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Saint Tacky

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  1. Can NASA maintain a power grid?
  2. Britt Reid remains a free man. "To recap, Britt Reid, who has a violent history of drinking, drugging and driving, remains a free man for an instance of drinking, drugging and driving that nearly killed a 5-year-old girl."
  3. I drive eastbound on 635 every morning between Preston and Ferguson, and it's a complete shit show - every - single - fucking - morning. During ongoing construction they are restriping the lanes every time the center barrier moves and the crews do a terrible job of it so that drivers are left to guess where your lane is heading today. Worse is when you're doing this into the sunrise. Come around the bend at TI and the sunlight just hides the lines altogether. Throw in a couple of unmarked twists around Royal/Miller and it's a real adventure if you're next to someone that isn't expecting it or not paying attention. West bound always has a wreck coming back. Last school year we counted a streak of something similar to 17 out of 20 days straight with a ladder truck diverting several lanes of west bound traffic around a collision. Waze probably sends me back 635 West approximately once a week because of a wreck we passed on the way.
  4. I loaded up on feed last week and will need to refill all of my bird feeders again for the second straight night. Standing room only and they are just ignoring the dog running around underneath them.
  5. 2019 Astros WS Game 7 1984 Cotton Bowl vs. Georgia 2011 National Championship vs. Alabama 1980 Astros NLCS Game 5 1986 Astros NLCS Game 6 "The Immaculate Reception"
  6. It means- it speaks for itself. Throws the burden on the defense to show Trump's words didn't incite the violence at the Capitol.
  7. I believe this is why "The Pacific" isn't as highly regarded as "Band of Brothers". BOB had better and more likeable characters (the closest Pacific could muster is John Basilone). Warfare in the Pacific was such a meat grinder. D-Day and Bastogne seem to merge on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo, Okinawa, and dozens of other atolls. Month after month. Again and again. The Pacific seemed like a 10-part series of hell on Earth.
  8. Had her views not been aligned with his, Ted Cruz would have told her to "shut up and dribble protect the Child."
  9. It wasn't Roberts' choice. There's no obligation to use him since DJT is no longer President. Besides, he wasn't asked or didn't make a single, significant ruling during "Impeachment Boogaloo One", so I expect he'd have been even more useless this time.
  10. I was riding the fence on "just moving on" until I thought back to the progress of events, including those in Michigan. The takeover of the capitol building in Lansing, the plot to kidnap and murder the Governor, and Trump urging on his minions with tweets such as "Liberate Michigan" - that was just a trial balloon. Michigan should have been the line in the sand. Instead, it went unchecked, escalated to the U.S. Capitol, and if something isn't done now, God knows where it goes or what happens next.
  11. Stripped of assignments. Good stuff.
  12. Had my second shot on Saturday morning and I came home and slept all weekend. No fever. No aches. No nausea. Just completely wiped out, exhausted. Glad I did it at the start of a weekend because I could not keep my eyes open.
  13. Did you run into any of the Weddell/La Marque teams during the early-90s?
  14. I seem to recall Vin Scully or Jack Buck having just finished saying something like "Ozzy Smith has never homered left handed." Several years later Ozzy was in Houston and rumored to be speaking to the Astros during free agency. It was my off day but my boss (Bob Allen) made me drive around with our sports photographer to see if we could get video of an alleged meeting. We followed him from the airport and around town, wound up sitting at the bar in a restaurant watching him eat lunch. When he was done he came over to the bar, asked us if we were "local", and told us we were too conspicuous. I did get his autograph out of it though.
  15. Her spokesperson took a hike a week or so ago.
  16. Fuck Missouri. They made their beds. Never.
  17. Excellent. Thank you. Glad it was already out there.
  18. I believe the angriest I may have been was when he pulled support for the Kurds and allies that had just defeated ISIS in Syria, leaving them in no-man's land against the Turks. To me his biggest disgrace was the surrender of Afghanistan. In his haste to be able to say he fulfilled a campaign promise he completely surrendered to the Taliban.
  19. I can't believe that no one has posted this New Yorker article from two weeks ago. THE PLAGUE YEAR It's a great summary and timetable of events of 2020. Infuriating and frustrating, but informative. It's a long read and puts everything in great detail, but well worth your time. Someone said earlier in the thread, but if you or your parents are eligible to be vaccinated, be persistent, keep trying, do whatever it takes, it will happen. I was able to get vaccinated at a small family clinic on the 2nd and I go back for round two on the 30th. They gave me the number for an affiliated facility and I was able to get my parents vaccinated 10-days later. Keep trying. Show up and tell them you'll wait for a no-show. Don't take "no" for an answer. Read the article. No. Because (apparently) the formula for this vaccine is completely different and most of the heavy lifting had been done as early as 2013. Moderna's messenger-RNA delivery platform worked, but they had never brought a vaccine to market. In 2013 structure based vaccine design was developed, but MERS faded and funding went away before it could be tested on humans. Once the Chinese posted the genomic sequence the same group could design the proteins to defeat this coronavirus and to be fitted on the messenger RNA. Then they turned it over to Moderna for manufacturing. As Coach Royal would say, "it's where preparation met opportunity".
  20. You_arrogant_ass_you_ve_killed_US (1).mp4
  21. Same for Philmont. Been twice now, as a Scout and with my son, and I'm going back this summer with my daughter. Caprock was a great shake out hike for Philmont. I also recommend the boundary trail at Buffalo Trail, outside Balmorhea.
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