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Jeebus

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  1. According to this Disney info site, it has 26,039 spaces, and I think they're only counting theme park parking, and not also resort parking. I would imagine that number will keep growing as well, as they further expand across its 40+ square mile property.http://www.wdwmagic.com/facts!.htm
  2. We ate there Friday night. Got there around 8, only took 10 minutes for a table to open up. The beer selection was nice. The food was good as well. We ordered about half of the menu between the four of us to share and sample. Everything tasted like it had been slowly and meticulously made with care, and not just grabbed from the freezer and nuked before plating. The gator fritters stole the show. We ended up having to order extra of those. The burger was advertised as ground fresh daily, and it certainly tasted that way. No d-bags to be found. Mostly young couples doubled up (like us), a few bottom-end corporate parties (think cubicle farm crews), and hipsters. Lots and lots of hipsters!
  3. Thank you. I know that he couldn't get the death penalty for what he did. It was just frustrating to see a family man die over something so stupid. Something, that in my opinion, would have never even happened, had he been kept out of the country in the first place. I know there are good "hard working" illegals, but all I keep seeing are examples of the bad.
  4. Would you have a problem with someone getting drunk then accidently shooting someone with a gun? Pretty much the same difference in my opinion. Someone intoxicated doing something they shouldn't be doing while intoxicated, affecting another party with death. As for the illegal angle, I'm all for a program to convert what we've got here, but only after a wall, with a moat, and alligators, and sharpshooters, and whatever else that smart ass President so wisely suggested during his recent trip to Texas is built or installed so that we may finally take control of this epidemic. It's all a joke to people like him, he'll never understand death and tragedy - which is so painfully ironic given his elected position.
  5. I guess no one wants to touch the illegal angle. Don't want to offend anyone, right?
  6. Not sure what you're asking. You did look at the link?
  7. I thought the Midtown TIRZ falls under the city, which is also who I thought we were talking about.
  8. I-10 was intended to be more convenient to Greyhound, but I understand your point. Is either group appeased now?
  9. Not sure. Just throwing out ideas. It seems that the one common complaint from everyone when talking about Midtown is that bus station.
  10. So, apparently you didn't even bother to read the original post, in that the man was wanted for assault charges in a triple shooting in San Francisco, had no CHL, and was carrying a firearm in a bus station?
  11. Is there no area along I-10 that is mostly commercial in nature that would allow for both easy access to the station and to a major highway, as well as being removed from any residential neighborhoods?
  12. Here's the story: Link: http://www.khou.com/news/local/2-officers-shot-in-downtown-Houston-121444819.html Now.. here's the raw footage of it happening:
  13. For the city of Houston all 911 calls are received by civilian call takers who determine the emergency, input basic information, then route the information to either HFD or HPD where the call is finally dispatched. HPD dispatches calls by placing low priority calls in a que for available officers to select from on their mobile computer. High priority calls are automatically assigned. If no one has taken a low priority call after a certain amount of time, it is automatically assigned to the closest available officer. HFD dispatches using an established algorithm designed to send the most appropriate units immediately. E.g. Ambulance and Fire Truck to a chest pain call, or a pre-determined number of fire trucks to a fire. Dispatchers can only add additional units if a near by unit requests to be added, if they get updated notes from the 911 caller, or if at the incident the officer requests more resources. HFD doesn't get to pick and choose low priority calls. If you call for an ambulance for a heart attack or a stubbed toe, they will come immediately with lights and sirens every time.
  14. Whatever pays the rent. Anything would be better than that dark ally that's there now.
  15. They could limit their renovations to just the removal of those foul "Fowl Ball" Chick-fil-a advertisements on the foul ball poles, and I would be happy!
  16. I have a quick "late to the game" kind of question.. A common excuse why not to build is that the Silber location is "better". Why is that? Is this strictly opinion based or have any of the groups against the Walmart shown any data to prove this statement? Sorry if this question was answered on page 6 of this thread, I just can't bear to read through all the pages of anti-walmart rhetoric. I'm just looking for real data to support this claim.
  17. If you look at it, there are only four buildings that make up that "downtown" urban environment you're taking delight in. You could probably still find places to recreate that scene through out the 3rd ward today. Like the other poster said, the location was staged for the scene. Fresh paint, signs, and people!
  18. Apparently I'm not middle class, like I had previously though.
  19. What mom & pops? This is Houston - the 4th largest city in the nation and the 6th largest metro (soon to be 5th) area in the nation. This is one of the most interior neighborhoods of the city as well. So what exactly is going to be preserved that as mentioned above hasn't already been closed down by Target, CVS, Walgreens, or Kroger if a Walmart isn't built there?
  20. No, they have a new executive director who was the former director of the Denver firefighter museum. She's currently in the process of renovating the existing museum before starting on the new one.
  21. I would think "least liked", versus "most hated".
  22. What's the timeline for Westbury square? I shopped at the cigar shop until it closed after Hurricane Ike. I don't think there's any tenants left there now.
  23. That's crazy. I actually wrote out the accepted definition of the term before realizing what I had done. It was then I decided to drop the definition and instead just go with the term. Whooda thunk it.
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