING Profits at American Businesses... EVERYBODY WINS! 


Remember Trump's Stock Market Failure?
DJIA: BIGGEST POINT LOSS in The History of the Universe... 3/16/2020: 2,997 points...
Are You Tired of So Much "Winning" Yet?

LEGALIZE VOTING - Fight the GOP Attempt to Overthrow of the US Government... DEMOCRACY is Vastly Better than MONARCHY... Especially Mad King Donald... LOCK HIM UP!

LEGALIZE VOTING Embroidered Hat for Sale - zazzle gregvan
LEGALIZE VOTING 
Embroidered Hat for Sale

Of Course, You May Change the Words... What if You are a Brainwashed TrumpNik® - Well... Here is Your Chance to Tell The World that You are an Idiot!

MindSprout and The Anti Gravity Transport Machine by gvan42
MindSprout and The Anti Gravity Transport Machine
by gvan42

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


and on a Completely Different Subject... 

Smedley D. Butler Said: 

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

-Smedley D. Butler, 

War is a Racket

Graffiti in Humboldt County California - The Shipwreck in King Salmon
Graffiti in Humboldt County California.
at The Shipwreck in King Salmon

Graffiti in Humboldt County California - The Shipwreck in King Salmon


Here is a Classic Example of PRE-Climate Change Thinking... Car Races! Cars Drive around in a Circle, Getting Nowhere and Causing Massive Air Pollution... and People Pay Money to Watch The Madness... https://kymkemp.com/2021/06/01/north-state-modifieds-the-feature-attraction-at-redwood-acres-raceway-saturday-night/


Great Movie... Flying over Trinidad... 

Humboldt County Beaches - Aerial Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaKNd3iFjy8


Samantha Toste sings "With a Little Help from my Friends" Blue Rhythm Revue Band... Tim Day on Bass...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX2utDYfzCY


"The Path Forward" - 20 Simple Suggestions for Making the World a Better Place to Live... #1. Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%. All that Extra Money in People's Paychecks Will Bubble UP Thru The Entire Economy; Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits...EVERYBODY WINS! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/09/what-is-path-forward-we-will-have-great.html


As Time Goes By, There Will Be Fewer and Fewer Republicans Because Old People Die and Young People Vote Democratic... The GOP is Doomed... 

Automatic Rainbow Quest by gvan42


Lisa Garr Said:

I have a longing. I have a longing to belong. A longing to connect and to feel welcomed and celebrated. I think one of our core human desires is to intimately know the feeling of being unconditionally invited in. Invited into the hearts, minds and presence of our community, of our world.

When I had my NDE (Near Death Experience), I experienced eternity in a moment. I experienced an ascension into the blissful meshing of the all-that-is. Having been enveloped in, and subsequently returning to this world with, that memory deep in my bones, well, it has changed my life. When my spirit touched the blissful radiance of the beyond, I was still connected and alive on this planet, Earth. In a sense I became a bridge between that energetic belonging and this world - with all its issues, complications and surprise changes. I became a circuit.

Now, let me tell you. You are all already circuits for your own mystery, your own soul growth and your own story. When I say “Stay Aware”, I also mean holding vigil for the part of us that is deeply connected to the blissful belonging. By “Stay Aware”, I mean honor your ongoing practice of being present with the sensations and embodiment of your body.

Developing awareness is more akin to taking off a layer of clothing and finding new and more expressive ways to move, dance, touch and connect. This can be achieved in many ways, some of which we explore on The Aware Show with the many gifted healers, thinkers and visionaries of our time. Each modality, each experience is another moment in your journey towards belonging.

Next time you have a minute to take a “Mindful Moment”, take a seat somewhere you feel safe. Take a deep breath in and invite yourself back to yourself. I know it sounds silly, but just try it out. Breathe in and say aloud “I invite myself back to myself.” Pause, breath through the silence and notice any sensation in your body or feelings. Then repeat again “I belong to myself. I am here fully.” Again, pause for deep breath and non-judgmental observation of the experience. Take one last deep breath in your fullness and in your present state and say, “I am here, I am willing to connect and grow.”

