I'm Going on a Hunger Strike Today. 2/14/2023 I Will Not Eat Until We Attain Whirled Peas... OR...

or My Colonoscopy is Complete... at 3 PM on 2/16.

This is going to be a Strange Experience as I'll be Fasting for 48 Hours... and I've never Gone More than a Day without Food... Mainly because I'm a "Mighty Hunter"and I Make it a Priority to Get Fed... 

Even when I was Homeless and Penniless in Chico, I was able to find the Jesus Center where they Give away Free Food Twice a Day... I enjoyed dining there because they served GREAT Food and I Got to Socialize With a Lot of Other People Just Like Me! After Dinner, Many of Us Would Ease on Down the Road to an AA Meeting where they Served FREE COFFEE and Often Cookies... Excellent!

another Excellent Dining Facility was "Food Not Bombs" - They Served in Train Depot Park... Across the Tracks from the Train Depot... 

I remember that a Friend of Mine Decided to FAST until he Met GOD... Seems like an Absurd Quest BUT... After a Couple of Days he Started Behaving Really Weird... and I Avoided Contact... When I Saw him Coming I just Walked Away Quickly... anyway... I do not think he Found GOD because a Couple of Weeks Later he started coming to AA Meetings again and NO ONE EVER MENTIONED HIS QUEST... We Were ALL Just Glad That He Had Stopped Behaving Crazy. 

The Jesus Center is a non-profit organization founded in God’s love.

In response to the complexity of homelessness, hunger and poverty, we work with our community to offer respite, restoration and lasting transformation to God’s children.

https://www.jesuscenter.org/

I just had my Last Meal... on 2/14 at 11AM... Just Like a Condemned man awaiting the Electric Chair... I was served My Favorite Lunch: Cheeseburger with Fried Onions, French Fries and Apple Juice...

I Used to Prefer Coca-Cola but Gave that up Years Ago... Pre-Diabetes makes me want to Eat a LOW SUGAR Diet...

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 It's 3:16 PM and Officially I'm Fasting... Watching the TV Show "Mysteries of the Abandoned" - Rerun after Rerun after Rerun... Excellent... 

I've Drunk Two Mira Lax Packets and Takes Zero Dumps... It's Supposed to Make You take a dump... but NO Action... Here Goes Packet #3... I'm supposed to take EIGHT before NOON Tomorrow. 

I've collected some Self Hypnosis Trance Music Videos to Pass the Time... Here they Are: 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/01/spread-love-worldwide.html 

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Today in the News... I just saw Neil Disgrace Tyson on MSNBC Pretending that We Do Not Have MANY VERIFIED FILMS OF UFOs... 

WHY ARE THERE NO PHOTOS OF THE LATEST THREE UFOs? Were the Airplane Cameras TURNED OFF??? 

This is what a REAL UFO Looks Like... 

US Government says they were "Balloons" just like they said about ROSWELL... 

Ari Melber Interview Failure... Did Not Ask the OBVIOUS QUESTION when Neil told a Blatant Lie...  https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2023/02/ufo-alaska-shot-down.html

In other News: Apparently Mother Nature Has Decided that EIGHT BILLION People are JUST TOO DAMN MANY... Witness the Turkey EarthQuake with 41,000 People Dead... Covid-19, War, Mass Shootings and Fentanyl... It's Obvious that Reducing the Population of Planet Earth is a High Priority... 

On the Other Hand: I fell asleep during the Third Quarter of the Super Duper Bowl. Too Damn Boring... I was hoping to see some Interesting Advertisements... Nope... I also wanted to See the Singer that All the Kids Love... Rihanna... She was OK, but Not That Interesting... Odd Costumes with Hundreds of Black Men Doing the Exact Same Dance... WHY? I Did Like that She Angered tRUMP with her Graffiti Car Photo. Excellent!

Rihanna Graffiti Car - uckFay umpTRay

I Don't Own a Car and I Take LYFT if I Need to Go to the Doctor... I never Go Anywhere Else... Except for Walking Around the Neighborhood... The Last LYFT Ride was in a New Car With a Giant Sunroof. Wonderful. And the Driver was Playing Techno-Pop on the Radio... Endless Drum Machine, Bass, Synthesizer - Reminded me of Playing Music in the 1980s when the Price of a Synthesizer went below $1,000 and We Could Afford to Buy Them...

