ha, the grass wallpaper distracted me and I didn't even notice the lack of a railing. You can only imagine what is happening in the rest of the room. Too bad we don't have a 360 degree view.
My point is that Houston businesses are being harmed by problems outside of their control. I'm not asking them to pay the salary of TSA workers but if Houston orgs (private or public) can make their lives even slightly better for the TSA workers at IAH, maybe more of them could show up to work. If a TSA worker cannot afford gas to drive up to work but they want to work, that isn't an insurmountable problem. And if one worker showing up helps a few more people make their flights, that's not a negative for Houston.
People and entities are held to terms in contracts between other parties? If I had a neighbor who was a TSA union worker and I offered them a benefit like a ride to work, I'm violating a law? Is that a federal civil or criminal law that I broke. Could I serve time for that ride or buying them a coffee?
PE isn't about buying businesses with a plan to shut them down. Their only goal is to quickly ramp up revenues, cut costs, and sell them. Yes that can include closing underperforming locations. But it's no surprise that ordering by app is appealing to owners. It removes friction to ordering and gets the order to the kitchen immediately. Potentially fewer mistakes. But let's be honest that Alamo was never about a pristine movie watching experience. I don't see how ordering by phone is that much more distracting then wait staff roaming around. Now if a movie goer has their phone on the brightest setting and they need 5 minutes to decide between a burger or chicken tenders, thats on them. Finally if a founder sells out to PE, good for them, but they're the ones killing their vision.
IAH having TSA lines that are 3-4 hours, if not greater at times, is a ridiculous black eye for Houston. The federal govt or a party can be blamed but other airports are not seeing the problem at this scale. And I don't see it being Houston's fault but it is their problem. If I was Whitmire, Houston's mayor, I would offer city employees to drive the TSA employees between their homes and IAH, cater lunch for them, or whatever. Ask local business to fund gift cards to TSA employees for those who show up. And when you add that the PGA and NCAA Sweet Sixteen are in Houston this weekend, this will just give more visitors opportunity to complain online.
I liked Alamo for a minute due to the lesser release movies they would show or just the quirky nature of the place. I thought the food and drink aspect was over-rated. I don’t care if others wanted to eat/drink but it could be distracting with the staff moving around. If given the choice of a clean, well run “regular” theater vs Alamo, I quickly moved back to the regular theater. I thought Alamo was a great niche theater for people who wanted that experience, but it just wasn’t for everyone. Also in Houston, wasn’t it in far west Houston at westchase mall or something? You can get more suburban or vanilla than that.
Sam Bankman Fried's parents spoke to Michael Smerconish for a CNN interview. https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2598549 Effectively they're asking Trump to pardon their son because it was a malicious Biden prosecutor and overzealous judge, who coincidentally went after Trump in the E Jean Carroll sexual assault lawsuit. I don't blame them for wanting their son out of prison even if it goes against all logic or laws. They're his parents. However they're not giving an inch and proclaim that their son is 100% innocent. They're also holding onto the idea that all of the FTX customers were made whole, which is BS. They were made whole in an accounting sense but only because bitcoin went up 4-5x. Those customers had their money stolen by SBF. tldr: SBF's parents are on a PR tour to get their son a pardon. honesty, its much easier to just give Trump a $1m.
Read the book early last year and don't recall all the details. Liked it and looked forward to the movie. I enjoyed the movie and found it funnier than the book. The movie crowd even found it funnier than I did. I can understand why they have to cut down somewhat on the tech aspects and make it appealing for the wider audience. You can't spend too long on how they started to communicate. I laughed at the Close Encounters reference by perhaps implying that we will suspend disbelief and quickly move onto full communications. I need to reread the book again.
Hope it works out but in my experience just changing out a component on a guess that it will make a difference, rarely makes a difference. I don't know enough if a old thermostat can cycle between working and not working. I would think it would be one or the other. For any problem with a clogged drain line, isn't that quickly identified by seeing water in the drain pan or via the emergency discharge lines? I suppose if you let it sit for weeks or months it could evaporate but it should quickly back up again.
