.
Asked by @Emma_Dumain about Graham's call for another special counsel to look into the Hillary Clinton email probe, Chris Coons said "Seriously?" several times and doubled over in laughter.
"I can't believe this is my job," he said
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) March 25, 2019
Meanwhile, the grownups are working on real problems:
Days before the election, Republicans aired ads pretending to defend health care.
Today, they have a new message: people don't deserve quality health care and insurance companies should discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.
We *will* fight tooth and nail. https://t.co/wD2crNucfa
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) March 26, 2019
Pelosi Says Democrats to Unveil ‘Sweeping’ Health Bill https://t.co/Gh32ab5jWT
— Politicques (@politicques) March 25, 2019
NotMax
Say what now?
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
gene108
Just checked in. Sorry to read about EFG’s passing. Condolences to his family. He will be missed.
Jay
@NotMax:
Shitlords all the way down.
“In a progressive meaning-degeneration like a game of telephone, Robert Mueller:”
http://yastreblyansky.blogspot.com/2019/03/image-via-xavier-high-school-xpress.html?m=1
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Jay
“As the Conservative opposition attacks the Trudeau Liberal government over LavScam, a Tyee article that drew big traffic four years ago and then went dormant is once again attracting thousands of readers.”
That piece is “Harper: Serial Abuser of Power, The Evidence Compiled: The Tyee’s full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.”
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/03/25/New-Attention-Harper-Era-Abuses/
Jay
@rikyrah:
Good morning
OzarkHillbilly
‘Horror, fear, despair’: Venezuela’s oil capital shattered by ‘tsunami’ of violent looting
………………………
Jay
@rikyrah:
BTdubs, Ozarkhillbilly refuses to share the source of his low cost, wholesale Blechs,
A nice thing however:
https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/dog-tags-along-on-hiking-expedition
NotMax
Couple of either eye-catching items.
1) Pace Han Solo: I got a bad feeling about this.
2) One size does not fit all.
Patricia Kayden
Now it will be up to Roberts to save the ACA once again. Sigh.
Jay
@NotMax:
Yeah, I have a chip card, ( forced too because my 35 year old swipe card was killed by the Bank).
It resides in a jury rigged Faraday Cage because “swipers” can do a brush pass and steal the card digitally.
It’s my 9th card in 10 years because the “chip” keeps failing.
Sometimes it’s good to be a Luddite.
Aleta
I found a new place to dwell.
Aleta
It’s down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartblech Hotel.
Jay
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soonergrunt ??
@soonergrunt
Replying to @soonergrunt
And a fair reading of Greenwald’s “work” over the last couple of years is that Russia didn’t interfere in any way, shape, or form in the 2016 election.
He’s so married to that position that he burned a source who had evidence to the contrary.
49
7:10 AM – Mar 25, 2019”
Jay
@Aleta:
Can you play it in E minor?
It’s the saddest key.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: The headline at the Guardian was, “Houston, we have a problem”.
Jay
@Aleta:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NgViOqGJEvM
Giving the joke away here.
RAVEN
@OzarkHillbilly: The floor is ripped up, the subfloor in in and he’s starting to put the leftover 3/4″ pine flooring in. There is not nearly enough so I’m looking at this. They dimensions are the same, it fits although the bead is different that the groove in the existing floor. The have their bedroom tented and we really don’t have time to order flooring. He was concerned that it’s not the width of the original flooring but I said am just interesting in getting it safe for nor and we’ll look at other options when they move out. Whatcha think?
Jay
@RAVEN:
Jury rig a router bench to match the bead and groove.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Router-Table-1/
Mix and match the runs so that the pattern comes close to random.
Once apon a time, “irregular” was standard.
OzarkHillbilly
@RAVEN: It will work but it might look pretty redneck. Have you thought about putting in something entirely different? I’m thinking tile or stone under the window, like a hearth in front of a fireplace. Than you can use the wood you saved there to finish off everything else. Obviously it would cost more but it will look like a design feature, not a “Oopps, ran out of flooring.”
Of course, it being rental property, you may not care if it looks a little “Oopps, ran out of flooring.”
Jay
@RAVEN:
You can also do a “carpet” match, where the “bulk” is laid out in the center, and the “different” is used to frame the “carpet”.
NotMax
@Jay
Official jackalwear?
:)
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: This.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Had an oak floor, (white) once, 1950’s, which alternated runs of 4” oak and 2”oak.
