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  1. Before, and in progress after.  

    Beach house bathroom renovation.  I used the existing vanity, and extended it w/ an oak frame, trestle table for a 6' long makeup, and sink basin (oak actually has a great texture when painted, and it's hard as hell for durability) and carved out a linen closet cubby.  

    Had a local stone fabricator cut up a remnant, leathered surface slab, and installed waterproof, luxury, vinyl plank flooring.  Last step will be hanging 2 mirrors w/  weathered wood frames, and install 3 new light fixtures.

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

    AZ. Not sure on the sf, there are three systems. Only replacing this one. My reputable guy has done the calcs so im just looking for if the extra couple grand is worth it for the two stage or variable motors.

    Who knows how long I’ll stay. But plan would be to keep as rental if I move out.

    Variable speed should save dollars over time. so you need to do a cost analysis.

  3. 2 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Yeah, I thought I'd seen some dumb takes, and I've seen a metric shitton of dumb takes, but "Russia wants to physically conquer the US" might take the cake. 

    And they have most of their nukes pointed as us because ? And their military doctrine since 1946 has changed to defeat what country that's not the US ultimately  ?

  4. 1 minute ago, gmr548 said:

    I think NATO has played this mostly right given its an unwinnable situation. I hope we'll see a strong commitment to care for refugees, of which there will be millions. I'd also really lean in to trying to demoralize Russian troops and enticing them to surrender/defect.

    "Russia wants to crush us, and take over our country physically." - Onboard 2.0

    They do not. That is not the end goal. That is dumb as fuck.

     

    You, and Dahobbs should have lunch, and discuss how great, and misunderstood Russia is....

  5. 2 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

    And that is a far, far cry from the dumbfuck nonsense you typed.

    Really ?  The OP was my stated end goal of a Putin type, and the follow up was the description of one of the tactics he would use to move toward that goal.  You seriously don't think I meant he was going to take us on directly right now or any time in the near future for that matter.

  6. Just now, gmr548 said:

    lol jesus christ

    Russia is so focused on crushing the United States and physically occupying the country that they are... *checks notes*... Have deployed an outright majority of their ground forces in an invasion of the U.S. state of... *checks again*... Ukraine?

    You seemed reasonable on the DT thread. Something about this one has broken your brain.

    You think invading Ukraine isn't an attempt to consolidate power against the US, and NATO ? It does a couple things, it gives him an invasion route buffer, and secures valuable warm water ports. Putins invasion of Ukraine is a lynch pin of potential future moves against the US and the west.

  7. 1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

    I'm extremely surprised that you jumped in at the mention of Romney to take Barack Obama to task for comments made 10 years ago understating the threat Russia has always posed to the United States. 

    Is there anything that's happened in the decade since, specifically with respect to Presidential candidates and Presidents, regarding US public acknowledgement of the threat Russia poses that you may have forgotten to mention every day for over half that decade? Anything at all? 

    I'm responding to posts made about that event. I'll discuss Trumps dumb ass comments as well, if that makes you feel better.

  8. 8 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    Plus China was is actually our biggest geopolitical foe.

    From an economic domination thing yeah, from a military we wanna kill you thing no, it's Russia still.  China wants us as a valuable economic vassal state. Russia wants to crush us, and take over our country physically.

  9. 7 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    Well, let's also be honest in the fact that Russia did not pose much of a threat to the United States at the time of that debate. Since then, Russia has developed a threat that Romney didn't anticipate: the capability to undermine western democratice institutions without firing a bullet.

    Russia's attack of the Crimea and even Ukraine don't represent the immediate threats to the United States that terrorist organizations have proven they do. Romney's response wasn't "stoopid" or "ignorant" nor indicative that he "had no idea what he was talking about" as you feel compelled to say about Obama. Obama was right about material threat. Romney's response merely off in priority.

    China would have been the best traditional geopolitical opponent to name back then and certainly now. Romney chose Russia which was and is a distant number 2.

    No, you can stop right there my friend. Russia is the same threat now as it was then.  Even if their military isn't what people thought it was, they still have the most nukes in the world pointed at us, and their doctrine has not changed at all (it's just now been re revealed).

