What do England, France, Germany, Iceland, Canada, Australia, The USA, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ireland and Scotland have in common?

 A GREAT standard of Living. AND... White People... While starvation is common in Non-White countries, it is rare in White countries. We often hear of the great health care systems in Canada, Australia and Sweden but We never hear about the brilliant health care systems in Nigeria, Brazil or India. Ever wonder why? Because everything sucks in non-white countries... White people are great at inventing machines. Computers, cars, going to the moon, solar energy, electricity... non-white countries are famous for The Tango... and The Samba...

There is a great desire of people in non-white countries to move to white countries. Sadly, the migration from Africa and the Middle East into Europe has caused a lot of problems. Riots in Paris, suicide bombers... Muslims driving cars into crowds of pedestrians...

We should learn from the mistakes of Europe. Keep the non-whites out of the USA. Deport illegal aliens... Require Speaking English for all Legal Immigrants. That will keep the stupid ones out.

That said... some Non-Whites have great countries... Japan is doing fine... so is Singapore. 

I believe that the Russians campaigned against Hillary Clinton without any help from the Trump Campaign.

 As a matter of fact, I personally campaigned against Hillary Clinton by creating mocking meme illustrations. Satire. Ridicule. I campaigned for Bernie Sanders. I had no help from the Trump Campaign nor the Russians. We all just formed our own opinions on our own. We all agreed. That's because we all studied the same facts and drew the same conclusions. Hillary was NOT the best candidate. Trump was worse but he won and we are stuck with him until he gets Impeached or defeated in the 2020 election. I believe that Trump did try to obstruct justice. He should get some jail time for that crime. LOCK HIM UP!

The Russians did attack out way of life. They did attack our election system and they are likely to do it again. We should be putting our efforts into preventing Russian meddling into the 2018 and 2020 elections. Stop worrying about the past. You can't change History.

So, What can one person do to  help keep our world safe for democracy?

Learn to recognize and reject Russian Propaganda. Use the Brain in Your Head to make all bogus advertisements useless. Study history. Pay attention to the news... Get your news from many different sources. Be aware that most TV News is infotainment designed to attract viewers to watch the advertisements. CNN, MSNBC, FOX and Local Stations are all in SHOW BUSINESS. They design their shows to appeal to specific segments of the public. FOX is designed to appeal to Trump voters. CNN, MSNBC show ANTI-Trump messages.

There is always some "Breaking News" to be shown right after the commercials... in 90 seconds... they will reveal something that's really important! I have a remote and switch between CNN and MSNBC every time a commercial starts. PBS, Democracy Now!, ACT OUT!, Rising UP with Sonali and the David Packman show do not use advertising to finance their shows. They use fundraisers and pledge drives... AND Foundations. The Bertha Foundation underwrites Democracy Now! Who are they? RT (Russian Times) is obviously expressing Russian viewpoint. Websites like Mother Jones and Earth First! Journal state opinions that you would never see on TV.

Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? Yes, he has taken action that ended the war between North and South Korea.

 It appears that the talks with "little rocket man" will happen right before the elections of 2018. Trump's technique worked. Boosting the Republicans victories in House and Senate Races. Unless the Democrats magically come up with some strategy that makes them look good, we are doomed to have a Republicrime controlled government for years. Last night's White House Correspondents Dinner did not go well. They had a comedian that was not funny. Maybe they would have had a better speech if they had a white male telling the jokes... The woman just seemed mean.

Trump made a campaign speech in Michigan and said many quotable sound bites. He says that the Democrats are in favor of Open Borders and Higher Taxes. The Democrats do not have any obvious answer to that... What are we in favor of? I don't know... Medicare for all?

Trump's anti-immigrant policy makes sense. We simply do not benefit from having non-English speaking people move here. While some people call it racist (and therefore not a good idea), it is popular with the majority of Americans. In Sacramento, CA we have had thousands of Syrians migrate here. What could they possibly do for a living? We already have an excess of below average intellegence workers filling low skill jobs... What we ought to do is end all these CrazyWars. If we did not blow up Syria, we wouldn't be getting Syrian Refugees. They could live in their "shithole" countries and do whatever they do there... No one has really answered Trump's Question. "Why do we allow people from shithole countries to immigrate here?"

