Just in case you've had a bad day, here's some otters playing on a slide. pic.twitter.com/AAH1noZ06a
— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) August 7, 2018
… which is the state motto of New York, usually translated as ‘Ever Upward.’ It’s also a word for wood shavings used as packing material, and according to the nuns in my NYC parochial school, the motto was chosen because in the 1770s they couldn’t put BULLSHIT! on official documents.
Note the timestamps here. Steve Vockrodt, “Investigative reporter for the Kansas City Star“:
ALSO BREAKING: Sharice Davids now LEADS Brent Welder in the overall tally by 492 votes as her edge keeps growing in Johnson County. Still plenty of precincts that need to be reported.
— Steve Vockrodt (@st_vockrodt) August 8, 2018
As of the latest update, 309 of 502 Johnson County precincts are complete.
— Steve Vockrodt (@st_vockrodt) August 8, 2018
If tonight’s election results prove anything, it’s that I’m going to need a Xanax intravenous drip in November.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 8, 2018
Ohio update:
Folks, our race is too close to call.
And now we’re entering what could be a long and expensive recount.
Will you please chip in to help us make sure every vote is counted fairly? https://t.co/CEFdOwrXCN
— Danny O'Connor (@dannyoconnor1) August 8, 2018
Danny O’Connor, win or lose against Troy Balderson, has proven that a +11 Republican district, #OH12, can completely be wiped out by a #bluewave.
Republicans should be afraid, very afraid! The wave is coming for you!
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) August 8, 2018
In other good news…
Missouri's right to work law is on the ballot today bc the GOP legislature moved it to August, thinking Democrats/labor would be weaker than if the issue made the November ballot.
With 94% of precincts reporting, right to work has been rejected by a 2-1 margin.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 8, 2018
Seems to me the ought to be one of the biggest stories of the night: not just the result, but the margin. Pro-labor sentiment didn't get Walker recalled in Wi, didn't defeat his for a 2d term, but in this more conservative state, it ruled. Analysis please? https://t.co/hrbkPxQWrf
— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) August 8, 2018
Democrats propose funding teacher pay raises by canceling tax cuts for the wealthy https://t.co/BgYg8pQY1E
— KassandraSeven (@KassandraSeven) August 7, 2018
If your friends and family aren't registered, they can't make their voices heard in this fall's critical midterm elections. Take one minute right now to share this link with them via text, email, Facebook message, or carrier pigeon: https://t.co/tTgeqxNqYm
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 7, 2018
Alan Dershowitz must be pissed. https://t.co/53VSX2xku3
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) August 7, 2018
geg6
Whew! I thought the site was borked.
Cermet
Good morning, Jackals!
Immanentize
Good morning, All. Standing in the Dunkin line in terminal C at Logan waiting for a flight to Houston. Sure it’s better to win, but the Ohio result is nice and — very expensive campaign and recount maybe for Republicans in a contest that will be on the November ballot. Woot!
OzarkHillbilly
We’re schizophrenic.
geg6
Big statewide Catholic Church investigation report is supposed to be released today or tomorrow. Local news is reporting at least 90 people—priests and laymen—from the Pittsburgh Diocese are expected to be named. That’s just one diocese. No wonder the bishop here had a letter read in mass last week, trying to get in front of it. The current Bishop of Washington DC is going to look very bad as a lot of this happened under him when he was bishop here. I despise these people.
raven
@Immanentize: How was TSA? I fly out of there Sunday morning at 6:30 and I have to drive from Providence? I’m thinking I need to be there by 4:30?
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Hey, one of my toilets has been running slowly and I’m pretty sure something just poked it’s head out when I flushed. Any experience with this?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Nah. Voting against right to work doesn’t entail voting for political leaders who want to treat black people fairly.
Analysis requested, analysis provided.
Bruuuuce
I have seen a 99-foot-tall man!
Let me explain.
There’s a principle that says that some proofs, while confirming the things they prove, weaken the assertions they’re proving. So, if I assert that there cannot ever be a 100-foot-tall man, even a 9-footer is fairly strong proof. But if a 99-foot-tall guy comes along, suddenly the statement is thrown into serious doubt.
