Adobe Houses are Very Energy Efficient and Quiet. Thick Mud Walls stay Cool in the Summer, Warm in the Winter. AND THEY RESIST FOREST FIRES... Tile Roofs Do Not Burn when a Spark Lands on Them...

When we rebuild Paradise and Santa Rosa, California it might be an Opportunity to Use Smart Design Ideas. I remember going inside the Mission Santa Clara on a Hot Summer Day... Built over 200 years ago, it has withstood Earthquakes.

Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants and Distributed Using the Grid. WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES.

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

Commercial Solar LED Street Lighting: THERE ARE MANY MANUFACTURERS...   HERE IS ONE...
https://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/solar-street-lighting
and Here are another DOZEN...
https://cleanenergysummit.org/best-solar-street-lights/
Lighting for Streets and Roadways Provided by Sustainable Solar Power... SEPCO’s solar powered street lighting systems are an efficient means to provide lighting without the need for standard utility power. Every system provides cost savings by eliminating the need to trench standard electric wires for installation and providing no electric bill for the life of the system. Solar street lights have been installed on highways, freeways, neighborhood streets, rural roads, etc. and provide security, sustainability and an overall green image.

We Need to Buy 1000 More Firefighting Helicopters in the USA... Simply Dip a Bucket in a Lake, Dump Water on the Fire. Tell Your Elected Officials That We Want Them to Take Action!

California Has a Massive Wildfire Problem... 

Let's Buy Helicopters!

https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/

Email Governor of California Gavin Newsom

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives 

Find their Email Form 

and Tell 'em what you think!

The Entire West is Burning... Every Year there will be MORE MORE MORE fires... If we Owned Helicopters We Could Get Water from Lakes and PUT OUT the Fires. 

Last Year, Two of California's Massive Fires - Were Near Lakes... One Near Lake Tahoe and One Near Lake Almanor... and Both Lakes Had Water in them... We Could Have Put those Fires Out Early... If We Only Had Helicopters. 

Tell Your Representatives to Buy Some Helicopters!

https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ Enter your California address and click the locate button to find your State Senate and Assembly representatives.

FC Said: Then you also need, at minimum, 1,000 trained pilots, and several hundred mechanics.

and I Replied: WONDERFUL! We have a LOT of Soldiers that are NO LONGER fighting the War in Afghanistan... Many of those people are Idle... and Would LOVE to Help their Friends and Neighbors... Put Them to Work! Thanks for Reminding me of the Benefit to our Soldiers!

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Here's a Helicopter Dipping a Bucket into a River to Drop Water on a Wildfire. We need to Buy 1,000 of these to put out Fires THIS SUMMER! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_firefighting

and

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

A helicopter bucket is a specialised bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting. Each bucket has a release valve on the bottom which is controlled by the helicopter crew. When the helicopter is in position, the crew releases the water to extinguish or suppress the fire below.

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Thank You, Joe Biden, for Ending the Pointless War in Afghanistan. Our Soldiers were Wasting their Time fighting a war that cannot be won for people that do not want us there. I feel certain that the Soldiers would rather be home fighting fires that threaten their families and friends... Bring 'em Home and Bring Home the Helicopters too... 

 

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What Paradise Was Like Before it Burned. My Memories of a California Town. [personal autobiography of everything I ever did in Paradise...Just to keep the Town's Memory Alive... If you are reading this in the Future. Paradise, California Burned to the Ground in 2018 and all buildings were destroyed.]

I was lucky enough to have visited the town of Paradise.

My fondest memory was Dancing at a Pow Wow. I was a member of Mom's AA in Chico and there were Many American Indians in that club. Dorothy invited us to go to Paradise for an Inter-Tribal Event. Duke was the Master of Ceremonies. I did the "Orange" Dance with a Native Woman. I held an orange between my chin and neck and then transferred it to HER chin and neck. I wore a belt with 5 Jingle Bells strapped to my leg... That Belt was used later to Chime Quitting Time at Work... At 5 PM I Rang the Bells and Everyone Cheered and went home... When I retired I gave the bells to Suzie so she could keep the Tradition Going.. Those Bells were filled with Magic because they had been "Danced" at a Pow Wow.

