So I arrive in Idaho for Weekend At Spud’s, he whisks me home from the airport, and the first thing he shows the Visiting Jew is a large, outside oven. Classy, dude, classy. We then proceeded to bash our livers into the size and consistency of a walnut with some pretty classy spoiled grape juice and perhaps a few brown spirits, as well as raise our cholesterol to four digit levels with our usual cooking. The best part was going produce shopping; it was just like our old days in California, where the cashiers would knowingly smile at the two guys sharing a shopping cart and obsessively selecting produce. This time, add the matching Glibs masks. If I didn’t find that hilarious, I would point out that gay guys don’t dress this badly. But it gave us cred at the Proggie shopping venues.
Speaking of which, here’s a jarring segue to birthdays, including that of a guy who wasn’t one of the Wright Brothers; the great-great-grandpa of Instant Pot; the greatest cartoonist EVER and don’t even bother fighting me, it’s objectively true; my historical celebrity crush; a writer who, let’s admit it, was very uneven; and a fun general named after a zit.
Speaking of zits, here’s some news stories.
Portland says, “Hold another beer.”
“The man is a genius- he reads from a Teleprompter out loud.”
There’s a Harambe joke in here somewhere.
But were they wearing masks? That’s the important question.
“Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!”
See, UPS can do anything that we used to rely on postal workers to do.
Old Guy Music is Tool because, well, Tool.
How long before
Portland forbids beer? Or runs out, with no one willing to restock?
Portland has had an oversized impact on the craft beer scene. They’ve also had (for the past couple of years) a larger then average number of closings. In the past couple of months, there’s been a couple that have closed permanently (all blaming COVID).
mornin’
Mornin’.
Mornin’, Homey!
You reminded me I have some leftover Donato’s in the fridge for breakfast. Good lookin’ out!
Missed getting my Donato’s fix this week – Monday is usually Donato’s Night at Chez GT/TT, but I had a late afternoon hair doctor appointment in C’ville, so I drove home through the UD Ghetto and picked up Potbelly.
A source with knowledge of the situation told The Oregonian/OregonLive federal authorities received a threat that a vehicle filled with explosives would hit a federal building. It’s not clear if a specific building was named.
All for a good cause. Not like that icky redneck McVeigh.
Those boys in a Gaza are slow learners.
Bringing it over from the last thread…
First thing I’m going to do this morning is piss you all off.
You’re welcome.
https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/virginia-commissioner-of-health-plans-to-mandate-coronavirus-vaccinations-once-available-to-public/
They might as well create a new SWAT team to kick in doors and forcibly inject people.
All laws come with that threat.
Wow.
I think that’s going to happen here.
“It is killing people now, we don’t have a treatment for it and if we develop a vaccine that can prevent it from spreading in the community we will save hundreds and hundreds of lives,” Oliver said.
Remind me again you disingenuous hack which demographic is most impacted again? Explain why kids, who are largely not effected by it despite likely carriers, should be forced into one? He’s also misleading by saying there are no treatments. I though HCQ, RFL-100 and plasma transfusions were effective treatments.
Also. Mandate something for ‘hundreds of lives’? We never mandated a flu vaccine and how does he even know if it will be effective? Why not make it available, see what the response is from the public and take it from there? I’m willing to bet most will voluntarily take it anyway.
“Oliver believes that, in the case of COVID-19, public health takes precedent over choice. He said herd immunity is the state’s best defense to stop the spread.”
NO IT SHOULD NOT. Not for this non-lethal virus. Piece of shit.
I’ve never taken a flu shot in my life. Now I have to take one for this? If I get it and happen to be unlucky and it rips me apart and I die SO BE IT.
I did a test comment and will continue to do it in various threads where I see ‘muh vaccines; wear a mask for your own good’ pant shitters saying as much to gauge how far they’re willing to go to bully and decide what’s best for others. Based on one comment where I mentioned someone I know hasn’t had the flu in over 25 years shouldn’t have to be forced to take a vaccine, they went full ‘oh Mr. I didn’t get sick doesn’t want one as if he’s immune!’ but shit. ZERO respect for a person’s wishes and own particular situation.
I’d be surprised if government mandates it. The best we can hope for is as the novelty wears off people start to see it’s not the end of the world as the fog of fear lifts. Once the more cautious but nor irrational come around, more weight to a push back will happen.
I’m going to stay positive. I think who ever is pulling the strings with this thing to keep going is not happy it’s not as lethal as first thought.
It’s almost like the D’s running VA are trying to overreach so badly between the gun control and now this that they want to flip VA to Trump this time.
Nah. Just so drunk with power that they can’t imagine that blatant authoritarianism might be pissing off enough people that they’d get voted out.
“Oliver believes that, in the case of COVID-19, public health takes precedent over choice. He said herd immunity is the state’s best defense to stop the spread.”
Now stay inside and don’t come out unless you have your mask on.
I’m starting to think all the InfoWars types screaming about Bill Gates conspiracies may have a point. They are not putting that shit in my body.
Pass the tin foil.
I needs moar!!!
State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver told 8News on Friday that he plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations for Virginians once one is made available to the public.
I look forward to having him, personally, come to my door to attempt to administer it.
There is no way in hell I am taking that vaccine*.
*Not that I am anti-vaccine in general. I am very much against this vaccine and being forced to get vaccinated.