Breathe with whatever subtle or not so subtle feelings or responses occur. Acknowledge what shows up and try not to get caught up with it. Just allow yourself to be aware of yourself. Allow yourself to become the conduit of your bliss and your physical circumstances. Together you are a circuit, and soon your dreams will become clearer and you will be guided towards making them a realty.

In love & gratitude, Lisa Garr

basic color squiggle by gvan42
basic color squiggle by gvan42

Fantastic Book!  Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qoJTuQKQA

and Foundation, Second Foundation... The Character "The Mule" is a Deep and Meaningful Person... One of the Great Villains of All Time and Space! 

Pyramid on Planet OOGA BOOGA by gvan42
Pyramid on Planet OOGA BOOGA by gvan42


I remember Going to Anti Vietnam War Protest Marches... Including a Candle Light Parade Down Main Street Los Gatos With My Parents... I'm Glad that They Raised Me to Be in Favor of Good and Opposed to Evil... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/i-remember-going-to-anti-vietnam-war.html

big amber golden heart with some space for words up top gvan42
big golden heart
 gvan42

and Then Darryl Cherney Said: 

It's not the overwhelming toxics in our environment--it's the shot in the arm; it's not climate change caused by unfathomable volumes of chemicals tossed into the atmosphere--it's chemtrails; it's not selective news reporting by a press beholden to its advertisers--it's fake news; it's not horrid foreign policies in 3rd world countries supporting dictators and cartels--it's immigration; it's not a history of systemic racism and legacy of slavery and genocide--it's that darker skinned people are inferior; it's not the money made by the arms dealers, religions, and resource extractors--it's just that there always will be wars; it's not that the candidates are pre-selected and the system discourages good people from running--it's that the voting machines are rigged; it's not that the Democrats are the other arm of the capitalist party beholden to the banks--it's that they are socialists.  Each distraction has a "something" that proposes an answer that the believer can latch on to, and those "somethings" run cover for the colossal facts that run rogue over our planet and its lifeforms.  These distractions are deliberately inserted into the discourse to distract us from the root problems and most importantly, to divide us. Snap out of it!


We Must Evolve from Energy Hunter-Gatherers to Become Energy Farmers. - Quote from SchatzLab at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/we-must-evolve-from-energy-hunter.html

THEY INVENTED THE HYDROGEN FUEL CELL - a Handy Way to Store Electricity Generated by Solar for Use at Night.

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I'm watching a Huell Howser Touring California TV Show and He Goes to Calexico... The Southern Most Town in California... While there He Visits the HOTEL DE ANZA... I Remembered that in San Jose We Also Had a Hotel De Anza... and a College Named De Anza... and I Realized that I Had No Idea What the Words DE ANZA Mean in English... So I Look it Up in Google Translate and It Says Of Anza... Well, That's Not Too Enlightening... So I Guessed there was a Man Named De Anza! and...  He Was a Major Force in California History... He was the Soldier that Protected the Catholic Father while Building the Mission in San Francisco and the Army Base called The Presidio... and there is a Town named San Juan Bautista... Which is Odd because De Anza was Not a Saint... But I Guess there was Someone ELSE Named Juan Bautista... Oh, yeah... Saint John the Baptist! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_de_Anza

Home Made Hoop Skirt made by Patti Post - Worn by Vanessa
Home Made Hoop Skirt made by Patti Post
- Worn by Vanessa at the Dicken's Faire
at the Cow Palace, San Francisco

Fashion Question: What Makes a Scrub a Scrub? A Caregiver Has Been Wearing Normal Clothes around here for Months and Then Yesterday She wore Scrubs... It Was Obvious  to me that they WERE Scrubs but I Can't Explain What Makes a Scrub a Scrub...

