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  1. Well County Line and Salt Lick off 2222 were much much better in the 80s than what they became 40 years later. And I can't remember a lot of great brisket around the entire state back then. I think Iron Works might have been around back then and it was much better in its beginning. Stiles Switch opened in 2012 and Franklins was 2009. Kreuz Market started selling barbecue brisket in the 60s I believe and that wasn't a bad drive in the 80s and 90s.
  2. Now read about the source for the widely accepted atrocities that he supposedly committed. Where was he when they occurred? Were the murderers truly under his command? Tell me about his adopted son. How did that happen? Has a non native ever been falsely portrayed over the years? Did that happen to the beheaded French queen? Have others been falsely portrayed over time due to power squabbles? Did it happen to Catherine the Great? Could it happen to someone else? Did it happen to mad king Ludwig (to some extent)? im not saying it did. Im saying I’m interested in the subject and the thesis.
  3. Jorge’s Matt’s Huts Eastside Shady Grove mad dog Mexican food restaurant before Stubbs. County line Hyatt (brought fajitas to central Texas) chuys magnolia catfish parlor Kirby lane steak place across from Halls (gay bar) threadgills Louis on the lake Katz Deli Trudys used to be good and a lot more - not bad for a city with 1/10th the population of today.
  4. NPR did not mention space lasers, weird. Christopher Columbus may have been a Spanish Jew, according to a new documentary Summarize Miguel MaciasOctober 16, 20245:00 AM ET Christopher Columbus landing in America with the Piuzon Brothers bearing flags and crosses, 1492. Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Hulton Archive SEVILLE, Spain — Conventional history states Christopher Columbus was from Genoa, Italy, but he may have been, in fact, a Sephardic Jew from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, according to a new documentary by Spain’s national broadcaster that also rekindles questions of religious persecution and the treatment of Indigenous communities. Broadcast by Spanish national public network RTVE on Oct. 12, the day of Spain’s national holiday marking the arrival of Columbus’ expedition to the Americas, Colón ADN, su verdadero origen, or “Columbus’ DNA, his true origin,” follows forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente as he studies multiple hypotheses regarding the origin of the famed explorer and contrasts the information with scientific and historical evidence. The documentary concludes that the most plausible theory is one maintained by a Catalan architect who has dedicated many years trying to demonstrate that Cristóbal Colón — Columbus’ name in Spanish — was a Jewish man from the region of Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast of eastern Spain. Some in the scientific community, however, have expressed skepticism about the methods and scientific rigor that Lorente employs, and highlight the fact that Lorente’s findings have not been presented for peer review yet. Columbus’ origins come into question Few things about Christopher Columbus can be stated as facts. Legend has it that at a party with noble Spaniards he demonstrated the possibility of the impossible by making an egg stand on its tip. There is a trick, of course: he flattened the edge of the egg without breaking it. But there are some details that have not been questioned by most people through the years. Like the fact that Columbus came from Genoa, in Italy. That he persuaded Spain’s Catholic monarchs to sponsor an impossible voyage to the Indies traveling west instead of east from Spain. Lorente, a forensic medical expert at the University of Granada, has researched Columbus’ origin for the past 22 years. In the documentary, he considers a number of theories about the origin of Columbus, examining them against DNA evidence and historical records. Finally, Lorente arrives at the garden of Francesc Albardaner, a Catalan architect who authored the book La catalanitat de Colom. According to Albardaner, Columbus was a Sephardic Jew, part of the that Jewish diaspora associated with the Iberian Peninsula. Columbus would have followed Jewish traditions and customs, although in the public sphere he acted as Christian. He was born into a family of silk weavers from the Spanish city of Valencia, where there was a long tradition within the Jewish community of silk weavers. But in order to determine Columbus’ ancestry, Lorente has to overcome a first hurdle, to shed light on the question of where the true remains of the sailor are. People visit the tomb of Christopher Columbus at the Cathedral of Seville on October 11. Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images Columbus’ disputed resting place The mausoleum of Christopher Columbus here in Seville features four bronze heralds representing the four Spanish kingdoms before they came under a single rule, in 1469. On the heralds’ shoulders, a massive tomb that the Catholic Church and local authorities assure contains the remains of Columbus. But Columbus’ resting place has been in dispute for centuries. The Columbus Lighthouse is a huge mausoleum monument to the explorer located in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. The monument was inaugurated in 1992 and, according to Dominican authorities, Columbus’ remains are inside the mausoleum. There seems to be agreement among historians about the fact that the remains of Columbus, who died in Spain in 1506, were at one point taken back to Hispaniola, the Caribbean island containing the Dominican Republic and Haiti. But that's where historical agreement ends. Some claim the remains of Columbus made their way back to Spain, while others say the wrong bones were taken from Santo Domingo, and therefore Columbus remains in the Dominican Republic. In Columbus’ DNA, his true origin, Lorente uses DNA from Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus, and distant cousin Diego Colón to verify that the few bones that were housed at the Cathedral of Seville are indeed the true remains of the sailor. Lorente’s conclusion is unequivocal: Christopher Columbus was of Jewish descent. That led to a process of deduction based on historical evidence. The documentary states that during Columbus’ time there were only an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Jewish people living on the Italian peninsula. By contrast, there were about 200,000 Jewish people living in what is now Spain, an estimate that may be low, since tens of thousands of Jewish people had converted to Catholicism over the previous century, victims of constant persecution. Also in the documentary, Albardaner, the Catalan architect, says Genoa had expelled its Jewish population in the 12th century. There were virtually no Jewish people living in Genoa in the times of Columbus, who lived from 1451 to 1506, and Jewish people doing business were only allowed to enter the city for three days at a time. If the DNA evidence studied by Lorente suggests Columbus was a Jewish man, then it becomes highly improbable that he was from Genoa, according to Albardaner. Forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente examines DNA evidence in an image from the documentary Colón ADN, su verdadero origen. Story Producciones Why would Columbus lie about his heritage? On Oct. 19, 1469, a young couple was married in Valladolid, Spain. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand II, the Catholic monarchs, came to be known for a number of historical achievements, such as unifying the kingdoms that now comprise Spain, or the so-called reconquista (reconquering) of Al-Andalus, the vast region of southern Spain that had been under Muslim control for centuries. But during the Catholic monarchs’ rule the Spanish Inquisition also acquired unprecedented powers. A judicial institution linked to the Roman Catholic Church, the Inquisition sought to identify heretics and order Jews and Muslims to convert to Catholicism, using brutal methods. But Muslims were not the only people living in the Iberian Peninsula that the Catholic monarchs seemed to want to get rid of. In 1492 the monarchs signed the Alhambra Decree, which ordered the expulsion of Jewish people, seeking to eliminate their influence on Spain's large population of converts, and to make sure its members did not revert to Judaism. The monarchs ordered the remaining Jews to convert or face expulsion from Spain. Devin Naar, Sephardic studies program chair at the University of Washington, told the BBC's Newshour that escaping persecution in the times of the Catholic monarchs and the Spanish Inquisition was not as easy as simply converting to Catholicism: “What the Spanish Inquisition did was that it targeted, not Jews as Jews and not Muslims as Muslims, but rather initially and specifically those who were of Jewish or Muslim origin, but who had converted to Catholicism. And there was the perception that they had continued to practice Judaism on one hand or Islam on the other hand in secret. The Inquisition used a variety of different means to try to coerce confessions. It used all of the different medieval tools that we might think about, including burning at the stake,” Naar said. So Columbus may have been hiding his Sephardic origins to avoid stigmatization, persecution, or even death. Naar adds that the claim that Columbus was of Spanish-Jewish origin or converso origin — conversos is what the Spanish called Jewish converts to Catholicism and their descendants — has been around for more than 100 years. Disagreement from the scientific community The release of the documentary on RTVE has sparked criticisms from the scientific community. Most notably, a recent article published by the Spanish newspaper El País has several experts questioning the process