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Mdhorn

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  1. How it started—found an eagle feather on my evening walk, by the tower where they hang. how it’s going… At Die Spitz.
  2. https://www.2fiftybbq.com They opened a location near where you’re at. Also, I can’t vouch for anything else there, but the fajitas at lauriol plaza are great. I also really like their chips and salsa but it’s near Adams Morgan, so not near you. If you’re on capitol hill, 8th street, I’d recommend Bombay street food, but only that location. Theres a cool market on weekends called eastern market if you’re in the area, right up the street.
  3. Sounds like the newest skateboard/snowboard maneuver.
  4. First band I ever saw--Cliff on bass.
  5. Trump definitely wants both of his tiny hands in the pool of money for it. If it operates anywhere close to the way he thinks, it won't be operational at all, and won't be built. His tariffs are all over the place, and pretty difficult to pin down. The only thing we know or can gauge about them is what we pay for food and services, which have increased, along with our debt.
  6. They've bought or threatened journalists. Anybody that practices real journalism isn't going to be allowed anywhere close to an elected official to ask tough questions.
  7. Russian oligarchs also stole a lot of money meant for weapons, which degraded their armaments. Do we have someone like that in charge? I would think a lot of drones could also be launched from aircraft carriers, or really, anywhere. A golden dome is Trump admitting publicly that he wants a golden dome, or enough gold to create one, which won't be used for defense of any kind. Drones are next level guerrilla warfare. If the US employs them, and we do, I'd think we're more than aware of their capabilities. My fear is that Putin will ask Trump for drones, missiles, whatever, and Trump will comply with some bullshit excuse about Ukraine striking Russia, going on the offensive and prolonging the war.
  8. If there’s a god, dotard will have stage 5 rectal cancer, that will visually leak out during a meeting with the PM of Canada.
  9. They allowed the death penalty. Turns out, Till didn't even whistle.
  10. Universities, national parks, education and hospitals are getting hit no matter where you are. One major roadblock for leaving the country, say with a US bank account, SS, or as my wife has—retirement for career teaching, is simply that the govt could just pull the plug on any of it. Contracts mean nothing now. And if you live overseas, what’s to prevent the government from stating they no longer view expats as Americans, since they no longer participate regularly in the American economy? America first isn’t going to care much for expats. And the rest of the world is tied to its neighbors politics since they share borders. The world is a quagmire.
  11. Curious about Boy Harsher—80s ish sounding techno. Have seen A Place to Bury Strangers a few times and they are fun, although I don’t know what lineup this is. And Mdou Moctar could also be interesting.
  12. was told by the doorman there were only 7 tickets left when I took this pic.
  13. But again, you have to subscribe to it. Now if it becomes part of the youths school curricula, then we have a certified brainwashing happening.
  14. I'm proud to be an American but it's just the luck of the draw. I could've just as easily, probably more so even, been born in India or China, and lived a life at the whims of their government. Instead, I was born American, white with all my fingers and toes, in a lower middle class family with both parents in 1970. That was a pretty good draw.
  15. Went to breakfast the other morning and a vet with a walker started talking to me while we were waiting to be seated. He asked where we were from and we said Texas and he said "so sorry to hear." We laughed and said that's why we're now in Maryland.
  16. That’s amazing. What’s really interesting is how blind I really am. There are two sizes for an animal—one when a person is in a vehicle and the other on foot and becomes so much larger. In separate occasions a warthog and an elephant were directly in front of me in the brush and I couldn’t see them. I took a pic so people could see how difficult it is to see.
