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Basement???? You keep homos in the attic!!!!
You keep orphan children in the basement.
Geez. Some conservative you are.
Funny you should mention that. It wasn’t so long ago I had to do a blog series in which I made half-hearted attempts to reaffirm my conservative bona fides.
Now? I have to prove I’m not a lockstep Bushite.
The whole thing makes me smile. Until it doesn’t.
In fact, it makes me quite sad, now that I think about it.
I hope it was a bowtie………
TW:working Hey is this microphone working?
I’m thinking this is a sentence that, in the history of Mankind, has never before been uttered.
Except, of course, in the nightly dreams of a) the most die-hard of Bush apologists and b) Fred Phelps.
I thought you kept homos in the closet. Also, you keep gimps in a box, and you keep Bobby Knight in a state of high anxiety.
Russ, are you saying there are kultists about?
Yup, Russ, I do believe that qualifies as WTHNBUITPOB. (See George Carlin.)
“Hand me that piano.”
KM:
Kultists? Never, I say! Never!
(That is to say: never, except for Jeff, and BRD, and Inspector Callahan… and the majority of commenters, that is—assuming one has a sufficiently flexible definition of the word “kultist.”) (And yes, me too, despite the infrequency of my comments.)
CraigC:
Google is not, in this case, my friend. A little help on the acronym?
When
The
Hand’s
Not
Buttered
Up,
It
Takes
Pieces
Outtayer
Butt.
Yeah, right, “fiction.” Fascists.
“Wouldn’t you prefer a pipe organ?”
“No thanks, I’m trying to cut down.”
– The Goon Show!
And if you know the Goon Show, you’ll probably know what the acronym ISIRTA stands for…
Pellet gun? Real Bush apologists would choose a Remington semi-automatic.
“Whose motorcylce?”
“Zed’s”
“Whose Zed?”
“Zed’s dead baby. Zed’s dead.”
I guess Jeff is still smarting over his encounter with Hypatia.
She makes the point in the comment thread about the legality of Bush’s actions being settled as several DoJ attorneys resigned last summer over the issue.
Newsweek’s Story
The piece fits in well with Jeff’s observations about language and rhetoric. For example, the protagonist, Comey, is refered favorably, his group is a ‘coterie’ rather than a ‘band’
More tellingly, there’s this:
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Well, so long as one side is intrepid.
Other highlights from the first, of five, pages:
And their opponent?
who is a
His eating habits are well-known:
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Must be the gazpacho.
There are four more pages of hardhitting analysis which conclude:
make that the ‘illegality’ of Chimpy McHitlerburton’s wiretaps against Americans was settled by the coterie of courageous, quiet, determined lawyers, the leader of whom resembles Jimmy Stewart is a settled matter.
Slainte sin Padraig!*
*(Erse for ‘if we’d had the slighest idea, we’da thrown the little Papist overboard…’
The History of Ireland Before I Start Drinking:
95% of Irish History ends with the words ‘…and then he was betrayed by…’ this covers everybody from Finn MacCool to the Men of ‘98 to Michael Collins.
3% of Irish History ends with the words ‘…and then the success went to his head and turned his brains to shite…” This covers everyone from the bards to Conn of the Hundred Battles to Eamon de Valera to Michael Flatley and the Kennedies…
2% of Irish History ends with ‘…and then he really made something of himself…but he had to get the hell out of Ireland to do it.’ This covers the likes of Shaw and Wellington and every Paddy who got on a boat bound west.
Let’s see……
I’m three days behind in production, I have an employee whose wife and baby are in the hospital due to exposure to mold, my shop superintendent just got a call that his daughter fell getting off the school bus and broke her leg, I’ve got a bid due by noon, the annual “St. Pat’s parade” starts at 11:00, March Madness is in full swing, my shop cat has suddenly acquired “Catsheimer’s disease”, forgetting where her litterbox is and pissing on the floor, my grand daughter will want to know the latest “‘dillo don’t dance” excuse when I get home and your most pressing concern is sighting in your new pop toy using an endless supply of homos chained up in your basement that you purchased on close out from some Jerry Falwell idolater that sold his integrity for a teaching job at some Liberal Arts College…
You don’t got problems, man….you got it made.
rls, what kind of contracting work are you in?
I wondered what happened to Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities . LET HIM GO!!
God..I love this Blog. You guyz are so smrt.
I’ll be back.
Clothes tell a story, and that tie tells the story of a well-known, heavily advertised (on the gay internet) male prostitute operating in Washington, D.C. with a name that sounds like man-jam that has to be good.
Do you want the chains back on, or off?
