It sounds to me like she has been harnessing the power of reefer. She needs to spend more time in a hot sauna or something to get the psychotropic drugs out of her system.
Chris - You are confusing Red 40 (a.k.a. Red AC) with "carmine" a coloring that comes from the cochineal. Carmine is sometimes called "Red 4" (not Red 40) which is probably the source of the confusion.
Anyhow, eat up! That Red 40 comes from coal tar and no bugs were harmed in making it!
Hey, if people want to buy these with their own money and build them, that is quite cool -- it's a bit akin to the thousands of Sears & Robuck kit houses built in the U.S. a hundred years ago. Maybe they would make a nice weekend cabin or something.
It's an entirely different issue if the gov't (state or especially Federal) is buying them. It's bad enough that FEMA bought a zillion low-frills free trailers for hurricane victims to live in indefinitely. This would be worse because these "Katrina Cottages" are intended to be attractive and remove the stigma of being on the dole. Well, there should be stigma associated with mooching off taxpayers for years like many of the Katrina victims are *still* doing! If you are dumb enough to be uninsured and build (or rent) below sea-level housing in a hurricane/flood prone area, YOU HAVE IT COMING.
Puhlease! You really think Stalin sent the Cominterns there to "defend democracy" and "fight for the republic"? It was all about advancing worldwide authoritarian communism and the people in Spain were the real die hard "koolaid-drinking" communists who were there for that reason alone.
1. Oscar Wilde's grave, huh? All those lipstick marks -- yikes... They weren't left by women. The place must be a real drag queen shrine.
2. "Fighting the Fascists" sounds plenty noble until you recognize that the International Brigade were the communists of the 3rd International (a.k.a. Comintern). So, while Franco was nobody to prize, the International Brigade was the doings of "great humanitarians of history" like Stalin and Trotsky. They seem to have cleansed the records of that, though.
A friend of mine recounts how when he was little his dad gave him a big spoonful of mayonnaise and told him it was ice cream. They (especially the now-old father) still get a big laugh out of his horrified reaction to the taste. Naive little kids are fun to screw with and it teaches them not to be so trusting. :-)
Wow, you can do it a WHOLE lot cheaper than $1500. I've got about $350 into my setup built from (new) parts purchased off Ebay. Maybe his price includes buying a dedicated computer, though... MAME rules, especially for aging teenagers of the 1980s like myself.
I dunno... I would be a lot more impressed if he actually "sculpted" some of these out of some raw materials. Pulling people and buildings off the model train layout in his basement and merely arranging them into crash scenes is something lots of 13 year olds have done. They are really stretching the definition of sculpture...
Barron - Sorry you misunderstood me. While, it is NOT OK to mock people, it is *effective* at changing behavior. That isn't an endorsement of the means, though! Shooting people for shoplifting is an *effective* way to keep them from stealing (at least repeat stealing), but I don't advocate that either.
Nora notes that prices on things like blueberries (or whatever) being getting "jacked up", because they are healthy, but she has the order all wrong! Prices got high because DEMAND went up when they were found/declared (often via clever marketing and grower-financed research) healthy? Did you ever notice in how research on the health of certain fruit generally comes from the Universities in the states that predomininately grow them? It's common business sense. Create demand for your product and you can sell it for a higher price! Solution: Grow your own! I grow cherries, apples, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, pears, asian pears, plums, and appricots on my property for home use by my family. Dwarf trees are cheap and don't take up much room (10' apart or so). No blueberries yet, but they are scheduled next -- they are a bit tougher to grow, because they like the soil REALLY acidic which takes some prep work in my area. The yard work keeps me from being fat, too ;-)
The best disguise I can remember is when Johnny Cochraine pulled that black knit hat over his head during his grandstanding during the O.J. Simpson trial. That was too funny! "I'm just Johnnie Cochran in a hat!"
You are confusing Red 40 (a.k.a. Red AC) with "carmine" a coloring that comes from the cochineal. Carmine is sometimes called "Red 4" (not Red 40) which is probably the source of the confusion.
Anyhow, eat up! That Red 40 comes from coal tar and no bugs were harmed in making it!
Straight talk from Sid
It's an entirely different issue if the gov't (state or especially Federal) is buying them. It's bad enough that FEMA bought a zillion low-frills free trailers for hurricane victims to live in indefinitely. This would be worse because these "Katrina Cottages" are intended to be attractive and remove the stigma of being on the dole. Well, there should be stigma associated with mooching off taxpayers for years like many of the Katrina victims are *still* doing! If you are dumb enough to be uninsured and build (or rent) below sea-level housing in a hurricane/flood prone area, YOU HAVE IT COMING.
Straight talk from Sid.
2. "Fighting the Fascists" sounds plenty noble until you recognize that the International Brigade were the communists of the 3rd International (a.k.a. Comintern). So, while Franco was nobody to prize, the International Brigade was the doings of "great humanitarians of history" like Stalin and Trotsky. They seem to have cleansed the records of that, though.
Sorry you misunderstood me. While, it is NOT OK to mock people, it is *effective* at changing behavior. That isn't an endorsement of the means, though! Shooting people for shoplifting is an *effective* way to keep them from stealing (at least repeat stealing), but I don't advocate that either.
Nora notes that prices on things like blueberries (or whatever) being getting "jacked up", because they are healthy, but she has the order all wrong! Prices got high because DEMAND went up when they were found/declared (often via clever marketing and grower-financed research) healthy? Did you ever notice in how research on the health of certain fruit generally comes from the Universities in the states that predomininately grow them? It's common business sense. Create demand for your product and you can sell it for a higher price! Solution: Grow your own! I grow cherries, apples, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, pears, asian pears, plums, and appricots on my property for home use by my family. Dwarf trees are cheap and don't take up much room (10' apart or so). No blueberries yet, but they are scheduled next -- they are a bit tougher to grow, because they like the soil REALLY acidic which takes some prep work in my area. The yard work keeps me from being fat, too ;-)