#also like its a good example that nancy cares about dale

[sometranssoup]

Look I'm sorry,but,if your favorite koth episode isn't 'Livin' on reds, vitamin c and propane',you're wrong

It's a perfect episode and showcases the fact Hank IS in fact the groups mom friend wether he wants to be or not

[muldoonlives]

"We all lost our minds, Irwin."

Dale Midkiff is a good actor. To me anyway. He's mainly in television movies so he isn't well known. I've seen some of the "Love" movies because I'm a fan of "Little House On the Prairie", and wanted to see what Michael Landon, Jr. had in store. They were decent but nothing remarkable. "Elvis & Me" was a big deal from what I've read and heard, but I don't care about watching it. The first time I remember seeing Dale was in "Time Trax" which I watched with my father every week. I didn't recognize him when he played Buck in "A Cry For Help", but the scene of him beating and maiming Nancy McKeon was engrained in my brain. Buck was pure feral. After finding it on Youtube as an adult and watching it again, I considered Dale Midkiff as a very underrated actor.

Many people may not know Dale Midkiff by name, but many people have seen "Pet Sematary". I tried to watch it every time it was aired on USA. I read the novel when I was eighteen. Since the film didn't explain much about him, it was pleasing to learn why Louis Creed acted so aloof. Unfortnately, most reviewers hate Dale Midkiff's performance. Some say he ruined an otherwise great film. "He was so wooden and always stared off in to space."

Well, he did tend to stare in to space. Leading men are usually expected to be charismatic. Louis Creed wasn't that type of man. He wasn't an action hero with clever one-liners. He was a dull person. Wooden. The novel explained that Louis was a secretive person prior to burying Church. The best way to be secretive is keeping things to yourself. That includes controlling those facial expressions. Louis also never wanted to acknowledge the supernatural.

An example would be the scene of Louis following Jud to the Micmac burial ground, and he hears the demon making noises in the woods. Louis nonchalantly inquires about the sound instead of looking all around him with fear in his eyes. As the two climb the rocks leading to the burial ground, he becomes irritated with Jud and even snaps at him when they reach the summit because he thinks their hike is ridiculous. Louis refused to see there was something abnormal going on.

After burying Church, Louis's mind was taken over by the demon, The Wendigo, who haunted the woods. King included the evil spirit in a draft script written in 1986. Just like the novel, Jud explained to Louis how The Wendigo was responsible for contaminating the soil of the burial ground, and it played tricks on its victim's mind. The Wendigo even appeared to Louis when he takes Gage's corpse through the woods. Budget constraints cut out the idea of creating the gigantic demon. Although, erasing Jud 's talk of The Wendigo hurt the film. "The ground turned sour." Why though? What's with the hallucinations Rachel and Louis experienced? Why did Jud take Louis to use the burial ground? Why did Louis use it on Rachel after all the carnage? Removing The Wendigo caused the movie to not make sense.

The emotions spilled out as the film reached its conclusion. You can't say Dale Midkiff seemed wooden after he discovers his resurrected son stole his scapel. Louis kept crumbling more and more with each step he took. Dale Midkiff wasn't a terrible actor in "Pet Sematary". He just played a bland character who was only intriguing when he lost his mind at the very end.

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Joanna Gaines Faces Her ‘Biggest Challenge’: Can You Guess?

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Joanna Gaines frequently finds herself in a position to make what’s old new again, recycling furniture, antique accessories, even whole houses. But in the latest “Fixer Upper: Behind the Design,” she has to work in the opposite direction: She has to make a brand-new house look old. Is that even possible?

In the episode titled “The Pahmiyer House,” we meet Dale and Nancy Pahmiyer, who have been looking for a house for ages, and can’t seem to find one that’s the right size and has a gorgeous sunset view. So Chip Gaines suggests they find a plot of land that has potential, and he will build their dream house from scratch.

The Pahmiyers are into this idea, and purchase an empty lot for $32,000. Then they spend $270,000 more to build a new home. But from there, they say they want to purge its shiny newness to look more cozy and have character.

That’s what almost stumps Joanna. “The biggest challenge on this project is creating an old-world feel in a brand-new build,” she says.

Chip and Joanna Gaines with Nancy and Dale Pahmiyer

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As she takes a crack at comfortable weathering, Joanna dishes out some excellent tips and tricks for giving all houses more character, regardless of their age. Take a gander!

‘Defer to her’

In his golden years, Dale is a wise man. When Joanna asks the couple about their design style, he says, gesturing toward his wife, “My style is her style. I defer to her.”

“That’s a good style,” Joanna says with a laugh, as Nancy starts talking about her penchant for a “European cottage.” The design process goes smoothly from there.

Have a clear definition of style

“European cottage” is rather vague, so Joanna runs a detailed description by the Pahmiyers: “European cottage style to me is light woods; it’s stucco accents. I also envision antique doors, aged beams, really cool dormers and flower boxes. It’s a really good style for families because it’s cozy and inviting.” It’s all good with Mr. and Mrs. P.

Divide and conquer the island

“Nothing says a kitchen built for entertaining like double kitchen islands,” says Joanna. “Splitting them up creates a direct walkway to the stove and the refrigerator without compromising the extra storage and countertop space of a large island.”

A kitchen with a double island

Magnolia

Make a special room for the grandkids

Nancy remembers a favorite aunt who had a special room just for her nieces and nephews, which made them want to visit her quite frequently. Since the Pahmiyers want their own grandchildren to come over often and feel welcome, they ask Joanna to design a room just for the kids. Joanna revels in this.

Eliminate the mess potential

Joanna notes that you need closed cabinets in a playroom to hide games and toys so it doesn’t feel messy.

“I don’t want this to be like you walk in and it feels like a day care,” she says. “I want it to be like you walk into this amazing space that’s pretty, not cluttery.”