From the makers of “Two weeks to flatten the curve” comes “It’s been tested and proven safe”
If they’re looking to ‘save hundreds of lives’, they’re going about it in a strange way…
I’d be very surprised if they ever get enough doses to make a universal mandate possible. No one’s ever made a vaccine in the quantities these dumbasses are dreaming of. Even if they could, it’ll take years to vaccinate most of the planet. Let’s face it, it’ll roll out the way all new medical treatments roll out: the rich and connected will probably get ’em first (along with the King’s men, natch), and eventually there’ll be some left over for the rest of the hoi polloi.
Vaccine mandates don’t impress me much.
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I wondered if someone was gonna go there, but I didn’t think it would be you. ;-)
Well, that’s the first time I’ve ever willingly sought it out. It’s amazing how easily a song you only hear fifty zillion times in airports and elevators buries itself in your brain.
I can’t believe SP didn’t take the opportunity to change the locks.
she cant reach them yet and he put the step stool on top of the fridge before he left
I’m sure she’s smart enough to make “stairs” out of the kitchen cabinet drawers.
Good morning, Old Man!
I’m glad you and Spud had a great time. Livers can be replaced, friends can’t.
Portland was a lost cause even before the riots. Can we just wall it up and use it as a cautionary tale going forward? I do have some sympathy for the property owners caught up in this bullshit, however.
Nice song selection. That’s the album that will accompany me on my walk this morning, so thanks!
I hope you all have a great day!
Funny thing is, Spud was totally unfamiliar with Tool. On my urging, he had jut set up Amazon HD streaming, so we corrected that issue. “Holy shit, this is GREAT!”
(Confession: I didn’t know them either until the spirit of Warty descended upon me a few years ago)
Damn. I remember seeing them in concert back in 94/95. Most violent pit I’ve ever been in.
You’ll be interested in this, then.
Maynard is an interesting dude.
But it’s not kosher or vegan.
I’m glad you brought that up, Tundra. A good example of a man with hinterlands.
‘That’s the album that will accompany me on my walk this morning,…’
I’ve loved the band for nearly thirty years now and I must say….I was slightly disappointed with it as a whole. Not that I hated it or anything, and I enjoyed several tracks but, overall it just seemed…subdued? Uninspired? Like a hodgepodge of a lot of their older songs just remixed and set to different lyrics? I can’t really explain it. I guess maybe after such a long wait between albums I expected more.
It’s hard to keep that edge you have at the beginning of your career.
Actually, that applies to almost every profession.
This is true. I remember how dangerous and edgy I thought Metallica was back in the early nineties…then the Load/Reload albums happened. I saw them in concert around the Load album’s release and after they cut their hair off. They just seemed like another rock band. An excellent show but the edginess was gone by then. After they tried whatever the fuck the St. Anger album was supposed to be, I checked out completely.
Ha. I thought they were dangerous and edgy in the 80s, then the black album happened.
(cue someone older than me who thinks everything after Kill ’em All sucked).
They’ve definitely lost the rage that was more prevalent in aenima and undertow. I still think this album rates as one of their best though.
Sick Boy : Well, at one time, you’ve got it, and then you lose it, and it’s gone forever. All walks of life: George Best, for example. Had it, lost it. Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed…
Mark “Rent-boy” Renton : Some of his solo stuff’s not bad.
Sick Boy : No, it’s not bad, but it’s not great either. And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it’s actually just shite.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/quotes/qt0335553
(Lovely to see you fine people again. Life has been interfering with my Glibbing.)
Welcome back! Durn that pesky “real” life!
Merci buckets to both of you.
Lovely to see you as well!
That was a really brutally depressing movie.
Life has been interfering with my Glibbing
That’s why I got rid of mine. Wait, I don’t remember having one.
Welcome back.
I love old Tool and I kind of agree with this – the newer stuff just doesn’t do anything for me.
I think it’s the best thing they’ve ever done. Fight me.
You stumbled upon them later in life. I stumbled upon them when I has twelve and puberty was just really kicking into gear and emotions ran high. I think as consequence, I’ll always prefer their older stuff. It resonated with me much deeper when the band had more piss and vinegar in them. Ticks and Leeches was the last tune they churned out with any real venom in it and that was just a fuck you to the record executives who insisted they have a Nu Metal track on the album since it was all the rage at the time.
It’s kinda hard to maintain that seething rage at being oppressed once you get Fuck You Levels of money.
This should be true. It used to be true. Well, it’s probably true of Tool. But I’ve seen far too much screeching and wailing from the affluent entertainers here to say it’s a common truth anymore. Or maybe it’s either mellow out over the years or go nuttier than squirrel shit for thoae who are artistically inclined.
An open hand, palm upturned
“We now are engaged formally with mutual aid from 10 different states. We’ve been on the phone with governors all throughout the United States, not just the Western states, trying to reach out as far as the East Coast to see if we can get resources here into the state of California,” he added. “And not one governor has not been responsive.”
Still, Reuters reported that — according to a spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known better as Cal Fire — of the 375 out-of-state fire crews California has requested, only 45 have arrived.
Newsom blamed the manpower shortfall on increasing fire conditions in neighboring Western states.
