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  1. Her legacy is cemented either way. Just days before her memorial service in Annapolis, the Navy officially amended the regulation that Kent had fought so hard to change in the wake of her commission being denied. The change was named in her honor, and there have already been sailors who have been approved to commission because of it.

    Seem like the fitting thing to do would be a posthumous promotion. 

     

    She was one awesome operator.   Wow.

  2. On 5/11/2019 at 2:34 AM, troph said:

    One of the most hideous aspects of sexism and racism is the fact that only white men can be mediocre and still rise.

    Sheila Jackson Lee, please pick up the courtesy phone.   Maxine Waters, you are also needed on the line as well. 

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  3. 10 hours ago, IDIOTsavant said:

    You know a movie has a hell of a lot of quotable lines when one of the best lines from the trailer doesn't make it into the final cut:

    Taylor: Don't feel bad, Rick. That ball wouldn't have gotten out of a lot of parks.

    Vaughn: Oh, yeah? Name one.

    Taylor: Yellowstone.

     

    I never understood why it was taken out.   But the lore of it makes it funnier now I guess.

  4. On 5/9/2019 at 12:04 PM, Johnny Sack said:

    The people who should be worried are the ones who live in 30-40 year old suburbs.  Because that's where the folks being priced out of property will be moving.

    Honestly,  I have kind of worried about that here in Kingwood.   I realize it's 30 miles from downtown but I wonder if the house I bought in 2011 will really be worth it.

  5. 11 hours ago, NBMisha said:

    Rent an electric boat on lake union.  Bring food and an icechest of beer.  Plug in your ipod and play your favorites as you meander among the boats, kyackers, float planes taking off and landing, etc.  And the views, man.  Boat seats up to 12.  This was a regular on my what to do with guests list.

    I'm totally doing this next time we get up there in the summer.

  6. SAM has been struggling lately relying on their "other" brands like Angry Orchard to be money makers.    Will be interesting to see if they continue to acquire.

    Either way, they really can't call themselves a craft brewery anymore unless they can get the rules changed.  Again. 

  7. Everybody cancelled school today because at 4:00 am we didn't know what PHD wrote up above about the storm changing.    Last night, we thought there was a decent chance that there would be a shit ton more rain coming down around 3:00 this afternoon right at dismissal.   Seeing grade schoolers spend the night sleeping in their classrooms doesn't go over well.   And it already happened this week in Cleveland.

    The storm last night was weird in that it rained a ton, there was amazing lightning but the thunder wasn't all that loud.   My back yard was lighting up like a giant flashbulb was going off constantly but it was that loud.  

  8. 23 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Cripes.  In middle school, a guy got beaned with a shotput.  One of the coaches/science teachers reached him and he had a bloody hole looking thing in his head.  The coach/teacher touched it and it was squishy.  Turned out it glanced off and flipped a patch of scalp.  The squish was his hair under the skin.  He graduated from UT Law.

    So a brain damaged lawyer.   That's not exactly unique.

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  9. 31 minutes ago, HouTex said:

    And go north to Mount McKinley (now called Denali by some--all the signs and roads in the area still say McKinley--I guess they don't want to spend the money to change everything).  It is one huge mountain and it's unique in that you can start to see it when you are pretty much at sea level just north of the Cook Inlet.  It's pretty cool to see a 20k foot peak from sea level.  

    Only word of caution is weather.   Denali is cloud covered a lot.

  10. 38 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    It's not hard to get there from Austin.  Only have to change planes once in Seattle.

    Other than the fact that it's pretty much an all day trip to get there.

  11. On my drive home last night, the TXDOT sign right before 1960 on 59 showed the drive time to Sorters Rd was 72 minutes.   Its normally between 5 and 6 minutes.  I got home around 8 after waiting it out and backtracking to the Lake Houston way in.

    Areas of Kingwood that didn't even flood during Harvey had to be evacuated.   Coupled with the near tornado that touched down near Kingwood High School on Friday there's a general "WTF IS GOING ON" feeling up here. 

    There are grade schoolers who spent the night at the school in Cleveland last night.   That had to suck for them, their parents and the teachers.

     

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