Music Video: "The Lock Him UP! and Throw Away The Key Blues." tRUMP's a Danger to Self and Others. Police Code 5150! --- and a Link to All My Original Music Videos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1v90vwlSo 

Everybody Sing Along!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1v90vwlSo

And Here's a Link to All My Music Videos... Singing and Playing Guitar... Original Protest Songs. Chords and Lyrics Provided so You Can Learn 'em and Make a Hit Record!

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos

I'm Working on "Put the Baby Put-Put in Prison" all about Vladimir Putin... It Looks Like the Pussy Riot was Right... Vladimir IS a Queer... Not a Homosexual, but he has Queer Thoughts in his Defective Brain... Like: "Let's Move the Lines on the Map from Side to Side." 

Currents of the Sound: https://youtu.be/FFBQMhBJihk

Ted Cruz Abandoned Texas: https://youtu.be/RHHFnBrd2CQ

Kama La La La - La La - La La: https://youtu.be/6DAv1xTCGT4

Jingle Bells: https://youtu.be/cJQBQ4_oE1U

Rudolph The Red Knows Rain Dear: https://youtu.be/cKCNaM7zqyI

We are Coming Into Alignment: https://youtu.be/s7FQGtr-GOE

Everybody's Laughing at Trump: https://youtu.be/fz4Q3CYYHaA

Did You Ever Notice Reality? https://youtu.be/nPthFNI07Qo

The Lock Him Up And Throw Away the Key Blues: https://youtu.be/lS1v90vwlSo

Vote For Joe. He's Not Insane: https://youtu.be/qcUJm5N8Cjw

City of the Future: https://youtu.be/x8nqMq05V8U

I Like Trees, Big Old Trees: https://youtu.be/K40_CrkjLjs

I'm Feeling Optimistic: https://youtu.be/XGomyskdw0k

Trump's Giving Away Free Money: https://youtu.be/qCzDiuNQvG4

Say Their Name and they Live Forever. My Ancestors. https://youtu.be/YzbljIKw1_4

Happy Tune: No words, Just a Positive Emotion. Chords: G, D and C: https://youtu.be/tEQliEZRXKI

What is Bubble Up Economics? Speech: https://youtu.be/3kSBGRM3d2s

California Is Burning: https://youtu.be/HwRgS4i-9qg

Free All The Cannabis Prisoners: https://youtu.be/7Z7C0t31hww

Chernobyl, F*ck You! Shima and Three Mile Island: https://youtu.be/vDInJ3gdwsY

tRUMP'S A Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: https://youtu.be/GclJBZgxhhU

Support the Troops. Bring 'em Home: https://youtu.be/V7_jZfFElH4

MELT the GUNS: https://youtu.be/ml5ziDRoqcc

Teenage Alien Dance Party: https://youtu.be/YaXgAAl3bAE

Television is a mirror (with a feedback loop): https://youtu.be/--HfGCqCxT8

GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE (Genre:Bubble Gum Techno-Pop): https://youtu.be/9sP7wGwfGdw

Mescalita: https://youtu.be/yxOCAbaaVmg

Wilson Bridge: https://youtu.be/cDAE0H0tGhg

Big Medicine Song: https://youtu.be/u7uD_aWmymg

eARThsong: https://youtu.be/tERVWVZUNyw

I'm a Vidiot: https://youtu.be/GY8CmLL5vwU

Simple Treasures: https://youtu.be/CLWIRyF0YnQ

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Shark:https://youtu.be/EMV6_iVsC90

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Wild West Wagon: https://youtu.be/1QWIh98dYs0

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Star Ship Enterprise: https://youtu.be/IquyAQNupWI

Kinetic Sculpture Race 2014 Pirate Ship: https://youtu.be/wP6pCgEw_P8

St Francis song: https://youtu.be/0FUueoT9ym8

Shasta The Cat Running: https://youtu.be/pQUHWAVDTv0

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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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Every Year there are Fewer and Fewer Nuclear Power Plants Worldwide. There has Been a Global Rejection of Atomic Energy...The People That ACTUALLY Sign Contracts to Build New Power Plants all say NO NUKES!

