It's The End of the Internal Combustion Engine Era... Yes, It Was Groovy to Drive around in a Painted Hippie Truck BUT... Those Days Are Long Gone... WAKE UP! --->Solar Cars<--- Electric Vehicles are the Future.

America Was Greatest in 1969. We Walked on the Moon, Danced at Woodstock, Rioted at The Stonewall Bar and The BioWeapon AIDS Had Not Been Deployed Yet. MAKE AMERICA GROOVY AGAIN.
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My Truck: When I Drove By People Smiled... Some Saluted!

Solar Car - Electric Vehicles are the Future.
We Can Engineer our way out of
Endless Wars for OIL. 

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Original Painting of a HEART done in an American Flag Motif on My Little White Truck... Psychedelic Art by Greg Vanderlaan - gvan42 #Purple64ets

A Lot of Pictures of mine that I Found on an Old Website... from 2013...

and Some Words I Felt Were Important Then... 

Reset Social Security Retirement Age to 55.

There are simply not enough jobs to be filled by people looking for work. If we reduced the quantity of people looking for work by re-setting the social security retirement age to 55, we would solve the unemployment "crisis". When I was young, everyone retired at 55. Every year the age has crept up... Now it's 62. a few years from now it'll probably be 64, then 66, 68, 70, 73, 78... how high can we count? It seems that retirement is always a few years away and constantly receding...

FrankenChickens are better than OrganicFreeBirds.

For Thanksgiving, We had Roasted Chicken... from a little grocery store near home called Murphy's. Organic Free Bird... Frankly, not as good as the GMO that Safeway sells. Hooray for Biotechnology... designing FrankenChickens that are tasty. I'm totally in favor and in flavor of Genetic Engineering of food. In the 1980's my brother and I went to a trade show and ate a single celled organism that fed on waste... It was great. Not legal to sell in the USA but legal to give away at a trade show for Bio Engineers. 

My dad pointed out that when he was working, the secretaries never got carpool-tunnel sin-drome... Why do they report it now???

Well, they typed on typewriters until their fingers wore out (at about 55) and never complained because they were retired... or never complained because they were afraid of getting fired... Lack of reporting does not mean the problem didn't exist.

So, in order to reduce unemployment and reduce worker's compensation claims... Set Social Security Retirement Age to 55.

If we have a trillion dollars to give away to the bankers, we can spent what's needed to pay the people that have WORKED THEIR WHOLE LIFE.

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What Obama Should do now...
Priority #2. Appoint someone INTELLIGENT for Secretary of Interior. 
In Northern California, we have seen the massive fish kill on the Kalamath River due to Federal Idiot Policy. Everyone that had the slightest understanding of salmon and rivers said "Do not send all the water to Oregon Potato Farmers, that will KILL the FISH".
Then the Department of the Interior sent the water to Oregon and millions of Salmon died. Classic cause and effect.  So the sport fishermen that used to rent motel rooms on the Kalamath River stopped coming. This caused a great loss of income. The increased profit of Oregon Potato Farmers was totally wiped out by the loss of profit by the Tourism Industry. By a ratio of 10 to 1.
So, due to IDIOT policy by the Dept of Interior, both Oregon and California lost a lot money and millions of fish died...We told them not to do it, but then they went and did it and everyone suffered. GEE, that's the story of the Iraq war too!
Priority #1. Stop spending money on BOGUS wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan and Humboldt Nation. Save American Soldiers Lives. Get U.S. out in 2009.

Hey Kids: BLOCK FOX NEWS ON THE REMOTE So Your Grandparents Can't Watch Hate Speech... It Causes High Blood Pressure. Endangering Old People... Possible STROKE Due to Anger That You Can't DO Anything About.

Health Hint! Avoid unnecessary stress. Instead of watching hour after hour of angry, politically biased opinion shows, pushing agendas that may harm you on many levels, simply switch to normal, nonpolitical news. It’s your health, your life. The election’s over; now is the perfect time to quit.

Just say no to anger.

Example of the Hate Speech They Pour into Your Brain... 
Fox News apologizes after guest calls teen climate activist Greta Thunberg "mentally ill"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-greta-thunberg-michael-j-knowles-asperger-syndrome-climate-change-mentally-ill/

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Their Marketing Plan is to Appeal to the Lizard-Brain in Us. When we were Living in Caves... People Shouted "Danger-Danger" Saber Tooth Tiger Approaching... and those of us who BECAME ALERT survived... and those people are our Ancestors... Fox News Uses that as a Marketing Plan... Hate Speech for Profit! They are USING Your Fight or Flight Response to Sell Advertising Time...