    To even say they they weren't a threat wasn't wise as if Putin was watching he would have said sing it sister, yeah we aren't a threat to you at all just go on thinking that.  He probably cast his absentee ballot for Mr. Obama the next day.

    Russia is, and was trying to defeat us thru any means available, behind the scenes or thru overt, oblique, military action the day Putin came on the scene .  His comment did in fact show extreme  naivete'.

    Both of those mafia run states have plans to take over the world.  Russia is just more blunt force to the knee cap, and China's more subtle about it.

    The posts from Dahobbs about Russia joining NATO while Pollyanna, and all nice, and I'd love for the Russian people to wake up from over 1,000 years of total non democratic rule (it ain't happening g right now at least). His wish is not much different in ignorance than Mr. Obamas statement back then.

    Russia has been, and continues to be an authoritative, oppressive state since before the US was even a colony.  Their goal since Lenin came to power was world domination, and it's still a fantasy of theirs, and hadn't ceased to be (the Yeltsin years not withstanding) when Mr. Obama made that comment.

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  10. 50 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

    And then Russia invades Crimea not even 2 years later...

    If you go back and watch that clip, I think it was a bit of a misunderstanding of the words. Romney said Russia was our greatest "Geopolitical" threat, which he likely meant more as an organized government/country threat. Obama's response was simply "ISIS is our biggest threat" and nobody would really argue with that in 2012. Both of those answers can be true at the same time, but given the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, ISIS was certainly the more obvious issue. Obama was just better at throwing the answer in Mitt's face to score debate points, and Mitt just wasn't savvy enough to talk his way through it. Plus Russia had been on the backburner for a while post-9/11, so I don't think many Americans were really concerned with them.         

    Let’s be honest here  Mr Obama ridiculed Me. Romney  onstage for making such a stoopid  statement 

    his Comment was the 1980s called they want their foreign-policy back a single  ignorant thing for him to say and showed that he had no idea what he was talking about when it came to Geo political politics

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  11. 4 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    Yeah, it’s no secret that Russia is at the big boy table primarily because of its nuclear arsenal alone, not because of its comprehensive economic and military power.

    For this reason I’m skeptical they can afford the long term costs of occupation/regime change with western supported resistance and aggressive economic sanctions. They’ll have backed themselves into a corner, especially if Finland and Sweden reconsider NATO - which Russia can beat its chest on as much as it wants, but they don’t have the capacity to threaten those countries given what they are having to invest in the Ukrainian invasion. They could be in a really rough spot this time next year.

    I think the real winner here, geopolitically, is China. They’re going to be Russia’s only outside option and will be able to get very favorable terms when dealing with Russia because of that.

    Yeah China is sitting back, and laughing at Russia, and taking notes. Will they go into Taiwan ?  No way IMO, Taiwan is a strategic interest to the US, and the rest of the world.

    I think the economics sanctions on Russia should be pushed to the limits. Money talks, and BS walks here. Drive them back to the backward ass country they've always really been. 

  12. 4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    After seeing this Russian shit show, I'm argue that our GW1 forces in Kuwait and Iraq would have kicked the ever living shit out of todays Russian army.  

    They don't seem to have night vision capabilities beyond Spetznaz forces, and don't seem to have a sophisticated, coordinated GPS fire fight system for night time maneuvers. Their re-supply is potentially non existent much beyond initial maneuvers. 

    I think we'd push their shit in very badly in a NY minute.  

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  13. 2 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    I think most expected the 24-36 hour invasion scenario which would have put Russia in an infinitely better position at the negotiating table and as this drug on the political environment shifted so dramatically that now there is no viable near term political solution for a Russian “win”.

    We are now on day 5 and the Ukrainian government is still in power and with it the hope and resolve of the Ukrainian people are now in full bloom. This emboldens the rest of the world to continue to put forth devastating longterm sanctions on Russia and pour in secondary military support to Ukraine.

    So the question everyone has is why  was there an abject failure in the early moments of the invasion and how did Russia read the scenario so poorly?