Solar, Wind and Hydro are Cheaper, Faster to Build and Safer... The Only Good Thing about Nuclear Power is It PROVIDES PEOPLE WITH JOBS MAKING YOUTUBE VIDEOS PROMOTING NUCLEAR POWER... No Actual Work in Engineering New Plants... Plenty of Work Cleaning Up Old Plants When They Close...  Look at the Disaster at Vogtle. Over Budget, Late... 

I Saw a Video on Youtube That Asked the Question: Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? Answer: No. 

The Engineers at PG&E, SoCal Edison and SMUD have Completely Abandoned Nuclear Power. WHY ARE THE EXPERTS REJECTING THIS FAILED TECHNOLOGY? Because it Costs $9.2 Billion Dollars to Clean up Diablo Canyon and San Onofre... Solar, Wind and Hydro are VASTLY CHEAPER and SAFER... The REAL People That sign REAL Construction Contracts for Power Plants all say NO NUKES! What About all that Solid Waste that Has to Be Stored Safely for 10,000 Years? HUH? Got a CLUE about What we should do with that? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhAemz1v7dQ

Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl. Please Pass this Idea on to Your Elected officials... Massive Federal Funding Needed.

Link to Your US Senators: 

https://www.senate.gov/senators/How_to_correspond_senators.htm

Link to Your US House Representative:

https://www.house.gov/representatives

Diagram of How to Build a Solar Powered Desalinization Factory

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/lets-build-solar-powered-desalinization.html

NO NUKES! Biden's Infrastructure Plan Includes Taxpayer Funding for Nuclear Power Plants. THAT'S CRAZY!

I Wrote to President Biden, Both My Senators and My Congressman and Said:

"No Nukes! President Biden Admits That There Will Be Funding for Nuclear Power Plants included in the Infrastructure Bill. That's Insane. The Rest of the Bill Sounds Great but... Spending  Taxpayer Money on a Technology that has been Proven to be a Failure is Not Wise. The Engineers at PG&E, SMUD and SoCal Edison Have Completely Given Up on Nuclear Power.  However... It's Costing the Customers $9.2 Billion Dollars to Clean up Diablo Canyon and San Onofre....  Please Remove all Funding for Nuclear Power From this Bill." 

Atomic Waste Casks at PGE Abandoned
Nuclear Power Plant Near Eureka, California

White House Wants Nuclear in Clean Energy Mandate, McCarthy Says... Nuclear energy should be one of the power sources eligible for a national clean energy mandate sought by the White House as part of its infrastructure plan, presidential climate adviser Gina McCarthy told reporters.

McCarthy’s remarks on Thursday came amid concern about the carbon-free fuel source from progressives and some environmentalists who have qualms about radioactive waste and uranium mining for reactor fuel.

Inclusion of nuclear in the so-called Clean Energy Standard, which requires the generation of clean power, could be a boon for companies including NuScale Power LLC, TerraPower LLC, Westinghouse Electric Co., General Electric Co., and Exelon Corp.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-01/white-house-wants-nuclear-in-clean-energy-mandate-mccarthy-says

  Source: https://joebiden.com/clean-energy/

Innovation: Drive dramatic cost reductions in critical clean energy technologies, including battery storage, negative emissions technologies, the next generation of building materials, renewable hydrogen, and advanced nuclear – and rapidly commercialize them, ensuring that those new technologies are made in America.

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-investments-included-in-Bidens-American-Jo

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#ArrestTrump - JOIN THE MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA. DEMANDING THE ARREST OF DONALD TRUMP #LockHimUP - EMAIL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES NOW!

Here we are on 5/5/2021 and Trump STILL Has Not Been Arrested... Many Investigations but NO HANDCUFFS!

and... The Congress FAILED To Pass a Bill Forbidding Him from Running for Office Ever Again... WHY? 

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

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This Original Post was Written Long Ago...

