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MaybeACoordinator

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  1. Fine, great. Where should I go? How should I do this? Oh, here's an idea:
  2. Can't remember. It didn't last long -- probably result of a divorce or a squabble among owners.
  3. Con apologias a mis amigos Alabamenses aqui, I wonder if those Mayan immigrants to Alabama ask themselves if they moved from Guatemala to Guatapeor.
  4. Yeah that makes sense. I am not that up to speed on the whole industry and just thought it was all Dow.
  5. If you split Brazoria County in half on a north-south "axis," I bet Germans would be number 2 in the southern half because of Dow Chemical. For awhile there were rival German bierhauses across the street from each other in Lake Jackson. (One has since surrendered and become a British pub.)
  6. Doesn't quite look like that in Houston, though I guess the Chinese seem more numerous because they are almost all in one (huge) area. As LL points out, Taiwanese are probably counted differently and others are Viet-Chinese. (Houston's Chinatown seems to run, east to west, Chinese-VietChinese-Viet). Add in tens of thousands of Filipinos who (to me at least) are hard to tell at a glance from South Chinese (no waicis) and I overestimate the number. On the other hand there are lots of Pakistanis in Houston that led me to believe the Indian number might be smaller than it is. Man we have a lot of immigrants. It's surprising that Nigerians don't even make the top 5.
  7. There's a theory that New Orleans music took off in the 1890s because of the "jazz cigarettes" that came in on the banana boats and found their way into the hands of people like Buddy Bolden....
  8. They break down into East and South Asian...eastern FB county has a lot of spillover from Chinatown.
  9. Large presences, but only number one at one of them....hell, that was prob ten years ago and I could easily be wrong.
  10. Same goes for SW Houston burbs like Sugar Land...I guess it makes sense. They have taken over whole planned communities and architects now have prefab plans for Indian houses. (Built for extended family, niches for Hindu idols, etc.) I think they have a plurality at one of the big Fort Bend high schools now, too.
  11. Goes back to the heyday of United Fruit and the original banana republics...It's wild. The OG United Fruit building is a crumbling pile in an even more than unusually derelict section of the CBD. I saw it and was like "There? That's the place all my Chomskyite history profs said was the root all American foreign policy evil?"
  12. I am having a hard time believing it's India and not China for TX....I know there are lots of Indians and Houston, and quite a few in Austin, and maybe the most in Dallas, but the same goes for Chinese. And there are just as many small town Chinese restaurants as there are off-brand motels, so that's a wash. I guess one factor might be that lots of the ethnic Chinese in Houston are from Vietnam, so that waters down the number. Still, it just doesn't seem right.
  13. Did not know the rest of the story....Is it the same with cowbirds?
  14. I wish y'all would quit running off Ttom....Or maybe not. I shouldn't be laughing at his posts b/c of what a trainwreck he is but I can't help it....Esp if you red them in the voice of Skeletor.
  15. This is what John Mearsheimer has been saying his plan would be since 2014. I think he is a little dismayed by how successful the resistance has been -- but not surprised -- but he has never intended to absorb Ukraine. It has been to break it -- the exact word Mearsheimer uses. To beat it like a stepchild. And then to pull out with the promise that Russia is always prepared to do it again if Ukraine gets uppity with them.
  16. "It's okay My kids are still living with him and everything..." This is the true essence of getting cucked. It's not about cheating -- it's about sticking some poor sap with your kids. The word comes from the cuckoo bird which loves to fuck but ain't got time to parent, so they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, who for what reason I don't understand, raise them as their own, even when at times the cuckoo fledglings toss their step-siblings out of the nest. Usually its a dude impregnating someone else's woman, but Dilbert Guy has pulled off the rarer Old Man Falls For Young Sloot / Raises Her Kids combo. (Falling for young gash is common, but to this extent is somewhat more unusual.)
  17. I know a distant relative of the elite Nazi tank commander Heinz Guderian....He is about as far from a Nazi as you can get.
  18. In general it's a terrible idea, but we are in extremis. Facebook cannot handle the responsibility of what they have become.
  19. Y'all thinking I'm tin foil hatting it over CIA involvement in mass media and / or social media -- go read about the Church Report. And the hearings, in which they announced, "Yeah, this is something we used to do, but we don't do it anymore." And how Carl Bernstein responded by saying that was a lie and that there were by his estimation 400 CIA assets and the highest levels of American media in 1977. Again, this is not some wingnut but Carl Bernstein, at the peak of his powers, having just brought down a president. They manipulate media across the globe and if you don't think they do it here too you are incredibly naive. Movies too -- though in some cases their participation is direct.
  20. Yeah and their track record of business decisions has been flawless so far, so we can expect even more wise decisions.
  21. Or that they become public utilities or get broken up. Uncharted waters. While we've been in gradual decline for decades, social media has accelerated it exponentially. Drastic solutions could very well be required.
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