house. when you compare this to natural stone, you know you re not going to be able to stain this. there is some good involved with going with this. you don t want to stain this. this is 100% nonporous. it will not absorb. think of washing your counter top with a piece of chicken. if you can absorb the bacteria, you can get sick. this is your big bang for your buck. very expensive. this is krartz cuar it, z. it s com pressed tight and nonporous. best on the market. granite, everyone seems to love it. brian: and there is a bad part? yes. there is. it s not 100% nonporous. so it is sealed. what you have to know is you need to seal it every two years. problem with granite is you put a hot pot on top of it, burns the seal off. again, think about washing it with chicken, will absorb it. that s a bad thing. it s not continuous. when you cut that slab of
w. bush has a new title: grandfather. his daughter and husband welcomed baby girl this weekend. they named her margaret laura after their grandmothers but plan to call her mela. gretch? gretchen: thanks, brian. it is a beautiful tribute to an american hero murdered here at home. sergeant david dunlap of colorado and his pregnant wife whitney were killed in a violent home invasion last friday. family and friends hand carved this memorial bench and carried it to the top of a popular trail. they took pictures of the bench and waved the american flag. their pride didn t last long. the forest service wants the bench moved because there was no permit. we have a friend of sergeant david dunlap. good morning to you, sir. good morning to you. gretchen: i know you
but i have never put in a counter top. would you recommend this for the average person at home? no. there is things that i think you can do around the house, paint. but you can screw that up. trim maybe, play with it, but counter tops, you want to make sure you re bringing the pros because one f you screw it up, you have to replace it. if they screw it up, they have to fix it. brian: so let s talk about the type of surface you need when it comes to tile. what are my choices? off lot of choices. ranging from low price to high price. laminate is obviously the lowest. what i love about laminate is it comes in many different looks. it s gotten a bad name. but bang for your buck, that s the laminate. you can make it look really, really nice. brian: you glue that on, right? that s correct. over top of a particle board. this can mold. that s why it s gotten a bad name. that s due to the poor installation of a sink, not sealing around the sink, the taps, et cetera. it will last a lif
a hospital s maternity ward. sources say she s considering giving birth in paris because of its strict anti-paparrazzi laws. rumors also surfacing her boyfriend, canee west wants to move there permanently. he s been living in the city since february. kim s due in july. she s also trying to get divorced. gretchen: from her yeah, not kanye. brian: kris humphries. gretchen: a foundation i hold near and dear is the march of dimes. over the weekend on friday, i celebrated the historic day in 1955, the day that polio and the vaccine was declared safe and effective. hi. a new medical age with the report that shows the vaccine against pole yes is a success. it s a at this day of triumph. gretchen: i had the privilege of emceeing this event here in new york city. that was actually at the
expensive and it s extremely complicated and there are so many different loopholes, both good and bad. but there are so many different loopholes and whether you hire 30 people and a lot of part-time workers are being used instead of full time workers. i know people that are going 100% of their company is part-time workers because they avoid paying that way and frankly, obamacare is going to maybe fall of its own weight because it s so complicated, people are hiring many people just to administer it and the federal government is doing that. they have hundreds of thousands of people that they re hiring to explain it. it s too complicated. the people that passed it never even read it. you have thousands of pages of documentation. they have no idea what it says. the complexity of obamacare is a total disaster. brian: have you hired other people just to disseminate it for the workers that you insure? i have very smart people that work for me. they ve been reading for weeks and weeks and