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There is a kind of grief that doesn’t come from losing a person. It comes from watching your country become unrecognizable while everyone insists everything is fine.

I think a lot of Americans are carrying that grief right now.

We’re exhausted. Not just from politics, but from the constant outrage, the endless division, the feeling that truth has become optional and cruelty has become entertainment. Every day seems to bring another headline that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, and somehow we’re expected to scroll past it like it’s normal.

It’s a strange kind of emptiness. The kind that comes from loving something enough to mourn what it’s becoming.

Some people feel like they no longer recognize the party they grew up supporting. Others feel like they no longer recognize their neighbors. Some wonder if the values they were taught as children, honesty, decency, accountability, compassion, even matter anymore.

This isn’t about wanting America to fail. It’s the opposite.

You don’t grieve something you hate. You grieve something you love.

I still believe this country is worth fighting for. Not because it’s perfect, but because it has always been at its best when ordinary people refused to accept that injustice was inevitable. Every generation has been asked what kind of nation it wanted to leave behind. Now it’s our turn.

Maybe what so many of us are feeling isn’t hopelessness.

Maybe it’s heartbreak.

And heartbreak means there’s still something left worth saving.

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, is drawing attention after comments in which she reportedly raised concerns about women’s safety under policies associated with Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

Her remarks have sparked discussion across political and social media, with differing reactions from supporters and critics.

The comments add to ongoing national debate in the United States about women’s safety, leadership, and policy direction at the federal level.

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The retired CIA analyst, LARRY JOHNSON, revealed that DONALD TRUMP, in a meeting at the WHITE HOUSE, sought access to the nuclear codes to attack IRAN, but General DAN CAINE stood up from his seat and responded NO, since the US was not facing any existential danger. TRUMP became furious and caused a huge scandal… DAN CAINE is a general in the air force and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

Journalism: My Favorite Class in College. To Actually "BE" Woodward & Bernstein for a Semester. I Interviewed June Moxon & Went to an Earth First Tree Sit Eviction.

June is one of the Main People at the Kinetic Sculpture Race. She was Holding a Fundraiser Open House at the Kinetic Sculpture Laboratory and I Published my Interview BEFORE THE EVENT so Maybe Students That Read the Lumberjack Newspaper WERE MOTIVATED to buy a ticket and Go... My Article Might have Helped Finance the Event! and The RACE!


I Learned a Couple of things in that Class.

If You see Something and Say Something that's an "Opinion" Piece. If You Ask Three People What They Saw... That's a "News" Piece.

I Also Learned to Say Everything You Have to Say in ONE SENTENCE. Then, Say Everything You Have to Say in ONE PARAGRAPH. Then, Say Everything You Have to Say in the Rest of the Article...

The Reader May decide that the Subject is NOT INTERESTING after One Sentence... and Move on to the Next Article... OR they May Read One Paragraph... and then Move on... RARELY do they Read More than That...

I took that Class because My Guidance Councillor said That The Lumberjack Newspaper was Going to Create an Online Edition and the Journalism Department Needed some Computer Experts to Help Them...

Dr. Hal Campbell Said: "This will be an excellent REAL WORLD Learning Experience. Someone Wants Something Done On the Computer... and You are Hired to Make it Happen."
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nHj3gL_JN0


One thing I Never Did was to Interview a Hostile Witness... Woodward and Bernstein were Famous for getting people to Talk that did not want to Talk...

I Always Interviewed People that Were GLAD to See Me... Like: "I'm a Reported for the Lumberjack Newspaper and I'm Writing a Story About What You Are Doing Because It's Interesting."

Earth First! Movie: "Who Bombed Judi Beri?" In 1990 the FBI Bombed Activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Beri. The FBI was Fined $400,000 but Did Not ADMIT Guilt... and they Never Paid a Penny...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/08/who-bombed-judi-beri.html

Trump Pardoned Michael Milken... Greed FREAK Mikey did Evil in Northern California... Loaning Charles Hurwitz enough JUNK BOND Money to Buy Pacific Lumber in Humboldt County... and Then Hurwitz Cut Down Thousands of Old Growth Redwoods... Once the Highly profitable trees were cut, Hurwitz stole the Pension Fund, Declared Bankruptcy and went back to Texas... and Kept all the Money...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/02/trump-pardons-michael-milken-he-did.html

Virtual Journey: Trinity Alps, CA, USA - Simulates a Drive on the Bigfoot Highway (299) From Arcata on the Coast to Redding in the Central Valley. White Water Rafting! Gold Rush Ghost Towns!
We Start the Journey in Arcata's Central Plaza... Home to Farmer's Markets, Live Music, Parades and Spontaneous Drum Circles when it's Sunny!
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The Headwaters Forest Coloring Book... Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney. (C) 1999 Environmentally Sound Promotions. CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE THEM BIGGER AND DOWNLOAD, PRINT...
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Photo of what the plants look like FIVE Years after a Redwood Forest CLEARCUT near Eureka, California... MAXXAM SUXX - Earth First! Treesit Eviction Documented...

