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  1. We've probably reached the point where fake hate crimes occur more than actual hate crimes. Looks like Empire actor had his two buddies on the show fake attack him. He tried to play the Race Card and the Gay Card ... oops. Of course the regards already had him on the emotive circuit. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-jussie-smollett-persons-of-interest-20190215-story.html
  2. That Hurts run with two jukes was the epitome of this defensive tactic we've apparently incorporated. Our players dive at the ballcarrier with their shoulder and pray it takes them down They don't keep their head up, they don't wrap up, they just dive at someone and pray. Sometimes, if they're (un)lucky, said dive goes helmet to helmet and they got tossed for targeting. Shit needs to get fixed.
  3. Posted a song in the Obscure bands thread that reminded me of Dave Edmunds, which got me thinking about Rockpile. A supergroup before there was a name - Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Terry Williams. Let's hear some of your favorite bashers! Another album I had and lost, MaxHorn posted it on his old blog a while back, glad to get another copy of it. Credited to Dave Edmunds, but as you can see in the video, it's Rockpile: Again, Rockpile masquerading as a Nick Lowe solo effort (Kind of like Rod Stewart with the Faces):
  4. Tesla driver found dead in his car, at the bottom of a pond. http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2018/05/21/tesla-driver-found-dead-in-car-submerged-in-pond.amp.html
  5. I joined the 360 board in 1996 and left in 1999 for Hornfans. Then I left Hornfans for Shaggy in December 2008. Now I've left Shaggy for Surly in March 2018. So I'm guessing this place will be gone in 9-10 years. That's about the shelf life for a UT message board.
  6. CooterBrown, there are easier/better ways to preserve that than a 250 page Word doc.
  7. Used to tapa, how do we upload pics, tweets, gifs, etc here?
  8. How did we miss this? (From February 19, 2022) https://abc13.com/hit-and-run-houston-fatal-car-accidents-man-by-pedestrian/11581089/ In a twist of irony(?) if you search Daniel Martinez the first result is a professional cyclist from Colombia. So was this guy also drunk on starfuckers and heard about our Austin case, decided to follow Gabby Nestande's precedent and drive the rest of the way home and pretend he thought it was a rock or deer? I'm guessing he's not a young blonde with political connections. We'll see how that works out. History Lesson: Gabrielle Nestande (now Gabrielle Marchbanks) was tried for intoxication manslaughter of Courtney Griffen as a result of a hit and run in Tarrytown in May of 2011. This was only 4 years after her father, Bruce Nestande, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DUI and hit and run charges. Gabrielle was sentenced to 10 years supervised probation, 180 days in county jail and 6 months ankle monitor and breath interlock device which seemed like a very light sentence based on the amount of drinking prosecutors showed she did that night so there may be something to this deer defense. From this lawyer's site: https://joelagordon.com/bicyclist-killed-in-hit-and-run-on-mykawa-road-in-houston-daniel-martinez-arrested/ Very similar circumstances: Late weekend night/early morning, most of the drivers have probably been drinking, hit and dragged the victim, did not stop. I hope the police collected evidence of any possible intoxication. Anyone else heard about this event?
  9. Nothing about being able to take a defensive driving course or hire an attorney to receive deferred adjudication.
  10. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/05/19/woman-kicked-out-of-southwest-houston-club-goes-back-with-gun-and-starts-shooting-another-woman-shot-in-chest/
  11. Starting this thread early since it may be a glorious year for coastlines throughout the world. We're off to an amazing start for ocean temps. In a few years, we can catch our fish pre-cooked right from the ocean. Source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world Daily Surface temp Source: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world
  12. From Brentwood, heading to the gym and ready to shit on Baylor one last time . . . TEXAS!!!!
  13. Yes, including that crown: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2023/aug/03/freddie-mercurys-beloved-piano-song-drafts-and-hun/ And a link to the items up for auction: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/freddie-mercury-a-world-of-his-own-the-evening-sale?locale=en
  14. Actually we know what going on, the bigger question is what are the broader implications for our society and culture? Rising equity is great for current homeowners, but is it good for large swaths of the population to be priced out of their own neighborhoods? Will your kids ever be able to buy a house anywhere near your neighborhood? Alternatively, I bet most of you who are living in good spots currently grew up in much different circumstances. Will our kids see the same improvement? There is a massive consolidation of ownership of the housing stock going on in this country. 50 years ago all houses and most apartment buildings we’re individually owned. Today more and more people every day live in dwellings owned by fewer and fewer groups. As an apartment developer by trade, my job is to deliver vehicles that reach further and further into peoples pockets to facilitate this consolidation of ownership capital. This is how capitalism works but is this a good thing? What does the future hold for construction materials and labor markets? Do we ever return to a scenario where available land, relaxed approvals, and reasonable costs create affordable suburban lifestyles again? Did we just experience a one time set of circumstances that can’t be duplicated and we shouldn’t expect it to? Are prices currently a bubble? Houses and apartments are being purchased with real equity these days Vs the run up in 05/06/07. But how far can the appreciation go? Can Incomes keep pace? Where is the demand coming from? We know supply is short because of lack of listed inventory on resales and lack of ability for builders to build enough new supply due to geography, approvals, and costs. But isn’t one house bought equal to one house sold? Is this a zero sum game or are the demographics of increasing rate of household formation really driving demand for new housing units? These are things I wonder about as our housing situation in the country seems to be in unprecedented times. Interested in what you all think as well.
