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Tracked on October 6, 2005 1:08 PM

I'm thinking it sounds pretty good actually

I'd say the toilet and lino thingy is the cheaper option

Use TWO wax seals when you install the new commode. You may also want to run a thin bead of silicone around the entire base as well!

I don't think this was the kind of tip you were looking for, but I couln't resist!

Unless you live next door to Home Depot, you'll never finish both a lino and WC job in a single day. Heck, a single week may not be enough.

Before you even start, make sure the new toilet has the same base dimension (distance from the wall) as the old one.

An intelligent left-wing critique of the left's generally soft position on Jihadi terrorism:

openDemocracy
"Whose al-Qaida problem?", by Sasha Abramsky, Oct. 4
http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-terrorism/left_crisis_2892.jsp

Mark
Ottawa

Good link, Mark. We aren't all so soft and mushy. Many of us ascribe to Kennedy's "muscular liberalism". Over at Cerberus, I've been even more harshly critical of the extremist fundamentalist Muslim bigotry and hatred that is growing in the world than the extremist fundamentalist far-right Christian bigotry and hatred that is growing in the world. Their's is, after all, more dangerous even if the Christian right has far far more money, power and influence in the US (and therefore the world).

Some samples you might enjoy reading (including an excerpt from a Trudeau speech that indicates he probably would have taken no quarter from radical Muslims): here, here, and here.

TB
Cerberus

Divorce threats aside, your guest needs a bathroom!

The toilet base makes no diff, the centre of the floor flange will be 12" from the wall and that's where you put the T-bolts, plop down the WC and voila. Do the lino first. Half a day tops.

Make sure your toilet flange is aprox. 1/4" above the finished floor elevation. If not, you can buy extender rings. Doubling up wax rings will eventually just lead to rotted sub-floor.

-- Steve

I can't understand why two wax seals would cause a leak, but sealing the fixture to the floor with a bead of silicone would hide a small leak, probably long enough for it to cause structural damage to the floor. In any case, you've probably finished by now.

Don't over tighten the bolts, lest you crack the porcelain

Please hurry with the toilet the Liberal$ are showing again they are still full of S__T!

TB: Elmasry of the CIC is such a sweetheart.

From Norman Spector's site (text not available online from Citiizen)
http://www.members.shaw.ca/nspector4/fed3.htm

The Ottawa Citizen: "Muslim cleric attacks foes of Shariah", by Lee Greenberg

'A controversial Islamic leader has accused moderate Muslims who campaigned against Shariah law in Ontario of "smearing Islam, ridiculing the Koran (and) badmouthing Muhammad," allegations some believe are tantamount to a death sentence.

In an open letter, Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, argues he knows "of no Canadian Jew ... who would make a personal cause out of smearing Judaism. But it seems we Canadian Muslims are of a different breed."

He goes on to say: "For in the midst of our community, we have members who are bent upon smearing Islam, ridiculing the Koran, badmouthing Muhammad, or go about proclaiming that Shariah (Islamic law) is backward and discriminates against women."…

In an interview yesterday, Mr. Elmasry defended the statements, saying he was attempting to unify disparate elements within the Muslim community.

"If they have certain concerns, they should work with other Muslims instead of going public," he said. "What we're saying to our brothers and sisters is to be able to discuss these issues amongst ourselves, to resolve these issues, before launching a crusade against Shariah-based mediation and arbitration.

"I didn't accuse anybody. I wrote an article which is on our website comparing secular Jews with secular Muslims."

Mr. Elmasry also insisted that "there is no punishment" under Islamic law for denouncing Islam, its holy text, or the prophet Muhammad. Asked if his words could be construed as a death sentence, he said: "This is nonsense and this is not true."

But Robert Spencer, director of jihadwatch.org and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide To Islam (And The Crusades) disputes that claim.

"He is speaking about matters that are death penalty offences in the Islamic world, or at least in traditional Islamic law. I don't think it's a death sentence in Canada. I hope not. It certainly would be a death sentence in some Muslim countries."'

Mark
Ottawa

I don't believe there is enough moisture in a wax seal (or two seals) to rot the subfloor. (If this is what Steve means) The silicone is simply a barrier between the porcelain and the flooring. Failing to do this would allow moisture to get at the wood subfloor. The silicone I feel is a must, guarding against sloppy kids who leave more water on the floor than in the tub (my son), over zealous clean freaks with the mop (my wife) and those with a poor aim. (my mother-in.....uh...I mean ME)

Gum Registry has flushed $2,000,000,000 since it was installed in the House.

