Obama announces new effort in fight against gerrymandering https://t.co/wtG5maDdnR
— Ramon E Garcia (@RamonEGarcia2) August 26, 2019
Vanity Fair:
… Obama announced his intention to tackle the issue earlier this year, combining his Organizing for America organization with former Attorney General Eric Holder’s redistricting efforts to create the organization All On The Line, which describes itself as a “national campaign to restore fairness to our democracy and ensure every American has an equal say in our government” by fighting against gerrymandering and advocating for fair maps nationwide. On Monday, Obama went one step further by announcing Redistricting U, a new extension of All On The Line which will provide free, in-person training for redistricting activists…
… While All On The Line’s activism will take place nationwide, the organization says that its efforts will particularly be targeting Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin…
.@violadavis is set to portray former First Lady Michelle Obama in #FirstLadies on @Showtime https://t.co/3haqglymR9
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 26, 2019
Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in First Ladies, a one-hour White House drama that has been put on fast-track development at Showtime with a three-script commitment. Davis will executive produce the project, which hails from writer Aaron Cooley (novels Four Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Court, The Guns of Ridgewood), Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, Cathy Schulman’s Welle Entertainment (Otherhood), Jeff Gaspin’s Gaspin Media (LA’s Finest) and Brad Kaplan (The Intruder). Showtime and Lionsgate TV co-produce…
Davis stars in How to Get Away with Murder, which begins its sixth and final season this fall on ABC. She and Tennon most recently executive produced with Steph Curry the documentary Emanuel, about the mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015. JuVee’s Davis and Tennon also are executive producing Fast Color, a TV series based on the 2018 sci-fi film, for Amazon.
Who is “us”, Kimosabe? https://t.co/y3BZj7oxG8
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) August 27, 2019
And to follow up on Cole’s latest post, Bret Stephens is now getting pigbladdered by The Best:
Today you called me a “bedbug.” I would welcome the opportunity for you to come to my home, meet my wife and kids, and have them teach you how to insult me more effectively.
— SeductiveReasoningHat (@Popehat) August 27, 2019
Subject line: From Bret Stephens, New York Times
Dear Merriam-Webster twitter account,
It was brought to my attention that you subtweeting me. Would you dare do this in front of my wife & kids? Put up your dukes, dictionary!
Bret Stephens
cc: Your manager. https://t.co/D021TA7lLG— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 27, 2019
WTF. You had this your feed 10 days ago, and now you've narced on some college professor because he called you..checks notes..a "bedbug." Motherfucker, any day I don't get addressed here as a libtard, cuck, Hollywood Jew and (((David Simon)))? I'm not even trying. You hypocrite. https://t.co/vQlKUV8ieU
— David Simon (@AoDespair) August 27, 2019
Baud
I wish I had a job where I had time to send emails to all my critics.
OzarkHillbilly
I had no idea bedbugs were white crystals with legs. I’ll give Stephens this much, he certainly allowed for some lightness in what is is an otherwise dreary news morning.
Baud
@Baud:
I didn’t realize the email copied the professor’s boss. Lame.
Raven
@Baud: Six and a wakeup baby!
Baud
@Raven:
I’m jealous. You’ll have more time to take on all your haters. :-)
kd bart
@Baud: Sounds like a certain presidential campaign.
Raven
@Baud: You know there is much talk about sitting being worse than smoking and all that shit. I’ve been chained to a chair for 15 years and I’m hoping that is going to change most rickey tic
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ? ??
(((CassandraLeo)))
Danish politicians are trolling the occupant of the White House again. The results are epic.
Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.
Brachiator
I am loving this bit of satire I recently ran across:
http://www.breakingburgh.com/trump-orders-americans-to-stop-eating-chinese-food/
Baud
@Raven:
You know, I’ve heard that and am really starting to believe it.
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
@(((CassandraLeo))): That is painful. Of course, I feel the same about anything involving the Chump’s voice.
BruceFromOhio
Viola Davis and Serena Williams in the same post?
My day can stop right now, it has been made.
NotMax
@Raven
Bah humbug. You’ll have to pry my comfy desk chair from my cold dead butt.
;)
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?
@Raven: I believe it. Once I started working from home my weight went up and stamina went down. 20 years of that at an average 50+ hours a week and it’s been hard to start working my way back to better fitness. Being in my mid-60s probably isn’t helping either. I need to restart a walking program or something.
