I keep running Lumpy’s comment about the weirdly persistent campaign of Haley and the parallels to Brandon’s basement campaign. Is the fix in? Seeing an X post that claims the white powder sent to Don Jr was Trump’s warning that he was next in line (based on what info I have NFI) also raises my concern. None of that is the reason I’m up early but it could be in the future!
I find it amusing how Ben is all over the weather forecast. He’s been talking about this storm for days. It all relates to his flying practice. He had a flight yesterday and said he’d be landing just as they predicted it would change to IFR. His test for that is coming in a couple of weeks and he’s been hitting the books hard.
I recognize the style chair, I’ve seen them before, probably in architectural or home design articles. I bet they’re expensive to buy new or even used.
Way back when I started working in Bangor the hospital had a doctor’s lounge with a few side rooms and a conference table in the main room. One of the side rooms had a TV with a couch and two designer recliners in leather with matching ottomans.
During a round of construction the lounge was closed and a new one opened a couple of years later with no sign of those recliners. I can only guess they were initially purchased by the physicians who, early on, had more say in how the hospital ran. They’re probably sitting in an administrator’s office now.
I need to poke around. Nimrata got 26.5% in the MI primary, but as I noted, we have open ones here. “Uncommitted” only hit 11% against FJB, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot of crossover just like in the earlier primaries.
Shot: Demoing out a shower in my son house cause the water is just running through the floor to the downstairs cieling. Nothing surprises me with this house as I’ve redone everything in it except this bath. Came across this at demo
They just tiled over the old tiled shower floor 🤣 anybody ever seen this before. No wonder the deck was over 6” thick 🤣
Chaser: ******* update. After this post it seams like some people are more concerned about other issues. Not the stupid way this was done. All the walls were opened and no mold was found but just because of peoples concerns we have totally demolished this 1.5 million dollar home and all houses within a 1 mile radius and hauled it to a contaminant site. As for me I’ve checked into a hospital in case I breathed in anything toxic ( been in construction for 45 years. Hopefully my lungs are clear)😀. If I make it out alive I’m going to retire early at 65 and just sit on a beach and wait from life advice from certain people on this site. Thanks in advance. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve always liked Scandinavian furniture but at no point in my life has it seemed affordable. At this point I’m sure there are a lot of crap knockoff brands that will last for less than a decade and get chucked to the curb for pickup
I remember a lot of dog cancer deaths for a few years there. I figured there was something novel in the food that was quietly taken out or made irrelevant when all the new “super healthy” boutique options hit the market.
Comment by ruralcounsel on February 28, 2024 11:23 am
Radon remediation is of essentially two forms. One, better ventilation to avoid it building up in higher concentrations. Two, paint your basement walls with something that impedes diffusion from the surrounding rock and soil. It tends to only be a problem in areas with a lot of granite (or similar source rock) and is almost always just a problem in basements, not above ground. (Maybe not if you built on a Nevada nuclear test site.) If the dogs weren’t kept in the basement, it’s unlikely they were affected by naturally occurring radon.
Speaking of the EPA, Spongebrain Shitpants is pushing hard for a new water quality restriction and it’s gonna cost us big time: http://tinyurl.com/y9n4nayx
If anyone remembers Bandersnatch from HQ comments, apparently he passed away yesterday or the day before.
Comment by Thermadin on February 28, 2024 12:42 pm
DOE is no better. I work for a DOE lab and the amount of stupid stuff we have to do is getting out of hand. Their new bugaboo is silica. At one point they had the guys working on the sprinklers and digging in the dirt wearing mask due to the silica in the dirt. They have backed off on that, but other equally stupid shit is still going on. The problem is they want to eliminate risk instead of managing it. If nothing gets done they don’t get in trouble. However if someone gets hurt in some way that’s a big problem for them.
Jay, Silica can be a lung issue and you can form Silicosis. It’s sort of similar to Asbestosis. You have to breath in a shit ton of the material for it to be an issue. But the gravy train on asbestosis is running out for the trial lawyers.
Yes we are. Fucking trial lawyers are a blight on humanity.
