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I thought I saw them unloading a backhoe on the capital street side. I drove by it before I realized that it wasn't rail related.

can anyone confirm?

Well, we quickly moved to other topics, particularly since apparently they've been under quite a bit of pressure to have more urban type buildings.

I happen to talk to a guy associated with this project and has told me that they plan on breaking ground by the end of the year.

The only thing i remember from those times was my dad was laid off for a couple of years. He was a hard core saver, so we just lived off savings for 8 years.

i do remember that houston was the murder capital for at least one of those years.

I didn't realize we were living in a harsh dictatorship like Syria or the USSR, I stand corrected.

If you read some of the interviews they did of spies, they believe that had the same ideological reasoning that Snowden had. If they could make a little extra cash, then why not?

so you're saying that John walker was a patriot?

and for you young ones, I'm referring to John ANTHONY walker, not John walker lindh.

Does that nobility still apply if if people got killed or outed because of what released?

frankly, I think he gave the Russians everything. They aren't known for being charitable.

I was a political science and history major, so I'm pretty aware of the reality of spying. I agree that spying on other countries is justified, but I do think that it's more of a question regarding spying on allies. For example, should the US spy on Canada? The bigger question though is the question of secrecy. The balance seems to have shifted to marking something classified as the basis instead of only classifying data that truly is sensitive. Democracies are built on the concept of an informed electorate and that's very contrary to the way government functions today. The question that I think we need to be asking is why does the government feel it's necessary to keep so much of what it does secret? The reason that I think Snowden is a patriot is that he saw that the government was doing the wrong thing and he publicized that information. It's arguable that he might have gone too far with the amount of information that he released, but the government also went too far with the amount of data that it was retaining.

I agree with your comments about Snowden seeking asylum in Russia. It would have been preferable to have him stand trial in the US, however that's not a question of patriotism, that's a question of bravery.

then you should realize that allies spying on each other has been common since forever.

Britain was caught spying on us as well as Japan. where us the outrage for that?

again, I agree with the stance of domestic spying, but I don't agree with the huge amount of data he pulled that wasn't relevant.

I mean, what did he think spying agencies do? walk door to door in China asking what they are up to?

would you be equally outraged if Russian intelligence were listening in on you?

I didn't say I trusted it, but you're living in a Fantasy land if you think a any governments don't spy on other countries.

I already acknowledged that I'd give him a pass on domestic spying, but a significant amount of information he's leaked pertains to our spying on other countries.

of course he seeks asylum in a country that is almost a models of a dictatorship, has an epically cruel human rights record, and thinks of nothing about blatantly propping up bona fide regimes.

I see no hypocrisy here.

decades isn't really an exaggeration, particularly if those leaks exposed human assets that were necessary to carry out.

Merkel's phone being tapped isn't without precedent, and other countries try to do the same thing to us with varying degrees of success.

like I said, the domestic thing, I might give a pass on, but not the international stuff.

an example of secrets being leaked was when a politician, on national TV said that we were listening to Bin Laden's phone.

within hours, he stopped using his phone.

If he was dealing with DOMESTIC surveillance, I might give him a pass, but he let out a bunch of our on ternational operations.

he's no better than John walker. no, he's pushed back our intelligence program back decades.

Every country has kept secrets for as long as there's been an organized government.

not everyone needs to know every single thing the country is up to.

I mean, do you let your kids know every single thing that happens at home?

Didn't they state that they might want to really look at the regulations regarding access for fire equipment at the rear of apartment complexes such as this?

I noticed that they're finally removing debris from the property.

I'm guessing the insurance paid up and the investigation is over.

anyone know if they are going to go with the same design?

It will be interesting to see what effect the additional pedestrian traffic would have on the hustlers at the station.

There might be some truth to that, I've been eating there for decades and it seems to me that it isn't quite as good as it used to be.

eating in is okay, but I stopped takeout there for the same reasons.

now when I do takeout for Pizza, I hit up franks.

I might try to make one of the Monday or Tuesday meetings. I'm rather curious to see what the meetings will be like.

well, you just can't have workers standing by, so I'd imagine they'd have to design and engineer it once they decide what design they want to use.

then of course, you need to order pieces from various vendors, blah, blah, blah.

Most people don't have the slightest clue on what it takes to construct something.

That sounds like a decent compromise.

I guess is time for me to pay attention to construction schedules and weather again for my next video runs.

Yea, I'm going to try other methods. Most places I've found, I'm limited by the amount I can upload. Plus, I want them to also be larger in size and somewhat more stable.

as long as it's more stable than a few of the members on here, it shouldn't matter.

But what kind of overpass?

I heard they were going for the rail only option, then last night on the news, they approved a rail and traffic one.

What time was this?

kinda wonder what the time frame will be to transfer the car's to that line.

Ummm, you mean the catenary lines along one side of the construction site? How would they be an issue?

seeing the crane that was installing the crane this past weekemd, it seemed to me that the clearance for it to pass under the catenary power lines would be fairly tight.

not to mention bringing in all the materials needed to construct the hotel.

I'm sure they will be able to do it, but I think it will be a bit of a challenge.

Ummm...The overhead power lines?