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I have eaten a lot of Chinese food in a lot of places. SF first, and NYC second, have been heads and shoulders above every other city (I haven't tried Houston) in the U.S. (and both miles ahead of DC, Boston, Chicago, LA, etc.) But an interesting thing in the Boston area these days is that the Chinese food may be better in the Burbs than in Chinatown - Chinatown is filled with homestyle Cantonese places opened fifty years and two generations ago, while there are three or four little clusters in the Burbs that have the Chinese places opened by recent immigrants with more ambitious culinary goals.

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in Flushing?

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I'd put Queens up against the rest of NYC and probably any place else in the country. I don't go out there often, but their Chinese is just insanely good.

TM

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Also no one knows what to do about this:

https://thechive.files.wordpress.com...s-62.gif?w=301

TM

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Not youth soccer, but this was cool:
https://www.theguardian.com/football...mi-final-video

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I'm on ignore{sad face}

But seriously, T's right, an hour train ride from TCOTU, Flushing is so worth a meal. Actually wander into almost any place- if a restaurant sucks it will not survive- look and make your own decision- scary great food- or buy a guide and go where it tells you to- either way.

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Pretty. But he had two wide open team mates center field. Nice though.

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good morning my neighbors!

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Well, on the list for next time I'm in NYC.

I've got most of a week in Toronto next month. Another city with excellent Chinese food.

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I grew up playing pick up basketball. Endless hours of playing against kids with serious skills.

Those serious skills (at least ball handling) did not rub off on me. I remain unable to do anything but rebound or drive minimal distance to the basket. If I have the ball outside the paint and anyone reasonably fast is near me, it's stolen.

My kid has decent ball handling skills. Must've gotten them from mom's side. I'm jealous.

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How did I not hear of this story before now? She also did blow and had a tryst with her husband's business partner? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-partner.html

Not that any of it matters (it actually humanizes her a bit).

But I do have to call her out on the fling with her husband's partner. Dude looks like a serious goober.

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We have two Chinatowns. The original is hardly recognizable anymore, as it's been sucked up by the growth on the east side of Downtown. There are a few markers that it used to be Chinatown, but most people in this city probably don't know it unless it's pointed out by someone who has been here more than two decades.

The second is out west, technically in the city, but fairly far out. It's a fairly huge tract of land, and it's not just Chinese. Signs are in at least three or four languages, and it's been growing since the mid-80s. There are tons and tons of restaurants out there in strip malls, and some are awesome and some suck.

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2. Looking back, the main thing for basketball and soccer is that kids play well into adulthood, either pick up or loosely organized adult leagues, or college IM. Too much supervision threatens this goal. I was an ass't soccer coach (early age rec)- the head coach told me our game plan "we will not be the coaches that cause any kid to quit the game." Seems a good plan to me.

And to play pick up you do not need an official soccer field, just some space. In France i saw my kid play pick up on an asphalt school courtyard.

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I'm warning you. I will be forced to thrash you.

TM

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Any comment, Hank?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcIIJCRWAAEd1LE.jpg

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Why did they block her? Sounds from the summary she is coming in with an agenda? The summary says Israel isn't a democracy. Why would a country surrounded by war and hate want to allow more in?

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The agenda I see is that she planned to witness the human rights situation. Sad that you see that as a threat to Israel.

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Don't know who she is. You seem to?

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I don't know shit about this. But if she is a professor of law at Columbia, what possible reason could they have to keep her out? And please apply whatever answer you have to this country, because we're just about there when it comes to deciding who gets in.

TM

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Don't know who she is except that I can read the text on the image I posted, which seems to be beyond your ken.

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https://canarymission.org/professor/Katherine_Franke

I'd keep her out. Someone coming to incite violence is not someone they need there.

the incredible thing to me is that you post shit like this, then a few days later call me a troll.

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The U.S. saying "all Pakistanis are banned" is wrong. The U.S. banning a particular person from Pakistan who has shown hate for us and seems to be coming here to do ill is not wrong.

People in Israel are being stabbed and shelled and blown up. That some numbskull with a columbia name tag is inciting it doesn't make the knife hurt less.

edit: seems like maybe this just happened. I see no news from Israel on it yet. Rather than rely on the tweet from Ty's "source" I'll wait until we can see a government position on why it banned her.

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I read part of that Canary Mission entry. It seems highly suspect based on what they attribute to her. So I took a quick look into Canary Mission, which I never heard of, and it seems like if you speak out against Israel at all, you make their list. Is that an exaggeration?

Whether Israel bans her or not is not the point. I want to know why you think this is a good approach to governing. Are you ready to start banning people like Gorka, other white nationalists, or even people who speak about defending themselves from white nationalists? Is that inciting violence? Where do you stand?

TM

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Can you delete the photo in your response so we can fix the margins?

TM

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I just got it off google. It seems an extreme group, but she seems extreme also.

I will wait to see what the Israeli government says. In general I wouldn't suggest banning people, but Israel is in a pretty unique/tough position. As to what type "inciting violence" is too much, I'd just say if you have people randomly knifing people, the level of incitement to get banned might be a bit lower than just a person who encourages people to stand up for their rights.

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I'm going to need more in the way of causation than the weak ass correlation that website you posted is using.

And "Israel is in a unique/tough position" is not a response to everything. They can and should be criticized. I'm not pointing at you, but I'm fairly sick of people saying that any criticism of Israel amounts to anti-Semitism and/or indifference to their geo-political realities.

TM

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I'm not sure which is worse -- your citing that site as a source or your conclusion that she is "coming to incite violence." It's a pretty remarkable thing to say about a law professor, really.

I'm not trolling you. I am genuinely curious about whether there is any point at which you could bring yourself to criticize Israel's government, and the answer seems to be "no."

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When Israel is deporting a Jewish Columbia law professor, something has gone seriously awry. At least the accusation there is that she's "anti-Israel" rather than that she is an anti-Semite.

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You're pretty unique.

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About equal to your source.

You don't know who she is, but you know what she isn't going to do? Got it.



Well, for 18 years we've had hundreds of chances for you to criticize a dem, and still no go, so I'd just encourage you to 1) wait until you understand who she is and why they barred her, and if it still seems that barring her was improper, but I won't change my position then 2) give me hundreds of other opportunities to criticize Israel. If I still fail to find one, then you and I are equal!

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thanks for having my back, my brother!

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So, not at all. My source relating facts which don't seem to be in dispute: Her name, her position, the fact that she was deported. Maybe there was something incorrect there, but we don't have a reason to think that yet.

Your source is crap. It says that she incites violence without support. It repeatedly attributes views to her by suggesting that she supports other individuals and causes and then describing their views as if she endorses them.

Not what I said. Why does your reading comprehension go out the window on this subject? It's remarkable, really.

That's false, as you know, so I stopped reading there.

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This is sad. within the several paragraphs of what you post the writer equates Israel with a "Trumpish government" and says both that Israel is a democracy and it is not, and he seems to be speaking to someone, but it isn't clear who. And it speaks of the banned rabble rousers as if they're well-intentioned professors. I thought you once tried cases, why would you have such disregard for simple intellectual integrity?

At least i acknowledge my source is wild-eyed, still I'm sure there are some facts mixed into both.

So you win!

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I am a lot less concerned with whether Israel elects assholes to run its government than I am with whether we do, because lots of countries elect assholes and I don't live there. Putin may be the world's largest asshole at the moment, but, luckily, Russia is a second rate economy and has limited importance in my world.

But Bibi is an asshole, and very much an asshole of a Trumpian ilk, and some of the Israeli right are even worse. The big difference between them is that Bibi is both smarter and more knowledgeable than Trump, and so his government is more functional on a day to day level.

Bottom line, though, as an Israeli friend of mine recently put it, "we both have our meshuganahs, but you're going to get rid of yours before we do."

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I'm less concerned with Russia or Trump or Israel, because I have no influence, than I am about Ty drifting even further from any coherent mooring to reality, because he feels Israel is bad, organically bad.

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I'm not interested in Corey Robin's views about whether Israel is Trumpish (Bibi is) or a democracy, and neither are you. You are only talking about them in order to avoid talking about what we were talking about. The point is, a Columbia professor on a trip to observe human rights was deported. If that's not correct, so much the better.

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Stupid or malicious? It's hard to tell.

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agreed. Let’s wait until someone with credibility explains why they barred them? Then we will know which you are.

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It's funny you call my link biased and then you post this! Except not funny, because I knew my link was shit.

Commondreams has a “story” up too! You should post that also, you know, to prove your point?