1/13/2021 Before Trump Was Evicted... 

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#ImpeachTrump #25thAmendmentNow GTFO! BEFORE HE DOES SOMETHING EVEN CRAZIER 

In the Last 7 Days before Trump is NO LONGER President... Let's Put some Effort Into Getting Him OUT of the White House! Twitter, Facebook and Youtube Have ALREADY Banished Him... NOW... Everyone, Everywhere Must Reject Trump and His Evil Minions TOO! Don't Let Him Pardon Himself or His Criminal Family. 

Please Campaign Online in Favor of Legalization of Medicinal Psychedelics. Write to Your Senators and Representatives. Or at the Very Least, Like and Share this Post. There is Absolutely No Valid Reason for Doctors to Be Prevented from Prescribing Certain Medicines... If You Can think of a Reason The US Government Should Continue to Behave Insane, State it Here... Now... Go Right Ahead...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/legalize-medicinal-psychedelics-let.html

All my Music Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos

Music Video: The Lock Him Up and Throw Away The Key Blues: tRUMP's a Danger to Self and Others... 

Police Code 5150

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1v90vwlSo 

Music Video: "The Everybody's Laughing at Trump, He's a Dumpster Fire Blues"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz4Q3CYYHaA

Music Video: tRUMP'S A Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GclJBZgxhhU

Music Video "Vote for Joe, He's Not Insane!" CAMPAIGN SONG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcUJm5N8Cjw

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MWM Said: 

Impeach the Traitor. TONIGHT. No later than noon tomorrow. Any Representative who fails to object to the incitement of a **coup d'état** should be prosecuted as a co-conspirator.

I saw with my own eyes the god-emperor instructing his followers to march down Pennsylvania Avenue and "teach weak Republicans" to obey their deity's command to overthrow the Constitution.

He promised he would march with the mob the whole way. Then he went home and watched them on TV. Passively watched his worshipers riot, storm the Capitol, destroy public property, and shoot people -- including *killing* an innocent bystander.

He could have stopped it. Instead he repeated his fantasy that 81 million people had conspired to steal his throne from him. And the armed insurrection continued.

JSB Said:

I keep hearing (from both politicians and the media) that "there isn't enough time" to impeach him. Pelosi could have the impeachment vote IMMEDIATELY...and then they could send it on to the Senate tomorrow!

MWM Said:

We have enough time to impeach, but the House is supposedly in recess until 1/21, so Pelosi would have to call them back. There are two or three Republicans in the Senate, but the rest of them are Trumpublicans, so we wouldn't get the 67 votes needed to convict. Nevertheless, I VERY MUCH want Despicable Donnie to go down in history as the only POTUS to be impeached *twice."

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MD Said:

What Changes The Game or The Greater Fool Theory The stock market is always a function of buyers and sellers, each negotiating to make a transaction. While there is a buyer for every seller, but the question is always at “what price?” In the current bull market advance, few people are willing to sell, so buyers must keep bidding up prices to attract a seller to make a transaction. As long as this remains the case, and exuberance exceeds logic, buyers will continue to pay higher prices to get into the positions they want to own. Such is the very definition of the “greater fool” theory. However, at some point, for whatever reason, this dynamic will change. Buyers will become more scarce as they refuse to pay a higher price. When sellers realize the change, there will be a rush to sell to a diminishing pool of buyers. Eventually, sellers begin to “panic sell” as buyers evaporate and prices plunge. Sellers live higher. Buyers live lower. What causes that change? No one knows. But that is how bear markets begin. Slowly at first. Then all of a sudden.

PM Said:

Got a feeling the house of cards that this ridiculous bull run has become is about to collapse. Then again how many YouTube experts keep saying this every week

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Republicans Are Opposed to Everything Except More Tax Cuts For The Rich. Thankfully, They Are Irrelevant! #MoscowMitch Makes Bold Statement! AND NOBODY CARES...

