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The vice president and Navy secretary now have new desks built out of materials from some of the most storied ships in U.S. history.

Navy Seabees built a desk for Vice President Kamala Harris made from wood, copper and nails taken off the USS Constitution, one of the country's first frigates. The Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The desk, which was delivered to Harris in February, features carvings of an eagle and stars reminiscent of the Constitution's stern decorations, said Paul Taylor, a spokesman for Naval History and Heritage Command, which oversaw the project. The project was approved while President Donald Trump was still in office, and Seabees began construction Jan. 4.

Harris' new workspace is one of two "heritage desks" Seabees constructed this year. Sailors also built a desk for the Navy secretary that not only includes materials from the Constitution, but from the frigate Chesapeake; battleships Texas, New Jersey and Arizona; and sloop of war Constellation as well.

Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will move into the vice president's official residence next week after their move was delayed for more than two months because of "repairs to the home," Harris' chief spokeswoman Symone Sanders said on Thursday.

Harris and Emhoff have been temporarily living at Blair House, the President's guest quarters on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the White House, since Harris took office. The vice president's official residence is located on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory a couple of miles from the White House.

"The repairs included maintenance on the HVAC system, replacing the liners in the chimneys and refurbishing of some of the hardwood floors," Sanders tweeted, adding that the repairs were more easily conducted with the home unoccupied.

CNN observed a moving truck outside of Blair House on Thursday morning. A small group of people were spotted wheeling re-usable green and blue moving bins into a side door.

The delay in the move had left Harris increasingly and understandably bothered, according to several people who spoke to CNN.

"She is getting frustrated," an administration official previously told CNN.

Kate520 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:45 am Beautiful desk. Are the inlays in the front oxidized copper?

keith wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:03 am

Kate520 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:45 am Beautiful desk. Are the inlays in the front oxidized copper?

Oxidized copper would be kind of a dirty brown color. Or if oxidized enough, sorta turquoise.
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RVInit wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:36 am

keith wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:03 am

Kate520 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:45 am Beautiful desk. Are the inlays in the front oxidized copper?

Oxidized copper would be kind of a dirty brown color. Or if oxidized enough, sorta turquoise.
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I make jewelry as a hobby and often work with metals. You would be surprised at the varied and beautiful colors you can using various chemicals (ammonia, etc) to patina copper. Blues, purples, and reds included. And, you can seal it if you really like what you have achieved in terms of coloration so it stays pretty much as you want. I have a bench full of one inch pieces that I have tested various treatments, and even without sealing I have not lost any of the wonderful colors that have grown on my copper.

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:15 am Did you say JEWELRY??????

Off Topic

I did! Funny thing, I really enjoy the creative process of designing and making it, but seldom remember to put it on! My family and friends have been gifted with many of my pieces. I think on our old board I may have shared a photo or two, when I remembered to take a photo prior to giving the piece away, that is.

RVInit wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:04 am

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:15 am Did you say JEWELRY??????

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I did! Funny thing, I really enjoy the creative process of designing and making it, but seldom remember to put it on! My family and friends have been gifted with many of my pieces. I think on our old board I may have shared a photo or two, when I remembered to take a photo prior to giving the piece away, that is.

A Florida woman sent videos to her incarcerated spouse in which she threatened to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a complaint filed in South Florida federal court. “If I see you in the street, I’m gonna kill your ass Kamala Harris,” Niviane Petit Phelps of Miami Gardens allegedly said in one. “I’m going to the gun range, just for your ass,” Phelps reportedly said in another. In a video dated Feb. 18, 2021, the complaint says she warned, “50 days from today, mark this day down, stupid bitch, Kamala fuckin’ Harris vice president. You gonna fuckin’ die 50 days from today, I swear to fuckin’ God.” Photographs intercepted by prison authorities allegedly show a smiling Phelps posing at a gun range holding a pistol, standing next to a target riddled with bullet holes.

