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Are You Making A Difference With Your Life? Did You Ever Consider The Possibility Of DOING SOMETHING To Make The World a Better Place?

I'm Glad I Did... 

Here's a Free Chart... Print it and Give it Away to People That would Like it... FUN!
Free Chart - Super Handy!



I Designed Electronic Equipment for the US Air Force. My Stuff Flew on Airplanes... Defended The Country... 

I Sold Electronic Products at Radio Shack To People To Solve Their Problems.  Our Store also Gave FREE Advice... A Lot of that Stuff is Confusing to the Average Joe BUT... I Drew Pictures for Them to Help Figure Stuff Out... 

I Worked at The Welfare Department Helping People Get Food Stamps, Medical Care, Jobs and Rent for the Homeless... 

I Made a Free Coloring Book for Kids... Or The Young at Heart... Make as Many Prints as You Like... 
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html

Here is a page about fixing an annoying bug in the Farmville game... The waiting for edge chat error... Basically, Delete Cookies Restart Game... Remember to Save Your Passwords... 
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-to-fix-waiting-for-edge-chat-error.html


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LOOK in the MIRROR... and Ask Questions... OR DON'T! It's Your Life... You Certainly CAN Breathe Air and Eat Food and Use Electricity WITHOUT Doing a BIT of Good For Humanity... Billions DO!

All I Really Ask is That EVIL PEOPLE STOP DOING EVIL... For Example: Jim Fitterling, The CEO of Dow Chemical... They Make Agent Orange and Napalm... GEE... That's Horrible! 

Or Richard (Dick) Fuld, The Guy Who Ran Lehman Brothers Into Bankruptcy... He Got To Keep His Money and Is STILL Doing Evil on Wall Street... OCCUPY!

Charles Hurwitz of MAXXAM...
  
Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling of ENRON...

Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken - Junk Bonds

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SO... What is the Cure for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome? Re- Grooving?


compulsive hoarding of money syndrome joke gvan42


"The Daily Miracle of Food." from That Great Book "Tortilla Flat" by John Steinbeck... The Main Characters Often Give Thanks for...

"The Daily Miracle of Food." They had Random Employment and So Earning Enough Money to Eat Was NOT Guaranteed... Somehow... Every Day... They Got Enough to Live One More Day...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortilla_Flat

The Reason I Remembered this Story is that One of my Housemates Died Yesterday.  However, You and I Survived... Fantastic! She was a Very Old Lady and Her Last Week on Earth Was VERY Painful. It Seems Like a Blessing for Her to Finally Die and Stop Suffering. She Had Dementia and The Main Symptom Was That She Was Afraid All The Time. Imaginary Dangers Threatened Her. Our Care Givers Would TRY To Calm Her Down and Explain That She Was in NO Danger... She Was Surrounded by Gentle People That Loved Her But... She Still Was Anxious All the Time... 

I Live in an Assisted Living Facility With Six Residents and Three Care Givers. I Have Seen Many People Die... It Sure Has a Way of Focusing My Attention... I'm Grateful For Every Single Day... Especially Because... NOW... I'm In Good Health... When I First Moved Here i Had to Walk With a Walker... Then I Exercised Every Day and Eventually I Could Just Walk, Unassisted... NOT FAR but About One City Block or Maybe Two... I Still Go For a Walk... Not Every Day But Maybe Every Other Day... It Get's TOO HOT Outdoors in the Afternoon, so I Try To Walk Right After Breakfast... Three Cups of Coffee and I'm Ready to March... 


mandala animation by gvan42


Free Coloring Book VW BUS by gvan42

Bill W. Invented Alcoholics Anonymous on a Psychedelic Trip. "The Belladonna Cure" - Two drugs - Henbane and Belladonna

Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) had his spiritual awakening while undergoing this treatment. He never drank again.
Wilson's description of his experience: "All at once I found myself crying out, "If there is a God, let Him show himself! I am ready to do anything, anything! Suddenly the room lit up with a great white light. I was caught up in an ecstasy which there are no words to describe. It seemed to me in my mind's eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man. Slowly the ecstasy subsided. I lay there on the bed, but now for a time I was in another world, a new world of consciousness... and I thought to myself, "So this is the God of the preachers!" A great peace stole over me."

http://www.amazon.com/Alcoholics-Anonymous-Comes-Age-History/dp/091685602X

The Belladonna Cure:
The formula for Towns-Lambert cure was the deliriant, Atropa belladonna, also called deadly nightshade. The effects of belladonna include delirium, hallucinations, light sensitivity, confusion, and dry mouth. The second ingredient in the mixture was another deliriant, Hyoscyamus niger, also known as henbane, hog's bean, or insane root. It contained two alkaloids, hyoscyamine and hyoscine. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Towns


Bill Wilson, Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous was VERY Excited about the use of LSD in treating Alcoholism... Then he had Second Thoughts...