Lorente used to reach his conclusions. "I don't understand how data that the scientific community has not yet endorsed is presented to society, which puts the data itself and the hypotheses proposed at risk," Antonio Alonso, a geneticist and former director of Spain’s National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences is quoted as saying. Rodrigo Barquera, an expert in archaeogenetics at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, told El País he was surprised that Lorente’s findings had been shared without prior scrutiny from others in the scientific community. Even the DNA angle is questioned by Antonio Salas, who directs the Population Genetics in Biomedicine group at the Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, telling El País: “The documentary promised to focus on DNA analysis. However, the genetic information it offers is very limited.” Lorente, in response, told El País that the documentary is a film, not a scientific publication, and he promises scientific findings will be presented in the near future. The evolving role of Columbus in history Columbus’ actions, once regarded as accomplishments, have become a symbol to many as a starting point for a history of abuse. To others, Columbus, 1492, and what came after, are still worth celebrating. To this day, Spain marks Oct. 12 as a national holiday, also widely known as Hispanic Heritage Day, to commemorate the arrival of Columbus’ expedition in the Americas. And to this day, Spain’s popular culture has not been able to shake up the use of the controversial term “Descubrimiento de América” (the discovery of America) to refer to that moment in history. In Latin America and to many U.S.-based Latinos and Native Americans, the so-called “discovery of the Americas” was only the beginning of a cruel history of extermination, subjugation and colonization of its native people and lands. This continues to play a role in international diplomacy. Just last month, the recently elected first woman president of Mexico did not invite the Spanish king to her inauguration as part of an ongoing spat between the two countries over the history of Spanish colonization. Spain’s current government, led by the progressive Socialist Party, said that Mexico’s decision was unacceptable. Protesters topple a statue of Christopher Columbus during a demonstration against government in Barranquilla, Colombia on June 28, 2021. Mery Granados Herrera/AFP via Getty Images The United States has recognized Columbus Day as a federal holiday since 1934, when President Roosevelt designated the standing. For many in the Italian American community, the presumed fact that Columbus was originally from Italy has been a reason for pride and celebration. In 2022, however, President Biden issued a proclamationon Indigenous Peoples Day, and both are observed on the second Monday of October, but most government websites continue to list “Columbus Day” as the federal holiday the nation celebrated this week. Spain did take measures to remediate the harm done to Sephardic Jews. In 2015 the Spanish Parliament approved an act granting Spanish citizenship to Sephardic Jews with Spanish origins. Spain has not provided reparations to descendants of Spanish Muslims who once lived in the Iberian Peninsula.
  5. I was in a small town in Montana at a bar last night and 4 separate groups walked out within 15 minutes (with only 8 in the restaurant bar) because the bar didn’t have Prime (a $600 subscription). Seems the restaurant bar is screwed with either decision as the local population is tiny (once Beartooth Pass closes in September) and tourists can’t get to Yellowstone.
  6. you are correct. I wouldn’t say Dems are Jay Walkers though. They are the good guys. Fuck those pubs and independents and libertarians… dirty little shits they are.
  7. Maybe keeping it vague due to Lott wanting to play offense. No reason to decide it now anyway.
  8. No, I actually like reading about certain topics that may require an analytical approach.
  9. Read up. The current thought is that he was villainous. Who knows if this thought will change over time. When I was growing up, he was thought of as a hero. Either way, most of the atrocities were documented by a single source who wasn't reliable and who had ulterior motives. There was also animosity towards Columbus. Some of the thoughts are that this animosity was because he was possibly of Jewish decent and had ancestors who were forced to convert to Catholicism. And while widely considered Italian and born in the city-state of Genoa, new DNA evidence presented in 2024 suggests Christopher Columbus may have had Spanish or Sephardic Jewish origins, though this research is still pending peer review. For centuries, written records and documents have also indicated a Spanish or Portuguese heritage for Columbus. Anyway, when you do read up, google something specific like Christopher Columbus upbringing and early childhood.