Comment by ruralcounsel on February 28, 2024 2:04 pm
I recall a Industrial Hygienist MD telling me that asbestos alone is generally not a huge problem. It’s when you combine it with smoking that you get the cancers. His explanation was that the physical nature of asbestos needle-like crystals would cause punctures in lung tissue that allowed a physical pathway for the tars of smoke to enter into the cells. I suspect the same mechanism for other chemicals besides products of incomplete combustion.
Comment by ruralcounsel on February 28, 2024 2:13 pm
What our State Department instigated and funded in Ukraine in 2014 is what they will eventually do to Americans that don’t “bend the knee” to Washington DC and the Deep State.
A few years ago I made a series of documentaries on the war in Ukraine. This relatively short video is a summary of how it really began in 2014. An unelected government began killing its "own" people in the south-east of the country after visits from Joe Biden and John Brennan. pic.twitter.com/BbPFi84tbQ
In Other News: I got a haircut yesterday. Gay guy screwed it up. Now I have to wear a hat everywhere for the next two or tree months. I need to find a proper barber shop run by an old guy named Sal or Floyd. There was a great one near my house in Vegas, real Old School guys who would take their time and use straight razors and hot foam to shave the back of your neck and had heated moist towels to wipe your face and neck down when they were done. They don’t do that at (Not so) Great Clips.
My dad was a pipefitter and his union had their members screened for asbestosis every so often. I’d bet there was a trial lawyer behind the scenes of that effort at some point.
I’ve had good luck with barbers in all the places I’ve lived and have only used a chain place a few times in my life.
One of the times I did the chick cut her own finger with the scissors and her associate had to finish the cut while she tended the bleeding and another time a gay dude did a lousy job.
Denver had a shop which was run by a bunch of Filipino guys, St. Louis had a little brick building with the barber pole out front and a mixture of car, hunting and girlie magazines on the table. Bangor has a few old fashioned barbers that I’ve gone to over the years.
The price has definitely increased over time, especially in the last few years – thanks Brandon!
I’ve had the same barber for thirty some years. He’s very conservative so we have great chats during my haircuts.
He recently moved into a salon environment where there are individual suites for each “stylist”. The guy next to his is a very loud, very flamboyant shitpacker, and often my guy will just stop cutting, go over and close the sliding glass door and say “Fuck, I can’t stand listening to that guy anymore.”
Entirely plausible, but they need the primaries settled before they can put Nuisance in place, I’d think, so it might be “preliminary findings” that get a follow-up in summertime.
some serious condition previously undetected
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We’ve got 24 hours before we’ll know if that’s their plan for dumping him. If we make it to BBF he’ll continue to pretend he’s the candidate.
Comment by ruralcounsel on February 28, 2024 3:33 pm
My yardstick by which I measure barbers was Ted, a chain-smoking WW2 veteran who ran and owned his shop in between my parents home and where I went to school. Gruff but friendly. He knew how my Dad liked it cut, so he always cut it shorter than what I wanted. (This was the 60’s and 70’s, remember.) He cut my hair from about the age of 8 till I left for college. Even during college, when I came home to visit I often would get my hair cut there.
Like Jimbro, I’ve usually found old-style traditional barbers in the different places I’ve lived. Right before Covid hit, I was getting it cut by a Korean barber in Arlington not far from the Pentagon. Though these days I cut my own hair about 4 times out of every 5 with a good set of electric clippers and those plastic length guides that attach. Then I let the real barber clean up my mistakes on that 5th cut, for $13 plus tip.
I knew a guy whose family worked for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia. His mom was a nurse and she would treat old desert people for silicosis. Being out in the dust for 60+ years, the exposure added up. Not too much of a hazard here, but working cattle in pens can get pretty bad.
A friend of mine worked with asbestos in a factory for 20 years. He’s 70 now and has no issues from it. He jokes that he has fireproof lungs.
Penelope has cut my hair for years. Getting pretty close to Leon’s method, though.
