It’s a three story brick Victorian, using the different colors to accent different parts of the exterior. $50 dollars wouldn’t get you up to the trim under the roof.

You get what you pay for. It was freshly painted when we bought it, and the paint started falling off almost as soon as we moved in.

Back when we got it painted we got estimates from 13 different companies. Lowest estimate back then was $9000. We asked everyone how long they guaranteed their work for. 12 companies said you can’t guarantee paint jobs because sun and weather can cause them to fail.

The remaining guy was the most expensive, but he guaranteed his work for 8 years. His paint job lasted more than 15 years before it started to wear out.

Of course, it’s almost been 30 years now, and it’s in pretty bad shape. I wish I had the money to fix it up, but we also raised three kids and put them through college in between.

Back when we were painting our house, I disagreed with my wife about one of the colors.

It’s a Victorian house. We were doing a Forest Green, and a mint green, and I wanted to include burgundy. However she chose plum.

As soon as we saw it on the house, she realized the burgundy would have been better.

We just lived with it.

We’re about 10 years late for repainting, and the paint has faded so much the greens look blue. I don’t know when we’ll be able to do it again. The painter we used was very, very good, but if I correct for inflation, hiring him again today would cost over $40,000.

carries the full weight of law

Law? Are we still doing law here?

I guess not as well known as some might think.

I think you misunderstood.

The antisemites referenced in the article are not the people falsely labeled as antisemites because they want Israel to stop committing genocide. He’s not suddenly pro Palestine. I’m sure Vance hates them too.

The antisemites that Vance is welcoming are real antisemites. Actual Nazis. People who want to murder your Jewish family, friends, and neighbors.

It looks great!!!

You don’t understand! Epstein told them no one would find out that they were raping children. He lied to them, so they’re victims too!

/s

There’s a sex offender who likes to barge into underage girls’ changing rooms when they’re naked. Perhaps we should all report him.

It’s working fine making money for people who already have enough. What do you think it should be doing?

He’s rotting from the soul out.

If it’s not easy being green, I can’t imagine how difficult orange is.

You used to hear people in other countries say they have nothing against the American people, they just hate the American government.

The reality is, the American government is the American people. The enormous effort that goes into gerrymandering and screwing with voter registration just goes to show that it is still a democracy, and the pieces of shit running things are the pieces of shit we picked.

Even with all the gerrymandering and rigging that goes on, they still needed a metric shit ton of fuckwits to vote for them. If Americans weren’t astoundingly stupid, we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in.

However, don’t everyone go patting yourselves on the back just yet. Stupid isn’t limited to America.

Ironically, that’s the only way his death would get a modicum of sympathy from most of the country.

I don’t think there’s really any chance, but I’ve reached the point where I want things to get so bad that we actually elect enough progressive politicians to actually fix what’s wrong.

I truly believe in democracy, even though it has been fucking up lately. I think having a bloodless revolution every 2-4 years via elections is infinitely superior to having to actually build guillotines. At the same time I also think there’s a point where interfering with the process for bloodless revolutions makes bloody revolutions inevitable.

The current administration is both homicidally incompetent, and completely out of touch, so there’s a chance that the pressure will keep increasing until a fault forms and the ensuing catastrophe shakes the electorate out of their current stupidity enough to elect progressive people who will actually run the country for the people.

The alternative is the slow sleepwalk into slavery that we’ve been doing for decades.

The effort to gerrymander the shit out of everything is actually a positive sign: it shows that even the sociopaths running things understand that elections still matter. If elections still matter, the people are still in control.

Unfortunately, most of the people are mouth-breathing morons.

I wish more countries’ leaders would do this.

It’s the lack of a soul.

What is a COVID vote?

I don’t spend a lot of time dealing with churches. I certainly don’t believe in any of what they say anymore. However, I have gone to some weddings.

When my youngest cousin was getting married, we arrived at church and were greeting family that we hadn’t seen in years.

The priest yelled at us because we weren’t behaving in a way he felt was respectful (hugging, laughing, experiencing joy). I don’t know what he learned about Christ, but the Jesus I was taught about would have laughed in his face.

When my wife’s brother was getting married, the priest lectured the entire wedding party at the rehearsal about his belief that children shouldn’t be at weddings. As the parents of the ring bearer, my wife and I felt a bit attacked. However, I just assume he didn’t want to be too close to temptation.

Freeciv

If it was any other country but the US, we’d already be facing sanctions at least.

Everyone else is already complicit.