I took a Drumming Class with Adult Education. I was Working at Ja-Kay's Farm in Concow with Mike. She hired us to put unwanted stuff in a giant dumpster. It was a Birthday Present for her Father. When he came home from a trip, all the garbage would have been Miraculously Cleaned Up. When we were done with the day's work she invited us to go to a Learn How to Play the Drums in a Big Group Class. Mike did not go but I accepted the invitation. They held the Class in an abandoned Chinese Restaurant. There were about 12 students and we played Bongos and Congas. The teacher had sheet music for us to read and learn specific beats. After Practicing for a few weeks we performed at the Chico Farmer's Market. We Played "Miserlou." He played Guitar and invited some other musicians to play keyboards and bass. After that performance The Teacher wanted to GO PRO and Go on Tour, Charge admission... that ended the group for most of us because we just wanted to have fun... I do remember that at that performance we played the song incorrectly... We were supposed to play the beat for 20 bars and then STOP PLAYING so he could play the melody on the Guitar... well we failed to all STOP at the same time... He just shrugged and grinned... and Nailed the Solo. Oh Well.

I went to the Feather River Hospital and Had a Colonoscopy and Polyps Removed. 

We went to see RADAR perform in a play. (Gary Berghoff)... It was at a The Fancy Playhouse and we met a lot of our friends in the audience... It was a RARE performance by Gary Berghoff who was a Paradise Resident. Makes me Wonder How He's Doing Now... He's Alive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Burghoff

Mike C. and I went to see a friend perform in the play "Same Time Next Year." I was amazed by my friends ability to memorize lines... The play has only Two Actors and a tremendous quantity of words.

Swimming in Butte Creek. It's a Wild Inner Tube Ride when the water is high in the Spring... OKI Dam is a beautiful wide swimming hole and we went skinny dipping there.

Visiting the Honey Run Covered Bridge.

More pictures of the Covered Bridge:

 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-honey-run-covered-bridge-over-butte.html

Finding Gold in a Quartz Crystal on Butte Creek. Craig and I went to the Bridge Just Upstream of the Covered Bridge and Took a Video of the Creek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvqTJXTmt7o
On the Side of the road was a shady spot and I sat down to smoke a cigarette. When I was done I picked up a rock to snuff out the fire and it was a beautiful white crystal quartz with a vein of gold... I kept that rock... It's in My Back Yard in Eureka Now... Right next to the shiny black rock I picked up at Mount Saint Helens in Washington State.

Swimming (illegally) in the Reservoir. It provided drinking water to the Town so people were not allowed to swim...

We went to an AA Meeting in Paradise. Small Meeting, everyone knew each other and I felt like a Stranger in a Strange Land. But I'm glad I went... I love Visiting Different Towns and Going to their Meetings... 

I had a friend who lived in Paradise who was a "Clamper" (a member of E Clamper Vitus - a Fraternal Organization devoted to Helping the Widows and Orphans abandoned by Gold Miners That Died.)

Driving up the Skyway and Stopping at the Overlook to see Butte Creek Canyon.

Butte Creek Canyon photographed on the Skyway to Paradise, California

The town was Named for a "Pair Of Dice"

More Pictures of the Butte Creek Canyon:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/paradise-butte-creek-canyon-california.html

Camp Fire Map 11/19/2018
We are REALLY Lucky that the Firefighters Put it Out
Before CHICO Burned. Thank You.

Click on the link to see... 6 Photographs of The Honey Run Covered Bridge over Butte Creek near Chico and Paradise, California BEFORE it Burned - a great place to go Tubing when the Water is High... a WILD RIDE!
The Bridge was destroyed by Wildfire on 11/9/2018
So Sad... It was a Historical Landmark.
 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-honey-run-covered-bridge-over-butte.html

and Here is what Liz Merry Said about the Rebuilding of Paradise... 

Liz Merry

“Someday I’ll meet you all in Paradise…” So sang the great Scott “Ska-T” Pressman of Chico’s Spark ‘N’ Cinder Band. I spent last weekend in Paradise for Gold Nugget Days, which celebrates the discovery of a 54-pound gold nugget found just north of town in 1859. A gold nugget of that size could solve a lot of problems, couldn’t it?

