The Flintstone House
Overview
 
The Flintstone House is a house in Hillsborough, California
Hillsborough, California
Hillsborough is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hillsborough is one of the wealthiest communities in America and has the highest income of places in the United States with populations of at least 10,000...

overlooking, and best seen from the Eugene A. Doran Memorial Bridge on Interstate 280
Interstate 280 (California)
Interstate 280 is a 57-mile long north–south Interstate Highway in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It connects San Jose and San Francisco, running along just to the west of the cities of San Francisco Peninsula for most of its route.I-280 from its northern end at King...

. It was designed by architect William Nicholson and built in 1976 as an experiment in new building materials, in the form of a series of domes. It was constructed by spraying shotcrete
Shotcrete
Shotcrete is concrete conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface, as a construction technique....

 onto steel rebar
Rebar
A rebar , also known as reinforcing steel, reinforcement steel, rerod, or a deformed bar, is a common steel bar, and is commonly used as a tensioning device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures holding the concrete in compression...

and wire mesh frames over inflated balloons. During its early existence it was off-white in color, but was repainted a deep orange in the mid 2000s.
In the mid-1980s the house fell into disrepair, as water runoff from higher on the mountainside damaged the foundation, causing the walls to crack.
Quotations

I Define a “terrorist” as a non-state actor who attacks civilian targets in order to strike terror into the hearts of the enemy community.. A “state terrorist” is a state doing the same thing.

Michael Mann, Professor of Sociology, UCLA in ‘Incoherent Empire’, p 159

"I think they very much see the world in a black and white way, us against them, Muslims against infidels."

Dr Sidney Jones, South-east Asia director of the International Crisis Group commenting on the suicide bombings in Bali. Late Line Australian Broadcasting Commission, 03/10/05

You know, terror is an idea. You don’t fight an idea with a conventional Army. To win a war on terror you have to win the hearts and minds of people from whom, from where the terrorists are operating from. If you win their hearts and mind and get them on your side, you’ll win the war. If those people start regarding the terrorists as freedom fighters, history has told us that you can’t win the war.

Imran Khan interview with Andrew Denton, Enough Rope, ABC Television, 13 October 2008

I’ll give you an example of (George Bush's) war on terror. He’s spent something like almost a trillion dollars. The estimates are that anything up to a million people have died and has he made the world a safer place? In my opinion he’s made the world a far more dangerous place. These are now nurseries for future terrorists.

Imran Khan interview with Andrew Denton, Enough Rope, ABC Television, 13 October 2008

There are some Arabs who think that the Germans did the right thing by the Jews. This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist.

John le CarréInterview with Ramona Koval|Ramona Koval. The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National. (19 November 2008)

 
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