Filled in a maple floor by remilling a Home Depot stock to match a End of the Roll bulk. Had to cut for non-standard thickness and match the tongue and groove.
Worked out fine.
NotMax
@RAVEN
Once you put the electric orange shag carpeting in no one will be the wiser.
:)
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly and Jay: Ha! My man was concerned about how it will look but, at this point, I just want it safe. We’re thinking about one of the manufactured floors after they leave and a carpet is not out of the realm. There is termite damage to a couple of floor joists and he’s going to scab in sone 2×12’s onto that. I had the exterminator folks come out and, brilliantly, we stopped the sentricon on that house about 8 years ago. We’re restarting it so funds are limited especially since we’re not even breaking even on it now!
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: I have done the same.
Jay
@RAVEN:
Basically, you take the saved wood, and lay out a square or rectangle in the center of the room. Then you get a “contrasting” box of wood flooring to lay out a contrasting ribbon edge. It can be subtle or bold. Then you “infill” the space between the square, ribbon and wall, with the almost matching stuff.
https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2015/08/12/flawless-wood-floors
Raven
@Jay: Yea, that’s nice but that ain’t what this is about! Here’s some of the damage. Oh, did I mention the bug people went under the house for about 2 seconds and went and put on their overhauls and respirators because of the mold?
Jay
@Raven:
Proper subfloor and sistered joists is what makes it “safe”.
Everything after that is “fancy”.
You got 70/80/90% of the wood, how you lay it out makes it “fancy”, little flower bonnet fancy.
I like wood. First home I had, had 140 year old Douglas Fir floors that just required refinishing and 140 year old cedar shakes on the exterior walls, of which I had to replace 12.
NotMax
@Raven
Presumably you’ll be getting around to installing some sort of louver(s) or grille(s) to provide cross ventilation?
raven
@Jay: That’s why he has put in 3/4 osb between the joists. He’s laying the flooring over that. I once worked at the Advanced Wood Product Lab at Georgia Tech. We got a gift of a million $ worth of CNC woodworking machinery from SCM in Italy. I was working in a Adult Literacy unit and someone got the brilliant idea that we could combine literacy education with CNC machine operator training. They sent me all over the country looking at the training programs, Robert C Byrd Woodworking Center in West VA, NC State, Virginia Tech and the Pittsburg State University program in Kansas. My analysis was that it was a dumb idea and, 6 months later, we had budget cuts and I was gone.
raven
@NotMax: Yea but I’m getting mixed messages that it will be enough,
raven
God, it was 18 years ago! Cutting edge lab to study expanding wood products industry
The AWPL has three missions. The first is to provide education and training to members of the wood products industry in Georgia and the Southeast. This includes teaching designers and machine operators how to use and maintain Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing programs. They also will study modern, interlinked Computer Numerical Control, technology, machines that process and shape wood materials into complex items such as furniture, cabinets, doors, window frames and molding. The lab also will provide managers with programs on the strategic, marketing and economic elements that are the keys to integrating new technology into wood products manufacturing.
Jay
@Raven:
That’s not bad.
I also run a Renovation Company, in a town where the downtown core is side built with raw lumber. Nothing is standard.
I get rubber stamped on permits because I’m the only act in town that can make Tesla work with Edison.
I did an art mall revamp, in an 1880’s packing house, and pointed out to The City, that the whole building was still, improperly plumbed for gas lighting. 90 years of “fire inspections”, missed that.
That ain’t so bad once joists are sistered and sub floors laid.
raven
@Jay: Yep, our two houses are at least a hundred years old and our part of town is a historic district and lots of stuff isn’t standard.. My father-in-law was an old school builder (See Bee and architectural engineer) and he helped us on our original work 20 years ago. He said “you and your buddy are fine for demolition but you are not carpenters”!
raven
@Jay: When I saw Tesla I though you meant the stuff we used for kitchen counter tops!
“Trespa Phenolic Resin Countertops”
Jay
@raven:
I don’t use OSB for flooring underlay. 3/4 ply.
OSB has it’s place, but water kills it.
But, I’m old school. Cedar gingerbread, properly cared for, lasts 150-300 years. Plastic?????????
I lack hardwoods, ( wood heat) other than Douglas Fir, so I get at least 2 chords of birch in from Salmon Arm. Some of it is “spalted”. That gets set aside for the band saw and cabinetry.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalting
NotMax
@raven
Hey, that’s my garage band’s name!