I would go out into the World Except There is Nowhere I Want to Go... Except the POOL... This Summer I'll Go There... 

Speaking of Pools... After this Colonoscopy is Over I'm going to Seriously Look for a Place to Live in Chico, CA... If I Had a Bicycle, I could go Swim at One Mile... and I Could Attend Dances in the Park... and Go to AA Meetings... "Mom's" was a Great Meeting but So was "Central" and The Sunday Meeting at the Campfire Council Ring was EPIC.  I might get a Tricycle... Upper Park is Excellent! 

https://www.caring.com/senior-living/independent-living/california/chico

I would prefer to have a Care Giver Cook Meals, Shop for Food, Do Laundry, Take out the Trash and All the Gardening... Leaving Me with ZERO TASKS... 

https://www.caring.com/local/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=assisted-living&location=Chico%2C+CA

I have given up on Moving to Arcata, CA... The College has enrolled WAY more Students Than there are Places to Live... SO, That Location is Impossible... While it's an Excellent Place... It's Sold Out... 

Of Course, I could just stay here... I spend all my time PLUGGED IN to the Internet or Watching TV or BOTH at the Same Time... It's Almost Like THE MATRIX... With my Body on Life Support (Care Givers Do All Tasks, and Wake me Up for Meals) My Mind is Free to Wander... and I Write a LOT... Strangely, I Have not Written any Songs in a Year... I Guess That's One of the Symptoms of Old Age... I'm 68... I do not Smoke Marijuana, Drink Alcohol or Eat Psychedelics and So THAT FOUNTAIN of Creativity has been Shut Off... 

I just Learned that The White Album by the Beatles was Written in India with The Maharishi... SO... There is another FOUNTAIN of Creativity available thru Meditation... and I'm Exploring THAT Realm...

Here's what I Do... I say words while Deep Breathing... Sometimes I say the Words Out Loud but Mostly I Repeat them Silently... 

[Inhale] God [Exhale],

[Inhale] God [Exhale],

[Inhale] Heal Me [Exhale],

Repeat...

[Inhale] My Mind [Exhale],

[Inhale] Is Completely Relaxed [Exhale],

[Inhale] My Body [Exhale],

[Inhale] Is Completely Relaxed [Exhale],

[Inhale] and I'm Going Deeper [Exhale],

[Inhale] and Deeper [Exhale],

[Inhale] Into a Hypnotic Trance [Exhale]

Repeat... 

Many People Chant Words in Sanskrit but That seems Weird to me... I Don't Speak Indian Languages so Why Would I Chant Them?

I just learned that RAM DASS is the Name of One of Gandhi's Sons... Evidently it's a Common Name in  India... Like John Johnson is in America... 

So Dr. Richard Alpert Went to India and Changed his Name... Seems Contrived to me... I'm Gregory Vanderlaan and if I Attain True Enlightenment I don't think that Changing my name will be a High Priority... Attaining Whirled Peas is More Important!

Time has Passed: It is Now 5:15 AM on 2/15/2023.

So far I Feel Good. I'm NOT Hungry... I Guess That's Because I've been Drinking Miralax - and That Fills Up My Stomach... I Made FIVE Mixtures of Miralax with 16 Ounces of Water... 

SO FAR, No Bowel Movements at All... Today I will Drink another FIVE Miralax Mixtures Before 3 PM. and at 6PM I'll drink Half of the PLENVU... 

I Hope this Prep Actually Cleans my Colon... However, No Matter What... This is the Last Time I'll Ever Do This. I'll Just be Happy With The Mystery... "Do I Have Colon Cancer or Do I Not?"

I wonder if this Entire Procedure is a Marketing Trick to Sell a Miracle Cure... I Question WHY The Doctor Failed to Prescribe a Prep That Actually Worked Last Time... Could it Be That he Wants to GET PAID for Performing TWO Colonoscopies?  

Is all of this a FLIM FLAM? 

If I Get Results This Time... I'll ask for a Second Opinion Before Agreeing to Treatment... 

The Last time I Had a Colonoscopy, in 2000, I don't Recall doing all this Prep... But Maybe I Did Do It... That was 22 Years Ago... I'm Glad that I've Resisted the Peer Pressure for Having a Colonoscopy All This Time... I've been Living with a Mystery and Been Happy... To Quote Nancy Reagan: "Just Say No... to Colonoscopy!" - A Racket... Some People DO DIE of Colon Cancer BUT... "It's Always Something!"