Taken on Greenwood Heights Road in Freshwater, California... The Pampas Grass THRIVES on all that brand new SUNSHINE... after MAXXAM cut down the Old Growth Redwoods, this hillside became Sunny and Warm.


It is easy to find this Location to see what it's like today... Simply Turn into the Freshwater Valley from Old Arcata Road and Take the First LEFT at the School... Drive up the hill in the Dark Forest... When it gets Sunny All of a Sudden, Park... That's the Location of the Clearcut...

MY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:
Tree Sit Ecology Protest at Freshwater, near Eureka, CA 2003 - Earth First! - Complete Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for the Humboldt State University Lumberjack. and Photographs...

HEADLINE: 8 arrested March 18th in Freshwater tree-sit. Trees chainsawed to death.

Freshwater Clearcut Logging near Eureka, CA

This morning I drove to Beautiful Freshwater (near Eureka, California) to visit the Tree Sitters. There were 10 sheriff's cars and 5 highway patrol cars. I saw 3 people handcuffed and then put in a sheriff's van. One person down the road was handcuffed and in the custody of a different sheriff. This lady was wearing "press" dogtags and was complaining that all she was doing was taking photographs. There were about 40 people standing around, talking on cell phones and playing drums. I could hear the sound of chainsawing. Then a large tree fell over. It makes a tearing sound then a big thump and a wail arose from the people. When four highway patrol cars stopped in the middle of the crowd and turned on their spinning lights, I left.(I was afraid of the police...protect and serve...corporations) As I was walking to my truck I noticed another highway patrolman writing tickets. I asked a citizen what that was all about and he said "don't worry about getting a parking ticket, none of these people will pay them anyway". I am concerned about the highway patrol being there. THERE CLEARLY WERE NO HIGHWAY RELATED PROBLEMS THERE. What's up with parking tickets? We were in the middle of the forest.









...this part written later that night...
We went to a protest to defend redwood trees today. There are 8 people that are camping at the top of redwood trees to prevent loggers from chainsawing the trees. The owners of the forest (Palco/MAXXAM) hired a guy (eric schatz)to climb up the trees and forcibly evict the trespassers. Then the Humboldt county sheriff's arrest the tree-sitters and send them to jail. Yesterday, there were 7 tree sitters and the police arrested 3 people. Then, during the night, 4 people went up. The grand total of people INCREASED. The loggers started chainsawing at the bottom of a tree that had people camping in it. This action enraged the crowd. We feel that if a logger cuts down a tree with a person in it that it is dangerous to that person. The loggers cut away a 2 foot circle of bark all the way around the tree. Someone said that was called "girthing" and the purpose was to kill the tree. My wife decided that some medicine was needed for the tree, so we went to the hardware store and bought a bucket of "tree wound" compound. It is used to seal the bare wood after pruning. We drove back to the ecology protest and she (with help from others) spread the healing compound on the bare wood. I got to spend a lot of time talking to a knowledgeable fellow named "Atilla". He said that the MAXXAM corporation has to cut down redwood trees in order to pay the interest on a giant "junk bond" debt. MAXXAM, a texas corporation, purchased the Pacific Lumber Company about 10 years ago in a hostile takeover financed by "junk bonds" that they got from Mike Milken. (remember, Ivan Boesky and Mike went to jail for wall street fraud) I saw on the News tonight that our governor, Gray Davis, has ordered the highway patrol to work 12 hour shifts to help defend the state of California from "terrorist" attacks. GEE, WHY WERE ALL THOSE CHPs OUT IN THE FOREST TODAY ? WHAT TERRORIST ATTACKS WERE THEY DEFENDING US FROM ? Atilla also told me why there were large trucks that look like they carry sand. They are used to haul gravel to build logging roads. After I left the protest in the morning, I drove way back into the woods and noticed large orange trucks with PALCO on the doors. The reason Palco hired a subcontractor (eric schatz)to do "tree service" is to protect themselves from lawsuits in case anyone gets hurt.
How to get there: From highway 101 traveling North, Take the Myrtle ave exit in Eureka and drive to Freshwater road. Take a right and then an IMMEDIATE left onto Greenwood Heights road. Drive 2 miles. When you see all the sheriff cars, you are there. From Arcata, travel south on 101 to Indianola cutoff. Take a left and drive to Myrtle ave. Take a right on Myrtle. Left on Freshwater road.