Register your Gum. Gum registry causes murder, er homicide (homicide is Liberal left politically correct euphemism meaning murder).>>>>

Canada's homicide rate jumps
Canadian Press via Sun Media ^ | 2005-10-06

Posted on 10/06/2005 12:06:17 PM PDT by Clive

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's homicide rate jumped last year after reaching a 30-year low in 2003.

But for the third consecutive year, the number of spousal homicides declined, although all other categories of family homicide rose, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. Firearm homicides increased slightly to 172, which was 11 more than in 2003 and 20 more than in 2002. And 65 per cent of those were committed with a handgun.

Still, firearm homicides in Canada were much lower than those in the United States, coming in at 28 per cent compared with 66 per cent.

In total, police reported 622 homicides last year, 73 more than in 2003>>>>>

Did you spot the mistakes in this report? It's Iraq which is going to have civil war, stupid. Just another day of Iraq politics, stupid. Not.It's West Bank. There is no state called Palestine, either; ergo, there is no such a people as "Palestinians". Arabs, perhaps? >>>>>

Palestinian Civil War Watch

Internal Palestinian Violence on the Rise.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - The number of Palestinians slain in vigilante killings and other internal violence has nearly quadrupled in four years, from 43 in 2002 to 151 so far in 2005, according to statistics presented Thursday.

A top security official said more Palestinians were killed in internal violence this year than by Israeli troops.

The descent into lawlessness is hurting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas politically at a time when he is trying to beat back a tough challenge by Islamic militant rivals.

Just another day of Palestinian politics as usual.>>>> LGF

We could have the Dingwall Official Gum Registry. All Canadians with legally obtained gum would have to register said gum with the feds. The next time you go to a movie and have difficulty getting your foot off the theater floor, you could launch a civil rights complaint. Of course, there would also be an appropriate waiting period for those who wish to purchase gum and, in Toronto, they could have a central gum armoury.

John: I should clairify: Using two wax seals because the flange is flush or recessed (read: improper installation, or new floor installed over old floor) won't prevent leaks. (The wax isn't actually supposed to stop the water, it's to prevent gas and odours from escaping).

Of course, there's no need to prevent odours if you live in Ottawa -- the stench from the hill can't be stopped be mortal windows.

-- Steve

Putting in a toilet these days is a piece of cake. Most important, go easy on the tie down bolts, [as mentioned above], it's easy to crack the base.
Check http://My.Opera.com/T-G/

Have you discovered: http://Hayz.ws/blog yet?
or google MUSING

Just click on his Canada catgory, [down the right side], isn't that the best??

Also have fun with the Manolo:
http://shoeblogs.com

73s TG

Gum Registry is a serious business, by gum.
Dindywall will be the Gum Commissar; AdSgum Martin is the Overchewer; Rev. MaCallum, the Revenooer, is the Top Gum, by gum; Pew Pettigrew and Bruno are the Official Gum Testers; Volpe is excluded; he is going to the Senators.>>>>>>>

Considerettes
Singapore has relaxed some of its gum control restrictions. ... ULTRA-tidy
Singapore is lifting its notorious ban on chewing gum after 12 long years – but ...
www.thepaytons.org/essays/considerettes/2004_05_01_archive.html - 141k >>>>> google

Bush's brain tries 11th hour extra testimony in futile attempt to save his ass.

Flush twice- it's a long way to Ottawa!

as linked above to sasha's essay:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-terrorism/left_crisis_2892.jsp
'his reference to Sweden misses the point that al-Qaida’s modus operandi involves attacking nodal points of western power rather than peripheral regions.'

- are madrid, iraq and bali the central nodal points of western power? half of this essay was foreign policy mental masturbation.

maz2's comments about the gun registry are taken out of context and are specious. the fact that the rise in firearm related fatalties can ALL be attributed to the rise of gang murders in Etobicoke means that perhaps the gun registry is doing its job. subtract those murders and there has been a decrease in the number of homicides by firearms. hmmm: the next government program you can ridicule is the police and firefighters. i mean us hardworking albertans shouldnt have to pay any taxes, right?

