
Gale Snoats
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Buddy of mine lives in the neighborhood said they got the all clear so he rode bikes with his kid to Barton Hills Elementary and later found out they rode right past the suspect dude was just casually walking down Barton Hills Dr. so the all clear was a fuck up. Also said the perp broke into a house on one of the side streets and the homeowner shot the dude.
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Gale Snoats started following Fenway (Boston) Recs , Why Can't I Quit You, Austin? , Galveston and 2 others
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Too hot now but for later season oot games butler pitch and put is fun place to watch a game.
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just got a last minute invite so headed up there tomorrow heading back right after the game. We have never been to Columbus. i'm sure it's been discussed but I don't have time to comb through the thread -- i'm sure all of the restaurants will be slammed but it'll only be two of us for dinner tomorrow night and we don't mind sitting at the bar / waiting for a table. Questions -- (1) what are the best steakhouses in Columbus (I see Jeff Ruby's and Butcher & Rose that both look ok); (2) what about other good places to eat; (3) are any of the steakhouses / good places to eat in an area that would be fun to walk around?; (4) is there a fun place to walk around and pop in for a drink/beer where our old asses won't get assaulted? Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The Statesman has started a cool series on old Austin landmarks. A retired city planner has written something like 600 short history articles on different Austin landmarks and they're putting out 2 or 3 at a time on the website. Recent topics include the building Clay Pit is in, Peter Pan, Sandy's, and the old general store at NW corner of 6th and Congress.
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God help me, I have to spend a night in Fayetteville!
Gale Snoats replied to locodos's topic in Food and Travel
Bentonville is like the town in Truman Show. Picture perfect downtown with good restaurants and nice stores, perfectly clean and laid out, etc. 21c is a cool hotel and Crystal Bridges and the outdoor activities make it worth a visit. They had a really cool music festival there in a field outside of town for a few years but i think it died around Covid times. -
Agreed on getting there early. Also, there's a real time camera of the tee box and picnic table area on the website so you can get an idea of how stacked up it is.
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Little deli is awesome. The pizzas are fine and the sandwiches and desserts are great. That little shopping center is like going back in time. It reminds me of dazed and confused.
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liam neeson is frank drebin, jr. naked gun is back.
Gale Snoats replied to henrygandorf's topic in Movies and TV
I loved the original but this might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Horrible. Jesus Christ -
quick update -- The Fenway tour was great and definitely worth your time. The Country Club was amazing and as Ron noted, we had perfect weather. Really cool holes with a lot of undulation and elevated greens and tee boxes on a beautiful piece of property. Most probably know this (I didn't) but they have 3 nines and the format they have for the open and other big tournaments is an 18 hole combination of the 3 nines (something like 1-3 on one nine, 5-6 on another, then back, then to the third nine etc.). The day we played was the open set up (which the members tell me is pretty rare) so that was really cool. Clubhouse and everything else is really something else. We had caddies which is definitely out of the ordinary for me and really cool. Ballgame was a lot of fun but for the final score. We were a few rows behind the Stros dugout and my 12 year old was trying to get Framber and some other guys to throw him a ball all night. A few kids around him got one but he did not. Late in the game the Sox had a guy on third with less than two outs -- fly ball to left, runner tags and scores easy, LF throws the ball to Correa. Dead ball at that point so Correa looks at the Stros fans behind the dugout. I'm raising my hands pointing at my boy next to me. Correa and I make eye contact, he nods at me and throws me the ball. I reach up and catch it one handed and hand it to my boy and the crowd around us goes wild. It was so great.
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We’re booked for tour first thing am tomorrow. Fenway tour then playing the country club with a friend then Sox Astros. Pretty Good Friday.
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In Boston going to game tomorrow night. Hopefully Carlos will be there! My boy is pissed he brought his Pena jersey and left Carlos at home.
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Got in last night going to see Astros tomorrow night. Hitting the usual spots today and thinking about a Fenway tour in the morning. I’ve been to Fenway but my 12 yr old has not. I have never done or really considered any kind of stadium tour. Has anyone done a Fenway tour? If so how was it?
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From the Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/24/ken-paxton-private-lawyers-texas-cases/ One day in late May 2024, lawyer Zina Bash spent 6 1/2 hours working on a case against Facebook parent company Meta on behalf of the state of Texas. She reviewed draft legal filings. She participated in a court-ordered mediation session and then discussed the outcome with state Attorney General Ken Paxton. In her previous job as senior counsel on Paxton’s leadership team, that labor would have cost Texas taxpayers $641. But Bash had moved to private practice. Paxton hired her firm to work on the Meta case, allowing her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work will cost taxpayers $24,570. In the past five years, Paxton has grown increasingly reliant on pricey private lawyers to argue cases on behalf of the state, rather than the hundreds of attorneys who work within his office, an investigation by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found. These are often attorneys, like Bash, with whom Paxton has personal or political ties. In addition to Bash, one such contract went to Tony Buzbee, the trial lawyer who successfully defended Paxton during his 2023 impeachment trial on corruption charges. Three other contracts went to firms whose senior attorneys have donated to Paxton’s political campaigns. Despite these connections and what experts say are potential conflicts of interest, Paxton does not appear to have recused himself from the selection process. Although he is not required to by law, this raises a concern about appearing improper, experts who study attorneys general said. Paxton appears to have also outsourced cases more frequently than his predecessors, available records show. And he’s inked the kind of contingent-fee contracts, in which firms receive a share of a settlement if they win, far more often than the attorneys general in other large states, including California, New York and Pennsylvania. Since 2015, the New York and California attorneys general have awarded zero contingent-fee contracts; Pennsylvania’s has signed one. During that period, Paxton’s office approved 13. One of those was with Bash’s firm, Chicago-based Keller Postman, at the time known as Keller Lenkner, which she joined as partner in February 2021 after resigning from her job at the attorney general’s office. Paxton had signed a contract with the company two months earlier to investigate Google for deceptive business practices and violations of antitrust law. A little more than a year later, Bash’s firm won a state contract to work on the Meta litigation, alleging its facial recognition software violated Texans’ privacy. This time, Bash was the co-lead counsel. Meta, which called the lawsuit meritless, settled the case for $1.4 billion in the summer of 2024. It was a windfall for Keller Postman. The firm billed $97 million, the largest fee charged by outside counsel under Paxton’s tenure. Bash’s work alone accounted for $3.6 million of that total.
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