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He's calling Michigan and Michigan State

We had it scheduled to watch Saturday night but got distracted.  We wanted to see it before the Oscars.

31 minutes ago, romad1 said:

If you saw "The Crown" when Anthony Eden is obsessing over Nassar and the Suez.  That guy at least knew what he was doing but he was an old man in a hurry trying to cement his reputation apart from Churchill.  

It was the last time i recall that the US and UK were on significantly opposite sides of a crisis where military assistance would not be forthcoming.   History rhymes. 

I loved that show but stopped when they got to Di and Charles... I figured I experienced all of that already via tabloids.  But I learned so much before.  Great show. 

Is "touch grass" the "6-7" equivalent for MAGA?

Dearborn has 3, Silver Criket, BT's, and the one mentioned above, don't recall the name.  There was one on Ford road but that was technically Detroit.  Used to go to theC Criket a lot.   My wife worked with a girl at McDonald's who later went there.  Played an April Fool's joke on me one year where she called to tell me she went to interview... got as far as "I took my top off for the guy" before I lost it and she had to admit it was a joke.

For being under Sharia Law.....

These places really aren't popular among the kids anymore.  My son is 25 and he and his friends think they are dumb.  A family member got married recently and his future step son tried to arrange a party bus to go and I had absolutely no interest.  Sounds gross now especially since those girls could be our daughters.

34 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Are the strip clubs part of Shariah?   How do they dance in burkas? 

They absolutely are not.

But like many religions.... there's some who ignore it.  There's a famous local guy who is prominent at anti gay topics at school boards, he's tried to run for office, now he got busted for drugs... but his IG is now private after people exposed him in the various "champagne rooms".

Benetti doing NCAA games this weekend?  I know he's got Michigan and State today.  Wonder if htat played into the decision.  Were they on TV twice this spring? Seems low.

The owner of LaShish fled the country years ago on terrorism charges. At some point former employees got the name and opened up what has essentially become a chain of Lashish places around the area. In some cases the name slightly changed but they use the same font and color scheme. the original la shish was in west Dearborn in a building that was since demolished and built back up.
That Gentleman’s Club you refer to, about 10 or 15 years ago, sold the most alcohol in the state other than the Palace. Not sure what.was going on there. 

3 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I don’t speak MAGA. I use words that have more than three syllables. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. 

Yeah and him not being nominated for directing was a travesty.  He only got one nomination and that was for a producer on a few good men. When he died I had the same thought. You list off his first batch and it’s amazing. I watched The Sure Thing again shortly after he died, The Rewatchables covered it, and I forgot how much of the movie I remembered and liked. 

This room was nice until someone came in smelling like **** and diesel. 

I certainly take it for granted and especially when going to other parts of the country.  My only problem is it's hard to find one that serves alcohol. La Pita here does.  There's a Sahara down near Comerica park that has a nice bar.  To me that knocks it down from a nice dinner to just casual food.  I do have a friend that has a place, I won't say which, who will give me a Corona while I wait for my carry out.  He doesn't sell it.  He trades food with a bar down the street and they give him a case of beer.

A lot of it is religious as a lot of Muslims will not/cannot go to a place that serves alcohol.   Next time you come try Malek Al Kabob.  

In a movie group I belong to A Few Good Men came up and damn... for me that was peak cinema.  What I mean is that in the early 90's it seemed like we could go see a good movie at the theater any time.  Maybe it was my age at the time or the fact i had a friend who was a manager at the Star Theater who gave me a huge stack of Free Passes that they gave out when something bad happene.  THey could not refuse these, even when it said 'no passes' for new releases.  For about 7 years I didn't pay for a movie.

Anyway... just take a look at box office numbers from like 92-97.... 

And A Few Good Men?  Aside from the main case you had Noah Wylie, Cuba Gooding Jr, Christopher Guest, Josh Malina all in minor roles.  Has Guest ever done that?  Just a straight role.  Obviously Reiner is a good friend of his...

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

and now that they want it to go away, it won’t.