It was my first visit to Paradise since the Camp Fire destroyed the town and left 85 people dead over 4 years ago. Dozens of our friends and family members lost their homes and many survivors relocated to Tehama County. Welcome!

Paradise looks very different now, of course. Where there used to be trees there are now sweeping vistas. That happened here in Manton, too, after the Ponderosa Fire. Driving up Forward Rd., you could suddenly see way down Battle Creek Canyon and over to Hwy 36E. Silver linings. We’ll take ‘em.

There is a buzz of construction as people rebuild their homes and lives. Apparently there was not much rhyme or reason as to how people were reimbursed by their insurance companies and the PG&E payments have been all over the place. There are folks who have been in their lovely new homes for a couple of years and others who have just started to receive funds to rebuild or move on. Neighborhoods are a patchwork quilt of new homes popping up among chain link fenced parcels with nothing but a cement slab to identify them as former residences.

Paradisians were jubilant to see old friends and neighbors. The hugs were long and sincere - like they never wanted to let go. Survivors of such enormous tragedy share a special bond. Gold Nugget Days is something that bridges Before to Now and unites them as a community. A great reminder that all communities are made up of people, not buildings and trees.

I spent Friday and Saturday nights in Chico at the home of my longtime BFFs Kathy and Lynette. We worked together at LaSalles in downtown Chico in the mid-80s, when it was a yuppified fern bar and restaurant. Kathy went on to create and coach the Women’s Golf Program and Team at Chico State and Lynette teaches art at Diablo College a few days a week.

They bought a beautiful home together in the Chico Avenues decades ago, fixing up a mother-in-law unit in back for Kathy while Lynette lives in the main house. I haven’t seen either of them since before Covid, so having this time to catch up was fantastic. They are both brilliant and we pretty much solved the world’s problems in a few hours.

Downtown Chico, on the other hand, is looking downright shabby these days. It was always appealing, bustling and thriving, but now appears to be in a sharp decline - like the “doom loop” we keep reading about in San Francisco. Empty storefronts are rampant - even the four “anchor” spots on 2nd and Main Streets. The 7-Eleven on the corner of 1st and Main is closed with a chain link fence around it - shocking. There is an air of seediness and danger - what happened?

A perfect storm of challenges from many directions hit the town, that’s what. 10,000 people showed up overnight after fleeing the Camp Fire. Traffic became insane. Covid closed the University and many businesses couldn’t survive. The homeless situation is at crisis level. Mental health resources are stretched thin. Without a variety of cute shops and the proliferation of online retail, shoppers just aren’t as likely to spend an afternoon browsing. There is an argument that the downtown landlords, most of whom don’t live in Chico, are charging too much for rent. How much is a storefront worth when it is surrounded by empty ones? Who is going to risk the time and money to open a new place in the middle of a downward spiral?

There are many factors at play, but Lynette pointed out one that hadn’t occurred to me. When the bottom fell out of the traditional cannabis market, those friendly hill folk didn’t have buckets of cash to spread around every fall. I can personally vouch for the increase in spending at Wild Oak every October and November. Time to rethink our county ordinance which is still depriving a path to legitimacy for an entire industry and its many spin-offs in manufacturing, testing, packaging, etc…What do you say, supervisors?

Hey Farmers! Simply Grow Your Cannabis OUTDOORS IN THE FREE SUNSHINE and There is NO Need for Electric Grow Lights. That Electricity Has To Come from SOMEWHERE... Causing Pollution... Causing Climate Change...

Coal Burning Power Plants, Nukes, Biomass, Natural Gas... And They All Cause Pollution... There Already Exists a Perfect Light Source Designed to Use The Photosynthesis That Evolved in Plants over Billions of Years! USE IT!   https://phys.org/news/2021-03-insatiable-demand-cannabis-giant-carbon.html

Mushroom Cloud at the Fairhaven Biomass
Electric Power Plant Near Eureka, CA - gvan42

Since Sun Valley Floral Farms Has GIANT GRENHOUSES they will not need electric powered gro-lights like most farms us indoors... well, maybe just a little... Ecological Marijuana Farming using Free Sunshine.

