Friday Dr phil Good is in Trouble Open Discussions

HA! Well, we’ve made another Friday! Carpe Diem.
Mornin’ Gang

Super Dave

Squawk;

I love sleeping under a tin roof/metal roof. I can easily afford upgraded shingle. What is the cost of Galvalume?

I’ll check with Mike but pre-COVID it was $1.80 a linear foot but I paid $3.30 in May of 2021 and by the time my roof was installed the price had gone up to $3.70. All that said; I think it’s a little over $2.00 bucks now.
What I like about Galvalume is that you can get it cut to any length up to 44′ and they could make it longer but that is all most people can haul. So there isn’t a perpendicular seam anywhere on my roof.

Good morning gang. Now that’s an OC picture that even I can appreciate. Coffee time is a coming, and then we’re looking about about 103 for today’s temp. The great weigh in scale seems to be stuck at around 220 for the past couple of weeks, one day up one, next day down one, but always in that neighborhood. Until some major changes start to show up, I don’t think I’m going to be getting as excited as I was when the scales were going down two or three pounds each week or so.

I don’t know how long, or how many Dem lawyers it’s taken to try to put this time line together for the Uvalde Yellow Bellied Police Chief, but it still looks and sounds totally faked up to me. You be the judge. https://nypost.com/2022/06/10/uvalde-texas-police-chief-pete-arredondo-defends-police-response-during-robb-elementary-school-shooting

You all have a great day out there. More later as it develops.

And here’s Ammo Grrrll: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-431.php

Super Dave

I can not, will not watch the Democrat S#!T Show but tuning into those two sad old Biotches this morning, they interviewed some toady and he was falling over himself to say waht a success the,….ahem,… “hearings” were. SO! that tells me it must have been miserable failure.
I’ve seen a few snippets and that Liz Cheney is one EVIL, lying sack of dog poo! She said that 5 police officers lost their lives in the riots! Do you know how many people, in total, died that day. ONE!!! Ashli Babbitt, a veteran of the USAF was murdered by a Capitol Police Officer. BTW; She was unarmed, like the rest of the group. Not a single so called insurgent was armed.

Coffee & Covid ☙ Friday, June 10, 2022 ☙ NO SHOW

Well. I did it, I watched The Show. You’re welcome. I’m not doing it again. I love you guys, but there are limits. Plus we need to make sure I retain my sanity, so I can keep blogging instead of picking wings off love bugs day after day in an insane asylum. Anyway, onwards!

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*C&C NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

I approached the House Committee’s January 6th Show from a litigator’s perspective since the Committee obviously wants to frame this thing like a trial. It gave Americans our first taste of what a “show trial” must have looked like in the USSR. It’s gross.

My source was wrong; the show didn’t start with a dance revue or any other kind of a bang. It started slowly and ponderously, with all the committee members solemnly plodding into the chamber and taking their seats like a column of termites. I think it was supposed to have dramatic effect, underscoring the solemnity of the proceeding but — and I admit I’m biased — the committee is a devil’s dozen of unattractive and annoying people and instead of dramatic it was a just painful, boring ordeal.

I’ve watched some dramatic moments in other committees, like whenever Senator Paul grills Tony Fauci, or during the Brett Kavenaugh Supreme Court nominee hearing. But nothing like that happened last night. When I predicted yesterday that Bennie Thompson was going to read a children’s book to us, I wasn’t too far off. He DID read a book, all night long. The Show was TOTALLY scripted. Every. Single. Word.

From the moment pompous committee chairman Bennie Thompson lowered his massive frame into the creaking chair and said “good evening,” it was obvious he was ponderously reading from a teleprompter. In fact, everyone on last night’s Show was reading, from a teleprompter or from notes. Nothing was left to chance.

Snore!

It’s a basic trial skill that you NEVER read to the jury. You’ll put them to sleep. TALK to them. Even if it’s not perfect, it’s still WAY more persuasive than reading aloud, even for lawyers who have a lot of practice at reading things out loud and can do it well.

The committee members who spoke last night don’t read well. They might be compelling speakers on the stump, but none of them were gripping readers. Hey dummies, TV is a VISUAL MEDIUM. Watching a fat old guy sit and read a teleprompter for fifteen minutes in a bleak monotone is NOT compelling television.

If anything interesting happened last night, it was watching fake republican Liz Cheney cram the last dangling shreds of her political career into the DC garbage disposal by essentially putting the committee’s case on for them, presumably to give the committee a sham argument it was somehow a bipartisan effort or something.

Cheney was reading the whole time, too. Poorly.
Twitter avatar for @newsmaxNewsmax @newsmax
‘EMBARRASSING’: @claudiatenney tears apart Rep. Liz Cheney during the #January6th committee hearing.

“Here she is currying favor with the Democrats because she has an obsession with Donald Trump.”
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1535055854801657857/vid/1280×720/jJbsYZCJFEOzKApc.mp4?tag=14

I won’t bother with all the nonsense the committee claims “really” happened. I’ll just give you the two main ones. They claim President Trump had a “7-point plan” to overthrow the government. And they claim the Proud Boys — whoever they are — had a plan to violently capture and occupy the Capitol plus all the nearby office buildings. If true, both plans were obviously perfectly incompetent, because the “plans” didn’t get anywhere. But the committee’s claims mildly piqued my curiosity, to find out what kind of evidence the committee has that could prove those wild allegations.

Spoiler alert: none. No evidence.