“It’s a consequence of that heat dome impacting the Western United States,” he said. “And as a consequence of that, our mutual aid that goes outside of the state of California has also been stretched.”
The first-term Democratic governor of the nation’s most populous state said he had just received a call from Sen. Kamala Harris of California, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. It was to update Newsom on efforts that she and a bipartisan group of other members of the state’s congressional delegation are making to have the federal government declare a major disaster in California.
“We are here with an open hand, not a closed fist,” Newsom said of such efforts to persuade the Trump administration to come to the aid of his beleaguered state. “Right now we have 40 million Americans that live in the great state of California. There’s not one of them that wears red versus blue at this point — we are here to save lives because everybody deserves to be protected.”
We’re an economic superpower, except sometimes when we’re not. Remember all that bad stuff we said about you, President Cartoon Villain? Well, we were just joshing around. Honest, you’re a great guy. Now help us out.
‘There’s not one of them that wears red versus blue at this point…’
Sure, sure. Collectivist is gonna collectivize, especially when there’s money to be had. And afterwards, what then? Back to systematically destroying anyone and everything outside the new orthodoxy. Cuz we’re all in this together.
“Heat dome”? That sounds scary. Unprecedented, even.
Dome.
Dome.
Dome
From the Pecker’s out article:
Is that a common term? I thought it was someone who worked on a communal Israeli farm (having only heard it, not seen it in print).
It’s a good thing the NYT, Wapo, CNN, MSNBC, etc. haven’t been “weaponized” to help Dems and attack Trump.
Yeah but did they do something as egregious as…not talking about one of the expensive whores Trump purchased? All CNN did was collude with the FBI to film Roger Stones capture and spend several years reporting a debunked Deep State conspiracy theory egging us into war with Russia.
We’ve always been at war with…. oh, never mind.
That is a kibbutzer. A kibitzer is someone who watches from the outside but doesnt participate, like in bridge.
Or chess. Especially annoying when they can’t keep their mouths shut.
Who knew a 69-year-old Pecker could be weaponized? Looking forward to the (near) future.
A kibitzer at the kibbutz?
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Parker!
Is that what passes for tool these days?
*Listens back to old Tool*
I wish they’d just been an instrumental band. Yeah I’m 100% over it.
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Anyone watch Biden’s speech? I honestly didn’t think he would even be able to read off the Teleprompter, without wetting himself, or wandering off to suck his wife’s fingers, so I guess that’s a win.
It’s kind of funny how good his chances of winning the presidency are vs how unimpressive, corrupt, weird looking, and just plain dumb he is. Like, he will have a portrait in a line with Jefferson and become the most famous man in the world. Yet any randomly selected Glib who is 3 drinks in is smarter than he was even at his prime.
Biden has always been a consummate bullshitter. I doubt I could compete with him in that regard given my distaste for it.
That said, they probably juiced him for his speech and rehearsed it incessantly. I’m far more interested in how he’ll fare in a debate.
This. The slobbering from the MSM over his “competent” speech is grotesque but entirely predictable. But you just know they’re quaking in their boots over the debates that they want to cancel.
Don’t forget, he can also ride a bike! Just like a big boy!
The smart ones are absolutely scared.
Trump enthusiasm is real. Democrats going Trump are real. Minorities going Trump are real.
Not the minorities on my wife’s side. It’s like 15-1 Biden by my count, with the lone outlier being an adopted kid who appears to be rebelling hard by moving to Oklahoma and wearing shitkicker cowboy boots with a confederate battle flag design.
I’d call her the black sheep of the family, except she’s a white kid raised by a black family.
I’ve heard Adderall is the performance enhancing drug of choice these days. Unfortunately I fear we will not be given the gift of the funniest political theater of the last century, a Trump v Biden debate (as John used to say “we aren’t living well enough for that”).
I’d watch that even if I had to pay good money.
PPV Benefit! For what cause? Maybe not to Build the Wall. That didn’t turn out so pretty good.
No evidence the speech was live.
You can be sure that dozens of 4-channers are furiously investigating this.
I tried. I hadn’t watched a minute of the DNC so far but I decided I’d see how his speech went. I kept checking in every 30 minutes to see if it had started, but it was always some Dem Party Infomercial. I finally gave up at around 10 CST, because I had to get to bed.
I’ll definitely check out the debates, assuming they happen.
“it was always some Dem Party Infomercial“
Well, yeah. It was their virtual convention. You expected something different?
Just meant it was always a pre recorded segment rather than anyone giving a speech. Not that I wanted to hear anyone else’s speech either. I was just going to check it out out of morbid curiousity.
We can totally trust the postal service with our ballots.
To be fair, it doesn’t seem as though he’d be interested in ballots.
When you control the mail, you control … information!
Speaking of butthurt
The Lincoln Project on Friday released a new ad attacking President Trump for calling for a boycott of the Ohio-based Goodyear tire company, accusing him of threatening American jobs during the coronavirus pandemic because his “feelings got hurt.”
The ad, released in partnership with Republican Voters Against Trump, noted that thousands of Ohioans have filed for unemployment and are facing foreclosures or evictions due to the health crisis.
“Times are tough in Ohio and Donald Trump is making it worse,” the narrator says. “Demanding a boycott to put Goodyear out of business.”
The clip notes that a Goodyear boycott could put 3,300 union jobs at risk.