Tonight’s “Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner!” Heinz 57 hamburger steaks, mashed taters and air fried zucchini & squash. Hamburger steaks are just ground beef, garlic powder, washyersister sauce and chopped purple onions in patties and browned in a skillet. Then I pour a mixture of water and 57 sauce over them and let them simmer for 30 minutes or so. Should be good!
Dan is making fajitas. Inventory went well. People were being really douchey today. Making cashiers cry. My mom had ovarian cancer. She was a powder puff woman. She didn’t qualify for the J&J payout.
In my fellowship I went to a conference with my first wife and met a guy doing his fellowship in Toronto. He was from Saudi Arabia and had a job lined up as a doctor for Saudi Aramco. We went to dinner with him and his wife and he did his best to recruit me to come work for them. This was pre-9/11 and I was mostly worried about getting all my certifications and the travel back and forth to do all that and politely declined.
I don’t know if it’s making the national news or not but there are wildfires happening in the Texas panhandle that have burned over 1300 square miles over the past few days. It’s beyond bad.
A group on facedouche was recommending some Netflix shows. It was the Larry Correia fan page.
The lovely Mrs Phat is out of town, so I thought I’d give one a whirl. ‘delicious in dungeon’. Absolutely hilarious. If you’ve ever played D&D you will laugh.
Up early today, two cups of coffee already consumed and I’m wondering if we need another pot.
Probably not a wise decision but when has that ever stopped me before?
I keep running Lumpy’s comment about the weirdly persistent campaign of Haley and the parallels to Brandon’s basement campaign. Is the fix in? Seeing an X post that claims the white powder sent to Don Jr was Trump’s warning that he was next in line (based on what info I have NFI) also raises my concern. None of that is the reason I’m up early but it could be in the future!
Buy more ammo.
Wakey wakey
I’m out of coffee. Why even get out of bed?
New England weather forecast: warm and shitty.
Oh well, you can’t have it all.
Buy more beans.
Yeah, rain and wind here too.
I find it amusing how Ben is all over the weather forecast. He’s been talking about this storm for days. It all relates to his flying practice. He had a flight yesterday and said he’d be landing just as they predicted it would change to IFR. His test for that is coming in a couple of weeks and he’s been hitting the books hard.
Monday 76
today 7
Those look nice. They’re going on eBay right? Call me when they go live.
I can’t find ones by the maker of mine, but man these things get expensive. Mine is from Racine.
Ope. Wind just started.
I recognize the style chair, I’ve seen them before, probably in architectural or home design articles. I bet they’re expensive to buy new or even used.
I used to sit on my dad’s lap in those chairs and watch tv. They are surprisingly comfortable.
40 degree drop here. Snow and rain, but not too much of either thankfully.
Way back when I started working in Bangor the hospital had a doctor’s lounge with a few side rooms and a conference table in the main room. One of the side rooms had a TV with a couch and two designer recliners in leather with matching ottomans.
During a round of construction the lounge was closed and a new one opened a couple of years later with no sign of those recliners. I can only guess they were initially purchased by the physicians who, early on, had more say in how the hospital ran. They’re probably sitting in an administrator’s office now.
Very close
https://www.ebay.com/itm/225550917955?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28
Has to be the same maker.
Why are those so expensive? Doesn’t look like much as far as materials or woodworking. the thin leg rockers take a lot more skill to make.
I need to poke around. Nimrata got 26.5% in the MI primary, but as I noted, we have open ones here. “Uncommitted” only hit 11% against FJB, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot of crossover just like in the earlier primaries.
Hehehehe I love commenters on the internet:
Shot: Demoing out a shower in my son house cause the water is just running through the floor to the downstairs cieling. Nothing surprises me with this house as I’ve redone everything in it except this bath. Came across this at demo
They just tiled over the old tiled shower floor 🤣 anybody ever seen this before. No wonder the deck was over 6” thick 🤣
Chaser: ******* update. After this post it seams like some people are more concerned about other issues. Not the stupid way this was done. All the walls were opened and no mold was found but just because of peoples concerns we have totally demolished this 1.5 million dollar home and all houses within a 1 mile radius and hauled it to a contaminant site. As for me I’ve checked into a hospital in case I breathed in anything toxic ( been in construction for 45 years. Hopefully my lungs are clear)😀. If I make it out alive I’m going to retire early at 65 and just sit on a beach and wait from life advice from certain people on this site. Thanks in advance. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Holy crap those are crazy expensive. Why?
in south carolina I think they said 50% of her votes were democrats crossing the aisle to vote for her
I know, leon, 1 step from a lawn chair
Even truer today than when Buckley said it!