He started AA because of a Psychedelic Experience where he met GOD personally by taking Belladonna and Henbane on a five day guided Trip... He saw a Mystical White Light and was given the Fundamental Idea of AA...in 1935... Then 20 Years Later... He tried LSD and thought it would be really great if everyone met GOD personally...

In 1955, came to believe that LSD was a way to allow that meeting to happen... Many AA members were having trouble with the step where you needed to believe that a "Higher Power" could restore your Sanity. Especially members that did not believe in God... Bill felt that LSD could introduce people to a Higher Power DIRECTLY...

Sort of like having God's Phone Number, Dialing the Phone and Handing it to the AA member...

Then on second thought... Bill realized that the AA program was working just fine as it was and there was NO NEED TO FIX SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT BROKEN.

Then use of LSD became just another "Outside Issue" that AA had no opinion on... [Tradition 10]
And this turned out to be a wise choice...

https://aaagnostica.org/2015/05/10/bill-wilsons-experience-with-lsd/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alcoholics-theory

One Great Idea at AA is You CHOOSE YOUR OWN GOD... OR... Lack of God... 

So Many Different Gods... and So Many Believers Loudly Proclaim that THEIR God is the One True God. That's Absurd! I, like 100% of the people on Earth HAVE NO CLUE if God is real or not.

Some people state that they know... but they are just deluding themselves... I don't mind them deluding themselves, but if they Kill people that are of different Religions... They are Crazy and Dangerous.  


Psychedelic Art by gvan42 Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics

Here is An Examination of My Beliefs... 
GOD = Group of Drunks

I do pray... I may not believe in God but what if God believes in me? I often send prayers for good health to the people who are sick. If God is Real, he reads my email... and the people who get the email feel better...

I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior in 1976. If Christianity turns out to be the correct Religion, I'm Saved! I was living with my first ex-wife and she was interested in me becoming a Baptist and I was interested in sex with her so... I went forward at a meeting, accepted Christ, joined the choir and then got bored with it all... we rarely attended. I did like Communion... It's a make believe Vampire, Cannibal Cult! Pretend to drink a persons BLOOD and Eat a persons BODY... OOOH! That's Creepy! But FUN!

However, I much later I did become addicted to crack cocaine and when I wanted to stop I went to a Baptist Church and gave my addiction to Jesus, and never smoked crack again. That evening I went to the Pink Floyd "concert" called "Welcome to the Machine" and that helped also because it gave me something to distract my attention while I was suffering thru the withdrawal symptoms. Another time I went to the Presbyterian Church founded by Annie Bidwell in Chico and prayed that God would find my friends a JOB... and later that week both Manuel and Victoria were employed. A miracle...  Not only that but if I ever stub my toe or hit my thumb with a hammer I shout out JESUS!

When I joined Alcoholics Anonymous I was introduced to the concept of a "Higher Power" helping me with my addiction. The "Higher Power" that worked for me was The "Group of Drunks" an acronym GOD... We were supposed to seek guidance thru prayer and meditation. However I always got Nothing from Prayer or Meditation. ZERO. The Group did help and I stopped drinking alcohol. Remember, Bill Wilson invented Alcoholics Anonymous while tripping on Belladonna and Henbane. Both POWERFUL Hallucinogens. He saw the "White Light" and had a vision of God. Me TOO! Me TOO! LSD, DMT, Peyote and Magic Mushrooms all give you a vision of God. I do like AA so Bill's Trip was a great help to mankind.

If the Hindus or Buddhists are right I'm set to reincarnate as a human or better because I've lead a good life. I have NOT killed any people but have eaten a few hamburgers... I love Bacon too... Oh Well... Maybe I'll come back as a Cow... and then a Hamburger myself...

If the Mormons are right, I'm not in luck. I liked meeting the Mormon people in Utah, they were very friendly and helpful but I just can't believe that God is an Extraterrestrial... Moroni from a star in the constellation Orion... Not very likely to be true.