Pile of Wasted Trees


Logging Road near Eureka, CA


View of Humboldt Bay from Greenwood Heights Road, Freshwater, CA




Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey Illustrated by Robert Crumb



This Book Inspired the Ecology Organization Earth First!
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Silly Story!

A Trump supporter was seated next to an older woman on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The old woman, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger,

“What would you want to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” said the man. “How about how they stole the election in 2020 and Donald Trump should be president.”

“Okay,” she said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”

The man, visibly surprised by the old woman’s intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

To which the old woman replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss politics, when you don’t know shit?”

Radio Shack Memories Club: Former Employees and Customers Talk About the Good Old Days... and Vote on the Best Product Ever! The Winner? The 150 in One Electronic Project Kit.

A gem from my childhood. 

I built an oscillator that modulated another oscillator that modulated a third oscillator and took the output and plugged it into the Control Voltage Input of my KORG POLY 6 Analog Synthesizer... Turned up the Resonance and I made Crazy "Forbidden Planet" Sounds... You Know... the "Spaceship Taking Off" Sound Effect

PZM Microphone: I bought two... Very High fidelity! especially good for high frequency sounds...

David Said: Those were the best microphones for the money. They ate batteries like crazy...but they had an almost flat frequency response across an impressive dynamic range. The only issue is that they were quite clunky to use, and fragile.

The Sensation Computer was the First one with a CD ROM Drive... a very good Idea because, now all computers have one...

Except for Chromebooks... they have No Drives at all! Everything is stored in the Cloud...

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I remember meeting Some Genius Customers when I worked at Radio Shack in San Jose in the 1990s. One Man built a Thermometer that Called the Owner of a Supermarket on a Cell Phone whenever the Refrigerators Failed... That Invention Could save the Owner thousands of dollars worth of frozen food... He Sold Many Copies of that invention because it was for a Chain of Grocery Stores...

Another Man Repaired Antennas for Commercial Radio Stations... until he got an electric shock and was thrown off the ladder... injured his back... and We had some smart employees too... Retired Lockheed Men who just wanted to work part time... a USMC Engineer... 

One man wrote reviews for Computer Magazines... He bought a Sensation Computer, kept it for One week and Returned it after he was done writing a review... That was the Policy! anyway... He often asked me to go with him to FRY'S Electronics on "one per customer" disk drive sales... He Bought One and I Bought One... and then he installed them in "Home Made" Computer Systems... He Bought a Box, Motherboard, power supply and disk drive and Put 'em all together to make a "State of the Art" System... a Good business in San Jose in the 1990s... We also went to a meeting of the Home Brew Club at Valco Fashion Park... That's the Club started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniac... 

Our store was Legendary for having engineering talent working behind the counter... we could design what you needed and draw you a wiring diagram... especially for the A/B Cable TV Hookup needed in San Jose... It was one of the First Cable TV systems in the Country and Half of the Channels were on One Wire (A) and the Other Half of the Channels were on the Other Wire (B)... Well, the Customer clearly needed a remote controlled A/B Switch! ($40.00 plus replacement batteries)

and there were the Many Technicians that did part time work installing a TV Antenna on the Roof of a Customer's House... or a guy that would make a "Pirate Box" for stealing Cable TV... Of Course, We never did anything Illegal but what happened outside the store a NOT our Problem...

I Hated asking Customers for their Name and Address...up until that point in time we were friends and I was helping them solve their problems but then... MASSIVE ANGER EXPLOSION!!! Many people understood that we used that data to mail advertisements and catalogs... and many people simply did not want the junk mail... plus, it's an obvious safety threat if you tell random people where your pretty wife lives... What if a clerk came over to visit?

Winner of the BEST PRODUCT EVER Contest. 

Minimus 7 Speaker. Metal Box...

My Opinion: The Best Product Ever was the Giant Outdoor TV Antenna... VU-190 --- We Got San Francisco and Sacramento Stations in Los Gatos (South of San Jose) by using the Rotator...