Ohio is that 99-foot-tall man. Win or lose, it shows we can and should be contesting every race as if it can be won, because it _can_.
OzarkHillbilly
As for Weigels “Missouri’s right to work law is on the ballot today bc the GOP legislature moved it to August, thinking Democrats/labor would be weaker than if the issue made the November ballot.”, he has the thinking wrong. It has long been reported that as the KC Star says:
And then we have this history:
It is never over in this state, no issue is ever immune to zombiefication. I am heartened to see such a pro-union turnout but I gawddamn guarantee most of the 65% who voted against Prop A also voted for the same Republicans who voted for RtW legislation last year to begin with. Liker I said, schizophrenic and chopping our noses off to spite our faces.
Immanentize
@raven: It was super fast this morning — no taking off belt, shoes or watches. Computer left in bag. We got to the airport at 5:25 for a 7 flight. We were sitting at the gate by 5:50. So, one good run through TSA.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
raven
@Immanentize: Sounds good, I know I won’t be sleeping much anyway so I guess I’ll head out Providence at 3:30.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: None personal, but have read/heard plenty of stories about critters coming up the pipes (last one was out of Australia with the most venomous snake they have emerging from a toilet). I kind of suspect the slow running toilet issue to be separate from the critter issue.
Try feeding it an energy bar and see if that gooses it up.
DemJayhawks
Still waiting here in KS-03.
Lapassionara
Good morning, all.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I poured bleach in there.
Platonailedit
@OzarkHillbilly:
Missourians love rearguard fights rather than studying cause and effect theory? Chopping our noses off to spite our faces, indeed.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I poured bleach in there. Now I have to decide if I should tell my wife. She’s out of town and it might be better if she doesn’t know.
BruceFromOhio
@OzarkHillbilly:
That… applies to many things of late.
Immanentize
@raven: That should give you enough time. Traffic should be light. Safe travels!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: On the more serious side, you may have a partial blockage in the pipe leading to the main stack (your toilet should be no more than 2-3 feet from it). You can try to work it with a plunger or snake it out. If the blockage is some how in the main stack or line to the sewer you may well have more serious problems and should just call a plumber.
Platonailedit
p.a.
@raven: Hey, one of my toilets has been running slowly and I’m pretty sure something just poked it’s head out when I flushed. Any experience with this?
What’s Kobach doing down there??!!??
satby
@Immanentize: @raven: sounds like Immanentize is in the TSA pre clearance (precheck) program, some airlines who list you as a frequent flier will submit your name on your behalf. I am because I used to be a road warrior, at least when I fly AA. If you’re not, you might still have to do the whole shoes off, laptop / tablet out routine.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning rikyrah ?!
@Baud: @Lapassionara: and to you!
NotMax
@Immanentize
Yeah, lucked out with a “TSA Pre” on the boarding pass again coming home this year. Took off footwear anywhere, despite being told I didn’t have to, as the sandals was wearing have metal buckles that upset the walk-through arch (as I learned last year). TSA left a little love note inside my checked bag on the NY back to Hawaii flight, as they always do, that the bag ad been opened by them. Suspect they were simultaneously bored with the contents and impressed with the skill of the packing to make everything fit. This year it even showed up on the carousel with a brand new name and address label slapped on the outside of the bag which wasn’t there when it was checked in.
Same bag doesn’t need to be checked on the HI to NY trip; some of the booty brought back from NY is such that they won’t allow it through as carry-on when I return.
Mustang Bobby
@Immanentize: I flew out of Logan back in June on a Monday morning at 5:30 a.m. and was impressed to see the terminal crowded (don’t remember which one; I was on American to Miami) . Breezed through TSA (thank you Pre-Check!), though an grabbed a Starbucks on the way.
Baud
@satby: Y tú.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I don’t know that bleach will do much good. Just asked my wife about a trick she has used in the past on sinks with old plumbing.
Pour a small box of baking soda in. Than pour boiling water in. Repeat as needed. I suspect that with a toilet you may need to drain the water from the bowl first.
Also I am not sure how a ceramic toilet will react to sudden contact with boiling water. Maybe just very hot?
JPL
@Immanentize: Last December I was in the Boston area for a few days and that was my experience. Atlanta was the opposite.
