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  1. 21 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

    Thanks for the hotel recommendation. When we travel, splurging on hotels aren't something we do. As long as there is a clean place to sleep, and hot water, we're good. Usually look at 3 star type ones. We'd much rather spend less there and more at nice restaurants and excursions. Just our preference.

    I've heard that from other places like Santorini, so I really appreciate your perspective. 

    All of that will be fun.  And that hotel preference is what I usually do.  But, the Greece trip was big and we went special.  If you do do Santorini, splurge enough to get a hotel on the caldera side.  There will be cheap beach hotels on the other side, but you will miss the experience.  

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  2. Athens will be more fun than you think.  The Grand Hotel Bretagne is a nice splurge.  Of course, do the Acropolis early and spend time walking the parks and going to the Panathenaic Stadium.

    I am sure some folks are about to tell you to skip Santorni.  Take those comments with a grain of salt.  Yes, part of it, are touristy, but probably less so now with less cruise ships arriving.  We stayed in at the Chromata in Imerovigli, a quiet village up the hill from Thera/Fira.  It was like being a film set or on the Turman Show, so beautiful you can't believe it.

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  3. Had anyone been to Ruggeri's in forever?
    I used to work in Uptown and we'd go for lunch on occasion.  The founder/namesake croaked this week.

    In the 90’s it was Ruggeri’s or Lombardi’s. Both were classic and I had so many boring business lunches at each but also fun dinners. I remember when I didn’t know what Risotto was and thought that a Caesar salad was traditional Italian.


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  4. 3 hours ago, Landomatic said:

    Wow, I guess I don't get out much any more.  Just got this email...not sure I follow any of it though.  So, Macellaio and Lucia are both closed?  Or Macellaio is closing?  Or both are moving?  And one is moving to where Salaryman used to be?  Maybe @DFWTexEx or one of our other BA people can decode.

    No love lost from me if Macellaio permanently shutters.  That place was insultingly bad the one time I ate there, pre-pandemic.

    https://lucia-106392.square.site/

     

    The Jennifer and Davis Ugyur owned at operated Lucia and Macellaio.  They also held the lease and financed Salaryman, the super popular, award winning Japanese / Ramen space next to Macellaio.

    The pandemic made operating the legacy version of Lucia impossible   No outdoor dining.   Its charming, intimate but very tight space, left no opportunity to for social distancing or outdoor dining.

    Macellaio eventually re-opened because of the outdoor dining space and open spaces inside, but never picked up steam to pre-pandemic sales.   The takeout menus from Lucia and Macellaio almost always sold out, but that was not enough to keep both restaurants running with the loss of most of the liquor and wine sales.

    Then, more tragedy, as Justin Holt, the former Lucia sous-chef chef that opened Salaryman to much acclaim, was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia.  Salaryman tried to hang on through the summer with staff preparing the takeout food, but eventually had to close permanently.

    The Ugyurs faced some significant challenges.   The thing that might have saved them, as sad as it seemed, is that the lease on the legacy Lucia space was expiring.   They had substantial continuing lease obligations on the Macellaio and Salaryman spaces.  

    So, they made the decision to leave the charming Lucia space and move Lucia to the Macellaio space where it will operate on a bigger scale, with a full bar, outdoor dining, etc.   So, Lucia will live on, but different.  Macaellaio will close permanently.  The small Salaryman space will be used to stage the now successful Lucia takeout business.

    All's well that ends well; we hope.  I too was not a big fan of Macaellaio so this suits me.

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  5. On 1/1/2021 at 5:23 AM, Bama Llama said:

    "No Regrets" is fine music and Piaf awesome.  Combining those with wobbly Jello and Fuzzy slippers on car tops every. fucking. five. minutes. since football started in September makes me hate all music and everything French, at least until my madness and rage slowly abate.  Zut, alors!

    Is this the most aired commercial right now?  I love that music and it was tolerable the first 10 times I saw it.  But, it is pretty much on a continuous loop right now.

  6. Do any of you know people that are open about all this in real life?  I live in a left leaning historic district in Oak Cliff, so my bubble is mostly educated progressives dotted with open minded conservatives, but no one that would actually talk about this shit.   My social media has plenty of right leaning folks, but again none of this.   Yet, I see people on TV, marching, lifting kilts, etc. so there are people that are willing to be open about their craziness.  If you know them, what is it like?  How do you interact?

  7. On 12/9/2020 at 3:25 PM, Helobious said:

    Selena series has a bit of a low budget Lifetime feel to it. But I still enjoyed it. 

    Watching it pretty much as a comedy.   It is so low rent and every single thing about it is bad:  writing, acting, directing, etc.  The timeline screw ups are laughable but also insulting, as if they didn't think the people watching it would know or care.  The Lifetime moves are Oscar worthy compared to this mess.  [Mecician-American, listed to Tejano music, grew up in the Valley in that timeframe...my Dad's most treasured possession is a picture of him dancing with Selena, so maybe I am sensitive]

  8. SCOTUSBLOG Publisher:

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    Opinion: Don’t just deny Texas’ original action. Decimate it.