Raven
@satby: the research is saying that the exercise doesn’t counteract the negative effects. I walk a couple of miles in the morning, swim every other day and I’m still putting on weight. We’re hitting south beach 1 the day after I retire and plan to kick ya the activity and limit computer time.
rikyrah
David Simon is hilarious ?
He is a professional writer with NFTG and time on his hands.
rikyrah
@(((CassandraLeo))):
?????
rikyrah
Been concerned about the portrayal of Forever FLOTUS ? ? in entertainment. Having Viola Davis portray her, means that all others after will have to come correct ??
rikyrah
Drew Comments (@sjs856) Tweeted:
For a black woman to become district attorney, get re-elected, become AG, get re-elected, become a Senator, serve on the intelligence committee, and become a probable candidate to win the presidency she HAS to be OUTSTANDING. Black women don’t get free passes. https://twitter.com/sjs856/status/1166023912934629377?s=17
rikyrah
Awe ?????
https://twitter.com/juliewbee/status/1165800561096253442
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
Well, dmsilev, who’s in academia himself and knows a bit about these things, assured me that the provost will just delete Stephens’ email and go back to sleep.
rikyrah
Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) Tweeted:
The media would hate Serena if she got caught doping.
That Maria Sharapova is still beloved by the media is peak white woman privilege and it makes me so upset. https://twitter.com/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/1166110834843693057?s=17
debbie
@Raven:
It’s all in the attitude. I think you got this covered!
Amir Khalid
I can’t imagine a better casting choice than Viola Davis as Michelle Obama. The other day, I saw some idiot’s comment on a YouTube video that said Davis was ugly. That photo of her is an unanswerable refutation of that claim.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: I do well to avoid his twitter hole.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
That comment likely came from someone rooting for Beyoncée to get the part. //
Betty Cracker
It’s good to see PBO joining AG Holder’s anti-gerrymandering cause and the combined organization’s focus on state-by-state voter mobilization to counteract gerrymandering’s anti-democratic effects. The SCOTUS Republicans made it clear they aren’t going to address the issue. It’s up to people on the ground, and it will be an uphill battle.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Maria Sharapova?
NotMax
Real odd duck of a show stumbled upon on Prime, season 1 only for free. British series from the 90s, Hamish Macbeth. Some breathtaking Scottish countryside on occasion. Only the most tenuous connections to the books about the police detective.
And a big yahoo for Prime making the engrossing Australian series Wild Boys available. Stoked to watch it yet again, this time on the a big screen TV set as the lush cinematography is first rate.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
I really cannot imagine casting Viola Davis as Maria Sharapova. Davis has too much class..
Sister Golden Bear
Good evening from Thailand. I’m here for a revision to fix some things that didn’t quite heal right from my last visit.
Good news: I got a peek after this afternoon’s surgery and things look much better.
Bad news: I’m stuck here for two weeks without a lot to do. Chonburi is definitely not on the typical tourist path, and I’m suppose to not walk much for the moment.
Good news: I can finally participate in some of the day-time threads.
Baud
@Sister Golden Bear:
I hope that’s included in the initial price.
That makes it all worth it.
satby
@NotMax: Good, I need new things. Started to watch a wacky British series, The Flowers, but it’s not grabbing me yet, a bit too dark. I went back to Boston Legal and Good Place reruns. These days I crave light comedy.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
Viola also has no experience at losing so often and so decisively. ;)
Spanky
@Raven: It will, but I’m currently in PT for my back because I took “rickey tic” too literally. Be smarter than me.
Walking is good! Something I made a point of doing in my last months on the job, but I really should have been strengthening my core. And according to my PT, been stretching my hips. She tells me she sees high school students with back issues from sitting too much. Smh.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: Nicely volleyed.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Viola Davis is also a graduate of one of the poorest high schools (in terms of per-pupil funding) in the state of Rhode Island, and through her donations has pretty much singlehandedly kept its theater program alive.
NotMax
@satby
Yeah, gave up on that one early on. While it sounds as if it doesn’t make much sense, that show tried both too hard and too little.
Gin & Tonic
@Sister Golden Bear: Wishing you quick and effective healing. Surgery is never fun.
satby
@Sister Golden Bear: Good luck on a better outcome and a rapid recovery this time!
Amir Khalid
@Sister Golden Bear:
Glad to hear the good news about the surgery. Now you have time to just chill, and join the BJ fray any time you please. (Athough those may be two contradictory activities, come to think of it.)