SE SAID: I’m no expert on scrubs, but I think they are the pants and shirt that most nurses and medical assistants wear. Can’t really describe them, but that’s what I consider scrubs. But again, I’m no expert. I’ve never worked in a hospital or doctors office.

I Replied: It's a Mystery... I can tell instantly that a person IS wearing Scrubs... But I Can't Define What makes a Shirt STOP being Regular Clothes... and START Being Scrubs... and The Caregiver in Question Wears Regular Clothes when she is working as the Facility Manager but on the Days that she actually works as a Care Giver... She Wears Scrubs!

Basically: Scrubs are Clothes designed to Be Easily Cleaned and Totally Sterile... No Secret Places for Germs to Hide... Unlike the Classic White Doctor's Lab Coat that Has Pockets! a Known Place to Harbor Bacteria. It's Really Difficult to Launder the INSIDE of a Pocket... 

In the United Kingdom, scrubs are sometimes known as "theatre blues" (operating Theatre, Not Musical Stage Theatre...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(clothing)

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Marijuana is Patented as a Medicine AND AT THE SAME TIME is Listed as a Schedule 1 Drug with No Medicinal Value... Let's End CrazyLaws® - Contact Your 'resident... https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Since there are NO ACTUAL JOBS Designing or Building Nuclear Power Plants, Most Physics Graduates Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles About HOW GREAT ATOMIC ENERGY IS and How We Really Ought to Build Some Power Plants... Sometimes they Make Youtube Videos!

Remember: Every Year There are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power Plants Because the ACTUAL Professionals That Work at ACTUAL Power Companies All Say NO NUKES! Solar and Wind is Cheaper Per Kilowatt and Hey, This is a Business and We Have a Duty to Make a Profit! 

NO NUKES! All of them Create Radioactive Waste That is Impossible to Dispose of... Here in Sacramento, CA We Pay $5,000,000 a Year to Store SMUD's Waste From a Plant that Closed in the 1970s... Remember: The Engineers at PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD all REJECT NUCLEAR POWER because it's Too Expensive... $9.2 Billion Dollars to Clean up San Onofre and Diablo Canyon and... CUSTOMERS PAY THAT BILL! https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/551130-we-cant-let-nuclear-die

CUTE NO NUKES Cartoon: Remember Solar and Wind are Simple, Cheap and Safe...


600 wide NO NUKES - atomic power symbol - coloring book art  by greg vanderlaan
NO NUKES - atomic power symbol -
Free coloring book art by gvan42


On a Different Subject...

I Like Voting. I Believe That Democracy is Better Than Monarchy. Republicans Keep On Promoting Minority Rule... "Father Knows Best" - Just Let Rich White Men Rule... https://www.salon.com/2021/04/30/florida-and-texas-join-the-republican-war-on-voting/

Stop Believing Lies! Joe Rogan (Not a Doctor) Spreads Anti-Vaccine Misinformation... Dr. Anthony Fauci called the podcast host's recent comments about young people and COVID-19 vaccines "incorrect." https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rogan-dont-need-to-worry-vaccine/

Domino Theory Cartoon - a Now Discredited cold war policy
Long Ago People Played a Board Game Called Dominos... 
Clever People Stood the Tiles Up on End and It
was Possible to Cause Many Tiles to Fall Down by
Pushing on ONE... at the Beginning of the Series...

History Proved that Ike's DOMINO THEORY was Wrong... In Fact, It Was a Government Lie Designed to FOOL Conservatives...  

TOTALLY BOGUS! The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. THE USA LOST THE VIETNAM WAR AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED! https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/domino-theory

Why are Conservatives SO EASILY FOOLED? Well, Many Wish That a Father Figure Would Make All The Tough Decisions in Life... That Way, If Something Goes Wrong... They Can Say, I Was Just Following Orders and It's Not My Fault... That Excuse Works Almost Every Time... EXCEPT for Nazi Soldiers at the Nuremberg Trials Where... Murdering 6 Million Jews in Concentration Camps Turned Out To ACTUALLY BE Their Fault... 