In addition to the painfully endless story-time reading, the committee played three categories of video clips as “evidence.” First, they played the obligatory shots of indignant voters pushing into the Capitol and struggling with police at times. Compared to what we all saw during the entire summer of 2020’s riots, January 6th looks like kids playing schoolyard tag. Plus, everybody’s already seen all those clips, and they don’t prove Trump had a 7-point insurrection plan or the Proud Boys’ invasion scheme or anything else, really.

The second group of clips showed public figures like Trump saying things before the riot that I guess we’re supposed to use to “connect the dots” or something. Like Alex Jones on his show encouraging folks to come to the rally. Or Trump saying “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

I kept waiting for a video of President Trump talking about his alleged 7-point insurrection plan, but it never aired. Maybe they’re saving that one for a REALLY special occasion.

The third group of clips were short snippets from formal witness interviews. Like odious Bill Barr explaining he thought Trump’s idea the election was stolen was “B.S.” (except he used the full-sized adult version of the phrase). There were also lots of short clips from less well-known people that you had no idea what they just said until Liz Cheney told us what they “really meant.”

The committee also interviewed two live witnesses. But not in the usual way. There was no back and forth. Thompson just awkwardly read them a long, hard-to-follow softball question and then both witnesses read lengthy laborious answers brimming with rising rhetoric, but unpersausively delivered in dreary, mind-numbing, fake gravitas.

At some point it began to occur to me that the committee had made a rookie trial mistake. It happens when inexperienced lawyers plan their first jury trial. The lawyers know their case inside and out; they’ve been working on it for a long time, sometimes for years. So they mistakenly assume the jury already knows the case as well as they do. Instead of starting from the correct presumption that the jury doesn’t know anything, the rookie lawyers jump right into the middle of the story, and the jury never has more than a partial notion of what the heck is going on.

That’s what last night felt like. I’m pretty informed, but I think you had to be a serious January 6th news junkie to follow that presentation. After, I saw some mystifying tweets by lefty media types claiming the Show was compelling and persuasive; so it obviously resonated with them. But I honestly struggled to understand what exactly they were getting at, and I kept wondering when they were finally going to show the Proud Boys scheming to capture the Capitol building.

If this was a trial, it failed from the self-inflicted injury of overpromising. A trial begins with opening statements, where each side tells the jury what they’re GOING to prove. One of my litigation mentors taught me: NEVER promise the jury something you can’t deliver. And he taught me to crucify my opponents in closing argument by pointing out to the jury what they said they’d prove, but never did.
Twitter avatar for @SenTedCruzSenator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz
The January 6th Committee hearings are all political theater.

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1534987796414447634/vid/638×360/gHe923rUB17wC4PL.mp4?tag=14
Among other things, Cheney said she was going to prove Trump had a 7-point insurrection plan and the Proud Boys tried to occupy the entire Capitol block. She never even got close, it was just a bunch of blah blah word salad.

So, meh.

The real problem for the committee, I think, is that their Show shines a withering spotlight on the differential justice system and mismatched outrage machine in this country, where violent lefty rioters get their bail paid by billionaires and their cases pleaded down to nothing, and the media calls it a “mostly peaceful protest,” but conservative protesters who strolled peacefully into the Capitol building through an open door get locked up for 18 months without a trial and the media labels it an “insurrection.”

I’m not watching the rest of the season; you can’t make me. But I’ll go ahead and predict this: the Show won’t change any minds at all. It will just further aggravate and activate conservatives.
Twitter avatar for @JusticeTristanTristan Justice @JusticeTristan
We didn’t get answers to any of this.
5 Questions For The J6 Committee’s Theatrical ProductionDon’t expect answers from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Committee weaponized to operate as a political witch hunt.thefederalist.com

Twitter avatar for @TPostMillennialThe Post Millennial @TPostMillennial
Tucker Carlson and @FDRLST co-founder @seanmdav SLAM Democrats for using the Jan. 6 Committee to crack down on opposition to their ideology:

“This is kind of an existential threat to how our republic works.”
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Haha, we should’ve seen this coming. Breitbart has already run an article about one of the clipped interviewees, former Trump spokesman Jason Miller, who tweeted after the Show that his clip was “deceptively edited” to make it look like he was criticizing Trump’s decision to legally challenge election results when in context he was just describing someone else’s opinion. Cheney edited the clip to make it look like that was his OWN opinion.

It’s a mistake. If you try selective editing in Court, and play a short clip from a depo out of context to make a point, then the other side will play the full segment, and then the jury won’t believe anything else you say from that point forward. Cheney probably thought it was safe because nobody got a chance to respond. She forgot the interviewees are still running around in the world and are on Twitter.

Amateur hour.

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Deadline, a left-of-center media-focused magazine reported on the Show, and the headline says it all: “January 6 Primetime Hearing Proves An Anemic Made-For-TV Special, 2022 Style.” Its conclusion: “The fact is Thursday’s hearings led by chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss) and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) were not effective.”

Cheney stinks. I know we’ve got a few deserving candidates in the queue, but maybe we should multiply Cheney’s primary opponent, Republican Harriet Hageman, who according to an NBC story yesterday is polling +28 over Cheney. It would send a clear message. Let me know in the comments.

