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[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
What's not to like about a girl who gets through rehab on whipits and cough meds?

And wanted X in Vegas over the weekend because it won't show up on the monitor.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I think it's more a command center thing.

Houston is home to Halliburton. So it's more important than DC.

Not any more. Our military operations are being outsourced to a Dubai-based company.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/bu...erland&emc=rss

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
One of these cities is not like the others -- one of these cities just doesn't belong.

• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated the Bay Area today as one of the six urban areas in the country most at risk for terrorist attacks, as it doled out nearly $750 million in anti-terror grants. . . .
  
  The Department of Homeland Security had been criticized in the past by officials from large cities who argued that the government was not living up to promises that it would focus heavily on the risks cities face.
  
  Today, the agency gave 55 percent of the grants to six urban areas --
  
  the Bay Area, Los Angeles/Long Beach, Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York/New Jersey and Houston.

SF Gate

Houston? If you need a sixth city, I would think Detroit would be more at risk.

The auto industry is more important than the oil industry and the second largest port in the US?

ETA:
In 1947, my father was in elementary school in Pt. Arthur, Texas. A ship in Texas City, Texas full of fertilizer blew up, killing 518 people. That explosion sent shockwaves that burst the windows in my father's classroom 100 miles away. See map for idea of distances. And read the Texas City wiki that terrorists probably masturbate to. People compared the explosion to atomic bombs and earthquakes.

If you're a terrorist, you want to go for a big, dramatic bang that no one is going to ignore. And you're going to go for massive impact that lasts a lot longer than just the initial bomb going off. Hitting downtown Houston with a dirty bomb or whatever would only accomplish the first. Blowing up a few oil tankers and refineries in Galveston Bay and the Port of Houston would shut down a good hunk of shipping in the country, cripple an already weakened energy infrastructure, and yeah, cost a lot of lives, including probably mine. That NASA is right in Clear Lake, not too far from the refineries in Pasadena, would just be the icing on the cake.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Not any more. Our military operations are being outsourced to a Dubai-based company.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/bu...erland&emc=rss

So Bush and Cheney do take their orders from the Middle East?

Slave, you'd better practice up on the Shahada.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
And you know better than anyone else what is most likely to be hit? Sometimes you are more of an ass than a conservative is.

I'm happy that trained professionals are making these decisions, and that Burger thinks it has nothing to do with who represents which city in Congress.

My opinion on these issues is worth exactly what you are paying for it.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm happy that trained professionals are making these decisions, and that Burger thinks it has nothing to do with who represents which city in Congress.

My opinion on these issues is worth exactly what you are paying for it.

Hmph. I think you were just seeing if you could rile me up enough to draw a map.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Hmph. I think you were just seeing if you could rile me up enough to draw a map.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Hmph. I think you were just seeing if you could rile me up enough to draw a map.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Where is Bilmore?

He was shitcanned by Rachel Paulose. He should have a lot of time on his hands.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
He was shitcanned by Rachel Paulose. He should have a lot of time on his hands.

Whoa. How did this end up here?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Whoa. How did this end up here?

Bwwwahahahaha! Mmmwwaaahahahaha! Hahahahah [cough, cough].

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Bwwwahahahaha! Mmmwwaaahahahaha! Hahahahah [cough, cough].

Stop it. You're scaring me.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
What's not to like about a girl who gets through rehab on whipits and cough meds?

You have to do an amazing amount of whipits to stay high for 45 days. You'd basically need a tank. And at the end of it, you'd be retarded.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
map of Houston

Can you give me a broader view, so I can see where it is. It looks like there is a coast, but I've never thought of Houston as being on either coast. Other than that, there are the same squarely alligned roads that indicate somewhere is nowhere. I think it's the square roads that make Republicans so deathly dull -no scenery, and directions based on simple, square coordinates.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Can you give me a broader view, so I can see where it is. It looks like there is a coast, but I've never thought of Houston as being on either coast. Other than that, there are the same squarely alligned roads that indicate somewhere is nowhere. I think it's the square roads that make Republicans so deathly dull -no scenery, and directions based on simple, square coordinates.

Go to http://www.google.com. Click on the "Maps" link at the top of the page. In the white box that will appear at the top of the page, type "Houston, TX" and the click on "Search Maps" next to it. A map of Houston will appear, and you will be able to zoom in and out to get a sense of its proximity to the coast. Were I at home, I could post a screenshot of these maps, but I can't do that here for technical reasons I won't bore you with.