“Why? His feelings got hurt,” the narrator continues. “Trump talks a good game, but he’s not on our side. Never has been, never will be.”
Reed Galen, a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, said in a statement that the last thing Ohioans need during the pandemic “is to suffer the economic aftershocks of a presidential temper tantrum.”
The group, founded by well-known Washington Republicans like George Conway, said it plans to spend $425,000 airing the “Goodyear” ad through next week.
Well-known? Like who, now?
Those guys ought to re-brand themselves as the Butthurt Project. Trump took away their spots at the feeding trough, and that wasn’t fair.
Now let’s talk about ALL the actual unemployed people due to Democrat governors.
Then we can talk about all the dead seniors due to the same governors.
In Ohio, we can talk about the actual unemployed people due to a Republican governor. What about that, Lincoln Projectors?
I’d like to see what Republican candidates they are supporting – all of the ads I’ve seen are against Repubs that are running. Hmmm?
The insufficiently anti-Trump, I suspect.
Dan Horrigan (D), the mayor of Akron, where Goodyear’s headquarters are based, said in a tweet that Trump was trying to destroy jobs.
“First, you came to destroy American decency,” he said. “Next, you came to destroy American institutions. Now you’re coming to destroy the American economy and heartland jobs. Luckily you seem to fail at everything you do.”
Whoa. Sick burn.
Unluckily, most Governors and Mayors have succeeded.
LOL the desperation is palpable.
“No country can just ride this out until we have a #COVID19 vaccine.
A vaccine will be a vital tool, and we hope that we will have one as soon as possible.
But there’s no guarantee that we will, and even if we do have a vaccine, it won’t end the pandemic on its own”-
@DrTedros”
So.
It’s like the flu never existed.
Big Pharma wants its ROI.
It’s also like Sweden never existed.
We’ll give you an education
Three dozen Purdue University students were suspended this week for attending an off-campus party, violating the school’s social distancing rules.
Purdue suspended 36 students on Wednesday, Tim Doty, the university’s director of public Information and issues management, told CNN on Friday.
“Purdue University has been clear and consistent with our messaging to students about the Protect Purdue Plan and the expectations they would need to follow if they made the decision to be on campus this fall,” Dr. Katie Sermersheim, associate vice provost and dean of students, said in a statement to CNN.
——-
“If you don’t abide by rules, there is no place for you here,” Sermersheim said.
Conform. Be absorbed into the collective. Resistance is futile.
they should bring back virginity tests
There will be no lack of volunteers to administer said tests.
See, that’s why we need a draft, to shape up these malcontents.
Public school about to lose a lawsuit.
So, 36 more Trump voters? Or are they still gonna vote Biden?
So Purdue / U. Indiana don’t have any students who live off campus? They will lose in one.
They should say they were engaging in a “black lives matter” shindig.
Ben ShaWAPiro
https://twitter.com/ComradeToguro/status/1296962066784366592
related
Not gonna lie, my first thought on watching that was that if Ben Shapiro had a thicc sister, she might be hot.
The Young Turks
@TheYoungTurks
.@noamchomskyT
described @realDonaldTrump
as worse than Hitler calling Trump as, “Most dangerous figure in human history.”
Full interview with @cenkuygur
on ‘The Conversation’ today at 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT on http://TYT.com/Live
https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1296481368164184069
there’s tds and then there’s tds
This from the guy who promoted Pol Pot.
See?!
Even Chomsky can’t give credit to the Asian murders he supports! The racism never ends!*
*see comment below
And what was Ghengis Khan, chopped liver? People always ignore Ghengis nowadays. Always with the Eurocentric boogeymen? For shame. The mass murders of Asia never get their due.
I blame systemic racism.
Most of the people Mao killed all looked exactly the same to us, so it doesn’t seem like as many.
“one, two, thre…FUCK, one, tw…FUCK, somebody get me a Sharpie”
Yo, Turks. The Young Armenians would like to have a word with you.
My God. The comments.
“Gravel Institute
Socialism is the only ideology that has successfully defeated fascism.”
Unless he claims the Soviet Union was socialist and only they defeated the Germans, maybe he has a point to a certain degree.
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And even then, if you were to concede, those numbers put him nowhere on the level of the greatest mass political murderers in history. These people are beyond repair.
Never mind how bloody stupid the mask mandate argument is. I would like to see those studies.
Also. What the heck is eco-sexuality?
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OMG how ablist.
‘Also. What the heck is eco-sexuality?’
You can only cum while in a botanical garden.
“Socialism is the only ideology that has successfully defeated fascism.”
I don’t recall Soviets fighting in Italy.
Right. Nazis saw themselves as socialists fighting communists with the Soviets.
Good point. The Nazis were not as pure fascists as the Italians.
An aside, just learned a bit about the Italian campaign in Greece during the second big one. What a shit show!
Socialism is the only ideology that has successfully defeated fascism.
The economics of fascism are socialism.
Socialist and fascist systems usually end up being indistinguishable. If there’s a difference, it’s that fascists don’t pretend to be anything but what they are.
I am not sure I am man enough to get the old paint off the doors in my apartment.
That’s a miserable project. Why do you need to strip them?
Well they were painted like 15 years ago and look bad. I did not do the doors when I renovated the appartment and I think I should. The paint on them is all chipt and there are already two old layers so I don;t think I can paint on top.