However, maybe the "Ancient Alien" theorists are right. There sure is a lot of really strange evidence of Alien Visitation... For Example: Why did Mexicans, Cambodians and Egyptians all build Pyramids? What is their purpose? Did they have Alien Help?

If Islam is correct I'm screwed... But then, their Religion JUST SUCKS.

I like THOR... Valhalla I am coming. Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"
 https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/vikingkittens

I have a few members of my family that are Jewish and I think that on Judgement day they will let me in. I've been nice to them and that's important in a world where some people put them in gas chambers and kill them.

Of COURSE, Gaia makes a lot of sense. I can really relate to the fact that all plants and animals are brothers and sisters... I really GROK this idea when I'm in a Redwood Forest. I lived on the edge of a second growth forest for 15 years and I "owned" a specific tree in Eureka. I sat on it daily and smoked cigarettes... I sat on it more often that anyone else so it's MY TREE and I'm It's Human. I will share that tree with our cat Meadow as she liked it too.

Then there are the Goddess Religions... Thankfully, I've met a couple of Goddesses and I sure am glad. One was nicknamed "Nature Nurse". She became my Second Ex-Wife.
Another was Ja-Kay R. from Chico. We played the drums in a band in Paradise, California  and performed "Miserlou" at the Farmers market in downtown Chico. A beautiful Blond Nordic Goddess.
Another was a GURU/Teacher named Sonya Sophia who lead a group healing seminar at the Utah Rainbow Gathering. I also bought admission to her weekly internet sessions where we studied "Tapping" a self-help Acupressure technique... I did that for about a year and learned as much as she could teach. "I Love and Accept Myself"

Rastafarians? Sure, I've smoked a lot of reefer... I can play reggae music... it's got ONE CHORD! Easy but I find it boring even when I'm stoned. Cannabis Psychosis is REAL. If you smoke every day you remain stoned even if you don't smoke... You stay stoned for about a month... and I saw things that were not there but I believed that they were... Difficult to take care of business when I'm THAT Stoned...

Pastafarians? - The Flying Spaghetti monster is a good joke.

The Church of the Subgenius? OK, another good joke.

I'm a registered Minister in the Universal Life Church. Why Not?

Scientology? No thanks, that "E-Meter" is BOGUS science and I know enough about electrical engineering to see that the great OZ is just a man behind a curtain... It's a GREAT religion for L. Ron Hubbard but not for any of the followers.

Timothy Leary and LSD? Ultimately it was disappointing and just an amusing ride... No more meaning than a good roller coaster...

Ram Dass? He took a lot of LSD and then went all the way to India to find a GURU... Then he learned to "BE HERE NOW" from a 6 foot 7 inch surfer from Laguna Beach. He could have saved a lot of time wasted on air travel if he had just gone surfing in California FIRST and Ignored the Indians... but he writes great books...

Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead... Fun to dance to rock music on LSD. However it all has the creepy feeling that it was just an experiment in the CIA Project MKULTRA. What IF we dosed millions of people Nationwide? Would that be useful as a Weapon of War? Make the enemy too stoned to fight?

Surfing as a religion? Yes, that makes sense. Or to put it more simply, doing what you love to do as a way of life... Playing the ukulele or throwing pottery or oil painting or computer programming or dancing or bicycle riding or snow skiing or camping or taking photographs or ... etc etc etc... Yes there is a bliss when a person is doing something they love and are totally focused... TIME itself seems to pass more rapidly... I have experience this myself while programming graphic arts... Suddenly hours have passed while I was "in the zone".

A Christian fellow was giving a lecture at Humboldt State University one time and he said that there was only ONE WAY to go to Heaven, Jesus. He said that you couldn't find God by Mountain Climbing OR Drugs... What he forgot to mention was finding God by Mountain Climbing AND Drugs. BOTH! at the same time! It's not an either/or question... I have hiked to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite on LSD and I"m really glad I did...  He also said that Premarital Sex was a SIN. Like, BAD and you shouldn't do it. What an Idiot. I bet that attitude prevented him from getting laid.

Once I read a book called "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz and there was a lot of Toltec Wisdom there.

Another Book Series: "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda... Yaqui Indian Brujo Wisdom

I've played the Father Drum with Native Americans and THAT was "Big Medicine"...