:)
Jay
@raven:
Yeah, nope. DC vs. AC warfare.
In some regards, I should be dead by now.
I also have a boilerers maker Red Seal, so I’m fixing heating systems my Grandfather installed.
OzarkHillbilly
Not that I will ever have to worry about this but an interesting if long read: Smart talking: are our devices threatening our privacy?
raven
@Jay: I’m mos def in pine country. We debated on the osb and ended up going with it. Pennywise and pound foolish I guess.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yup, gotta like wood, or love it.
NotMax
@Jay
Back in the day one of the crafts projects for the kids at summer camp was to go out into the wioods with a linoleum knife and cut swatches of birch bark (being careful not to girdle the tree), then flatten and dry them under heavy rocks and trim them into the right size to use as postcards.
raven
@Jay: Well, between you and Ozark I’m choppin in high cotton!
Jay
@raven:
OSB is cheap, but exposed to weather or wet, doesn’t last.
But that depends on how you define last.
A cornerstone of my off Ranch business is building kitchens and bathrooms. I build them to last. 4 lifetimes.
Change the wall paint, lighting fixtures, taps, everything else will be practical and classic for a couple lifetimes.
NotMax
@Jay
Hardly standard but sometimes used tempered Masonite as subflooring to save $$. AFAIK, 50+ years later and it is still doing fine.
Real carpenters may now commence snickering.
Jay
@NotMax:
I’d love to get my hands on some good birch bark, a chunk say 18’ x 4’, but it’s too warm out here.
In the winter, I build and restore canoes.
I would love to build a Malacete canoe, in birchbark.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: I can identify most species just by the smell of the sawdust.
Kay
@Patricia Kayden:
Health care is a great campaign issue for Democrats. It may be the best issue for them. They can use this every day, in every race, until election day, no matter what the court does.
Incredibly, what they’re trying to do is make every single health insurance policy worse. This doesn’t just impact poor people or people without employer provided insurance. It hurts everyone. Every single person. My 16 year old has a pre-existing condition under the old system, and so does my daughter in law. Millions and millions of people.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
The real blech is that NPR gave GG any air time this morning.
debbie
@Jay:
I like this idea.
Jay
@NotMax:
In my Sandpiper House, I laid green jade lino. $0.54 a square foot. 0.01 mm gaps. Looked like a single sheet of jade. Refinished cheap red oak cabinets with sanded plaster, ( to fill the grain) and a cherry wood stain/varnish.
The thing is, when you are paying for it, there’s a big difference between labour and materials.
I still haunt second hand shops for ‘70’s teak castoffs. $25 bucks for 30 board feet of milled teak.
But I’m weird. I used to salvage skids at a Tech Company, because I realised the skids the CRT’s were shipped on were rosewood.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: It may be the case that Trump, beneficiary of a Republican-rigged political system and supine Beltway media that are perfectly willing — nay, eager — to let him to get away with unprecedented crimes, is dumb and petty enough to piss away that good fortune. One way of doing that would be to massively overreach in a bid for revenge by, say, destroying the underpinnings of the U.S. healthcare system because Obama and ordering his DOJ toadies to prosecute political enemies.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Mnnnnnnn,
Wood sniffing,
Mnnnnnnn,
A Ghost To Most
Blackmail is not collusion.
That’s their story, and they are sticking to it.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
“Not guilty”? “Civil war”? “Divisive issue”? “Partisan politics”?
Somehow the Russians really got their hooks into her.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: If one doesn’t like the smell of wood, they should become a plumber.
OzarkHillbilly
Ooopps:
Kay
@Patricia Kayden:
It’s a mistake. A blunder. If the Trump Administration, Republicans and a far Right Supreme Court make it impossible to have affordable, secure private health insurance then a single payer public system looks like the only option.
One thing we know about Medicare, right? The Supreme Court won’t overturn it. So if we can’t have a regulated private system like other countries do – and we can’t- the far Right won’t allow it- that leaves “expand Medicare”.
People just want affordable, secure health insurance. They need it. They don’t care where it comes from. If one justice can take away your health insurance then it isn’t secure. They’re making the private system unworkable and the public system much more attractive.
NotMax
@Jay
When redoing the floor in a turn of the century (18th to 19th) house, ended up ripping up 3 different layers of linoleum (the real stuff).
