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  1. Great to read @Shady Ray’s take on this. Very insightful. Danke my man. 

    I’ve seen some other folk who post on the Surl who may have a federal government relations role in their work. 
    Would be intrigued to read their lenses, especially you orangebloods in DC or other expats. 
    We got our own Surly Geopolitical Chatterati going on. 
     

  2. 36 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    I don't revel in the prospect...but I wanna see how our Apache's do against Russian T-whatevers.  The tank-killing helicopter has never really been proven.

    I think you may be referring to the Mi-28NM. I believe they call it the “Night Hunter." We call it “Havoc.”
    I may be wrong though. 

  3. 3 hours ago, royiv said:

    Went this afternoon for a late lunch. I had the wagyu burger and it was very solid. I'm not sure I've had enough burgers in Houston to say it's the best burger in the city, but it was very, very solid. I also really like the sidewinder fries. They're different than any fry I've ever had and I really liked them. 

    With that said, I'm not sure I understand what Chris Shepherd's business plan is at this point unless it's to leverage himself to the gills and completely abandon the neighborhood that made him successful in the first place. And I say this as a big fan of his. 

    Eaten at all of Chris Shepherd’s spots, so went to the Farmer’s Market to buy some Yerba Buena, manzanilla, other herbs and some groceries… and try his new spot. 

    The burger is legit. But the chicken sandwich slammed and went hard. That fucker was tasty af. I thought it outshone the burger.

    Was too cold to get a shake, but those looked good. Yeah a different fry, but it was good. 

    Not the best burger in town, IMHO. Off the top of my head Lankford’s and Biggio’s are better. I’m sure I’m missing a few others. 

    The irony of most the gringos not shopping at the gente’s stands for fresh food at great prices, but waiting in a long line for a $20 burger and fries. 

    Gente did want a lot of coin for the molcajetes and other kitchen stuff. I mean I know CPI is at 7%, but help a brotha out a little bit.
    The market needs someone cooking on a disco or a flat iron with all those great ingredients and selling tacos or something.  I am sure that has to do with getting a permit for specifically that. 
    Some people call it the Farmer’s Market, but it’s just the pulga to me. 
    Cancha a Cocina

  4. 30 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    Not a lawyer here. 

    Back when I was with an S&L, we had 3 in house attorneys.  The department head was a very nice woman that, I believe, had been a victim of downsizing at her firm.  Another, "Dave", was a BK guy, fairly competent.  He hated his life.  I wanted to be lawyer, and he wanted to run my construction loan department, and after my bank went under, he left the law and became a loan workout guy.  The 3rd was a smokeshow hot little MILF.  I think she left big law because she wanted to have kids.  Her husband stayed at big law (if anything in San Diego is "big law).  Many years later, she's back at the same firm as her husband. 

     

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  5. Is anyone entitled to a “spot” (as it’s being called on here) at UT? 
    Going to LASA (or anywhere else) and doing well there should entitle you to spot at UT? 
    Entitlement is a helluva of drug.
    Also a helluva mindset.

    And definitely a helluva way to go through life. 

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  6. 10 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    The beard tax was to fund his navy I think, and the clergy hated his ass for it.  Yeah there was a really brief capitalist vibe for a couple years there, you good buy all kinds of western, capitalist, consumer goods, then it got clamped shut.

    I could be wrong, my Muscovite, but I thought it was an attempt by Pedro I to “westernize” Russia. 
     

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  7. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    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. 

    So in the end, it’s all pink. 
    Amirite?

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  8. 3 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

    ya'll do know that salt is pretty much made the same way?

    About a decade ago, I was sitting next to a muckety-muck of Bolner’s Fiesta.

    We start talking spices the whole flight. Very interdasting convo. About halfway in, salt comes up.

    He says salt is salt. It’s all the same. Doesn’t matter where it comes from or who “makes it.”

    He then jumps into pepper… changed my whole outlook on pepper. Pepper there’s a BIG difference. 
    Toward the end of the flight, dude asks for my address and sends me a big ass box of what had to be every spice they make. 
    /csb

    Don't care, had free spices (which is almost better than sex. Almost.)
     

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  9. 10. Dick LeBeau

    9. Aeneas Williams 
    8.  Willie Brown
    7.  Darrell Green

    6.  Dick Night Train Lane

    5. Charles Woodson 
    4. Mike Haynes

    3. Mel Blount 

    2. Ron Woodson 

    1. Deion Sanders

  10. Agree with @956 Worldwide
    I could see that after the cap was lifted (greed) and Tokayev replaced the Nazarbayev folk with his own:

    1. Attempt to pacify the common folk as a look I’m cleaning out corruption.

    2. More funds for he and his folk. 
     

    #1 didn’t do what it supposed to. #2 escalates it even more as Nazarbayev’s folk fight back after being kicked out of their no-show no-work jobs. Current corrupt government fighting with former corrupt government who put them in power. 