  15. Tennis great Boris Becker could face a prison sentence after being found guilty Friday of illicitly moving thousands of dollars from a bank account after he was declared bankrupt. A jury at London's Southwark Crown Court convicted Becker on four charges under the Insolvency Act, including removal of property, concealing debt and two counts of failing to disclose estate assets. The German star was found to have transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds after his June 2017 bankruptcy from his business account to other accounts, including those of his ex-wife Barbara and estranged wife Sharlely "Lilly" Becker. https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33697634/tennis-great-boris-becker-found-guilty-bankruptcy-trial-face-jail
  16. Getting a Tesla. Trying to see if we should get the full wall mount charger from Tesla, a third part non proprietary charger, or just the 240v to charge the mobile charger that no longer comes with the vehicle. will likely drive it less than 30 miles a day
  17. Got a big anniversary coming up, and the wife (no pics) and I want to venture beyond the Grapevine high-end steakhouse scene to celebrate. What are the great, special occasion places in Dallas and Fort Worth these days?
  18. For the longest, on both my laptop and on my iPhone, when I would click on a topic to read it it would always automatically take me to the topic page and entry where I last viewed it. Now when I click on a topic it always takes me to the first page. For topics that have multiple pages it is a pain to figure out where I last read. What happened? How can I fix it?
  19. A la Washington Redskins (not the least ironical that The Rangers were the old D.C. team): The Texas Rangers’ team name must go Texas Rangers pitcher Corey Kluber throws to the plate in an intrasquad game during baseball practice at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Tex., on July 9. (Tony Gutierrez/AP) Opinion by Karen Attiah Global Opinions editor July 13, 2020 at 11:06 a.m. CDT As the Washington football team finally gives up its racist slur of a name, there is one major sports team that has avoided the spotlight and resisted meaningful engagement with the violent and racist implications of its name. To know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen. I grew up in Dallas, raised on myths about Texas Rangers as brave and wholesome guardians of the Texas frontier, helping protect innocent settlers from violent Indians. At church, boys could sign up to be Royal Rangers, the Christian equivalent of the Boy Scouts. I still remember the excitement when Chuck Norris himself, star of the television show “Walker, Texas Ranger,” came to visit my elementary school class. My dad sometimes took my younger siblings and me to Arlington Stadium to watch the Rangers play. No state mythologizes itself quite like Texas, so of course, it made sense to have a team name that embodied that gauzy, self-regarding history. At the same time, being from a Ghanaian immigrant family, we weren’t that invested in baseball, or the team name. I just liked going because my dad would sometimes let me take sips of his Coca-Cola mixed with beer. What we didn’t realize at the time was that the Rangers were a cruel, racist force when it came to the nonwhites who inhabited the beautiful and untamed Texas territory. The first job of the Rangers, formed in 1835 after Texas declared independence from Mexico, was to clear the land of Indian for white settlers. That was just the start. The Rangers oppressed black people, helping capture runaway slaves trying to escape to Mexico; in the aftermath of the Civil War, they killed free blacks with impunity. “The negroes here need killing,” a Ranger wrote in a local newspaper in 1877, after Rangers fired on a party of black former Buffalo soldiers, killing four of them and a 4-year old girl. A jury would later find that the black soldiers “came to their death while resisting officers in the discharge of their duty,” an unsettling echo of the justification for modern-day police killings. In the early 20th century, Rangers played a key role in some of the worst episodes of racial violence in American history along the Texas-Mexico border. Mexicans were run out of their homes and subject to mass lynchings and shootings. The killings got so out of control that the federal government threatened to intervene. In his new book, “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers,” Doug J. Swanson writes, “In service to Anglo civilization’s slow march, they functioned as executioners. Their job was to seize and hold Texas for the white man.” But Ranger racism is not an artifact of the distant past. Rangers would be called on to protect white supremacy into the 1960s, deployed to prevent school integration. In 1956, when black students were attempting to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, Rangers stood by as the mob attacked them — and threatened to arrest the black students. For their efforts, Swanson writes, they were rewarded with a chicken dinner from the White Citizens’ Council in Texarkana. In anticipation of controversy from Swanson’s book, Dallas city officials quietly removed a 12-foot-tall statue of Ranger Jay Banks, the commanding officer who oversaw the efforts to prevent school integration, from Love Field airport. Perhaps city officials wanted to avoid the statue becoming a target of protest and heated public dialogue. As it stands now, the fate of the statue, which has been at Love Field since 1963, is uncertain. As a black Texan, I would shed no tears if Banks’s statue stayed locked in a dusty storage unit forever. But there is no storage unit for the baseball team, whose owners have expressed no inclination to change the name. “While we may have originally taken our name from the law enforcement agency, since 1971 the Texas Rangers Baseball Club has forged its own, independent identity,” the team said in a statement. “The Texas Rangers Baseball Club stands for equality. We condemn racism, bigotry and discrimination in all forms." This is revisionist history — and the team knows it. When the franchise, formerly the Washington Senators, moved to Texas in 1971, the Ranger name was met with protests, which were duly ignored. It’s time to pay attention. “It may be argued that the team name honors the current agency, not the worst elements of its history,” Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman, a native Texan, wrote last month, referencing the Rangers’ modern incarnation as an elite force. “But without the history and the legends, the franchise would not have adopted the name. No one would name a major league team ‘The Police’ or ‘The Highway Patrol.' " If the team ownership, as it proclaims, condemns “racism, bigotry and discrimination in all forms,” there is an easy way for it to prove that. The Texas Rangers’ team name must go. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/13/texas-rangers-team-name-must-go/
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