Kay
Anti-gerrymandering efforts are popular:
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
Also irrefutable proof that the commenter is a stone cold racist, who actually believes Michelle isn’t beautiful, as no black woman could be beautiful. They are so… doomed to be so wrong all their lives from their irrational racism.
That’s a major part of why they’re usually part of the underclass, struggling to maintain their job, family, life. Irrational hate puts a big hole in your thought processes, to the detriment of your whole life.
patrick II
If he’s outraged by someone saying bedbug on the internet — he should try reading the comments at FOX news at any of either of the Obama stories to read something that should really outrage him. Seriously, there’s more racist stuff than even Republican representatives send each other when they are just joking about Obama wearing a bone thru his nose.
frosty
@Raven: Woohoo!
Sister Golden Bear
@satby: @Gin & Tonic:
Thanks. In comparison to the first round, it’s very minor surgery. Essentially it was all external nipping and tucking. It was an hour on the table, in-patient under local anesthetic. Mostly it was related to having a bit too much tissue leftover — Dr. Suporn intentionally leaves as much as he can, just in case there’s tissue necrosis, which happens sometimes. It’s a lot easier to remove excess tissue than have to do a skin graft if there’s too little.
@Baud:
It is, although one has to pay the airfare and hotel bills. Oddly enough, I don’t know of too many other SRS surgeons who explicitly offer a free revision.
@Amir Khalid: True enough.
Baud
@patrick II:
He’s outraged that someone is calling him a bedbug on the internet. He doesn’t care about what other people are called.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: And in Misery the the GOP state lege is trying put a measure on the ballot to undo it.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
It seems as if the Republicans are always trying to undo ballot measures. I’ll never understand why they don’t get punished by it by the voters who approved the measures in the first place.
HalfAssedHomesteader
Re Stephens: Mark my word, “bedbugs feed on human blood, ergo antisemitism” will be the argument.
Sab
@Raven: A friend gave me a ten pound lump of frozen walleye. He and my husband want me to cook it this week. Obviously the full ten pounds is too much for three people.
Do you have any suggestions, other than next time don’t freeze it in one big lump. Should I saw off a smaller chunk? Attack it with a chisel?
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Right. Ohio’s was this giant battle. Republicans knew a very strong version was going to pass so they jumped in with fake offers of compromise, so they know they’re vulnerable to referendum. I think the intent was to muddy the water and make it seem too complex for voters to grasp. But- the activists have done a good job presenting it to people- the pitch is voters should pick their representatives instead of representatives picking their voters.
Scott Walker leads the (national) opposition to the Obama/Holder group. The DeVos family alone gave 500k of the 3 million conservatives spent to try to beat it in Michigan. They know they’ll lose with a fairer map.
Betty
Good morning, all. Checking in with an update. Tropical Storm Dorian has not become a hurricane and is passing over St. Lucia after drenching Barbados. We in Dominica are seeing stormy weather but nothing serious. Looks like we have all made it through this one, but it is early yet. Another 6 weeks at least.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: They just tried, again, to make Misery a Right to Work (for less) state. They knew they would lose if they put it up in the higher turnout November election so they stuck it on the August primary ballot. They lost anyway by a 2 to 1 margin. Again.
And in November they all got re-elected. Again. Because god, guns and guts, or something.
We also legalized medical marijuana including the legal right to grow your own. I can’t believe they haven’t tried to undo that 2nd part yet.
rikyrah
???
“It’s particularly rich that Republicans are claiming that [Michigan’s redistricting] commission discriminates on the basis of partisan affiliation,” said @mcpli, a redistricting expert at @BrennanCenter.
“Actually, that’s what gerrymandering does.” https://t.co/DhuBpVPQvd
— Flippable (@flippable_org) August 26, 2019
OzarkHillbilly
@Sab:
Invite me over.
Amir Khalid
@Sab:
I am tempted to suggest braining your friend with the 10lb chunk of frozen fish. Then you could cook the fish any way you like, and feed it to the police detectives who come to investigate his murder. (h/t Roald Dahl.)
rikyrah
???
The Fox-Trump effort to pin the next recession on the media https://t.co/X75Tl1Z5NS
— skeptical brotha ? (@skepticalbrotha) August 26, 2019
rikyrah
I want one??