    Full blown chaos. Tokayev fighting a two-front unrest. He only has one solution. Capitulate or call his daddy Putin.

    Putin sends in the paratroopers to gain control of the situation.

    Situation is fluid. 

     

  11. 4 hours ago, Shady Ray said:

    This guy fucks...er, fussballs.

     

    I, good sir, am also in.

    Sounds like we need an international traveling Surly cabal that raises hell, drinks like fish and eats like the gluttons we are. 
    In short, brings the Texas vibe to an international port near you. 

    If this happens, lamentations will be heard my good men. 

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  12. 19 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Neither us nor Russia had any confidence in the Ukrainian and Kazakh leadership and the time.  Both countries were so corrupt that we had very real concerns that their nuclear weapons would end up on the international arms market and going to the highest bidder (as definitely happened with conventional weapons, see generally Lord of War for an entertaining recap of that).  And neither Russia nor us knew who those weapons might be used against--Russia may have even been the more fearful given their Chechen situation at the time.

    So Russia and the United States entered into the Budapest Memorandum, whereby we each agreed to guarantee Ukraine's and Kazakhstan's sovereignty and territorial integrity.  And in exchange, those countries gave up their nuclear weapons.

    And that issue really lurks in the background of the Ukraine dispute.  We guaranteed Ukraine's territorial integrity, and compare that with the joint British/French/Prussian guarantee of Belgian territorial integrity that caused Britain to enter World War I.  

    But beyond prosaic questions of national honor and keeping our word, there's the real practical issue--after Ukraine and Qaddafi, how are we ever going to persuade another country not to pursue and obtain nuclear weapons?

     

    But they are a real player in the world.  I just think their plays are really underestimated/underappreciated by Americans.  

    Turkey holds the key to Europe's fear of being inundated with Syrian refugees.  They can squeeze that balloon and at the same time point it at Europe.

    Turkey holds the key to a ton of Russian trade, both maritime and through their pipelines.  And Turkey's interpretation of the Montreux Convention can always cause difficulties for the Russians.

    And in the Middle East, the Turks know how to squeeze all of the pressure points.  And they do so frequently, with very little notice in the American media.

    They're a big deal.  And if they want to start throwing their weight around--as in Azerbaijan--shit can get real interesting.

    Agree to all of that my friend. That’s why the cowboys analogy. Yes, the boys will always make money because of brand (Turkey and their geography, and their geopolitical influences ) and they may even make the playoffs here and there. 
    But them being a super power a la their days of the Ottoman Empire (super bowl appearance) won’t happen until some things change. 
    A Turkish government that was a real republic and/or a democracy could wield a much stronger influence over the world. 
    But alas Turkey gonna Turkey as cowboys gonna cowboy. 

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  13. Turkey’s geographical location is prime real estate. With the right government and leadership they could be a real player in the world.

    And have been historically. 
    They are the Cowboy fans of the world. They talk about and want to bring back the glory days when they were on top (Ottoman Empire/1990s). 
    But alas their leadership is so janky the Super Bowl appearances allude them oh so easily. 
    On another note, Turkish Kurdish women>>>DCCs. Yeah I said it. 

  14. Maria Zakharova is toting the company line. Other countries, such as Serbia and Belorussia are stating foreign intelligence  interference is the cause. Sleeper cell coordination and whatnot. 

    да Мария…ты обворожительная снежная королева.

  15. I was thinking aTurkey might be in the mix as well, but Tokayev has already thanked Erdogan for his support this morning, along with the Uzbek, Chinese presidents.

    Erdogan loves him some nationalism and wants to get the band back together again a la Ertugrul (good series BTW, especially season 1). Not too sure he has eyes set on a prize this big. But anything is possible in Central Asia. 

    Like some have said, us figuring out what has happened may take a while, if we figure it out at all.

    My dos centavos is good ole fashioned greed. They lifted the cap to give more money to themselves and their cronies. The regular Joe got pissed. Tokayev conveniently replaces the remaining Nursultan folk with his own to show the folk he’s ridding the corruption. Two birds one stone, more moolah for himself.

    Yeah I know he was handpicked by Nulsultan. Don’t ever underestimate the other guy’s greed. Do you know what a chazer is Frank?
    Tokayev makes a deal with Putin to cut him in on the action, but now Vlad’s the heavy and will be at his beck and call. Putin doesn’t help folk for free and I’m not referring to being a good neighbor. Money, resources, et al agreements were made. 
     

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  16. What’s the impact on Bitcoin and uranium with this unrest? 
    You think LPG is wild for vehicles, people were using kerosene in their houses before Thomas Edison did his thing. Imagine keeping your house lit with that bad boy oil. 
    Edison single-handedly put the petro industry into a pickle until Henry Ford came along. 
    Intrigued how China will react to this, if at all. KZ is mostly Muslim and they fo sho don’t want them Peking in via emigration. 
    Iran just gonna watch and let this happen without salivating over those oil and gas opportunities? Get rial. 

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