One time, while demolishing an older, dilapidated two story (plus attic) 4 bedroom long abandoned house, we discovered the only nails in the entire building were the ones used to attach the vertical siding. And those were square-headed iron.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m a Red Seal plumber as well,
I prefer wood.
Jay
@NotMax:
Those are valuable. probably worth more than the house.
I did a reno in town with no nails, just juniper trunnels for fasteners. It was fun.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: I hate plumbing with the white hot passion of a thousand dying suns.
Jay
@NotMax:
BT dubs,
Some of the mid century lino, ( 1950’s-1970’s) contained asbestos.
A bunch didn’t, because it contained cost with no value.
I still like lino. Now you can buy it in 60’ x 60’ sheets.
NotMax
@Jay
This was back during the late 60s or very early 70s. Who knew? The vertical siding was two by six planks, which we did repurpose to build a capacious deck on another building. Joists for that were recycled railroad ties.
This particular house mostly mortise and tenon, although there was some notched construction as well. Flooring was held in place with wooden pegs.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
It’s a cheap buck. It’s easy to do well, most don’t.
I’ve made more money off my snakes than my hand planes.
Lapassionara
@OzarkHillbilly: Thank you for the best laugh I have had in a while.
Jay
@NotMax:
Nice.
Raven
@Jay: Check this house my buddy built. He, a Japanese and Norwegian carpenters flew up to your neck of the woods, slected the logs, rough built the house and then trucked it all down to Georgia. The snake sculpture is gigantic but the woodwork. . . wowzwer.
Sab
I sold my dad’s 1920’s 6 bedroom house to the next door neighbor, and the bastard demolished it! With no effort to salvage anything. Whole downstairs was carved oak panelling. Wrought iron railing on the staircase. Carved fireplace mantel imported from Europe. Butlers pantry with gorgeous cupboards. All hauled off to the dump.
We’re kind of stunned.
OzarkHillbilly
Alternative facts Kellyanne Conway Calls On Schiff To ‘Resign’ For ‘Peddling A Lie Day After Day’
You can’t make this shit up.
rikyrah
Marc Lynch (@abuaardvark) Tweeted:
Trump orders recognition of Israeli sovereignty over occupied Golan. @djpressman explains why that breaks US diplomatic tradition and international law to little benefit. https://t.co/3YoCDqVLnd https://twitter.com/abuaardvark/status/1110497889489481728?s=17
rikyrah
The discussion about flooring today is one of the reasons that I love this blog. I have no idea what you are talking about, but I find it cool that you all go back and forth about it ?
raven
@Sab: And people here want to bitch about the historic preservation regs!
OzarkHillbilly
@Sab: My parent’s house met the same demise. We expected it. The old neighborhood ain’t what it used to be. Lots of McMansions going up.
Tata
The WH is acting like we went for the king and missed.
I switched to decaf.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: People always bitch about historic preservation regs without ever recognizing why they moved to that neighborhood to begin with.
Jay
@Raven:
Cool.
One of the “fun” jobs I did, was replumbing a restaurant. In the ‘40’s it was a Movie Theatre, in the ‘20’s, a Dance Hall, in the old ‘Aughts, a gambling hall.
Below the main floor and added kitchen, a sloped floor, theater seating, changing rooms, orchestra pit, not really a basement, but instead a dirt crawlspace, sometimes 12” clearance.
There were still show posters in the “hidden rooms”.
rikyrah
Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter) Tweeted:
“A Crime in Public View”: How William Barr Pardoned Donald Trump | Vanity Fair. @ScottTurow cuts through the fog. https://t.co/9n7gCf3NQI https://twitter.com/jonathanalter/status/1110508462247735296?s=17
Sab
@rikyrah: You are such an important resource here. I had forgotten about Abu Aardvark’s blog, haven’t read it in years, and it is so good.
Kay
@Tata:
That’s true but with media cheering them on and popping champagne corks they’ll probably grossly over-reach. I would bet money on it. Remember how much tv these people watch. Hours and hours. Daily. They’re watching the media celebration, which is actually a different thing than the public. We’ll see what the public thinks.
rikyrah
The gall of this muthaphucka ?? ?
https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/1110280897453010946
rikyrah
Ian Sams (@IanSams) Tweeted:
NEW >> @KamalaHarris unveils $315 billion plan to give every teacher in America a raise
✅ Average teacher sees $13,500 raise
✅ For every $1 states chip in, feds add $3
✅ Fully closes 11% gap b/w teachers’ pay & other professionals’ in 4yrs
Full plan: https://t.co/5xCNyRTlp7 https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1110500586208800770?s=17
Raven
@Jay: The UU Church around the corner had a sloped floor and the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society contra dances were a real challenge!