HEADLINE: Arcata Bottom mega-grow in the works.

https://madriverunion.com/arcata-bottom-mega-grow-in-the-works/

Arcata Land Company, LLC, an entity controlled by Lane Devries of Sun Valley Floral Farm, is seeking county approval for a 38-acre cannabis cultivation operation on two parcels located between 27th Street and Foster Avenue (see map). 

According to an Initial Study filed with the county, the area is zoned Heavy Industrial with a Qualified Combining Zone, the new project involves only cultivation. Processing of the cannabis would be conducted at an already-approved processing, manufacturing, and distribution facility located to the north.

Cultivation will take place in four areas totaling about 22.9 acres. Some 6.2 acres of existing hoop structures will be converted from flower production to cannabis. About 16.7 acres of new hoop houses will be set up in the northeast and southwest areas of the property. 

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Here is a Link to Another Website of Mine: Google Sites...

https://sites.google.com/view/gregoryvanderlaan/Home

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SEE? Behave Like a Crazy TrumpNik® and they LOCK YOU UP! Wasn't the Plan to Lock Her UP? Hillary is Free... TRUMP FAILED AGAIN... So Much Failure... #TotalFailureTrump is What They Call  Him... https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/08/judge-rejects-qanon-shamans-bid-474455

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Underground Power Wires are Safer Than Wires on Poles That Set Forests on FIRE like PG&E Did in Paradise, CA...

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Yet another one gets cancelled - Pepé Le Pew will be no longer - part of the purge of most everything - well just everything as 99% of everything has now become offensive to someone.  Such a shame- I am sure that purple dinosaur of our kids admiration will be soon as well. And most of the muppets as well... 

I Responded: "Everybody" Has Become WHINERS... BOO HOO... "Wah, You Giys are Being So Mean." The Only People It's Safe to Satirize are Straight White Men... all those "Others" are CRYBABIES...

It's Just a Cartoon... What about the Itchy and Scratchy Show? Where is Your Contrived Outrage? HUH? Why Not Censor the SIMPSONS? Homer Teaches Young Fathers To Choke Their Disobedient Boys...  and El Barto Glamorizes Graffiti! Lisa Ridicules Vegetarians and Eco Warrior Feminists! Let's All Freak Out About Nothing! EVERYBODY BOYCOTT The Second Longest Running Show on TV... Gunsmoke had 635 Episodes - It's #1... a Show Glorifying Violence using GUNS! 

and Then "Someone" Posted: Gregory simmer down snowflake.

And I Replied: Don't Insult me with Your Hate Speech... "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore." I Recommend They Censor "Gone With The Wind" because Butterfly McQueen "Miss Scarlet, I Don't Know Nothing bout Birthing Babies." - Is Insulting... So Authentic... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy90YiCon3M

If we are Going to Cancel Bad Roll Models... What about The Movie "The Rock" with Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris... Vietnam Vets Suffering because of No Pensions for Black Ops... It Glorifies Violence as a Way to Solve Problems... and It Makes a Criminal Look Like a Hero... and Sean Connery was NOT a Great Father!

What About Censoring The Marx Brothers? Who Dat Man? Why It's Gabriel! (A Day at the Races)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyEm-K3BGg

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Here are Some GREAT Videos!

Canned Heat Let's Work Together - TotP Audience Feb 1970  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hom0fYd5uX4

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco [HD] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcyRLtwUVY

The Troggs - Wild Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSWInYFVksg

The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Live, 1965) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTsRFZ75abQ

Eric Burdon & The Animals : San Franciscan Nights (Live 1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4G3KPP1Nts

Sky Pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laSJI58bMMM

I'd Love to Change the World - Alvin Lee & Ten Years After https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYFJB7o9ZQ

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (Live at Hyde Park 1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_G0IRLEx4

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k

Quote: They seek him here,/ They seek him there,/ Those Frenchies seek him everywhere./ Is he in heaven,/ Or is he in hell?/ My own elusive Pimpernel. ... #FRANCE1789 What Exactly IS The Cure for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome? #ClassWar 

The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRc0yaMW7Mw

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On a Different Subject: Here is a Collection of Beautiful Nude Women Doing Topless Dancing - Animated GIFs

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/beautiful-nude-women-animated-gifs/ <--- LINK!