  10. No, Twice went on a tangent because he thought/hoped I said something that I didn't. The Democrat/Republican goal is to demonize the opposing party. When Congress is Dem and Pres is Pub there will be impeachment hearings. When Congress is Pub and Pres in Dem, there will be impeachment hearings. When Pres and Congress are both Dem there will be shit talking but nothing will happen. When Pres and Congress are both Pub there will be shit talking but nothing will happen. This shit talking and impeachment talk/proceedings gets worse with each passing congressional term. Both parties act like vindictive children and their constituencies seem to eat it up. Europe is not immune to this behavior, either. I think we as a species must like conflict.
  11. He has worse feet than Stroh.
  12. Offensive line is weak. We have Turntine and Robertson who are players. We need Lee and a solid 4th guy like Sam Utu committed to Alabama. Otherwise, we will be the same offensively as we have been under Sark.
  13. LOL You and I were 9.
  14. There were really only a few out of about 150 head that really pissed me off. The worst we named Sadie after my late aunt.
  15. i think the President was a Republican and Congress was Democrat and I think it left bad blood between the two parties that spilled over to later presidencies.
  16. I just find that kind of stuff interesting. The same sort of thing happened to Cristopher Columbus where he was vilified because he wasn’t from their country and likely wasn’t born Catholic.
  17. That was my point - this has been going on at least since watergate (as far back as you and I go) and keeps getting worse each year. It’s almost like observing a meeting between two large groups of opposing councils without a mediator - and then bringing those same groups back together each year. It’s like Lord of the Flies, man.
  18. We had a cross between Salers and Brahman cattle. They were good.
  19. Only by the Lakota tribe.
  20. Wife is there at our house. I’m in Red Lodge for a few weeks before I get her over Columbus Day weekend.
  21. Is it your opinion that other countries don't act like vindictive children when their party is in control? Tangentially related from the BBC: Why 'the most controversial queen in history' was so hated 8 days ago Deborah Nicholls-Lee Once the most despised woman in Europe, Marie Antoinette was vilified as an empty-headed libertine, a conspirator and a reckless spendthrift – and then publicly executed. Now a major exhibition interrogates some of the myths that surround her. "All eyes will be on you," cautioned Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, in April 1770, as her daughter, the 14-year-old Archduchess Maria Antonia prepared to marry the future King Louis XVI of France at the Palace of Versailles. Yet the scrutiny endured by Marie Antoinette, as the Archduchess was later known, was far crueller than anticipated. She was vilified as a libertine, a conspirator and a reckless spendthrift, whose exorbitant lifestyle was bankrupting the country – accusations that would precipitate the French Revolution and lead to a rare and shocking spectacle: the public execution of a queen. Our fascination with Marie Antoinette has never waned, but increasingly her story is being questioned. Did she deserve to be despised, or was she a martyr caught between conflicting interests and destroyed by lies? For Dr Sarah Grant, the curator of Marie Antoinette Style, opening at the V&A on 20 September, she is the "most fashionable, scrutinised and controversial queen in history". Marking the 270th anniversary of the birth of this mould-breaking but maligned figure, the show celebrates her sense of style, and interrogates some of the myths associated with her. One such myth is her apocryphal "let them eat cake" comment, a brattish response to devastating bread shortages. Attributed to "a great princess" in Rousseau's Confessions, written in 1765 when Marie Antoinette was aged 10 and still in Austria, it cannot have come from her. More fake news appears in the form of the "diamond necklace affair" (1785-6), in which a necklace of more than 600 diamonds was falsely ordered in the queen's name, solidifying her reputation for excess despite her vindication at trial. A replica, along with the Sutherland Necklace, reportedly containing stones from the original, features in the exhibition. The young queen's lavish lifestyle was certainly salt in the wounds of the starving poor – she found diversion in extravagant parties, gambling and fashion Other items speak to her legacy as a tastemaker: opulent furnishings from the French Revival (1800-1890), for example, that emulated elements of her style, and frilly pink shoes from Sofia Coppola's Oscar-winning Marie Antoinette (2006), designed by Manolo Blahnik, who confesses in the catalogue's foreword that he remains "enraptured by everything about her". The young queen's lavish lifestyle was certainly salt in the wounds of the starving poor. Bound to a weak-minded and rather dull husband, who was more interested in hunting than in her, and was for seven years medically unable to consummate their marriage, she found diversion in extravagant parties, gambling and fashion. Her fancifully decorated dresses with vast structural panniers, crowned with towering ornamental hairstyles, were widely copied at the time, and later inspired pop stars such as Madonna and Rihanna, and fashion designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Dior and Moschino. 