Sunday, May 20, 2007

The Addition (updated 07/02/2007)

The small deck & screened-in porch with its screen torn out:
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Building out the new kitchen:
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Incorporating the screened-in porch:
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The new roofline outlined:
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And a new roof!...
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...shingled out! Like the old kitchen's bay window?
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No bay window! New deck! Like the stairs?
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No stairs for you!
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the patio and door to the new storage room:
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the central vertical pipe is for the gas stovetop:
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arches sans columns:
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the semi-installed cabinetry:
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Avast! Kitchen Island, ho!
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...sailed around to the other side:
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The arch and columns will be fixed:
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New siding, but no door:
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Now there's a door:
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Counter tops installed, matching the hardwood stain:
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The sink, tile, range hood, & pantry door are in:
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Looking out from the dining room's new bigger window:
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the double oven installed & family room painted:
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the second a/c unit installed on the new patio:
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the new bricked-in posts match the old brick:
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a new step up to the deck, for ease of use by senior citizens:
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a better view of the range top and hood:
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An old chandelier is new again:
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Lights installed, hardwood floor finished:
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Widened doorway enables a clear view, back o' the house to the front:
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New paint, new in-ceiling speakers, new room on left, new fan, new mantelpiece, old hearth:
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front of the house to the back; stairs papered 'cause the upstairs closets are now going under the knife...
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the new family room!
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the new kitchen!
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the new 360 degree view!

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Christopher Hitchens on Jerry Falwell

Hitchens is wrong on one point: Falwell's "chubby flanks" were by no means "little".



CLICK HERE for Slate's short list of a few of the Reverend's most idiotic statements, and HERE for The Carpetbagger Report's timeline of this bigoted blowhard's life.

Monday, May 14, 2007

I love you my Weng Weng

Put Weng Weng and Lil Superstar in together in a buddy cop movie and it would only be about fifty-seven times better than Spider-Man 3.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

The God of Death

"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work."

-- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925 (he used the same words in a Reichstag speech in 1938).

"I am driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."

-- George W. Bush, at a Sharm el-Sheikh summit in 2003, according to Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Foreign Minister who attended.

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*I did not create this chart. I found it here. Keep in mind that the tallies only include hard numbers available in the Bible; they don't take into account YHWH's mass killings at Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim, and Bela -- or for that matter Noah's flood. The actual number of murders commited by the Hebrew god should be much higher, and "his" crimes should include genocide.