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yesterday Fabric Depot- a massive store in SE portland had 40-50% off all fabric. so jan ( my fiber artist neighbor) and i took the trek to the poart of town we never go into-- for the savings. I bought ten yards of fabric -- black and white linen - 5 of each color to make a dress called a yin yang dress. well two of them so i could change the combos. essentially it is two 3/4 dresses each part worn with another. so one could wear it all black , all white, or black and white. I am looking forward to wearing it as black and white with one black shoe and one white shoe (I bought some talbot sandals -one pair in black and another white.) and then I thought ome large wooden beads in bright yellow would look great with the outfit.
Jim looks askance at these antics. The idea of mismatched color shoes happened by accident when i spent a summer day over a decade ago wearing one pink and one blue huarche- is that spelled right? And it wasn't till the end of the day that I discovered it and thought oh how cool. so I often will buy two pair of the same shoes like yellow patent and pink patent sandals and wear then with a summer skirt and tee in bright yellow.
and since i make most of my clothing I can really feed this assymetry thing.
and after finishing the matisse Bio I was quite surprised to learn that each painting filled with joy to our eyes was agony for matisse to make. he analogized that it was like lancing a boil. one never knows.
- Food: Instead of using the much healthier sugar (sucrose), they use high-fructose corn syrup. Some studies have show that it can be addictive. The result? An increase in obesity in this country.
- Clothing: Whenever my Mother shops for clothes for my sister, she complains that the clothes are too tight, too revealing, and too thin. She can barely find descent clothes for my sister. It's been noted that skirts and shorts for girls are growing shorter and shorter each year. The result? More and more women being forced to dress in a way that will probably makes them look like whores.
- Factories: Company A starts to outsource jobs overseas to make their products very cheap. Companies B, C, D must do the same to compete with Company A. The result? More and more Americans lose their jobs to people in China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, etc.
- Drugs (leagal & illegal): Let's start with the illegal drugs. These drugs are illegal because they are dangerous to us and to people around us, or so they say. Marijuana, aside from it's hallucinogenic effects, has been noted to be very effective in treating various diseases.
So are these drugs really banned to protect us? Look at smoking! It's a fact that smoking cause slung cancer and other breathing disorders. In fact, the tobacco plant naturally absorbs Uranium that is in the ground.
And what about Afghanistan? They produce the most of the poppy seeds in the world. These can be used to make medicinal morphine at a very cheap price. But where do these poppy seeds go towards? Drugs. Why? Because pharmaceutical companies don't want to lose money on the morphine that they manufacture themselves so they can overcharge us.
In fact, they try to overcharge us for everything. The same drugs that cost hundreds of dollars here can be paid for with what's in your wallet in many other countries.
As a result of drugs like marijuana being illegal, they have produced other negatives. Many city gangs get their money for guns from selling these drugs a high prices. The result? Increased robberies, shootings, rapings, and deaths of hundreds of people each year.
Now if you don't give a shit about what people that live in the equivalent of a hell hole, maybe this will: Money is leaving the United States. The countries that create and manufacture these drugs, like Mexico and Columbia, are taking this money and putting it into their own economy (sometimes to buy guns and oppress their people). - Energy/Oil: (Neocons can relax, I'm not targeting you here.)
Oil is what drives most of the most powerful countries in the world. But the rest of the world is trying to catch up with us. India and China are consuming more and more oil, and if they reach our level of oil consumption, we're gonna have a problem, because there will be a heated competition for obtaining it.
The world is running out of oil. We're using more oil than is produced by the Earth. We can't keep using this much oil. The thing is, we can't, otherwise the economy is going to crash.
Energy is what drives an economy. It is the limiting factor to how fast your country can grow. That's one reason why Iran is so bent on obtaining nuclear power.
Of course, we're trying to get more oil without devastating our own land. Back in 2000, Bush wanted to drill for oil on Alaskan wildlife reserves, but there was a big opposition to that. The solution? Get it from overseas! We get so much of our oil from Saudi Arabia and Iraq that it's not even funny.
We need to get into nuclear power. We need to get into solar power. We need to get into wind power. We need to get into bio-fuels. We need to get into fuel-cell research. But do we? No. Republican presidential candidates are just starting to hop aboard the same train the Democrats have been on for the past 5 years.
I'll address global warming in another post, this post is getting waaaaay to long.
Gas prices are sky rocketing, and our nation loves SUVs. (How many of these things actually go off-road anyway?) We've been told back as early as the late 80's about the oil problem and rising gas prices, but we're just starting to listen, because we're starting to feel it on our wallets!
So now we're making hybrid SUVs (Hummers getting 15mpg?). But it's not enough, and we need to get into other forms of power fast. So what do our American car companies do about this? Produce a car line up that is getting an average of 25 mph at best, while Asian car companies are selling cars that are getting 30mpg, 34mpg, and 40mpg.
In addition, these foreign competitors are making cars cheap as hell. The Indian car company, Tata Motors, is going to sell cars in the US that cost $2000. They can't go past 60mph, but how many people really need to use the freeway everyday?
God! This country is starting to piss me off.
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Having my morning cup of coffee in front of my computer, trying to plan what we are going to do today. The Wife has gotten the ideal that I need to get some new trousers, just when these are starting to get comfortable. The same with my shoes, just got my favorite pair broken in, she makes me change then before we go out. Heck all I worry about is it comfortable and clean, looks are secondary in my taste for clothing. Knowing it is a lost battle and having common sense, I will grumble a little, give in, and hope for the best.
Our weather is still quite warm for this time of year, low sixties; a cold rain forecasted for Saturday, we need the moisture. One learns that if you do not like the weather, stick around it will change in fifth teen minutes.
Have a good weekend, take care, and do not take any wooden nickels.
when i lived in colorado I had a great wardrobe of wool skirts. they could be worn from october to april. but then in alabma they were a rarity and I only worose shorter ones occasionally in deep winter ( 2 weeks in january)
So here I am back in winter weather and I have all these great skirts but- argh I hate to admit this - I am no longer a size 8. so I have been slowly altering them whenever they can handle it and this morning I did a brilliant thing. I had two siz3 6 party skirts. one was black velvet and the other was cut velvet on chiffon - also black. well I turned them into one larger wrap around skirt with an assymetrical hem line and it's delicious and swirly. I might wear it to a friends house for christmas dinner.
yesterday I finished remaking a red tartan kilt buy having fewer pleasts and using a black wool bias facing for the inner waistband. and tomorrow I may rework a fantastic green kilt- the authentic thing with leather buckles. It just involves letting out a pleat or two and adding to the waistband. quite easy.
it's like getting a whole new wardrobe without spending any money. and fasting then knitting.
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