I am actually In Favor of the Second Amendment. I can't tell you WHY because I don't want to attract the attention of the FBI.

 I have noticed that Supposed "GUN NUTS" are watched and their Social Media Posts are used as Evidence to arrest them. There was a Lady Recently in Colorado who they determined that she was 5150... a harm to self and others... because of something she wrote on Facebook. This was at the time of the Columbine Anniversary. The FBI READS THIS STUFF... So does the NSA and The CIA and the DIA and the EIEIO!

I will say that there may come a time that we really need a Militia... Suppose Trump loses the 2020 election and then REFUSES TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE? Just declare himself King... for life... and Junior would be Prince... in a situation like that, it might be very handy to own a gun... Maybe there will be a violent civil war. The Boogaloo... IT COULD HAPPEN. A Violet Overgrow... What if the USA became like Venezuela? or Africa? 

I do think we ought to outlaw assault rifles... We already outlawed Machine Guns, Hand Grenades and Bazookas... Once upon a time Assault Rifles were illegal and the Murder Rate in the USA went down. So we know what works... Obviously the NRA is an EVIL organization. They supposedly funneled Russian Money into Trump's Campaign. That's why Maria Butina was thrown in Prison. and Paul Erickson was arrested... 

I also oppose arming the Police with Army Surplus Weapons. Often the People who choose Lawn Forcement as a Career are of Below Average Intelligence. Really! Have you actually KNOWN any cops? They are some really strange people. For one thing, they choose to put people in cages... and they choose to enforce ALL THE LAWS even when the laws are Obviously Wrong! You always see Pigs enforcing the Law against Protest Marches... Like During the Vietnam War, millions of people protested and sometimes the Police BEAT UP the Protesters. Obviously the Protesters were RIGHT and the Pigs were WRONG... Sometimes the National Guard battled the Protesters and Four were Killed at Kent State University in Ohio. How do those people feel now that almost everyone has WOKEN UP to the fact that the Vietnam War Was INSANE! 



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You don't read like a gun nut *at all*, Greg, although I wouldn't mention the words President and gun in the same sentence.
Guys that shoot Lapua 338 magnums, or 50 caliber BMG cartridge scare me. These are anti-materiel weapons against civil infrastructure or long-range sniper rifles that can kill at half a mile.
Deer hunting is different in the oak savannas of California: you need a longer range gun than on old 30-30 brush rifle, but nobody needs anything bigger than a 30-06.



@seachanged I Oppose Guns and Think They Should All Be Melted... HOWEVER... There May Come A Time When Dictatorship or Monarchy Happens in the USA... I personally DO NOT OWN ANY GUNS... I am Not Afraid of "The Man" Arresting Me For What I Say Online... I am Ready to Go to Prison for FREEDOM OF SPEECH.



Totally agree with your blog post, except for President thing.
I have .. six guns, I guess. I have to count them each time I tell anyone.
When the !@#$% deer are in the yard, I get the 30-30, sneak up on them, check downrange, and pull the trigger: CLICK! (no bullet), to see how I feel about it. Slaughter/butcher is a fuckload of work, but haven't had any good venison in .. years.
Got a pig once that couldn't be eaten: blue fat, from squirrel bait. All wasted work )-:

@seachanged Call me lazy but I get my meat at the Grocery Store... Since I Live in Eureka, There are many Hunters at work... Many Big Truck OFF Road Guys too... It's an Interesting Town with Three Very Different Social Groups. Loggers, Hippies and Indians. The YUROK Tribe is a Major Power Here. HOOPA Too.


seachanged I don't believe that private ownership of guns will help us during a constitutional collapse. In that situation, I think it's far more likely that citizen will turn on fellow citizen, and it won't be the Democrats and liberals who attack and murder the Republicans and fascists.
I'm glad to be in California, that way.

I'd eat a lot less meat if I had to slaughter and butcher it myself, especially big animals. Grandparents lived on a farm, so I've done a lot of that.

@seachanged I do not plan to own any guns, ever... I hope The Boogaloo does not happen but... I plan to remain in rural Humboldt County... safe and minding my own business...