It's 6:13 AM on 2/15 and I'm allowed to Drink Coffee and Take Most of my Morning Pills... So I'm Reading my Email and The Newspaper... I Always Read Google News... It's Especially Good because they Publish Articles that are Likely to Interest ME... and After Gathering data on ME since the Late 1990s they have a Pretty Good Idea of What I Like... WITH THE EXCEPTION of Stories about the Kardashians... I Keep on telling Google to show "Fewer Stories Like This"and that keeps my News Feed Kardashian Free for a Month but then... I'm served at Least Four articles about them... 

and Liz Merry Asks: QOTD - Valentine Edition: What is your favorite love song and why? (Thank you, Donna!) NPP

and I replied... 

Sugar Magnolia - It Reminds me of Dancing with my Wife at Grateful Dead Concerts... and Every word is true... Especially the Lyric "She Takes the Wheel when I'm Seeing Double." because on a Occasion I had taken Too Much Drugs and Alcohol and it was Unsafe for me to drive home... 

https://youtu.be/D4nWLCAOJMo

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It's 11:04 AM 2/15 - I've Spent Hours Creating Buttons, T-Shirts and Bumper Stickers for my Zazzle Store...

NIKKI HALEY POTUS - BUTTONS, T-Shirts and Bumper Stickers For Sale on Zazzle Gregvan - She's better than any OTHER Republican't Candidate...

For Example: #ArrestTrump or Governor Ron Death Santa... Both of them are INSANE... Time has come for a GENERATION CHANGE... Throw OUT the Old White Men! Biden TOO!

LINK to Buy a Button:

https://www.zazzle.com/collections/freedom_quest-119204000752398281

Or a Bumper Sticker!

https://www.zazzle.com/nikki_haley_potus_2024_bumper_sticker-256496447788155793

T-SHIRT for Sale!

https://www.zazzle.com/nikki_haley_potus_2024_t_shirt-256280441169347825

Plenty of room on this Shirt for White Letters... Write your own slogan below the Flag... Like: Throw the Old White Men OUT! or.. Time for a New Generation. or WhatEver! 

11:47 AM 2/15

Watching a Documentary Movie: Whale Wisdom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLHbY_1HpYI

4:21 PM 2/15 

I have not Experienced Hunger... 

That's Surprising... 

I Suppose That's Because I Drank EIGHT Glasses of MiraLax... 

My Brother is Coming Over Soon... He'll be Driving Me to and From the Colonoscopy... 

6:00 PM Brother Visit done... and I Drank the Entire First Dose of Real Colonoscopy Juice... PLENVU...

I'll do the last Half at 9 AM Tomorrow. 

I'm watching Simpsons Reruns!

6:35 PM - Success. I had a Bowel Movement. 

7 AM 2/16 - I tested my Blood Sugar this Morning and the Number was 100... I've been Getting Readings of 130-140 every Day... SO... This NOT Eating makes a Difference!

10:52 AM 2/16 - Everything Going Well...  and We Plan to go to an Excellent Mexican Restaurant in Folsom after the Procedure is Over... 

 
TO BE CONTINUED...

7:45 on 2/17/2023

Procedure was a Total Failure... Prep Failed to Clean out Colon... 

We Will NOT Be Doing Another Colonoscopy in the Immediate Future as THAT FAILS... 

as an alternative I'll be Having a CAT SCAN instead. If that Shows Large Polyps, Then there will be another Attempt at a Colonoscopy to Remove Polyps... 

WE SHALL SEE... 

TO BE CONTINUED...

American History: "Operation Fast and Furious" --- The US Government Sold Thousands of Automatic Rifles to Mexican Drug Gangs and a Caused a Dramatic Increase in Murders... President Obama and AG Eric Holder... Cover UP... Still a Mystery...

So... If You are Part of the Ruling Class... LAWS DO NOT APPLY and You May sell Thousands of Automatic Rifles to Mexican Drug Gangs without any Jail Time when Caught...  "Although he became the first sitting Attorney General to be held in contempt of Congress during an investigation of the Operation Fast and Furious ATF gunwalking scandal, the Justice Department's Inspector General later cleared Holder of any wrongdoing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder

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

Here’s a look at Operation Fast and Furious. From 2009-2011, the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with other partners, allowed illegal gun sales in order to track the sellers and purchasers, who were believed to be connected to Mexican drug cartels.