 

GOP=DOA

The NEXT Bill That Republicans Will Fail to Block is Taxpayer Funded Infrastructure Repairs. Currently, The USA Has Crumbling Roads, Water Systems, Electric Power Grids, Nuclear Power Plants, Sewage Systems... Everything Wears Out Eventually and "He Who Shall NOT Be Named" Failed to DO ANYTHING... We Had Four Years of Disaster... NO ACTION... 

Did You Know that 57 People Died in Texas Last Month Because of the Electric Power Failure? 

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/03/republicans-are-opposed-to-everything.html

Music Video: We Are Coming Into Alignment... (Drum Machine Chant) by Gregory Vanderlaan

ALL My Music Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos

Lyrics: We Are Coming Into Alignment... We Are Coming Into Alignment... There is a Global Awakening Happening Now We are Evolving, Learning, Emerging Into a One World Consciousness... All The Animals are Connecting Telepathically... Whale Song, Dolphin Chatter, Monkey Yadda Yadda and the Group Mind Of The Bees... Everyone and Everything is Merging... Becoming One... Everywhere... This is the Moment... To Connect with Our Space Brothers... and Sisters... and The Global Awareness Named Gaia. We Can Sprout... Global Mind Sprout... Intergalactic Wisdom... The Grand Design of Life... Today is the Day! (3X Fade) We Are Coming Into Alignment... Every Day... We Are Coming Into Alignment... Every Day...

ALL My Music Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/gregvanderlaan/videos

Link to My Psychedelic Art Webstore: https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan #TrumpHasFailed and NO Pile of LIES Can Cover Up REALITY... 180,000 Dead Americans from Coronavirus SO FAR! - Massive Unemployment - Endless Business Bankruptcies - Riots in the Streets - Police Murdering Unarmed Black Men - #Vote4Joe End The Madness! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/08/trumphasfailed-and-no-pile-of-lies-can.html

Do You Really Want Another Four Years of FAILURE? #Vote4Joe

Video: "The Everybody's Laughing at Trump, He's a Dumpster Fire Blues"

https://youtu.be/fz4Q3CYYHaA

[E, A, B7]
Everybody's Laughing at tRUMP, He's a Dumpster Fire... 
Everybody's Laughing at tRUMP, He's a Dumpster Fire...
But We're Crying on the Inside 'Cause He is a Freaking Liar!

Patriots Rioted, So He Hid in a Bunker... 
Melanija, Barron and tRUMP went and "Inspected" the Bunker... 
Then the Police Tear Gassed Protesters... 
So He Could Walk Across the Park to Do A Photo OP with a Bible! 
(and that Didn't Work out too good... did it baby TrumpNiks?)

Promises Made, Promises Broken! Promises Made, Promises Broken! 
Promises Made, Promises Broken! Promises Made, Promises Broken! 
GET OUT of the White House, The People Have Spoken!

115,827 Americans Have Died from Coronavirus, SO FAR... 
and More are Coming! With No End In Sight!
It's all a Democratic Hoax... One Day, Like a Miracle, It will disappear... 
Magic Thinking Will Save Us! In Our Fantasy World... 
Jesus will beam us up Just Like Star Trek in the Rapture!

Massive Unemployment, Business Bankruptcies, Economic Disaster!
Massive Unemployment, Bankruptcies, tRUMP's an Economic Disaster!
When The Stock Market Crashed, We Found Out You Can't Eat Slogans...

 But Just to Be Fair... tRUMP HAS DRAINED THE SWAMP! 
Look at all the Lunatics He Has Locked UP!  Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Maria Butina=Guilty, Paul Erickson = Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty --- >Thank You 'resident tRUMP! 

The EPA Says "RoundUP" is Safe...  
The EPA Says "RoundUP" is Safe... 
It's a Part of this Complete Breakfast,
You Gotta Get Your Daily Dose of Glyphosate!

tRUMP Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... 
tRUMP Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... 
No Need for a Background Check to Reveal That You Get Paid Social Security Disability Due To Insanity... 