"The Temple of the Screaming Electron" and Digital Immortality. Ray Kurzweil plans to  upload your entire Brain to the Internet and Living forever in the cloud.  I'm working on that too with my Blog by typing almost every event in my entire life and every opinion I've ever held...

So, if you don't like your God simply FIRE him and Write your own Religion!


Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.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 in Orangevale, California - gvan42
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... 

Photos of Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... by gvan42

Photos of Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... by gvan42

Photos of Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... by gvan42

Photos of Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... by gvan42

Photos of Pink Roses, Trees and Clouds on a Beautiful Day in Orangevale, California near Sacramento... by gvan42

a Flowery Tree - gvan42

a Redwood Tree with a Hidden Bench for Contemplating Reality - gvan42

a weed that is over SIX Feet Tall! - gvan42

Broken Automatic Watering System - It Just Creates a Puddle in the Dirt - The Lawn is Dying-gvan42
Broken Automatic Watering System.
It Just Creates a Puddle in the Dirt.
The Lawn is Dying

For Global Climate Strike Day, I Took a Hike Down By The Creek in My Neighborhood - NO DRIVING NEEDED - Oh The Place I'll GO! With a Brain in My Head and Shoes on my FEET!

Photograph of the Creek Trail near Sacramento California by Gregory Vanderlaan - gvan42

Photograph of the Creek Trail near Sacramento California by Gregory Vanderlaan - gvan42

Photograph of the Creek Trail near Sacramento California by Gregory Vanderlaan - gvan42


And then Chat Forbes Said on Facebook:
Greta Thunberg!! Way to go, from one person to the biggest world wide environmental protest in the history of Planet Earth!!!!
You old fuddy duddies flat-earthers who don’t believe in climate change, get your asses out of the way, my kids and grand kids need to live and take care of this mess we’re leaving them.
If climate change is a hoax (don’t think so), at least we’ll have cleaner air, earth & water: that’s nothing but a good thing!!!
I don’t know if people of my era remember, but coming back from Santa Cruz into the Santa Clara Valley was like dropping into a brown purple haze caused from all the pollution in the 1960’s. I personally don’t want to return to that period of toxic air if the powers that be are unregulated. Those that don’t agree can go “f” yourselves!!!!


and I replied: 
 I remember seeing that smog! I was working pushing shopping carts at P&W Super on Blossom Hill Road at Almaden Expressway AND SOME DAYS I COULD NOT SEE THE BUILDING ON TOP OF MOUNT UMUNHUM... and if you know where that all is... that's about a five mile visibility...

New Music Videos: "Melt the Guns", "Support the Troops, Bring'em Home" and "Teenage Alien Dance Party" - New eBook: "America's Bogus Wars" - Plus: 20 Simple Ideas to Make the World a Better Place. - and Original Psychedelic Art FOR SALE! Click Here to Explore the Absurdist World of Gregory Vanderlaan

All My Music Videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos

My Store Where I Sell Art
https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan

My Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/GregoryVanderlaan 

Link to a Google Image Search for all my artwork!
https://tinyurl.com/gvan42art

My Blog
https://gvan42.blogspot.com 


New Music Video: "MELT the GUNS" - by Greg Vanderlaan - Feel Free To Record This and Make a Top Ten Record. Pass this On to a Friend... Chords and Lyrics Provided.
video is at: https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos


Too many Children Dying... [A* C*] 

Too Many Families Crying... [A# A]
Everybody Realizes... [A* C*] 

We Should Collect 'em All... [A# A]
and Melt the Guns, Melt 'em... [G D A] 

and Melt the Guns, Melt 'em... [G D A]
Then They'll Never Kill Again... [E] 

(and there are many more verses) 

Contact: gregvan@yahoo.com


New Music Video: "Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home." by Gregory Vanderlaan [Chords:E A B7] - Feel free to Record This Song and Make a Hit Record... Pass it On..

We Fight All Over the World... For Nothing... 
Kill a Gazillion People... For Nothing...
Blow Up Countries... For Nothing...
Except for Corporate Greed... Lockheed!
Raytheon and Halliburton!
Dow and DuPont! [Agent Orange]
FMC and the CIA!
DARPA and the NSA! Oh My...

[CHORUS sing twice each time]
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home. 
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home.
Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home.
We Need 'em Right Here in the US of A...
We Need 'em Right Here in the US of A...


PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP FOR SALE!
A PRESS Hat Might Protect You From Getting Your Head Bashed in By The Police at a Protest March... or it Might NOT! I Remember People Made Fake T-Shirts That Said: "Security - Shoreline Amphitheater" and used them to sneak in to concerts... Of Course, You MAY Change The Word... For Example: You Could Walk Around Wearing a Hat That Says: FLOWER POWER or NO NUKES or ASK ME HOW TO BEAT TRUMP IN 2020... and then when they ask... you say... "Like a Pinata! Grab a Baseball Bat and SWING AWAY!
PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP
PRESS EMBROIDERED BASEBALL CAP
by gregvan

cyberPunk Button FOR SALE!

Classic "Chip Like" Art with the Word cyberPunk... YOU MAY CHANGE THE WORD IF YOU WANT TO... Try "Music Nonstop - TechnoPop" or "Kraftwerk" or "High Tech Wizard" or "City of the Future" - WhatEVER!

LINK TO READ THE ENTIRE BOOK... 

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS (Cut the Pentagon Budget in Half and Refund the Money to the Taxpayers) by Gregory Vanderlaan - Chapter Zero: Since 1945, The Department of Defense Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once. Ever since VJ Day (Victory in Japan), All of Our Wars have been Marketing Tools to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. One time there was a Need to Defend the Country and The Military Failed Completely. Civilians took down the Airplane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001. Frankly Speaking, Can't We Buy Total Failure at a Lower Price? gregvan@yahoo.com



FREE COLORING BOOK ART!
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using the Keywords: gvan42 free coloring book 
or click on this link!


My AutoBiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Chico, Washington DC, Eureka and Orangevale (near Folsom). 

Born March 19th, 1954, I moved to Los Gatos in 1960 and lived there until graduation from LGHS in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... Then 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. FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz. [and it goes on and on and on...]

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html


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Greetings: Here are 20 simple ideas for making the world a better place.
1. We ought to build a giant solar power desalinization plant in Southern California. Convert Seawater into drinking water, salt and electricity.  It would use solar reflectors to boil seawater and create steam. That steam would be used to drive turbines and create electricity. When the water cools it condenses into pure H2O and salt. The water would be sold to people for drinking, washing, watering livestock and watering plants. The salt could be sold or returned to the ocean if there are not enough customers... Camp Pendleton near San Diego would be an ideal location. Southern California is in need of water. There is a current proposal to use pipelines to move fresh water from the Sacramento River to be used by farmers and residents in SoCal. An alternative would be to just get the water from the ocean... There is an engineering break thru using solar power to pump the water out of the ocean but using membranes to do the purification. That's the same technology that is used in those drinking water dispensers you see out front of Liquor Stores.

We should also stop watering lawns in California. It's a cultural norm that is not practical in a state that is suffering drought. What if it became fashionable to have rock gardens or cactus? That's what they do in Arizona...

2. Convert human fat into electricity using exercise bicycle power generators. The kinetic energy created by people pedalling can be converted into electricity by using an alternator, diode and battery. Many people use stationary bicycles for exercise and these currently unused sources of power could be used to create electricity. People could sell the electricity to the power company.

3. We ought to cut spending at the Department of Defense and use the money for valuable projects. Simply stop the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Africa and all those secret locations. Bring the soldiers and the weapons home. We currently waste a vast fortune on wars that accomplish nothing. We could spend the trillions currently wasted on Medicare for all, infrastructure, teacher's salaries or school supplies. Remember that the US Military has not DEFENDED the USA since 1945. We have only invaded other countries... Often, our invasions cause disaster. For Example: When we helped Saddam Hussein become President and then blew up Iraq. Not a brilliant idea. Then we left stockpiles of weapons that were stolen by ISIS, Arming Terrorists. If we had just stayed home we could have saved six trillion dollars... The War in Afghanistan is impossible to win. Why not "Declare Victory", bring the troops home and have big parades?

4. We ought to legalize and tax marijuana nationwide. Release all cannabis prisoners. This would reduce government spending and increase VOLUNTARY taxes collected. The prisoners could spend their time working for a living and supporting their own families. That would reduce the costs of welfare and food stamps.

5. We ought to impeach Trump. He is taking the country in the wrong direction. His agenda is to cut taxes for the rich and reduce pollution control costs in corporations. He wants to increase drilling for oil, gas and coal mining. That causes more pollution. Burning fossil fuels causes global warming. Climate Change will make large parts of the USA uninhabitable. The Gulf Coast and the East Coast will have hurricanes every year. The destruction will become more than we are able to repair.