If we stopped blowing up countries in the middle east we could save a lot of money wasted on war. We could cut the pentagon's budget in half and use the money for something useful. OR... refund it to the taxpayers.

HIPPA is a law written to protect gays that wanted to remain in the closet.

 When a person's health records are leaked to the press and that person has AIDS, many readers jump to the conclusion that the infected person is GAY. The tragic side effect of the HIPPA law is that it prevents sharing of data between doctors offices. In 1976 I worked for a computer company that was going to revolutionise medical record keeping and distribution by using computers to store health records. That dream failed to happen because of this LAW. Every time you go to a new doctor you have to tell them all your medical history because they are prevented from accessing your health records. I personally don't care if someone else is GAY. However, this law does cause problems for the majority of people... What if you go to the hospital and you are so badly injured that you can't talk? It would be very good if an emergency room could access your medical records. But they can't. Because some people don't want to come out of the closet.

We ought to repeal HIPPA. Not many people get AIDS anymore because a huge number of Gays already died. The need to keep health care records secret is outweighed by the benefit of sharing it. Health Information Privacy Protection Act. 

Sadly, The Solution for Global Warming may be Global Economic Collapse...

Since we have a Government Economic Plan that adds a trillion dollars to the National Debt every year... We may come to a time when we can't find lenders willing to buy Treasury Notes. Bankruptcy of the USA would cause a Global Economic Collapse and the only people that would survive are those who work as subsistence farmers. Imagine a barter economy where money is worth nothing... No buying gas for trucks to haul groceries to the store... Starvation of Billions of people...

However, we won't be driving cars and that will be good for air pollution. We won't be burning coal for power plants... or natural gas either... ONE Billion surviving Humans heating their homes with wood is sustainable. Candles for light at night...

A computer virus could bring down our civilization. Imagine a world where the internet does not exist. Gas stations couldn't take payment using debit cards. Grocery stores wouldn't automatically order replacement food. Banks couldn't keep track of their money... except for local banking... We had banking before computers but our current system would go thru a radical change...

However, ONE billion people surviving is enough. The real trouble would be if leaders panic and launch nuclear missiles. THAT would wipe out all life except for single celled organisms that can tolerate extreme cold. They would go into hibernation until the Nuclear Winter was over...  

In California, We can vote for Gavin Newsom for Governor in 2018 and then President in 2020.

 He can beat Trump if Trump is still President then... Gavin is Smart, Digital and Handsome. He could start the New Age of CAMELOT 2.0... He is one of the first of Generation X to step up and lead. Please ask your friends and family to VOTE. Like and Share this message. 2018 is OUR YEAR!

Let's reduce the defense budget to half by ending CrazyWars... I wonder what the Mission is... Any GOAL? Anything?

 Obviously, It's not to defend the USA. The Military has not Defended the USA since 1945. There was a real attack on us on 9/11/2001 but the military failed to protect the country. Total Failure... So there must be some other reason we have invaded Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Is it simply to sell weapons to the Pentagon? Whenever we have a war we sell a lot of weapons, meals, tents, bandages, trucks, and airplanes... Corporations make a great profit. Soldiers die, civilians die, enemies die, but nothing is really accomplished. After all, what difference did it make who won the war in Nicaragua? None. It made a difference to the people of Nicaragua but it had no effect on life here in the USA. None of these Crazy Wars have made any difference to the people of the USA. NONE! The only military action that made any sense was the dozen men that assassinated Osama bin Laden. That was a worthwhile mission.

Therefore, It's really important to remember to NOT VOLUNTEER for the military. I saw President Trump talking at a Wounded Warrior Event today and it reminded me that all those people VOLUNTEERED to go die for nothing. OOPS, they got wounded because ___________. Fill in the blank if you know why. Was it simply because they couldn't find a civilian job and the military was hiring? Was it because they saw a John Wayne movie and got all inspired? Was it because they were easily brainwashed?

If we cut defense spending in half we could afford many wonderful things. We could prevent hunger 100%. We could pay for health care for all. We could pay for great school for all. We could pay teachers more... Not only is defense money wasted but people's lives are wasted also. The engineers that invented drone airplanes could have been designing better electric cars... BUT, they wasted their talents making drones... Most soldiers spend their entire career without once doing anything of value. What IF we hired them to rebuild our infrastructure? We have roads that need paving but no money to fund construction crews. WHAT IF WE STARTED BEING SMART?