In fairness, that story reads that this guy forgot his constituents by attempting to push a casino into the district that the church-goers didn't want. A long term sheriff fought against the casino and he's the one who won the GOP primary. There's no reason to believe the GOP won't easily hang onto this seat in november.
Didn’t know anything about Zac brown band before last week. I had awareness of his name and country music that’s it. I gave a few songs a try this past week but some of them came across, to me, as a parody of country lyrics. It was only missing lyrics about picking up mama in the rain when she got out of prison.
You can say one thing in 2026 and something else in 2028. I didn’t plan to run but the public required that I change my mind. I don’t want to run but I will sacrifice if that is what the people want.
I don't see the 25th amendment ever being implemented, without a President's support, short of a President who is fully incapacitated almost to the point of a coma. (I recall that The West Wing has a multi-episode story arc where Bartlett asked for the 25th amendment to be deployed while he couldn't govern due to his daughter's kidnapping.)
Talarico should be at IAH talking to (& filming) voters how everyone should be disappointed at the status quo. I wouldn't even get into Dems vs GOP, just that the system is failing and that changes are needed.
Hard not think that ICE is at airports waiting for the crowd to become unruly so that they can start cracking skulls. CNN has the TSA wait times on their homepage. It makes little sense that IAH is at 240 minutes while HOU is at 8. A few Hobby TSA agents can be bused up to IAH to reduce wait times?
Melania looks to have become accustomed to disassociation. Its doubtful that she's listening. He must give her advance notice if he's going to informally ask her to speak so she can prepare.
There are very few cases of real voter fraud. In some cases it's just ignorance in that someone is under the mistaken belief that showing up on Election Day will automatically replace their mailed ballot. From time to time, there are true fraudulent cases where someone knowingly mails in a ballot on behalf of a deceased person. And this is always by a GOP voter who mistakenly believes the Dems are cheating to justify their action. MAGA and GOP types will always point to voter registration problems including fictious registered people. Or 100 people living at a single address. I assume that most of these rarely turn into voter fraud since they're never able to identify the people actually voting. Funny how of the millions and millions of illegal immigrants who voted against Donald Trump, Trump hasn't been able to find one of them.
I guess mailing your tax return on April 15th will be the equivalent of filing late as well. Tax Day. If SCOTUS make Election day the deadline to receive a ballot, someone needs to file a lawsuit that the IRS is breaking the spirit of the their laws and policies.
Guy in the middle left his racist MAGA shades at home. They came with the full costume when he joined ICE along with the temp swastika tat and SS ring.
SIAP or I'm being Captain Obvious but I assume Robby's friend will be the one who fully realizes that Robby is having a mental breakdown and will hurt himself after the shift is over. Perhaps Robby will also have some breakup scene with his Admin girlfriend if not have a fight with Dana. And on the idea of a fight with Dana, I think she's about to go Marcellus Wallace medieval on the golfer who has Emma in a headlock as the screen went black. How will Al-Hashimi will react since she heard the conversation about Langdon stealing drugs. I'm going along with Santos saying that only 2 other people know.
I wonder how the airlines are going to feel as people will be cancelling flights since ICE is in the building. I can't imagine any non-US citizen would want to go to the airport if they're there. As a citizen, I don't want to go there.
I actually agree that mail-in voters should get their freaking ballots in early. Now with that being said, Election Day implies that the voter needs to completes their responsibility by Election Day. And that step includes getting the ballot to the postal service by Election Day. Any further delay is on the USPS. and what makes it troublesome is that the USPS has intentionally slowed down delivery over the last decade. Whether that was a good decision or not is a separate question, but its 100% accurate. Is it the voters' fault that the USPS has decided to take an extra day (or more) to deliver within the same city or county? And our esteemed governor has made it so that each Texas county can only have 1 drop box. EDIT: what's frustrating about MAGA's opinions about mail-in balloting is all predicated on the a loss of trust in election integrity. MFers - you lied about stolen elections which led to that distrust and now you want to benefit from it.