  17. Did our trip without an agent and it was great. We landed in J'burg and drove to Kruger for four days, flew into Port Elizabeth and then stayed in Addo for a couple of nights and then drove down the garden route and stayed at thunder river and then down to Bontebok and ended at boulders beach/Cape Town. Trip was amazing. Saw everything--miles and miles of cape buffalo, totally surrounded at one point and just turned the car off and sat, a dozen rhino's with babies, leopard, lions, cheetahs, porcupine, dwarf mongoose, wild dogs, caracal, herds of elephants, secretary birds, kudu, hippos, spotted eagle owl, baboons, wildebeest, everything, and mostly, it was just my wife and I. I would say this--do not drive fast. So much can be seen in the rear view mirror or after other cars pass, let them. Drive slow and when you get to rest stops, look at the boards and see what's been spotted in the area. They won't include rhino's but take a walking or driving tour and you're bound to see several. These are in the parks of course, but you can see a lot along the road too. We saw Nyala by a regular road. At Kruger, went to bed while lions and cape buffalo went at it for hours. In the morning there was a fresh buffalo kill. Also, bush babies and fruit bats are really loud at night, which some of the camps have. Others have honey badgers and warthogs. SANPARKS.org forums. check out KNP Activities & Sightings thread, such as Lake Panic. Next time, we'll do the falls and Kgalagadi park-but we spread out our time knowing we'd go back. These are all parks you could die in, make no mistake. Elephants toss cars as do the cape buffalo. They're parks where the animals roam free and you don't carry, which is fine. I remember being on top of a hill overlooking a lake with signs that said you could exit at your own risk with an overlook. I walked over and looked down at kudu carcasses littering the shore of the lake. It was a killing zone when animals went down to drink.
  18. I wonder--there's lot of people from up and down the seaboard and internally that come to NYC, DC, Philly, etc. It may still hurt but I wonder if it'll be COVID like?
  19. Same. It's the whole car sits in front of you at the green light rather than pull off while they figure out where to go or people stand in the absolute middle at the top of the escalator while looking at their phone and people have to stream around them to get off the escalator. There's absolutely no awareness of others. And please don't group up and converse in front of a doorway that has lots of people passing through it. Pick a side, any side and move to it. I never say anything but it's so obvious that others don't exist in their orbit.
  20. They take a while to get used to but once you get it, you may really like them. The Spits were like that too--they're not likable, and do yourself a favor and don't ever read the lyrics. But they can eventually really plug into that buried 17 year old in some of us.
  21. I'm seeing your daughter's band here in June. I really enjoy DC9 and they have their poster in their door--meant to take a picture and post.
  22. The Damned prolly had two original members playing but I would've liked to have seen the Adverts 30-40 years ago. They're playing at Ottobar or the Metro in Baltimore which seems ideal. $55 to see the damned in DC is damned insane. I'd say the same for the Sex Pistols.
  23. If you don't like dumb punk, you may not like them. I enjoy bands like the viagra boys, the spits, the damned, the cramps, etc. They're not great at their instruments, you won't like every song, and you probably shouldn't pay more than $25 to see them. But if you're going to chill with a few beers, in a smallish venue, and look to shut your brain off for a while, they're fun. Emos or Liberty Lunch would've been perfect for them and an ideal set time prolly lasts 45-50 minutes max. Have seen Luna, Dean & Britta many times, and just missed out on Galaxie 500. Could kick myself for missing Dean & Britta play music for Andy Warhol screen tests at the National Gallery of Art. They may also slip in a VU cover, which is always fun. Granada should be a great venue to see them.
  24. Only thing I’d add is check places like the SAAM, which stay open till 8 on thursdays. Great museum and make it to the top and walk around the stacks and upper gallery. Also, the clock tower is free in the old post office.
  25. Biden's camp and the democrats had to prop Biden up or the Republicans were going to 25th amendment his ass. It's not complex. The problem is that Biden then thought he was still the only hope and salvation even though his public gaffes were increasing. I respect Biden and really wanted him to be the answer, but that debate against Trump even caught Trump off guard how mentally off Biden was. There was no hiding it at that point, and he had to go but that left little time at that point for anybody to coalesce and win the public over on an unknown. Even still, we knew Kamala wasn't corrupt and that should've been more than enough. What we're fighting over is that a bunch of winey turds didn't show up for whatever reason, even though they all have reasons afterwards for not doing their basic due diligence in a Democracy. The apathetic and all those that voted against their interests because of the likes of Joe Rogan bullshit fucked us over.
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