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Fox News, at least, eschewed the democrats’ over-produced dud hearing, refusing to carry the Show, which caused Chuck Shumer to lose his banana on the Senate floor yesterday, calling Fox “cowards” and crying that Fox was trying to “keep its viewers in the dark.” He should have put the period after the word, “viewers.” [HA HA!}

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1535086476425404423/vid/1280×720/v9uBz75Rr-2g6AIX.mp4?tag=14
Twitter avatar for @TuckerCarlsonTucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson
We’re not playing along with the January 6 show trial hearing. The whole thing is insulting. They are lying, and we’re not going to help them do it.

video.foxnews.com/v/6307557436112

So there you go, C&Cers. You are fully briefed on the Show and don’t have to think about it anymore. Now if I could just bleach my brain, or take one of those forgetting pills from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I knew the comments would be interesting:

No way I could have endured a single solitary second of that freak show. My BS cup already runneth over. Counselor, I owe you a soda and a therapy dog. My only question is: Was this sponsored by Pfizer OR Milorganite? One deals in doling out sewer sludge, the other in feritilzer.

Thanks for taking one for the team and watching this crap so I did not have to

The “lawyers” on the committee are playing to a jury composed of their constituents, whom they know to be stupid, so edited clips won’t matter. The jury doesn’t read outlets that would run a rebuttal. The Left knows it.

Oh, and the hearings are also used to justify further political persecution like this:

“Michigan Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Arrested in Connection to Jan. 6 Capitol Breach”

Interesting apparent correlation between disability claims and covid s**t rollout came to light yesterday. Of course, correlation doesn’t prove causation, but there’s starting to be an overabundance of correlation these days…

Edit: Darned autocomplete. Think it’s more accurate as-is, so I’ll let it stand.
Ha!

Yes, I’d say autocorrect did it’s job that time.

Our regime has made it a point to hire for everything (skin color, sexual proclivities, literal tribal affiliation) except, you know, actual competence. Merit has not place in such a government. The result has been an administration so utterly incompetent that most sane people are led to believe that destruction of the country is the goal.

So… Congressmen cannot even use their cellphones to make political calls while in the Capital building but this crew can assemble a non-official illegally formed “committee,” hire a private publicist/producer and use the literal powers and trappings of Congress and the Capital to essentially make a long-form political reality show for campaign purposes? That’s a greater assault on the Capital than January 6.

Who can hold them accountable for that? Can they be sued? Indicted?

I kindly request a part 2 for today to discuss Dr. Malone’s post and the letter from 18 sitting Congressional members to the FDA questioning them. https://leemuller.substack.com/p/this-is-huge-not-just-for-children The barrage of FDA meetings cannot be forgotten about. https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/fda-announces-updated-schedule-for

I got the coffee; where’s the covid? Here’s a copy of my comment from yesterday.

“Hoping you will report on this in tomorrow’s newsletter. I haven’t found much inspiration to write, but then I read Dr. Malone’s post today, and I found it extremely urgent to share along with some of mine. This could very well be a turning point if we are able to share with enough people off of substack as well. https://leemuller.substack.com/p/this-is-huge-not-just-for-children “

You are a very brave, and self-sacrificing fella! So sorry you had to eat poo last night. Praying God wipes your mind and emotions clean, and restores sweet peace to your soul.

Thank you for all you do.

A couple of points. This was theater calculated to be inept. All we rage about is the ineptness of this government but it is calculated to seem so. Meanwhile the House passed the “new” gun law package at night with nine GOP voting for it and all the Dems. This way it is bi partisan. The immense danger is in the red flag laws stuffed inside. Allowing the FBI great power to investigate any of us and seize guns on any “tip”. Nazi Germany anyone? Add this along with what is still happening with covid beneath the surface and you realize this is all dramatic calculated nonsense. Meanwhile, people are still being locked up for participating in J6 in any way. It is meant to keep pitting us against each other.

And finally Fox went along with the stolen election. And now they will act somewhat enraged at this J6 theater. They also went along with the early stories coming out of the J6 rally.

So with rising fuel, unemployment, broken borders, farce pandemic, riots, attempted murder of Supreme judges and economic disaster as well as no baby food….. this kangaroo court or display cost how much of our taxpayers money. These dolts give so much malarkey they no not what they do…

Had Trump eked out a win through the perfectly run election there is NO way Congress would have met to certify anything; no way the Leftist Hate Groups wouldn’t have “protested” with weapons and dozens of fatalities and war-zone carnage among law enforcement, no way the incarcerated would be imprisoned in like fashion, no way these same “investigators” would be drawing such dire conclusions toward JR Biden’s outraged supporters. this Soviet style kangaroo court is more mis-information for the American palate

I didn’t watch that witch hunt. Those people drive my blood pressure up to dangerous levels. I’m all for dividing the country at this point. Definitely want to multiply against Cheney.

Proud Boys are very cool and run by a black/cuban dude. Who’s been in jail for like 18 months? I would like a multiply operation for the J6 legal team.

Hubby came to wake me up with a kiss and hug this morning. Then, as I was drinking coffee and posting here, he entered the house (came to get the lawn mower so they can cut grass at one of our properties) and got a second helping of hugs and kisses.

A two-fer! Now, THAT’S how I like to start my day!

Bonecrusher

SD:

Do you know how many people, in total, died that day. ONE!!! Ashli Babbitt, a veteran of the USAF was murdered by a Capitol Police Officer.

I beg to differ with you, SD, Roseanne Boyland was bludgeoned to death by Capital Police in the tunnels that same day. She, also, was not armed.

Oh, crap. Headache threat. I was feeling it last night and it’s coming back.

I guess I need to hold off on the treadmill for now.

Super Dave

Bones, I’ve not heard a word about Roseanne Boyland, has Fox mentioned it? I say that knowing the Lamestream Media will not mention it. I’m surprised I’ve not heard Tucker say something about it but I may have just missed it. Tucker’s show last night was real good, he was explaining a lot of what the propagandists were talking about.