'Madame Déficit' The moniker of "Madame Déficit", however, was unjustified. Though she spent less than the king's brothers, and was just one of a series of profligate French monarchs, the foreign queen became a convenient scapegoat for the French government's handling of funds. "It's the spending on wars that is actually what bankrupts France, certainly not the money that Marie Antoinette is spending," Grant tells the BBC. "Her wardrobe budget is the equivalent today of around $1 million, but France spent $11.25 billion on just the American War of Independence." Even scaling back her spending made her new enemies. "When she stops wearing silks, the silk industry is in uproar because their livelihood is threatened," says Grant. And when, in 1783, she tried to project a different image with a portrait of her in the more casual "country" attire that she would popularise, it was swiftly replaced by something more elaborate and formal. "She is expected to create a regal spectacle," Grant continues. "That is how the monarchy maintains its authority." The folklore surrounding this early modern celebrity also overlooks her philanthropy. She recycled her wardrobe each year, sharing it between her staff; and she adopted several children, including Jean Amilcar, originally from Senegal, who she released from slavery. She also "turned down offers of expensive gifts from her husband" and "gave generously to charities", author Melanie Burrows (née Clegg), who has written widely on the period, tells the BBC. Far from being the "empty-headed idiot she is often portrayed as", argues Burrows, she was "well-intentioned, generous and kind-hearted". Marie Antoinette was considered too prominent, too vivacious, and too willing to use her charm to meddle in political affairs Presented to the French court as a peace offering after years of hostility with Austria, Marie Antoinette had split allegiances that mired her in suspicions − not all unfounded − that she shared military secrets with Austria. She was deemed indifferent to the French people, and derogatory references to her as "L'Autri-chienne" (a wordplay on the French for both Austrian and bitch) exemplify the distrust that fuelled public feeling. Unlike a king, a queen had no official power and was meant to remain in the background. Marie Antoinette was considered too prominent, too vivacious and too willing to use her charm to meddle in political affairs, secretly lobbying ministers and opposing the constitutional reforms the country cried out for. As far as her enemies were concerned, she needed to be brought down. Libellous pamphlets circulated, some pornographic, accusing her of promiscuity (Count Axel von Fersen is, in fact, her only known lover), orgies, lesbian relations and even incest. The gossip was "all driven by misogyny", argues Grant, adding that "a lot of the myths that persisted... arose in the 19th Century when her biographies [were] written by men". According to Burrows, the queen was actually quite prudish. She rarely drank, she says, engaged in only "very mild flirtation" and "hated to be seen naked even by her own maids". Yet these tropes persist. In Marie Antoinette's World – Intrigue, Infidelity, and Adultery in Versailles (2020), Will Bashor speculates that her chronic uterine bleeding was caused by venereal disease. But he also argues that she was "emotionally abused", "bored" and "neglected", and though he finds her guilty of seeking pleasure outside her marriage, concludes that, for him at least, she was "forgiven". In reality, "she was a devoted mother," Dr Laura O'Brien, Associate Professor of Modern European History at Northumbria University in the UK, tells the BBC, referencing the "gentler and more emotional connection" the queen had with her children, in contrast to her own upbringing. She was the first French queen to breastfeed, and to dress – as seen in the rejected portrait – in a manner suited to parenthood and life at her rural retreat. The continuing fascination with Europe's most loathed queen is also linked to the tragedy of her story: a child bride from a royal dynasty forced into an impossible situation, and ultimately reduced to a tragic figure in a white chemise, her hair shorn short, carried by cart to her death. For revolutionaries, she became a symbol of everything France needed to change, and her execution in 1793 attempted to cleanse the country of the worst of the Ancien Régime. Whether or not Marie Antoinette's death was justified, it failed to stifle her influence. A trend emerged for short "porcupine" haircuts and blood-red chokers suggestive of the guillotine's cut. She was detested by those who believed the stories surrounding her, but she was also widely – and enduringly – admired. "For me, this exhibition is another dream fulfilled," Blahnik commented in a recent interview. "The re-vindication of Marie Antoinette." Marie Antoinette Style is at the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London from 20 September 2025 to 22 March 2026. The accompanying book is published by V&A Publishing.
