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Couple robs … Victoria’s Secret on Mockingbird?
The evidence is skimpy, police say.
(This was in no way a flimsy pretext for posting this picture. It was part of the police alert to area media. Really.)
Thursday Roundup: Convention Center Hotel Cost Already Rising, The Sappy Feature Race, Inland Port & More
November 6, 2008 Leave a Comment
- Remember how I predicted the $550 million taxpayer-owned Convention Center Hotel would face cost overruns? It’s already started. The first overrun — $25 million.
- Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey quotes … holy cow! me … in explaining why the Inland International Port in South Dallas should be protected from a multi-government master plan.
- In the race for the feature story with the oldest black voter talking about Barack Obama, Fox 4 leads the Dallas Morning News by 12 points.
- Seriously, pass the word — animal charities need your support. I usually don’t give homeless people anything for free except the finger. But animals don’t have a choice when they end up homeless.
- This story about a woman who says she was thrown from a car on the Dallas North Tollway never did smell right — it’s almost impossible to open a passenger door when you’re driving without swerving, much less throw someone out — but she’s sticking to it.
Wednesday Roundup: Electile Hangover, Towing the Line & America’s First Black President
November 5, 2008 3 Comments
- We’ve gone from “whites only” and “coloreds” by law just 45 years ago to a black man in the White House. So that’s pretty awesome no matter how you cut it. And Barack Obama ran on tax cuts, an end to racial polarization, fiscal responsibility, opposition to the PATRIOT ACT, support for the Heller decision, and a reluctance to engage in foreign interventionism. Which is something to chew on.
- Via the Agitator, medical marijuana wins in Michigan, marijuana is decriminalized in Massachusetts, and the campaigns are over (for what? at least two weeks, right?)
- Bonus: The fun of the Pelosi/Reid/Obama axis train wreck is just beginning and open Keynesianism will be on display in its full, ugly, failing glory. (As opposed to Bush’s Keynesianism with free-market lip service.) Get a hat, though. And the coming internecine blood feuds on the left between the Dem centrists and the DailyKos-MoveOn types are going to be must-see TV.
- Extra Bonus: The death of the big government wing of the Republican party and “national greatness” neoconservativism.
- Extra Extra Bonus: Watching the right-wingnuts freak out and melt down.
- That towing company that towed all those cars near the State Fair during Texas-OU weekend? Yeah, they just got pwned.
- David Palmer will always be the first black American president in my book (and we were in good hands), but before him was President Richard Pryor:
Don’t Vote. Do Something Positive Instead.
November 4, 2008 2 Comments
Look — the reality is, your vote doesn’t count. I’m sorry. It’s true. It’s literally a waste of your time.
It’s like taking off your shoes at airport security — it’s designed to make you feel better without actually making any difference.
Here’s the best advice I’ve ever seen about election day:
So, this (election day), do the right thing for America: go to work and do a good job. Clean up some garbage on your street. Help a neighbor out. Call your mother, for goodness’ sakes.
Tuesday Roundup: Electile Dysfunction, Jurassic Park, Pit Bulls & More
November 4, 2008 1 Comment
- Want to know why today’s contest is between just Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-AARP? My buddy Radley tells the story of how the system is gamed, and the only way to win is not to play.
- ProTip: This is not the best city in which to practice home invasion.
- “Whether we apply it toward bringing back dinosaurs or taking care of real needs on this planet is another question.“ Or? Or, sir?!! The two are inextricably linked. It’s science.
- Try not to be surprised that this is the guy who owns the pit bull that attacked that lawyer in South Dallas yesterday.
Monday Roundup: Boobies, Hinojosa’s Easy Problems, Girls With Guns, Lawyer v. Pitbull & More
November 3, 2008 Leave a Comment
- I oppose both McCain’s and Obama’s plans to meddle in the health care industry. But there’s no reason this treatment shouldn’t be supplied to every American woman who wants it.
- You go, Ginger Allen. I certainly know the setbacks I’ve faced in my life have been because I’m just too damn good looking. My Adonis physique makes it a double whammy. (Ginger is quickly becoming must-see TV news in my book. Her gritty journalism and tenacious reporting are bringing us stories that make a real difference.)
- Not to pile on, Dr. Hinojosa, but when you say, “If I had to choose between solving academic or financial problems, I would choose the latter, because financial problems are easy to solve, academic achievement is not,” then how did we get to this $84 million financial problem? I’m sorry, but this doesn’t fill me with confidence in you being the man to execute the rather worthy Dallas Achieves initiative.
- More women are hunting, especially in Texas. Giggity.
- A pit bull did not give Ken Molberg due professional courtesy. (I kid, I kid. I’ve met Ken, he’s a great guy, and I wish him a speedy recovery.)
- Dig deep if you can. Don’t forget the animal charities. They’re the ones who can’t take care of themselves. [/soapbox]
- “No political motives.” Riiiiight.
- And lastly, Betty Culbreath, a longtime Southern sector leader, weighs in on my previous post about why the idea for a multi-jurisdictional government master plan for the Inland Port is a Bad IdeaTM.
The Allen Group came to Texas with their idea. Every time someone came with an idea for the Area it got knocked down by Dallas Politics, remember the Texas Speedway, now in Fort Worth, the cargo Airport now called Alliance and on and on we go.
The new Master Plan was about control of the development, the water. It’s all about the power over the Allen Group. If you have a new plan in control of the water and other essentials needed for development, the Allen Group will be at their mercy.