The judge in the Manafort case seems odd to me. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if he tossed the case.
satby
@Mustang Bobby: American airlines is very active in submitting names for TSA precheck. It used to be my company’s “preferred” airline, meaning my company got
kickbacksrebates at the end of the year.Immanentize
@satby:
I sadly wasn’t TSA pre-check this time. They were just whipping people through.
Lately, TSA pre-check lines have been as long as regular lines.
MomSense
JFC I just saw a video of the OH12 green candidate and he’s a complete Fucking moron. Can we haz some investigative reporting on funding sources for green campaigns??
Baud
@Immanentize: That’s been my experience too.
@MomSense: We already know the answer to that.
NotMax
Snapped a pic of the awning of an apartment house in Mom’s neighborhood, the name of which always evokes a small grin when I pass by.
(Site where have uploaded the pic rotates it 90 degrees; sorry ’bout thst.)
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh my god. A snake coming up through the toilet is the stuff of nightmares.
satby
@MomSense: Greens have been funded for years by Republicans. They understand splitting the vote for opponents, even if the wicked smaht people ostensibly on the left can’t seem to grasp it.
Immanentize
@JPL: TS Ellis is a crotchety old senior status judge who is probably bored with his job, thinks he knows more than anyone else in the courthouse and just seems to like messing with folks. But he has kept it all on the lane -+ and moving along. There is no way he can (legally) throw the case out. The prosecutors, as far as I can tell, have proven all the elements of the crime, which means the case has to go to the jury. Ellis has some opportunities to put his thumb on the scale — but not many.
Now what the jury does….
satby
@NotMax: link borked.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Something poked its head out. I’m not joking.
Baud
@MomSense: I’d be more afraid if it were a bear.
@Raven: It wasn’t a bear, was it?
Raven
@satby: I’ve gotten pre-screened on Southwest quite a bit and never applied for anything. I was also pre screened on Delta a couple of weeks ago and I haven’t flown them in years.
satby
@Raven: call a plumber. Anything you put down the drain could result in a dead critter blocking the pipe, or worse a mortally wounded one attempting to climb out away from the poison while you’re gone.
debbie
@Immanentize:
Expensive or not, it’s worth the cost to piss off the Ohio GOP. O’Connor needs to both fight for every vote now and to begin his November campaign immediately. He can start by pouncing on Balderson’s statement last week in Delaware County that they didn’t want someone from Franklin County representing them. Well, Franklin County is home to one-third of the district’s voters. What kind of representative admits to ignoring so many of his constituents? Bastard.
Elizabelle
Good morning, jackals.
I’m happy about Danny O’Connor. He is not going to be less strong in November, and dog only knows what Trump and the national Republicans will do in the meantime.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I read bleach somewhere and I had some. It ran a lot better so maybe whatever it was just moved away. If I don’t tell her and it happens she’ll freak but, if I do. . .
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Linky no workee.
satby
@Raven: I know, it’s erratic. I haven’t flow AA since 2014, but I still was in pre-check, other airlines I’m not. I used to fly SW every week for over a year at one point, but I don’t think I’ve been in pre-check for them ever.
I just go to the line they tell me.
Mustang Bobby
@Immanentize: At Miami International, the Pre-Check line goes really quickly even when it’s busy. But I noticed at small airports like the one in Columbia, Missouri, they combine Pre-Check with non-Pre and you have to go through the whole shoes-off/laptop out regardless. I will say that the Pre-Check was the best $85 I ever spent on travel. I signed up for it when I was pulled aside for a private scan when the agent noted an “anomaly” in my nether regions. I had to drop trou and prove, to quote the song from “Oklahoma!”, that everything I had was absolutely real. I signed up the next week.
debbie
@Raven:
Just call a plumber and get it over.
BC in Illinois
I don’t have time for a full analysis (and I’m going to be away from things for a few days as family from out-of-town comes to visit) but someone ought to look at what happened yesterday in St Louis County.
Wesley Bell, a black Ferguson City Councilman, defeated Bob McCullough, who has been St Louis County Prosecutor for 27 years — and badly botched the reaction to the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson in 2014.