Jay
Off to bed , Y’all.
Love you.
rikyrah
Shannon ?? (@TheStagmania) Tweeted:
Popular media narratives:
• Democratic candidates focus on Mueller/Russia
• Democratic voters counted on Mueller to save us from Trump
Anyone who talks to voters or listens to candidates knows both are false. 2020 landscape hasn’t changed much because Mueller wrapped. https://twitter.com/TheStagmania/status/1110350050935427072?s=17
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: As much as I’m kicking myself in the ass for not doing more to the rental we restored the plaster, put in new HVAC and wiring, new roof and paint. It was a lot but, apparently, not enough! My bride just informed me that her dad milled flooring pieces for repair way back then.
rikyrah
David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) Tweeted:
The GOP seems to forget that the investigation to which they object was into whether a foreign enemy interfered in US elections to help Donald Trump. We don’t know much about the findings but we do know they found yet again that Trump won w/Russian help…which he encouraged. https://t.co/YgHHHfStpr https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1110511545778429952?s=17
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: The amusing thing is you can tell she is full of it by that opening.
It is amazing how the press, people who write for a living, are so incapable of reading.
rikyrah
Slate (@Slate) Tweeted:
A conservative judge defended Mississippi’s racial gerrymander in a starkly partisan, conspiratorial polemic. https://t.co/ltWHdO0QDk https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1110511312570929153?s=17
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rikyrah: I have to say Trump’s nacassim was on full display yesterday with that rageasm of his, when any sane person would have said “told you so” and moved on. But this is starting to sound like some kid who trying to catch up with his homework the night before finals.
rikyrah
World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) Tweeted:
Democrats warn a new White House proposal backed by Ivanka Trump to limit certain federal student loans could wind up shutting out less affluent families. https://t.co/IjyikeXQOD https://t.co/8cJxiYDLKe https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1110510916997660673?s=17
rikyrah
Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) Tweeted:
On this day in 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested and falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, AL. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. Share this #racialinjustice https://t.co/fdreAxIO5Q https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1110510843605721088?s=17
Dorothy A. Winsor
Good advice
rikyrah
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
She is a clown
rikyrah
Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) Tweeted:
In a shocker, a Kazakh bank says in a court filing that Felix Sater, President Trump’s longtime business partner and a career criminal, considered using POTUS and Michael Cohen’s proposed Trump Tower Moscow project to launder money https://t.co/3JVh3rioGW https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/1110307933227831297?s=17
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Thing is, we know nothing about the Mueller report aside from a few dozen words cherry picked and used in Barr’s missive.
Elizabelle
Good morning, jackals.
Godspeed to Peter aka efgoldman. He is irreplaceable. Sad news, although not unexpected. Marilyn and efgjr and family are in my thoughts.
Moving day in Wiesbaden (am here helping a friend organize her move). This gentleman who is packing the boxes is so fast and accurate. 3 cheers for Martin.
Betty Cracker
Since this has turned into a home renovation thread, here’s a question for the assembled experts: I have a hideous painted popcorn ceiling, and I’m looking for a cheap fix. Would skim-coating it with all-purpose joint compound be a good idea? A guy on YouTube says so! Related, could amateurs accomplish this? YouTube guy makes it look easy!
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: It’s like the Trumps subconsciously want to be Ceaușescu-ed.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: I agree. Which is why I’m trying not to pay attention until we know something. Getting anxious won’t help me and won’t change anything.
@Elizabelle: We were lucky to be part of efgoldman’s life and to have him in ours.
RedDirtGirl
@gene108: Oh, that’s so sad. He was a vibrant member of this community. I’ll miss him!
RAVEN
@Betty Cracker: I watch this show at 5am Saturday’s.
Tips for DIY Textured Popcorn Ceiling Removal
raven
@gene108: Aw dammit. I’ve lost two buddies in the last week, this makes three.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Heh.
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That is my move as well. I predicted to my students that within two weeks, the Barr summary (a political document) would be vastly undermined by details from the Mueller Report (a legal document). We will see how good my powers of prognostication are.
