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Macanudo

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  1. If we do this trip, we'd be in the Nashville area next Tuesday. There's nothing crazy going on there that day. As for "other" places, I am all for staying in smaller towns or suburbs in "lesser" brands. I do it all the time but I wa more amazed at what the higher and mid tier has gotten.
  2. They're outrageously high pretty much everywhere. We are planning a last minute road trip and one of our stopovers is probably going to be in the Nashville area. Even places 20-30 miles away in Franklin or Murfreesboro are still pushing $300 for a mid tier Marriott property next week. And its not just Nashville. The Westin in downtown Houston is $650. W Dallas is $1200. JW Marriott in downtown Chicago is $975. I would have assumed prices would be much lower due to decreased demand and the time of the year. What gives?
  3. Charlie Kirk is Mr Hands. It all makes sense now.
  4. Dean Martin was very underrated as an actor. The scene in the bar where the ruffian tosses the coin in the spitoon is amazing.
  5. Yeah, I should have mentioned the local populations. They fed and provisioned the Coastwatchers at great cost to themselves.
  6. The closest most of those people will ever get to Italy is eating at an Olive Garden.
  7. I'm not sure I'd say 'huge" but definitely "more than a handful."
  8. Walter Lord wrote a really good book on the Coastwatchers: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18683511-lonely-vigil These were, for the most part, British and Australians who stayed behind on Pacific Islands and fed info to the Allies on Japanese shipping and aviation. If they got caught, they faced a brutal death. Unsung heroes of the war. Baba, there's lot of great debate on whether the Japanese not attacking the fuel tank farms was a big deal or what if the carriers had been in port. Both would have really, really hurt if they had been attacked. They would have only delayed the inevitable though. By December of 1941, there were 11 Essex class carriers under construction with 7 of those launched by the summer of 1943. We put another 30+ escort and light carriers in the water by summer of '43 too. Throughout the entire war, the Japanese launched 16 carriers of any size (7 fleet, 6 escort, 2 landing cradt carriers and 1 seaplane carrier.) We launched 102 fleet, light and escort carriers by war's end with 17 fleet carriers alone before the Japanese surrendered with Midway and the FDR (both from the upgraded Midway class that was 50% larger tonnage wise than the Essex class) both hitting the water by October 1945. The Japanese were never going to win a war in the Pacific.
  9. I went to high school (and UT) with a woman who's mom was at Pearl on December 7th as a kid and had some very vivid memories of the day. Being the WWII nerd that I am, I talked to her about it a couple of times. Her dad was in the Navy and they lived in the Hale Moku housing area about a half mile SE of the harbor and maybe 1.5 miles away from Battleship Row and Ford Island. She was still in bed before church but obviously got woken up by the noise. Her dad was already scrambling to get dressed and go to the base. Her mom was outside looking toward the harbor and she went outside to watch with her until her dad shuffled them back into the house and told them to stay put. Explosions were going off constantly while the other dads in surrounding houses were making their way out and toward the base. She and her mom went over to a neighbor's house and other wives started congregating while the kids tried to play but the noise was incredible. When the 2nd wave was done at 9:15, the din and rattle of explosions continued for a while and the smoke was everywhere. She didn't get a chance to see the Harbor for a day or two but still remembered the amount of damage to everything. She told me at some point what her dad's job was but I have forgotten. She was a history buff too and we had some very good conversations about the tank farms not getting hit and the carriers not being in port. If you ever been to Oahu, you know Pearl is just smack dab in the middle of the south side of the island, it's not nearly as big as you think it would be and the Harbor was crammed fulll of ships that day. It was very interesting hearing her account.
  10. The gleeful tone of the reporter is kind of fucked up as well.
  11. That's about 15-20 minutes from me. I vaguely rememebr seeing it at some point but have yet to try it. Their hours kind of suck (only open 11-5 F-Su). Might try it on Sunday.
  12. Not that we haven't seen that before. And before that. And before that... And....
  13. Just like Steven Miller's scrotum. I mean, head.
  14. I would argue that it's far easier to do today than it was in 1933. The failed business man, reality TV show host and POTUS out front has told us so.
  15. the difference is that in King's day, newspapers and TV stations nationwide covered the events and showed the cruelty. Today 75% of the media would either outright ignore the event or blame the victims. Something similar to Selma could happen today and most would shrug and go about their day.
  16. No shit. It's not like Fox News and Newsmax are bitching about this. They are cheerleading it.
  17. Abso-fucking-lutely agree.
  18. Plump Plenary Perineum - My GWAR cover band's name.
  19. Nice try. We all know this was you in college:
  20. Ok, but then you caught an early flight back to Austin from San Diego and....
  21. Conan can be kind of a grind though too. He interrupts a lot and doesn't just let his guests tell a story. I like him but some of his interviews are a pain.
  22. Admit it, Milei would probably be hella fun to party with.
  23. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Bari Weiss appointment to head CBS news. I'm watching other media pundits talk about how left wing CBS is. How the fuck can they do that with any kind of a conscience when 40% of this country gets straight up propanda from Fox? It's just mind bottling how the press in this country fucking sucks.
  24. Eva Braun's been dead for decades.
  25. Behind the Bastards does some really good stuff. Evans covers some of the obvious baddies but also does episodes on some real pieces of work. I haven't listened to the Lee Atwater one but it's next on my list. The ones on James Grigson are infuriating. He was the "expert" witness who testified in Texas death penalty cases and probably got some innocent people killed.
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