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UpperWestside

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  1. Can someone tell Kendrick that there is no one who cares that he is from Beaumont. He is not a tough guy and was a spare as a player for most of his career. Seeing him talk tough would be like seeing Chris Bosh act like he has some hood cred because he was able to drive from the Hutch area to go to school in South Dallas at Lincoln.
  2. All of that is now history. In times of necessity you find out who actually cares. In this new fun era of the US being governed by nutjob grifters and outright traitors someone has to step up and try. For now at least that someone is France and I'm alright with them putting forth the effort.
  3. France being the big balls character in the story is quite the turn. More of them kicking dirt publicly on the orange god king please.
  4. Thanks for taking the time to respond with a detailed post like that. I appreciate responses like this. I kept my observations narrowly-focused because the USAID to where I will eventually live is sorely needed. Australia does what they can, but we cannot expect them to be able to keep the entire South Pacific afloat so to speak. We owe those nations far more than we give and if we don’t step up we will lose them for at least a generation or more. This whole thing just sucks watching America descend into chaos and authoritarianism with half the voters cheering it on.
  5. It has not only consequences in terms of deaths that are being caused by stopping USAID, but it also gives China a new way to make inroads in areas we should care far more about. I care about the nations in the South Pacific. China cares about them insomuch as they gain sway over their politics and allegiances. What we are doing right now is killing trust with those countries, three of which have a free association agreement with us. If I were them I would not trust the US to abide by what those agreements mean. I would not trust the US no matter what they say were I in their shoes.
  6. I use Regal here. I had AMC for years, but when I moved my choices for still having a movie pass were just down to Regal. The one I go to is maybe a 10 minute walk and I pay 26 a month to watch as many movies as I want to. The ones that cost are the 4DX, but since I usually go at night there are always empty seats. I went to see an action film in Mandarin in 4DX by just going right in. It was actually pretty cool and engaging. The soft drinks are disgusting though at Regal. AMC never, ever had anything that tastes as bad as the Diet Pepsi does from their fountain. I like that you can mix your own drinks with those machines. I just bring my own drink instead now to this Regal. I thought maybe the first time it was just not great that night, but no not the case. I'd buy a drink from them if they had something that didn't taste so horrid.
  7. Why not a mix of both?
  8. In two weeks.
  9. My post can be merged here if you want. I just didn't see this thread already started. It was a really fun movie.
  10. It was just, well, it made zero sense and for the exact reasons you mentioned. I know there was one poster here that supported it, but outside of that I believe it was roundly derided here and in the media for the most part. Beal played 53 games last year and is on pace to possibly get to 60 this year. Respectable game totals for him, but you don't trade for Beal knowing you already have two guys that can do what he does better. Since Ishbia takes advice from Isiah Thomas, I wonder how much his voice influenced that trade. Doesn't matter now I guess as the trade went about like you thought it might. I would guess Dan Gilbert is probably the person enjoying seeing Phoenix be mediocre the most.
  11. Zion put up 37 tonight, but man this guy just cannot rebound for his size. Luka, supposedly overweight and out of shape, puts up 30/15/8 and he doubles up Willliamson in rebounds. How can you be 6’6” 280 and you get four rebounds? You almost have to intentionally not try at that size to be that bad at rebounding. This guy’s entire six years have been an exercise in wasted time for New Orleans.
  12. Yeah what’s left probably did and others surely would have, especially with the internet screwing with the elderly’s ability to figure out what is actual news and what is propaganda. I would highly suspect the guys in their younger days would not have been so kind in seeing their country destroyed by a draft-dodging buffoon when they all either were drafted or volunteered to go fight for America.
  13. And Luka gets the assist on the triple from James. Fun bit of history to be part of.
  14. I’m reading a book about PT boats at Guadalcanal instead of watching. That’s a place where actual heroes died defending our country to their last full measure. So glad most of that generation are now gone so they don’t have to witness what we have become.
  15. So the East River then. I’m good with that.
  16. Once we come out of this years from now and get a government that has to wipe away the stain of these traitors it’s highly likely he gets re-buried at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  17. LeBron is one point away from 50k combined regular season and playoffs. Let it be a lob from Luka on the opening possession tonight.
  18. No. I am attempting to speed up the process and be out of the US by the end of next summer. I do not want to return no matter what transpires.
  19. I had no idea what to expect from this movie because it was the Monday night movie at Regal where they release a movie early, but don’t tell you which one ahead of time. This was good, REALLY GOOD. Jack Quaid is the star and he has a rare medical syndrome where he can’t feel pain. The plot had fun twists on a normal action/comedy. The bar scene near the beginning was great. One of the deaths made me cringe yet laugh out loud at the same time because of the brutality of it. I’d recommend watching this. It is quick and to the point with the story and is a cool movie to watch in under two hours. I’m definitely going to see this again.
  20. My best friend that's the Mavs fan actually mentioned this yesterday afternoon when we were talking. I told him I hope they don't borrow the part from the first movie and wind up with a cutout of Miriam Adelson or Dumont.
  21. He and Patrick Dumont need to get together at some point. Good Lord he looks like a Minecraft character with this square build.
  22. It’s a rarity to put two of the smartest guys in the league on one team, but then also have each of them be among the best 5 or so players in the league. This stuff doesn’t happen often. It was fun watching Jordan and Pippen, but more of that came from how they could annihilate backcourts on defense almost at will. Magic and Cap for me is still my favorite combo, but I am biased on that.
  23. I remember one poster here saying they were good when Beal joined them. Good times, good times. I don’t know how to say it other than anytime Devin Booker is supposed to be your leader, well, you’re screwed. Chris Paul carried him to the finals and I say that as someone that does not like CP3.
  24. It’s cool that you’re doing this! You’ll hit your number well ahead of time because the more you can do in one set will push you to keep doing more. I think you’ll at the very least double your goal for the year and probably go well past that. I can recall the summer after my first year of college (1999) coming back home and deciding I was going to Herschel Walker my way into doing a bunch of pushups to keep in shape. I was headed to a small school to play some foosball in the fall so I was doing sprints (Not exactly Xavier Worthy here, but I was running as fast as a middling athlete could go) as well in the blazing Texas heat. Anyhow I wound up doing between 1500-2k a day that summer. I would do them on commercial breaks and tried to keep the sets to 50 reps. I think the best memory out of the whole thing was being up late watching reruns of Are You Being Served? Look forward to seeing the updates throughout the year and your progress. Good on you for putting forth the effort on this!
  25. Just remind yourself that once they go down far enough and the outcry is at a fever pitch you’ll get the “Trump alone can fix it” line. As you well know, fascists out front shoulda told ya.
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