The NYT asked “Can a Criminal Justice Advocate Unseat Ferguson’s Lead Prosecutor?” The answer is yes.
One of McCullough’s allies, County Executive Steve Stenger, held on to the County Executive position, 50-3% – 49.7%, against a “Democrat” who had a hard time explaining why he was a donor to Eric Greitens’s [R – sleezeball] campaign. A better candidate would have knocked Stenger out.
One of Steve Stenger’s only allies on the County Council, Pat Dolan — a man with strong union support — was defeated by Lisa Clancy,
We didn’t get the candidate — Mark Osmack — who I wanted for the race against Ann Wagner (R – safe Republican vote) and I cannot explain the results of that primary at all . . . [a perennial candidate who doesn’t deal with the real world came in an inexplicably strong third] . . . the winner, Cort van Ostram is, on paper, a perfectly good candidate. It will take a lot for him to unseat Wagner.
John S.
@NotMax:
On my many trips to and around Hawaii over the past 15 years (probably something like 30+ flights), I have been “randomly” selected by TSA all but twice.
I suspect they are deeply suspicious as to why someone from Florida would bother going to Hawaii at all. :-)
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m amazed that Missourians will still vote for a party that has repeatedly made clear it wants the opposite of what they want.
NotMax
Whoopsie. Jet lag strikes.
:)
Fixed link.
pic of the awning
MomSense
@satby:
Yup, but too many voters don’t know that.
WereBear
FINALLY found a combo that works on my iPad: Brave browser, Desktop mode. And it keeps my nym and info.
In addition to the portability of my iPad mini, I think my illness left me with PTSD for desktops and laptops :) iPad feels like FUN.
I am incredibly heartened by last night’s results already. Anything else is ice cream on the CAKE OF REVENGE.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: We had a copperhead show up in our bedroom once.
@Raven: I know you aren’t joking. It happens, just never has to me. As to not telling your wife about it, sometimes ignorance really is bliss.
MomSense
@Raven: ?????
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: My advice is the opposite. She is not going to be a happy camper if she discovers a critter when he is out of town. Best to forewarn.
Baud
Today show has been doing a decent job blaming climate change for extreme weather. It wasn’t that long ago that weather people avoided that explanation altogether.
A Ghost To Most
@Raven: It’s not Roy Moore, by chance?
Baud
@A Ghost To Most: That would be scarier than bears.
OzarkHillbilly
@BC in Illinois:
Bill Haas, right? My oldest Sis dated him, briefly, way back when. Stayed friends with him even if he was, as she was fond of saying, “a bit of a strange bird”.
So happy to hear that McCullough got his ass handed to him. Sorry that the most corrupt Democrat in America Stenger did not.
rikyrah
@satby:
Which is why it was important that the Greens got thrown off the ballot in Montana.
Lapassionara
@Amir Khalid: I have only been here a few years, but the people around me remember John Danforth fondly, and they are blind to the radicalism of today’s Republican Party. So, they automatically vote Republican, no matter what.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: I am not surprised by anything Miseryans do any more.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: But just think of the stories that will be told!
NotMax
So-o-o- pleasant to again be able to sit at night – without A/C – and no longer feel as if I’d been sentenced to an open-ended stint inside a Turkish bath while wrapped in an electric blanket set on Poach.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: @JPL: So to sum up: women in this thread are telling you that ignorance is not bliss, and the only male to respond suggests otherwise. You’ve been cautioned.
Lapassionara
@BC in Illinois: I watched the MO 2 primary, because I want very badly to send Wagner packing. I think the VanOstran campaign was more visible, at least around here. We got more calls from that campaign and I saw more evidence of canvassing, etc. just my 2 cents.
randy khan
@John S.:
I’d think they would be more suspicious of someone going from Hawaii to Florida – it has all of the advantages plus no Florida Man.
Mart
@OzarkHillbilly: As a schizoid Missourian I am shocked at the margin. Now on to November, where we need to pass medical marijuana to help ease the pain Trump inflicts on us.
satby
@NotMax: I returned to 90° weather with high humidity, but Monday night and yesterday rain finally moved through and cooled things off. The temp in NYC at 6am was 77°. UGH! I love NYC, but I can’t take that humidity.
