Mom Gave Me a "ROUND TUIT" gift - with the slogan: "Someday I'm going to get around to it... Oh! Today's the Day!

LINK: Click Here to see all my "ROUND TUIT" gifts at the gift shop...

The gift my mom gave me looked like a clay ornament that could be used on a bolo necktie... You slide the strings through the hole in the round clay object... Actually what it was is a holder for a short marijuana cigarette... A roach clip...

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years ago I wrote... 2022... And the bill failed to pass...

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The New 15% Corporate Minimum Tax Will Pay for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program. It's Like Robin Hood... Take From the Rich and Give to the Poor. MY Taxes Didn't Increase... So I'm Not Paying a Penny for this New Program. 

$238 Billion Dollars will now be Spent by Students at Businesses... Increasing Profits... and Increasing Taxes Paid on those Profits... This is a Classic Example of BUBBLE UP! Economics... EVERYBODY WINS!

Way to Go Joe! Embroidered Hat

for sale on Zazzle Gregvan

In Reality, Who Pays for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program? NOT YOU and NOT ME. There is No New Increase in YOUR Taxes... So YOU Do Not Pay for this New Expense... SOMEONE Pays and That's the Billionaires...

and Tax Cheats Will Be Paying for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program. THEIR Taxes Will be Going UP This Year. NOT MINE! The IRS is Hiring! and They Will Be COLLECTING MORE Just When Money Will Be Needed to Pay for The New Expense... 

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My Student Loans Were Totally Worth It! Graduating Doubled my Rate of Pay! After Graduating with a BSCS (Computer Science), I got a Job that Paid twice as much as I Had ever been Paid Before... and Put my Student Loan on Auto Pay... It was Gone in 5 Years... HOWEVER... I went to Humboldt State University where the Tuition is LOW... What if You went to School in a State that was NOT CALIFORNIA? Then You would have a Massive Student Loan Debt... What if You Didn't Graduate in a PRACTICAL MAJOR? and Ended up Making Tacos at Taco Bell again... There are Many Majors that are Totally Useless... At HSU if You Studied Nursing or Computers You did Great! but those "whooptie-doo" Majors left Students with a Huge Pile of Debt and NO SELLABLE SKILLS!

and "SG" on FaceBorg Asked: Why should I be responsible for your student loan debt? 

and I Responded: You are not Responsible under the Biden Plan... All of this is paid for by Taxing the Super Rich. There is no Increase to Your Taxes... There is a 15% Tax on Billionaires... and The IRS WILL be Auditing Tax Cheats... That's where the Money Comes from...

Fact check: If you don't make $400,000, you are not paying more taxes for anyone's student loans.

Not one dime.

Impossible Ribbons in Black and White with Eyes

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Great Books! Read 'em before the Fascist GOP Bans 'em.

The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey,

1984 by George Orwell,

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate by John Marks,

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe,

The Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand,

One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest by Ken Kesey,

My Problem Child by Dr Albert Hofmann,

Remember, Be Here Now by Ram Dass,

The Psychedelic Experience by Dr Timothy Leary and Dr Richard Alpert,

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence by Robert Pirsig,

America's Bogus Wars by Gregory Vanderlaan,

Island by Aldous Huxley,

Foundation by Isaac Asimov,

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein,

You are not the Target by Laura Huxley,

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley,

The Time Machine by HG Wells,

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne,

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol,

Thru the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol,

The Wizard of OZ by Frank Baum,

Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe (and Everything

else he wrote),

The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft,

The Teachings of don Juan by Carlos Castaneda,

The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz,

The Art of the Failed Deal by don Trump,

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

by Charles Mackay,

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

2001 by Arthur C. Clarke,

Dune by Frank Herbert,

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle,

The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien,

The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien,

#France1789 by Gregory Vanderlaan,

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card,

The Bible by Various Authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,

Ezekiel, Enoch, Peter, Paul and Mary),

Still Here by Ram Dass,

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov,

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov,

Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley,

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,

Alcoholics Anonymous by Bill W.

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Is Your Company Having Difficulty Finding Employees? Offer a Four Day Work Week... PROBLEM SOLVED! [ hint: talk about this subject at work...]

The world's biggest four-day work week pilot begins... 

Thousands of UK workers are starting a four-day work week from Monday with no cut to their pay in the largest trial of its kind.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/business/four-day-week-trial-uk/index.html

autonomy.work is now looking to recruit more organisations to join the pilot, set to begin later in 2022. Autonomy has already helped numerous businesses and charities move to shorter working hours: the new pilot represents an amazing opportunity to make the transition in your workplace, benefiting from extensive support.

https://autonomy.work/portfolio/four-day-week-pilot/

Do you want to join a group of companies piloting the 4 Day Week in your country?

https://www.4dayweek.com/

Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek...
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/bernie-sanders-says-that-if-ai-makes-us-so-productive-we-should-get-a-4-day-work-week/

As AI companies rave about how their products are revolutionizing productivity, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants the tech industry to put its money where its automated mouth is.

