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It's Odd That Having Holes in your Pants Became Fashionable Right When Everybody Became Poor. Yeah... ODD...

I see that RENT is Going UP Nationwide... and Prices on Everything Else is Going Up Too... WHY? and More Importantly... What Can We DO to Reverse This Trend? 

The CURE for Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome. meme by gvan42
Let's Stop Collecting California Gas Tax for SIX Months. The State has a Surplus! More money is being collected in Taxes Than is Being Spent. Write to Your Elected Representatives. https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
and Governor Newsom:

I Wonder IF Kidnapping Executives and Holding them Hostage in Secret Prisons Until their Corporations Reduced Prices Would Work? 

In a Practical Review of That Plan... It's Damn Likely to End With Your Arrest and Years of Incarceration... If You Used a Cell Phone to Call in the Ransom Demands the FBI Would be able to Trace WHERE You are Calling From and then They Would Send in the Clowns to Visit You. 

A Secure Method of Communication With the Corporate Head Office Would be Needed... 

Maybe Using The Internet... I Do Not Know Enough about This Subject to make a Valid Suggestion... and... I'm Not Going to Learn... 

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and then MD Said on FaceBorg: 
It’s easy the government flooded the economy with money. Inflation is a government generated phenomenon. One way to pay off the national debt is by devaluing the currency through inflation. It’s a tax on you and me and the government gets away with it because few people understand it. The only way to counter inflation is by investing in risk assets (ie: Real Estate and stocks) but that doesn’t always work. It’s the old axiom too much money chasing too few goods. If you looked at the money supply and the velocity of money you would see the exponential growth. The reason we had little inflation in 2008 was because the money didn’t enter the economy - the banks didn’t loan it out not so this time

and JB Said: 
they say every thing is going to go up - but we get our gas from other countrys - Not the USSR - our food ( corn & weat is grown here, - This is a ploy from our government, california could drop there prices just by dropping that Tax ( $ !.00 ) increase and on top of that the government could also drop it even lower by dropping their tax on it also. We don't know why this war is going on and will never tell the exact reason why ( government never tells us the truth) No war never solves anything - but who am I nothing In there eyes.

SC Repied: 
war seems to only benefit the very wealthy. Every time we have a depression or ressession there seems to be a war. What a rotten way to solve problems. California has become a nightmare place for poor people. We are discussing relocating to Nevada. We are thinking the Reno area. Reno is supposed to be very friendly to the LGBTQ+ community.

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and then NDW Said of FaceBorg: 
Your light is seen. Your heart is known. Your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would
be astonished. If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked.
You are far more wonderful than you think you are. Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again.You are doing fine. Better than fine. You’re doing great. So relax. And love yourself today.
- Neale Donald Walsch

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Gordy Wrote: 
In Search of Balance ~
~ I wrote this exactly one year ago. My feelings exactly ~
. I am finding the people on FB are separated and ranting at each other, spiking, jabbing, screaming-angry over political issues. I know how easy and funny it is to simply ‘share’ a post, but here I would like to address a few things in my own words.
. What stuns me about the current state of the American state is a number of policies that have been put forth;
. #1) The idea of abolishing the EPA. How can that even be considered? In these times of polluted rivers, oil spills, dwindling fish populations, smog cities, bizarre weather patterns, with a bloom of radioactive water just off the west coast, this is NOT the time to shut down our senses. This angers me to no end.
. When these jackals have passed from the government, I fear the damage they have done in only a few short years will continue to be devastating to our land and culture. Log our national parks? I liken these actions as the same of raping an 11-year-old girl. She is changed for the rest of her existence.
. #2) I detest the inclusion in our government of incompetent inexperienced appointees, with a pre-existing personal agenda, whether religious, or hateful. Buying your way in, or being a best buddy is not an appropriate resume’.
. #3) I oppose and reject the current arrogance, as like the immature posturing of an 8th grade boy. I see the evident bad attitudes of not working together in compromise, to accomplish a better world for our grandchildren.
. #4) I further deplore the low level of empathetic care, the promulgation of hate in this land and the world. As a representative of our country, that attitude is disgusting.
. From evidence I see that Republicans continually vote Yes for these negative things. In what way are they serving the people of this land? How do they justify their actions? Do they not see that they are damaging the very Republic they cherish?
. How can they even consider deactivating a plan to keep people healthy? In what way is this beneficial?
. Making fun of these people is very easy… calling each other names...that is a cheap shot. That is not the issue. I honestly don’t expect things to drastically change, as evidence indicates the majority of humanity is rather dull. But for those of us who are aware, those on the cusp of change, it sure would be nice if we could all get in the kitchen and get something done.
. I vote we not wallow in the past, but work together to get out of this existential mud hole. Thought into action.
. Thank you for your time ~ Gordy