Welcome home!
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: You people are just no fun. :-(
In other news:
WTF is wrong with the people who found him “Not Guilty” of murder? 10 bullets? Cops are notoriously bad shots, to hit someone with 10 out of 14 to 30 bullets? Not only did he target this totally innocent individual, he must have been shooting him after he was down (as in unable to move anymore, not necessarily prone on the ground).
NotMax
@satby
Thanks.
While walking (leisurely) with Mom from the theater on Sunday, post-matinee, eight blocks uptown to stop at a certain doughnut shop I was curious to sample (beet doughnut with ricotta filling among the offerings), we passed a digital thermometer which read 95 degrees. Ugh.
Coming back, changed planes in Phoenix. Pilot announced the outside temp on the ground was 105. Double ugh.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: OK, I got back from the bakery and called my buddy who is a plumber. He said the quick test to see if the bleach may have relocated it it to flush a bunch of paper and if it runs quickly there is no obstruction right there. It did run quickly so I continued my investigation. The 4″ waste pipe from the toilet runs straight under the house. We’ve had a pretty good sized rat snake down there before and I found a molted snake skin wrapped around the pipes. There also is a big hole in the vent pipe that is in a closet on the porch so I think that’s how it got in. If I close up the hole and it is still alive it won’t be able to get out. If I don’t, well, it can happen again!
rikyrah
Trump’s Supreme Betrayal
By Paul Krugman
Opinion Columnist
July 30, 2018
By now, it’s almost a commonplace to say that Trump has systematically betrayed the white working class voters who put him over the top. He ran as a populist; he’s governed as an orthodox Republican, with the only difference being the way he replaced racial dog-whistles with raw, upfront racism.
Many people have made this point with respect to the Trump tax cut, which is so useless to ordinary workers that Republican candidates are trying to avoid talking about it. The same can be said about health care, where Democrats are making Trump’s assault on the Affordable Care Act a major issue while Republicans try to change the subject.
But I think we should be seeing more attention devoted to the way Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court fits into this picture. The Times had a good editorial on Kavanaugh’s anti-worker agenda, but by and large the news analyses I’ve seen focus on his apparently expansive views of presidential authority and privilege.
I agree that these are important in the face of a lawless president with authoritarian instincts. But the business and labor issues shouldn’t be neglected. Kavanaugh is, to put it bluntly, an anti-worker radical, opposed to every effort to protect working families from fraud and mistreatment.
Sister Golden Bear
Proof of life post. (I haven’t been posting as much lately because the recovery is going smoothly.)
Had a two-hour Thai massage.
A bit ouchy at times, but ermahgerd, so needed.
Sitting in the hotel lobby listening to the jazz trio that seems to be here every weeknight. They’re thrilled to actually have an audience. (Kind of feel sorry for them, because usually they’re playing to an empty house — done those sorts of gigs and they’re no fun. More like a live practice session.)
Gin & Tonic
@raven: I generally zip through too, but I’ve got Global Entry which includes TSA Pre.
Baud
@Sister Golden Bear: Glad to hear things are going well.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Go ahead and close the hole. The snake can still get out by going downstream. In STL city, the sewer system is so old the waste and storm water run thru the same lines. If it is the same there it won’t even have to go that far downstream to get out of the system.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic: Me too, but my luck is such that every occasion I’ve had to use it, the regular line has been extremely short or shorter.
father pusbucket
Is our presidents in jail yet?
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic:
I decided to apply for that. Hoping for some foreign travel soon.
What is the interview like?
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
I think that is worthy of being part of the rotating tag line.
TS (the original)
President Obama at Martha’s Vineyard – from the link
Alan Dershowitz might be p!ssed – trump must be frothing at the mouth
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: @OzarkHillbilly: Great, thanks. I went and got a 4″ rubber sleeve to cove it.
OzarkHillbilly
The Shadow Rulers of the VA
How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies.
Much more at the link.
schrodingers_cat
@OzarkHillbilly: How many other departments are being run this away. My guess: All of them.