Furniture from the 60’s and 70’s is hot right now.
google 60’s Scandinavian chair.
Simple lawn chairs……$3000 each. We delivered a pair last winter, the foam in the cushions had turned to dust.
wonder how much I can get for my 80’s lawn chair?
hehehe Ikea collectibles
x: Sundance is right again
We gotta listen to Conservative Treehouse more often.
I’ve always liked Scandinavian furniture but at no point in my life has it seemed affordable. At this point I’m sure there are a lot of crap knockoff brands that will last for less than a decade and get chucked to the curb for pickup
LOL
Mold
This common organism that exists on almost everything in nature has been turned into the scourge that is going to kill us all.
The five most ridiculous EPA scams:
– mold
– asbestos
– lead
– radon
– second hand smoke
Radon is ugly stuff. Old boss had 3 dogs die of cancer, then they found very high radon levels. Got it remediated, and dogs since have been fine.
and with as much asbestos is in everything pre 70, we should all be dead.
Sorry about your boss’s dogs, Jay. But those dogs could have died from myriad other reasons.
true, but I find the coincidence interesting
all of them premature cancer deaths. hmmm
Hey MJ, you do have a source for pecans, right?
We are gonna get beaten like a drum in November.
I remember a lot of dog cancer deaths for a few years there. I figured there was something novel in the food that was quietly taken out or made irrelevant when all the new “super healthy” boutique options hit the market.
Radon remediation is of essentially two forms. One, better ventilation to avoid it building up in higher concentrations. Two, paint your basement walls with something that impedes diffusion from the surrounding rock and soil. It tends to only be a problem in areas with a lot of granite (or similar source rock) and is almost always just a problem in basements, not above ground. (Maybe not if you built on a Nevada nuclear test site.) If the dogs weren’t kept in the basement, it’s unlikely they were affected by naturally occurring radon.
Radon mitigation is based on the concept that radon causes cancer (or other respiratory risks).
The EPA has no science to back this up.
They have no science to back up their having classified second hand smoke a Class A carcinogen.
They have no science for a lot of the shit they get written into regulations.
Go to an ASTM or ICC convention sometime and pal around with the EPA zealots that lobby for regulations and see what I mean.
Speaking of the EPA, Spongebrain Shitpants is pushing hard for a new water quality restriction and it’s gonna cost us big time: http://tinyurl.com/y9n4nayx
If anyone remembers Bandersnatch from HQ comments, apparently he passed away yesterday or the day before.
DOE is no better. I work for a DOE lab and the amount of stupid stuff we have to do is getting out of hand. Their new bugaboo is silica. At one point they had the guys working on the sprinklers and digging in the dirt wearing mask due to the silica in the dirt. They have backed off on that, but other equally stupid shit is still going on. The problem is they want to eliminate risk instead of managing it. If nothing gets done they don’t get in trouble. However if someone gets hurt in some way that’s a big problem for them.
Wait, the dirt had… sand in it?
HAZMAT suits all around.
WEE ooo WEE ooo WEEE ooo
sirens going off.
That is correct Leon. Fucking sand. Our crafts guys can no longer do concrete work for the same reason. They contract all that work out.
Arizona is essentially uninhabitable. The residents must be relocated ASAP.
ALL BEACHES MUST CLOSE.
I hadn’t heard the silica danger. Wonder what that’s based on.
Will Rogers said, “It’s a good thing we don’t get all of the government we pay for.”
If he’d only lived long enough he could have seen what our money really buys.
There are two kinds of bureaucrats.
The ones who do nothing all day long then collect a paycheck at the end of the week – these are the good bureaucrats.
The bad bureaucrats are the ones who feel the need to justify their existence.