    I have seen dozens of views on why, but so far no one can string together a logic stream that can rationally explain what happened in the first 36 hours. It’s looks to be a mix of arrogance on Russias part, mixed with some bad luck, some political decisions impacting strategy on the ground, lots of ground troops that aren’t working  in coordination, and some fierce resistance by the populace that for some reason no one really considered in the invasion scenario.

    The thing that is really the most surprising to me is the overall lack of troops for an operation this size.  It is almost like they believed their own propaganda so much to the point that they expected to use the limited troop build up to just advance and not to have to fight protracted engagements or to maintain troops to protect supply lines or garrison captured territory.

    Looking back at this, if they would have had 5 to 10 times as many ground forces deployed at the start, this would be over. That being said, if they had amassed that many troops beforehand the political climate pre-invasion  would have been radically different.

    It is almost like they tried to thread the needle on how large of a force could be staged nearby that wouldn’t trigger an overwhelming political response prior to the invasion and never did the math to figure out if that would have been enough.

    Had this very conversation with a lifelong friend.  He said it was gonna be just like 1939, and Poland. I said no it would take longer than that to take Ukraine, mostly because they do have an actual modernish army, the world was watching, we would supply them with common border supply routes.

    That, and I have been suspect of actual Russian prowess for a long time. Their 800 lb gorilla is a nuclear arsenal. 

    I thought they’d take Ukraine thru attrition then it would be like the US in Iraq.

  14. 2 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


    I’m not surprised their ground forces are sloppy. The MO of the Russian Army has been quantity over quality going back to the Tsars. It looks like they’re taking this approach with Kiev, aiming to encircle the city with a massive force. At the current rate they’ll still likely be able to cut off supply lines and eventually swallow the city, even if it comes at significant cost.

    I am surprised Ukraine has been able to deny complete air superiority. I’d have thought the Russians could overwhelm Ukraine quickly with air power but that hasn’t been the case so far. As long as that remains so this is going to be brutally slow-moving.

     California has a bigger GDP than Russia that points to a huge factor in their military readiness, the depth of the military, the Sophistication, Training, and technology In my opinion.

  15. 29 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

     

    I think we were always rightly suspect of how good really were Soviet forces and weapons and I think that goes double or triple today because their economy is weaker and the kleptocracy form of government is less inherently able to support defense.

     

    I can tell you a phone call I got the other night kind of refutes this a bit.  Our military has been scrambling to figure out exactly what the failed invasion is the result of. They were completely caught off guard by how inept this has been, and what it means going forward. That's from somebody that works on this type of issue.  

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  16. If NO isn't on your list because it's kind of run down, and dirty, that's your choice, but the food, and the music there is world class like no other city in America.  

    I remember going there for the first time, and seeing HS kids roaming Bourbon street, and thinking to myself, I wouldn't raise a family within a 1,000 miles of this place, but damned if I don't love going there when the opportunity presents itself.

  17. Just now, Pancho said:

    Seriously, how dumb are you?  For real.  There is not one word of my post defending Howard.  My post was informational, but of course you get emotional and don’t even see that. 

     

    Seriously, do this board a favor and go back to the VCU message boards sponsored by Netscape Navigator. 

    How transparent can you be about trying to say this was nothing at all but a...... how did you put it ?  a nigga slap for someone having the audacity to..... gasp.... touch the hem of Juwans special robes....

    Nah I'll hang around, and be your buddy.

     

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  18. 7 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    So Howard tried to do a “blow by” (just walking by Gard and not shake his hand) and Gard put his hands on Howard first to stop him?

    You seriously gonna try to defend a physical attack by Juwan because another coach touched his arm or put his hand on it ?  You think that's OK ?  What bizarro world do you live in.  This should be good.....

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  19. No shock here, but Desmond Howard apparently got into it with Dick Vitale yesterday regarding the incident.  Per Desmond, Juwan was not at fault because Gard grabbed Juwans arm.  Oh the horror, oh the humanity..............

    There you have it folks. You touch another man on the arm, and it's ok to get slapped, punched, attacked. Basically whatever it takes to get you to not touch my arm.

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