When We Come Back from Coronavirus Shutdown... We Have The Opportunity To EVOLVE... and Build a Wonderful World... I'm Collecting Plans for How to Rebuild a Sane Post Coronavirus Society. Please Comment and I'll Add Your Ideas to The Web...

Greetings: Here are 20 simple ideas for making the world a better place. 

#1: Solar Powered Desalinization - Change Seawater into Drinking Water. Let's Build a Giant Plant Halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles... Using Mirrors to Boil Seawater We Could Create PURE H2O, NaCl and Electricity... Simply Drive a Turbine with The Expanding Steam... 

#2: Legalize Marijuana Nationwide, Tax it, Free All the Cannabis Prisoners. Refund the Money Currently Wasted on Law Enforcement To The Taxpayers... 

#3: Cut The Defense Budget in Half. Since We Have Not ACTUALLY DEFENDED The USA Since 1945, Not Even Once, Couldn't We Do Nothing For Less Money? 

#4: Layoff Half the Police. Actual Crime is Down... They Are Bored, Armed, With Nothing To Do... No WONDER They Get In Trouble... 

#5: Tax the Rich, Cut Taxes for the 99%
 https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html

Solar Panels on the Roof of the House That They Power Eliminate the Need for Long Dangerous Wires That Cause Wildfires. ---> Question The GRID... Generating Electricity in a Central Location and Distributing it To Where it is Used. Is Wasteful and Dangerous. Let's Replace Standard Streetlights With Self Contained Solar Powered Streetlights. No Need For Long Dangerous Wires. --->What Paradise Was Like Before it Burned. My Memories of a California Town. [personal autobiography of everything I ever did in Paradise...Just to keep the Town's Memory Alive... If you are reading this in the Future. Paradise, California Burned to the Ground in 2018 and all buildings were destroyed.] I was lucky enough to have visited the town of Paradise. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-paradise-was-like-before-it-burned.html

Let's Move Work Closer to Home. Save Money, Time and Gasoline Currently Wasted Commuting. ---> Here Are Some Things We Can Do About Climate Change... Drive Cars Less. Use Less Electricity. Breed Less. Stop Flying in Jet Airplanes! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/09/here-are-some-things-we-can-do-about.html

Solar, Wind and Hydro are Essentially Free Once Built. Safe, Clean and Infinite. ---> BIOMASS Electric Power Plants Could Dispose of the Millions of Dead Trees in California that are a Fire Hazard. Before we have another Disastrous Wildfire like we had in Paradise, we could remove the fuel from the forests and use it to generate electricity. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/biomass-electric-power-plants-could.html

Once a Person Has a Billion Dollars, What is the POINT of Getting More Money? It's a Hoarding Sickness... One Thing We Ought To Do is Tax the Rich and Distribute That Money to The Poor. The Robin Hood Concept...

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Other Questions...

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Are CITIES VALID? Why Not Live Way Out in the Woods and Telecommute? It's Wonderful!

Question IF... Flying in a Jet Airplane is REALLY NEEDED... Just ZOOM To Your Destination...

We Have Learned That Commuting to Work is an Obsolete Idea... Working From Home is GREAT for Some People.

What Can We DO To Build a Better World?
The Old Ways Do Not Work...

I Have Noticed that TV NEWS is a Fear for Profit Machine. They get Higher Ratings by Shouting DANGER DANGER!

War for Corporate Profit is an Obsolete Idea. Every War Since 1945 Has Been ABSURD! Marketing for Defense Contractors.