And so... Here's my little story about Pete Seeger.
By way of introduction, I confess that the Seeger family looms large in my collection of momentous moments.
I've had the incomparable joy of sitting with Mike and Peggy, swapping songs and laying out a sweet third harmony. A sparkling happy time. I also met Pete a number of times and can say without reservation that the man changed my life immeasurably.
I was just starting out as banjo boy of 12 when my parents loaded me up in the station wagon and we drove over to Berkeley for this concert in a big building. It was something about banjos.
Well, I had never been in such a gathering before...it was like seeing the mother ocean for the first time.
Here was this thin unpretentious man that walked out on a bare stage, dropped his coat on the floor, and stood there in a plaid shirt talking and singing. Somehow I was impressed that he didn't have an instrument stand or a table, he'd just lay his banjo on the floor when he'd switch to guitar. My body pulsed large and small as the whole room sang. I didn't know what I was doing or what was happening, but we were all singing in intricate harmonies , dynamics, and counterpoint. It was SO beautiful, my heart almost burst. I looked around enveloped in the color of joy...
He was just the friendliest fellow I had ever met. My folks encouraged me to speak with the promoters on the way out, and they gave me his address! So I scrawled him a little letter of "Thanks, and I really liked that one song you did." Pete wrote me back! and included the words of the song.
I can't articulate how powerful that was for me. I want to be a nice-guy banjo-guy when I grow up.
"As the twig is bent, so grows the tree."
The last thing he said to me years later was; "Gordy, keep on keepin' on."
I have.

Open Door ~
. Well, that wasn't difficult. I found out how to delete contact with some of those annoying FB people. I actually feel lighter.
. I anguished over it...as I want to be open with all. Who am I to judge?.. yet here they are EVERY SINGLE DAY saying something negative and argumentative. Pouring hate and bile into my life.
. Then at once I recalled years ago when I had literally no lock on my door. Yes all were welcome, I fed a lot of folks. ...and some came back to steal my tools, my generator, my bike, and my clothes. (My clothes, fer gawd sake!) So there are some I need not feed.
. Slow learner, eh?

I am of the age, the times when Ram Dass spoke directly to me. I was starry-eyed from Colusa and met him in L.A. when in college. This is to the point.

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
~ Ram Dass

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Bubble UP! Economics: 

LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. All Boats Float in a Rising Tide!

Even if Billionaires Pay Taxes, They'll Still be Billionaires! With Increased Sales Due to the BUBBLING Economy, Profits Will Increase... Making Stockholders Happy... EVERYONE WINS! Including Jeff Bezos Because We'll be Buying Stuff at Amazon!

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Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. All Those people will spend the extra money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! 

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...

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"They" Now Declare That Hiroshima and Nagasaki Were a Bad Idea... What "They" Fail to Realize is That... Truman Bombed Japan To Prove to Stalin that The USA Really Had Atom Bombs and We Were Willing to Use Them...

"They" Also Say The Japanese Internment Camps of World War Two Were Wrong... However...

Those Internment Camps WORKED. No Japanese/Americans Committed Sabotage  While they were Locked UP. The Japanese Were Actively Trying to Defeat the USA in a War That Included such forgotten events as the Fire Balloons... These were Hydrogen Balloons Launched from Japan that Flew all the Way to the USA, Landed and Exploded. The Goal was to Set The Forests of Washington State, Oregon and Idaho on FIRE... Killing Millions... Thankfully, They were Launched IN THE WINTER when the Forests were WET with Snow... and While The Balloons DID Reach the USA and they DID Explode, They FAILED to Kill Millions of Americans... What IF We Had Thousands of Japanese/Americans FREELY Walking Around During World War Two... Who is to Say that One of Them Wouldn't have Set the Forests on Fire IN THE SUMMER? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

In Fact, Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Emperor of Japan HAD A BAD ATTITUDE! He Was All in favor of Invading other Countries and Stealing their Wealth... AFTER He Was NUKED, His ATTITUDE CHANGED! All of a Sudden, Japan Became interested in Creating Great Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, Stereos and Electronic Equipment... Ever hear of Sony, Yamaha, Roland, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi?
Without That "Bright Light Going Off in Their Minds." It's Possible That Here in California, We Would Be Speaking Japanese! 