Will Rogers was referring to the good bureaucrats. He was unaware that the bad bureaucrats would come along later.
Within 10 years fiberglass insulation will be banned. We’ll be hiring men in hazmat suits and respirators to remove it and “properly” dispose of it.
*Files LLC origination for Fiberglass Remediation Solutions*
Apparently the dihydrogen monoxide lobby found new outlets.
Jay, Silica can be a lung issue and you can form Silicosis. It’s sort of similar to Asbestosis. You have to breath in a shit ton of the material for it to be an issue. But the gravy train on asbestosis is running out for the trial lawyers.
And there will be ads on tv and radio by lawyers who have run out the mesothelioma victim scam.
LOL
Themadin and Hotspur are simpatico.
I pretty sure the whole J&J baby powder lawsuit was based on there being trace amounts of asbestos in the talc.
Yes we are. Fucking trial lawyers are a blight on humanity.
I recall a Industrial Hygienist MD telling me that asbestos alone is generally not a huge problem. It’s when you combine it with smoking that you get the cancers. His explanation was that the physical nature of asbestos needle-like crystals would cause punctures in lung tissue that allowed a physical pathway for the tars of smoke to enter into the cells. I suspect the same mechanism for other chemicals besides products of incomplete combustion.
What our State Department instigated and funded in Ukraine in 2014 is what they will eventually do to Americans that don’t “bend the knee” to Washington DC and the Deep State.
This was a preview. A rehearsal.
In Other News: I got a haircut yesterday. Gay guy screwed it up. Now I have to wear a hat everywhere for the next two or tree months. I need to find a proper barber shop run by an old guy named Sal or Floyd. There was a great one near my house in Vegas, real Old School guys who would take their time and use straight razors and hot foam to shave the back of your neck and had heated moist towels to wipe your face and neck down when they were done. They don’t do that at (Not so) Great Clips.
This is for our Garden post
https://theconversation.com/asbestos-in-mulch-heres-the-risk-if-youve-been-exposed-223729
My dad was a pipefitter and his union had their members screened for asbestosis every so often. I’d bet there was a trial lawyer behind the scenes of that effort at some point.
I’ve had good luck with barbers in all the places I’ve lived and have only used a chain place a few times in my life.
One of the times I did the chick cut her own finger with the scissors and her associate had to finish the cut while she tended the bleeding and another time a gay dude did a lousy job.
Denver had a shop which was run by a bunch of Filipino guys, St. Louis had a little brick building with the barber pole out front and a mixture of car, hunting and girlie magazines on the table. Bangor has a few old fashioned barbers that I’ve gone to over the years.
The price has definitely increased over time, especially in the last few years – thanks Brandon!
I’ve had the same barber for thirty some years. He’s very conservative so we have great chats during my haircuts.
He recently moved into a salon environment where there are individual suites for each “stylist”. The guy next to his is a very loud, very flamboyant shitpacker, and often my guy will just stop cutting, go over and close the sliding glass door and say “Fuck, I can’t stand listening to that guy anymore.”
I haven’t paid anyone to cut my hair in 20 years.
With no irony I thank God for baldness. Yuge savings in money and time over the years.
I know he wants to say fag instead of guy, but he’s too polite.
So Brandon is at Walter Reid for his annual old age status fraudulent report.
This is the one where they will say they’ve found some serious condition previously undetected.
Entirely plausible, but they need the primaries settled before they can put Nuisance in place, I’d think, so it might be “preliminary findings” that get a follow-up in summertime.
some serious condition previously undetected
———
We’ve got 24 hours before we’ll know if that’s their plan for dumping him. If we make it to BBF he’ll continue to pretend he’s the candidate.
My yardstick by which I measure barbers was Ted, a chain-smoking WW2 veteran who ran and owned his shop in between my parents home and where I went to school. Gruff but friendly. He knew how my Dad liked it cut, so he always cut it shorter than what I wanted. (This was the 60’s and 70’s, remember.) He cut my hair from about the age of 8 till I left for college. Even during college, when I came home to visit I often would get my hair cut there.