  22. ^^^^ the article I posted is from a month ago.
  23. A carrier strike group typically includes a sub but one is not always present. All three Northern Fleet Yasen submarines at sea as U.S. carrier group sails outside northern Norway Summarize As of August 25, the Yasen-class submarines Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk and Kazan are not present at the Nerpicha base in Zapadnaya Litsa. British media report about NATO warplanes searching for a Russian submarine in the waters near the US Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford strike group. Thomas Nilsen 27 August 2025 - 14:30 At least a dozen specialist NATO warplanes have since Sunday been launched to search for a Russian submarine suspected of sailing near the US Navy carrier, newspaper Express reported. Sorties were made by British, American and Norwegian P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft from bases in Scotland, Iceland and Norway, the newspaper reported. Norway has five P-8 Poseidon based at Evenes air base inside the Arctic Circle. It is not immediately clear where the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group is located on Wednesday, but the on-going training is taking place along the west coast of Norway, likely somewhere outside the Lofoten archipelago in the north. "For security reasons, the Armed Forces do not wish to provide further details about the upcoming activity at this time," Norway's military reported. None of the NATO countries around the North Sea have commented on the possible hunt for a Russian submarine. Satellite images studied by the Barents Observer show that as of August 25, all three multi-purpose submarines of the Yasen- and Yasen-M class belonging to the Russian Northern Fleet are out at sea. The Severodvinsk (K-573), the Kazan (K-561) and the Arkhangelsk (K-564) all have Nerpicha as their home base. The base is located in the Litsa fjord some 60 kilometres from Russia's border with Norway and there are no submarines present at the piers. After August 25, clouds have made it impossible to study satellite images from the naval bases along the coast of the Kola Peninsula. The Yasen-M class submarines are the most quiet of all Russian submarines. They are armed with both torpedoes and a set of cruise missiles. U.S. - Norway military cooperation "Practicing our interoperability in the High North environment ensures a secure and stable region through defense against malign influence in critical waterways," a Facebook post by the U.S. carrier group said. The Navy added: "We are showcasing our collective deterrence and commitment to defend the Euro-Atlantic region." The two Norwegian warships Thor Heyerdal (frigate) and Maud (supply ship) are sailing together with the carrier group. On Wednesday, Norwegian F-35s flew side by side with F/A-18 from the air wing of USS Gerald R. Ford. Last November, the U.S. carrier group Harry S. Truman exercised with the Norwegians in the waters outside the Lofoten archipelago. Earlier in August this year, three U.S. air force B-1B Lancer bombers were deployed to Ørland air base in Norway. The increase in U.S. military training with Norway comes ahead of the massive strategic exercise Zapad-2025 (West-2025) that Russia and its puppet ally Belarus are about to kick off, likely in mid-September.
  24. Blame it on the Hindus.
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