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SimonBolivar

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  1. Now it's me that looks like a loser!
  2. Djurgården making the semis of Conference with Betis, Chelsea, and Fiorentina is cool.
  3. Get you the tightest Houston Dynamo jersey you can fit into for the next appointment.
  4. I really like China Family on Airport's version, but I've learned to embrace the hunt through the chiles for any leftover chicken or peanuts.
  5. Next time you're down at MDA go to Mala Sichuan and get the Spicy and Crispy Chicken which is my favorite meal on this planet. When I was taking my grandfather to MD Anderson after graduating from BU, in my bum unemployment year, they were treating him for multiple cancers on the same day which was a thing of beauty but took some time. I got me an annual pass to the Houston Zoo and would chill there on nice days while he was getting his treatment and if the weather was bad then I'd just wait in the lobby and see how many elephantmen came through. Always somebody worse off.
  6. Sorry for quoting such an old post but There are much better works (this is coming from a guy who used to have Foote as his avatar on this site) especially when Foote is saying things like "The North fought that war with one arm tied behind their back" which is generally not considered to be true. Historiographically, he doesn't really fit into the equation that much and if you're looking for a full synthesis then McPherson is still probably considered the "best" of the books that can also be categorized as pop history. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War... book by James M. McPherson ($5) I also recommend watching Yale's David Blight's course (an entire semester of HIST119 at Yale for free) if you haven't watched it yet on YouTube. Here are the books in that course, The NPS also published this essay from Alabama Prof George Rable in '04 that has some great works on different subjects in the war but is over 20 years old now. civilwarbibliography.pdf Here's the required reading list for my school's graduate historiographical class from Fall 2023:
  7. It was a hell of a thing when Spock died
  8. Look at Mr Big Bucks over here that can afford the $.03 finance charge.
  9. That was already illegal, he just hated lip synching so he made it illegal. Turkmenistan is/was an incredibly interesting place. Here's a video of the president after him "winning" a horse race, until it faceplants and the video was smuggled out after threats to journalists in the audience. You'll notice that the other jockeys are letting him win before he faceplanted. I'm assuming Trump's recent golf championships are exactly the same kind of thing.
  10. Read up on Saparmurat Niyazov (Türkmenbaşy) if you want to see our future. 1.) in 2002 he renamed the days of the week and the months (including naming January after himself). 2.) He made it mandatory for schools to teach his autobiography, Ruhnama, and eventually it became part of the test required for people to get driver's licenses. He famously stated that the only two needed books were Ruhnama and the Koran. 3.) Created a new Turkmen alphabet 4.) Closed the Academy of Sciences 5.) Shut down the internet in 2000 6.) Closed all hospitals outside of the capital. 7.) Closed all libraries outside of the capital. 8.) Cut pensions causing the deaths of thousands 9.) Removed all dogs from the capital 10.) Replaced the word for bread with his mother's name 11.) When he quit smoking, he made it illegal in public and for all government employees 12.) He banned car radios 13.) Banned video games 14.) Required doctors to say an oath to him instead of reciting the Hippocratic Oath. 15.) Built a mosque that could hold 10,000 people as his mausoleum where he put scriptures from both the Koran AND Ruhnama on the walls. Although not everything was bad as he did ban lip synching at concerts in public.
  11. I see that Chris Van Hollen has never heard of Leo Ryan.
  12. I'm glad I stopped watching at 3-0. Saturday was too nice of a day to keep watching that.
  13. Yup, and it proves that we are a nation of evil people at worst or cowards at best.
  14. All of that just to point out the best journalism I've seen in my life with the line... "Denied access to the toilets, some fans were said to have been left with no choice but to urinate on walls in the stands."
  15. Such an abomination on the Popeye's thread. I went in for a sandwich last week at 11:30AM and got told that they wouldn't have the sandwiches for "30 more minutes because we forgot to prepare them this morning." The 3-piece spicy was a great consolation prize, but man if they aren't the most interesting, head scratching place in town. My coworker swears he went by an hour before closing one time and they were pretending to be an automated message saying they were closed. His theory is probably true considering never before or since have we heard an automated drive thru response at that location.
  16. The United States asking for forgiveness?
  17. Blue Prince is pretty cool if you like puzzle games.
  18. For $450?
  19. So he's the unicorn that actually joined an SBC church instead of abandoning them for a husband/wife preaching duo non-dom church in the suburbs.
  20. Do you think Xi gets woken up when something like this is announced at 3AM or do they just shrug and say, "that's tomorrow's problem"?
  21. Y'all are arguing over here about due process while I'm brushing up on Salvadoran specific slang so that I'll get to pick which faction I'm the bitch of in my prison stay. Smarter, not harder.
  22. That extra 4% is really gonna scare the Chinese into submission.
  23. Calling a bounce to finish at +1.23% on the day then in afterhours it's goes back to where we started the day. My reasoning:
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