Like Jimbro, I’ve usually found old-style traditional barbers in the different places I’ve lived. Right before Covid hit, I was getting it cut by a Korean barber in Arlington not far from the Pentagon. Though these days I cut my own hair about 4 times out of every 5 with a good set of electric clippers and those plastic length guides that attach. Then I let the real barber clean up my mistakes on that 5th cut, for $13 plus tip.
I bet nervous chair cost the same or more than the two couches and reclinr in my living room
I knew a guy whose family worked for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia. His mom was a nurse and she would treat old desert people for silicosis. Being out in the dust for 60+ years, the exposure added up. Not too much of a hazard here, but working cattle in pens can get pretty bad.
A friend of mine worked with asbestos in a factory for 20 years. He’s 70 now and has no issues from it. He jokes that he has fireproof lungs.
Penelope has cut my hair for years. Getting pretty close to Leon’s method, though.
Tonight’s “Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner!” Heinz 57 hamburger steaks, mashed taters and air fried zucchini & squash. Hamburger steaks are just ground beef, garlic powder, washyersister sauce and chopped purple onions in patties and browned in a skillet. Then I pour a mixture of water and 57 sauce over them and let them simmer for 30 minutes or so. Should be good!
LOL
Washyersister sauce
Ima steal that.
Dan is making fajitas. Inventory went well. People were being really douchey today. Making cashiers cry. My mom had ovarian cancer. She was a powder puff woman. She didn’t qualify for the J&J payout.
Biden, 81, is ‘active and robust’ and ‘fit to serve,’ his doctors say in physical results
Looks like the Walter Reed trip was Jill’s op.
In my fellowship I went to a conference with my first wife and met a guy doing his fellowship in Toronto. He was from Saudi Arabia and had a job lined up as a doctor for Saudi Aramco. We went to dinner with him and his wife and he did his best to recruit me to come work for them. This was pre-9/11 and I was mostly worried about getting all my certifications and the travel back and forth to do all that and politely declined.
Local news just ran a story about Bloody Mary’s and how to pronounce “Washyersister” sauce.
Biden, 81, is ‘active and robust’ and ‘fit to serve,’ his doctors say in physical results
They have to, or they’ll be charged with insurrection.
I don’t know if it’s making the national news or not but there are wildfires happening in the Texas panhandle that have burned over 1300 square miles over the past few days. It’s beyond bad.
First I’ve heard of it at all, that’s terrible.
It is crazy. Cattle being burned. Lost homes. Praying for the Panhandle.
Gorilla Grip Pussy
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1762969418257027479?s=20
I thought Jimbro was having a stroke until I refreshed and saw the link.
And, Holy Shit. So gross. So, so, gross.
That was not from Fani. The community notes have it corrected.
Fani’s handle was Echo Canyon
Can you understand why I believed it for a minute? There’s no floor.
I still believe it despite the correction. It’s too good not to be true.
Lumps, Oh I agree. She is a stupid, stupid woman and that was entirely plausible
Four Car Garage with Kung Fu Grip.
A group on facedouche was recommending some Netflix shows. It was the Larry Correia fan page.
The lovely Mrs Phat is out of town, so I thought I’d give one a whirl. ‘delicious in dungeon’. Absolutely hilarious. If you’ve ever played D&D you will laugh.
It’s similar to ‘Vox Machina’ (Amazon prime).
I like them both
Tonight I just want to multitask: drink beer, read books and listen to ‘80’s new wave/alternative in the background.
Sounds like a damned good plan.
In the background I have highlights from Glastonbury playing.
The old bands still sound good, but they look like ass.
The Cure sound awesome.
Robert Smith can still hit the notes.
The verve is playing ‘bittersweet symphony’ now.
Great song.
Ok, not a lot of reading is getting done.
I want to go back and watch some old Manic Street Preachers. They had like 3 songs that kicked ass.
Diane’s expenditures remained prudent.
The old bands still sound good, but they look like ass.
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I can relate
wakey waeky
Biden, 81, is ‘active and robust’ and ‘fit to serve,’ his doctors say in physical results
Yea and doctors told us to get the clot shot. So …