So, what can one person DO to end Crazywar? Vote Democratic... and write to your representatives and ask them to stop funding stupid stuff. For example: You could copy and paste this message and email it to them.

Climate Change Deniers often agree that The Climate IS Changing but it cause is not man's behavior.

 They say that even if we stop polluting the air the climate will do what it is going to do when it does it. However, what if we just stop polluting the air and see what happens? It might lead to less air pollution! That in itself would be a good thing. It might stop Climate Change. That is important to young people.Baby Boomers don't really have to worry because we can simply turn up the air conditioner if Global Warming causes hot days in the summer. We can simply move to the Coast of Oregon if Hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires make the rest of the country unlivable.
And if moving to the coast of Oregon isn't enough we can move to British Columbia or Alaska. Yes, people that live near the equator are in trouble but... really... so what? What if a Billion of them die? 

Automobiles are the main cause of air pollution. What If we simply stopped burning gasoline... The only downside would be that the owners of oil companies would lose money. Saudi Arabia would stop selling oil and the King would have to take a job as a Camel Herder. The owners of ExxonMobile, BP and Shell are spending a fortune to spread propaganda. They are fighting for their lives and lifestyles. Without oil profits they would be poor people... However, They could simply switch ownership of shares of stock in oil companies to ownership of wind and solar corporations. They could just call up their stockbroker on the phone and put in the sell order and a buy order. This trade would have to be done without a lot of publicity... If the newspapers knew that Rex Tillerson was selling his stake in ExxonMobile that would trigger panic selling and a lower sale price.

I believe that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the rich. 

Half of Americans are of below average intelligence. They are in survival competition with immigrants for jobs.

 Due to factory work being shipped overseas, there are simply not enough jobs for both Americans and Immigrants. There americans will not be going to college nor will they be taking the millions of unfilled computer programmer jobs... These are the people that are killing themselves at record numbers. Suicide and Opioid overdoses are taking their lives. This concerns Blacks, Whites, Asians, Indians, men, women and other uneducated Americans. Often they take jobs as care givers in old folks homes... many immigrants both legal and illegal do the same work. Cooking and washing old people often pays minimum wage... or less... Cleaning office buildings, construction work, gardening, fishing, lumber mills, pizza delivery and UBER drivers are all types of work where the number of people applying for work is greater than the number of jobs available.

We ought to defend the survival of Americans by closing the door to immigrants. In the past, there was a need to import people to fill jobs. Factory work and farming allowed millions of Blacks, Mexicans, Irish and Germans to go to work and support their families. The world is not like that anymore. Times change and robots do a lot of the factory work. Steel mills simply do not hire as many people as they did. The cotton gin removed many jobs.  With most fabric and clothes made in Asia, the South is hurting for work... Giant industrial farms use machinery to plant and harvest crops. People are simply not needed.

While it is popular to ridicule uneducated people that voted for Trump, we ought to be helping them. So far, the failed Trump administration has done nothing to improve the lives of there voters. The tax cut for the rich law has not helped average Americans. The cost of health insurance has gone up due to Trump's refusal to use Federal Money to pay for Obamacare recipients. In general, We The People are suffering and the time to revolt is 2018. Vote against all Republicrimes. They are puppets of the rich and are ruining America.

Swimming nude in Butte Creek. Victoria and I went to the OKI Dam area near Chico, California on a hot summer day.

 I wanted to impress her with my strength so I swam Butterfly across the lake. Splashing wildly with my arms. This was one of the most wonderful days of my life. All alone with my woman... It seemed timeless as if we were Adam and Eve in Paradise. 

We attended AA meetings at the Campfire Council Ring in Bidwell Park. It was a large meeting on Sunday that attracted people from Paradise and Chico. One meeting we were discussing the similarity between the concept "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass and the idea of "One Day at a Time" by Bill Wilson. I realized that it was pretty easy to "Be Here Now" when having fun in a beautiful park with friends but it was a little more difficult when doing something unpleasant. Those meetings made me think.

After one meeting Mike Gardner and I played guitars and sang. We did "Witchy Woman" by the Eagles and then "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" by Hot Tuna. My selection of songs was designed to take the audience into a scary world of witchcraft and the bring them back with a Negro Spiritual.