Let's Repeal and Replace tRUMP's Tax Cut for the Rich... 
Let's Repeal and Replace tRUMP's Tax Cut for the Rich... 
It's Bankrupting America... Will Fred Trump Rush in With Suitcases Filled with Hundred Dollar Bills to Save Us Like He Did in The Atlantic City?

Repeat first verse... 

Video: What IS Bubble Up Economics? a Short Film Explaining Why Raising the Minimum Wage to $15.00 per Hour would Benefit Everyone. Even the Rich...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kSBGRM3d2s 

Bubble Up Economics... Originally Proposed by Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan in the 1890s... He Lost to McKinley who was Shot by an Anarchistic... and Died... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan

What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks 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...

Trump-0-Nomics FAILED the 99% Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE!

Awaken Americans! The Talking Heads on TV Keep on Saying that the Economy is "Booming" - BUT - That's only true for the SUPER RICH... We the People are Hurting BAD!

Trump-0-Nomics FAILED the 99% Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan


Let's Suppose That You Truly Believe that Tea Cups Exist... and Water Exists... and Tea Exists... Well, You are Much More Likely to Get a Cup of Tea than Someone who Refuses to Believe in the Possibility of Tea. and... EVERYTHING IS LIKE THAT... Believe that it's Possible for You to ______________ (fill in the Blank) and you have Started on the Path to Achieving _____________ (fill in the Blank) - Sonya Sophia

Digital Yin Yang Earrings for sale.

Each Ear is Different with the Hexagon Yin Yang Opposite Color Scheme - Multiplying the Black/White Duality using Rainbows...

Digital Yin Yang Earrings
by gregvan

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Former GW Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson

"President Richard Nixon demonstrated that the GOP could win with a message of White grievance. That dubious achievement somehow got lodged in Donald Trump’s brain as a political ideal. But this time it will lead his party toward eventual and deserved failure.

Amid the social turbulence of the late 1960s and early 1970s, many White people were convinced that American identity was being assaulted, diluted or corrupted. Some tried to blame African American rioters, radicals and “agitators.” Some placed the main responsibility on hippies, weak-kneed liberals and pointy-headed intellectuals. Nixon took such resentments and sent them into political battle.

The strategy made political (though not moral) sense. When Nixon announced the existence of a “silent majority” in late 1969 and employed the “Southern strategy” in two presidential elections, he had two things going for him. First, about 88 percent of the U.S. population was White. Second, the social disorders that Nixon decried were widespread. In July 1967 alone, there were riots in Newark (where 26 people died), Plainfield, N.J.; Minneapolis; Detroit (where 43 people were killed); and Milwaukee. After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in early 1968, violence spread to more than 100 cities. In that demographic and social environment, appeals to “law and order” were often disturbingly effective.

It sometimes seems like Trump has just emerged from a time machine — fresh from a delightful strategy lunch with Vice President Spiro Agnew, an instructive discussion on campaign ethics with Attorney General John Mitchell and an editing session with speechwriter Pat Buchanan. Trump stokes fears that minorities will invade the suburbs, that migrants will steal jobs and rape women and that Muslim refugees are “Trojan horse” threats. He attacks journalists as “enemies of the people.” He tries to lump peaceful protesters with violent provocateurs. It is all very much like Nixon — without the intelligence, military service, governing experience or geostrategic insight.

Trump’s advocates cite some factors in their favor. They claim that the dislocation caused by globalization is the dry underbrush for their populist wildfire. And among White evangelicals, Trump has taken full advantage of the fear and resentment fueled by lost social status.

But this is not Nixon’s America. About 72 percent of the American population is now White, and more minority children than White children are being born each year. Even given recent events in Portland, Ore., and Chicago, the level of social disorder does not compare to the late 1960s. A solid majority of Americans supports the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement, rather than fearing (as Fox News’s Tucker Carlson charmingly put it) that it will “come for you.”

It is absurd to talk about White grievance politics as the wave of the political future. Republicans are now determining if the 2016 presidential election was the last time this message worked, or the second-to-last time. The stakes are high between those two possibilities. But the direction of American society toward greater diversity is not in doubt.