They suffer all the ills command regimes will always suffer, but they still have much better vision than the Sovs ever did. Unfortunately that is probably because after Mao they developed a reasonable method of succession that kept them out of another cult of personality dictatorship. There was Deng in the background for a long time but Deng was a one of. But now Xi has thrown a Monkeywrench into that process big time.And thus they are regressing.

OTOH, on one score, I think predictors of demographic disaster as countries come to stable population numbers just need to look at Japan to see their arguments are overdrawn. I think it has a lot to with a simple misreading of economic data. If your population is growing at 3%/yr like people became habituated to, and your GDP goes flat, you’ve got a situation that’s going to cause deep social stress. If your GDP goes flat when your population has decreased by 1%, per capitas are still rising and the countryside stays happy as a clam. The only people it’s gloom & doom for are the local imperialists and pols paranoid their nation might “fall behind” some other nation in economic rank (we certainly get that one here) but populations don’t really care about that unless the demagogues work at it, the only economics people really care about are their own and maybe their neighbors’.

Paul Ehrlich died the other day.

I first became aware of him from my conservative/libertarian days of reading PJ O Rourke and he wrote about the famous bet Ehrlich and Julian Simon made.

Thanks for doing this. One stop shopping. 

19 minutes ago, Screwball said:

I was 10. In those days that stuff was off the chart incredible and cool. Our black and white TV made it look real. We all wanted to be Astronauts.

Right out of central casting.  Dave is still with us.  One of 4 moon walkers still alive. He may have become a shuttle commander like John Young and Ken Mattingly but he was part of a scandal on Apollo 15 where they took some stamps and covers up and later sold them.  It was a very big deal at the time so he was sent away to run a NASA out post. Prior to that he was well regarded. He was a tech advisor on the Apollo 13 movie. 

March 16, 1966 - Gemini 8 launches and comes home early after a near deadly situation. Neil Armstrong and David Scott performed the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit. A major hurdle for the Apollo lunar missions. It was the 40th anniversary of the Goddard rocket mentioned above. Shortly after they docked they starting in a roll and assumed the problem was the agena rocket they docked with so they released it. That made it worse and they were rolling almost one revolution a second, nearing blackout.  They stabilized by using the reaction control system which meant the mission was over. The first man to walk on the moon and the first man to drive on the moon nearly died in space. 

Oh totally. Unless the guy was ok with it. I’m sure he wasn’t but who knows. 

8 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

His full story said Dunn would have been dead by June but our hero Trump stepped in and had his doctors do surgery to save Dunn's life. Donald taking credit for the doctors work. Typical...

Not even mentioning the violation of the guy's privacy. It should be illegal to disclose somebody's private medical information. It is....

It's illegal/violation of HIPPA for a medical entity or medical person or an employer.  But if someone else knows they can say whatever they want.

I love BTTF.  Probably a 'You had to be there' thing but it's quintissential 80's and Spielberg.  I love that it's very obviously a movie set.  You got the integration with music and Huey Lewis.  I have a list of "perfect" movies and it's on there, along with Jaws.  Part of the criteria is accessibility.  I get that violence and sex might turn off people so it consists of movies you could pretty much show in any setting and it will work.

58 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Jesus Christ 

That’s who they think they are doing it for. 

They will never admit something he does is a bad idea. 

This regime doesn't care about popularity or politics at this point.  They don't need voters.  They are just making themselves rich. Milk it all for another 10 months and after that let the dem congress do what they want.  they can impeach a dozen times, no removals will take place.

There's zero consequences to be had for Trump and his circle. They don't even care about the GOP anymore.  They got elected and are making billions.  Vance and Cruz and Rubio can deal with the leftovers while the Trumps and the billionaires ride off.

18 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Let this be a source of strength to your spiritual journey.  Think of Bill Murray in The Razor's Edge. 

I have PBS Documentaries on in the background talking about Apollo... b/c what else would I have on after burning through 2 episodes of the Sopranos and one of Better Call Saul?  These TPS reports write themselves.