Barbie’s Inspiring Women series features “courageous women who took risks, changed rules and paved the way for generations of girls to dream bigger than ever before.” The latest in its lineup will be civil rights leader Rosa Parks. https://t.co/f9cT09lyOr
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 27, 2019
satby
@Betty: That’s good, glad it never got stronger. We’ll all hope for a quiet 6 weeks ahead.
Sab
@OzarkHillbilly: I’d love to. It’s a long drive, and Steve in Atl was a bit rude about our airport (Happy people flying in. Who knew?)
rikyrah
Thread ?????
“I can’t go back,” my client told me as soon as he sat down at the table in ICE detention.
“They will kill me.”
I believed him.
The judge agreed that they probably would kill him, just before he denied his asylum claim.
He was deported.
They did.
I just found out today.
— Matt Cameron ? (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/matt_cam/status/1166161730914988033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
rikyrah
????
2019 American “family values”: politely offering to deport a man’s US citizen children to be killed along with him.
Why are we accepting this? What the fuck are we?
— Matt Cameron ? (@matt_cam) August 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/matt_cam/status/1166170974435368960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Sab
@Amir Khalid: I could never do that. He’s a lovely person.
rikyrah
????
Butch Kimmerling opposed a gay man adopting a child in his foster care based on “moral grounds”. Later he admitted that he had molested the child in question about once every 3 to 4 weeks over 4 years. Now he’s admitted to molesting even more children.
https://t.co/vNLmsC8b6y
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) August 26, 2019
Sister Golden Bear
@Amir Khalid: I was ordering dinner online and the local pizza place has durian pizza. ?
The seafood cocktail pizza, the crab sticks and corn pizza, and the tom yum pizza, all seem kind of tame by comparison.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
They did the same with medical marijuana here. There were 3 versions on the ballot. One was an almost excellent constitutional amendment, the 2nd was a bid for corporate monopoly of the industry, and the 3rd was just a genuine rat fuck of taxation for conservative causes. If one read closely it was easy to tell which was superior but most people walk into the polling booth having no idea what is on the ballot and just plan to figure it out once they get there. Seeing as a close read of ballot measures and constitutional amendments is not to be expected on election day, I feared the worst, which was that all 3 would pass (one could vote for all 3) in which case it would go to the courts to sort it all out, and take 10 years to do so. Much to my surprise, Missouri voters passed the good one and sent the other 2 to oblivion.
Sister Golden Bear
@rikyrah: Every accusation is a confession with them….
Betty Cracker
@Betty: Excellent news!
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty: Nice to hear.
raven
@Sab: A vacuum packer is great but they are pricey and you need to use them a lot to get your moneys worth. This article from our cooperative extension is helpful.
This advice is from the guy who bought a new fridge and put all his frozen fish in the old one downstairs only to have it break and ruin everything.
Some days are diamonds
Some days are rocks. . .
rikyrah
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) Tweeted:
No agency is more dysfunctional than the Federal Election Commission, despite the efforts of people like @EllenLWeintraub and former commissioner @AnnMRavel to make it work to enforce campaign laws. Now a resignation means it is entirely powerless. Blame Trump & #MoscowMitch
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) Tweeted:
Corruption and kakistocracy combined; no nominees at all through the entire Trump presidency; the commissioners there are all past their terms and are acting. The Republicans on the FEC have all united to block enforcement of the laws. Now only 3 sit, w 4 needed to do anything
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) Tweeted:
#MoscowMitch would like to keep it that way through 2020, so he can brazenly act in defiance of laws and regulations. Trump is delighted to comply. This is outrageous, unethical, immoral, shameless and totally corrupt. https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1166095185530490880?s=17
raven
@Sab: You can really do anything with that big of a piece but do thaw it slowly in the fridge over a couple of days. I’d grill what I could eat and smoke the rest.
OzarkHillbilly
@Sab: It’s a dirty job but if somebody has to make the sacrifice of eating walleye, I’m the man for the job. Always willing to help out.
rikyrah
@Betty:
Yeah….glad to read positive news.
Amir Khalid
@Sister Golden Bear:
I’m okay with pineapple pizza, but even as a native south-east Asian I don’t think I’d want to try durian pizza.
rikyrah
@Sister Golden Bear:
Sending you positive healing thoughts :)
rikyrah
Awe ?????
