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  1. That one is real, BottleRocket. Here are a couple of my Texas notes: The first is from the Republic of Texas era. It is not that obvious from the image, but the note has been sliced almost to ribbons. That is the cancellation from when this was finally paid off in $5 in real money. The Republic did everything that they could to default on their currency, but when it came time to be admitted to the USA, the obligations had to be met, as they were then sort-of US obligations, and the USA did actually pay their bills, and so a bail-out was arranged, and the note holders were eventually paid in full. (Most of the original holders had given up and sold their notes to speculators for pennies on the dollar, and it was the speculators who got paid in full, that is how things go.) This one is from the pre-Republic days, from the 1830s I think, for a private bank that hoped to open, under a Mexican charter. (Notice that this is denominated as 1 dollar and 1 peso.) This bank never actually opened (notice there are no signatures), but some of the blank printed notes did survive.
  2. Congrats, H.E.! I missed this thread until today. I have read Texas Highways for decades, so when I just noticed this I picked up one issue that I had handy and found the awesome snowman on the back page. That is an honor to get to be part of that regularly.
  3. I like the big hunks of silver. Nice and hefty. Mopar: Sorry, but that note is not real, it is a reproduction. The brown 'parchment' paper is a giveaway, there are lots of reproductions of different notes on that kind of paper. The signatures ought to be pen signed as well, and yours are printed. There is a real note that looks like that though.
  4. It looks like an old-school stealth aircraft. Do they claim that it is hard to pick up on police radar?
  5. I see it as a chance to get another win at College Station, which would be entirely delicious. Even though they should be the better team, maybe we can get it together.
  6. Well, the main Japanese fleet DID show up, and got to engage Taffy 3 cuz Halsey had run off on a wild goose chase. So there is that...
  7. I enjoyed the Selous reserve. The Selous river runs through there, and you get to take a boat along the river, and get a different view of the wildlife. I especially wanted to see crocodiles, and I was not there at the right time for the Serengeti, and the Selous did not disappoint. Also lots of hippos, giraffes, very colorful bee eater birds there. I flew in on a 12-seat or so plane to a tiny dirt airstrip, and was then picked up in a small boat for the ride to the lodge. I thought it was a really cool way to arrive.
  8. I was amused by the down and distance displays on the scoreboard. They had those messed up every way possible. Wrong down, wrong distance, wrong field position. They showed 2nd and 64 to go from the 40 once. I was less amused when they had different timeout counts on different scoreboards at the end of the game. Could some idiot have thought we still had a timeout left from some bad scoreboard display???
  9. Yep. And I remember 538 making the very clear point, that even though Hillary seemed to have the edge, it was close enough to go either way. The election day results were a bitter disappointment but not a shock.
  10. Comment from the twitter feed from a supposed witness to this: From what I saw the driver entered the intersection a little late and the ped was crossing prematurely. I heard the ped yell something, driver later claimed the ped hit his car. The driver aggressively reversed and pulled over to confront the ped, which is why his car is on the sidewalk like that. Got out and maybe jumped in the air and kicked the ped. They went to the ground, by the time I pulled over and got off my motorcycle the fight was over and the ped picked up the scooter and threw it through the window and ran off I think I am putting most of the blame for this on the got-damned scooters...
  11. My experience is that Android Auto is a complete pile of garbage, to the extent that I needed to uninstall it from my phone. The main thing that I wanted, was to be able to use Google Maps and show the map on my car console. Sometimes this worked ok, and this was really nice. But other times, there was some kind of glitch that caused Google Maps to crash and reset over and over and over to the point that it was worse than completely useless. I never understood why it worked ok sometimes and not other times. So I quit using Android Auto, and then I had to uninstall it to get Google Maps back to giving me voice directions. Besides that, I did not like how it handled incoming calls and texts, I thought it was hazardous. When I get a phone call in the car, I normally want to ignore it completely, other than to notice that I may want to check who called. I can do that fine with the phone in my pocket. AA made the incoming call a lot more intrusive and hard to ignore. AA also made it impossible to read incoming texts. I definitely do not want to send any texts while driving, but I can sometimes spare a couple of seconds to read one. AA made it impossible to read the texts. I think I tried for a while using the car console touchscreen to find the text messages, but AA is so slow and balky that this was slow and distracting. I definitely thought it was much safer to drive without Android Auto than with it.
  12. Yeah, any optimism is 100.00000000000000000% misplaced. I see that CNN mentions that Mitch has a new Facebook ad where he is fundraising from the position that he can stop the impeachment. Absolutely nothing, meaning **NOTHING** will happen in the Senate. Trump will get away with ALL of this absolutely completely. Sorry.
  13. A more meaningful map of the 2016 election...
  14. Yes, no matter what the investigation comes up with, the Senate will do nothing and there will be no impeachment trial. The end.
  15. Except they have a current winning streak at DKR, which we need to correct. (We beat them the last time we played, of course, but that was in CS. They won the last game at DKR.)
  16. Yeah, the guy being robbed would have been complaining about how much it sucks to have been robbed at gunpoint. That sucks. Now he doesn't have to complain about anything!!!
  17. I don't see any point in doxxing the spy either, but I would be very very surprised if the Russians were not 100% aware of who this was. Somebody that close to Putin, who 'disappears', along with his family, would have been noticed, and the Russians would become aware that he was a spy if they did not already have a hunch.
  18. The sun is the main problem, so with a 6:30 kickoff it will be just fine this Saturday, at least once in the stands (and hopefully shade). I guess the formal temperature will be about as high as ever, but it won't be 1/10th as bad as lots of early season 11am, 2:30pm kickoffs, most of the opponents I cannot remember except Rout 66. LSU will be cool and comfy compared to those. We should never play anything but night games until at least halfway into the season. Getting into the gate is going to suck this weekend though, it was hot, not shaded, crowded, and slow, and all those will be worse next Saturday.
  19. That map (besides the sharpie addition) does look out of date. If this is from today, then DJT also showed a completely out date map for the storm.
  20. That is one of his sure-fire tells that he is lying, when he mentions somebody calling him 'sir'.
  21. This seems likely. Somebody is making uh, 'off-label', THC vape cartridges, and some bad contaminants get in, possibly bad solvents.
  22. Yes, as much as Trump deserves removal from office, as long as the Senate has its current composition, there is absolutely no point in impeachment. And to any extent it could be painted as politically motivated, it would be counter-productive. Mitch out front of Moscow should have told you.
  23. Awesome hrmaddie, nice way to get a 14er summit. Good that you did not let the Golden Stairs stop you!
  24. I think that is the guy who first started it, but it is now run by somebody else, and the guy in the photo a) has nothing to do with 8chan anymore, and b) has publicly called for it to be shut down.
  25. And if that is not quite hard-core enough, you can continue from Whitney Portal and hike up to the highest point in the lower 48 states, all in one go. That part won't be so hot.
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