In Southeast Asia, the U.S. government used the now-discredited domino theory to justify its involvement in the Vietnam War and its support for a non-communist dictator in South Vietnam...  

This is a short video exploring Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all using the Domino Theory as the steering point for continued conflict in Vietnam. 

https://youtu.be/QP9QDRDLw6c


The Red Scare played a huge role in the Vietnam War and the lesser known Secret War, waged concurrently in neighboring Laos. President Dwight D. Eisenhower feared that if Laos fell to Communism, the entire Eastern Hemisphere would become a threat to democracy. To secure the Vietnamese border, the CIA recruited Hmong people to fight as surrogate soldiers of the U.S. armed forces.

This clip is from "America's Secret War," a documentary produced as part of the Minnesota Remembers Vietnam initiative. To learn more, visit www.MNVietnam.org. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaxFY2QVWJw


By the middle of the 1950s American fears of the global spread of communism were being realized. In China the Communist Party had taken control, while the Korean War had ended with an armistice that split the country in two and with a communist in the government in the north. In Indochina, better known as Vietnam, France had struggled to regain colonial control in the aftermath of the Second World War. By 1954 they were facing imminent defeat against the Vietnamese nationalists under communist Ho Chi Minh, something that the American government feared would provide communism with a springboard into Southeast Asia. 

America had already adopted the Truman Doctrine, in which it committed to support anti-communist groups, and at a news conference on 7 April 1954 Eisenhower laid the groundwork for US involvement in Vietnam. He began by explaining how the country held economic importance for America, and how there was the threat of a dictatorial takeover. He concluded his argument by explaining what he called the ‘falling domino principle’ in which he likened the spread of communism in Southeast Asia to a row of dominoes quickly collapsing after the first one falls.

Within a month of the news conference French forces had lost the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and, at the subsequent Geneva Conference, they agreed to leave Vietnam and divide the country at the 17th parallel. Although Eisenhower’s speech consequently had little immediate effect, it laid the foundations for America’s later involvement in Vietnam as both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson used the domino theory to justify their intervention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-QyOLHbXiI


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Helping TrumpNiks NOTICE REALITY is the KEY to Winning the 2020 Election. Right Now, They BELIEVE TRUMP'S LIES... But, If We Continue to Point out that REALITY EXISTS  many of them will LOOK IN THEIR OWN WALLET and Grasp The Concept that the TAX CUT FOR THE RICH LAW Did not help them at ALL! 
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A Friend of Mine Did Not Believe That Her Car Was On the Wrong Side of the Road and Heading for a Logging Truck... and then... She Went Through Her Windshield Head First! Wham! Reality DID Exist! OOPS! That True Story Reminds Me of Trump Supporters... Totally Ignoring The Economic Disaster Trump Has Caused... While they Continue to Chant "Lock Her UP!" Trump has Caused American Farmers to LOSE 1/4 of their Sales... CHINA REFUSES TO BUY FOOD FROM THE USA... and that BONEHEAD Tariff Idea CAUSED 2,500 Truckers to be Laid Off This Year... That's Why Republicans Use So Much Welfare and Food Stamps! but HEY, It's FUN to Blame Someone Else for Your Own Problems...  They REFUSE to Take Responsibility for Their Own Actions and TRY to Blame... Hillary, Brown Skinned People, The NewsPapers, Ancient Aliens, The Squad, Pocahontas, Yo Mama... Jews... Just Like The Nazi Germans Did During World War Two... Anyone but the Man in the Mirror... HEY, I understand... If I Was a Low Educated White Man, I Would be in Competition with Illegal Aliens for Jobs at the Bottom of the Food Chain... However, I went to College and Learned Computers and... MY JOB is Not In Jeopardy of Being Given to an Ancient Alien from Guatemala... TrumpNiks COULD GET EDUCATED and then THEY Would Be Democrats TOO! Did you know that 90% of Google Employees are Democrats? That's Because It Takes Plenty Smarts to Get Hired There and Republicriminals are Just Too... [fill in the blank]

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Let's End the Electoral College. Have Each State Individually Agree to Cast All Their Votes for the Winner of the Popular Election. THAT'S FAIR!