6. We ought to fund basic research into clean energy projects. Better electric cars, solar energy, wind energy and wave/tidal power plants. Better batteries... Better air conditioners... We are fighting for our lives. This should be funded like The Manhattan Project of World War Two or the Moon Landing.

7. We ought to reduce the amount of electricity used. Marijuana farms often use grow lights indoors to simulate sunshine needed for plants to grow. We could simply move all farms outdoors. These indoor farms often use stolen power that is unregulated. I have seen explosions at the Humboldt Bay power plant due to unforeseen surges of electricity use. The criminals tap the power on the street side of the power meter to avoid paying for electricity. That makes the power companies guess about consumption and how big transformers need to be. Another way to reduce demand is to teach people that transformers consume electricity even when not being used if they are connected to the wall outlet. We should teach people that a power strip with an on/off switch can cut their bill.

8. We ought to reduce the amount of gasoline used by commuters by moving the office closer to home. Every day people commute to work and if corporations moved the location of office buildings to residential locations, we would save gas, increase time spent away from work and increase happiness of workers. For Example: Silicon Valley and San Francisco have many jobs for people that create software. The tech corporations have headquarters where the employees work. People drive many miles thru traffic jams to get to those headquarters. A better plan would be to split the corporate headquarterss to many different locations in the suburbs. The people could co-ordinate their labor using the internet. The price of housing in Silicon Valley is very expensive in comparison to towns in the central valley. People should pay attention to commute time as an important factor in selecting a job. Currently people pay attention to pay rate, benefits and child care when selecting which job to take. They ought to have a choice of shorter commutes as well. It's an insane waste of time to drive to work. Riding the bus is much more fun.

9. We ought to change the EPA from Enabling Pollution Agency to Environmental Protection Agency. Under the Trump Administration we have seen a reduction of enforcement of laws prohibiting corporations from polluting the environment. Scott Pruitt wants to cut the costs corporations pay for ecology. And in a bizarre twist, he wants to change the rules for scientific research to prohibit health studies that protect the privacy of the people studied. HIPPA requires health information to remain private in any study of people's health. He also wants to prohibit reports from scientists that do business with the EPA while allowing reports from people hired by lobbyists. This would shift the reports in favor of polluting companies.

10. We ought to outlaw assault rifles. We outlawed machine guns and hand grenades in 1934. There is no need for assault rifles. NRA members often say that they need guns for hunting... So, we ought to allow rifles but not assault rifles. NRA members often say we need guns to protect our families... So, pistols can protect our families. We do not need bazookas, rocket launchers or anti-aircraft guns... We ought to protect our citizens from insane gunmen with assault rifles. Las Vegas, Columbine and Florida would not have been a mass murder without absurd firepower. Remember, when you have a gun in the home there is an increase in the chances of a gun accident. Suicide, shooting a family member during an argument and kids playing with guns actually increase the danger at home. NRA members say that we need guns to defend ourselves from the government. In a "Police State" the government keeps the people enslaved by first, taking away all the guns. They point to the USSR as an example. However, the police and US Army have vastly superior firepower and any defense of liberty by We The People is doomed to fail. Remember WACO and Ruby Ridge?

11. Police ought to stop murdering black men. Not only is it morally wrong to commit murder but it costs the taxpayers a lot of money. There is very little murder of white people by police but the culture of the police force seems to encourage murder of blacks. We ought to replace metal bullets with rubber bullets in all of our police forces. Rubber bullets do not kill people but they do cause a suspect to fall down and become easy to handcuff.

12. Remove corporate money from politics. Individual real people should be allowed to contribute to candidate's election fund but artificial "people" like corporations should be prohibited. They are only used to allow rich people to exceed limits of how much money anyone can contribute. This leads to what is in effect bribery. Politicians do what they are paid to do... pass laws that benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class and poor. What we have now is one dollar one vote not one man one vote like the founding fathers wanted. PAC (political action committees) are another way to allow rich people to exceed limits.

13. Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics. Let Doctors and Patients decide what drugs are beneficial treatment. There is a body of medical research that says some illegal drugs help people with mental health problems. For Example: Termanilly Ill people who fear their own death could be given psychedelics to ease their fear. That would be compassionate... What is gained by prohibition? The patients are going to die anyway... We simply do not know enough about health benefits to make an informed decision about medicinal psychedelics. We ought to learn.