Yes, not having a gun in the household makes it safer against gun violence (probably because over half of gun deaths are suicides).
Funny you use the word Boogaloo, though. That's apparently (I had to look it up) a euphemism for civil war adopted by the far right, but your politics seem to be refreshingly far left. Where did you first hear that word? Friends? NPR?
None of my guns are for "protection" against "enemies".
@seachanged I am trying to PREVENT The Boogaloo... The entire idea of Massive Civil War Lead by TrumpNiks and Tea Party Frightens me... However, I Do Support the Violet Overgrow.




Picture of My Home in the Redwood Forest and a Tower of Jewels Plant.





@Emilyhelmut I Live in Eureka, California near the Oregon Border on the North Coast of California... On the Edge of the Redwood Forest... I sit in my backyard and smoke tobacco in an easy chair looking at the trees every day. No smoking in the house because my Friend wouldn't like that... Here is a picture of my backyard and a Cross at the entrance to Mount Saint Mercy Recovery Center.


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Half of Trump's Voters are Below Average Intelligence. The Other Half are Just PRETENDING... Republicans get more Welfare, Unemployment and Food Stamps than Democrats. BUT THERE IS HOPE!

 Learn to Read, Go to College and Get a Great Job... No excuse for being Leeches... Just Read Ayn Rand and Put The Fountainhead's Ideas into Action. Can't Read? Never Heard of Ayn Rand? Books just too Damn Difficult? SIMPLY FIND A DEMOCRAT AND WE WILL READ IT OUT LOUD TO YOU! 
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Researching "Forbidden" Subjects: Presidential Assassination: An Important part of American History. Garfield, McKinley, Lincoln, Kennedy and a Near Miss of Reagan.

Can I Google Forbidden Subjects if I am writing a Fiction Book? How do all those Mystery Writers get Factual Information to support their plots?  Is there a LIST of Forbidden Subjects? Google MUST have a List... otherwise, how could they report people to the FBI? 

Questions: Who Killed the President. Why? How did they do it? What are we doing to Protect the current President? Will posting this cause the FBI to investigate me? Untraceable Poison... Who actually works as Royal Taster? Secret Service agents say they will "Take a Bullet" for the President... and other "Important" People. That's something I wouldn't do... 

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/internet-speech/when-does-your-google-search-become-crime

Can a Fictional Character in a Book I'm Writing Stage a Drone Attack on The White House? Stand in the Ellipse and Fly a Machine Loaded with Dy-No-Mite on the Roof of the Building? Where it would Hypothetically Cause REDRUM? and Assist in the Extra Terrestrial Invasion and Start the BOOKAGLOO?

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

On 4 August 2018, two drones detonated explosives near Avenida Bolívar, Caracas, where Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, was addressing the Bolivarian National Guard in front of the Centro Simón Bolívar Towers and Palacio de Justicia de Caracas.[3][4][5] The Venezuelan government claims the event was a targeted attempt to assassinate Maduro, though the cause and intention of the explosions is debated.[6][7]Others have suggested the incident was a false flag operation designed by the government to justify repression of opposition in Venezuela.[8][9][10]

https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/white-house-security-measures

SIX well-known ways the White House stays secure:


The little old building on the back of the $20 bill is known all around the world as the residence and workplace of the leader of the free world. Being said leader is a dangerous prospect: There have been thirty-three known attempts at the lives of sitting U.S. presidents. Four of those attempts, unfortunately, were successful.


It stands to reason that measures must be taken at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to prevent any attacks on the lives of the president, the first family, and anyone else who serves there. But protecting the president requires far more than just armed guards and motion-activated cameras.


Anti Iraq War Protest in Laguna Beach - photo by greg vanderlaan gvan42
Anti Iraq War Protest in Laguna Beach, CA

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Anti Iraq War Protest in Eureka, California 

The NSA, CIA, DIA, NRO, EIEIO, DARPA and The FBI stores all your information in a searchable database... but you can't search your own name... unless you file a Freedom of Information Act Request... 


If the information you want is not publicly available, you can submit a FOIA request to the agency's FOIA Office. The request simply must be in writing and reasonably describe the records you seek. Most federal agencies now accept FOIA requests electronically, including by web form, e-mail or fax.