    Texas’ attempt to bring an original action challenging the election results in four states is not a serious legal claim in a legitimate procedural posture, for reasons that many people have already given and that I will not repeat here. The easy thing for the Supreme Court to do is simply deny Texas permission to file the complaint (and deny the motions to intervene as moot) and be done with it. No fuss, no muss.

    But the court should do more. It is perfectly ordinary and appropriate for the justices to write an opinion explaining the various reasons why they are rejecting Texas’ request. Indeed, the minority of justices who think that the court is required to accept original actions like Texas’ may well write short opinions of their own or note that they think the case was properly filed. So there is nothing overreaching if a majority of the court explains why the case is meritless.

    The justices’ decision whether to do that needs to account for this extraordinary, dangerous moment for our democracy. President Donald Trump, other supportive Republicans, and aligned commentators have firmly convinced many tens of millions of people that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. If that view continues to take hold, it threatens not only our national politics for the next four years but the public’s basic faith in elections of all types that are the foundations of our society.

    A simple five-page per curiam opinion genuinely could end up in the pantheon of all-time most significant rulings in American history. Every once in a long while, the court needs to invest some of its accumulated capital in issuing judgments that are not only legally right but also respond to imminent, tangible threats to the nation. That is particularly appropriate when, as here, the court finds itself being used as a tool to actively undermine faith in our democratic institutions — including by the members of the court’s bar on whom the justices depend to act much more responsibly.

    In a time that is so very deeply polarized, I cannot think of a person, group or institution other than the Supreme Court that could do better for the country right now. Supporters of the president who have been gaslighted into believing that there has been a multi-state conspiracy to steal the election recognize that the court is not a liberal institution. If the court will tell the truth, the country will listen.

    This.

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  9. Just now, Dahobbs said:

    I assume he meant intervening in the legal sense of asking the Court for permission to join the lawsuit as an interested party rather than interfering with the Court's handling of the case. Intervention is common and not definitely not a crime.  

    And I think he actually meant filing an amicus brief, but he doesn't know how any of this works.

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  10. So, a couple of members of the State Board of Education got sick after an in-person meeting where masks were on and off.  

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    "I wasn't aware that six feet indoors was different from six feet outdoors," said Little, a Fairview Republican.

    Little said she still feels comfortable with in-person meetings. Though she understands the dangers of the coronavirus, she is frustrated that "everyone is so scared of it that they're letting it monopolize their lives."

    We are still here.

  11. I was coming here to post or ask about the Texas lawsuit.  So embarrassing.  Clearly an attempt to relitigate everything at the Supreme Court.  I can't imagine SCOTUS even blinking an eye at this, but it is an interesting jurisdictional move to simply bypass everything by creating a state vs. state action.

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  12. 19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    How the hell did the US get back above 1,100 deaths a day?

    And North Dakota is having to shift their National Guard from contact-tracing to notifying the people who are actually infected, because they are "overwhelmed". How can they be "overwhelmed", they have less people than Fort Worth.

    2020 has decided it's going to goat-fuck us on the way out the door.

    How?

    From Idaho, where all mitigation has been left to local officials:

    The hospital in Coeur d’Alene reached 99% capacity a day earlier, even after doubling up patients in rooms and buying more hospital beds. Idaho is one of several states where a surge of COVID-19 infections is overwhelming hospitals, likely in part because cooler weather is sending people indoors, U.S. health officials said

    “We’re facing staff shortages, and we have a lot of physician fatigue. This has been going on for seven months — we’re tired,” Lee said. He introduced several doctors who testified about the struggle COVID-19 patients face, the burden on hospitals and how masks reduce the spread of the virus.

    But the board voted 4-3 to end the mask mandate. Board members overseeing the operations of Idaho’s public health districts are appointed by county commissioners and not required to have any medical experience.

    Board member Walt Kirby said he was giving up on the idea of controlling the spread of coronavirus.

    I personally do not care whether anybody wears a mask or not. If they want to be dumb enough to walk around and expose themselves and others, that’s fine with me,” Kirby said. “Nobody’s wearing the damned mask anyway. ... I’m sitting back and watching them catch it and die. Hopefully I’ll live through it.”

    Another member, Allen Banks, denied COVID-19 exists.

    “Something’s making these people sick, and I’m pretty sure that it’s not coronavirus, so the question that you should be asking is, ‘What’s making them sick?’” he told the medical professionals who testified.

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  13. The village is just crap, but fuck Elon Musk.

     

    That being said, Boca Chica beach itself is beautiful.   Or at least it was.  As a kid, we would go out there and it was just like being on a real island.  No amenities.  No electricity.  Nothing.  You built a big fire.  As kids, we had adventures.  Jumped in the water.  Got out to eat some grilled meat and then cold watermelon.  It was perfect until it was time to come home.  And you couldn't rinse off and you came home sunburned, sticky from the salt water and everything was full of sand.   Those were the days.

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