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Mike Kirchubel, Newspaper Columnest Says: 

I have frequently observed that many Fox shows have angry hosts and guests. Curiously, most seem to be mad about something President Barack Obama or the Democrats did, or might do, or didn’t do, or won’t do and the inevitable catastrophic consequences to America. A lot of Fox watchers get mad, too; right-wingers get mad right along with the hosts and guests, and left-wingers get mad AT the hosts and guests.

That anger appears to be part of the Fox News attraction.

Fox’s sensationalistic, tabloid style seems to “hook” its audience; like nicotine in cigarettes. Many viewers think they are being told horrible truths that other news outlets wouldn’t dare tell, and they may be right, except for that “truth” part. As we’ve seen over the past two weeks, many of their angry, hard-hitting stories and theories magically poof into clouds of sparkly pixie dust when exposed to light. How did you feel when you discovered you wasted all that anger, last year? Angry?

Why care if Fox watchers get angry?

Well, anger can be harmful. I’m not talking about your occasional Fox fanatic burning down a mosque, killing innocents or being shot by police; no, I’m talking about you, typical Fairfield Fox fan. These frequent and prolonged doses of anger show after show, day after day, year after year, can be harmful to your health.

When you experience anger, your body is flooded with the stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol. These chemicals trigger your “fight or flight” response, increasing your heart rate and blood pressure and quickly shunting more blood to your muscles for immediate action. When you just sit on your couch in front of your TV, instead of fighting or flighting, these continual doses of stress chemicals floating around in your bloodstream can lead to serious health problems. Besides high blood pressure, they can cause strokes, heart disease, headaches, depression, anxiety, digestive problems, obesity, insomnia, a suppressed immune system and eventually, death.
https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/opinion/local-opinion-columnists/is-fox-news-hazardous-to-your-health/

We Are All Interconnected in Interesting and Unseen ways. Why Not Be Kind? We Are All One Big Family... My Observations of the Wonders of Nature...

I feel a Kinship to All Living Things... The Other Child of My Parents is My Brother... However... I Also Feel Like Trees are in my FAMILY Also... Maybe a Distant Cousin... I Experience The Same Emotional Love That I Have For Members of My Immediate Human Family... I Feel Especially Close to Bears... and Deer... and Dolphins... and Even Insects... I Do Not LIKE Insects But Just Like a Cousin that You Avoid at Family Gatherings... They are Part of the Miracle We Call Life... When We Experience The Feeling of DEJA VU, Could it Really Be ESP Contact With Other Animals? Like a Telepathic Merging With Whales??? They Have GIANT BRAINS, What Do They Think ABOUT??? 

Could Be Possible - ART

Hexavalent Chromium

Why is there a Government Subsidy of the Fossil Fuel Industry? 

Why do they need Taxpayers to Help them in Business?

Is that a Classic example of the Super-Rich using their Money 

to Bribe Lawmakers to Give them More Money? 

It's A Dangerous Feedback Loop Enabling Greed Freaks.

Switching just some of the huge subsidies supporting fossil fuels to renewables would unleash a runaway clean energy revolution, according to a new report, significantly cutting the carbon emissions that are driving the climate crisis.

Coal, oil and gas get more than $370bn (£305bn) a year in support, compared with $100bn for renewables, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) report found.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/01/fossil-fuel-subsidy-cash-pay-green-energy-transition

Bubble UP Economics

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This morning during my dawn hike, I noticed a Chirping sound way up high. I could not see any Bats but there was an Undeniable Three Dimensional Sound in the Sky.

 I have experienced this before during the Seventeen (17) year Cicadas in Rock Creek Park located in Washington DC... In what has to be the most bizarre life cycle ever, animals like grasshoppers are born, mate and then the eggs go back into the earth. Seventeen Years Later, animals like grasshoppers are born, mate and then the eggs go back into the earth. If you ever wondered about the Meaning of Life... this has got to make you wonder... WHY? 

This is a Sign! GO!

