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These are the left and right sides of the glassed-in Wine Room in a beachfront home out here. I didn’t make these, they were being put in at the same time I was doing a turn of the chisel with some cabinets of another persuasion. That’s a good bit of wine there…..good place to ride out a hurricane.

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patd
4 years ago

patd
4 years ago

18 U.S. Code § 594.Intimidation of voters

Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

patd
4 years ago

the hill:

Attorneys for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner threatened to sue The Lincoln Project, a prominent Republican group opposing the president, for billboards it put up in Times Square in Manhattan. 
The attorneys in a letter to The Lincoln Project complained about one billboard showing Trump, a senior adviser to her father, smiling and gesturing next to figures showing over 33,000 New Yorkers and 221,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus. The lawyers also cited a billboard featuring Kushner, another senior White House adviser, next to body bags and an unrelated 2019 quote from before the pandemic in which he said New Yorkers would “suffer.” 

 

[…]
The Lincoln Project maintained in a statement it will leave the billboards up, saying they accurately depict what they say is a lax attitude toward the pandemic. 
“The level of indignant outrage Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have shown towards The Lincoln Project for exposing their indifference for the more than 223,000 people who have lost their lives due to their reckless mismanagement of COVID-19 is comical. While we truly enjoy living rent free in their heads, their empty threats will not be taken any more seriously than we take Ivanka and Jared,” the group said in a statement. 
“It is unsurprising that an administration that has never had any regard or understanding of our Constitution would try to trample on our first amendment rights,” it added, “but we fully intend on making this civics lesson as painful as possible.”

patd
4 years ago

LP latest pointedly to their audience of one

Pogo
4 years ago

From the USA Today article posted last night by Poobah. 

The president has participated in nearly three dozen rallies since mid-August, all but two at airport hangars. A USA TODAY analysis shows COVID-19 cases grew at a faster rate than before after at least five of those rallies in the following counties: Blue Earth, Minnesota; Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Marathon, Wisconsin; Dauphin, Pennsylvania; and Beltrami, Minnesota.
Together, those counties saw 1,500 more new cases in the two weeks following Trump’s rallies than the two weeks before – 9,647 cases, up from 8,069. 

1500 Covid cases as a result of dumbass’ vanity tour. Despicable. 

Pogo
4 years ago

The old racist D’ump is back. 

Trump slipped several racially insensitive remarks into a campaign speech at the Villages in Florida, many that date back to his early days as a politician.

Trump referenced “Barack Hussein Obama” three times in a row, giving extra emphasis to “Hussein.” He conflated low-income housing with crime, warned of “criminals and rapists and even murderers” immigrating across the border, and talked up his ban on travelers from Muslim countries to keep out “radical Islam.”

Meanwhile, a man behind Trump’s shoulder repeatedly made a gesture with his hand that matches one used by white nationalists.

 
Trump also attacked Joe Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), and her politics, railing against the idea of her as the first female president.

“She will not be your first female president. It’s not the way it’s supposed to be,” he said. “We’re not supposed to have a socialist — look, we’re not going to be a socialist nation. We’re not going to have a socialist president, especially a female socialist president.”

Leopards, spots.
 
 

Jamie
4 years ago

Great long interview with the young Daphne Keen who starred in Logan with Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick and now stars as Lyra in His Dark Materials with Lin Manuel-Miranda.  Good reading, but her political leanings come through with this.

“She jokes that politics would be much less complicated if politicians all had personal “daemons”: the revealing spirit animals which accompany the characters in His Dark Materials. “It would be so much easier to know who to vote for, wouldn’t it?” she says. “I mean, you wouldn’t want the guy with a leech daemon in charge would you? Somebody like Donald Trump would have a tick, a spray-tanned tick.

patd
4 years ago

sturge, don’t empty too many of those cans or you’ll end up like this guy with his daisy red ryder

I’d like to shoot you in the ass
With a BB Gun
Lay there in the tall grass and
Laugh at what I done
Put a blood blister upon each bun
I’d like to shoot you in the ass
With a BB Gun!

I’d like to rub your toothbrush
On a sick monkey’s butt
Give your home phone number
To a perverted nut…
I’ll tell everybody what
You really weigh
And just for fun, I’d like to shoot
You in the ass with a BB Gun

Bink
4 years ago

i have the same exact personal story, Mr. S (about the BB gun).

A Republican friend also wanted to start a business with me making those wine rooms. I’d do all the work, he’d make all the money, of course.

RebelliousRenee
4 years ago

Sturg….  there must be a section for Riunite somewhere in that rack…
 
Ya know… thought I’d be wanting to hide under my bed by now with all the nastiness of the trump campaign for the last 2 weeks.  Instead…  I’m having fun watching him and his family being turned into the buffoons they truly are….    LOVE the Lincoln Project!

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Unfortunately, tRUMPsky’s “socialist” line is playing with young, Latinx in Florida.  They don’t want handouts/socialism, they want freedom.  Ummm, someone needs to talk to them about tRUMPsky’s brand of so-called freedom…which is for unquestioning followers (for as as long as it serves him), the super-wealthy (as long as it serves him) and his immediate family ;as long as they serve him).   He’s an effing dictator and somebody needs to explain that to these kids ASAP!

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Is Yertle still shell-side up?