Hey TB you do realize that anything said by Peter the idiot trudoooh is nothing but a commie lie.

A letter sent to the Globe and Mail this evening.

'Dear Editor,

Why one despairs utterly about Canadian politics, and why the Conservatives are in the end as irresponsible and unredemiably "political" as the Liberals; with as little concern for the national interest.

In Question Period October 6 two Conservative MPs attacked the Government for considering sole-source contracting for C-130J tactical military transport aircraft and for CH-47 heavy lift helicopters. These types of aircraft are desperately needed by the Air Force. There are really no alternatives to the C-130J and the CH-47 for the mission requirements. Yet the Conservatives would rather try to score points off the Liberals (sole-sourcing inherently bad) than actually support the Forces.

The Conservative questioners raised some points--some with some validity, some not--against each of these aircraft in an effort to give the questions some factual basis. The clear point of the questions nonetheless was not a rational concern over what aircraft the Air Force might acquire. The point was simply the attempt to embarrass the Government. Not any true concern for meeting the Air Force's--and Canadian Forces'--needs.

I regret being vulgar but screw them all.'

Mark
Ottawa

In 1988 I was reading a British Airways employee newsletter at the home of my friend, a British Airways employee. Very interesting article about the mid-life overhaul of the Concorde aircraft. A lot of aircraft get corrosion under the floor due to condensation and cold temperature at altitude. The Concorde had little floor corrosion, probably because of high temperatures caused by high speeds. One place did have corrosion; around the toilet in the men's loo. The theory of this had something to do with poor aim caused by champagne intake. Something to take into account when you are doing your bathroom's mid-life refit!

Some years ago, ( while replacing a vandalized urinal in a large public washroom at Pearson Airport) (somebody has to do it). And there is a guy, using the one right beside the one I am replacing.........this is so gross......
and I am mumbling a string of curses under my breath, (guaranteed to offend every religion, every body part, every human sexual function), and the guy beside me, sez: "Yaknow- you could be a whole lot worse off- you could be doing this at the local Greyhound Bus Station."
I dropped my tools and looked at him, and I sez: Yaknow- you are absolutely right!
(Only two things you have to know, to be a plumber: 1. Shit floats downhill
2. Payday is on Friday

(make sure that the floor where you mount your crapper, does not flex- this is what causes the seal to fail when you park your butt on it.)

This Thread was a total fluff entertainment.
The main statistic everyone missed was simply that polls are political tools and just as suited to being sprayed upon by dogs, as are poles and hydrants.

There was some humour, and it was fun to follow, but it was TV quality entertainmet.

The most useless bit of professorial bull ever devised goes something like, results are accurate to plus or minus two percent 19 times out of 20.

I can recall polls taken before elections that were out by 30 to 35%.

Meaning they were designed to sway voters, not give an accurate reflection of anything.

Does this link work?
http://My.Opera.com/T-G/
Nothing to do with Opera btw.
This one works... great fun! Manolo's shoe blog
http://shoeblogs.com enjoy, '3s TG

'A delicate mission -- busting into mosque
Marines take care not to step on prayer rugs, but bringing their dog, Rambo, into the mosque may cause cultural damage.'

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/10/05/MNGB5F2OBB1.DTL&o=1

MPS: NEW CITIZENSHIP LAWS NEEDED
By SUE BAILEY
OTTAWA (CP) - A Liberal MP is pushing his own government to overhaul citizenship laws in part to ensure that those who swear in new Canadians are competent...

...no legal background is required to become a citizenship judge. There are 29 mostly ceremonial positions across the country that pay up to $91,000 a year...

...the report makes 16 recommendations that were delivered to Immigration Minister Joe Volpe in June. "He had the summer to deal with that, and we were promised we'd be getting a (new) Citizenship Act,"...

...But the report ducks the contentious question of whether babies born in Canada to foreigners should automatically receive citizenship. The issue flared last June when news broke that a relative of a hardline Syrian general had come to Canada to give birth....>
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/10/06/pf-1251308.html

BIG PIZZA TROUBLE AGAIN FOR MINISTER
OTTAWA (Reuters)

...A day after failing to explain how he had managed to spend C$138 (66.2 pounds) on pizza for two, Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe was roasted in Parliament on Wednesday for spending C$207 on pizza for three people at the same establishment...