Bonecrusher

#11 SD: Here is a bit on YouTube about Ms. Boyland.

Reactions to Jan. 6 Presentation Indicate Committee Failed Miserably

“I’m kind of skeptical about what we’re going to see tonight and over the next couple of weeks,” Wallace said on CNN minutes before the hearing was set to begin.

Wallace said the committee had put itself in danger of falling victim to too much “hype” about its findings and “over-selling” what they have to tell the American people about the attack.

“You’ve got Jamie Raskin, one of the members of the committee, saying ‘this is going to blow the roof off the House,’ you’ve got Adam Kinzinger saying ‘It’s going to change history,” Wallace said.

Then there was Frank Luntz who had a group of students with him watching the production. Luntz said they tuned out quickly.

It took 9 minutes for the hearing to show something other than a politician delivering a teleprompter speech.

That’s too long.

I have 10 students watching with me… And they aren’t watching anymore. They’re more interested in talking to each other than watching the screen.

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 10, 2022

“It’s too long,” said one of my students.

After 15 minutes, it’s just one politician speaking into the camera.

Literally no one is watching – the TV is on, but no one is watching.

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 10, 2022

Super Dave

Roseanne Boyland

Rosanne Boyland was a peaceful protester who was reportedly beaten to death by DC Metro Police officer Lila Morris at the J6 protests. Morris was seen on video beating Boyland with devastating force as Boyland lay unconscious on the U.S. Capitol steps. Fake news media reports attributed her death to a drug overdose. Philip Anderson, a victim of Antifa violence in San Francisco in the fall of 2020, held Boyland’s hand at the time of her death.A second eyewitness came forward and made an audio recorded statement to Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit.

Ten months after the killing, the family was denied Roseanne Boyland’s full autopsy report by the DC Medical Examiner’s office and the Biden Department of Justice. The Government of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department also denied the family of Rosanne Boyland the video footage they posess showing her death after her father filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain it.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) grilled chief procurator Merrick Garland under oath about Boyland’s death and the video showing Boyland being beaten and possibly killed by a DC Police Officer on the Capitol steps. Gohmert asked Garland if a determination was ever made to the DC Metro Police Officer who struck Rosanne Boyland repeatedly in the head with a rod before she died. According to The Gateway Pundit, Garland proceeded to lie to the nation in front of the House Judiciary Committee. The Boyland family has since contacted the Department of Justice, and were told there was no such investigation.

squawkbox

Speaking of Buc-ees. A picture of Mom and BSue at Buc-ees. Much happier days then.

Bonecrusher

If there were any lingering doubts as to the goal of those controlling the Bidet administration, this article should wash those doubts away. They want to destroy the USA. The USA, as a sovereign, free and prosperous nation, stands in the way of the globalists goal to control the world and enslave the bulk of the people.

What I like about Galvalume is that you can get it cut to any length up to 44′ and they could make it longer but that is all most people can haul. So there isn’t a perpendicular seam anywhere on my roof.

Just to be clear here, Galvalume is a coating, not a product. Its an improved type of galvanizing composed of zinc and aluminum. What you’re looking for in a steel roof is the panel configuration and application. An “R” panel roof has aTrapezoidal rib running down the length of the panels at 1′-0 centers with twosmaller ones between each rib. Irs applied to the structure using screws and usually has a run of mastic between the panels where they lap together at the side. This is the most economical roof panel you can get that has the best chance if not leaking.

The wavy panels you see on barns is called “C” panels, and it’s on barns as not leaking isn’t as important in a barn as it is on a house. There’s no real flat spot for the neoprene washer on the screw to flatten out on, and the space between the ribs is too small for regular fasteners, although some installers will try to use them to save money. Itsxalso difficult to get any decorative trim to fit well enough to be reasonably attractive. C panel will be your cheapest option.

A muddle ground between “C” and “R” is called “V” rib and has a low profile vee shaped rib about every foot. It’s mostly flat and has a better appearance tha “R”, it’s what I put on the house Liz and I had. It’s a tad bit more labor intensive to install as the panel has to be ripped along it’s length at the rakes of the roof to be able to put on trim without hitting the ribs.

The very best roof you can get for leaks proofing is a Standing Seam panel and most of them willgive a better appearance, especially a Battenlok style. Standing seam panels are applied to the structure using clips and the only exposed fasteners are at the eave and trims, and those a located so that they do not go through the panel and into the building envelope. These are the most expensive rooves you can get. Architects usually specify Standing Seam.

If you order galvalume, you’re going to get a shiny silver roof that won’t rust. But you can order steel panels in a number of colors that won’t rust either.

squawkbox

Bonez

How do you circumvent the Constitution? With treaties of course. Our rights are hanging on by a string that has been gassed and just waiting for a match.

Treaties,
executive orders,
bestowing what amounts to law making powers to unelected people,
creation of laws that usurp power from where power should lie (federalism)
and just flat ignoring what the Constitution says,

Sorry I do not hold much hope for our country, the die hast been cast and the plan is being implemented. We are toast

Bonecrusher

#19 Squawk: I am inclined to agree with you.

Shannon

We installed the V on Mom’s house decades ago.
Still looks great.
Material was thicker back then.

Shannon

They had a great looking ridge cap for the V back then. I suppose they still do.

But that was before ridge vents.

If you don’t use ridge and soffit venting, you’re a big loser with an L tattooed permanently on your forehead.

wagonburner

Is there a metal roof material that looks like traditional shingles?