I'm watching a show on The HOPE Channel about the Life cycle of the Eastern Monarch Butterfly. They live in Canada and the American Midwest Eating Milkweed... Milkweed has a Poison that makes Caterpillars and Butterflies TASTE BAD... Helping them survive... In the Fall, they all fly to Mexico...  It's Too damn Cold in Canada... 300 Million go to the Same Place... To a place with a Magnetic Anomaly where there are a Lot of Heavy Metals. A specific forest about 70 miles west of Mexico City... 10,000 feet above sea level. and they go to the same place every year even though NONE OF THEM HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE. This is a different flock of butterflies than the ones that Live North of Santa Cruz... At Natural Bridges State Park... I have a appreciation for butterflies because that entire "Thing" of changing from a Caterpillar into a Butterfly is a Classic LSD Experience... Later, the Butterflies Leave Mexico and Go Back to Canada... and Around and Around and Around we go... I have a special fondness for all living things. I can see that we are all brothers and sisters... I don't feel much kinship for rocks... Mostly I experience a Realization that Trees, Cats, Dogs, Bears, Dolphins and Green Slime are all members of My Family. GAIA is the Most Logical Religion for Me... Yes, I love Bacon and Hamburgers but... It's unlikely that lunch will lead to their extinction... Maybe it's a survival strategy that blesses the Sacred Cow... More Chickens live in the USA than People... We go out of our way to feed Cows and Make sure they have a nice warm barn for chilly weather... The final conclusion of The HOPE Channel is that the Life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly is so bizarre that it cannot be explained using Darwin's Theory of Evolution... Only God could do this... Could BE True, but Not Likely NOR SIGNIFICANT... What IF we Never figure out the Origin of Life, we STILL should stop Killing Things for Corporate Profit. Then that show was over and they started saying that Jesus is the ONLY WAY... and by Definition... all those OTHER Religions are Like, Totally BOGUS... and it's a Small Step to Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition and all that Killing that Christians and Muslims do... GEE HAAAAAAD! and the Atheist, Buddhists, Hindus, Devotees of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Zoroastrians all wonder what's wrong with these people?

Big Daddy in the Sky watching Over Us...

In other news, There is a Grasshopper Infestation in Las Vegas. That is really like a Biblical Plague out of the Old Testament... It doesn't take much imagination to conclude that we are in the "End Times" predicted in the Book of Revelations. Notice the GREEN SLIME in the Gulf of Mexico... In the Bible, the Nile turned into a river of Blood... Well, this time it's a Different Color... I remember the Story of Noah... God flooded the world and Gave Noah the SIGN of the Rainbow promising that there would Never Be another Flood... Well, IT'S FIRE THIS TIME... Especially in the Arctic... Alaska, Northern Canada and Siberia are experiencing vast wildfires releasing MEGATONS of Carbon... and HEAT itself... So, the air pollution will increase Global Warming, and MELT the Permafrost... releasing Methane... and Around and Around and Around we go... 

on a different subject... I was wondering...

WHAT IF the people that make and sell weapons simply got a different job? It is possible to earn a living without Causing Disaster. Look within and realize that real eyes see thru real lies... "They" tell you that you need a gun for safety... to protect your Family... In fact, having a gun in the house makes you less safe. Increase in Suicide, Increase in Gun Accidents, Increase in One Family Member Shooting Another During an Argument... all those fatalities are greater that the lives saved by defending your family from the So Called "Bad Guys." Does anyone really believe that we need guns so that we can fight the Government in the case of Excessive Oppression? That plan always fails... Ruby Ridge, WACO... The Government has More and Better Weapons and a Citizens Militia has NO Freaking Chance... I think it's all Marketing by Weapons Manufacturers to Sell More Guns... Especially the Big Ones like Lockheed and Raytheon... Now that ESPER is the Secretary of Defense, all of a Sudden His "former" Corporation, Raytheon is Bidding on a New and Improved Death Machine... Well, Isn't that Special... and tRUMP just Vetoed a Bill preventing the USA from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, the people that Caused 9/11... There is no possible way that the War in Yemen is a Threat to the Safety of the USA... It's Just a way for Lockheed to Sell more Stuff... and if Those People Over There Die, THAT'S Not our problem... WHAT IF the people that make and sell weapons simply got a different job?

I have found that it's better to NOT be a part of the Military Industrial Complex. I did Evil for a Living for about SIX Years working for the Pentagon as a Defense Contractor... Then, one time when I got Laid off, I took a NON-DEFENSE job... and Never worked in the Weapons Business Again. It was an accidental career change but.... It Worked...

Did you Notice that Police Suicide has increased in New York... and France... What is going on? Is the Brainwashing wearing off and reality sneaking into their consciousness? and they don't like what they see???