My LOGO - PiFOG - People In Favor of Good - gvan42

"Water, water all around but not a Drop to Drink." NO LONGER TRUE! Dramatic Engineering Improvements of Solar Powered Desalinization Plants have made turning Seawater into Drinking Water in VAST Quantities a Reality. Useful for Watering Plants, Livestock, Taking Showers, Filling Swimming Pools, Lawns and Making Ice Cubes for your "Scotch on the Rocks" Beverage. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/water-water-all-around-but-not-drop-to.html

and Then I Got This Email:

Hi Greg,

Like your thought provoking email encouraging folks to think of ways to make the world a better place.  

Your comprehensive list of ideas contains ones I agree with, ones I don't, and ones I'd like to think were feasible.  My biggest immediate concerns, other than my mom's welfare, my self-preservation and that of friends and family, are containing the pandemic, eliminating racism, and ousting the dishonest/clueless POTUS, Senate Majority Leader, the U. S. Attorney General, and others in the current administration that have contributed to the ongoing total chaos that's consuming our nation, negatively impacting our relationship with once strong allies, failure to actively participate in meaningful discussions with other countries to reduce global warming, and significantly losing respect of other nations, not to mention that of the once proud citizens of the United States of America.  

Still waiting for a safe/proven/over-the-counter SMART pill and an antiracist vaccine.

Stay well Greg.

Craig

tRUMP'S BRAIN IS FAILING. When tRUMP spoke of the Wildfires in PARADISE, CALIFORNIA... He called the town PLEASURE... In his aging brain the MEANING of the WORD PLEASURE and the MEANING of the WORD PARADISE criss crossed and out popped the wrong word... Quite common, it is called a "SENIOR MOMENT"... Think about it for a second... He is displaying Signs of Dementia...

and NOW tRUMP is Repeating his Delusion that Californians Should RAKE THE FORESTS just Like they Do in Norway... See? They Don't Have a Forest Fire Problem in Norway... Of Course, Norway is Near the North Pole and a TOTALLY DIFFERENT CLIMATE... but... tRUMP's Failing Brain Can't Grasp That Concept!

Here is the Tweet Blaming Californians for Our Forest Fires... 

“The Governor of California, @GavinNewsom, has done a terrible job of forest management. I told him from the first day we met that he must ‘clean’ his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers,” Trump tweeted.

“Every year, as the fire’s rage & California burns, it is the same thing-and then he comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help. No more,” the president added. “Get your act together Governor.”

Newsom snapped back with: “You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.”

Though Trump encouraged Newsom to “clean” the forest floors — none of this season’s blazes are burning in California’s forests, according to the Los Angeles Times and other outlets. The Getty Fire and others raging in Los Angeles started on hillsides.


Experts say California is experiencing intense blazes because of a rise in temperature that is drying out land and vegetation, making them more flammable, according to The Washington Post.

https://nypost.com/2019/11/03/trump-slams-california-gov-newsom-over-forest-management-amid-wildfires/

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Dementia is Quite common in Old People... That's why he says WINDMILLS CAUSE CANCER... Obviously, False...Trump said that He wants someone to investigate the ORANGES of the Mueller Report... I believe he meant to say was the ORIGINS of the report but his BRAIN FAILED to deliver the right word... I'm not making this up... He really asked for the ORANGES... Many times... on Television... https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/donald-trump-concerned-about-oranges-of-mueller-investigation-1470370371536

Trump's Failing Brain explains WHY HE LIES SO MUCH. He has lost touch with reality... For Example: Trump said that His Father was born in Germany... Actually that was his Grandfather, his Father was born in New York City... OOPS... Brain Fart!

Trump is NOT ALONE in his FANTASY WORLD... Consider the Fact that the man who invented "MY PILLOW" said in public that "God Chose Trump to be President"... really... That dude is DELUSIONAL! What kind of Delirium says that HE KNOWS WHAT GOD INTENDS... Whoo... Whoo... Crazy Train!

Sadly, Trump believes that SCARY BROWN PEOPLE are invading the USA from Mexico... Classic Paranoia... Thinking people are attacking you when there is no actual danger... So he wants to build a wall... even though people fly over walls, sail around walls or use FAKE ID to fool border guards at the road entrances thru the wall... 

Trump is Not Only Pathetic... He is a DANGER TO THE USA and the Entire World... 

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