On Feb. 22, Phelps applied for a concealed carry permit. Less than two weeks later, the Secret Service showed up at her home. After first refusing to speak with agents, Phelps soon agreed to an interview. She claimed that she was upset about Harris becoming VP because she didn’t believe she was “actually Black,” and that she didn’t like the way she held her purse during the inauguration, the complaint says. However, Phelps stated that she was “past it,” and that she had no intention of going to D.C. to carry out the plan she had previously described. “Didn’t you say we were going,” interjected Phelps’ daughter, to which Phelps immediately responded, “No, we’re not going.”

sad-cafe wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:11 pm did they arrest her?

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 2:37 am Go daughter!

When Vice President Harris visited a woman-owned yarn shop in Alexandria last month, she mentioned a little-known fact about herself that left the fiber arts community a bit giddy.

The new vice president is a crocheter.

“I was raised by a mother who said ‘I am not going to let you sit in front of that television doing nothing.’ And so I have crocheted more afghans than I can tell you,” Harris said while visiting the store. “And our daughter is a knitter.”

At the shop, Harris learned about a special hand-dyed yarn named in her honor (Observatory Circle, which is where the vice-presidential residence is) from Neighborhood Fiber Co., a woman-owned Baltimore-based business. Five days later, on International Women’s Day, a crocheted mural of Harris’s likeness and the words “I’m Speaking” was installed at the Wharf. And with all the Googling of “Kamala Harris and crochet” craftyiscool.com saw a spike of online sales for a pattern to crochet a Harris doll in the Japanese style of amigurumi. (Amigurumi means knitted or crocheted toy.)

Allegedly neutral reporter has a problem with how Vice President Kamala Harris says 'the'

Today in traditional media nonsense, Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized the word “the” to make a point, and it is NEWS.

No, I’m not kidding.


It is not a parody. Jennifer Jacobs is a senior White House reporter for Bloomberg News. She is tweeting about how the vice president of the United States pronounced one of the most common words in the English language.

It is true that some people, including Sean Hannity, did attack Harris for supposedly using a fake French accent on another stop of her trip to France. That was false—she said “THE plan,” for emphasis—and did not bear repeating and validating outside of right-wing circles. Jacobs might maybe possibly claim that what she’s doing here is showing that Harris employs that usage of “the” regularly. Instead, Jacobs elevated partisan attacks and rather than explicitly discrediting them, turned them into an inspection of Harris’ pronunciation more generally. It’s a kind of scrutiny that somehow keeps getting disproportionately applied to women and people of color. So mysterious.

And Jennifer Jacobs made herself absolutely a part of that pattern. She might not have come up with the line of attack, but she treated it as worthy of repetition and consideration.

What Harris was doing will be familiar to anyone who has ever watched NFL player intros. THE Ohio State University, anyone?

A Kamala Harris staff exodus reignites questions about her leadership style — and her future ambitions

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Tyler Pager
December 4, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EST

The rumors started circulating in July: Vice President Harris’s staff was wilting in a dysfunctional and frustrated office, burned out just a few months after her historic swearing-in and pondering exit strategies. A few days later, Harris hosted an all-staff party at her official residence, where most of her office bit into hamburgers and posted pictures of smiling, congenial co-workers on Twitter, pixelated counterpoints to the narrative of an office in shambles.

“Let me tell you about these burgers at the VP’s residence!!” chief Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders gushed in a tweet. “The food was good and the people were amazing.” Her official defense against reports of staff unrest was more searing. She called people who lobbed criticism behind nameless quotes “cowards” and stressed that working for a groundbreaking vice president was a difficult job, but not a dehumanizing one. “We are not making rainbows and bunnies all day,” she told one outlet. “What I hear is that people have hard jobs and I’m like ‘welcome to the club.’ ”

Five months later, Sanders is leaving the vice president’s office, the highest-profile member of an end-of-year exodus that includes communications chief Ashley Etienne and two other staffers who help shape the vice president’s public image. Sanders told The Washington Post her departure is not due to any unhappiness or dysfunction, but rather because she is ready for a break after three years of the relentless pressure that came with speaking for and advising Biden and Harris while navigating a global pandemic.




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