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Posts posted by Ghost of LL
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On 2/12/2019 at 7:27 PM, Borachio said:
I will be in Madrid, Spain for a few days in April. Any must sees?
Most importantly, is there a restaurant or two I should not miss?
I have a reservation at Botin Restaurant one evening and I want to eat at one of the Michelin star places as I have never been to one anywhere. I am thinking La Terraza del Casino as I am a fan of Ferran Adria and I read he is a consultant here.
Skip Botin. I mean, seriously--skip it. If you have to do it for the history or whatever, go for lunch. Or just take a look from the outside. But it is intensely forgettable.
We went to La Castela (http://restaurantelacastela.com/) the first night, and it may have been our best meal in Spain. We really should have gone back the second night instead of Botin. The service was fantastic, and the food was really, really good.
At least for lunch one day you're going to want to hit up Mercado San Miguel, just across the street from the Plaza San Miguel. You can just roll around hitting up all the food stalls for snacks. Another day, you can just get a ham sandwich and a beer at one of the innumerable Museo de Jamon around town. A very few euros sets you up with a damned fine meal.
For dinner another night, you're going to just want to go bouncing from one place to the next down Cava Baja and hitting all the tapas. Maybe finish with dinner at Posada della Villa at the bottom of that street.
Damn--now I want to go back.
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1 hour ago, futureman said:
I bet you selfish fucks didn’t properly drain and clean your boats a couple years ago when all this was taking hold. and now you show up and bitch about the utility company. this has nothing to do with austin utilities and everything to do with lazy, entitled boaters.
I'm far too poor to have a boat.
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On 2/12/2019 at 10:13 AM, Gladeite said:
I thought I heard on the podcast "How I Built This" that Herb started it?
Rollin King was the original entrepreneur behind the airline. Herb was his lawyer. Together, they get credit for co-founding the airline. Rollin worked the business end and raised the capital, and Herb did the legal work (which was substantial in a regulated industry).
The cocktail napkin is a myth. The idea was Rollin's. But the idea changed so much between 1967, when the company was initially incorporated, and 1971 when it took its first flight, that it bore little resemblance to the notion Rollin originally had (e.g., the original plan was to fly Lockheed Electras). It's completely fair to say that they were co-founders.
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That was a dominant second half after a pretty lacklustre first. Really great adjustments by Ponch and company.
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Got you--that's been on the drawing board for awhile, hasn't it?
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11 hours ago, Lobo said:
Demolition coming to 8th & congress. Hyatt Centric should break ground within Q2.
What? Which corner?
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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Amy McGrath going to take on the turtle?!?
She won't win. But she'll force the GOP to spend money defending its fucking leader.
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26 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Wendy fucking Davis? Wendy motherfucking Davis? You've got to be fucking kidding me.
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7 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Anti-Semitism in the West has always been populist and nationalistic. I have no idea what shift you think has happened "over the past five years" or why you chose that specific number. I'd be fascinated to hear your rationale.
The reality is that anti-Semitism is primarily about nationalism. There are populist elements, but that's not the important part of the mindset.
Literal "both sides" bullshit, but I'd love for you to give me an example of a liberal/left anti-Semitic hate group.
Fuck your "both sides" nonsense. We're talking about your side. A Democratic Congresswoman just said something quite anti-Semitic, and you signed on to it.
Yeah, there are right-wing Nazis out there. Congratulations. How does that forgive your anti-Semitic comments?
You're right that almost all organizations that feature anti-Semitism as an organizing principle are on the right wing. But more than being right-wing, they're in that realm of nationalistic/populistic. And there are plenty of people like yourself who freely express anti-Semitic sentiments who aren't organized in any way.
Politics, like time, is a flat circle. What appears to be on the wings is really just the center if you turn the circle 90*. And the wings come back together 180* from the center. That's where organized anti-Semitism lives in America--180* from the center, in that place where the left and right come together into something that is not recognizable to either.
That flat circle has shifted. It hasn't even rotated--it got torn apart and put together again. Why? Oh, I cant imagine. Ten years ago we had an economic meltdown. We're just now coming to grips with the results of that. So yeah--shit's gone down over the past five years that has realigned the parties.
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2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:
Neither Ilhan Omar nor Jeremy Corbyn are anti-Semitic. There is no evidence of it, and it doesn't even make any sense. But on the topic of the actual political allegiances of anti-Semites in the West, you're conceding the point.
Actually, no. I think your entire paradigm is out of date. The Western political spectrum has, over the past five years, shifted away from a purely conservative/liberal split into one in which you have a populist/authoritarian/xenophobic/isolationist side opposite a democratic/cosmopolitan/classically liberal/internationalist side. The liberals and conservatives of the former political alignment have fallen on both sides of that spectrum.
But the anti-Semites of today fall squarely on the populist/authoritarian side of the new political alignment.
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1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:
Which part? How many anti-Semitic hate groups are politically left or even liberal? It's not even arguable.
Well, apparently at least one member of Congress.
Oh, and the Shadow Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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36 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
Supporting Israel because of the second coming is about as misguided as killing Israelis because you think it will get you 77 virgins.
Well, yeah.
But that doesn't mean that it isn't a substantial basis for Israel's support in the United States.
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1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:
Then why is our support for Israel completely unwavering? Why do we shield Israel from UN resolutions concerning basic human rights?
Of course it's money. It's always money.
That has nothing to do with the fact that Israel is a Jewish state. Saudi Arabia is a nation that does not allow Jewish people to live and work inside its borders and we cannot sell them weapons fast enough.
Money.
