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Pato del Muerto

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  1. 8 minutes ago, Dutch said:

    Yup. The 5% cash back on gas alone just about covers the annual executive membership fee, and their gas is usually 15 cents/gal cheaper. 

    You have to get their credit card and use it for gas to get that 5%. 

  2. 26 minutes ago, ABZ said:

    Yes, Jap Lane in Vidor/Orange County. Looks like its now called Japanese Lane.

    Story behind the name: http://hirasaki.net/Family_Stories/Kishi_Colony/Kishi.htm

    The website is of a George Hirasaki from Vidor, now a professor at Rice, who I've gotten to work with.

    CSB: Back when George was at Shell, he was first boss of my own advisor who I had while at UT. Also, George's brother lived in quarantine with the astronauts from Apollo 11 after getting back from the moon.

    Missed the opportunity to use Nip In or Nip On In cafe

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  3. The federal government punishing the press for what they print is a longstanding American tradition. 
     

    wait, I’m being told now that it’s actually forbidden by the first amendment of the US constitution. 

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  4. 58 minutes ago, William Bludworth said:

    Has anyone ever seen the shitty horror movie Rest Stop? If so, there's this deformed guy who takes pictures of future victims that looks like the one above my post. Is it the same guy, because I don't know the actors name. 

    Michael j Anderson, and he’s not in rest stop. 

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  5. 1 minute ago, d2o said:

    Players are trying to strong arm the league for a new deal.   The CBA is up at the end of this season.   I suspect the new deal will have an out for both sides at some point during the contracted period

    Yeah I realized that big difference after I hit post. Normal negotiating window. 
     

    guess I was trying to say the owners have their own “pay us what you owe us” sentiment with media rights. 

  6. Instead of player salary % of revenue, why not look at it from the perspective of % of profit, and see if nba or wnba players are better compensated.  Then you can also take a look at admin expenses. 
     

    the goal needs to be increase in salaries paid by increased revenue/profit, rather than demanding it now from whole cloth and asking I guess owners and the nba to come out of pocket even more.  New media contract should help with that. 
     

    I do wonder if the league does blow up in popularity from new talent over the next 5 years, if teams aren’t happy with the media deal and remaining time, if they’ll try to strong arm a new deal kind of like the players are trying to do now to them. 

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  7. Sounds like it’s not a replacement beverage either. You can probably get a fountain Coca Cola for $1.50 or a bottle of sugar Coke with half the volume for twice the price. I wonder what people will choose?

    also, and I’m dead serious with this ridiculous question, as it pertains to sugar cane, did Trump slap a tariff on Puerto Rico?

  8. That’s the big thing- how does work stoppage hurt the owners?

    meanwhile, how many of these women will be hurting financially pretty quickly if they aren’t getting paid by their team?

  9. 1 hour ago, Red Five said:

    He apparently tweeted out tonight an AI video of Obama being arrested in the White House. 

    Why would he be in the White House now?

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