A better Plan is to WAKE UP! It's Fun, It's Free and Everybody's Doing It! I have noticed that there is a groundswell of Internet Based Peace Activists... The Shift Network... The Aware Show on Television... Black Lives Matter... The "Never Again" Students from Parkland High School where Children were Murdered by an Insane Gunman... Bioneers... Democracy NOW! TV News... OCCUPY... ACT OUT! People protesting in the Streets of Moscow, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Hong Kong... Extinction Rebellion... Bernie Sanders... Bill McGibbon and the 350.org... Greta Thunberg and Children refusing to ignore Climate Change... It's a TREND... Remember, every time you fill up your gas tank you are (in effect) strangling Greta... A simpler way is to stop all that driving around... and ESPECIALLY stop Flying in Jet Airplanes. Those things are Ecological Disasters... Is it a "Strange Coincidence" that Boeing is having trouble selling their 737 Max Airplanes? For Safety's Sake... Don't Fly... Could it be that The Universe is Trying to GET OUR ATTENTION? Could THAT be what's Going ON?

2020 Is clearly the end of the Republicrime Party. Old White Men are going to have a very difficult time winning any elections due to the fact that MOST VOTERS are NOT Old White Men. It's the Dawn of A New Age, People!

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HEALTH ALERT! Prevagen: False Advertising... Insufficient Evidence for Claim to Improve Memory... Possible Side Effects NOT MENTIONED IN ADVERTISEMENTS. HOAX!

According to The Company Website itself: Note The Asterisk!

Prevagen Improves Memory^*

Prevagen is a dietary supplement that has been clinically shown to help with mild memory loss associated with aging.* Prevagen is formulated with apoaequorin, which is safe and uniquely supports brain function.* * These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

HEADLINE: Jellyfish Memory Supplement Prevagen Is a Hoax, FTC Says... 
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/jellyfish-memory-supplement-prevagen-hoax-ftc-says-n704886

The Federal Trade Commission and New York’s attorney general charged a company with fraud on Monday for selling a memory supplement based on a glowing jellyfish protein. Makers of a product called Prevagen are falsely advertising it as a memory booster, and falsely claiming the product can get into the human brain, the charges claim.

Memory. Early research shows that taking 10 mg of apoaequorin (Prevagen, Quincy Bioscience) daily for 90 days might improve forgetfulness, word recall, and the need for reminders in some people. But, this research is of lower quality. DONE BY QUINCY BIOSCIENCE THEMSELVES! 

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1486/apoaequorin

No clinical research has adequately evaluated side effects caused by apoaequorin. Some people who have taken apoaequorin have reported potential side effects to a manufacturer of the product. Some of the most commonly reported side effects were headache, dizziness, and nausea.

The manufacturer, Quincy Bioscience, used in-house clinical trials to make its claims of memory enhancement, which were not verified by independent researchers, according to Janet, Jenner & Suggs LLC, a nationwide law firm not involved in the suit.

The FDA investigated the company in 2012 and found the supplement has serious side effects, including seizures and strokes, as well as worsening symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
https://www.newsmax.com/fastfeatures/prevagen-memory-supplement-risks/2016/07/06/id/737395/


QAnon Sucks!

https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/does-prevagen-really-improve-memory/prevagen_memory/  

Does Prevagen Really Improve Memory?

Answer:

According to the company's website, people who use people Prevagen (Quincy Bioscience) can "experience improved memory, a sharper mind, and clearer thinking. However, a review of the evidence indicates that these effects are not well substantiated. In addition, the FDA has warned Quincy Bioscience in the past against claiming Prevagen could treat conditions such as head injuries and Alzheimer's disease and for failing to report adverse reactions. The FDA has also claimed that the key ingredient, apoaequorin, a synthetic protein, is not an acceptable ingredient in a dietary supplement. The FTC is also pursuing a lawsuit against the company regarding its promotion of Prevagen.

Jellyfish Memory Supplement Prevagen Called 'Clear-Cut Fraud'

Stop buying useless brain supplements, the Skeptical 

Cardiologist says...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/skeptical-cardiologist/80321

Obviously BOGUS! Why are they Allowed to Advertise on TV?

The High Point in My ART Career was: I Painted a Bedsheet with the LOGO of a Rock Band and they Hung it on the Back of the Stage During Concerts.