This recognition (or its absence) matters greatly to the immediate future of Republican politics at the national level. One faction of thinkers and prospective presidential candidates (such as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton) believes that the Trump wave is the new, permanent level of the ideological tide. They seek to practice Trump’s grievance politics minus the crazy. But they underestimate how discredited this type of politics has become because of Trump’s cruelty and deadly incompetence — and how complete the public repudiation of the GOP is likely to be in November.

The Nixon/Trump practice of White grievance politics is just one Republican ideological option. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ronald Reagan reorganized the GOP message around the principle of economic opportunity, arguing for the moral achievements of democratic capitalism. Reagan disciples such as Jack Kemp turned a message of economic empowerment into an instrument of outreach.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, George W. Bush attempted to reconstitute the Republican message around the theme of community. Since human beings are shaped in the context of social institutions — such as families, neighborhoods and charitable organizations — compassionate conservatives sought ways to strengthen civil society.

These are the three elements of the modern Republican ideological triad: identity, opportunity and community. Contending that the last two are discredited or irrelevant is a ploy by Trump supporters and Trump’s liberal opponents to reduce Republican ideology to identity alone.

The appeal of opportunity is never spent because it is the economic expression of human creativity and institution building. The appeal of civil society is never finally exhausted because it emerges from our need for belonging and love. You might as well declare that the human kidney or liver is outdated.

The Trump occupation of the GOP is an intellectual and moral disaster. But there are paths of intellectual recovery beyond the ruins."

Lyrics to "Oasis" by Greg Vanderlaan [soon to be a Music Video]

[E] Ride across the desert on a thousand horses.
Swords flashing in the Sun so very [NC] proud.
Ride 'till the sun turns your tongue to ashes.
Drink deep of water drawn from 'neath the [NC] ground.

and she [F/E] waits for him patiently...
under the palm tree...
She waits 'though she cannot tell you why... [2X]

[D] Far away from the city
There [C] lives a girl.
She draws water from the [D] sand.

[D] Under a lonesome palm tree
she [C] rests her body
and there she waits for her [D] man.

[D] He rides a camel thru the desert
and [C] dreams of cool water
an Oasis never close at [D] hand.

[D] Oh will he ever find her?
His [C] Arabian princess
and will she lead him to the land?
[D] A land of many sorrows 
of [C] Sun and Death, companion to the [D] band.
The Desert will never Answer
Though [C] tears we cry, so we get by the best we [D] can...

[E] Ride across the desert on a thousand horses.
Swords flashing in the Sun so very [NC] proud.
Ride 'till the sun turns your tongue to ashes.
Drink deep of water drawn from 'neath the [NC] ground.

and she [F/E] waits for him patiently...
under the palm tree...
She waits 'though she cannot tell you why... [2X]

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Let's Suppose That You Truly Believe that Tea Cups Exist... and Water Exists... and Tea Exists... Well, You are Much More Likely to Get a Cup of Tea than Someone who Refuses to Believe in the Possibility of Tea. and... EVERYTHING IS LIKE THAT... Believe that it's Possible for You to ______________ (fill in the Blank) and you have Started on the Path to Achieving _____________ (fill in the Blank) - Sonya Sophia

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When I went to West Valley Junior College I Took a Class in Architectural Scale Model Building. I took Blueprints of a Cabin my Father was having built on North Shore, Lake Tahoe and Built an Accurate Scale Model of it. Dad showed it to his friends and clients... Just to explain what he was having Built... In Retrospect, THAT would have been an EPIC Career... Building Models... Mostly the Professional Career Path was building Models of Oil Refineries... as a way to CHECK if the design was accurate... much cheaper to find errors on a Model than actually build the real thing and find out, OOPS! ---- During the Free time I Had Between Classes I went to the Library and Drew Pictures, Cartoons, Designs ART... while wearing Headphones... My Favorite was 'Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin... Astonishing on Headphones because of a lot of Left-Right Ping Ponging and Phase-Shifter Effects on the Drums... Try it!
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