...Volpe -- who said last month that some meals had been used to discuss affairs in the province of Ontario -- replied that he had been talking about immigration issues...

...Volpe spent almost C$7,000 on 31 meals in one seven-week period earlier this year. The records showed that on one night, Volpe had two dinners, each one with a different group of people...>

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-10-05T205440Z_01_KWA575125_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-CANADA-PIZZA.XML

Dave, you forgot the most important thing to remember as a plumber...Every asshole is a potential customer.

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, where have you been?>>>

Pettigrew chauffeur is on paid leave

ELIZABETH THOMPSON
The Gazette

Friday, October 07, 2005

A ministerial chauffeur at the heart of a controversy over his travel with Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew won't be driving the minister for a while.

Sebastien Theberge, spokes-person for Pettigrew's office, said Bruno Labonte asked for and obtained a paid leave for an indeterminate period to deal with a personal problem unrelated to the publicity over Pettigrew's decision to have him accompany him on two foreign trips.

Civil service rules provide for such leaves when employees need time to deal with personal problems, Theberge said.

Theberge refused to disclose the nature of the personal problem that prompted Labonte to apply for leave from his roughly $46,000-a-year job.>>>
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette
http://www.rapp.org/url/?OZ0DTZEV

Iraq who? Forgotten by the liberal left MSM. They can't admit they are/were wrong.
Long live free Iraq.
Long live George Bush.>>>

fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/comment
http://www.rapp.org/url/?KRVWEFQP

"CJB said...

kstagger,

For reports on what's actually happening, as opposed to the msm spin, check these blogs:
http://billroggio.com/
http://63.247.134.60/~pobbs/
http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/

From what I have read, any insurgent that "hunkers down" is a dead insurgent."

More?>>>>> http://www.rapp.org/url/?OZ0DTZEV >>>

"Papa Bear said...

My opinion of the media is reaching new lows, and not just from the Iraq coverage

A suicide bomber sets himself off outside a crowded football stadium at Univerisity of Oklahoma, after trying to get in the stadium with his backpack. His roommate is Pakistani. The explosive used (TATP) is the same used by the London bombers.

This is non-stop national news, right? Ooops, sorry, if it didn't involve Aruba, it doesn't exist.

Gates of Vienna has a nice summary.">>>
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

Apparently Minister Volpe's pizza expenses were discussed on both WCBS and WABC radio, New York, this morning as an example of wretched excess that would not be tolerated in US politics (I have my doubts about that). Which I would bet is more attention that PM Martin's major speech in NY yesterday got.

Bless the Liberals.

Mark
Ottawa

In "Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs," a major three-part series on BBC TWO (at 9.00pm on Monday 10, Monday 17 and Monday 24 October), Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003.

Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"

Todd: See this post from "Daimnation"
http://www.damianpenny.com/

(By the way the story is over two years old. See "Did Bush Say God Told Him To Go To War?", by Ira Chernus, June 30, 2003
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0630-04.htm )

"A meme in the making"

Excerpts:

'What did Bush say to the Palestinians? I dunno, but in 2003 - when this story was first broken by Ha'aretz - a Religious Studies Professor writing for the far-left site CommonDreams.com noted that the remarks were translated several times over:

"According to Abbas, Bush said: 'God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.'"

Before you jump to any conclusions, remember that you are reading a translation of a translation of a translation. Mahmoud Abas does not speak English. Bush does not speak Arabic. If Bush said these words, or something like them, Abas heard them from a translator. Then Abas repeated them, as he remembered them a couple of weeks later, in Arabic. Some unknown person wrote down what he thought he heard Abas say. Then Regular, or someone at Ha'aretz, translated them back into English-or perhaps first into Hebrew and then into English..."

According to the Guardian, the BBC itself is backing away from this story - not because the story is complete bunk, mind you, but because of Rupert Murdoch or something:

BBC programme editors turned lukewarm on a claim by a BBC2 programme that George Bush believed God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan after a strong denial by the White House.

Just 24 hours after accusations that the corporation's news coverage was backing away from risk-taking, some of the BBC's key outlets decided not to run an exclusive story unearthed by BBC2 about the US president.
[...]
The lukewarm response by other BBC outlets to a BBC News exclusive in the wake of a denial by the US government is likely to dismay the new head of television news, Peter Horrocks.