Bink
4 years ago

Vampires are immortal, BiD

Bink
4 years ago

Yup, i’ve been stuck in ‘Sota for a while😕

It’s the dust.

patd
4 years ago

so what votes they can’t stop from being cast, they want to keep them from being counted ?

the hill:

The Trump campaign and the Nevada GOP sued the Nevada secretary of state and Clark County registrar on Friday seeking to stop the count of early mail-in ballots in the Las Vegas area, the latest Republican effort to curtail vote-counting heading toward Election Day.
The lawsuit, filed less than two weeks before the Nov. 3 elections, says observers cannot get close enough to workers and machines as they tally votes in Nevada’s largest and most Democratic county, which includes the city of Las Vegas.
[…]
Judge James Wilson in Carson City later decided to not issue an immediate order to stop the count but did schedule a hearing on the issue set to take place next Wednesday.
The suit is just the latest to be brought by President Trump and his allies in states across the nation to try to curtail vote-counting in the leadup to the election.
Various lawsuits have pushed for the scrapping of ballot drop-off boxes, limiting of the timeframe in which votes can be cast and counted, increasing scrutiny over supposed signature mismatches and more. The suits have been cast in the name of fraud prevention, though studies show voter fraud is incredibly rare.
[continues]

craigcrawford
4 years ago

nice wine room, but the chandelier is a bit much

Bink
4 years ago

Easy way to insult a woodworker: ask them to make you a cutting board.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

I saw a great table that was inlaid with turquoise.  Gorgeous, enormous and very pricey.  Then, I found a cutting board inlaid with turquoise (small and price-friendly).  Completely useless,  so I didn’t get it.    

Bink
4 years ago

Infections are spiking because people are reticent, if not outright resistant, to wearing a mask in their own homes.  Yeah, it sucks, but not as much as a bad case of COVID.
 
…was on a zoom call this week with a guy with COVID and he sounded TERRIBLE.  Constant, uncontrollable deep coughing.  Do Not Want.
 
Ok, enjoy your COVID- free Saturday, valiant warriors💪❤️🇺🇸

Jamie
4 years ago

Farewell to Jerry Jeff Walker at 78 

 

 

Jamie
4 years ago

November 4, 2020 (I Hope)

Pogo
4 years ago

Sorry to hear about Jerry Jeff. Loved that Ridin’ High album. Damn near wore it out. Loved Cowboy’s Lament Aka Night Rider’s Lament and Pissin’ in the Wind. 

whskyjack
4 years ago

Pogo
4 years ago
blueINdallas
4 years ago

Folks don’t understand why having COVID is a pre-existing condition.  It’s NOT the flu.   Lung damage, heart damage, neurological problems.   It doesn’t just go away, necessarily.

tRUMP is AFRAID to talk about COVID because he has no plan to help folks.  

What he does want to talk about is fossil fuels and his dinosaur cronies in that industry who are still enriching themselves at the expense of humans.  It won’t go away overnight, but it will go away.  They only care about money, so once they realize they they can make money from green energy, problem solved.  

tRUMP is a parasite, as is the rest of his family.  They are gone, as are the rest of the Republicans on the ballot.  

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Obama in Miami just now: “If you’ve gotta walk out of a 60 Minutes interview then you’re never going to stand up to a dictator. If you’re spending all your time complaining about how mean reporters are to you, you’re not going to stand up to Putin.” 

Bink
4 years ago

https://trumpcovidplan.com/

Trump’s Covid Plan (safe link)

Blue Bronc
4 years ago

Flu shot day.  Senior, over sixty-five, dose.  Yuck.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Pretty good gotcha on tRUMP’s  nonexistent plan. God, love ya, Joe.   Can’t wait for the big, orange baby to start crying about Obama, again.  Maybe that’s the way to out deflect the deflector.  Throw so much at him that he starts chasing his tail.  

blueINdallas
4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKRw8GAAtm27q4R3Q0kst_g
“Follow the white fuk-wit”   So good!
It’s the top video in queue about the q-razies with a shout-out to Amy Phony.

tiptoe21
4 years ago

All trumpity wants is publicity. He doesn’t care what kind.  When he’s out of office he’ll be superfluous/unneeded.  I hope he gets NO media coverage or press from the bastards.  I hope he becomes the loneliest man in the world. His wife jerks her hand out of his even now.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/522595-murkowski-says-she-will-vote-to-confirm-barrett-to-supreme-court-on-monday
Didn’t we already know she would do this?   Republicans need to be stopped in every race this year and in every election to come.  Shut ‘em down. 

Katherine Graham Cracker
4 years ago

I thought SFB voted by mail so what was he doing voting in person today

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Showboating 
Ya can’t get any attention by mailing in a ballot

tiptoe21
4 years ago

Showboating is right!

Pogo
4 years ago

I doubt that any repug senator will vote No on Barrett. The one thing they have is loyalty. 

tony
4 years ago

WATCH: Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Rule Out 2024 Primary Challenge to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris
This grouchy old man can’t quit even 10 days before the most important election of our lifetime! 

tiptoe21
4 years ago

Unfortunately, Bernie already has a heart problem.  In his body kind.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Loyalty?  Honor among thieves. Vote ‘em all out.
Apparently, Republicans want their legacy to be forcing through a SCOTUS nominee to ensure folks can’t get healthcare, either due to a pre-existing condition or because they can’t get private insurance through their employer.  Heartless asshats.

xrepublican
4 years ago

Sorry I’m late. Sweetie had me out early, priming the economy. Then visited an old friend whose wife died in January and daughter died in a fire in February.  Then watched the woodrats pound the Gophers for that Little Brown Jug. 
 
Nice wine room, Mr Sturgeone ! How much would one of them set me back ? After buying one, I prolly couldn’t afford to stock it w/$3 Chuck and Red Dog beer unless I sold the car.

patd
4 years ago

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