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    Paint trimmed wood to match, install as best as possible, fill spaces with backer rod, then caulk and paint again? That's all I've got for you atm. Haven't ever seen this before...

    OR maybe( paint first) put asphalt concrete joint sticks around, tack them in with construction adhesive behind, caulk, repaint as needed?

    AND post this on a renovation repair forum.... :D

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    I'm not advanced enough to comment in a direct pressure washer respect but I see how what you are saying is analogous to computers: e.g. difference between prebuild and custom build. People build their own or buy similar kits to allow them to do this and control upgrades and ensure space for said upgrades and improvements. Further to ensure overall quality of all components overall.

    More than what you are saying maybe but there is nothing else like what you are talking about. I think it would be a good thing (assuming what you are saying is good I dunno much about it)

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    How I quit,

    Well I cut back slowly one cig a day less every day sometimes would take two or three days to cut one then stayed on one cig a day for a long time then would just take a hit if it really needed too. Finally I quit all the way and eating like a nutcase and yelling at family for no reason seemed to help a lot. Also drinking helped.

    Nicotine is a serious drug. I think most people should let their brain receptors down regulate before quitting....b/c it's hard....or maybe I'm just a wuss :D

    You might want to switch to a pure tobacco like American Spirit too before trying to quit as it's possible the admixture components are addictive as well. That way you are weaning from (when you start to quit) only nicotine.

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    illegal to manufacture, but perfectly legal to buy, and if I feel like it - I can swab on mineral spirits straight onto my deck.

    This is true. The whole notion of making your stain "illegal" is just silly.

    As far as truly caring about the environment (these VOC laws do very little, if you take into consideration the exemptions of the big players get) this article is the best and most accurate and succinct out there: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/opinion/going-green-but-getting-nowhere.html?_r=3&ref=todayspaper

    Things MUST occur on a GLOBAL scale if our species is going to make it.

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    Confining my comments strictly to TWP 200, I have not noticed any problems at blends up to 15%. Whether to do so or not is more a function of the wood surface and needs. I haven't tried higher than that due to how the mix seemed to feel (light enough)

    Confining my comments strictly to Sherwin Williams,...are you serious? Every time I use anything from them I am left thinking "oh god take me now".

    The poll you have created is really a false dichotomy and I therefore won't vote.

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    I was sitting in a class on the Psychology of Religion being annoyed yet again by the professor confusing Will Rogers with William James. Someone got word that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. Since, a few days before, some little plane had crashed, by accident, into some other building, we joked that the pilots must be drinking heavy that week.

    After, I went home and took a nap before I went and did squats. Woke up, turned on the TV, and truly, nothing has been the same since.

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    What i dont understand our troops are directly transferred from a war zone to civilian life our government needs to help our troops transition back to civilian life. This type of issue happened here as well a soldier back from war decides to call the police but hangs up waits for there arrival and kills 2 of the officers.

    All of this could of been avoided if our troops are first debriefed, evaluated,and brought back to civilian life in a sound and stable state.

    Just imagine going to battle zones over and over deployment after deployment returning home, your wife divorced you, has a child by another guy. You look around and see our borders open with us having occupied most of the Middle East except Saudi Arabia as a result of an attack by Saudi Arabian citizens, for no real obvious benefit other than Israel security. We harass and do ten minute pat downs of eighty year old ladies at air ports and have a 30 plus year history of the forced destruction of the production base of the economy and tax laws that in combination with that destruction, effectively force companies off shore and effectively bar bringing that money home.

    Banks offering mortgages amortized where they see the interest paid back first then they get bailed out for the rest and also getting to take people's home. Soldiers see our monetary base slowly being destroyed, and they realize that they spent five or ten years getting wounded, shot, their knees destroyed from heavy pack loads and no real future in sight. They see that democracy won't be achieved in the Middle East and that it is rather lacking at home.

    I really don't think this can be debriefed. Some soldiers might end up like this guy but the other soldiers I hope will represent the future of change in America and the way back to Truth. And that's change we can believe in.

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    Yes, Bush passed the Health Care law that forbids us negotiating for drug rates based on volume. The US pays the same piece rate for one pill as 1 billion pills.

    It is the Medicare | Medicaid program that is one of the top reasons for the crisis. Another is Defense spending coupled with our purposeful failure to secure our own borders (and Defense!!!). Still another is the failed war on drugs that creates Al Capones out of thin air. Lastly, we have over thirty years of solid effort to completely destroy American manufacturing.

    The notions of free trade benefits put forth are juvenile and do not take into account nation states, politics, and lack of parity.

    A million year or there is nothing. We are talking trillions and trillions of dollars of waste and a seeming purposeful destruction of American sovereignty.

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    Great video....it is true and easy to fix the problem we are all in the middle of... Congress and the senate needs to stop spending the peoples money,giving peoples money away,free to ship other countries products to us but our products cost to enter theres..and this country worries about the world but forgets itself..we need to worry about us for a bit i am sure the world will understand, see we are the bearing in the gears and if the bearing is sticking the gears wont work properly so all the gears are affected but when we are running smooth the world runs smooth.

    Honestly though, Obama ran on the fact that he planned on running huge deficits and turning the nation completely over to the Banks. We can't, therefore, really expect him to do much else.

    Our leaders and most of our citizens don't even believe in basic economics so ???

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