It Was a Simple, Bold LOGO. Three Interlocking Hearts. Two pointing Down and One in the Middle Pointing Up. The Lead Singer Designed the Idea for the Logo and I Simply made a Heart Shaped Stencil out of a Piece of Paper and Outlined that with Fluorescent Pink Paint. Then Painted Squiggly Lines Radiating Outward using all the other colors in the paint set... They Played a Concert at a Farmhouse in Rural Maryland and a Guy Filmed it. When the Fireworks Blew Up, the Painting Changed Colors... At Least that's what the Singer Said... I Never saw the film. BUT He was Happy and He Kept the Painting.  At the same time, I Tie-Dyed some Unbleached Muslin Fabric and one of the Backup Singers Made Two Dresses for the Performance. 

In 2005 I Made an Online Webstore at Zazzle where My Digital Art is For Sale printed on Coffee Cups, Buttons, Stickers and T-Shirts. Earned about a Thousand Dollars in Royalties. And... It will continue to sell art after I'm Dead. I arranged for Royalty Checks to Be Sent to my Heirs. 

Read More at: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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I see that Johns Hopkins is Going to Study the Medicinal Properties of Magic Mushrooms. I briefly thought about volunteering as a test subject for this Scientific Research but... realized that I Have Already Learned Everything that is Possible to be Learned using Psychedelic Drugs. and So, I would be a poor subject for any tests... there would be no BEFORE AND AFTER in my case... anyway... I Don't LIKE large doses of magic mushrooms... small doses, yes that's fun but large doses are scary... that's the exact opposite of LSD... Small Doses often cause me to be anxious but giant doses are wild and out of control... and therefore NOT anxious... 

It's extremely Important that Trump Decline Joe Biden's Push UP Challenge... Trump would have a Heart Attack and we would be left with Evil Mike Pence...

Is Trump in Good Health? He seemed So Very Confused Today... Has a Lifetime of Junk Food taken it's Toll? It's sad that we do not have a medical report from a real doctor... The only report we have seen is the one Trump wrote himself... "I'm Wonderful" - "Super Smart and Beautiful, too" - and he was CAUGHT LYING! He's NOT 6 Foot 3 Inches as The BOGUS REPORT Claims... He's been seen standing next to Other People of that height and He's Shorter! What a Pathetic Fool... To think No one would NOTICE HIS LIES!
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/doctor-says-trump-is-in-very-good-health

Pleasant Heart Art - by Gregory Vanderlaan

LINK TO MY ZAZZLE WEBSTORE WHERE THE ABOVE ART IS PRINTED ON GIFTS... Earrings, postcards, buttons, etc...  https://www.zazzle.com/collections/cats-119989123771673120

Bernie Sanders for President - FREE Heart ART FREE - Copy and Paste this everywhere - Have Fun! - eARTh ART!

https://berniesanders.com/

Feel free to Copy and Paste this Art Everywhere!

What about Elizabeth Warren for Treasury Secretary

 and Jay Inslee as Head of the EPA...

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Rainbow Heart... or ANY Heart... Using Transform and Polar Coordinates Distort

How to create a Rainbow Colored Heart Shape.

Create two Layers. a Nature Scene as background...
The other a Gradient Fill...
Select Gradient TOOL,
Place mouse in the lower left corner of the image and
click and hold... then drag to upper right hand corner. release.

Select Edit; Transform; Perspective and click.

Click and Hold Bottom left corner and
drag it to the center of the image. release.
Click on the Check Mark at the top, center of the screen.

Select Filter; Distort; Polar Coordinates; click
Click on OK when the popup asks if you want rectangular.
Move heart to a pleasant location...

Of Course, the layer you do the "Heartification" to may be any rectangular image.
Portraits of people end up looking oddly distorted... Abstract Art is often wonderful...
The heart shape can be enhanced with a layer style... bevel and emboss and outer glow...

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A variation on the Theme:

Using Edit; Transform; Perspective...
Drag the lower left corner all the way to the lower right...
Creating a double Pyramid Layer.

Then Filter; Distort; Polar Coordinates;
click OK on the popup... Rectangular.

This leads to experimentation on the subject:
"What happens when I use Perspective Transform
moving the lower Left UP to the center of the SIDE?

and...

What happens with Polar Distort from
Circular to rectangular?

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Original Psychedelic Art by Gregory Vanderlaan - Cosmic Finds on Google Image Search - Keywords "vandergreg" "purple64ets" and "gvan42"

Images designed to Entrance the Viewer Automatically... Relax and Enjoy!

Psychedelic Art - Visual Echo

Infinite Sun - Bird Bird Bird

Magic Cross - Eat the Sacred Wafers

Wishbone on Chico Creek

This is not a Pipe, It's Photoshop... Magritte Joke...