The doors are from 1940 made of fir wood and they are not just straight rectangles unfortunately.
Replacing them would be expensive and also added cost of repairing around…
Ah, gotcha. They may actually look really nice natural.
Sean’s advice is correct. Good luck and open the windows!
Zip strip and a putty knife.
https://www.mclendons.com/2731970/product/Zip-Strip-33-601ZIPEXP
I assume you can find something similar.
Yes but it is laborious. I had to do to times paint remover scrape paint remover scrape and it is still not done. I want to get one of those electric polisher things.
Pro tip: Do not take two gallons of zip strip to the self serve car wash to strip the paint from your car.
I mean it works very well, but (apparently) many car wash places recycle their water.
?
After two tries something like this
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYzzNYtwngcwoyfM2a9tLt1e4qL2iBiz/view?usp=drivesdk
Became
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gb8XccwbvifazJb0ziyCi76Vt_MaWqs_/view?usp=drivesdk
Some woman somewhere has paid a large sum of money for a door exactly like your second picture, for that authentic fake rustic look.
It’s funny because it’s true.
You likely have lead paint. Good luck with that.
I don’t think it is lead paint. But I can’t tell
Was the paint cracking before you tried stripping it? If so, were the cracks nearly perfectly symmetrical squares and rectangles? Those are tell-tale signs your paint has lead in it. At least in the U.S. it is. Not sure if the chemical mixture differed much between lead paints across America and Europe back in the day.
it was more chipping than cracking
In my amateur experience, if you apply an aggressive stripping agent to paint, and after 30-60 minutes you dont see any ‘action’ ? You done got lead.
It would be the same. The square cracking is due to lead oxide crystallization.
You could always taste it. Lead paint is sweet in flavor.
I don’t think in the early 2000s in Romania lead paint was used.
Also I saw action before 30 minutes.
I paint for a living and often use this product for such tasks:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Jasco-1-Quart-Extra-strength-Stripper-Semi-paste/1001079512?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-pnt-_-google-_-lia-_-133-_-thinnersandsolvents-_-1001079512-_-0&placeholder=null&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInpHul_Wu6wIVgT6tBh0ECQwIEAQYBCABEgL8VfD_BwE
Coupled with some 80 grit sand paper and elbow grease, it can be stripped completely after a couple hours. Go back over the wood with 120 grit, then 150 grit, then finally 180 grit to get it smooth as a baby’s ass before priming and painting.
I doubt that brand is available here but I will see what I can find. I think I will wait until I no longer need AC to have windows open.
Is this some sort of weird Romanian sexual reference?
Another issue is the wood is pad where the screws go in for the things the English word escapes me the handle plate things
we call it șild in romanian pronounced like the English word shield
Strike plate?
this
https://www.manere-cutii.ro/manere-cu-scut-lung/nicole-maner-bronz-1303.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhIP6BRCMARIsALu9LfmOuQifC-upfX_W5l4MrHI_GcXqpkade_sb3Pf3D1_6b3_zToT2_T0aAkqBEALw_wcB#/30-distana_interax-72mm/44-tip_clana_utilizare-cu_butuc/365-culoare-bronz
Ah, gotcha.
See if you can find a product similar to this:
https://www.amazon.com/Elmers-Products-E842L-Carpenters-1-Quart/dp/B001E5L19O
Or this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bondo+wood+filler&oq=bondo+woo&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l3.3277j0j8&client=tablet-android-sprint-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=imgv&imgv=0
Make sure to dig out any rot left in the door before applying.
That’s what I was thinking. That or the hinges. Either way, some wood putty and or wood filler will fix that problem once it dries. Just set new screw holes afterwards and done.
Thanks ill look for some.
If it’s just a loose screw hole you can sometimes get by with shoving a few toothpicks in and breaking them off flush, gives the screw enough to bite. I wouldn’t hang a mirror using that trick but it works for hinges and escutcheon plates well enough.
Heh. I’ve stripped down a wood shim to do that in a pinch once or twice.
Yup – round toothpicks covered with wood glue reportedly work for securing a loose strap button on a guitar, which you wouldn’t want to come loose in the middle of an awesome shred solo.
Oh I did the toothpick thing a few times now… was looking for something more permanent
Are you referring to the door handle plate?
https://www.homesteadhardware.com/help/glossary.html
Yes.
Strike plate?
Assuming this is a euphemism, try Viagra and porn.
https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Local-man-arrested-after-lighting-underwear-on-fire-at-Starbucks-409784745.html
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
But it was a peaceful protest!
They let that Abdulmutallab dude out of Gitmo, huh? He just never learns.
Looking at him, I can understand . Had he been wearing them on the outside as prescribed he’d had better success. Needs to read the instructions on burning undies in Starbucks brouchure
I mowed over three baby copperheads yesterday evening.
Fortunately the little bastards will strike at anything, including spinning mower blades.
Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house…
Must live on copperhead road.
Sounds like a good start.
Blah blah blah Profitz before Peepul!</a?
Up and down California, where COVID-19 cases spiked through July and into August, health care personnel in hospitals say they’re facing working conditions that leave them vulnerable to the coronavirus. Health care workers and their unions have tried to improve their situation facility by facility — one even held a five-day strike at a Santa Rosa hospital last month — but they have made little headway. Six months into the pandemic, they say they are still forced to reuse protective equipment and are denied testing by their own hospitals. Now, many say they need government intervention.