Joanna designs a playroom with plenty of closed cabinets.

Magnolia

So Joanna designs a book nook with a built-in bench along one wall, and lines that wall with horizontal, aged-look wood paneling. You realize quickly that the wall is both attractive and practical. If you’re going to be comfortable in a nook, you might lean against the wall, put your feet against it, maybe even accidentally kick it.

Bonus: The paneling won’t show marks like painted drywall would.

Create continuity throughout the house

Joanna notes that using the same colors throughout the house is not the only way to achieve continuity and flow.

“I’m going to anchor the living room and the kitchen with the same kind of wood,” she says, providing the rooms a lovely harmony.

Be on the lookout for ledgers

Whenever Joanna finds a big, weathered antique ledger at a flea market or estate sale, she snatches it up to be used later to add some cool design touches.

“One of my favorite things when I’m antiques shopping is these antique ledgers,” she says, fingering a fine example. “To me, it could be art. I tear out the pages, and get them framed and matted, and this is perfect for a gallery wall or in an entryway, or a living room where you want to keep things a little more muted, but really interesting. These ledger books are a really fun way to bring in some history, some character.”

In the end, the Pahmiyers are tickled pink by their new home—and Jo has proved that new construction can have old-world charm to spare.

A brand-new, European cottage–style home

Magnolia

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Democrats rip Trump’s ‘spiteful act’ of ending Obamacare payments

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) members of the House and Senate Budget, Ways and Means and Finance committees hold a news conference critical of the Republican tax and budget plan at the U.S. Capitol October 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer swiftly condemned the Trump administration decision to slash key Obamacare subsidies —  an act that could cause health insurance companies to bolt from the online marketplace and dramatically increase out-of-pockets costs for poorer Americans.

“Sadly, instead of working to lower health costs for Americans, it seems President Trump will singlehandedly hike Americans’ health premiums. It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America. Make no mistake about it, Trump will try to blame the Affordable Care Act, but this will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it,” Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement early Friday.

The Democratic leaders accused Trump of punishing the American people for his own inability to improve the U.S. healthcare system. They argued that American Health Care Act collapsed because most Americans “recognized the cruelty and higher costs it meant for them and their loved ones.”

“Now, millions of hard-working American families will suffer just because President Trump wants them to,” they continued. “If these reports are true, the President is walking away from the good faith, bipartisan Alexander-Murray negotiations and risking the health care of millions of Americans.”

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement late Thursday night that since the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, had not set aside a sum of money to reduce payments to insurance companies, the U.S. government could not legally make these cost-sharing reduction payments.

President Donald Trump shows an executive order on health care that he signed in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Washington. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump signed an executive order late Thursday that would make it easier for Americans to purchase cheaper health insurance plans that do not cover essential health benefits and allows small businesses to cross state lines to buy simpler plans. In another blow to Obamacare, he is stopping payments to insurance companies that had been guaranteed under the Affordable Care Act.

“We will discontinue these payments immediately,” acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan and Medicare administrator Seema Verma said in a statement Thursday night.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated in August that Obamacare premiums would rise by 20 percent by 2018 and 25 percent by 2020 if the cost-sharing reductions were terminated.

“The bailout of insurance companies through these unlawful payments is yet another example of how the previous administration abused taxpayer dollars and skirted the law to prop up a broken system,” Sanders said. “Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous Obamacare law and provide real relief to the American people.”

Some of the backlash to the announcement came from Republicans. For instance, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who’s been a vocal critic of Trump’s policies on transgender issues, said that Trump’s decision would accomplish the opposite of what he had promised.

Cutting health care subsidies will mean more uninsured in my district. @potus promised more access, affordable coverage. This does opposite.

— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) October 13, 2017

Early Friday morning, Trump defended the decision on Twitter. He mocked Democrats by urging them to call him so he could “fix” the supposedly “imploding” 2010 law now that he’s slashed subsidies to the Democrats’ “pet insurance companies.” He also vowed to continue dismantling Obamacare “piece by piece.”

The White House had pushed for Congress to dismantle Obamacare, but repeatedly fell short of securing enough Republican votes in the Senate.

The Democrats ObamaCare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. Dems should call me to fix!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2017

ObamaCare is a broken mess. Piece by piece we will now begin the process of giving America the great HealthCare it deserves!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2017

And the backlash continued after Trump’s tweets. The general consensus among critics was that Trump’s latest action was designed to undermine Obamacare, so he won’t be able to claim in the future that it collapsed on its own.

We condemn WH cuts of $7B in Obamacare subsidies that help 7 million low-income Americans afford health insurance.

— Omar Vaid (@omarvaid) October 13, 2017

I wonder why Obamacare is imploding! Weird! Not sabotage, right?

— PORP (@TheOfficialPORP) October 13, 2017

It's official: after today, Trump OWNS whatever happens to Obamacare.

Pass it on.

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 12, 2017

President Trump is smashing Obamacare with a hammer, while complaining that it is broken. This isn't policy-making, but vandalism. https://t.co/RWTVnIj6Xv

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) October 13, 2017

So the sabotage of health care is in full swing and out in the open. And the motive is the scariest thing 1/ https://t.co/hH0Ehi0BTb

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 13, 2017

Trump's Obamacare tweets this morning read like the arsonist saying, "Oh I see your house just went up in flames. Call me to fix."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 13, 2017

In the dead of night, the @POTUS lobs a bomb at ACA. If it stands, millions of working Americans will lose coverage.https://t.co/3FjGsYtGqw

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) October 13, 2017

Reminder: Trump said if repeal and replace failed he would let Obamacare collapse on its own. These actions are aimed at dismantling ACA. https://t.co/C5fp0bdxxm

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 13, 2017

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