I would think that would be an ideal material that would last basically forever.

Katfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy0RGsd2-JA

We’re still allowed some tuneage on Friday eh?

Sing it Sisters!!

Texpat

Heh. Predatory landlords getting rich off the poor folks…

The median monthly asking rent nationwide exceeded $2,000 for the first time in May, according to recent Redfin data.

Last month, median asking rent rose 15% from a year ago, reaching a record $2,002, the technology-powered real estate brokerage reported.

Consumers are being pushed into the rental market due to rising mortgage-interest rates, and higher home prices. However, it’s keeping rents sky-high, according to Redfin deputy chief economist Taylor Marr.

The communist landlords in Austin are the meanest of the lot.

In Austin, Texas, rents surged 48% compared to a year ago, which is the largest increase of any metro area since Redfin began tracking this data in 2019. Meanwhile, rents increased over 30% in Nashville, Tennessee, Seattle, Washington, and Cincinnati, Ohio, according to Redfin.

Predatory landlords getting rich off the poor folks…

I’ve seen several posts lately about how housing is supposed to be a human right, and landlords are predatory vultures, preying on those who can’t afford housing, landlords only care about profit and making money, etc, etc.,

I see this as the next step in liberal theocracy/slavery. If they supply health care and housing, who would be able to vote against them? The ramp up to destroy the investment system in housing is beginning.

Of course, what will happen if you take profits out of the housing market? Then you will have slumlords, who won’t have enough money or motivation to take care of their properties. Roof leaking? Get a pot to put under it. A/C not working? The landlord won’t have the money for repairs. Of course, there will be courts that will try to enforce habitability conditions, and then property owners will just walk away from their investments, losing their retirement incomes. (That is a whole ‘nother discussion.) This will leave abandoned homes, to be squatted in or taken over by the government. Wanna live in the projects? Go ahead, make property investors poor. Misery loves company, and boy are those folks miserable.

Of course, if the complainers didn’t take out quarter million dollar student loans to get degrees in gender bending studies, they could afford to rent or buy a home.

Texpat

26 Tedtam

I thought that would get a rise out of you.

squawkbox

If you don’t use ridge and soffit venting, you’re a big loser with an L tattooed permanently on your forehead.

Got ’em both.

Texpat

This is great news, but I don’t know what Oklahoma gave away to get this plant. The fact it’s happening is excellent, though.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt joined “Varney & Co.” Friday, announcing his state secured America’s first rare earth metal and manufacturing facility while pulling supply out of China.

GOV. KEVIN STITT: We’re very excited about this. It’s a huge deal for Oklahoma… manufacturers are realizing that Oklahoma’s the spot to be in right now… it’s $100 million investment, high-paying jobs.. the biggest point for this is it’s pulling supply out of China. They control 90% of the mineral to magnet manufacturing and that’s a national security issue.

mharper42

Morning, gang! Speaking of ridge & soffit vents, we did some mods after we bought Chez Harp in 1995. We had ridge venting put on — although when I had a new roof put on this year, Tejas Roofing told me the old ridge vents had not been done correctly — said they extended too close to the edge. In any case, they removed the old ones along with the old roof. And the new vents end further back from the edge.

I don’t remember now how we found out that the soffit-with-vents put up by the previous owner were done wrong. There was solid wooden soffit all around the house, covered by siding with built-in vents about every 3 feet. But there were no air holes in the wooden soffit. We had our company — that put on the 1990’s too-long ridge vents — drill huge circles in the old wood soffit to match the ventilation spots in the cover-siding that had been put on with NO ventilation.

Texpat

Democrats are going to try and sell gun control when law enforcement doesn’t even have gas for their patrol cars. This is going to work quite well.

Look for gun sales to soar even more, especially in rural areas.

A sheriff’s department in Michigan cited soaring gas prices in an announcement Tuesday that it would be reducing its deputies’ responses to non-urgent calls for service.

Isabella County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that it “is feeling the pain at the pump as well.”

“We have exhausted what funds were budgeted for fuel with several months to go before the budget reset,” Sheriff Michael Main said in a statement.

“I have instructed the deputies to attempt to manage whatever calls are acceptable over the phone,” he said. “This would be non-in-progress calls, non-life-threatening calls, calls that do not require evidence collection or documentation.”

When people’s loved ones start dying because the ambulances and EMTs can’t get there for lack of fuel, I don’t believe this will help Democrats in November. The Left deliberately created this crisis to starve Americans off fossil fuel, but I don’t think they thought the plan through very well.

squawkbox

Texpat

The Left deliberately created this crisis to starve Americans off fossil fuel, but I don’t think they thought the plan through very well.

Au contraire. They thought this through quite well. Create the crisis so that the folks cry out for the government to help. This is more about complete control of the folks than it is about weaning off fossil fuels.

squawkbox

You will own nothing and like it.

Super Dave

Dang! I guess that I posted this on yesterday’s thread;

Super Dave says:
June 10, 2022 at 8:40 am

BTW; There are 4 guys out digging post holes for my new Pole Barn. About 6:30 I saw two guys out there with old fashioned post-hole diggers but when Mike showed up he went to get the powered auger. BTW; The 6″ X 6″s are pressure treated, structural beams and you can see the heart of the tree in the center of all of them…Gumby Dammit!

Super Dave

Au contraire. They thought this through quite well. Create the crisis so that the folks cry out for the government to help. This is more about complete control of the folks than it is about weaning off fossil fuels.

AMEN!

