Maria, That's the biggest way the JEB showed he is a vindictive bastard when he loses.

A smaller example is the issue of the State Library of Florida. He decided to sell it off to "help with the budget" it would have been sold to Nova University (the Bush family has strong ties there) and after the sale Nova would have been able to do anything they wanted, including tossing materials. A lot of families donated books, papers, letters, etc to the library so people were pissed. Librarians and others organized and JEB lost. So he changed the rules (I have no idea if this is still in effect) - he closed the stacks. You could still get a card and check out materials but you had to ask for them, you couldn't browse. He claimed there were too many rare and valuable books and he was doing it to protect them.

Not that cared that much when he was trying to get rid of it, but once he couldn't those books became valuable.

He's an ass and I hate him. And a hypocrite. He was vehement that anyone who was arrested for abusing prescription drugs or using false prescriptions to get drugs should get no mercy and no consideration.

Then his daughter got caught and all he asked for was mercy and privacy. She was a good girl who made a mistake.

You know I had no idea how much hostility I still harbor over Jeb.

Steph, tell your friend that drip pans are cheap enough to replace when they're so dirty they're a fire hazard. There's no sense in wasting time soaking and scrubbing them.

True story: we bought new drip pans, and they were the wrong size. Bed, Bath and Beyond had only 2 size options, so we exchanged them for the other size...which was ALSO the wrong size. How is our stove a freak? We need to just look online with the model of the stove.

Your friend looks an awful lot like you.

Uh...whaaaaaaat? t runs away

I once worked with a woman who lined her entire oven and stovetop with aluminum foil because she could not bear to have one drip on the stove, and her teenage sons lived with her.

Ok, I've been thinking it was just ordinary distractedness, or some wacky way my brain interacts with teeny tiny on-screen or wireless keyboards, but it has gone on for months, and it disturbs me. When I type as I think, then go back and read what I wrote later, I find that I am skipping whole words which are fairly important to the sentences I am typing. And it isn' just when I go back to rearrange and edit something because I changed my mind about how to say something (that happens, sometimes I don't manage to get the whole sentence in line with the changes I want to make. I chalk that up to carelessness.) It is also different from those times when I think one word but type some other word.

I'm pretty sure I have a good idea, askye. It's the conservative right's MO.

Tep, you, er your *friend*, should still wrap the newly cleaned pans in foil. Easiest clean up ever, even if it does look a little less put together. It works like a charm.

Steph, your "friend" wouldn't need to deal with her drip pans if I destroy the world. Because I am prepared to do that today.

I once worked with a woman who lined her entire oven and stovetop with aluminum foil because she could not bear to have one drip on the stove, and her teenage sons lived with her.

If you have one of those modern, new fangled, electric ovens where the heating element is inside the walls of the oven rather than hanging out where they can be seen (and dripped on), do NOT line your oven with foil. It will mess up the oven. That happened at one of the houses I work at.

Steph, your "friend" wouldn't need to deal with her drip pans if I destroy the world. Because I am prepared to do that today.

That *would* eliminate the need to clean the drip pans.

I approve.

I'm usually buy new ones, but in the past I've soaked them and then used something to scrub them clean. I think once they were still kind of nasty and I was doing the Fly Lady sink cleaning thing (fill it with water and bleach and let sit) so I threw the drip pans in there too. Probably defeated some ofthe purpose of cleaning the sink but that seemed to work.

You shouldn't use foil INSIDE the oven, it messes with the way the heat is conducted.

Boss just called an un scheduled meeting. That's never good, right?