“His purpleness” has a Halloween message for our county’s tea party activists, and it’s no hoax.
According to Network Solutions and GoDaddy, the domain name for the Nevada County Tea Party Patriots (nctpp.org) has expired.
“Notice: This domain name expired on 10/28/2012 and is pending renewal or deletion,” reads the message when you search for “Nevada County Tea Party Patriots” on Google.
The group says it believes in “fiscal responsibility,” so it’s time to renew the fee!
Otherwise, who knows: This could wind up on the fledgling Tea Party News Network.
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Perhaps they finally saw the light and knock off the nonsense???
Odd. I got right to the site. Just paid their dues??
Looks like it was fixed yesterday:
Domain ID:D157461109-LROR
Domain Name:NCTPP.ORG
Created On:28-Oct-2009 19:38:25 UTC
Last Updated On:30-Oct-2012 22:13:34 UTC
Expiration Date:28-Oct-2013 19:38:25 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, LLC (R91-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:AUTORENEWPERIOD
Registrant ID:CR22365875
Registrant Name:Stan Meckler
Renewing it two days late for only one year? I thought this group was going to be around for 40 years? Think of the discount they could have received with a multi-year renewal of this domain name.
I saw two stickers on the back of a car the other day that appear to contradict each other. One said “Nevada County Tea Party Patriots.” The other said, “Don’t Be A Pinhead.”
Jeff, Does being called “His Purpleness” make you feel like Prince? LOL! Just kidding!
Purple was indeed the color of the Kings & Queens, Emperors and those of the most envied bloodlines. (Wasn’t a toga with purple strip or border the sign of the most prominent, Patrician-ish, families?) I forget what the legal order re. whom was allowed what colors on their toga’s. But I remember that type of clothing worn by people — colors too — was usually regulated by the ruling system of gov’t. It was a way of broadcasting to all those nearby, how important (or unimportant) a person you were. And Purple was for Kings. (I think–vaguely–that this color was hard to make, or the ingrediants for the dyes were rare and difficult to extract/make.
Ed, Maybe it wasn’t quite as difficult in the grape growing regions. I agree with you, purple is the color of royalty.
From “History, Shellfish, Royalty, and the Color Purple” Dr. Richard M. Podhajny, Ph.D. Contributing Editor
“The earliest archaeological evidence for the origins of purple dyes points to the Minoan civilization in Crete, about 1900 B.C. The ancient land of Canaan (its corresponding Greek name was Phoenicia, which means “land of the purple”) was the center of the ancient purple dye industry.
“Tyrian Purple,” the purple dye of the ancients mentioned in texts dating back to about 1600 B.C., was produced from the mucus of the hypobranchial gland of various species of marine mollusks, notably Murex. It took some 12,000 shellfish to extract 1.5 grams of the pure dye. Legend credits its discovery to Herakles, or rather to his dog, whose mouth was stained purple from chewing on snails along the Levantine coast. King Phoenix received a purple-dyed robe from Herakles and decreed the rulers of Phoenicia should wear this color as a royal symbol.
Although originating in Tyre (hence the name), man’s first dye chemical industry spread throughout the world.
Rome, Egypt, and Persia all used purple as the imperial standard. Purple dyes were rare and expensive; only the rich had access to them. The purple colorants used came from different sources, most from the dye extraction from fish or insects.
The imperial purple of Rome was based on mollusk from which purpura comes. Emperor Aurelian refused to let his wife buy a purpura-dyed silk garment, as it cost its weight in gold!
Insect and snail animal-based colors were mentioned in the Bible for use in textile furnishings of the Tabernacle and for the sacred vestments for the High Priest Aaron, and they also were used in King Solomon’s and King Herod’s temples in Jerusalem.
With the decline of the Roman Empire, the use of “Tyrian Purple” also declined, and large-scale production ceased with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D. It was replaced by cheaper dyes such as lichen purple and madder.”