Leading Off (10/1/08)
1. The U.S. Census Bureau says more people than ever are speaking Spanish in North Texas. We’re up to nearly 23 percent of people saying they speak Spanish in their homes. Isn’t that right, Señor Adam?
2. That convention center hotel? Those opposed will almost certainly get the 20,000 signatures they need to force a referendum. Then what? No one has the slightest idea. Good thing for me, I thrive on uncertainty. At least I think I do.
3. In heavy rains sometimes, the Park Cities poop that should find its way to Dallas instead shoots out of manholes and runs over streets. How to fix the problem? It’s all about controlling your “I and I.”
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The Park Cities sewage overflow is considered a problem. Why? Theirs doesn’t stink, you know.
park cities poop causing a stink? Man, oh man you just made my day. At least my sewage in podunk town, TX never gets confused with where its ’sposed to go in event of inclement weather.
Que fregados quieres decir con este comentario? No veo nada de importancia, ni el renombramiento de Ross a Chavez, ni lo que se va a hacer con la elefante Jenni (hmmm… tortas….), ni lo que esta pasando con el parque que me prometierion con mi autopista!
BAH! Que perdida de tiempo. Mejor me voy a ver mi novela, “¿Donde estan las cabras de Emilio?”
¿Cómo nadie ha mencionado la caja de rocas que silbaban encontradas en el centro del correo todavía? ¡Me necesito algunas rocas que silban que hagan ojos para quemar y lo difícilmente para respirar!
Dang, someone already beat me to a spanish comment, and here I thought I was being original!
1. I say we migrate to Mexico, they have better beaches.
2. Another referendum. Does this mean the City Council will start listening to constituents? Not any time soon.
3. Blackie Holmes’ eyebrows freak me out sometimes, but I am glad they (UPark) are doing something. I just wish HP would be a better neighbor and work with surrounding cities rather than trying to build a wall around the town.
We are white but my wife often calls me “bendajo” at our house. Does that count?
The Park Cities send us their bodily effluvium and ask that we “treat” it? Well, damn if I didn’t learn something new today. In by 9, out by 5! Here’s a referendum item for you: Let’s simply rename the City of Dallas “Jeeves.”
I mean, how long you people gonna stand still for this sh1t?
That’s one reason why kids born in this country have problems in school. In 5 years they haven’t been exposed to English. The school where my wife teaches has a Spanish language library.
Daniel, the word is caca.
Your wife calls you a string instument used to strike fear in the heart of Ned Beatty?
Do you mean “pendejo”?
El Jefe says: If HP is going to do nothing for Dallas other than send over its caca, why can’t Dallas just jack up the price of treating said caca? What’s HP going to do, build its own sewage treatment facility on those hallowed grounds? I say we soak the rich!
Probably because HP and UP are pretty much land-locked. There’s not a lot of available acreage for a sewage treatment facility.
“I and I”???
Sounds like a Terrell Owens book….
Oh,
She must be speaking Esperanto then. Nevermind.
“I and I learns To Ask Nicely for the Ball, Instead of Whining to the Media,” by Terrell Owens
The convention center hotel article in the DMN hits it right on the head. How in the world is the city planning on going forward with a bond issue when there will be a referendum only months later on the same issue? Who will buy those bonds? Are we going to spend the money and then pay the interest only then months (or years later) to be ordered to stop work when the referendum passes and a state judge enjoins further work?
This is madness. WTF is going on with City Hall? I would expect this kind of bullheaded “caca” out of Her Highness Miller — hell, I would have been disappointed otherwise. But I thought that things would change with the new regime.
And what does the CVB have on the City Council? Dirty photos in compromising positions?
I think most of the **** comes from the corner of Armstrong and Preston.
JS has a good point. When the sewage treatment contract with HP comes up for its next renewal, why couldn’t Dallas simply double (or triple) the previous rate? I don’t think the Park Cities have many other options…
Better yet — and I’m serious — why don’t we annex the Park Cities? They use our infrastructure and Dallas would really benefit from the tax base. Yeah, I know there would be a law suit. Who cares?
Good luck with that, Fact Checker. I’m imagining a boxing match with in-his-prime Mike Tyson in one corner and Estelle Getty in the other.
Guess who is which.
Oh man, talk about a fun story to comment to. Dallas annexing the Park Cities? LOLZ! Every stereotype in the book would be on display. The only question is how fast that race card would get played. I’d put money on the first ten minutes.
Excellent question, Wes. We propose grandfathering PC ISD for 15-20 years as a way of mitigating some of the racist issues. There would be a lot more to do.
They’ll get right on that, FC.
Considering it’s HPISD…
Tyson = crazy. underperfoming. A goliath.
Getty = wily. snappy. A david.
Man o man, I can taste that tax revenue now. And what a boon to our economic demographics. Angie Barret would my choice as first mayor of the combined cities.
And just think. All those politically meddling PC residents would actually be civic leaders in their own city.
Hooray! Everybody wins!
@ LakeWWWooder
I think you meant Herschel and Preston. Didn’t want anyone to think you were insulting the new fountain.
When do your friends Grammar Checker and Spell Checker drop in?
Are you trying to make a joke of this, Bethany. [grits teeth]
Um, why? Do you think it’s funny?
Is everything a question with you?
Is that bad?
Herschel vs. Armstrong.
Who craps more in a day — the entire D Magazine staff or Sir Jerry Jones? I’m going with Sir Jerry on this one.
HP/UP, we’ll put up with your sh1t in exchange for a widened Mockingbird Lane or tunnel for some East/West traffic relief. Deal?
Do you know how much I despise that kind of thing, Bethany?
How much, Trey?
How high is the human tolerance for despising something?
Since I’m not sure, should I Google that?
Do you need my permission?
So anyways, back to us.
The argument that PC’s lawyers are bigger gorillas than Dallas’ lawyers is pure poppycock. Funding for the lawyers would come from city coffers and Dallas has more mullah at its disposal. What? PC residents would pay for their own legal team? That’s silly.
As a pilot program, I recommend we have a class school exchange program. For example, let’s exchange the 11th grades of HPHS and Skyline for one year and see what happens.
Change is hard, so let’s make Dallas a borough system and allow the PCs to be their own borough.
Dallas is a mere doughnut without our long lost doughnut hole called the Park Cities. Let’s come together like an eclair or a bear claw, not an old fashioned.
moolah, not mullah.
Do you recommend another source of information besides Google?
Fact Checker’s naïveté is so cute. I just want to pat her/him on the head and give him/her a cookie!
Is this going to continue ad infinitum? You think I don’t have other deadlines?
Here are some alternative routes for forcing the, uh, acquisition of Park Cities. Some are subtle, some are not.
1. Take away the use of “Dallas” for postal routing.
2. Accept the PC’s petition circa 1913 to become part of Dallas. “Just kidding,” we’ll say.
3. Cut off all utilities such as sewer access. Henceforth, this will be known as “Project Brownout.”
4. Lay siege to Park Cities.
5. Buy house. Tear down house. Move in trailer home. Put washer/dryer in front yard. Drive down home value.
4.
Are you calling uncle?
Isn’t it more like “Who’s your daddy?”
6. Take over anything in the PCs with the Dallas. Helllloooo Dallas Country Club. You’d be a great apartment development.
How can I be a daddy if I’m a girl?
Daniel-
Jerry lives in that fountain? I love what he did with the place.
Never have understood all the penis envy over the Park Cities.
Dallas tried to annex the Park Cities in 1945 but the vote failed. 60 years later I guess you jokers could try again.
http://www.tshaonline.org/hand...../heu2.html
Speaking of Herschels. whatever became of Hershy Walker?????