Weather Radio

Gary Said: Staring at this right now, a pair of Minimus 7s and an Optimus sub, powered by a Marantz, sounds great

Bill Said: I had one in college -- got me through statistics. Professor allowed me to use it because I had written the programs myself and used them to check my work.

I Replied: Mine had a Horse Race Handicapping Program to Help you Bet on the Ponies... A practical use for a totally portable Machine!

Warren said: Just spotted this in the Manchurian Candidate movie from 2004. Pretty sure I heard Meryl Streep say Optimus too, although it could have been optimist, but, that’s probably not realistic. Ok I’m done.

I Said: I sold a closed circuit camera to a guy that used it to find  out who was at the front door... change the TV to Channel 3... With certain people he ran out the back door and jumped the fence... then came back a couple of hours later... A better Plan for Life would be to not make so many enemies...

According to Gordon Liddy's Book WILL, a similar Radio was used in the Watergate Burglary... and he a unhappy... He Should have bought a 49 MHz Radio... They Work better in a building... CB is Best Outdoors


A 1988 Radio Shack Comic Book
Gary Said: It’s been great reading all of these posts. I had the pleasure of working in an owner operator store in 1978-80. I enjoyed the audio gear and the various communication devices. I loved that parts wall as I was always into building something. I have already come to the conclusion that the reincarnated Radio Shack will in no way resemble the store we knew in the past. Which is too bad they had a very unique type of customer that they chose to abandon. I truly hope we will see some Realistic branded communication gear, HiFi and a great parts wall.

Roger Said: On one of my first days on the job I was requested to turn on the Model Three computer. I was alone in the store had not been trained on computers at all. I don't know how I did it but I managed to erase the hard drive.



Radio Shack Speaker - in a Tennessee Church

We need to invent a better battery... The common 1.5 volt AA, AAA, C, D and 9V batteries cannot be Recharged... And the rechargeable batteries of the same size only put out 1.25 volts and so they go dead really quick... Some important research needs to be done here... And We knew about this problem in the 1990s but for some reason nothing has been done in the last 30 years...

I ought to contact the Schatz energy research laboratory at Humboldt State University and ask them to get busy!

schatzenergy@humboldt.edu

I wonder who else we should contact to motivate research... Environmental Protection Agency? Department of Energy? Stanford? My Representative in the US House of Representatives? 

Pete Said: My first scanner...now about 50 years old. Used it to monitor Atlanta Fire dispatch and fireground, Georgia Tech Police, and a Georgia State Patrol channel. Miss the flashing red lights on today's scanners!


Test Meters - Radio Shack


Matt's Mom Working on the Radio Shack Computer

Matt Said:
I absolutely love this group and wanted to share this: Here's my mom, probably in 1981 or 82, being very much ahead of the times. She made use of a computer in small business long before they were everywhere. Our family had a small ice cream store in the local mall (Bresler's Ice Cream, Greenwood Mall, Bowling Green, KY 1979-1986), and my mom used it for general ledger and payroll needs. We used to have a programmer come over to our house to make updates to the software. I'm still friends with him on facebook all these years later. I also still have this computer (TRS-80 Model III bought from the same mall's Radio Shack) along with the cassette player, cables, and a copy of Raaku-Tu on tape. Enjoy!

We sold the SENSATION Computer... The Only one on the market With a CD ROM Drive... Pretty good idea - as almost all computers have that now...



Sound Meter

Love looking at all the Radio Shack stuff in this group! Brings back many memories. But I am surprised I have not seen the venerable Radio Shack sound dB meter. These things were great. The analog needle meter movement is much better than any digital display, in my limited experience.

These were essential for the Chaperone at Teen Club Dances... "You Kids TURN DOWN Those Electric Guitars!"

We sold a LOT of security system Gear... but many people just bought the STICKER in the hope it would scare off burglers...

a Very Useful Tool... Digital Multimeter

for people that wanted to play video games on the TV...

Metal Detector Toy:

Oliver Said: I had one of these when I was in first grade, I saw the opportunity to buy one again. I found plenty of coins at the school playground... 

We also sold Professional Grade Models

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Ham Radio... Selling Equipment at Radio Shack in the 1990s - I Met a Lot of Interesting and Obsessive People who were Amateurs.

It was Really Fun to Be Introduced to The Ham Radio Culture... a World I Had No Contact With...