Freedom of Information Act: How to Make a FOIA Request - FOIA.gov





https://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm

National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

    National Crime Information Center
    Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division
    1000 Custer Hollow Road
    Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306
    Hours of Service: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
    Telephone: (304) 625-2000

NCIC is a computerized index of criminal justice information (i.e.- criminal record history information, fugitives, stolen properties, missing persons). It is available to Federal, state, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies and is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
PURPOSE: The purpose for maintaining the NCIC system is to provide a computerized database for ready access by a criminal justice agency making an inquiry and for prompt disclosure of information in the system from other criminal justice agencies about crimes and criminals. This information assists authorized agencies in criminal justice and related law enforcement objectives, such as apprehending fugitives, locating missing persons, locating and returning stolen property, as well as in the protection of the law enforcement officers encountering the individuals described in the system.
ACCESS CONSTRAINTS: All records in NCIC are protected from unauthorized access through appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. These safeguards include restricting access to those with a need to know to perform their official duties, and using locks, alarm devices, passwords, and/or encrypting data communications.
USE CONSTRAINTS: Users of the NCIC system will be restricted to only those privileges necessary to perform an authorized task(s).
AGENCY PROGRAM: The FBI is authorized to acquire, collect, classify and preserve identification, criminal identification, crime, and other records and to exchange such information with authorized entities.
SOURCES OF DATA: Data contained in NCIC is provided by the FBI, federal, state, local and foreign criminal justice agencies, and authorized courts.

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Hillary Clinton: STFU. Do Not Give Any Advice to 2020 Candidates. You Found Out in 2016 That Cheating Fails. Your Use of "Super Delegates" Allowed You to Steal the Democratic Nomination... and That Bonehead Move Gave us Trump. Just Be Quiet!

Hillary Clinton has been wearing thick-rimmed eyeglasses since returning to work on Jan. 7 after recovering from a concussion

Remember: In 2012 Hillary Clinton Had to Quit Her Job as Secretary of State DUE TO BRAIN PROBLEMS that Caused her Double Vision... The BRAIN PROBLEMS explain her Really Bizarre Ideas... Concussion Does That... Boxers Call it Being "Punch Drunk."

"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been wearing thick-rimmed eyeglasses since returning to work on Jan. 7 after recovering from a concussion and being treated for a blood clot between her brain and skull." 

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-01-25/why-hillary-clinton-wearing-glasses

"Channeling my Inner Chewbacca!" I used to Smoke Tobacco and Drink Coffee All Day Every Day for 47 Years... When I Quit, I Was No Longer Filled with a Slow Burning Rage... Who Would Have Guessed? That...

Smoking Causes Mental Health Problems TOO! I was finally able to quit USING FEAR. When my brother got Lung Cancer, I Was Scared and QUIT. I simply Suffered Thru the Month of Pain caused by Nicotine withdrawal... I have fount that Chewing Nicotine Gum Fails... The Patch Failed... "The Turkey" animated Commercials on TV have a Giant List of Side Effects.

My Cousin Quit using Hypnosis at a week long summer camp... Chanting, Dancing around a Campfire... and Focusing on a VISUAL MANTRA. Whenever he wanted to smoke, he thought of the artwork for the Oneill's Surf Shop.

READ MORE of My Autobiography: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html


Typical Paragraph from my Autobiography...
I delivered the Los Gatos Times - Observer Newspaper. My Route was on University Ave between Highway 9 and Blossom Hill Road. I Remember Rolling Newspapers and My Hands Turned Black from the Ink. I wore a Big Canvas Bag - Delivered on my bicycle. Had to COLLECT the Money! I Hated That. and Had to go Solicit New Subscribers... One time on Summit Road a Dog Bit Me but I Didn't Bleed. I Can't Imagine NOWADAYS a Corporation Sending Children TRESPASSING to Sell a Product... Obvious Danger from Guard Dogs.

At Fisher Junior High School, My Favorite Teacher was Mr Fortier - He Made us Write Essays about Posters on the Wall. One was a Red White and Blue Swastika in a Flag Motif... another was The "Solarized" Photo of the Grateful Dead Standing in front of Little Boxes type Houses in South San Francisco. I chose the Flag Swastika because I did not know who the Grateful Dead Were... Maybe I'm Spelling His Name Wrong: Pronounced: For Tea Yeah... and... Isidro Maytorena...