Facts

During the Fast and Furious investigation, nearly 2,000 firearms were illegally purchased for $1.5 million, according to a DOJ inspector General report. Hundreds of guns were later recovered in the United States and Mexico.

In 2010, two of the weapons linked to Fast and Furious turned up near the scene of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in the Arizona desert. https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/27/world/americas/operation-fast-and-furious-fast-facts

Operation Fast and Furious. The US House committee voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, and President Obama invoked executive privilege to protect disputed documents.

On June 20, 2012, the US House Oversight Committee voted 23–17 along party lines to hold AG Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for not releasing the additional documents the committee had requested... President Obama asserted executive privilege over the remaining documents requested by the committee. While Democrats argued that Holder was carrying out his constitutional role by honoring the executive privilege claim, on June 28, 2012, House Speaker John Boehner scheduled a vote on the contempt resolution anyway. Holder became the first U.S. Attorney General in history to be held in both criminal and civil contempt. He was held in contempt by the House of Representatives in a 255–67 vote... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder

House Republicans say the attorney general and now the president are trying to cover up the fallout from a bungled gun sting on the Mexico, Arizona border. Democrats say it's all election year politics. But let's step back to 2009, when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives created Fast and Furious as part of an effort to stem the flow of U.S. weapons to Mexican gangs and drug cartels.

What was the intent? What's the scale of the problem? What went wrong? And what happens now? https://www.npr.org/2012/06/21/155513757/why-operation-fast-and-furious-failed

How Mexican killers got US guns from 'Fast and Furious' operation

US officials thought they would catch Mexican criminals in a bold gun-running sting called 'Fast and Furious.' Instead, they inadvertently armed drug cartels as the operation spiraled out of control, a congressional report finds. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0726/How-Mexican-killers-got-US-guns-from-Fast-and-Furious-operation

Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels... https://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/fast-furious-scandal-details-emerge-us-government-armed/story?id=17352694

As part of Operation Fast and Furious, ATF allowed 1,961 guns to "walk" out of the U.S. in an effort to identify the high profile cartel leaders who received them. The agency eventually lost track of the weapons, and they often ended up in the hands of Mexican hit men , including those who ordered and carried out the attack on Salvarcar and El Aliviane, a rehabilitation center in Ciudad Juarez where 18 young men were killed on September 2, 2009.

In Mexico, the timing of the operation coincided with an upsurge of violence in the war among the country's strongest cartels. In 2009, the northern Mexican states served as a battlefield for the Sinaloa and Juarez drug trafficking organizations, and as expansion territory for the increasingly powerful Zetas. According to documents obtained by Univision News, from October of that year to the end of 2010, nearly 175 weapons from Operation Fast and Furious inadvertently armed the various warring factions across northern Mexico.

El Chapo’s Capture Puts ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ Back in the Headlines... 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal/ 

Obama-administration scandals never resolve. They just vanish — usually, under a new scandal. So it was with one of this president’s earliest embarrassments, “Operation Fast and Furious,” designed to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) dismantle drug cartels operating inside the United States and disrupt drug-trafficking routes. Instead, it put into the hands of criminals south of the border some 2,000 weapons, which have been used to kill hundreds of Mexicans and at least one American, U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.

So…what is Operation Fast and Furious? Fast and Furious was a “gun-walking” operation conducted by the Phoenix, Arizona branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (or the ATF) from 2009 and 2011. The idea was to encourage licensed Arizona gun merchants to sell firearms to known criminals, in the hope that law enforcement would be able to then trace the weapons from Arizona as they crossed the border into Mexico, slowly making their way into the hands of bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels. Fast and Furious was part of a broader series of investigations called Project Gunrunner, all of which had the collective long-term goal of halting the flow of weapons to criminals in Mexico. Arizona gun sellers sold about 2,000 weapons to “straw” buyers, often young kids lured by a reported $100 per transaction. The ATF lost track of an estimated 1,700 of those guns.  https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-is-operation-fast-and-furious-11-questions-and-answers