Saturday Morning Home Repair Blogging 3.33

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Saturday March 28, 2009 · 6:00 AM PDT

2009/03/28 · 06:00

(This is rincewind sitting in for our host Claude, live from Minnesota, it's SMHRB! Keep sending those positive waves in Claude's direction, to help him get well soon!)

Good morning home repair and DIY fans, either of choice, or of necessity. We gather Saturday mornings to share stories, advice and encouragement relating to keeping our shelters sheltering and safe.

The shop is open and the coffee's on. An ad hoc cadre of construction professionals and gifted amateurs often shows up to help out, and sometimes all our gabbing is useful for some Kossak who woke up to a clogged toilet or a leaky faucet, because we try to show how many of the common (and sometimes not common) issues that arise with homeownership can be solved without the help of expensive professionals.

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Friday January 30, 2009 · 6:30 AM PST

2009/01/30 · 06:30

I'd be a fool to try to compete with our hero, WineRev, and this diary is a poor substitute, but I figured we all need a place to feed our fix until he gets back.

Court will be in session at 9:00 (hopefully), watch and blog at the UpTake; WCCO will probably have a live feed too.

Darlin' grandson will be keeping me distracted most of the day, so I'll be in and out as much as he permits. Let's keep the home-fires burning in case WineRev checks in from the warm.

Mothership Sunk: Go To Mothership II Yoo and Addington

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Thursday June 26, 2008 · 6:23 AM PDT

2008/06/26 · 06:23

UPDATE: the new mothership is here

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties hearing on detainee treatment will feature David Addington and John Yoo (under subpoena to appear) at 10:00 am (EDT).

It'll be on c-span3 and also on the committee website (the webcast link won't be active until shortly before the hearing starts).

And if you're a glutton for punishment, Stephen Hadley is supposed to be on c-span3 in a few minutes with a briefing on North Korea.

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Tuesday February 26, 2008 · 7:24 AM PST

2008/02/26 · 07:24

House Judiciary sub-committees are meeting today on a variety of interesting topics. The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties wants to talk to Kenneth Blackwell (former OH SoS) about voter suppression, and the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law wants to talk to John Ashcroft about independent corporate monitors, but both have declined 'invitations' to testify voluntarily.

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Sunday March 27, 2005 · 11:17 AM PST

2005/03/27 · 11:17

Guess he couldn't stand not being in the middle of a national spectacle.

CNN ran a LONG press conference; Klayman seems to be saying that the "right to life" in the constitution is so inviolable that no-one, including Terri if she were capable, can voluntarily waive that right???

Klayman is jumping on the "pressure JEB and W" bandwagon, claiming they have the authority to enforce this interpretation of "right to life" and saying that he has a "special relationship" with both Bushes and will use it "for the benefit of Terri Schiavo and all of the citizens of Florida".

Yikes.

Armando's Challenge -- Final Edition

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Monday December 20, 2004 · 6:54 PM PST

2004/12/20 · 18:54

First, the challenge: as Categorically Imperative put it,

the idea is to post a diary laying out the most comprehensive case possible for there having been fraud in Ohio. If the case made is at least as convincing as the case that Bush was AWOL from TANG, then Armando will do a front-page post on Ohio fraud.

Second, I hoped that my previous diaries on this topic would generate lots of fact-filled comments, and serve as a collection-point for the evidence that people think is most persuasive and/or most provable. Didn't happen, oh well.

So I've written up some of the facts I believe are supported by evidence AND persuasive of fraud. It's long, but I hope it's worthwhile. Read on! Read More

Armando's Challenge -- Part Deux

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Saturday December 18, 2004 · 3:28 PM PST

2004/12/18 · 15:28

First, the challenge: as Categorically Imperative put it,

the idea is to post a diary laying out the most comprehensive case possible for there having been fraud in Ohio. If the case made is at least as convincing as the case that Bush was AWOL from TANG, then Armando will do a front-page post on Ohio fraud.

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Thursday December 16, 2004 · 11:03 AM PST

2004/12/16 · 11:03

Since it was to me that Armando issued his challenge/made his promise last night, I'll set up this diary as a collection point for any and all data relevant to "make our case" to hizzoner ;>

I have a list of evidence I think is important, valid, and susceptible of proof: the minister/observer who documented more than 500 absentee ballots without matching absentee signatures (before the roll books were taken away from him); the violations of OH statutes WRT prohibiting examination of public records, barring observers, etc; the clear violations of recount procedure in numerous counties; and the still-outstanding and unaccounted-for discrepancies between some county-level and state-level "Official" results (after certification), among others.
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More on the US Civil Rights Commission

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Thursday December 09, 2004 · 1:54 PM PST

2004/12/09 · 13:54

Another day, another email to Dan Froomkin (WaPo).

I won't claim credit, but in his column today, he mentioned the main points of the email I sent him yesterday (including the same WashTimes cite!):

Interestingly, however, Thernstrom was until very recently a Republican. (And according to the Washington Times, nominally independent commissioner Russell Redenbaugh was a Republican at one point, too.)
The commission's rules state that not more than four members shall at any one time be of the same political party.
So how, um, convenient that the two commissioners had such propitious changes in their political affiliation.

Today's email after the break.... Read More

US Civil Rights Commission

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Wednesday December 08, 2004 · 1:04 PM PST

2004/12/08 · 13:04

Dan Froomkin at WaPo has been reporting on Bush's appointments to the USCCR, and yesterday's resignations of MFB and Cruz Reynoso. I emailed the following to him today:

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Hi Dan, thanks for your great column! I'd appreciate it if you'd address a related issue about the USCCR.

(more below)
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Goofy/scary stuff in the Omnibus Bill

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Tuesday November 23, 2004 · 12:31 PM PST

2004/11/23 · 12:31

The THOMAS website has put up the content and conference summaries of the omnibus appropriations bill, here . Okay, I have no life -- last night I read one section of the damn thing, and made note of some interesting, funny, awful, or otherwise notable provisions set to become law. (Last night, the docs were only available in pdf format, today there are also text versions which are easier to work with and smaller/faster to load.)

I looked at the Division H segment, "TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS".

(VERY long extended text....) Read More

On Veteran's Day, Remember

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Thursday November 11, 2004 · 9:55 AM PST

2004/11/11 · 09:55

Five months ago, the Viet Nam War claimed another casualty.

I knew "Bud" for about 5 years. During that time, he lived in a half-way-house type shelter for adults who can't function independently. He subsisted on his veterans' disability pension, supplemented by collecting aluminum cans and dumpster-diving. But at least Bud had a roof over his head, somebody to make sure he ate and (usually) took his meds. He didn't live in a cardboard box under the freeway like so many homeless vets.
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