Uncle Cosmo
Just in case no one has pointed it out above, Excelsior is also the name of a theme in chess problems that involves promoting a Pawn. It plays a major role in Stephen L. Carter’s 2002 novel The Emperor of Ocean Park, where the protagonist’s deceased father is a problem-solving enthusiast. /TMI
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Immanentize:
The interview is short and easy. Occupation, addresses, travel history. Criminal background check is done, then you get a card that you never have to present – you simply load your number into all your flight reservations, and your boarding passes spit out with ore heck on them while the airlines upload your trip info to customs.
You go through an abbreviated process on return via a hand scanner. Certain randoms are culled for spot secondary, but it’s short.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@OzarkHillbilly: Permutter is an asshole and was forced out of the day-to-day at Marvel a few years ago. There’s not a lot of gossip around it, but he’s famously been blamed for the early lack of diversity in the movies, for Terrence Howard being replaced with Don Cheadle (along with comments about how no one will notice the difference), and the early lack of Black Widow toys. My general impression has been that he’s been a figurehead since then.
DemJayhawks
Well, we’ve run the experiment for the rest of the country again. Given the choice between a fascist, Brownback Part 3, and a “moderate” Republican, the good Republicans of Kansas selected the fascist by an unofficial margin of 191 votes (statewide). Maybe we can get some more articles about economic anxiety.
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodingers_cat: The article points out that in the beginning there were a lot of these informal “advisors” at the various departments but that most of them have faded away. I have no idea how accurate that is but if it is, I suspect these 3 have stuck around because they have figured out a way to monetize their influence over the VA.
Baud
@DemJayhawks: I hope that bodes well for the Dems.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I see the GOP is claiming a glorious win because the district only went from strong Red to tie. So we are off in “Good News for Conservatives” territory.
Dupe1970
@Bruuuuce: This. Dems should always contest as many races as possible to account for random events as well (scandal, etc.)
Manyakitty
@raven: Might could be a squirrel. I had one take an unfortunate wrong turn once…
r
New York GOP Rep. Chris Collins arrested on insider trading charges
Sean Lahman, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Published 9:46 a.m. ET Aug. 8, 2018 | Updated 9:52 a.m. ET Aug. 8, 2018
Rep. Chris Collins was arrested Wednesday morning on federal charges relating to securities fraud. According to WGRZ, the Buffalo area congressman surrendered to the FBI in Manhattan.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District has scheduled a press conference for noon to discuss the charges.
Gelfling 545
@r: just read this in the Buffalo News page on FB. I am delighted. I’m not in his district but in the next one over. He is a hot mess and a crook besides. The thing about Collins is he doesn’t even know that you’re not supposed to do that. He thinks he’s just bring a slick businessman. And like the inept Trump conspirators, he didn’t even gain anything by it.
Gelfling 545
@TS (the original): Expect interestingly unhinged tweeting today.
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: Sorry for the late response, had a Dr appt, and I see Le Comte answered already. The hardest part of the whole process is getting a time slot for an interview – they schedule them like months in advance. The interview itself is simple and quick. They scan your fingerprints, so if you have any qualms about that part of the process, tough grid, I guess. But I’m assuming a lot happens behind the scenes.
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
I have used multiple 4 gallon pots of boiling water to break up toilet blockages, with Dawn squirted in after removing from the stove. Never any problems with the heat, always breaks up the stoppage, which is (was) always in the bottom of the toilet.
Then we got a new Toto toilet and have not had a blockage since.
I think Raven used the bleach to deter the critter poking its head up in the bowl, not because the tank runs slow. Toto invented a rube goldbergesq valve control device, which clogs with algae in our well water, I have to dismantle and clean the gadget with a bottle brush every once in a while when it stops allowing water into the tank.
J R in WV
@J R in WV:
My fear was mostly about melting the wax ring gasket between the toilet base and the plumbing stack it’s bolted to. This never happened as it was still in good shape when we took out the old commode for the new Toto. The plumber had never done a Toto, and we followed the instruction book closely.
There’s so much mass in the ceramic toilet bowl I don’t think boiling water could really affect it that badly, but IANAPlumber. They don’t use the boiling water bath trick anyway, too quick and easy for them, they want to disassemble everything at their hourly rate.
rikyrah
@Uncle Cosmo:
love that book