You will own nothing and like it.

Yup, that’s the goal.

squawkbox

economist Teresa Ghilarducci, recommends that families earning under $300,000 per year consider switching to public transportation, embracing a veggie diet, and “rethink those costly pet medical needs.”

Seriously, do you really need that extra vehicle

/snark off

Katfish

#36 – Ms, Mrs, He, She, It ‘G’ can

besame el culo and bark at the hole!!

Sorry GrannyHammy!

Bonecrusher

THE WORD says that G-D will smite the shepherd and the sheep will scatter. This thing is begging for said smiting.

HEADLINE: Methodist Church’s First Drag Queen Pastor: ‘God Is Nothing’

I don’t know the address, but I am pretty sure that G-D is not amused at the flaunting of HIS WAYS by the LBTQ/SJW crowd; particularly those who presume to be HIS shepherds.

squawkbox

/Just kidding Katfish

THE EYES OF HAMMIE’S GRANNY ARE UPON YOU

/Just kidding Katfish

Bonecrusher

THe big separation that is written about is happening right before our eyes; those that choose the evil one are making it very clear who/what they are.

I am going to put it out there that THE TRIBULATION has started.

Bonecrusher

A couple of days ago I bought a whole ribeye at Sam’s. Just under 16 lbs, $9.50/lb. It yielded 13 very nice steaks which were individually vacuum sealed and frozen.

squawkbox

Question:

Are THEY prepping for what is coming?

Is there a metal roof material that looks like traditional shingles?

I would think that would be an ideal material that would last basically forever.

There’s a company named Berridge that makes shingle and Spanish Tile applications that attach to the ribs of standing seam panels.

wagonburner

Nothing that would just attach to standard plywood decking?

Bonecrusher

Are THEY prepping for what is coming?

Absolutely. Why does every federal agency and bureau need their own heavily armed police force? Why have they been emptying the jails of violent criminals and it isn’t to protect them from covid, even though that was the claim?

#38

That is a tremendously disturbing article.

Drag queen pastor in a mainline Protestant church?
“God is nothing” and sprituality springs from queerness?
Drag is like baptism?

And folks in charge laud this he/she?

Oh, my, I’m getting dizzy from all the swirling around the toilet drain….

Bonecrusher

How can G-D not punish our country when it is controlled by evil leftists?
The leftists control all of DC, Wall Street, Hollywierd, most Fortune 500 companies, education, and is gaining a strong foothold in the mainline churches.

Here is why the swirling:

Exactly 33 years to the day prior to the great Miracle of the Sun in Fatima, that is, on October 13, 1884, Pope Leo XIII had a remarkable vision. When the aged Pontiff had finished celebrating Mass in his private Vatican Chapel, attended by a few Cardinals and members of the Vatican staff, he suddenly stopped at the foot of the altar. He stood there for about 10 minutes, as if in a trance, his face ashen white. Then, going immediately from the Chapel to his office, he composed the above [below] prayer to St. Michael, with instructions it be said after all Low Masses everywhere.

When asked what had happened, he explained that, as he was about to leave the foot of the altar, he suddenly heard voices – two voices, one kind and gentle, the other guttural and harsh. They seemed to come from near the tabernacle. As he listened, he heard the following conversation:

The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasted to Our Lord: “I can destroy your Church.”

The gentle voice of Our Lord: “You can? Then go ahead and do so.”

Satan: “To do so, I need more time and more power.”

Our Lord: “How much time? How much power?

Satan: “75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.”

Our Lord: “You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.”

In 1886, Pope Leo XIII decreed that this prayer to St. Michael be said at the end of “low” Mass (not “high”, or sung Masses) throughout the universal Church, along with the Salve Regina (Hail, Holy Queen); and the practice of the congregation praying these prayers at the end of Mass continued until about 1970, with the introduction of the new rite of the Mass.

Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell, Satan and all the other evil spirits, who prowl throughout the world, seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

*************************

There is a longer St. Michael prayer for priests. I pray this one several times during the day, as part of my regular prayers.

There is some debate as to when the “100 years” actually began, but in all of the proposed time lines, we are approaching the end of Satan’s century.

By the way, St. Michael, who was not even in the highest ranks of angels, supposedly got his name by facing off and questioning Lucifer, who deemed himself the equal of God, thusly: “Who is like God?”

“Who is like God” is the literal translation of Micha-el. Because of this, supposedly God gave him the power and responsibility to fight Lucifer and his demons. This is why we pray to St. Michael the Archangel to do battle for us. He is also the only angel deemed a saint in the Catholic Church.

Forgot the link: https://www.michaeljournal.org/articles/roman-catholic-church/item/the-vision-of-pope-leo-xiii

wagonburner says:
JUNE 10, 2022 AT 1:11 PM

Nothing that would just attach to standard plywood decking?

Probably, and its probable that systems like Berridge’s can be applied that way. But I doubt you would get the leak proofing you do with steel panels due to the number of penetrations into the building envelope.

It’s just too hot and bright out there today to get anything done. I dropped a screw down into the bowels of my mower engine, but I’m just going to have to wait until later to try to retrieve it. It’s too bright to try to see anything down in those holes. Otherwise, it’s getting close to nap time. More later.

Bonecrusher

I dropped a screw down into the bowels of my mower engine, but I’m just going to have to wait until later to try to retrieve it.

