Crazy lady sounds off on water usage
Last year, I wrote a “Snide Remarks” column about a Portland woman who had bought an ad in the ballot information booklet urging people to vote against the library levy — which is to say, she was in favor of closing down the county libraries.
A long-time devoted reader named Nathan has sent me the voter information booklet for Tucson’s upcoming ballot that has a woman who is even crazier. Proposition 200 has to do with water use. If passed, it would repeal the “residential environmental services fee.” I don’t know what it all means, and it doesn’t matter. The point is, here is what a woman named Raquel Baranow paid $500 to say about Proposition 200:
(Source: PDF file, page 15.)
Well said, crazy Bible-thumping, pot-growing Arizona woman!
October 17th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Nice! She’s sure to win plenty of supporters with that logic. Inspired by the lovely Simpsons graphic, here’s a Halloween costume idea for you: http://www.halloweenexpress.com/crazy-cat-lady-adult-costume-p-10914.html
October 17th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Mmmmm…. Now I’m craving a nice pot and tomato salad with a light vinaigrette dressing.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I don’t know that I can add anything to this. If not for the linked PDF file, I don’t know that I would have believed it.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:29 am
If you think that is crazy, go to her website 666isMoney.com. I served an LDS mission in Portland and met my share of crazy people, but this website is remarkable. I particularly like how she has, perhaps, 10 pictures of dollar bills with “666″ “In Money We Trust” and skulls drawn on them. I am unsure, having casually gone through the site, if she is a conservative bible thumber - she quotes the bible extensively and warns that the apocalypse is verily at the door - or a liberal pot head - she quotes extensively from Al Gore and says the Book of Revelation was mutilated by early Christains.
In conclusion, go to her website and you will see what is beyond regular crazyness.
Or don’t go, and save your brain cells.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Did you visit her website? Zowie! That surely has to make somebody’s top 100 websites list. It just goes to show that using LSD and pot help you to see things more clearly.
I wonder where she is going to buy her farm for growing pot, etc.. America (I assume she means the USA) “has BAD karma,” so probably not in this country. Canada has plenty of water, but the climate is a tad colder that what she is probably used to. Mexico has its own water problems along with massive government corruption. I would be glad to donate toward a move to Venezuela…
October 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
That newspaper ad is, how do you say? full of awesome.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:13 am
LSD and pot are good things to have on hand when TSHTF!
Particularly when you are stuck in Babyon! Is that the country founded by Johnson and Johnson?
October 17th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Babyon is falling?? Whatever shall we do?!?
October 17th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Eric I was really hoping those parenthesis comments were put in by you. Unfortunately the pdf link told me no. She is a definite druggy.
Well, thats $500 less she can give to the drug industry so it isn’t all bad.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Did a google search on her just for fun. It turns out, if this is her, her occupation is “Real Estate (Vacant Land) Investment”. This is from her Yahoo profile…
http://profiles.yahoo.com/markofthebeastismoney
She’s pretty scary looking.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Thanks, Crazy Lady– I’d never realized that I’ve got to add some vitamin LSD to my food storage! Question though: if you really don’t care if everybody dies, why pay to take out such a poorly-proofread, expensive ad?
October 17th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
*boggle* It’s like a Marxist Time Cube.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I think you are being unduly harsh here.
At least she is well-rounded. You may grow tomatoes, and a hippy may grow pot, but she grows tomatoes AND pot.
What do you say to that?
October 17th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Shane: try not to think about it after seeing her picture, but her second listed hobby is “Nude Beaches.”
Ranking in at number four is “LSD.” I could have sworn it would be higher.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
And, apparently, the Holocaust never happened. At least, not according to crazy lady.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Although I was planning on voting no to Prop 200 anyways, Crazy Lady’s appearance in the voter guide pretty much sealed the deal for me.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Bible thumping is not the phrase for her. I bet she actually tried to smoke her Bible.
October 17th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
check out the link to the pics that’s up. there is a pic of this person. looks like a crazy, drug addict, tranny.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I wonder how she got her nickname, Venus Freyja Doom. I bet there’s a good story behind it
October 17th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Oh and it took me a few readings to figure out what TSHTF stood for.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
As a Tucson resident I’ve been trying to ignore the water issue…despite sitting next to another reporter who is the one writing about it and talking about it all the time.
Now, however, I have found a reason to be interested in it. I may even vote, probably against it now just so I’m not on the same side as the crazy woman!
October 17th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I don’t believe it. It’s just too much. I don’t think it’s real.
October 18th, 2007 at 12:36 am
On my crazy people drug farm, we’re gonna grow Tomaccos.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Lol, I said (in the article), “I don’t care if U think I’m crazy.”
What will your kids say to you when TSHTF?!
I had a sex change operation:
[link to page on her site that has an X-rated picture.]
The ad only cost $250. A Great investment!
October 18th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I still don’t know what TSHTF is. Can anyone enlighten me? Oh, and Canada actually has a fairly flourishing pot growing industry, especially in BC.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
“The [stuff] hits the fan”.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
TSHFT = The (poop) hits the fan.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:19 am
After 2 months in a Psychiatry clerkship as a medical student I’d guess she either has temporal lobe epilepsy or schitzoaffective disorder.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Raul, I attribute my craziness to being born breech:
http://www.666ismoney.com/BreechBirth.html
October 20th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Why is everyone laughing this away? This (wo-?) man is in dire need of help. Maybe I just scare easily, but hooo-boy does this Raquel scare me! Who here has seen Silence of the Lambs? ..or Seven? Anyone..?
Bible-quoting lunatic-types are rarely harmless. I’d personally sleep a lot easier knowing (s)he is in a nice warm safe place with LOTSA meds and LOTSA security guards..
October 21st, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Hey, the subject of Proposition 200 was WATER, not having enough water in Tucson, Arizona, the Desert, Southwest.
The cover story in the New York Times today (Sunday, Oct. 21) was the “Apocaypse” (their word) that is hapening right NOW down here. Gonna effect Los Angeles, Tucson, Phoenix and Vegas.
BAD news folks, Prop 200 better pass and the Govornor of your State should have disaster plans for when TSHTF.
In the South East, the city of Atlanta will run out of water in three months!
October 28th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I normally don’t post here, but I couldn’t help but follow up on this statement:
“Bible-quoting lunatic-types are rarely harmless.”
Any evidence for/against this statement? I suspect it’s false, with exactly as much evidence as Dave the Slave has presented in its favor.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:22 am
The ad was funny, but once Raquel began follow-up comments, I was alarmed.
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
It’s good to know that once, as Raquel so eloquently put it, TSHTF, humans can survive on a diet of water, corn, soybeans, salt (presumably to make the soybeans go down easier), and vitamin C. Oh, and LSD. Gotta have that LSD.
And quoting Donald Trump as an economic expert? The icing on the pot-laced cake.