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All about Homelessness in Los Gatos:
Do you remember when... ...Los Gatos had one homeless guy? The "town bum" to be politically incorrect about it. I used to remember his name. He walked up to me once at LGHS and asked drunkenly, "Do you have the year?" ...the woods between HWY 17 and LGHS were called "'Nam"? ...two smoking sections... The upper one for artsy New-wavers, and the lower one for the Stoners? ..getting suspended by Mr McCloskey? ...Super Big Gulps at the 7/11 on LG Blvd were for some reason less expensive than a regular Big Gulp? ...S.T.A.N.D.? (the funniest think I ever saw scribbled onto a desk at LGHS would have been in about 1985.. S.I.T.D.O.W.N. - Students Into Total Destruction of the World Now) Steve Wells I believe the homeless guy died in a fire under part of 17 along the creek trail maybe 20 years ago. He was asleep and his sleeping bag caught fire. There was a homeless woman in the 80s named Joan. Steve Wells https://apnews.com/ed4722ce15a05208df9a41fa44d80272 Guitar Craftsman Dies in Homeless Camp Fire Steve Wells I was told by Tom at 7-11 (old guy with skin cancer on nose) that Joan had a PhD and somehow went downhill. I used to get her a bite to eat and a drink once in a while in the late 80s. Scott Peronto There were a few others in the late 70s besides Warren. Old Ed made his living painting portraits. He was a really friendly guy. I let him hang out at the magazine rack in the 7-11 during my shifts. He told me once he had been a Marine fighting in the Pacific during WWII. He was on an island hopping campaign on Sabu. He had a carton of cigarettes in his backpack and he was hiding behind a stump. They were firing at him with a machine gun and it was shredding the carton of cigarettes. They were flying every where but he never got hit. Don't know what ever happened to Old Ed. He was quite a guy. Jason Matthews Steve Wells I remember Joan vividly I worked downtown in 2005 at harvest home stores and she would say “ do you have a dollar for food” if u said no she called you stupid Jason Matthews Steve Wells I gave her a dollar once and she pulled out a fat wad to count it Steve Wells Jason Matthews think I had a similar response to generosity. Wes Tietzen In the fifties a number of men lived under the viaduct on 17 in the winter and camped on a meadow close to the creek in good weather.As kids we were a bit apprehensive but nothing ever came of it. Not a homeless man by any stretch, Pete the Hermit lived on the opposite side of the ridge overlooking Cypress.Ranch. He had a little cabin that was trashed after his death. Somewhere in the archives there should be mention of him. Did the police in LG give floaters to the transients? I suspect so but I may be wrong.Overall, those were bucolic times in LG.The last time I was in LG a woman living in a gated McMansion on Kennedy Road declared I had no right walking on a public road and causing her dogs to bark. That's just one of the reasons I avoid the Excited States. Evan Lloyd Indian Pete we used to call him. Urban legend of his fortune being buried up there under the remains of his cabin behind 4 trees. I never found it and I looked... lol Eric Sanders I wonder what happened to Lark Ave Louie he would sweep in front of Jiffy and Gremic while telling me wisdom. Yes i remember Nam and madness that went down in there. Smoking sections-use to skate from the upper one by art building down through the qu…See More Dan Koolstra Eric Sanders thanks for the reminder. I remember seeing him outside sweeping all the time . Eric Sanders Dan Koolstra Yeah Louie was a sweeping mastercraftsman. Hung out with him often and just listened to what he had to say. Dan Koolstra Eric Sanders im thinking late 70s maybe but definately through the 80s Jim Bond Eric Sanders I remember standing in the outside basketball court for P.E. and seeing your brother Phill doing a wheelie with a girl on the back of his bike!!! I thought how COOL!!!! He was on a Yamaha TT 500 or 250 not sure? Years later I got to know Phill better through Jon Felock.i also remember Phill on a Suzuki GSXR 1200..... it was fast!!!! I also remember doing a lot riding with Phill in Hollister.....your brother was a great friend!!!!!! Maria Webber Dan Koolstra yes definately in the 80s is when I remember 'Louie the bum' as we called him back then. My much older brothers knew him but I was little and he kind of scared me. They told me he fried his brain on acid...I don't even think I knew what that meant back then lol Lee Poland What's up Eric? It's been a long time. Sheldon Cooper Jim Bond Felick wa a fool, hung out with another loser, Willie Buhl whom I had the pleasure of pounding one day years later near Enco/Exxon. Sheldon Cooper Felock, that is. What a set of loser tools they were. Eric Sanders Jim Bond if memeory serves it was a GS1150ES Suzuki. And the other was his TT500. He would do wheelie's down Shannon from about the 7-11 to the firestation. Sure do miss him. He was a jokester and knew how to ride that bike. Evan Lloyd What about the guy we called Foot in the early eighties? Sheldon Cooper Evan Lloyd I remember Foote. Worked for my brother's landscaping co. Nancy Hill I thought there was guy named Dave that lived behind Fosters Freeze. They would pay him with food to sweep up back there. Circa 1978-81 Laura Whiteman Qanadilo Nancy Hill he smelled so bad! Holly Finelli Do you remember that guy came to the school that gave a presentation on Cocaine? He said he could put a cloth through one side of his nose and outside the other? I think they made a movie about him. Sean Rector I thought it was an episode of Baretta. Tony something... Bryan P. Lucey Holly Finelli I think his name was Toma. “Toe-ma”. I may have messed up the spelling. I saw that on a video after I graduated. Maybe mid to late 1980s. Holly Finelli Bryan P. Lucey yes! I was going to say Toga. Lol. We could probably Google it. The dude was pretty intense. Holly Finelli Bryan P. Lucey if memory serves me right, I think they had the big drug bust after he left in '86. We graduated the same year. I remember because you spelled my last name wrong on the shirts you made senior year. 🙄 Bryan P. Lucey Holly Finelli I graduated in 1981. I was (and still am) so uninvolved that there is no way I misspelled your name and I am not creative enough to be involved with shirts.With that said, my writing often contains misspellings and typos. Glad to be an accountant. Holly Finelli Bryan P. Lucey haha. Ok. You're off the hook. Bryan P. Lucey Holly Finelli I’m glad. When my name gets misspelled I hate it. Sandy Erickson I remember Toma. He came and did a huge presentation at LGHS, and we got out of class for it. He was kind of like that Chris Farley character on SNL who yelled about living in a van down by the river. At least, that's kind of what he seemed like at the time. Erin Gates Erin Gates Victor? Joko MacKenna I would remember that. Victor would be an odd name for such a person. I'm guessing that the -tor doesn't survive the tribulations of marginalization and they all end up as Vic's. Louie! That was his name. Gretchen Agner Erin Gates I remember Victor. Terry Laucher I knew Victor. He was not a bum or anything like that. I dont know where he lived, thought he spent a lot of time downtown. Very frrail, usually with some kind of straw hat, always clean. Usually a pair of khakis and nice sweater. Must have had a decent place to live. He was just an old man (in his 80;s) who walked around town cleaning paper off the sidewalk I'll bet he live in a home who gave him freedom as long as he did not get into trouble. He did have some mental frailty. I was 18 working at the LG theater and he passed by many times around 1961 Terry Laucher I am trying to remember another individual who walked around town, shovel ready, for a job. He carried a shovel over his shoulder and was usually seen in coveralls, and a straw hat. The joke was that he was ready to work, although mentally he may not have been. Guys like this were seen to be mentally challenged, or just different, instead of using a pejorative description such as bum. Pamela Dishman-Emard Terry Laucher Victor was always nice to me. He let me kiss him on the cheek one day, thanking him for being the town's steward. He might have been viewed as a 'nut case' by some, but I always thought he was the Town's indispensable "clean up man." He'd just die seeing them crap human waste on the streets now.🙃 Tim Mcguire Terry Laucher Victor was far from homeless. He lived on my street Fairview plaza in a big Victorian with his sister. He was a Los Gatos treasure! Gerhard Donner Greg Stokes Pamela Dishman-Emard I was an Artsy-Stoner who smoked wherever. Quit that shit a long time ago, not the Art.😎 Martin King I walked through "Nam" in Mr. Verkyle's class. Hung out with the smokers by the art wing.