Just a few days ago he urged staff not to be afraid of being first with stories, as long as they were factually accurate.

It is perhaps inevitable that suspicions may be raised about any cautious reception to BBC stories that do not present Mr Bush in the best light following Rupert Murdoch's comments that Tony Blair had told him BBC World's coverage of Hurricane Katrina was "just full of hate for America and gloating about our troubles".
Posted by damian at 09:04 AM |'

Mark
Ottawa

The Government may finally be getting the NATO cover it wants and needs for the Canadian forces forthcoming large quasi-combat mission in southeast Afghanistan: "NATO to Expand Force and Task in Afghanistan", NY Times, Oct. 7
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/07/international/asia/07afghan.html?pagewanted=all

Excerpts:

'NATO will increase its force in Afghanistan to as many as 15,000 soldiers and will take on counterinsurgency operations as it expands its mission into southern Afghanistan in the coming months, Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Thursday...

Eventually, NATO will assume command of all forces in all sections of Afghanistan, and there was consensus in the alliance to work on greater coordination between the military operations as the next step, Mr. de Hoop Scheffer said.

Some NATO members {France, Germany among them] have expressed opposition to the idea of combining the alliance's peacekeeping mission with the American-led force...

Until now, the 9,000-member NATO force, which was increased to 10,000 for the recent elections, operated to stabilize Kabul and the relatively peaceful north and west. Its soldiers would need a new operational plan and new rules of engagement to expand into the south, where rebel activity continues...'

Mark
Ottawa

"Apparently Minister Volpe's pizza expenses were discussed on both WCBS and WABC radio"

It's also made it on Pizzamarketplace.com's website > STRANGE NEWS: Canadian official scolded over $118 pizza tab
Reuters: If only every pizzeria had this kind of a check average!

Strange news? Not for Canada.

Diplomats' Safety Under the Microscope
A look at security concerns behind the wheel
Embassy Magazine
October 5th, 2005

Paul Cellucci did something last week he hadn't dared in four years as U.S. Ambassador to Canada ­ got behind the wheel of a vehicle...

...As ambassador, Mr. Cellucci had been under heavy surveillance, a microscope his successor David Wilkins is now under. In transit, a bodyguard and driver from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police accompany the ambassador on each and every car trip. Only the American, Israeli and Turkish heads of mission in Ottawa are given such privileges, or when security intelligence shows a diplomat is under direct threat in the country, says Marcel Richard, of the Protective Liaison Section of the RCMP.

...Under the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations, the host country is responsible for the safety of diplomats and foreigners on official business, like heads of state and political delegations. Dignitaries visiting Canada are under the special watch of the RCMP...

...Asked whether Mr. Cellucci, now an executive at Canadian-owned Magna Entertainment, was a moving target when he took to the driver's seat last week, Mr. Marwitz says any political danger has expired...

http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005/october/5/safety/

Mao 70 Million http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/004979.html
Hitler 21 Million http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1115978394.shtml
Stalin 43 Million http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1115978394.shtml
Pol Pot 2 Million http://www.answers.com/topic/pol-pot
Kim Il-Sung 3.5 Million http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM
Lenin 4 Million http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1115978394.shtml

Total 143.5 Million and counting….Why do people vote NDP again?

qwerty: Because while at heart Marxist, NDPers have never had the collective discipline to be Leninist. They Waffle.

Mark
Ottawa

"Mr Cellucci is now an executive at smegma entertainment"?

Reader tips Dept.
Calgary and the tar sands

What's going on in Calgary, with new subdivisions of half-million dollar houses opening every month, is the North American tragedy in microcosm. Because every new suburban house built, every new Target store opened, every new parking lot paved, every highway widened will be a project in the service of a living arrangement with no future. It is a true madness that beats a path to historic tragedy.
And this is what you have to think about, wherever you live in the US or Canada: what kind of projects and proposals are moving right now in the permitting pipeline of your own municipal planning boards? Things waiting to be built in the next year or two. Chances are they're the same suburban furnishings we've been getting for half a century, in the latest state-of-the-art releases. Each one is a tragedy. Each one will carry us further into darkness.

Where's The Zapper? Hello? Hello? TG