14. Make companies that sell addictive opioid drugs pay extra taxes to fund treatment for patients that want to quit using their drugs. They caused a problem and profited by it... they should pay to clean up the mess.

15. We ought to take action to defend our elections. The Russians interfered with our election in 2016 causing Trump to win. Without Wikileaks, Trump would have lost. We also should stop using the electoral college. Majority Rule is a better system. Twice we have had the loser in the Presidential Election serve as President. Both times were disasters.

16. Free birth control and abortion for all. No one should be forced to give birth to an unwanted child. Choice should be available to anyone including people who cannot afford it.

17. Outlaw fracking. It causes drinking water pollution. The only people who benefit are the stockholders of oil companies. Water pollution causes health problems... real people get sick...

18. Outlaw ROUNDUP herbicide. It causes cancer. This chemical is widely used in the farming of California's central valley. Non Hodgskins lymphoma is killing real people who work on the farms.

19. Close all Nuclear Power Plants. They create Atomic Waste that stays Radioactive for thousands of years. AND POISONOUS... The waste has to be stored safely and guarded to prevent terrorists from building a "Dirty Bomb" using the Depleted Uranium. Vast salaries will be spent on Armed Security Guards and warehouses.

20. Teach "Critical Thinking" in High School. Knowing when someone is lying to you is a valuable survival skill. Introduce students to "Logical Fallacies" so they will be able to recognize them.



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Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Germany - German Energy Giant RWE Agrees to Halt Logging in Hambach Forest... The Protests Worked! HEADLINE: Climate protesters storm Garzweiler coalmine in Germany... Greta Thunberg Visits Protest and Questions Wisdom of German Government Plan to Burn Coal for ANOTHER 20 YEARS... Energiewende = Plan to Transition to Low Carbon Energy (Updated 8/13/2019)

The Hambach forest is an old growth forest in the west of Germany. Everything that has evolved here over thousands of years is now being destroyed to make space for a continually expanding lignite coal mine. For decades people have been resisting this profit driven destruction and for five years the forest is occupied with treehouses.

 http://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=hambach+forest


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Greta Thunberg met with Obama. Refuses to Meet Trump. Global Climate Strike 9/20 - Take Action! - Refuse to Go to Work. Refuse to Go to School. WE SHOULD HAVE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY EVERY YEAR ON 9/20... Like Earth Day or Christmas!

HEADLINE: Obama meets with teen climate activist Greta Thunberg: 'You and me, we're a team' https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/politics/barack-obama-greta-thunberg-climate-change/index.html

Former President Barack Obama on Monday met with Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as part of her visit to Washington, DC, to promote environmental issues.

"Just 16, @GretaThunberg is already one of our planet's greatest advocates," Obama tweeted after his meeting with Thunberg. "Recognizing that her generation will bear the brunt of climate change, she's unafraid to push for real action."
Thunberg established herself as a bona fide climate action figure after staging weekly sit-ins outside the Swedish Parliament, spawning a burgeoning movement of youth climate activists to hold their own protests in more than 100 cities worldwide.
She arrived in New York last month after sailing across the Atlantic to speak at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, which will take place on September 23. Thunberg traveled on a zero-emissions sailboat to reduce the environmental impact of her journey, according to a statement from her team.
Video of the meeting between Thunberg and Obama released by the Obama Foundation on Tuesday shows the former President asking Thunberg about recent climate strikes she participated in while she visited New York and Washington.
"Everyone is so nice and all of these young people seem so eager, very enthusiastic which is a very good thing," she said.
Before the two fist-bumped, Obama said to Thunberg: "You and me, we're a team."
While Obama championed addressing environmental issues while in office, President Donald Trump -- a longtime climate crisis denier -- has attempted to remove many of the policy guardrails installed by the Obama administration to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases.
In 2017, Obama lamented Trump for withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement, saying in a statement that the deal was intended to "protect the world we leave to our children."
Thunberg said in the Obama Foundation's video that creativity from young people is key.
"My message to young people who want to have an impact is to be creative," she said "There's so incredibly much you can do and to not underestimate yourself."