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

Who Exactly are "They"??? Well, I often Hear this Opinion on PBS TV Shows... and the Senator Dianne Feinstein has Spoken out about how Horrible it was to Drop Atom Bombs on Japan... REALLY! As a matter of Fact, We Blew Up Over 100 Atom Bombs in NEVADA! and the Fallout Floated on the wind over UTAH and The Entire USA East of the Nevada Test Site... Brilliant! NUKING OURSELVES... 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site

"They" Also Complain About the Chinese Exclusion Act... WELL, That Prevented a Million Chinese from Coming Here... FANTASTIC! 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

After the Nuclear Meltdown in Fukushima, Ecology Researchers were concerned that Radioactive Pollution would Float over the Pacific Ocean and Cause Poisonous FISH in the USA. making them so Toxic that we could not Eat them... In Fact, The Oceanographers Did Find Small Amounts of Cesium from Fukushima in the Ocean off the Coast of Washington State, Oregon and California... However they Found Massive Amounts of Cesium Left Over From the Bikini Hydrogen Bomb Tests in The Pacific... Some of those Chemicals Have a Half Life of Thousands of Years... and The Tests Conducted in the 1960s are STILL HOT... and We Have Been Eating Radioactive Fish for Decades... 

Did You Ever Notice that The First Two Syllables of Fukushima are a Swear Word in English... F*CK YOU Shima!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster


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HA HA! 
FOUR BILLION DOLLARS SPENT BUT NO NUKES!

History:
A total of four nuclear reactors (two originally; and two of new designs), have been proposed for the site over a 40-year period, with over $4 billion having been spent (constructing the preliminary plant infrastructure and ordering/delivering/installing major equipment items).[3] But no nuclear reactor nor electric generating plant was ever completed; two cores of nuclear fuel were originally delivered however these were returned on plant deferral. Meaningful construction progress at the site was halted in 1988. Starting after its termination in 2005, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) implemented an investment recovery effort to recoup some of the costs associated with Bellefonte. As part of the investment recovery effort, all or parts of some major plant components, including steam generators, feedwater heaters, large pumps and motors, demineralized water and condensate storage tanks, main condenser tubes, and some piping and valves were removed and sold. Additionally, some usable components were transferred from Bellefonte to other TVA facilities as spares.[3]

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Just like we all learned by Reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig... The Trick to Life is to PAY ATTENTION... NOTICE REALITY...

So, Every Day I Test my Blood Sugar and BY PAYING ATTENTION and Keeping a Sugar Free Diet... I Have Prevented Diabetes... I find that Quitting Smoking Tobacco AND Cannabis... Has Given me Better Lungs and a Clearer Mind. Weed is Useful for APPRECIATING Music, Art, Food... but  I Get More DONE Without Weed... More Music Videos, More ART, More Fiction Stories... Hey, Just because They Legalized Weed does not mean that I Have to Actually Smoke it... UNLESS I'M GOING TO A ROCK CONCERT... or some other Event that I Am Observing others Creating... I find that Playing the Piano Stoned is EPIC to me... but the Actual Videos that i Recorded Stoned are Not That Great... I have difficulty selecting which notes to play and When... Even on songs I wrote... It's Like My Brain is having trouble with the LOOKUP NEXT NOTE Function... Everybody Says You Really SWING when playing Stoned but that doesn't happen to me... 

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469

How I Quit Smoking Tobacco: When my Brother Got Lung Cancer I Became frightened. Cancer Runs in Families and If HE Got It, I'm Likely to Get it Too. SO... I used Fear to Quit. I experienced Pain for about a Month from the Withdrawal Symptoms... I did not use any Medicine... Frankly speaking, That New Medicine has MANY, MANY, MANY side effects... and Nicotine Gum and The Patch Causes Madness in Me... Paranoia... It Shortenes my Anger Fuse... As if I was "Channeling My Inner Chewbacca."  SO... I Just Experienced the Pain and USED That Memory to Prevent a Relapse... I still WISH I Could Smoke But... Then I Remember HOW MUCH Pain Drug Addiction Causes... 


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*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

*The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals...

*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

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AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







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