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I'm merely bringing up YOUR 10 yr old BS explanation on the perils of not having a car. As in any emergency, if you can't adjust for your situation, you and your hypothetical 10 yr old are doomed. And yet you bring this up 20 posts after I originally brought it up? I don't know what your issue is, but I don't pretend to be a "Red Jr." It IS possible to live in Houston without a car, plenty of people do it all the time without making a major whining production in it. Oh yeah, keep it on topic.

Didn't know Red or editor had a 10 yr old. As far as renting a car, I'm refering to extended trips or whem the schedules are overly packed.

You also forgot to mention, that in a pinch, he could always rent a car for a day or so.

Dude! WTH.. You're not a mod. A ) Lockmat's side comment highlights the ineptitude of our gvt and their ability to do anything big. It's not like 10 other people took the healthcare side comment and ran with it. You jumped the gun and I find that way more offensive than the original comment. B ) You're not a mod...Next time, instead of policing users, just press the "Report" button. Right back at you.

Dogs are trained for specific smells of certain chemicals that are key ingredients for their specialty. I'm not familiar enough with the explosive to know if it CAN be detectable with a sniffer dog, if it is, it's an additional thing a dog will have to be trained for. The only thing is that it makes a stronger case for those body Xray machines. Umm....keep it on topic? As far as the CNN topic, I was outraged at first, but I think they probably would help the security forces.

Damn. It would have been nice to collect taxes from those guys.

From what I heard, there IS someone actually buried there that will have to be exhumed before anything else goes forward. Don't have much of the details, only that Landry's is the highest bidder so far and that the owner of the lot wants to keep the back portion as a park.

I just wonder how they're doing on their post oak location. I would figure they are probably the only reasonably priced meal for the office workers and more adventurous tourist from the hotels.

Yeah, so far the OP needs to take her travel time into consideration on the first couple of dates. If she likes him, driving down to PL wouldn't be a that big of a deal for her. Dating sucks, or has anyone read the local blog, "The Overeducated nympho?" It makes for great ways to avoid some pitfalls.

Kristelnacht is worth noting as the beginning, but not the start of it. 9/11 wasn't the "leading up" to the war, it was a culmination of a series of events that started near the beginning of the first war. But I don't want to rehash the politics and I don't wanna give the "Truthers" fits. If a memorial needs to be built, do it in another part of the city or another park that is larger than MSP. I still think a Museum would be a more appropriate venue and that a memorial to a particularly notable local person should be made instead.

There is nothing wrong with going into the Montrose for a first date, particularly if you are going try to introduce her to some of the more interesting restaurants. I would also use the "This place was mentioned on Diner's Drive-inn and Dives" (Niko Niko's) or something. Women get taken to cheesy places all the time, do something different and quirky. See a midnight showing at the River Oaks Theater towards the end of the date, maybe?

A proper museum would be the proper venue, I believe. Having such a structure in the future wouldn't be a "Feel good" measure, but a proper way to be in the proper context as to why things happened the way it happened. The Holocaust didn't just happen, there was quite a few important event that led up to that event, and as such, a museum can be a proper way to put it all together....as long as it's not politicized.

The difference being is that it's a dedicated building for that history which was a global tragedy. Once the war is over, I would not have any opposition to a related museum dedicated to that, but do it right, don't do it half baked. a modest plaque in a central park is a "feel good" measure I'm not thrilled about.

I disagree. It would be like having a memorial for the OKC or the original WTC bombings here in Houston because a native died there. If you're going to put a 9/11 for one person, then perhaps ALL victims with Houston ties from that day should have their names inscribed. Better yet, leave it empty until the wars are over so all the (local) names that have fallen can be included properly honored.

Wrong thread. Oops.

Call me a bit heartless, but I don't think a 9/11 memorial isn't very fitting condidering how small the connection it is. Name it after an someone local who did something noble or an officer that died in the line of duty. Hell, name a bench after Marvin.

I agree, it is a shame that the hotel element couldn't be built, if only the car/people ratio thing could have been eased a bit. It would be interesting to know what percentage of people that book rooms downtown DON'T have cars. Once the ESD is finished, I'm sure quite a few people will mosey over to HP for something to do.

Well, from what I've been seeing, quite a few people are either Valeting, walking in, cabbing, or pediacabs. Heard a nightmare from their valet service, they get swamped and is fairly surly to people that are just dropping off and they seem to have magically lost a set of keys for a hummer. The customer was not in the least bit amused.

Sorry to tell you this, but Red has a point. Now assuming you put the tunnel within the space you say is adequate; how much room will there be left from the begining of the "incline" from the intersection of 610/Westhiemer? Maybe 20 feet? 50 feet? Can you imagine the traffic from the southbound frontage road trying to find enough space to find a place to get into the lane they NEED to go in? Now add to the fact that there are quite a fvew people that don't know the traffic flow to be able to make a snap decision like that? The space that you think is more than enough would be a traffic engineer's nightmare. Additionally, the lights on McCue and Sage have to be properly syched to allow the additional traffic that will be increased heading into those intersections.

I like the insect. I dated someone who had that nickname. I even enjoyed the series. I DESPISE the song. -1 to you.

You're a very sick man. +1

Yeah, its at least 10 yrs older than the main street one. I think one of the smarter things Metro could do is build a multi-level garage with ground floor retail at the wheeler station, and maybe one other stop near the uptown line stop so people can have an option of avoiding the driving hell that is the Westheimer/Post oak intersection.

Yay. I'll drink an extra beer (or 5) to celebrate today.

Just found this article: 100 Reasons why Climate change is natural. Here are a few of my favorites: 2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history. 3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels. 4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940. 18) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas, unlike water vapour which is tied to climate concerns, and which we can’t even pretend to control 62) Under existing Kyoto obligations the EU has attempted to claim success, while actually increasing emissions by 13 per cent, according to Lord Lawson. In addition the EU has pursued this scheme by purchasing “offsets” from countries such as China paying them billions of dollars to destroy atmospheric pollutants, such as CFC-23, which were manufactured purely in order to be destroyed. 64) Michael Mann of Penn State University has actually shown that the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age did in fact exist, which contrasts with his earlier work which produced the “hockey stick graph” which showed a constant temperature over the past thousand years or so followed by a recent dramatic upturn. 77) Why should politicians devote our scarce resources in a globally competitive world to a false and ill-defined problem, while ignoring the real problems the entire planet faces, such as: poverty, hunger, disease or terrorism. 79) Since the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in actual fact very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to control the sun). 90) Politicians and climate activists make claims to rising sea levels but certain members in the IPCC chose an area to measure in Hong Kong that is subsiding. They used the record reading of 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level. 97) India plans to reduce the ratio of emissions to production by 20-25 percent compared with 2005 levels by 2020, but all Government officials insist that since India has to grow for its development and poverty alleviation, it has to emit, because the economy is driven by carbon.

I'm quite anxious to see what is going to happen to the land. Bellaire certainly does need it's own community park, instead of one or two little neighborhood parks I've seen (like on Elm St.)