Indivisible Action: Nationwide Call Your Senators Day - END THE SHUTDOWN - NO MONEY FOR TRUMPS WALL - (202) 224-3121.

https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm

What you can do now:
First, call or email your two Senators and tell them to reject Trump’s extreme anti-immigrant bill and instead open up the government now! There will be two votes in the Senate this week, one on Trump’s anti-immigrant bill and one on a clean continuing resolution that would fund the government through Feb. 8. We need to make sure that the Senate doesn’t pay Trump’s ransom. Tell them to:

Vote NO on Trump's racist, anti-immigrant bill.
Vote YES on a clean CR.

end the shutdown - no money for wall graphic by greg vanderlaan


Then, check in with your House Representative to make sure they know you oppose Trump’s wall ransom. The House has done its job by passing funding bills and sending them over to the Senate, where McConnell has refused (until now) take any of them up. But we’re hearing House offices are getting calls from conservative groups who want Trump’s wall.

Call your House Representative and tell him/her you don’t want your taxpayer dollars going to fund Trump’s wall.

On Wednesday, January 23rd we’ll be taking national coordinated action across the country with a National Call Day—join in by calling 844-236-2373 (and then post a picture of your call!).

Office visits. As always, in-person actions are the most impactful way to pressure your MoCs. When you’re there, ask Democratic Senators to oppose the White House immigration bill when the Senate votes on it, and continue opposing any legislation unrelated to the shutdown. Ask Republican Senators to publicly pressure Mitch McConnell to put the House-passed legislation to a vote in the Senate. And if there are town halls on the weekend (or if Senate Recess still happens), folks should also go to those as well! Share your event photos and videos with us on Twitter @IndivisibleTeam and use the hashtag #TrumpShutdown so we can help amplify.

Phone calls. Keep up the pressure by making consistent phone calls using the script below. It’s even better if you can coordinate specific days that your whole group will make phone calls. And we’ll be having a National Call Day on Wednesday, January 23rd! Make a plan to make some calls to your Senator on the 23rd along with Indivisibles across the country—and don’t forget to share a picture or video of your call on social media. When you call, ask Democratic Senators to oppose the White House immigration bill when the Senate votes on it, and continue opposing any legislation unrelated to the shutdown. Ask Republican Senators to publicly pressure Mitch McConnell to put the House-passed legislation to a vote in the Senate.

Support federal workers. In addition to the above tactics, another way to help during the shutdown is support federal workers. Whether through food drives, lending a hand to folks in your community, etc., there are a variety of ways to take support these workers during the shutdown. While this may not be directly pressuring your Senator, it’s important to continuing showing up for folks who are struggling because of Trump’s shutdown.

https://indivisible.org/

I was driving from Arcata to Eureka and the Song "Lights" by Journey was playing on the Radio... I was so overcome with emotion that I felt it was unsafe to drive...

So I pulled off at the Day Old Bread Store and Parked... When I walked into the Store the Same Song Was Playing on THEIR Radio... and it was good... I felt like I was home... 

and That's What Marijuana is Like... Amplifying Emotions... It's a Great Song But... I had to Pull Over... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNG62fULYgI Listen to the song... Official Video of "LIGHTS" by Journey

Video: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - Written by Bob Dylan sung by Gregory Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/M-0FuQTzARk

The Lyrics say: "Everybody Must Get Stoned"... as always, Bob Dylan Lyrics have Multiple Meanings and you have to look in a mirror to grasp what he is trying to say... BUT, This one is pretty obvious to me... He's NOT talking about throwing rocks at people for bad behavior... Like they did in Biblical Times... Getting Stoned is slang for Smoking "The Kind Herb",  Marijuana...


Great Movie: "The Day The Earth Stood Still" a 2008 remake with Keanu Reeves (Star of The Matrix)... Of Course, the 1951 film is still a Classic.

Surprising to me this remake was wonderful. In an era where Hollywood makes endless remakes of successful films and most are terrible... This one is Great! Basically, an alien spaceship comes to Earth and decides that humans need to be destroyed because of the ecological devastation we are inflicting on the planet. They feel that maybe if all the Humans died, animals, plants and fish would be better lifeforms... Take better care of the planet and maybe evolve into a high quality species... Makes sense...

Maybe Humans are a Cancer... Like they were in The Matrix...

but then the hero is convinced that Humans Can Change and stop destroying the planet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(2008_film) 

Starring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, this version replaces the Cold War theme of nuclear warfare with the contemporary issue of humankind's environmental damage to the planet. It follows Klaatu, an alien sent to try to change human behavior or eradicate humans from Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still The Original...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto 
Klaatu barada nikto"---> 'There's hope for Earth, if the scientists can be reached.'


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*Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

*The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals...

*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

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

*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