I can see EG removing the head to get to that screw in the near future.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Ha!
Funny, funny, funny.

squawkbox

OOBIE DOOBIE. Cancel any idea of a metal roof for me. My salesman from Ideal roof said it would cost 3X at what I am looking at for an architectural shingle. Amazing what GAF has done in materials. The shingle I am interested is lighter than the old “A” shingles. so much so that the nailing schedule calls for 4 nails versus 6. GAF no longer uses felt for the underlayment. This stuff is a high tech material that is not only better than felt but tougher and lets the air breath. I like the system they sell.

No Chuck in Truck roofers for me. My brother had a Chuck in the Truck bunch do his roof. 3 Tab with felt. They did strip the old roof and did put on new drip edge. GAF requires that rubber membrane ~~Yankees~~ Northerners use for ice dams and around the edges and 2 inch drip edge. My brother got no rubber membrane and 1 3/4 inch drip edge. His roof will keep the rain out and cost him $5K total. They reused the 40 year old boots around the vents. I am replacing mine with a neoprene boot.

Anyway if I go away my lovely BSue will have a roof over her head that she does not have to worry about that not only adds added protection form hail, but also wind damage. That is what matters most. Her comfort and safety.

Shannon

Yeah, I’ve been watching them installing those roof membranes for several years now.

Shannon

At first, I was wondering WTH they were using.

Shannon

I don’t think you can beat GAF and Ideal for value. They will stand by their work.

squawkbox

Shannon

With the competitive nature of building products I am convinced that the old way of shingling a house might save you money in the beginning but cost ya at the worse of times.

Roofing SYSTEMS are the wave. Even the old way of upselling warrenties is gone. Warranties are now tied to the package you choose to install. Inflation has caught up quickly. No matter how I go I will be paying $3-4K more than last year for whichever package I chose.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

To when spyducks were the good guys.

It’s still just too hot to get outside and do anything. You would think it’s almost summertime or something out here.

Now we are all used to the worthless scare tactics of the weather people concerning global warming, harrycaines, tornaders, ice storms, earthquakes, tsunamis, and whatever else they can dream up, but this is a serious situation here. Lucky for me, I’m stocked up with a few extra bottles (oops, I forgot about that unfortunate boating accident) but it’s as close to the apocalypse as we will probably ever get. https://www.wunderground.com/video/top-stories/weather-could-cause-sriracha-shortage

squawkbox

Signed contract for new roof. Going with Ideal Roofing and their Silver plan. It ain’t cheap but then I have read tons of reviews and tons of people have said the price paid to them is commensurate with other companies.

squawkbox

Easy come easy go

wagonburner

49 granny
What about Sts. Gabriel & Raphael?

mharper42

I came across the following humorous tidbit Over Yonder while reading:

IFLScience
Incredible discovery
New Higgs-Related Particle Discovered In Tabletop Experiments

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DR. ALFREDO CARPINETI
Senior Staff Writer & Space Correspondent

Alfredo (he/him) has a PhD in Astrophysics on galaxy evolution and
^^^^^
a Master in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces.

Heh.

GJT

In 1999 we built our so called custom dream house/forever home (yeah), in 2005 we had a hailstorm come thru and the roof had to be replaced. We did the ritual, calling four or five contractors for their bids and spiels. One was the guy that put the original roof up, he told us look, I know my bid is going to come in too high for you but please, make sure whoever does it puts the membrane over this section, then showed us how he did the flashing and other fine details, make sure they do this he said. Guy was truly proud of his work, our roof was one of his babies. He was right though, he came in way higher and we just couldn’t use him and was not able to afford getting the membrane. Sad.

Shannon

GJT

Heads up.

ALL main lanes of 290 through Cypress will be closed until Monday.

Mueschke to Barker Cypress.

squawkbox

Seeing MHrpers post alluding to proper pronouns when the question of ones Gender may arise, I have discovered a list 111 pronouns that we all should be aware of. I have also decided that rather than refer to me by some masculine specific pronoun, WHATNOT, SOMEWHAT or AUGHT will suffice for me. I thank you in advance for your cooperation as I sort this stuff out.

Bonecrusher

Men are from Mars
Wimminzes are from Venus
All the other “genders” are from Uranus

squawkbox

LOL

squawkbox

Oh yeah and my salesman said the strip and shingle job would be done in one day. I am thinking of setting up my camera to do a time lapse of 1 shot every minute. I can then make a vidiot from the pictures. That oughta be cool.

Bonecrusher

#71: That would be very cool. Your roofing contractor would prolly like a copy of it as well. He may even pay you for it.

squawkbox

Bonez

I have done things like that before for others. I do not hold out much hope for pay. LOL

Bonecrusher

You could always ask, the worst thing he could say is no.

squawkbox

Yup

Finally discovered my lost screw (the one in the mower, not the one in my head), got everything all set up to replace the coil, and the dam thing does not fit. Only off by about 1/8″, but that’s enough for a coil. I returned it and ordered from a different company. Should arrive in a couple of more days.

In other news, it’s still hot and dry, but today was not so windy as usual. That’s it for now I guess.

Texpat

I’m glad everyone is a fine prognosticating predictionator. I don’t even attempt to predict a local mayor’s election anymore. And I wouldn’t think of trying to second guess God on his End Times Schedule. I’ve lived the whole of my 70 years of life with people telling me the world’s gonna end tomorrow, whether it’s the Ice Age, the Hot Age or Judgment Day.

Meanwhile, I’ll just mosey along fighting the good fight up to and until the last day before the His Stuff Hits the Eternal Fan. I consider it my duty to be fierce and fearless in the face of evil until it’s not necessary anymore.

Shannon

Forgot I put the thermostat on 77 when I left this morning.