In a recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Sanders argued that the time saved with AI tools should be given back to workers to spend with their families.

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On a different subject: Mass Murder by Guns... GUNS ARE THE CAUSE... Not Video Games, Not School Doors, Not Lack of Jesus, Not Rock Music, Not Saying Gay... NONE of those Things are the Cause. GUNS ARE THE CAUSE. OUTLAW GUNS!

Write to your Senator or Call 'em on the Phone... Tell 'em to BAN ASSAULT RIFLES... Massive Protest in the Streets of America on June 11th...

Headline: 

Philly’s South Street massacre demands action on guns, but GOP isn’t having it | Opinion by Will Bunch... 
The popular Philly nightlife scene is the latest site terrorized by rapid gunfire, with no sign that the GOP in Harrisburg or D.C. will do anything.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/philadelphia-mass-shooting-gun-violence-20220605.html

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Let's Teach ACCURATE HISTORY in School. The GOP is Fighting to Outlaw Truth... Fight Back! Post Accurate History Online... Write Your Own Blog and Publish FACTS!

Writing a Blog that Teaches Accurate American History Would be a Great School Project... Simply DO the Research... Write and PUBLISH... Email Your Report to Everyone You Know and ask Them to Forward it... and... Post a Introductory Paragraph and a LINK to Your Blog on a Dozen Social Networks... It's Easy to FIGHT BACK against the GOP That is Trying to WHITE WASH American History with Tales of Happy Slaves... 

Here's a List of Social Networks: Facebook, Parler, GAB, Ello, Mastodon, Minds, Twitter, Deviant Art, LinkedIn, MeWe, Tumblr, Flipboard and Occupy... Remember to add a Picture to Your Posts... People Click on Pictures!

READ MORE: 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/07/lets-teach-history-in-school-accurate.html

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Keep Abortion Legal. #RUNAWAY from the GOP. They Are Anti-Choice! The #TexasTaliban Just Passed a Law That Forces Women to Have Children Due to RAPE or INCEST.

Should We Storm the Supreme Court? Stage Our Own 1/6 Style Insurrection? Well, I Personally Will Not be Joining the Violet Overgrow but... YOU Will Have to Make Up Your Own Mind on that Question... 

We Can March Peacefully in the Streets... We Can VOTE OUT All Republicans... We Can Campaign Online by Liking and Sharing Memes... Here are Over Two Dozen... Remember: In 2016 Putin Proved that Campaigning Online Works... HIS PUPPET WON... 

Keep Abortion Legal
reject the #TexasTaliban

When you Campaign Online, Remember to Keep Your Message Simple. Many Republicans Didn't Do Well in School and Have Difficulty Understanding Basic Ideas... They're DUMB AS ROCKS! So, Write at the Third Grade Level. 

For Example: a Picture of the Handmaids Tale is Pretty Complex if You Haven't Seen the Show... They May Not Understand Your Message... #StandwithPP - Planned Parenthood

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Russian Money Was Donated to Trump's PAC in 2019. 

Lev Parnas=GUILTY, 

Igor Fruman=GUILTY... 

Republicans Kevin McCarthy, Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis SAY They WILL DONATE Russian Campaign Contributions to Charity... 

But tRUMP KEPT HIS RUBLES!

Pay Trump Bribes Here.
Hotel, Washington DC

Donald Trump pledged to “drain the swamp” of money and influence in Washington. But sludge has kept pouring in — and some of it is coming from foreigners who are trying to buy sway with the president and his advisers.

READ MORE:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/10/russian-money-donated-to-trumps-pac.html

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on a different subject: 

Did you know that JS Bach was a performer at the BRAND NEW "Coffee Houses" that were Popular in Europe as soon as the Sailing Ships returned from The New World... Some of his songs have that frantic speed freak vibe... as If He drank a LOT of Coffee and Had a Whole Buncha Brilliant Ideas! https://www.wqxr.org/story/276602-js-bach-cafe/

In Johann Sebastian Bach's day, Zimmermann's Coffee House in Leipzig was the place to hear new music by some of Europe's top composers. Coffee drinking was all the rage and Zimmermann's was an informal venue where on Friday evenings, Bach would stop in to conduct the Collegium Musicum, or Musical Society, founded by his predecessor Telemann.

Zimmermann's also played a part in the history of Bach's Coffee Cantata (BWV 211), a work that amusingly tells of an addiction to coffee. 