Another meeting was on Mother's Day. People were speaking of how much they loved their mothers and other pleasant thoughts but when it was my turn I told them that My Mother died of Alcoholism and I was not really sure when because I was drinking heavily at the time. That caused the people to become silent and remember exactly why we were at an AA meeting.

Read more of my Autobiography at:
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

After I left the mental hospital I moved to an old folks home in Orangevale, California. I was in bad physical and mental health.

 I walked using a walker... and I was pretty vague thinking... The drug that the psychiatrist did me temporary harm and My thinking improved greatly as soon as I stopped taking it. I did a lot of walking around the house using my walker and soon I was able to walk normally. My lifestyle was very sedentary and i gained over a hundred pounds. All I did was lie down and watch TV. I also did a lot of meditation. Basically, saying to myself mantras that were supposed to put me in a trance. They all failed. Prayer and meditation have been of no value... no insight... no new ideas... no healing... no nothing. I'm a member of AA and I went to meetings for a year and then switched to NA. In AA there is a tradition that states that AA has NO OPINION about outside issues. For example: Smoking Marijuana is an outside issue. I have gone to many meetings stoned and that's perfectly OK as far as the Group is concerned. So I  switched to NA to try and find a reason to quit smoking weed. I am still looking for any advantage to living a life without smoking marijuana. I still have not found any advantage. I like getting stoned, it is fun... It is possible to take too much and live permanently stoned for months without smoking but... Without weed, life is not as good... It feels good, increases pleasure, makes food more tasty, makes women look prettier and makes playing the piano a wonderful experience... I also miss the boost it has in my creative writing and art. During the last year and a half I have not had any new thoughts. While I was getting stoned I wrote Absurdist Fiction, lyrics, poetry and programmed my computer to create art... Sadly, with a weed free life, the well has dried up. All I do now is write my autobiography and publish my political opinions. I'm living a half life. Many other people are satisfied living as a consumer of Art and Fiction... Watching instead of creating... That's not me.

Recently, I bought an acoustic Guitar and I'm collecting the lyrics and chords to "The Worlds Greatest Songs". That's fun. I'm not writing songs but... I am part of a singing society that meets at the Folsom Senior Center. About 20 of us and a piano player sing traditional songs like "How Much is that Doggie in the Window".

I am having fun writing my autobiography. That is part of my desire for Digital Immortality. When I retired from work I planned to upload every opinion I've ever had and a recollection of every experience. That way, when the internet becomes conscious, I will be ready to be reincarnated as an IDURU... a program that "IS" a person... A concept that I learned from a science fiction book by William Gibson, the father of cyberPunk writing.

In a way, I'm living in "The Matrix" right now as My Body is cared for by Care-Givers and my mind is free to look at the internet, television and books. I am focusing my attention on Illusionary worlds... My home has five people that have dementia... they don't talk or know where they are. My only contact is with the young women who work here as caregivers. They cook, clean and shower the residents. My brother pays the bills using the money I inherited from my dad... The children of the residents also come visit their parents. However, I spend most of my life INSIDE the laptop or TV screen.

I'm working on a Murder Mystery story that I started years ago but I did not write the ending... Who Done IT? I'm having difficulty imagining a great conclusion... So I wrote a bland ending and published it anyway... Maybe thru prayer and meditation I'll think up something...

Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

JoAnn and I made a profit on the Pimmit Hills House in Virginia. It was a "Cape Cod" style home in a subdivision of countless identical homes.

Originally built for WW2 veterans, We bought ours for $70,000. Then we had a wood burning stove installed for $3,000. After living there for a year we sold the place for $83,000 and divided the profit in two. I paid off a car loan I had and moved back into the condo in Oxon Hill Maryland.

I enjoyed the wood burning stove because it was fun to drink wine and make love while looking at the fire. I also went into the woods and chainsawed fallen trees for firewood. On occasion I would get "Seeded" [high] on Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds and go chainsawing. It's a mild psychedelic drug.

I also went to the Fourth of July concert at the Washington Monument while "Seeded". That concert featured the Beach Boys with Jimmy Page and Joan Jet. Over half a million people and then they had fireworks. The fireworks exploded right over the audience and burning explosives hit the ground where I was lying down. It was exciting to pay attention to where the dangerous burning embers were landing and to jump out of the way before I got burned.

Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

While working at The County of Humboldt in the Welfare Office, we had a christmas party at the Bear River Casino's party room.

 We all sat at 8 person tables and I sat next to Connie Beck. She would later become the head of the entire agency. We chatted pleasantly during dinner. It was something to see that while at work she was evil, but at the party she was normal. There was a disc jockey that played classic rock songs and we danced. Victoria and I slow danced to some ballad... We almost never danced because Victoria was in constant pain and dancing made her hurt more. We had fun. On the way to the dance She dried her hair using the cars heater vent. I got lost and we arrived late... when we got there they were serving dinner so we just got in line. Later I realized that we were all supposed to get in line one table at a time but since we did not know the rules, we got to get served early. A co-worker of mine was wearing a very short party dress. She had pretty legs. VERY pretty.

Most of the people at work were women. It was very pleasant to be surrounded by women during 8 hours a day. I especially liked our mental health clinician, Jeannie Patterson. She was a good person to talk to when my Father was dying. Some times I had difficulty doing my job because I enjoyed chatting with my co-workers. We DID have to discuss work in order to complete our tasks but I often just wanted to stay with them and enjoy their presence. I miss the social aspect of my job but the contact with clients was unpleasant. They were often scary people who were in desperate situations and what help we offered was usually not enough. They were looking for help RIGHT NOW and we took a month to complete their cases and grant benefits. Very often clients got lost and did not show up to collect their benefits. The underlying flaw with the whole system is that homeless people often cannot plan for an event that happens in the future. That's a symptom of what their problems are. Being able to pay attention to time and space is beyond them. That's one of the reasons they need help.

After I retired, the place imploded. I was able to complete my own client's cases and help others as well. The remaining eligibility workers found it impossible to complete their cases on time. That meant that they had angry clients demanding payment that they could not provide. So, the county built a glass wall between the waiting room and the employees. That way the clients could scream without frightening the workers. Then two of the workers quit. They simply could not tolerate the increased anger from the clients. We had four intake workers. That left one experienced person and the new people hired to replace us. I told the people in management that our process was inefficient and took too long to grant benefits but they ignored my advice... and then they experienced the inefficiency themself. Right in their face. Instead of correcting the problems, they built a glass wall.

Government work had a lot of bizarre events. For Example: We were required to keep the thermostat at 72 degrees no matter what the employees wanted. So, we opened the windows to let in cool air half the year and ran little space heaters the other half. Very expensive way to run an office... OSHA required strict obediance to the 72  degree rule. They installed a clear plastic housing to prevent employees from changing the temperature. Some employees figured out that they could use a fingernail file to push the temperature control. That way we could have pleasant temperature without anyone to blame when the inspectors came around. Everyone was good with that. The inspectors could point to the plastic housing that "prevented" employees fiddling with the controls and that fact "got them off the hook" with their bosses.

We had a lot of meetings. I spent my time doodling on paper with a pen. My drawings showed extreme caffiene use. Then after I retired I developed an entire artform based on doodling on pages from the newspaper, maps and stock market reports. I photographed these illustrations and posted them on my blog. I used the subject of the newspaper articles as subject for my drawings. I especially enjoyed drawing on pages "left blank intentionally". That would be a good name for a techno-pop band... Another good name is "Lads Gone Native". That refers to the legend of Tarzan, an Englishman who went to Africa and married a Native woman. Strangely, in the movies, Jane is white... not very likely... I believe that Lord Greystoke met a Black Woman and decided to never visit England again. 

My boss played keyboards for a band called "Monster Women" that had three dyke looking ladies and him. They played "Glam Rock"... I saw them play at a "SpamFest" at our local baseball field. It was a fund raiser for the local schools and a lady from the office invited me on Facebook... They served many different types of Spam dishes... all horrible... I took a hike in the woods behind the baseball fields as there are redwood forests for miles there in the Cutten section of Eureka. Thankfully, kids on motorcycles have created trails that go all over the woods. These are the same woods that came up to our apartment. I loved sitting out in the forest smoking cigarettes while it was raining. A redwood tree absorbs the first day of a rainstorm before the leaves start dripping. In the winter, there are many days that are not really raining but not really dry. Sort of a fog... Those days it is dry on the forest floor. I buried two cats out there in the woods behind our home.

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html