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Ghost of LL

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  1. I gotta say, I think I'd prefer to play the Kings if for no other reason than I don't think we've ever had a playoff series against the Kings.  And there aren't just a whole lot of Western Conference teams that the Stars haven't had a playoff series against at one time or another.

  2. 2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

    My dad used to take me to Medina so this caught my eye.

    There are water customers who use it.

    More here: https://www.expressnews.com/hill-country/article/medina-lake-reservoir-drought-low-levels-18695562.php

    And apparently the San Antonio Water System is paying the Bexar-Medina water district millions of dollars for water it hasn't used since 2015.

    Gotta love government and their prudent financial activities.

    It is a prudent financial decision to lock down the capacity that a water utility is going to need at some point.

    Take-or-pay contracts of that nature are pretty common, because that's the only way reservoirs get built.  A reservoir costs billions to build, and it's not going to be funded and built if you don't have guaranteed customers. 

    SAWS doesn't really "pay for water that it's not using."  When it needs that water, it really needs that water.  So it pays for that water to be available when it needs it.  if it doesn't need it, ok.  But the water was available to SAWS and couldn't be used by anybody else.  So it really was used by SAWS.

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  3. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Was she any good?  She doesn't appear to be aging all that well.  The plastic surgery probably doesn't help.

    I mean, I guess.

    If the show had started at 8:45 and had the arena been at a comfortable temperature, I think the show would've been ok.  But when she doesn't start until 10:30 on a Sunday night and doesn't want the a/c turned on, it's kind of easy to be put into a foul mood off the bat.

    Probably half the songs she played were some serious B-side shit.  I mean, I know all of Madonna's hits.  And she has a lot.  I'm from the 80s, goddamnit.  But I didn't know a lot of the stuff she played (and judging from the crowd reactions, I wasn't alone).  And then she had two 15- or 20-minute little soliloquies, where she was trying to be deep and thought-providing, but was just vapid and trite and dull.  I mean, that's a lot of content to have to slog through to get her to sing the songs you showed up to hear her sing.

    When she does sing those songs, it's pretty entertaining.  She's not much of a dancer anymore, but her backup dancers are entertaining.  And the whole staging is often pretty cool.  But on the whole, . . . meh.

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  4. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

    Looks like she usually ends between 12:30 and 1. Seriously. 

    We left around 1:15 or 1:20, and it looked like it was probably going to finish in the next 15 minutes or so.

    But yeah--I'm tired this morning.

  5. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Iran is a pustule.
    There is zero fucking reason for Iran to be in hostilities with Israel, yet they have been for decades, because they are a psychotic islamofascist regime.
    They’ve been in FA mode for a long time. I don’t mind the FO.
    And collectively, we have embarked on a new era of global conflict. It’s stupid as hell, but stupid is humanity’s brand.
    Now lots of things go boom.

    Call names all you want—right now, Iran is acting pretty rationally. 

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  6. On 3/26/2024 at 2:44 PM, CooterBrown said:

    Seems like it would be more cost effective to just go with the "ultimate" layout in the bottom image while you're building everything else.  So, we won't do that.

     

    I don't exactly know, but I would strongly suspect that the decision on that is with the FAA.  

    This shit isn't being built primarily with city money.  Most of the money comes from the FAA.  And the FAA is notoriously conservative with its growth projections.

  7. 4 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    The Soviets had like 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, being supplied far for home. In Ukraine, Russia is fighting right next door to its border and supply lines. And it has engaged many times that number of troops, with casualties estimates being in the hundreds of thousands. These are not comparable wars. 

    Afghanistan bordered the Soviet Union.

  8. 50 minutes ago, TexasEd said:

    Dems should start negotiating with the moderate wing of Republican party to remove Johnson and replace him with a Republican Moderate, hell, they only need <5 Republicans to pull it off.

    No--fuck that.  It's not the minority party's job to help the majority party govern.

    Johnson is a perfect speaker for the Democrats to campaign against.  He's heinous and despicable, but he's also incompetent.  Apart from somehow getting Hakeem Jeffries as speaker, Johnson is the best the Democrats can do.

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  9. Just now, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Aright, nothing we can do about it now. Score a fucking run. 

    I'm sorry--are you under the impression that I'm in the fucking dugout?  There was never anything any of us could do about it.

    But we can still talk about the umpires fucking up an obvious fucking call for five minutes.

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