Dot Dot Dot DASH DASH DASH Dot Dot Dot (SOS - Save Our Ship)

One Man Had a "Mobile Command Center" Built into an Old School Bus. His Plan was that When All Communication Failed During an Earthquake, He and His Ham Radio Friends Could Help Firemen, Policemen and the National Guard... A Pretty Likely Occurrence in San Jose, CA... There Have Been Major Earthquakes in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Gatos... or... Maybe this Old Hippie Just wanted a Valid Excuse for Living in a BUS... With a Sure Fire Way to Avoid Police Harassment was to BE Part of the Law Enforcement TEAM...

We DID Sell Amateur Radios that Require a Licence from the FCC to Operate. We DID NOT Check to see if the Customer HAD a License... or Planned to Have a License... However we Did Inform Every Customer of the NEED for Them to GET a License to Operate the Radio Legally... But anything that Happens OUTSIDE The Store Was NOT Our Responsibility...

Many Ham Radio Operators Who DO Have a License Say That They HUNT DOWN ILLEGAL OPERATORS as a Fun Hobby... Using Triangulation to Locate the Bogus Radio Operator... and Reporting Then to "Friendly Cousin Charlie." Maybe this is a False Story but... Who Knows!

I do know that Getting a License is Difficult. They require that you understand Electrical Engineering and The Basic Physics of How RADIO WORKS... and They also Test Your Speed and Accuracy in Morse Code... I knew a Ham Radio Operator who said the Morse Code Training Helped Him with his Piano Playing... a Deep Understanding of Rhythm...

A Bigger Problem was Citizens Band Radios with an Illegal Linear Amplifier. CB Radios May Operate without any License BUT there is a Maximum Power Output for legal Radios... Well, People DO Sell Illegal BOOSTERS that allow a CB Radio to Work over VAST Distances... One Customer said he could talk to Guatemala on his CB... It Saved him a LOT of Money on his Telephone Bill... BUT... That much Power Interferes With... TV Reception, AM and FM Radio Reception, Police Band Reception and Fire Truck Communications... THAT'S WHY There is a Limit to the Power Output... FCC Laws... So Everyone Can Play Nice and Share the Airwaves... Those FCC Laws are also the Reason That WOLFMAN JACK Had His Radio Station in Mexico... No Laws to Limit His Broadcast Range.

One Blessing of Working at Radio Shack was the Requirement That I Learn Electronics Theory... and How things Work. The Corporation Found out that More Products GET SOLD and STAY SOLD if the Clerks Understand Electronics. Selling Someone the Wrong Part Does NOT Make a Profit... It only wastes the Customer's Time and Patience... SO... We Were Required to Study and Pass Tests in 14 Different Subjects... I Learned the Physics of Antenna Design... How A VCR Works... How a TV Works... Etc Etc Etc... FREE COLLEGE ON THE TIMECLOCK...

Amateur Radio Operators Collect Cards from Each Other Proving that they were able to Contact People Far Away. When they are Chatting, they ask for a Name and Street Address and then Mail a Postcard with the Other Person's Call Sign on it. Then they POST those Cards on the Wall of Their SHACK...
My Friend Had a card from a Man named Fletcher on Pitcarin Island... a Descendant of the Mutiny on the Bounty... I guess if You Live on an Island in the Middle of the Ocean a Radio would be handy for Contacting People On Different Islands or The Mainland...

Two Way Radios Either TALK or LISTEN. But Not Both at The Same Time, Like a Telephone. That's Why People say "Over" when they have finished Talking... and they release the BUTTON... People say "10-4" to tell the other person they Heard What their Friend Had to Say and Understood the Words...

We sold a Lot of Personal Communicators that had a Short Range but 49 MHz FM Quality... They Were Small and Trendy... People Bought them for Communication While Skiing... or Going to The Mall... or Organizing a Stage Show... You Could Wear the Microphone and Speaker on Your Head, and have the Radio Clipped to Your Belt... a Really Trendy High Tech LOOK...

I remember the Watergate Burglars Used Radio Shack CB Radios to Orchestrate Their Crime... Those Radios DO NOT WORK WELL INSIDE BUILDINGS... In G Gordon Liddy's Book "Will" he complained about the Quality of the Radios... HOWEVER... He Simply Did Not Buy The Right Product... a 49 MHz FM Radio would Have been Wonderful For Their Job... BUT... I Bet Liddy Did Not Explain His Intended USE to The Clerk... Being all HUSH HUSH and Clandestine... Dumbf*ck! His EGO caused His Failure...

Of Course, all this is Ancient History because Cellphones are What People Use Now...