It isn’t anymore, now. 🙂

Super Dave

BREAKING: Alabama Cop Kills Armed Man Breaking Into Elementary School.

Gadsden, AL – A school resource officer fatally shot an armed man on Thursday morning who was trying to get into an Alabama elementary school.

Gadsden City Schools Superintendent Tony Reddick told WBMA the incident occurred at Walnut Park Elementary School in Gadsden on June 9.

Reddick said a man tried to get into the Etowah County elementary school and went from door-to-door trying aggressively gain entry.

There were summer school programs underway and children on the school’s campus.

The superintendent said that school principal saw what was happening and ordered a lockdown, WBMA reported.

Then the principal called the school resource officer who was on campus for help.

The school resource officer was an off-duty Rainbow City police officer, the Associated Press reported.

Texpat

78 Shannon

I would’ve bet money your customized thermostat didn’t even go above 72ºF.

Super Dave

I would’ve bet money your customized thermostat didn’t even go above 72ºF.

Last year I replaced the cheap non-programmable thermostat here with the high dollar one I purchased at least 30 years ago when I lived in Texas. This was about the time Handy Dan and later, Builders Square were selling the cheap programmable thermostats that lasted a few months before they broke. I was working part time for an A/C guy and he sold me a real unit for about $150 bucks, very expensive in those days but he said it’d last and damn if it didn’t. I used it until I got my fancy 23 SEER unit that had it’s own thermostat and I of course, saved the old one. So, I use it here now and since it’s past 9 PM the A/C has clicked onto “Deep Freeze” the place for sleeping purposes. We keep it on higher during the day since we’re usually outside and it lowers about 4 PM and goes to maximum cool 9PM til 6 AM.

Super Dave

How about that? Over yonder they often show “memories” and today it was a fawn out beside Bld 49 just like El Gordo’s one the other day. This was June 10. 2015. I do miss my friends at the Rocket Ranch.

squawkbox

Texpat

And I wouldn’t think of trying to second guess God on his End Times Schedule.

Me neither big brother. BUT for us students of Bible prophecy it is good to know cause God wants us to know whats coming other wise he would not have told us.

I’ve lived the whole of my 70 years of life with people telling me the world’s gonna end tomorrow, whether it’s the Ice Age, the Hot Age or Judgment Day.

Yeah me too and that is why I study the whole Book. I even study what the Rabbi’s had/have to say in their commentaries about the prophetic books. What is the most fun is when idiots try to tell me such and such I can and do pull their sheets exposing them as the liars that they are.

I’ll just mosey along fighting the good fight up to and until the last day before the His Stuff Hits the Eternal Fan. I consider it my duty to be fierce and fearless in the face of evil until it’s not necessary anymore.

And that is a good attitude to have. God has a job for all of us. Mine is no longer what it was and I am perfectly happy with that.

GJT

You get any poles up today SD? You should follow Squawks lead and do a time lapsed video.

Bonecrusher

Our job title and description changes through our life, our BOSS NEVER CHANGES.

Bonecrusher

#84 GJT (Ralph): CAPITOL IDEA!!

GJT

Shannon

GJT

Heads up.

ALL main lanes of 290 through Cypress will be closed until Monday.

Mueschke to Barker Cypress.

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll pass on to the wife, I’m not able to go anywhere.

Bonecrusher

#87 GJT: Are you getting any therapy? I live in Copperfield, I make house calls.

bsue54

Well, it’s been a day… Got lost in canning recipes, waiting for the roof guy to come – then after my brain got out of the blender (don’t know why I bother listening – it could have all been in Swahili for all the sense it made to me… except that boot thing for the pipes – it’s cool – looks like the thing that went around the base of the stick shift of my old car… then I got lost in some more canning recipes – and canned 5 pints of pork loin cubes, and 2 pints of boneless pork loin chops… Have another loin in the freezer along with 2 trays of chicken breast quarters to sort out but I am sorely tempted to see how the pork chops came out…

Adee

Long and busy day here with lots of interesting things for a change. First was a phone call from the Rose-Rich vet clinic in Richmond that we’ve been patronizing for some 42 years about an owner who was needing the help of the St. Francis Fund to donate the rest of the vet charges for her small dog who just ate a whole brownie and needed to get rid of it pronto before it caused stomach issues or worse. I said this is a coincidence since I was just writing a check for another donation, and spouse was taking our kitty in this morning to have her nails trimmed. So he took the envelope with him. And brought home a beautiful thank-you note from the dog owner.

This is her note: ” Thank you so much for helping us out. This year has been pretty rough and having our puppy, “Birch,” were the few good moments we remember.

When he just swallowed that brownie on the road we panicked. But thanks to you we were able to get him the care he needed even when we couldn’t afford it at the time. It really has been a tough year, and we couldn’t imagine going through it without this little guy. So thank you, thank you for everything you do cause it really made a difference in our lives. Eternally grateful.”

And that is precisely what the St. Francis Fund is for. St Francis is the patron saint of animals.

bsue54

#90 Miss Adee – God’s timing ain’t a coincidence…

Shannon

89

With the gas prices these days, the commute back and forth between Hobby and CutNShoot for my post-apocalypse meals is going to get reeeeeeally expensive.

Bedtime here tonight. You all have a good evening. Nite nite.

GJT

#87 GJT: Are you getting any therapy? I live in Copperfield, I make house calls.

No better. Sorry, kind of mad at the bone workers that my son insisted I to right now, they made it worse. I appreciate the offer, really do.