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  1. On 2/26/2021 at 11:27 PM, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Highland Village, all of it, was built by some Middle Eastern arms dealer who may or may not have been murked by the Mossad. Nobody knows. 

    There's some other dude in River Oaks who absconded from Iran with billions in gold and treasure from the Shah's treasury and became a pillar of the community in Houston. Just the tip of the iceberg.  

    The Highland Village guy was an Arab that also owned the restaurant Up. He was a raging anti-Semite and I wouldn’t surprise Mossad capped him. The Iranian is Hushang Ansary. There was a rather unflattering article about him recently in the Miami Herald.

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  2. On 2/26/2021 at 7:51 PM, Helobious said:

    Used to go to Mexico to see relatives in Monterrey or Nuevo Laredo at least once a year as a kid. Been going way less often since 06 when the war popped off, was last was there over a year ago. I usually don’t feel too unsafe. Only travel during the day, keep a low profile, don’t travel with only males in the car, drive a shitty car, and make sure your insurance card doesn’t have any nice cars listed on it either (they’ll check). Do all that you’ll generally be fine. 

    There is so much more money to be made in Mexico if the cartel situation was calm and relatively safe like it was in the late 90s. Decoupling manufacturing from China and bringing it to Mexico has the support of everyone in the US. Much rather have our neighbor benefit than the Chicoms. The existing maquiladoras in NLD are on life support because of the lack of security. You have Rheem making water heaters but not much else. I don’t get how the government, military and the cartels themselves have not brought shit under control. This shit has been going on since the early 2000s for Christ’s sake. Medellin used to be the world’s murder capital, now it’s safe and getting lots of Euro and American tourists.

    The cartels should be classified as enemy combatants in rebellion against the federal government and should be shot on sight of it was to me. Mexico needs a real life version of Col. Carrillo from Narcos. Someone who loves their country, is incorruptible and will do whatever it takes. It’s ridiculous that when I’m in Laredo or the RGV that I never go to Mexico because it’s so dangerous. Wasn’t like that when I was in school. Miss getting a meal at a restaurant like El Rincon del Viejo with their incredible cabrito and going to different bars. The cartels are missing out on making money off of us gringos.

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  3. 20 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Yeah and so these countries create desperate situations for most of their citizens, and many of them end up fleeing here to avoid starvation or death squads.

    Eventually, back in their home countries, often as not you get a revolution, and then we get all the people who caused that state to fail moving here, becoming citizens, and then voting for candidates who promise to make America more like pre-Castro Cuba or the Shah's Iran. 

    You should have seen Iran in the 70s. Pretty girls in go go boots and short dresses. 70 rials = $1 unlike 230,000 to $1 currently. Lots of Americans, cheap domestic labor and good places to drink. It was pretty close to being heaven until it went to shit.  

  4. Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    That is an OPED piece by the WSJ.  Always take their OPED pieces with a grain of salt. 

    Most of us who are all in on green energy have been saying THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME you need (1) baseload capacity, preferably in the form of nuclear and (2) we need storage capacity to go hand in hand with green energy because of the intermittancy of green energy.  Cannot control mother nature.

    Glad to see you support nuclear as part of your commitment to green energy. To Bill Gates’ credit, he also supports nuclear energy and mentions it in his new book. Also has invested in bringing cleaner reactors online.

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  5. While millions of Texans remain without power for a third day, the wind industry and its advocates are spinning a fable that gas, coal and nuclear plants—not their frozen turbines—are to blame. PolitiFact proclaims “Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage.” Climate-change conformity is hard for the media to resist, but we don’t mind. So here are the facts to cut through the spin. 

    Some readers have questioned our reporting Wednesday ("The Political Making of a Texas Power Outage") that wind’s share of electricity generation in Texas plunged to 8% from 42%. How can that be, they wonder, when the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) has reported that it counts on wind to meet only 10% of its winter capacity.

    Ercot’s disclosure is slippery. Start with the term “capacity,” which means potential maximum output. This is different than actual power generation. Texas has a total winter capacity of about 83,000 megawatts (MW) including all power sources. Total power demand and generation, however, at their peak are usually only around 57,000 MW. Regulators build slack into the system.

    Texas has about 30,000 MW of wind capacity, but winds aren’t constant or predictable. Winds this past month have generated between about 600 and 22,500 MW. Regulators don’t count on wind to provide much more than 10% or so of the grid’s total capacity since they can’t command turbines to increase power like they can coal and gas plants.

    Wind turbines at times this month have generated more than half of the Texas power generation, though this is only about a quarter of the system’s power capacity. Last week wind generation plunged as demand surged. Fossil-fuel generation increased and covered the supply gap. Thus between the mornings of Feb. 7 and Feb. 11, wind as a share of the state’s electricity fell to 8% from 42%, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

    Gas-fired plants produced 43,800 MW of power Sunday night and coal plants chipped in 10,800 MW—about two to three times what they usually generate at their peak on any given winter day—after wind power had largely vanished. In other words, gas and coal plants held up in the frosty conditions far better than wind turbines did.

    Gas generation fell by about one-third between late Sunday night and Tuesday, but even then was running two to three times higher than usual before the Arctic blast. Gas power nearly made up for the shortfall in wind, though it wasn’t enough to cover surging demand.

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    Between 12 a.m. on Feb. 8 and Feb. 16, wind power plunged 93% while coal increased 47% and gas 450%, according to the EIA. Yet the renewable industry and its media mouthpieces are tarring gas, coal and nuclear because they didn’t operate at 100% of their expected potential during the Arctic blast even though wind turbines failed nearly 100%.

    The policy point here is that an electricity grid that depends increasingly on subsidized but unreliable wind and solar needs baseload power to weather surges in demand. Natural gas is crucial but it also isn’t as reliable as nuclear and coal power.

  6. 9 minutes ago, jw4381 said:

    That's horseshit. They even call it "Texas Orange" now. I got a hoodie from my mother in law for Christmas, and it is totally the other UT color. Pisses me off to no end. Fuck whoever changed it with a 10 foot pole.

    UT gear has taken a nosedive since Steve Patterson got involved. Not having 47 brand as a maker of UT gear blows. Can’t get a nice, fitted cap like they make anymore.

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  7. 2 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    No hard questions from the media, lots of softballs.

    Nick Caserio:

    “It’s a great day to be a Texan!”

    “We are committed to Deshaun Watson!”

    “All you can do is be the best version of yourself every day! There’s a lot of worse things going on this world” Easterby/Olsteen speak

    “The Texans have a great reputation around the league and people encouraged me to take this job  we have a lot of great people working in this building.”

    David Culley:

    Mentions blessings and praying over opportunity to be a HC of team, had several meetings with Cal and Janice McNair

    Told story about his nickname being “Doublecross”, I guess thinking it would be endearing. He apparently signed with MTSU in high school with intention to flip to Vandy and Bill Parcells on signing day.

    Referred to Cal McNair a couple times as “Kyle”. Kind of a Charlie Strong-Kurt Bohls moment. 

    Plans to end his career as an assistant high school coach. 

    The Texans didn’t allow a single follow up question from the media. The OG and Landry Locker were ripping them to shreds after it was over. The question from Michelle, the season ticket holder pissed me off to no end. The Texans are an arrogant, out of touch organization not committed to winning. Fuck them. My focus is on Sark and Horns football going all gas no brakes. Need to switch over to listening to 104.9 the Horn on their app to get Longhorns talk.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    Is @iconoclast texan still around? He can complain about his AJ McCarron custom jersey while I bitch about undervalued trades. 

    I think he must self-immolated himself after his boy, Tom the Turtle, got axed and this Texans business. That or he OD’d

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  9. The coach’s press conference right now was an absolute joke. Texans didn’t allow very many questions. There was a softball about him being recruited as a player in the fucking 70s, a question from the season ticket holder, etc. This team is a joke and an embarrassment to Houston. I’d rather not have an NFL team than this crap. Oh, David Culley sounded like a Lakewood, evangelical fraud like the lot of them.

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  10. Just now, ztejas said:

    I think my current decision matrix is:

    A - Stick it out

    B - Follow Deshaun

    C - Embrace the Cowboys 

    Probably leaning B right now but can't say I'm thrilled with the prospect of any option.

    Option D - get Sunday Ticket and watch Red Zone and the other good games. Each season I pick a team or 2 to follow and root for - Tampa Bay and Cleveland were those teams this year. Have always like the Saints because of the proximity to Htown and because New Orleans is one of my favorite cities. They were a garbage franchise for almost 30+ years since they were founded. They are the beacon of hope that the Texans one day will not be an embarrassment. Being in New Orleans when they won the Super Bowl was cool as hell. Made me daydream how it would be like if we still had the Oilers and they won it all.

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  11. 7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I live in Denver now.  So unless I'm going to be a frontrunner for another team I have no connection to, my 2 options are the hometown suck ass team (Texans) or the current town I live suck ass team (Broncos) 

    Broncos have been a winner. Adopt them as your own. Being a Houston fan is a beating. 

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  12. 47 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Ah yes Prosperity Christians. I think people should keep an eye on JJ Watt’s Twitter today. Jmo. Should be interesting to see what happens with Watt. 

    Prosperity Gospel Christians are heretics who would have deserved to have burned at the stake during the Middle Ages for their perverted reading of the New Testament.

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  13. 4 minutes ago, tx ind said:

    790 this AM said he's interviewed in 13 places and no offers, so I wouldn't blame the Texans there.  I will blame them for their general ineptitude and whole Watson debacle.  They have little leverage at this point as it is out there that he wants to be traded so they're in a much weaker negotiating position.

     

    PS Fuck Bud Adams (and Cal).

     

    PPS

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    The OG John Lopez called the Texans just now Lakewood West. LOL

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  14. 3 minutes ago, Tylerocks said:

    I mean, if this isn't the biggest dumpster fire in Pro sports, I don't know what is.

    Has a team ever just torn it down completely?  Without Watson to protect, what good is having Tunsil? 

    I assume Watt is on his way somewhere out of respect?

    Trade anybody you think you can get something for.

    What does the 2022 draft look like?

     

     

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