Our neighbor added a spot in his fence so his dog can say hi to us and this is what my pictures will consist of from now on. pic.twitter.com/lJKb0xaHDi
— Julie Weatherbee (@juliewbee) August 26, 2019
OzarkHillbilly
@raven:
We have gotten our money’s worth out of ours many times over.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: What brand? I assume you use it for more than fish?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@HalfAssedHomesteader: I assumed that’s what was in the tweet David Simon included, but Stephens has apparently deleted his account and GBCW’d twitter
raven
@rikyrah: I put one in our fence years ago so the pups could watch the princess work in the garden.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid:
And all along I’d thought you were a man of class and taste.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I guess white Missourians understand they have to pick their poison and Democrats are just too much hemlock to swallow.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m sort of a contrarian on this issue. I think there’s a lot of bad actors and cynical people involved in the various initiatives and liberals are being naive with the blanket cheerleading they do. I basically stopped talking to the activists. You’re not allowed to raise any questions about this without them insisting nothing bad could ever come out of it and there will be no unintended consequences and if you question it all you are a supporter of the war on drugs. I just flat-out don’t believe there is such a thing as a free ride. There are pluses and minuses.
bemused
@patrick II:
Truth! Rightwingers think it’s funny to hurl the most immature, vile, cruel slurs towards liberals and their right to “free” speech. They dish it out but can’t take the most mild criticism. Gigantic mewling babies.
Aleta
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: We use it for everything. I’ll have to go look.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: This one: FoodSaver FM2435 Vacuum Sealer Machine with Bonus Handheld Sealer and Starter Kit | Safety Certified | Silver
Everything from blue berries and sun dried tomatoes to pork and poultry.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: @OzarkHillbilly: Thanks!
Gin & Tonic
Since morning threads often have a carpentry component, here’s my question: My deck is basically in four sections, on different levels (basically at 6″ steps.) It’s decked with nominal 4″-wide PT. In the next month or two I will have to remove the decking on half of the largest section, as it’s too close to the chimney, which needs to be rebuilt, and the masons need room to work. I won’t get the decking off without damaging it, as it’s over 20 years old. Trouble is, nobody seems to sell 4″ decking anymore. It’s all 6″. If I rip up and replace that whole section, then it will look stupid with the rest being 4″. I don’t feel like resurfacing the whole thing. Does anyone know of a source of 4″ – I’d pay to have it shipped, but nobody stocks it locally or even can commit to getting it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Say WHAT???? But butbutbutbut my Republican Representative told me my air and water would be clean, jobs as far as the eye could see, and my golden paved streets would be safe to walk on if I gave the rich and corporations a huge tax cut!
Amir Khalid
@Gin & Tonic:
What can I say? I have my flaws like every other person.
Baud
@Kay:
How out of character. :-\
Gelfling 545
@Raven: From my experience in retirement, the first couple of weeks feel like vacation. Then the next few feel a bit confusing until you get used to the idea. Of course for me as a retired teacher things got a bit complex at the end of August when I kept having having momentary panics about not having anything prepared for the school year. Even now since I live near a school I get a minute of worry this time of year when things are gearing up. Then there’s this feeling of profound relief.
Aleta
That is good news for blog. Thanks for the update.
Heal on.
Spanky
@Gin & Tonic: It may be cheaper to just get the 6″ and rip it down to size. Price that out before committing to something else.
Sister Golden Bear
@rikyrah: @Aleta:
Thanks!
Spanky
@Gelfling 545: Truth. I have been laid off a couple of times in the course of my career as a federal contractor, so right now, five months into retirement, I’m still feeling echoes of that “really need to find the next job” urge.
JPL
@raven: I have a small hand held that does the trick for me. Since I like to sous vide, I have eyed the larger machine, but still can’t justify the cost.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic:
Go to a lumber yard, by the 6 ” and pay them to rip it down to 4″. Get a trim router and round off the upper corner of the ripped edge. Not cheap but probably cheaper than most other alternatives.
rikyrah
“Hard head makes a soft behind”
– –Ancient African American proverb
Maine’s loss is Canada’s gain as China goes north for U.S. lobsters.
“They picked winners, and they picked losers, and they picked me a loser,” Nadeau said. “There is no market that’s going to replace China.” https://t.co/5vdrFlkDRR
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) August 27, 2019
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
I believe the current strategy is to make the regulatory structure so complicated that no one can actually grow cannabis without being in violation of several regs, and hence a criminal drug manufacturer.
rikyrah
????
Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) Tweeted:
An incoming Harvard freshman, a 17 year old Palestinian boy, had his visa cancelled & was deported because US officials searched his phone/laptop & said his friends had social media posts that were critical of the US.
Yup.
https://t.co/FUGZNtE132
https://twitter.com/SanaSaeed/status/1166326940292268033?s=17
OzarkHillbilly
Damn, every time I look at this picture my eyes say it’s a painting.
rikyrah
I absolutely agree with this. WHO is making money from his actions???
Andrew Gillum (@AndrewGillum) Tweeted:
Somebody is making money from @realDonaldTrump tweeting the markets into panic. We should find out.
#FollowTheMoney
https://t.co/pZ5XuB2lVW
https://twitter.com/AndrewGillum/status/1166100046183636992?s=17
OzarkHillbilly
@J R in WV: Sadly, you are no doubt correct.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: @OzarkHillbilly:
Couldn’t you go with 4″ wide mahogany decking which, after six months, will grey out to look nearly like weathered PT (not so green). Whatever you put on there is never going to completely match….
I can’t believe I am suggesting you should do anything to try and match PT for decking.
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: Short selling hedge funds
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: Mahogany? I’ll make sure to post the details of my GoFundMe here first.
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic: Your deck(s) must be huge! My home Depot has 1×4 PT which is only slightly thicker than decking (which is 5/8). If it is multi-level would the 1/4 inch difference really matter?
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: @Immanentize: Personally, I’d go with ebony for the contrast.
Spanky
@OzarkHillbilly: Well if you’re going to do that, might as well put down holly for the deck.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ipe! I lost a number of drill bits helping my neighbor deck with that stuff. But it will be there long after I shed this mortal coil.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: Too hard to drill, though/
Immanentize
@Immanentize: I got that backwards, of course, the decking is slightly thicker that the 1xs. But I guess if you have steps about, that might add a complexity. Just do what Ozark says and I will shut up.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize:
5/8??? Decking is 1″ and you need the 1″ to span the 24″ centers of your joists. 1x4s @ 3/4″ would not span 16″ centers without noticeable sag with every step and threat of breaking. (3/4″ work for plywood or OSB on 16″ centers because it’s 4 feet wide by 8 feet long, not 3.5 inches wide)
And to be honest I’m a little leery of 1″ by 3.5″ on 24″ centers.
Spanky
PT decking is 5/4.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Dammit Bevus, you corrected yourself before I could! ;-)
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Huh huh huh huh….
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: The latest Mother Jones has excellent article about AG Holder and what he and his group have been working on. I have no link as I am on phone and I’m part Luddite.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: My deck’s joists are spaced at 16″.
OzarkHillbilly
@Spanky: Nominal 5/4. That is it is cut at 5/4 but once dried it measures 1″.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: That’s good. I was thinking it might be, considering they were all decked with the 4″.
dnfree
@OzarkHillbilly: And in Illinois (mostly run by Democrats currently), voters keep signing petitions that SHOULD get fair redistricting on the ballot, and yet it never appears because of some flaw or the other in the petition process.
Elizabelle
@Kathleen: Thanks for the head’s up. Here is the article, from Mother Jones.
The Courts Won’t End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them.
While Democrats are fixated on 2020, Holder is fighting for fairer maps in 2021 and beyond.
J R in WV
@Gelfling 545:
I was vastly fortunate to be able to retire pretty early… in 2008, so 11 years ago. Every day still feels like the first day of a long vacation.
If you’re doing a whole section of the deck, G&T, I would just use decking that’s available locally. You might inquire about TREX decking, which is a high-strength plastic faux wood, and doesn’t wear from sun and rain — it isn’t cheap, but once you cost out ripping 6″ down to 4″ it might be close.
Kathleen
@Elizabelle: Thank you! I meant to add to first comment that group hyper focus is local.
Shana
@raven: I have a FoodSaver brand that I like. I routinely make chicken stock and freeze it in 2 cup portions. I also go to a kosher supermarket every couple of months since it’s about an hour away from home and get family-size packages of meat that I break down into smaller, usable amounts and freeze those. I also bought a package of resealable bags that I store cheese in so it doesn’t get all moldy between uses.
Kind of like my husband deciding to buy a tux many years ago: once you have it you find ways to use it. For example he always wears it on the day his firm fetes the office support staff. They bring in a nice lunch for everyone and he acts as a waiter wearing his tux.
debbie
@Sab:
You’re long gone, but what about making a vat of fish chowder?