Oklahoma Still Rocking. Last night another earthquake in Oklahoma was strong enough to be felt in Dallas. I’m sure it has nothing at all and whatsoever to do with fracking.
Occupy Dallas Protesters Get Hosed. With two big downtown events coming up (a Veteran’s Day Parade and the grand opening of the Dallas Omni Hotel), the city is reconsidering the permit that allows the Occupy Dallas folks to camp outside City Hall, in light of the fact that eight of the protesters were arrested over the weekend. Two things about this story. Those folks were arrested for improper use of a sidewalk. That’s the most made-up charge I’ve ever heard of. Second, Councilman Tennell Atkins was wondering what the protesters might try to pull during the two big upcoming events. He said: “And my deal is, are we going to have a scrimmage, or whatever?” I’ll take the whatever option and go with skirmish.
Yes on Arts District Signs, No on Greenville Avenue Bowling. Two items of note (sub. req.) out of the Dallas City Council. Craig Hall is going to be able to put commercial signs on the building that will go up over what is now the Arts District parking garage. And that proposed enormous bowling alley isn’t going to happen. Now you know.
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It’s totally going to be a scrimmage, and they’re going to occupy the red-zone all weekend
Eventually, the Man will have no choice but to set these people free.
I have my doubts that Occupy Dallas will do anything to mess with the Veterans Day Parade. Hell, quite a few of the “occupiers” are actual veterans, and I’ll bet the City knows that. But I don’t blame them for being nervous about what antics might be forthcoming at the opening of the hotel. Not that there will be any paying guests in the hotel to inconvenience. Don’t you figure that the City is going to paper the house with freeloading bigwigs for that event?
So what if it’s a made up charge? Capone was convicted of tax evasion – you get them however you can get them. Those protesters are accomplishing nothing down there. I think the city has been patient with them so far. And I happen to know that Macy’s is hiring holiday help so maybe those bitching about having no job can go get one.
Never knew that Tennell Atkins was a she. When did he have the surgery?
Congratulations to Councilman Tennell Atkins on becoming a “She”. Must have been quite a scrimmage, er, skirmish.
Booo on your misleading headline! I was hoping to see an article about fire-hoses being turned on Occupy Dallas.
It might not be a grand idea for a bunch of out-dated hippies to mix it up with some old veterans that are still a little peaved about the hippies burning their draft cards anyway. This could be a dangerous situation.
@Peter, jg: Ha. Fixed.
Did I just see Occupy Dallas get compared to an actual gangster? That’s what I get for reading comments, I guess.
The writing was on the wall for that bowling alley for awhile, but it still sucks to see it confirmed. Good looking out, Greenville HOA! You almost had a shot at the commercial strip pulling itself up out of the muck. I’m sure Deep Ellum or Bishop Arts will be happy to accommodate them.
Exactly, DGirl. I mean, they got Rubin “Hurricane” Carter on, what, first-degree murder? Sure, he might not have done it, but he really was black. You get them however you can get them.
@DGirl…yes, i’m glad someone finally made the connection between Capone(notorious gangster/murderer) and the OWSers(notorious non-bathers, sidewalk walkers impediment).
Thanks, everyone. Appreciate your mad props to me. muah!
You are correct in that it has nothing to do with fracking. The geologist said it occured 3 miles deep and is NOT manmade. But I wouldn’t let that ruin a good gag. Go ahead and blame the frackers.
No Prob, DGirl…mad props to your hyperbole.
Of course it’s not man-made
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/oklahoma-earthquake_2011-11-08
But since when have the facts mattered to Tim?
Right now I am thinking why don’t the protestors-”Occupy-A Job”?
They might be making Dallas City Hall nervous, but only because of their crazy unpredictability. Instead of sitting on their *ss in a tent picking a fight w/ a policeman why dont they go to the city council meetings or the commissioners’court meetings (that would be fun) or grab a bullhorn and picket some millionaires’ homes in Highland Park?
The 10 pm news reports on this bunch are so pointless.
I love DGirl.
I find it amusing that all of these “pro-frackers” are pointing to the same article that has popped up on various websites with the confusing title. Hey guys, in that same article, USGS Geophysicist William Ellsworth says “How big an earthquake might we trigger? That is an open question at this point…We do know we can trigger magnitude 5 earthquakes.”
Ummm. Okay.
I think the answer is that nobody can definitively say that pumping 5 million gallons of water PER well 4 to 6000 feet underground (and now horizontally,yay!) was NOT a contributing factor to the recent increase in seismic activity.
Nice Chris Chris.
You can’t prove a negative. Nobody can definitively say that you doing X WON’T cause Y.
Useless and bogus argument.
Oh, and I notice you didn’t quote this from the article:
Hydraulic fracturing, called fracking, involves injecting millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to break up rock. While that may sound like it could cause an earthquake, experts say the process doesn’t pack nearly the punch of even a moderate earthquake.
The magnitude-5.6 quake that rocked Oklahoma three miles underground had the power of 3,800 tons of TNT, which is nearly 2,000 times stronger than the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
“The typical energy released in tremors triggered by fracking, “is the equivalent to a gallon of milk falling off the kitchen counter,” said Stanford University geophysicist Mark Zoback.”
Sigh. That’s what I get for trying to be diplomatic. And Jean, thanks for proving my point on the confusing article. You had this huge headline that said the latest quake wasn’t caused by fracking. And then you had various experts talk about how fracking has been proven to cause earthquakes around the world. (Just not this latest one cause it was SO powerful and 3 miles deep; don’t cry over spilt milk, you hippies!)
Look, I know there’s billions of dollars and quite a few jobs at stake based on natural gas development (Hi T. Boone!) but the current research proclaiming the no-fault byproducts of hydraulic fracturing remain on shaky ground.
Double pun in the last sentence means I win.
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