Recently I've been Hearing a Lot of Edvard Grieg... For Example: March of the Trolls... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYaf36Qo9cs Pretty Damn Spectacular... I Can See in my Imagination Lord of the Rings Trolls...

and Anitra's Dance: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KKmFBNoxbI another song that is visual to me... Dancing Elves...

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Vogtle, Georgia is the only new nuclear power plant built in the last 30 years. It is 16 Billion Over Budget and 6 Years Behind Schedule SO FAR. Remember: FISSION IS A FAILURE. However it Does Supply Work for People That Write Newspaper Articles that say how great Nuclear Power is... Like This Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/why-nuclear-energy-is-on-the-verge-of-a-renaissance.html

Godzilla at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant...

Water Ceremony - Group Meditation... Take a Full Glass of Water and Hold it Between your Eyes and The Sun... Say the Sun Prayer... Drink Half the Water...

"Great spirits of the sun we call to you this day, we thank you for the blessings of our lives, the lives of our children, and all of our relations we are thankful for our life."

and Then... Say a Prayer for the Dirt... and Dump the other Half of the Water on a Plant...

"Great Spirits of The Earth. We Call to You On This Day. WE Thank You for your Nurturing and Your Sustenance. and the Ground on Which We Stand. We are Grateful to Be Alive."

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Thomas Jefferson is Suddenly "Not Worthy" Because He Owned Slaves... ABSURD! What About George Washington? He Owned Slaves TOO.

Headline: Thomas Jefferson statue to be removed from New York City Council chamber... 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/us/thomas-jefferson-statue-new-york-city/index.html

Adrienne Adams... a Light Skinned Black Woman
She Has Some White People as Ancestors...
Maybe Jefferson Himself?
or Maybe George Washington!

"Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder who owned over 600 human beings," Councilmember Adrienne Adams, co-chair of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, said in a presentation before the commission. "It makes me deeply uncomfortable knowing that we sit in the presence of a statue that pays homage to a slaveholder who fundamentally believed that people who look like me* were inherently inferior, lacked intelligence, and were not worthy of freedom or rights." 

*Well, Not Exactly Like You... People That Look Like You Worked in the House... and Were Treated Differently because they were the Master's Children.  Most were taught how to read and Write and were Given Names...

For Example: Most were Named Jefferson... 

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

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Having written that "all men are created equal" as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, he also enslaved more than 600 people and fathered at least six children with Sally Hemings, a woman he enslaved.

Not everyone supported the removal of the statue. Sean Wilentz, a American history professor at Princeton University, wrote in a letter read to the commission: "The statue specifically honors Jefferson for his greatest contribution to America, indeed, to humankind."

https://news.yahoo.com/thomas-jefferson-statue-removed-york-152934678.html

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,[Except Blacks and Women] that they are endowed by their Creator [Named Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Odin, Thor, KRSNA, Buddha or a Thousand Other Names] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”[Unless your Pursuit uses Marijuana or Psychedelics as a Sacrament] - DANG... So Many Disclaimers...

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

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

https://www.nps.gov/thje/index.htm Take a Tour of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC...  Founding Father... Revolutionary... Renaissance Man. Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, first Secretary of State for the United States of America, and a complex, 19th-century man with a wide ranging impact on the very makeup of America itself.

https://www.monticello.org/house-gardens/ Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. Its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.

Concerned about losing access to the port of New Orleans, in 1803 President Thomas Jefferson sent James Monroe and Robert Livingston to Paris to attempt to buy the city from France, authorizing them to offer France up to $10 million for it.

Meanwhile, Napoleon had concluded that it wasn’t worth the cost for France to try to hold onto its vast North American territory. So when Monroe and Livingstone arrived to commence negotiations, they were astonished when France offered to sell the United States not just New Orleans, but the entire Louisiana Territory. They did not have authority to negotiate any such deal, but when France offered the entire territory for only $15 million (only $5 million more than they were prepared to offer for New Orleans alone), the deal was too good for them to turn down. On April 30, 1803 they signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, by which the United States would acquire 828,000 square miles of land, at a price of three cents per acre (sixty cents per acre in current dollars). The deal would double the size of the United States. “This is the noblest work of our whole lives,” Livingston remarked.

When the commissioners returned to the United States with the remarkable treaty, Jefferson was amazed and delighted. But the road to ratification was anything but smooth. There were very serious objections to the constitutionality of the treaty and there was also the inconvenient fact that the United States didn’t actually have $15 million. But in the end, the proponents of the purchase prevailed, the U.S. borrowed the money from financiers in Great Britain, and on October 20, 1803 (two hundred eighteen years ago today) the Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty—one of the best real estate bargains in history. “From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank,” Livingston said.

Thanks to several great comments the post has been edited to clarify that the funds were loaned by financiers in Great Britain, not the British government.