Twice we have had the wrong person elected President. Al Gore received more votes than George Bush. Then the Supreme Court Appointed Bush President... Then he made a mess costing six trillion dollars and thousands of American lives to be lost in the Crazy Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... Total disaster...

Hillary Clinton got more votes than Trump... and we are now experiencing the #MAGAdisaster... Hopefully he will be impeached before he can do more damage...

What Democrat is running for president in 2020? #Vote4Joe
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We Must BEAT Trump Like a Pinata!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_abolition_amendment

#GOPisDOOMED Most Voters are Young People, Women, Minorities or College Graduates and ALL THOSE GROUPS VOTE DEMOCRATIC. The Quantity of Uneducated Racist Old White Men is Getting Smaller Every Day...

2020 will be the End of the GOP when tRUMP Loses and Both The House and Senate Become Democratic. Wild Cheering from The Actual Citizens of the World as EVIL is Vanquished! 


GOP is Doomed Cartoon - gvan42

Baseball Fans Overwhelmingly Chant "Lock Him UP!" at the World Series... a VERY SMALL MINORITY Chanted "No Matter What Mad King Donald Does... It's Perfect!"

One Thing YOU CAN DO to Help Defeat tRUMP is to TEACH REPUBLICANS HOW TO READ! Take a Newspaper and Read the Words Out Loud While Pointing at The Letters... Help Them Learn to Read and LEARN TO THINK! It's Possible!


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A REAL SOLUTION: The National Institute for Law and Justice Education Offers Classes in Police Ethics. AKA "How to Stop Murdering American Citizens!" Officers Nationwide Learn How to Behave.

LJS 207 Community and Human Relations A course which studies the factors that create friction between the community and the criminal justice agencies. This is a systems wide approach which addresses the most critical areas of conflict in criminal justice and community interaction including: the relationship of criminal justice agents and the community, causal and symptomatic aspects of community understanding, lack of cooperation and mistrust, study of behavioral causes and ways to develop and maintain amicable relationships.

LJS 520 Compassionate Justice
This course will focus on the notion of compassionate and restorative justice with concentrations in such areas as; the history of Judeo Christian Jurisprudence, the roles and functions of the police and prison chaplain, understanding of the purpose and objectives of prison ministries, compassionate sentencing, and restorative forms of punishment.

The National Institute for Law and Justice Education Offers Classes in Police Ethics.


Everyone Laughs at Trump for having "Bone Spurs" that allowed him to Dodge The Draft and Avoid Going to Vietnam... But Faking a Medical Deferment was a Smart Thing To Do.

During the Vietnam War many people did not have to go because of Medical Deferments - 4F - or Student Deferments -2S... What that meant was that rich people could buy their way out of serving... a very common practice...

If you could get a Doctor to Sign a Paper stating that you had a medical reason not to go... that might have saved your own life... 58,000 Americans Died and Rich people certainly didn't want THEIR OWN SONS to die.

The Student Deferments were an obvious class war discrimination. If you were rich enough to GO TO COLLEGE, you didn't have to go to war... Well, who didn't go to college? Poor whites, Blacks, Mexican Americans and Indians... This entire war was a form of Genocide against NON-WHITES. The people that went over there were mostly from the lower classes...

I was not asked to Go to Vietnam. I was ONE YEAR TOO YOUNG. Born in 1954 I was a Fortunate One...

Ever hear the song "Fortunate Son" by John Fogerty?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM

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I Do Not Remember the 1973 Oil Crisis... I didn't own a car... On TV History Shows They Report That There was a Major Problem in the USA with Long Lines at Gas Stations.

