StrangeSox

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 12:18 PM) Oh please. Once the NSA starts listening to a phone calls they'll listen to everyone's phone calls! There's no stopping them! 3 This is conspiracy theory nonsense. uh isn't that pretty much what has happened?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 21, 2016 -> 09:57 AM) Let's just say there is some blame to spread around and also a series of contradictory statements about what it was and wasn't (cya)...that said, it's not a disqualifier. It's also much more subtle and nuanced than the Michael Bay movie would have you believe, obviously. Of course, the Clintons have turned every event into right wing conspiracy/partisan witch hunt for 32 years now. I guess you can't fault them completely, because it has been effective to a large extent. Even arguing recently Citizens United was targeted at stopping them, although that's more dubious. No. Let's just say that there were some important but fairly mundane questions regarding embassy security policy that 99.999% of the time would not be a national discussion but that everything else related to it has been a political witch hunt since the Romney campaign issued that first dumb press release hours after it happened.

Nothing but popular resistance. The parties don't have to hold any primaries at all if they don't want to. The current nomination process is a fairly modern invention.

Haha no, benghazi has been a four year long partisan witch hunt.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Feb 18, 2016 -> 01:45 PM) Ok that's just super f***ed. Was she trolling you? it's possible that the dude is legimately terrible at making a sandwich

Under GOP rules, 30% before Iowa/New Hampshire implies a delegate majority: Simulating the “proportional” rules

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 17, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) Roger takes all of the abuse so that the individual teams and owners don't have to. I would take the abuse and make equally terrible decisions for a tenth of that.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 02:50 PM) Come on, they covered the s*** out of Ray Rice, DeflateGate, etc. None of those were favorable stories for the NFL. weren't they also the source of all of that made-up bulls*** about the testing etc? they poisoned the well on that one at the start.

QUOTE (bmags @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 05:05 PM) I'm not saying it isn't happening, I'm saying our government has a much better process to deal with it. Whereas for senate never confirming everyone, it would basically be recess appointing everybody. Except then you just get pro forma sessions and thanks to Noel canning nobody can actually be appointed.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 15, 2016 -> 02:45 PM) He's as close to a socialist as you're going to find in 2015 America. Whether its democratic or not, it's still "the state will provide." Yeah, he'd be more of a social democrat (moderate left position) than a democratic socialist in pretty much every other western democracy.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Feb 14, 2016 -> 01:52 PM) I honestly havent met a single person who says Obamacare has helped them. Mostly you hear people complaining that their job cut their hours or that peoples premiums have went up. What's the uninsured rate down to these days

Whole bunch of potentially huge rulings could change because of this. Public sector unions, clean coal regulation, the Texas affirmative action case.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 13, 2016 -> 04:24 PM) Holy cow

Depending on where you're looking, the county may require a full well and septic inspection at the sellers' expense as part of the sale. Ours did, and we got a clean report back from the Illinois EPA on our water quality.

Study: Yup, Voter ID Laws Dampen Turnout For Minorities And Liberals "solution" to non-existent problem disenfranchises legitimate voters in predictable and partisan ways.

7 additional people indicted http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/...art_maj-story-1 Cliven Bundy sought a court-appointed attorney but the court said he needed to prove he couldn't afford his own.

Alternative to that is to just get a 5 gallon water dispenser for your drinking water. Forgot to mention that that's what my in-laws do.

We bought about 500 sq ft of "brazilian walnut" (actual wood species is Ipe) engineered wood flooring for our master, upstairs hallway and staircase this week. Let the projects begin! We also went for a walk on the several-miles-long forest preserve trail that pretty much links up to our backyard last weekend, reminding us of why we fell in love with this place.

My wife grew up on well and septic, and the house we just moved into is well and septic. There's a little bit to learn as far as maintenance goes depending on your system e.g. you'll probably need a water softener and depending on what type of septic system you have, you'll need to add chlorine tablets. My in-laws haven't had to do anything with their septic system ever and they built their house 20 years ago. Definitely don't let it scare you off. If you're used to Chicago water, the water quality/taste might be a step down, but you can get all sorts of in-home water purification equipment if you really wanted to.

Yeah, probably pretty much that. When you dive into the SovCit stuff, the law is pretty much treated like a magic spell book where if you get the incantations correct, your powerful spell wins the case.

Cleveland is now sending Tamir Rice's family a bill for the ambulance ride. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clevel...ce-bill-n516281

Sold that one in the beginning of January, moved into our new one a couple of weeks ago. Just ordered a bunch of flooring for upstairs--the projects will never, ever stop.

The FBI will be moving in at some point today to arrest the 4 remaining at the refuge. Cliven Bundy was arrested at the Portland airport as well. This was all just a big honeypot, wasn't it?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 10, 2016 -> 03:34 PM) So, we're re-building our master bath. It's only about 10 years old, when the 2nd floor was added (we bought the house 5 years ago). But whomever did the work on the bathroom was a whack-job. Shower base improperly slanted leaks water on the floor, bad tile and settle work causes more leaks, lousy cheap fixtures we keep having to fix, poor design with unused spaces in weird places, walls so uneven there are big gaps where counters and surfaces meet the wall, and a light fixture simply fell from the wall. Done pouring money into it just to fix a crappy space. Time to start over. Anyway, we're in the shopping and design phase. Anyone have any general advice on bathroom rebuilds? The design/contractor firms we are working with (2 right now, pre-bid) were both among the highest rated on Angie's List, so these aren't out of the blue. Doing a full-on, gut it down rebuild, since water has seeped out of the bathroom in places. We have a general layout agreed upon, starting to window shop new tub/tile/counters/fixtures/etc. Any experience or stories appreciated! We did a full gut of our shared master bath in our old house ourselves. Pretty standard layout so nothing fancy, but we did a full tile surround around a glass block window in the shower. Since I was doing the work myself, I spent a lot of time reading up on the best techniques, materials and tools at places like the John Bridge forums. I ended up putting in a Hydroban membrane for water sealing behind the shower. If you're going with a full tile shower stall or anything like that, something to consider. There's a similar product called Red Guard that's supposed to be good, too, and they both have pre-made shower pans you tile right over with the proper slope and water sealing properties. Think about where you might possibility want additional outlets since you're going to have everything torn down to studs. This includes in adjacent rooms. Always 100x easier to run wire and cabling when there's no drywall to worry about. edit: here's a picture of how it turned out

My father-in-law was a commercial/industrial painter for over 30 years, so he's passed on some of his tricks. I'm kinda sloppy, but my wife's gotten good enough where she doesn't need tape to cut in lines (this is where good paint and a good brush are crucial). Still, it's crazy watching him paint a room. Perfectly cut lines at the ceiling and around trim with a flick of a wrist, whole rooms painted in 1/4 of the time it'd take us.