Institutional casework. Cabinets, etc for schools, hospitals, commercial institutions.
I hope the commercial millwork business is better where you are, rls, than here in CT.
tw: “cut” – heh.
It is good. I am actually picking and choosing the jobs I want to bid. We just keep pouring money into schools here. We’re currently doing dorm rooms in a Seminary, classrooms in an elementary school and improvements in a district education office.
Hospital improvements, add ons, casino additions, retail tenant finish and Sprint world HQ still renovating and improving – lots of stuff to do.
rls,
I’m an architect by trade, so I’ve reviewed a few thousand linear feet of casework. Door hardware submittals are the only thing more tedious than casework submittals. The finished product is always nice though.
T/W Sometimes it feels like my head is going to explode.
BTW, I just had a short unscheduled meeting with a Spacesaver sales rep (those bastards sneak up on a person like Grim Reaper). He told me that custom casework is so “1900’s” and that modular is the future.
I politely told him to go fuck himself.
Why not just be who you are? To heck with labels. There’s no need to establish any credentials or bona fides whatsoever. I’d hope people come here because they like what you say (and how you say it, oy!, you are a master with words), they agree ever so often, and they derive enjoyment from the blog, and not because you are or are not a Bushite or whatever.
natesnake,
Yeah…we just block em in when we draw them anyway. Almost like a waste of time when you deal with an experienced reputable casework mfg. Most of the submittals we do now are via e-mail and Architect makes mark up right on our drawings and e-mail em back.
Gives us a quicker turn around and less room for error.
rls,
That beats the shit out of redlining seven sets of bond copies. Our local casework guys are a few years behind the times.
natesnake,
It does work really well when you have an architect you can work with and a contractor that isn’t concerned with “the labor pains” but just wants the “baby”.
I normally end up with three sets of “saved” drawings – the original submittal, the marked up set and the final “corrected” set. We print the final set and provide a copy for the contractor, a copy for the production shop and a copy for the architect.
When the job is complete, we burn a disc with all the drawings and job files.
natesnake and rls:
I just got finished with a contractor who asked me to quote countertops for his commercial project six ways for each unit. I swear, this is why I would much rather sub for a Millwork house, than deal direct with the GC.
That and I will most likely see money from the Millwork guys.
GCs are tight as the bark on a tree. His request boils down to, “What’s the cheapest thing you can slap together?”
In the same position, I’d require 50% paid in advance, and 50% prior to delivery. And that still doesn’t protect you from the, “You didn’t give me exactly what I asked for. It’s your fault. Deduct 25% from the original price, and I’ll accept it.” Knowing damn well he’s full of shit.
With most contracts (in this area) looking to hold back 10% retainage, the 50-50 deal is tough. I’m sure you’ve seen the standard AIA agreemnet forms. The Connecticut form allows a more severe liability claim: You are required to defend the Contractor and his client from damages – using an attorney chosen by them – whether you are negligent or not. My insurance guy just laughs and laughs….
The shitty part of retainage, is that regardless of when your work is in place and completed, you won’t see your final 10% until the entire project is complete. If your work is done in on month 3, and the project isn’t complete until month 15, you enjoy the pleasure of waiting a year to be paid in full. The fortunate part about casework is that it is usually installed during the last 10% of construction. The excavation and foundation subcontractor’s are the one’s who really get screwed.
I performed C/A on one job where the G.C. went bankrupt halfway thru construction. Materials and subs stopped arriving on site since they hadn’t recieved payment. Several mechanics liens where placed against the owner’s property. It was a class A cluster-fuck. The performance bond was finally called in, and the project completed. We’re more inclined now to request credit checks on the apparent low bidders prior to executing a contract.
I’ve been on a couple projects where I spent a considerable amount of time protecting the general contractor from the owner. Some owners are never satisfied.
This is part of the reason why I don’t generally work for GC’s. I have spent a great many years nursing relationships with Millwork outfits that I trust. As I am never the cheapest guy on the bid, it has allowed me to weed out the poor payers and have a fairly good stream of good millwork outfits I can work with. They care only that the work will not give them headaches, and that my or their problems get taken care of quickly, and with good craftsmanship.
natesnake, my dad used to teach at Fordson High School, which was built in the 1920’s, and resembles an English college. The classrooms have built-in drawers and bookcases, in oak, and beautiful.
The library is outstanding, and simply gorgeous, in a baronial “roast me an ox” way.
Of course, when the local billionaire, old man Ford, says if you’ll let me have the say on the design and style, I’ll pay for it, well the schoolboard wasn’t crazy.
No offense to you contractors, but YAWN! Surely there are blogs for “your kind!”