Betty Cracker
@RAVEN: We were originally planning to go with straight-up removal like that, but it turns out the ceiling has been painted, so you can’t just scrape it off. Here’s the YouTube guy skim-coating a painted popcorn ceiling. I really don’t care if the finished product is perfect — it’s so awful now that it appears a single coating of mud would be a huge improvement! I’m just wondering if it’s a lot harder to do than it looks…
Immanentize
@raven: shit. That is a rough week.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: You have to remove the popcorn before you skim coat it but yes, an amateur can manage this. Just remember, “good enough for you” is good enough. Shooting for perfection is a fool’s errand. If any one comes in and starts pointing out the flaws? Just give them a taping knife and a bucket of mud and I guarantee all those flaws will disappear before their eyes.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Pretty sure we know less than nothing of what is in the Mueller report.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker: I’ve done it – but my neck was almost 30 years younger and still it was a strain. I recommend that you scrape off any places that really protrude from the middle depth. Also I learned a trick from a dry waller who did restoration plaster. Use a large wet sponge between applications of mud instead of sanding. Once you’ve got the layers you need then you can do a light sanding at the end.
Uncle Cosmo
@Jay: FWIW: In 1999, new friends I’d met in Stuttgart some days earlier on the eve of the Euroclipse showed me through their very nice home in a suburb of Fulda. Rudiger asked me how much a house like theirs would cost in the USA, & I guessed $250,000. “This one cost twice that,” he said, “but it will be standing long after your American house has collapsed.” Which seems to be the norm in Yerp these days, Stucco over cinderblock can be quite attractive (if responsibly maintained) and sturdy as all get out.
Betty Cracker
@MomSense: I might have to enlist younglings to help, then. I’m such a wimp that I’m still recovering from tiling my kitchen backsplash this weekend. It turns out I’m ill-suited for manual labor!
tobie
@rikyrah: I’m grateful for the focus on pre-K through 12. Every child in America has to go to elementary school and (some portion of) high school. Investing in schools is investing in the future.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Paint should make the removal only marginally more difficult, I’ve done it more than i’d like. And wear a decent pair of work gloves if you don’t want skinned knuckles.
@MomSense:
I never sand between coats (just a quick knock down of any greebles) but I’ve done a lot of taping. You have to be very careful with any sponging as it is really easy to remove more than one meant too.
OzarkHillbilly
@tobie:
ergo, Repubs hate it.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
This is how we know they fear his abilities and what his committee can do. He was on the team that prosecuted Miller – the FBI agent who handed secrets to the Soviet Union. I also believe he was involved in money laundering cases.
Laurence Tribe has said as a student he was much like Obama. Brilliant. No drama. We have to have his back.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: If it’s possible to just skim over it like the guy does in the video linked at #109, I’d prefer that option since it would save me the work of all that damned scraping. Maybe I’ll give it a try in an unobtrusive spot like the laundry room and see if I get decent results…
LivinginExile
@Betty Cracker: I have removed popcorn ceilings by spraying with a light mist, damp not wet, to keep down the dust. Then scrape with a broad knife or sheetrock trowel. The knife or trowel should be sharpened blunt across the edge, if it has a chisel edge of will gouge in instead is scraping.
zhena gogolia
I am unutterably depressed. So Trump fires Sessions because he recused himself, gets Barr in via his lapdog Senate, and Barr gets to bury the Mueller report. And instead of wondering what’s in the actual report, the American public wants to “move on.”
So the American public, and the great “patriot” Robert Mueller, are okay with Russia picking our leaders for us?
And now Trump & Co. are going full Stalinist purge on us.
It’s worse than I ever imagined it would be.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
True. It took some practice but it was better than drywall dust on and in everything. That stuff is awful. It was a 200 year old farmhouse and the people that had it before I did put popcorn between all the hand hewn beams. They also put orange carpet over all the pumpkin pine floors. I do think the carpet preserved them to some extent but it was hideous. The only people who didn’t think I was crazy when they first saw the house were my parents. They had bought the same kind of old houses when we were kids. It ended up beautiful.
LivinginExile
@LivinginExile: Try again. It will gouge instead of scraping.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MomSense: KelleyAnne has shown us who she is repeatedly. Her and Sarah Sanders both.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
After reading this Fromm Williwm Safire of all people about Barr and Mueller working together to hide another scandal, I’m pretty sure we got played all around. It was theater designed to cover up a coup. Fuck em.