Gregory Laan: I was Homeless in Los Gatos Briefly. It was the Summer after I was fired from my Job at Radio Shack for Drinking on the Job and Stealing Money. I moved to Chico and Lived in Cheap Motels until my money ran out. Then I spent 4 Months living in Bidwell Park and when The Money Came in from my Sale of Radi Shack Stock... I took a lot of Greyhound Bus Rides... Including a Trip to Santa Cruz and then Los Gatos... I did not want to Talk to my Parents so I slept Near the Baseball Field near the Freeway... However , I Preferred Chico so I back got on the Bus... I went to Three Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings A DAY for months... Quit Drinking, Met My Latest Wife and Eventually Moved to Amazing Arcata to Learn Computer Science at Humboldt State University... Got a Job at the Welfare Department Helping Homeless People... Hey, I Had Knowledge about the Subject, Having Been "House Free" myself... Ironically, Stealing Money from Radio Shack allowed me to have enough money to Invest in the Stock Purchase Plan... Yes, Crime Pays...

The Best Part of the song "Iko Iko" is that it's Possible to Play it using TWO Chords! For Example "A" and "E" and You Can Make Up Lyrics If You forget Where You Are and What You Are Doing! I remember Playing this at Main Circle, Rainbow Gathering in Idaho.

and then Later, a young man and I Played Uncle John's Band at the Relaxation Station... That's The Very First Place a Camper would encounter on the way into the Rainbow Gathering... "Welcome Home!" We Played it about 6 times... because the Young Man said "I Don't Want to Learn anymore new songs" and since there was a Constant flow of People walking by... No One Knew That we were Playing the same song... except for the Tarot Card Reading Lady and other Pranksters That were Hanging OUT... One Guy had a Piece of FOAM that Looked Like a Concrete Block... He would ask a person to help him Carry the Block Because it was very heavy... and then ACCIDENTALLY DROP THE PIECE OF FOAM on the Visitor's FOOT... and then everyone would laugh because it was NOT Dangerous... It Was a Prank! The Realization That They Were Not Going To Be Hurt... and The relief... Caused Laughter...

A Journey to the Rainbow Gathering in California 2004. Photographs and My Story... and Memories of The Gatherings in Idaho, Utah and Pennsylvania...

What IS the Rainbow Gathering? To me, it is Woodstock with amateur musicians and I’m in the band… READ MORE:

My Comment on Newspaper Articles about Freedom of Speech, PG&E Power Outages and Declining Population of Students at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. My Alma Mater.

https://thelumberjack.org/2019/12/13/hsu-adapts-to-low-enrollment/#respond
The Population of students is HIGHER Than when I went 2001 – 2005… and Back then it was Difficult to Find an Apartment to rent in Arcata. Difficult to find a Parking Space… and Difficult to Get the Classes I wanted because Other Students Had already Grabbed all available seats… SO, In My Humble Opinion… Fewer Students would be better… The Only People That Want More Students are the Corporate-Corporate” People That work in Administration… Smaller Class Sizes Would Be Great! I LOVED GOING TO HSU AND WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE… Computer Science Graduate and Happy With What I Learned. I especially enjoyed Taking Journalism and Writing for the Lumberjack Newspaper. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=HSU



https://thelumberjack.org/2019/12/12/parody-is-protected-speech/#respond
Thanks For Pointing Me to This Joke! I did a Google Image Search and Then LAUGHED OUT LOUD… There was an Article Ridiculing The University’s BIZARRO Complaint in the Lost Coast Outpost… OF COURSE, Publishing on the School’s Computers Subjects You to OVERSIGHT by the “Corporate-Corporate” Administration Trolls… WRITE YOUR OWN BLOG AND EXPERIENCE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION… https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2019/dec/7/ridiculousness-humboldt-states-uproar-over-wet-wea/

It Makes No Sense to Shut Off The Power NEAR THE COAST. The Climate is Cool and Rainy and NO DANGER OF POWER LINES STARTING FIRES. I Can See Taking Action in the Higher Elevations Like Ruth Lake or Kneeland. The Climate is Warm and Dry There. PG&E ought to USE SANITY in their Mapping of Power Outages... You Can Verify The Climate Difference by Taking a Drive up Greenwood Heights Road from Freshwater... and It's a Beautiful Drive to Visit the Cows Standing in the Middle of the Street... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=Kneeland

Campaign for John Hickenlooper: #FlipTheSenate He's A Democrat Running for US Senate. Seeking to Unseat a Republican... Please Share This Post with your Friends and More Importantly With Those Who are Yet To Be Friends!

https://www.hickenlooper.com/ I’m running to give Colorado’s priorities and values a voice in Washington. Right now we’re represented by a senator who works to undo our progress by voting 99% of the time with Donald Trump and going along with Mitch McConnell’s obstruction and partisan political games.


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*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...

Military Death Chart USA

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.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics