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Unlike Putin, who may or may not carry an actual Communist Party card even though he’s often labeled a communist and he probably had some kind of KGB ID card...
I am not now nor was I ever a card carrying member of the Communist Party.
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In the McCarthy era communists were not only called Commies but often called Reds, their army was called the Red Army, and there was also the Red Scare.
Here’s why Is the color red was associated with Communism.
Now of course even the Russian flag isn’t mostly red, it is white, blue, and red. Gone is the yellow star and the hammer and sickle which those old enough know from our youth.
While on the subject of the color red and how it is used I have to add that this is the color of ties favored and worn at a cartoonishly long length by a certain ex-president (see article about this from the website The Magnificent Bastard).
I have a great fondness for the color red whether it is in items I choose to have around me or in sunsets, flowers, or fall colors. I find that the often striking blue sky with lovely cloud formations, greens and other colors prevalent in nature provides a less common color accent. What garden is complete without bright red flowers (and two adorable Westies)?
By coincidence my late wife, who also liked red accents in our kitchen, and I used to be cranberry growers so during harvest season we were often were knee deep in cranberry red:
This was the view from our back windows:
I know it is all psychological, but food from filet mignon to a hot dog on a baked potato seems to tastes better surrounded by the color red.
Most of the items in my kitchen have always been red. It was my deciding to buy an air fryer that got me embarking on a quest to try to make every item on two of my three kitchen counters red. I was considering buying an air fryer having heard about all the ways they can be used. I looked at CNET, my go-to website for reviews of just about anything that runs on electricity, and found that they rated one particular air fryer in their list of the top five that appealed to me. It wasn’t the CNET review (below) that prompted me to order the one I did:
This oversized air fryer is easy on the eyes. The Dash Deluxe has the largest cooking capacity of any of the ovens we tested with a 6-quart cooking basket. It also has some undeniable retro appeal and is available in a few fun colors. The appliance we tested was aqua, though it also comes in red, black and white. This model also has all manual controls with no presets and was exceedingly simple to operate and also comes with an air fryer recipe guide.
Aesthetics aside, the Dash fried up batches of wings, Brussels sprouts, tater tots and French fries that were all cooked evenly and well. In our first round of testing, we found it easy to overshoot when air frying a mozzarella stick if you're not careful. For us, that's a good thing and only means the air fryer has considerable power that you simply need to learn to manage.
I rarely rely solely on food manufacturer recommendations or oven presets but rather use them as a loose guide and do lots of peeking and checking along the way. The Dash has exactly zero presets and no cooking modes such as roast or dehydrate but still got the most important jobs done.
It was the photo that came on when I click on the link to Amazon. This was like a trigger to my latent color red addiction.
Call me crazy if you like but just don’t call me late for a meal cooked to perfection in my air fryer, but once the air fryer took it’s place next to my maroon toaster I realized that the colors clashed slightly (photos below) so I managed to find and buy a new retro-design red toaster which was the right shade of red.
Serve me like a cup of nuts but just don’t serve me a bad cup of coffee, but on my other counter all the other items were already red except my Keurig coffee maker which was black. It stood out like a frost bitten thumb on an otherwise normal hand. Thus, next came the quest to find a red Keurig. I ordered one from a company on Amazon and got a message it had been delivered to my place but it never arrived. I contacted the company and discovered that it was never sent because they were out of all the red versions but could send me a black one. After some back and forth messages I got a refund. After some web searching I found that WalMart had a red Keurig so I ordered one from their website and a few days later it arrived.
Call me vain if you want to, just don’t call me as vainglorious as Trump, but I generally try to coordinate the colors I wear and sometimes just add red “Happy Socks” (I happen to have the pair Wikipedia used in their entry on this) or a red belt and/or a bright red t-shirt as an accent even though I only have a couple of red shirts, for example I put on the outfit in three of the photos below just for this diary.
Thanks in advance to the small number of Kossacks who I expect will be reading this. The six or so persistent critics of what I post here (unlike Putin, I don't have you on an an enemies list) who may be thinking that they suspected I was mentally unbalanced, or worse, may be now patting themselves on the back saying that this diary proves it.
Addendum:
Here’s a photo diary with photos I took of cloud formations: