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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Except a US NG deal 1) would have been significantly more expensive, 2) would have taken a long time to develop in terms of infrastructure and shit to make it happen, and 3) would never have been seen by Germany as reliable as a physical pipeline.
Nothing has changed -- Germany was and is under Russia's thumb in this respect. When party A has something party B desperately needs, party A has an inordinate amount of leverage.
AND, as PhD pointed out, when party C wants to stop party A from doing some shenanigans, and the only real leverage available is actual combat.....options become quite limited.
Russia has exactly one piece of major leverage in this world: it is the primary supply of natural gas to Europe, which gets cold and needs heat and shit. Their secondary piece is being a big enough military threat that tangling with them is a major engagement. This is their game. The Russians may have only one major piece on the chess board, but they sure as shit know how to play it to their advantage.
There was no need to work out a U.S. LNG deal. The nasty truth about NS2 is that it doesn't bring on board any new sources of gas or additional capacity to Germany. What it does do is bypass Ukraine and Central Europe, which increases Russia's ability to strong-arm and divide Europe. Russia has long had plenty of capacity available to book on those pipelines, but it won't do so-- because artificially creating a gas shortage in Germany helps prod them to press ahead on NS2.
Merkel also prematurely announced the elimination of nuclear without even a pretense of having alternate sources online, aside from NS2.
NS2 is a geopolitical project, not an energy or commercial project. It's not an exaggeration to say that Russia is holding a gun to Europe's head that Germany loaded and handed to them. As to why the Germans would choose to screw over their neighbors for the sake of something that will not really save them any money and that will cause greater energy insecurity through Europe? Well, you might start by combing through the board of directors of the various companies involved in putting this deal together, all the way from Gazprom down . . . .
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1 hour ago, Lobo said:
These are all good points from a rational Big XII fan, particularly the Divorce analogy. Oklahoma and Texas are the parents standing outside the door to the Family Law court arbiter. They're swearing to one another that they're gonna put their petty bullshit aside and do what's best for the children. Meanwhile, the Arbitrator and the Lawyers inside are planning on being a fucking assholes (the Big XII conference itself) and dragging this out to maximize billing revenue. The more mature kids like Iowa State, Kansas, and TCU are gonna be fine. They're gonna re-apply themselves and go on to greater things as a coping mechanism. Meanwhile, the poorly adjusted kids like Texas Tech, K-State, and Baylor are gonna cope with all of this by taking up hobbies like torturing small animals and hitting girls.
But Texas and Oklahoma are staying together. The analogy is breaking down a bit.
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21 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
I have a buddy with dual citizenship that hasn't lived in the US in 30 years. I asked him about this a while back (maybe 15 years ago) and he said if you can show the IRS that you have no physical property in the US, no money in US financial institutions, and earn no income from US companies, you don't have to pay US taxes.
He is mistaken. You are taxed worldwide on your income and you are supposed to file. You get a foreign income exclusion of up to about 105K or so, and you can also claim a foreign income tax credit for any tax you pay to a foreign government and there are some other deductions and credits.
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19 minutes ago, Texas St. Armadillos said:
I always pictured Arlen as Sealy.
My picture was always Temple. One high school town, near a military base, plays Belton in football, close to a lake, big enough for a mall.....
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I am really pissed at the person who posted the link to unlimited.
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On 1/18/2022 at 4:38 AM, tx 3 putt said:
per tiktok reports, no one could leave the rally saturday until trump was out of the house. some people tried leaving early and were stuck in the parking lot 4+ hours lol
This is SOP for any POTUS or ex-POTUS event. Don't go see one on a lark, it is not worth it unless you are a fan boy. It will involve hours of sitting around.
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On 3/24/2021 at 6:50 PM, billfromlaketravis said:
In for the Dale QAnon storylines and Peggy being terrible at Spanish.
Peggy’s Spanish is such a uniquely Texan thing. Bad accent, improper use of words. My roommate in college was constantly messing up with native Spanish speakers while insisting he was fluent. It was hilarious to watch.
I feel like Dale won't be so obvious as to go with QAnon. Dale's defining feature is paranoia and being "smarter" than everyone else-- so he'll be convinced something so widespread as QAnon is some kind of government conspiracy itself. I could see Bill being into QAnon, because he is a sad-sack that looks for inclusion and falls for dumb stuff-- if they touch QAnon.
I also think we can get a romance storyline with Bill. Some young thing targeting his military pension, which he should be close to getting if he decided to keep cutting hair on base.
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I really liked this movie. Matt Damon's medieval mullet was questionable and distracting. There were several accounts of the fight that the move tried to weave together and make more cinematic, but a lot of the stuff mentioned actually happened. It did a good job showing that a duel to the death in full plate would have been prolonged and bloody, coming down to exhaustion and finding a weak point. The scene where Matt Damon grabbed his sword's blade and used it almost like a club is actually how medieval knights learned to fight with a longsword. Modern audiences have a hard time believing not only how effective plate armor was-- but also how mobile a trained knight was.
The battlefield scenes took some more liberties, but it's worth remembering that not all of the combatants would have been in full plate, especially the dudes that are getting ridden down by mounted knights.
I think a lot of the issues with audiences were the complicated and drawn out narrative structure, and the lack of context. Almost none of us know anything about the Hundred Years War, a well-educated American might be able to say "it was between the French and English in the Middle Ages." So trying to piece together the politics and why the fuck sometimes the French were fighting other Frenchmen and why the dude wandered off to Scotland and got in a fight against an unnamed opponent in the middle of the movie is rightfully confusing.
I'd say it is the best big-budget movie out of Hollywood this year.
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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
I'm not even necessarily taking the abusive results into account.
Citizenship simply by being born in the territory is a weird concept. Maybe not if you're trying to populate a country or something, but it's just strange.
In the United States the concept is inextricably tied to the legacy of slavery. It was the only way to realistically extend citizenship to people who had been freed, but to whom Dred Scott expressly denied citizenship when the fourteenth amendment was codified. And birth tourism would have been a befuddling concept unforeseen in the 1860s.
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Cracked had an article outlining some of my endless frustrations in trying to nail down the location of Arlen. However, they left out what in my mind is one of the biggest clues:
1. Arlen is a single high school town. This rules out, even in the 1990s, many of the DFW suburbs (Garland, Arlington, Richardson, etc.) that are usually thrown out by fans theorizing.
2. Tom Landry Middle School plays Belton in football. Anyone who played junior high football knows that the schedule is almost always within the high school district or a subdivision of the high school district . At most, you might play a middle school from the next district over if the districts are geographically compact. It's a safe bet that Arlen is a district rival of Belton at the high school level.
I contend that Arlen is almost certainly located within a rough triangle formed by connecting Llano, Bryan-College Station, and Waco.
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The letters eliminated in the second one really went a long way to getting it right next go-round.
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You can’t taste the trace minerals that come with pink salt. It’s good for being pink and costing more.
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Fun fact about Himalayan pink salt— all of it comes from a massive salt mine in some hills a few hours away from Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan. No snow-capped peaks or glaciers in sight. Very hot, very dusty. It’s also a sea salt— the deposit of an ancient lagoon from eons ago.
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If you’re baking, use regular iodized table salt. That’s almost certainly what the recipe was written with in mind unless it says otherwise.
I like Morton’s kosher for finishing meat because the crystals don’t dissolve as quickly. And yeah…sodium chloride is sodium chloride once it’s melted in a sauce or stew or something like that.
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On 1/11/2022 at 7:39 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:
Raises hand. State Trooper in Port Isabel. First day of the new school year and I didn't see the sign above the road for school zone. Got me doing 35 in a 25 school zone. Thankfully he didn't put that it was a school zone on the ticket.
But the process of actually taking care of the ticket? Holy shit. You'd think in this day and age you could take care of things online. Nope. Phone calls, paper trail, etc. PITA.
Los Fresnos is the most famous stop in the valley. This one actually doesn’t get under my skin that much. Highway 100 runs straight through town, past schools and businesses and intersections. There’s plenty of slowdown time both directions. I don’t mind doing 35 in the middle of downtown.
It’s not some cop sitting out under a tree near a bypass. They get a lot of traffic on the way to the beach and a lot of drunks coming back. Everyone from the valley knows to just slow down when you go through town.
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21 hours ago, JimmyJames said:
Here’s something I don’t get and maybe the more knowledgeable posters on this subject can answer, but if putin really was serious about invading Ukraine, why didn’t he do it when he had his hand picked puppet in the white house? Especially towards the end.
Trump probably would have applauded the move and certainly wouldn’t have actively opposed it. I mean he might have been forced to but the dipshit stood next to putin and trashed America with the whole world watching.
This strikes me as a bluff given the timing of it but I guess we shall see.
There could be something to the idea that Putin wants to test his boundaries with the the new administrations in both the U.s. and Germany.
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Color me shocked that the family is setting up the martyrdom claim already…. “He let everyone go then the FBI killed him.”
Incidentally, the prevailing narrative around Siddiqui in Pakistan is that she also is mentally ill and was framed by the CIA. Just wrong place and wrong time, being married to KSMs nephew, disappearing for years skulking around Afghanistan, you know, like you do.
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37 minutes ago, phdhorn said:
Now this is funny, from his home mosque in England:
Just not sure that's gonna happen...
And talk about back door condemnation, those last sentences LOL, "it's wrong for a Muslim to kill a Jew," and "it's also wrong for a Jew to kill a Muslim..., or a Hindu, a Christian, a Baha'i, a Swede, a Tampa Bay Buccaneer... you know, all the different people those murdererous Jews like to kill!"
Thanks pal, I'll skip over you giving my eulogy at the funeral. With friends like you...
Yeah, I had seen that, gotta make sure to remind everyone that Jews shouldn’t kill people right after a synagogue is taken hostage.
Also reading about mental health issues, you know, the kind where you get on on a plane and hold Jews hostage at gunpoint and ask for an al-Qaeda operative’s release. Those kinds of mental health issues.
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14 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:
that's a P-40 Warhawk.
and the Tuskegee Airemen flew North American P-51 Mustangs.
no Douglas
sat all.P-51 D had the bubble canopy but earlier P51B and C models including some that the Airmen flew weren’t fitted with them. Took some work to make the plexiglass curve without distortion.
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3 hours ago, slorch said:
Who are these non-public figures who have legal representatives speaking for their whereabouts?
Is that not weird to anyone else?
I’d probably retain counsel if my sister was in federal prison and nicknamed “lady al-Qaeda.”
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13 minutes ago, TexArcher said:
Haven't been following this, but it seems that this Rabbi and this synagogue have nothing to do with the terrorist cunt in prison or the terrorist asshole holding these hostages, right? Just a random target?
Nothing to do with either of them but I don’t think I’d call a synagogue random. He picked a Jewish target close to where his sister is locked up.
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21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Sounds like a lovely family.
Sure hope this ends without the loss of innocent life.Holding a synagogue at gunpoint is a go-to move when trying to prove your family member isn’t really an al-Qaeda terrorist.
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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:
Kind of ironic that Pakistani Muslims would blame Jews for their problems. Unlike most Muslim/Middle Eastern/Arab countries, there have been very few Jews in Pakistan for the last century or so.
Also, somewhat surprised that Colleyville has a temple. It's probably a bit more cosmopolitan than most DFW burbs, but . . . .
I lived in Pakistan and the antisemitism is near universal. It turns out that it’s a lot easier to get mad about settlements in the West Bank or whatever than grapple with the fact that 70 years of progressively more Islamist governments and society keep failing downward.
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Man, fuck Aafia Siddiqui. She’s a real cause celebre in Pakistan where even the government is constantly asking us to give this murderous terrorist back to them. I’d really hope for the cops to get kinetic except for the fact that there are innocent people there.
Extremely fucking on brand for her bro to go to a synagogue. Here’s the letter his sister wrote Obama while she was on trial.
Quote"Study the history of the Jews. They have always back-stabbed everyone who has taken pity on them and made the 'fatal' error of giving them shelter.... and it is this cruel, ungrateful back-stabbing of the Jews that has caused them to be mercilessly expelled from wherever they gain strength. This why 'holocausts' keep happening to them repeatedly! If they would only learn to be grateful and change their behavior!!
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(kinda hot) female Governor of Baja California gives birth...in Brawley CA
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He’s probably OK and the worst that would likely happen to him is a bunch of late filing penalties if Uncle Sam got angry at him anyway. Plenty of times people don’t even know they are dual cits. But if you ever think you might want to spend time here it’s worth it to file.