Barr Mueller Iraqgate
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: Come sit by me; I find the whole thing utterly depressing too. Our only hope now is that Trump and his enablers will step on their own dicks by overreaching. But on the bright side, there’s a really good chance of that! If Trump had just kept his goddamned mouth shut after the election, there wouldn’t have been an investigation at all.
MomSense
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Yup. Wasn’t it someone close to Sanders who said the West Wing was so happy about Barr because he would shut the investigation down?
tobie
@zhena gogolia: I hear you, and I’m tired of the unearned praise for Mueller. If Barr put pressure on him to close up shop before his investigation was complete and/or misrepresented any of Mueller’s findings, he has a duty to speak up. Quiescence in a time of crisis is not a virtue. It’s complicity. Either Mueller is beholden to Reagan’s 11th commandment, “Thou shall not speak ill of a fellow Republican,” in which case his investigation was a sham from the start, or he’s too wedded to the cultural norms of the establishment to do anything. This does not make him an institutionalist. An institutionalist would not sit idly by as the rule of law is hollowed out. It makes him a petty bureaucrat beholden to existing power structures.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: In my experience there is no way to get a smooth result doing that (you end up with a series of speed bumps followed by air pockets behind the offending popcorn) plus a job that should take half a 5 gallon bucket of mud uses up better than 15 gallons, but it seems to work for him so give it a try.
@LivinginExile: Taping knives will get razor sharp just from regular use. I always rolled mine over a sanding screen before every use to remove any sharpness. Also I round the corners, others don’t, different strokes…
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense:
Heh, I’ve seen a lot of hideous over the years so I can imagine.
gene108
@OzarkHillbilly:
They are doing their victory lap.
Barr’s DOJ isn’t prosecuting them for nothing. By the time the emoluments law suits make it to SCOTUS, Trump will have lost in 2020 or won re-election and won’t care because who is going to prosecute him? Not his DOJ. And Senate Republicans won’t convict him, even if the House impeached.
And Trump has the legal resources (probably provided by grateful billionaires) to slow crawl any case by NYS AG.
We can vote them out in 2020, but whatever crimes Trump committed to get elected, I think he has gotten away with.
gene108
@zhena gogolia:
I am where you are.
The media trumpets Trump’s “exoneration”, rather than ask the about the one thing Barr’s memo, that was clear: Russia interfered in 2016 (something Trump has repeatedly denied) and are not asking how he’s going to prevent this.
It’s like the MSM has resigned itself to the fact Trump will do nothing, Russia will interfere, so why bother asking.
Miss Bianca
@raven: Why did you think it was a dumb idea? One of the axioms I was taught when I was in Adult Ed was that Adult Basic Literacy was best tied to something vocational or otherwise practical in nature. Not that I necessarily adhered to that axiom, but one of the biggest lights in the field at the time – Dr. Tom Sticht, as I recall – made his bank on the notion that mixing job training content with literacy skills was the way to go.
Just One More Canuck
@Jay: they are hand-curated, gluten free, non-GMO, free range artisanal blechs
LivinginExile
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes. The edges need to be rounded or they will dig in. I put my knives in a vice and use a file to blunt the edge. Then lay it flat to remove any burrs.
Chris Johnson
@gene108: MSM is interfered with by Russia. It’s one of their best weapons. For decades, mainstream media has been hurting for money, especially newspapers. Russian oligarchs have money. This is not complicated.
Villago delenda est. Most of them are bought and paid for.
I’m sorry I get angry sometimes but this sort of thing is why.
Kathleen
@MomSense: I know thread is dead but I still have to chime in that I totally agree with you. There was a coup in 2016 and this is just more evidence. It’s to our benefit to acknowledge that so we can fully comprehend the horror. The media’s reaction is most horrifying. They are engaged as active and willing enablers of fascism and racism. Next step is to realize our power to create world we want in spite of what powers that be tell us.
African Americans have endured centuries of America’s wickedness. I draw inspiration from them.
Kathleen
@Chris Johnson: I think you’re right.
frosty
@Betty Cracker: Pay someone for 1/4” drywall over it. Fixed my broken lath/plaster ceiling. Then I asked how much they wanted to paint it. Response: “Nobody wa
nts to paint a ceiling.” i wrote another check.