The National Union of Healthcare Workers has asked the state government to issue new rules requiring testing of all newly admitted hospital patients for COVID-19, as well as baseline and exposure-driven testing of health care personnel. Sal Rosselli, the union’s president, said it presented its plan recently to Gov. Gavin Newsom and other top state officials, who seemed receptive. (Newsom’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment.)
“No provider was ready for this pandemic — it was chaos, and it continues to be very chaotic,” Rosselli said. “But the fact that workers that treat these patients every day or clean their rooms can’t get tested even when they have symptoms, or even when they’re exposed, is the demonstration that this industry is driven by profit and not by providing adequate care.”
I wonder if it’s possible to have some sort of exposure meter, something which could capture environmental samples and test them for contamination levels; like in nuclear power facilities. One might be able to acquire some useful information, that way. But it might derail the narrative, so we had better not.
Heroes.
Nice.
true
I mowed over three baby copperheads yesterday evening.
Eep!
https://www.nj.com/ocean/2020/08/nj-diner-defies-murphy-again-reopens-for-indoor-business-after-cops-change-locks.html
This guy will be needing a GoFundMe in the very near future. Murphy has already demonstrated his willingness to go full fascist on anyone who defies him.
If one goes up, please post it. I sent a couple bucks to the gym guys, and I’d do the same for these folks.
Lamp posts.
The age of human fighter pilots in air warfare is ending.
https://twitter.com/tprstly/status/1296746285408694274
In air to air combat maybe, air to ground not so much.
Flies MQ-9 Reaper over Scruffy’s house. I’d have to do some research, but it seemed to me that air to air was the 3rd wave of UAV operations, but air to ground was second. First it was surveillance.
That era was doomed when von Richtofen sold his soul to Big Frozen Pizza.
I was always told that Snoopy took him down.
All my dumb luck and all my misgivings I thrust them aside for the dead for the living I want my vehicle, my saucer-shaped coffin I’m Mighty Pro-Jet I’m Baron Von Richtofen
Given your references to Herriman and Parker, I am surprised your music choice wasn’t also from the first half of the last century.
Every time I do that, people bitch. Which means, yes, you’re right, I should have.
I am wondering just what excuses and strategies the DNC will be rolling out to get out of having Biden debate Trump live and in person. I can’t imagine they will let this happen f there is any way to wriggle out of it.
I’m sure they will try to make it a remote Zoom-like debate where they can have a teleprompter out of view but in front of Biden to feed him his responses – but even then there’s a huge risk he will go off script and say something stupid. But Trump should and probably will stick to his guns and shame Biden into a live face-to-face debate.
I don’t see any way the blue party can avoid this without anybody who isn’t a true believer seeing right through that Biden and his handlers know he will get torn to shreds if he faces Trump in a live debate. Even Biden’s handlers have to know this.
A Zoom debate might be interesting if some 4chan type managed to intercept Biden’s teleprompter feed. I’d watch that.
I’m imagining something like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UENAvJuClHU
LOL
Yeah they know it, which is why their media division is all in on canceling the debates.
I wonder how they can cancel the debates without making it obvious to any but true believers that Biden doesn’t have the mental capacity to hold up his end? Yeah, the people who are voting for Gropin’ Joe regardless won’t care but how do they expect the rest of Americans at large to go along with it and not see exactly what the problem is?
‘Vid terror. There’s nothing it can’t do.
“Trump is such a lying liar that we can’t dignify him with a debate” or “We’ll debate when he releases his tax returns”.
Maybe there can be a debate between the The Hat or The Hair and the Diaper or Drool Cup.
And a child shall lead them.
https://www.nj.com/essex/2020/08/family-kicked-off-newark-bound-flight-when-2-year-old-refuses-to-wear-mask-report-says.html
If you can’t control your children, you shouldn’t be allowed to produce them.
If you
can’tthink you can control your children, youshouldn’t be allowed to produce themare in for a big surprise.Land of the free
A New York couple that has been battling the state government in court for the right to hold a wedding with 175 guests — more people than allowed by state rules designed to curb the coronavirus — has decided to postpone the event, their attorney told CNN.
The Pamella Giglia-Joseph Durolek nuptials were scheduled for this Saturday at Arrowhead Golf Club in Akron, New York.
But on Friday, Judge Denny Chin of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted the state’s emergency stay request, ruling that the wedding be halted until a panel of judges from the appeals court can hear the state’s motion for a stay at a later date. Chin did not, however, rule on whether the wedding violated state coronavirus guidelines.
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On August 7, Chief District Judge for the Northern District of New York Glenn Suddaby, ruled that the wedding, and that of another couple, be permitted to take place under the state’s Covid-19 rules for restaurants.
There was “no rational basis” for the state to treat weddings differently given the facts of the case, he ruled. Under those restaurant rules, the wedding venue would be allowed to operate up to 50% capacity rather than the 50-person limit for non-essential gatherings.
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But the state tried to halt the Giglia-Durolek wedding from taking place on August 22 by requesting a stay of Suddaby’s ruling, while seeking an appeal in the Second Circuit.
In a 28 page-ruling issued Wednesday, Suddaby denied that request for a stay from the state and county officials.
“If accepted the State Defendants’ argument would allow the State to justify almost any restriction on a person’s ability to gather as long as COVID-19 remains a threat due to the inability to predict human behavior with certainty; and yet, the Governor has allowed many businesses to operate and gatherings to take place precisely on the assumption that patrons and guests will comply with the relevant restrictions,” Judge Suddaby wrote.
New York state officials filed the same request in the Second Circuit, which Judge Chin granted Friday.
We’re subjects, not citizens.
Also- forum shopping; just keep filing until you get a ruling you like.
Insanity. This is a small town near Buffalo – not exactly the world’s epicenter of plague.
I haven’t counted noses on the Honey Harvest suspects, since all are welcome. 4 weeks and counting down, bring folding chairs if you have them. Biggliest Glib Meet up Ever. If you’ve never met another Glib in the wild you can be a Mystery Guest, wear your avatar and make us guess/remember. Tundra has the mailing list and info, publishes the newsletters. Hope to see you.
Still a long shot that TT & I might attend, but Labor Day weekend plans seem to be falling through, so we may want an alternative trip. Would you mind very much repeating your e-mail addy so I may inquire about whereabouts of the HH? I’d like to get some idea of how long it would take us to get there driving and how many days I’d have to take off at the day job. Thanks!
At the yahoo, latvia2112, use Cabin as the subject, so I won’t miss it. Hope you can make it.
Nachos garcias! E-mail sent.
I doubt it but thanks!
…publishes the newsletters.
There is one in your inbox awaiting editorial approval!
“as long as COVID-19 remains a threat due to the inability to predict human behavior”
See Tedros’s comment above.
This is how they’re going to play it.
This will lead to friction and agitation and eventually protests like we saw in South Korea, Madrid, Berlin and now London. We’ve had some here too.
This is madness how they’re behaving.
What they really mean.
dumb. They should’ve just held the wedding and not told anyone in the government.
“Hunh. We planned for 49 people to show up, then all 150 people we invited showed up? Lucky we ordered triple the amount of food we thought we’d need?”
My grand daughter had over a 100 at her outside wedding a month ago in WI. The reception was indoors, 6 to a table. Very few masks and they came off when the music started.
When someone else is paying the legal fees, you can keep appealing forever.
My preference for the next constitutional amendment is one stating that any public official (including prosecutors) who appeal a ruling have to pay for it out of pocket; if they win they will get reimbursed.
Call it a protest. They all wanted to speak now, otherwise they would have had to hold their peace.
“the greatest cartoonist EVER and don’t even bother fighting me,”
It’s like you haven’t heard of Drew Friedman.
You strike me more as a Dwaiyne Tinsley sort of guy.
Behold the future
Thus, it’s here, between skeptical support for Joe Biden and overwhelming opposition to Donald Trump, that progressives chart their future. For two presidential cycles, Sen. Bernie Sanders ignited and expanded the progressive left. Now organizers and activists seek to build on that working-class coalition by tapping into the energy of a national anti-racist protest movement and an increasingly diverse citizenry. It’s a political strategy previewed this week by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the DNC.
Ocasio-Cortez’s brief speech described the left as a mass movement not only fighting for “guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages, and labor rights” but also “striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia.”
AOC — a young, progressive economic populist — stands amid a cohort of movement-based officials and candidates like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman (none besides AOC were invited to speak at the convention), who make up a newer, more diverse class of progressive politicians. Both in 2016 and 2020, the significant critique of the Sanders left was its shortcomings in mobilizing enough people of color, particularly Black voters.
Now, during America’s racial reckoning, progressives are seeking to fix that. But just as urgent is their desire to get Trump out.
From the Blue Dog Democrats to the democratic socialists, many agree that Donald Trump is an existential threat to American democracy. It was a consistent theme for the DNC.
“I am … asking you to believe in your own ability — to embrace your own responsibility as citizens — to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure,” former President Barack Obama said in his remarks. “Because that’s what’s at stake right now. Our democracy.”
Oh, okay. That “working-class coalition” you speak of: I don’t think the average mill worker, or auto assembler, or mailman sees himself as closely allied with transgender social justice defund-the-police-ers. When push comes to shove, their interests may be more closely represented by the Bad Orange Man. Especially if you persist in calling them all racists and promising to destroy their way of life.
170,000 Americans are dead bc he failed. Period. Multiple studies show that a nationwide mask mandate in March could have saved tens of thousands of lives.”
Uh huh.
“According to my model, my model is correct.”
Also a nationwide mask mandate would be illegal.
And with the mask mandate, all 170,000 of those sick or elderly people allegedly killed by the Chicom flu would still be alive?
“Period” does not mean what they seem to think it means.
“The @USPS Board of Governors has a responsibility to serve the public interest. That means delivering the mail on time – not acting as accomplices for the Postmaster General’s partisan sabotage. If the Board won’t fire Louis DeJoy and reverse the damage, they should resign too,” Warren tweeted Friday.
What partisan sabotage? Weren’t they just given additional funds to waste as they continue to lose money?
USPS finds new use for more money, needs more shovels
Pay no attention to the partisan sabotage by the union representing the people who will actually be delivering those ballots.
Wow, this Kevin Warren character is some piece of work with this Big Ten mess.