You could only buy gas on odd dates or even dates depending on the last digit of your license plate... I rode my Bicycle in Chico, California at the College... I Totally Missed this Event.


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and then there were 106 comments
on my Facebook Group about 
Growing Up in Los Gatos...

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The Conclusion was The "Oil Crisis" Was Fake. 
Designed to Increase Prices and Profits.
Many People Spoke With Insider Knowledge.
Like, Their Dad Owned a Gas Station... 
Classic Example of #Runaway Corporate Greed.
#RememberFrance1789

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I remember it well -- I'm a tad older than you, Gregory Laan! I recall one occasion specifically; the gas station across from my workplace allowed us to park our car in the line, which was visible out the window of my office, and retrieve it once fueled up. On one particular occasion, I was informed the "line ended at the car just ahead of me." Ouch! Locking gas caps became popular during the "gas shortage."

In 1973 I was the most junior person in the small electronics company I worked at (Apple), so was sent to sit in line to fill the gas tanks for more senior people. ...paid the same, I suppose.

The trick was to have two cars in the household. One with even, one with odd! I’m not sure what the answer was for all letter vanity plates.

My folks had gas stations...I used to sew the red, yellow and green flags to hang our front. Red was no gas, yellow I think was emergency only and green was open for the odd or even plate for the day. Lines were outrageous.

We had a truck with commercial license plates so we could go on any day! Then we would go home and siphon gas to the other cars.

Gregory Laan: I DO Remember the 1979 Gas Crisis... I was Living in Maryland and the GIANT BOATS that deliver gasoline were just parked in the Chesapeake Bay... waiting for no reason to unload in Baltimore... a Totally Contrived Crisis... there was plenty of gas, they just were not unloading it...

 I was working at Lark Avenue carwash and you could get gas either day if you bought a carwash. Record breaking days.

My friend and I were in San Francisco for an AMD Christmas party, and I realized I was low on gas, my plate was wrong number, so we ran out of gas on 101 somewhere past Eastside San Jose, we were hitchhiking in our disco dresses at like 3:30am and got picked up by CHP who took us to next exit and dropped us at Jack in the box. We hitched a ride from there

They implemented odd and even license plates to get gas. I had to get up at O dark thirty and take my parent's cars and wait in those damn lines. It was all a sham to enrich oil executives. Never was a shortage. I remarked that they let the oil companies get away with it, everything goes up. For example a box of cereal was .50 cents. Now the same box is about five dollars.

My Dad's Chevron was on the odd-even system. He always maintained that there was never really a gas shortage. He was never low on gas and continued to receive regular deliveries. The rationing was mandated by Chevron/Standard Oil corporate.

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The Electoral College is a Bizarre and Absurd Ritual Designed to Allow the Ruling Class to Reject the Will of The People. AKA "Father Knows Best."

Recently it has Led to The TWO WORST PRESIDENTS EVER...  They Got Elected Even though they LOST the Election. Crazy! It's a Skewed System that Favors Republicriminals. Both Bush the Son and tRUMP Have Proved to Be DISASTERS!

Headline: Kavanaugh cites “chaos principle” in Supreme Court electoral college voting case... 
https://qz.com/1856821/kavanaugh-cites-chaos-principle-in-scotus-electoral-college-case/

Headline: Why Frodo Baggins made an appearance at the Supreme Court. 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/frodo-baggins-clarence-thomas-supreme-court/index.html


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Half of Trump's Voters are Below Average Intelligence. The Other Half are Just PRETENDING... Republicans get more Welfare, Unemployment and Food Stamps than Democrats. BUT THERE IS HOPE!

 Learn to Read, Go to College and Get a Great Job... No excuse for being Leeches... Just Read Ayn Rand and Put The Fountainhead's Ideas into Action. Can't Read? Never Heard of Ayn Rand? Books just too Damn Difficult? SIMPLY FIND A DEMOCRAT AND WE WILL READ IT OUT LOUD TO YOU! 
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*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... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics