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[quote]The jones act is the only thing keeping what little ship building industry we have alive. You would have foreign flagged and crewed vessels pushing barges up the Mississippi in no time. We can’t compete price wise on large container ships and tankers we would no doubt build a fantastic product but our lead time and price would be ridiculous compared to what they can do in Asia. Jones act keeps the small shipyards active building for the oil and gas along with brown water.[/The jones act is the only thing keeping what little ship building industry we have alive. You would have foreign flagged and crewed vessels pushing barges up the Mississippi in no time. We can’t compete price wise on large container ships and tankers we would no doubt build a fantastic product but our lead time and price would be ridiculous compared to what they can do in Asia. Jones act keeps the small shipyards active building for the oil and gas along with brown water.

This. Every country in the world has cabotage laws.

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Alabama and Ole Miss are absolutely kicking our arse with attracting upper middle class to upper class kids from Louisiana right now….its an arse-whipping

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This is nothing new though… well off kids whose parents could afford out of state tuition have been going to ole miss and Alabama for decades. I think part is just going away for college but also the Greek system at those schools

While they have some very good restaurants listed, it’s 100% a DEI prioritized list. Some very good “locally” famous restaurants not represented

The wife will prob want a Christmas cookie martini instead at Roosevelt.

I love the look on the bartenders face when people order a gin fizz during Christmas when in the weeds w ten deep at the bar.

Banana Foster Bread Pudding

Or the slapping/throwing of every ingredient in the sandwich to make a fruit ninja noise. It annoys the frick out of me

Has there ever been an attractive cafeteria worker? They all seem to have a “look” and it ain’t ever good lol.

How would you roll them if you didn’t boil the noodle first? (I’m assuming you were referring to using dry pasta)..

Daniel Graff

fwiw it’s also owned by Adolfo Garcia’s son. The chef of La Boca who went full retard during Covid.