Covid is so dangerous he’s letting his son play at Miss. St.!
But were they wearing masks? That’s the important question.
I don’t think the masks prevent the spread of anything, let alone std’s.
And the perps deserve to burn in hell.
#talismask
Today, still aiming to diversify, groups like DSA have thrown themselves into coalition-building with Black activist organizations. Thus far, they’ve leveraged local chapters to help support Movement for Black Lives agenda items like defunding the police.
“There’s a lot of conversation happening around how we build coalitions across a very stark racial divide in this country,” James told Vox, adding that right now that looks like investing in campaigns at the local level to reroute municipal funding from police to community safety initiatives and educational opportunities in Black communities.
For years, Sanders sustained the organizations like DSA on the progressive left. He attracted young supporters. He bolstered political legitimacy. Yet Sanders will be 79 in September. It is “very, very unlikely” he’ll run again.
A new generation of left advocates, who are rooted in the lived experience of discrimination and fluent in the language of racial justice, stand ready to take his place. In so many ways, the future of Bernie’s movement looks a lot like AOC.
Oppressed, she is. Oppressed and sassy. Who doesn’t want her in the White House? She will save America’s soul, if only we will take her into our hearts and let her.
I swear I thought socialism + identity politics has been tried before. Ring any bells?
Very few masks and they came off when the music started.
Something something wages of sin.
But it gave us cred at the Proggie shopping venues.
I’m guessing Boise Co-op. And the second store.
That was one. And some fancy-ass version of Albertson’s was the other.
Knew it.
Liked it when it was a slightly crunchy alternative to bland chain groceries. Got our wedding cake from there. Deli was great with a chicken salad I’d kill for. Of course that was before Franz bought and killed Harvest Bakery.
Cat-fight!
LOL!
Here is a FB group all you gun nuts should join immediately.
gun nuts
Gonna need a ruling by the alpine judges on this one.
How do we know the guns are loaded? I mean, other than the one, of course.
“This is my pistol, this is my gun”
Never point your pistol/gun at something you do not intend to shoot. Apparently he intended to shoot, ’cause he did.
Is this where we make fun of people who appendix carry?
Hey, they don’t print with your beer belly flopped over them, OK?
I don’t think I’ve ever been happier to have Facebook out of my life.
Essential worker:
Sacrifices must be made, sigh!
Birthday today: my Ma. She would have been 79. I loved my Ma more than anyone in the world.
Sorry KibKris.
My folks would be well over a 100. Still miss them. my Dad more than Mom, ’cause I saw Mom get old. My Dad’s been gone over 50 years. My heart understands, be happy for the memories, KK
Sorry KK. 20 yrs. since Dad passed, 16 for Mom. Like 4×20 I still miss them. Lots of memories; even the unpleasant ones are not so bad in hindsight.
Tennis fans:
First big plague-time event (men & women) of the year starts now. And because reasons, they moved it from Cincy to NYC.
I don’t get it either.
The big scaredy-cat money-makers mostly “opted out”, of course, but there a lot of great players left.
When Trump cuts taxes temporarily- bad. When administrative agencies set their own tax rates and change them arbitrarily- good.
https://www.fcc.gov/general/contribution-factor-quarterly-filings-universal-service-fund-usf-management-support
Fuck. You. Cut. Spending.
Pwoerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/the-week-in-pictures-all-male-voting-edition.php
or Powerline
LOL. +1 violins on television.
Thanks. I always enjoy these; nice to browse during breaks.
I like how the owner of the jeep is environmentally conscious.
The spent casings are caught in a bag.
A reloader
https://freebeacon.com/culture/detroit-women-flock-to-gun-training/amp/
Outstanding.
“Last weekend she took part in a basic handgun safety training event where she helped to train 1,938 Detroit women—more than double the event’s 2019 attendance. The Sunday session was so popular that the classroom portion had to be changed to an open-air event in the range’s parking lot due to overcrowding concerns and coronavirus-related precautions.”
“There’s nothing like seeing a woman pull the trigger on a firearm for the very first time. It’s like a light just goes off in her. It’s a moment of enlightenment.”
Preach it.
My daughter is at a gun show today, needs to learn to shoot and safety.
Indeed.
Someone needs to tell Kanye that those votes belong to Uncle Joe. If he somehow gets on the ballot in Minnesota it is game over for Biden, and they know it, which is why they are gonna pull out all the stops to make sure it doesn’t happen. Yeezy is already going to hand Trump Colorado. Looks like he missed the Wisconsin deadline by, hmmm, 14 seconds.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2020/08/21/kanye-west-campaign-insult-black-voters-arizona/3410692001/
The WI story is infuriating. I eagerly await this level of strict punctiliousness in counting ballots.
Sure, why exactly did his supposed campaign wait until the very last minute to file? I think it was a stunt. And he really don’t have to run.
It was actually the Republicans trying to get him on the ballot. What a cockup.
Oh, well that explains it. Those concession speeches won’t deliver themselves.
“It’s seems pretty clear what’s going on here.”
“A longtime Trump pal suddenly hip hops off the MAGA mobile in July to run against his “former” friend.”
Thankfully, the dems would never, ever, try something like that.
No egg McMuffin
Walmart.com sells both Hellmans and Best Foods mayo. Wonder if they’ll really violate the east/west divide. They are different SKUs.