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What happened to free market in the city of Dallas?

I just don’t get it. Dallas schools are horrible. Dallas crime is horrible. Dallas nightlife is horrible. Dallas has some pretty crappy roads that are in dire need of repair. But Dallas wants to get into the hotel business? Why??? We already have world class hotels all over the place. Take your pick… tons to choose from. I’ve been to quite a few of them and can promise you they are top notch. I just don’t understand. Who are you trying to compete with??? Grapevine? They are thriving because they are making it fun out there. You need to focus on making the city great again and not ruining free market with a competing hotel in a city where we already have plenty. Hey Tom, don’t you remember when Arlington got the contract on the new Dallas Cowboy stadium? All the tongue-in-cheek comments about how there aren’t any hotels in Arlington and that all the people are going to stay in Dallas anyway. Tom, we have hotels. Lots of them! If a hotel is really needed down there, let some company build one.  Let free market reign!  Please, don’t build a hotel. We already know how well Dallas runs, we don’t want visitors staying in a 3-ring circus.

PLEASE:

Fix DISD (it’s a damn circus and you know that!)

Fix CRIME! (I like the chief… I’m sure he could use more help!)

Fix outdated liquor laws (dry zones? Special times? Give me a break!)

Fix the nightlife (quit shutting down the city & let it thrive!!!)

Fix my alley (i pay enough taxes to get a proper fix- not some bad patch work that lasts 2 months)

Tom,  use that money to boost up all the other stuff we are failing. I’m sure your contractor friends won’t be happy… but the City of Dallas will!  Make Dallas fun and safe.  The City of Dreams.  Build it and they will come.

- merritt (dj@djmerritt.com)

please say NO to the taxpayer hotel by voting YES to Prop 1 - notaxpayerhotel.com

and whoever is in charge of shit needs to yank the tax exempt status of those “so called” churches that allowed Mayor Tom Leppert to campaign for his hotel during church services (story @ Unfair Park).  BIG NO-NO!!!  Thanks for changing the basic rules of our government.  Maybe you guys could run some topless clubs too!  

funny email i got… the “actual” story on snopes is even is quite questionable as it’s commentary from an editor that wasn’t even there!

This brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest

passenger airplane ever built, sits just outside its hangar

in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime.

Enter the Arab flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies

(ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as

engine run-ups prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi.

The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.

Then they took all Four engines to takeoff power with a

virtually empty aircraft.  Not having Read the run-up

manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty

A340-600 really is.

The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit

because they had All 4 engines at full power.

The aircraft computers thought they were trying to take off,

but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc..)

Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit

breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm.

This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air.

The computers automatically released all the Brakes

and set the aircraft rocketing forward.

The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature

so that pilots can’t land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough

to throttle back the engines from their max power setting,

so the $200 million brand-new Aircraft crashed into a blast

barrier, totaling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown due to the

news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

Yep… special 2 hour dj set with fancy cocktails and delicious grub!  Join me at the WXYZ Bar inside the Aloft Hotel Plano (N Dallas Tollway & Tennyson) from 7-9pm where I’ll have free EDGE goodies and chilled grooves.  Gonna be awesome!

Poor Mike Davis (economics professor from SMU).  I guess if you spend all your time around college students and wishing Milton Friedman was still around, it’s easy to forget to clear the crumbs from your nose.  The Fox 4 camera guy *shoulda* said something.  My guess is that he wasn’t happy with that assignment.  Anyway… Mike, KDFW is now broadcasting in HD and a finger might be just what the booger ordered.

WTF is going on down in South Oak Cliff?!?  Is this supposed to be proper behavior from our paid employees???  I think I’m more pissed that we weren’t invited to come down and bet on the fights… we coulda raised some much needed capital for the school district to blow on more stupid shit!

by Emily Ramishaw & Tawnell Hobbs/Dallas Morning News

The principal and other staff members at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle it out with bare fists and no head protection, records show. - Dallas Morning News: full article here

what an expensive suck product. One would “think” they are on the forefront of protecting computers… but oh no. for weeks my peecee at work was getting really slow and outlook was starting to shut down complete with errors. i had been running the Norton with current updates in safe mode and regular mode… Norton gives my computer a clean bill of health. well… computer is still dragging ass and shutting down or giving me error messages. i run a free one: spybot search & destroy and low a behold: A TROJAN is on my computer. speed-runner trojan. looked it up on google and it’s quite well known. so how is it Norton, an expensive paid service misses this well known trojan that is lables DANGEROUS by everybody? probably because they just suck.   so, thanks Norton for taking my money and not fixing my computer. this is why i hate pc’s… i don’t have the hours downtime when i use macs.

oh my this is funny…

according to the Daily Mail she does.  had to laugh…

“Microsoft founder head Bill Gates has banned the use of products made by arch-rival Apple from his house, his wife has revealed. 

full article here

Check out this awesome mod that Charles Mangin did!

He stuffed a mac mini into a Apple ][ Disk enclosure!

head over to his flickr for more pics.

Been working on another remix for local downtrippers Shock of Pleasure. Doing a fucking sick colab with Chris from Left/Right. That dude is on point!