There are a lot of countries that spend as much or more than Israel does in lobbying American politicians. Pakistan spends a metric fuckton, but support for Pakistan is fairly wish-washy. That's because nobody thinks that Jesus Christ is imminently going to return to Lahore.
I appreciate that you're not religious. That gives you a huge blindspot in seeing the motivations of those that are. And there is a large percentage of the American population that believes that Israel needs to exist so that Jesus Christ can return and do all that rapture shit.
There are other motivators, too. The Palestinians have a really bad PR department, what with their half-century long terrorism campaign that has killed Americans. The Israelis (like the Saudis) were an ally during the Cold War, which earned them some vestigial loyalty.
So yeah--when you reduce it to money, you're wrong. And it's no accident that you reduce it to money when we're talking about a Jewish state. And that makes it anti-Semitic.
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27 minutes ago, Fozzz said:
It's not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel and Israel's influence on our politics, just as it's not anti-Arab to criticize the influence of the Gulf states on our politics. It is bigoted to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism as many Jews are not Zionists. Indeed, some right-wing antisemites are staunch Zionists.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/neve-gordon/the-new-anti-semitism
It's not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel, nor is it anti-Semitic to critique Israel's influence on American policy-making.
It is anti-Semitic, however, to reduce that influence to a mere matter of "Benjamins."
It also happens to be wildly untrue.
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1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:
The Muslim woman didn't do that. The Muslim woman accurately named a foreign interest lobby that spends money to influence domestic policy. That is literally the truth.
Also, the fact that she's Muslim is 100% irrelevant and it's racist to even make that an issue.
So she has a legitimate point that she didn't express in any racist way, yet she needs to be thrown under the bus? To what end? Do you sincerely believe the Republicans will now be nice and not say the Democrats hate Israel?
Pelosi not standing up for Omar is like the "centrists" here who fall down every time a Republican concern-trolls about a 2020 Dem candidate.
So it's racist to call out someone for using an anti-Semitic trope?
Got it.
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39 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:
I've never seen a SW 727 . I thought they flew only 737's from the get go back in the 70's when Herb started the airline?
The closest you get to the 727 today is the MD-80 and they are being phased out. I flew one from Jacksonville to DFW on American a few weeks ago. Old as heck as I could tell from the inside of the plane.
Well, first off--Herb didn't start the airline.
But yeah--they flew them in the early 1980's for several years after they got them from Braniff as part of an anti-trust settlement. At some point later, they leased a fourth 727 from PeoplExpress.
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On 1/23/2019 at 1:21 AM, AnotherUTFan said:
Long live the 727. I have a lot of fond 727 memories.
These made me smile.
Did anyone else ever get to ride in one of these:
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On 2/9/2019 at 12:02 PM, Ten Bears said:
A Grand Prix just like this one was the coolest car we had when I was a kid. I grew up in the country so I got to tear ass around in it all the time. I was 9 lol. 455 cid 325 hp. What were my parents thinking? That thing could hit 130 mph.
It got like 10 miles to the gallon and we traveled from near Coleman to Odessa nearly every weekend so he plumbed in a 30 gallon barrel in the trunk as auxiliary gas tank. I'm glad we never got rear-ended while I was asleep up on the rear deck.
My mother had one of these when I was a kid. It was awesome.
Then she had my sister and decided two kids was too much for that thing. It was one thing to have me crawl into the back seat; it was another to have an infant seat in a two-door.
So she downgraded to the Oldsmobile 98. I still hate my sister.
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This town is run by absolute clowns.
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7 hours ago, DFWTexEx said:
D and DMN are going after Griggs for some campaign contribution stuff. Looks like over the years he took a few contributions from kids (possibly shady, but not illegal) and some that aggregate to over the limit for adults (possibly illegal). He is correcting the reporting errors and returning money, but he clearly should have been better about that it. Am I wrong in thinking it's a common mistake that campaigns make and if it's only a handful of items in many reports over the years (not indicative of a trend or intent to manipulate) it's not a big deal? The reporting shows that other council members did the same thing, but they are not running for Mayor against the establishment. I have already one set of friends that are withdrawing their support of him at least for now.
My kids make a lot of political contributions.
Wait, what?
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Well, how else are you going to shuffle off? I mean, we're the Live Music Capital of the World.
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18 minutes ago, Skinny Tie said:
In the time it took to type this out, China has built 10 water systems, a power grid, and two skyscrapers in Africa.
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26 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
I wish a candidate had better vision on foreign policy other than pro or anti military intervention.
We’ve been long overdue for a paradigm shift on our approach to foreign affairs. We should move away from using our military and the threat of force as the primary method of expanding US influence and ideas around the world. That doesn’t mean we should retreat and become isolationist. It means we should invest more in building things around the world instead of weapons to destroy them.
I agree with that. Diplomacy is a weapon that can be used to advance your interests and frustrate those of your enemy. In many cases, it's more effective at doing so than the military. And yet for some reason we think the Pentagon is full of the manly-men and the State Department is full of pussies.
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2 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:
It's puzzling why ABIA doesn't have more direct flights to and from the smaller regional airports in the state. You are correct with all the oil field activity in Midland, it would be a no brainer for at least a once a day flight. I wouldn't doubt if SWA and American have something to do with it. Not so much holding it over the head of ABIA, but Midland.
It's no mystery. There aren't enough gates. Southwest--i.e., the most likely airline to operate flights from AUS to MAF or HRL or AMA--fully utilizes its gates with flights to places like LAX and MDW. It's not going to reduce its frequencies to Washington or Las Vegas so that it can fly to Amarillo.
The reason you have plenty of American Eagle flights from DFW to College Station is because DFW has about twenty thousand gates. AUS doesn't have that.
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It's really funny that he's now not going to get confirmed.