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City Manager Broadnax refuses to own any of it. He just sequesters it and everything else he needed to inherit. I wish he would own it and find a solution. Jordan retired a couple years ago and is now out of the picture. Suhm still seems to haunt the halls there and I have seen her in City Hall a few times in the last year. She is still actively managing these projects. Suhm lives on through her incompetent hiring moves of key employees in Trinity Watershed Management, Office of Environmental Quality(OEQ) and Stormwater Management. Those three organizations are in cahoots together that streamline key projects outside the view of the Dallas City Council and City Auditor. Stormwater Management is a revenue generating department and has a massive slush fund from water billing. These funds are programmed into black projects like the Trinity Forest Golf Course, marquee bridges etc. The progressive city council members like Griggs, Kingston, Navarez, Greyson, Medrano offer some hope to foil the plans of Suhm and her stepchildren. They rarely have the votes needed to shoot down the largest of the messes. The LGC and it's formation should really worry many. They are in complete cahoots with the monied Park Cities folks. The only hope is that the Simmons Park cannot reach funding expectations. I have heard rumors they are having problems with raising the funds. Even then, maybe the ACOE will shoot down their project framework as the meanders and infrastructure don't fall within the Balanced Vision Plan. I probably am a bore with my post but I know way too much about this on a firsthand level.

In Dallas, the cost to have my SUV inspected June 2018 was $25.50 plus $104.75 for the registration fee. $130.25 total which reaches past a line in the sand for me in regards to vehicle registration fees. Even with the new paper tag system in place I still see many dozens of paper plate vehicles daily in Dallas. Most call them "ratchets" here which is really just slang for "wretched" but comes out funny.

Where the tornadoes at? Quiet year for tornadoes.

Busted forecast in Dallas yesterday for only 20% chance of rain has led to widespread rain this morning. Great for the lawn. Bad for the Byron Nelson.

There were some great players there before Byron Nelson passed away. They made a tour stop there to pay homage to him.

They are using bermuda on the greens. It has not been growing and they had to spray paint it green for the tournament.

Rather interesting that they decided to begin an overwatering campaign ahead of the tournament. Would have been better to keep it fast and difficult. The social media comments are just brutal about them softening the course. Weather will be dry and hot. The sand it is built upon dries quickly as well. Add to the equation that they are having a hard time getting their bermuda to grow. I plan on being out there Saturday. Hopefully the city will not be moving trash at the nearby McCommas Bluff landfill during the event. The smell can be bad on a strong southerly wind day.

No matter what humans as a species do, either cut down all the trees, burn everything...or...become hyper sensitive eco-warriors, humans will become extinct. Just like everything else except for amoeba and some primitive ooze somewhere. Extinction is just the order of things. It has nothing to do with climate change or lack thereof. It has everything to do with just the natural track record of life on this planet. It all goes extinct. Just like humans will.

Humans will go extinct and the planet will go on. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, all species on Earth go extinct. Humans will too. It is the nature of things on this planet. Humans are to inwardly focused to think that the species will survive. Extinction is a certainty. It is nothing to worry about. It is a certain scientific fact that humans cannot stem the tide of extinction.

Every species goes extinct. Humans will. It is the nature of the planet we live on.

He flew too close to the sun. Could have trimmed that down to a 1/4 of his absences and flown under the radar. Lived the dream but went too far with it. Cush job. Probably started taking long lunches, no one missed him. Started taking three day weekends. No one missed him. Turned those three day weekends into four day weekends. People started asking questions. Should have slowed his roll and shown his face. Too close to the sun though. Ruined it.

Are there any good places to get out and stretch along the highway? TxDOT has one of those large super roadstops south of Amarillo on 287 somewhere. Nothing interesting north of there to stop for. I have to get out and stretch my legs for 20 minutes at lunch or I'll be cramping by the end of the day.

I wonder how the Byron Nelson will fair at the new Trinity Forest venue in South Dallas. I have been on the course and it is a complete departure from the old venue. No trees, no shade. Links style course.

Dalhart is better. Dumas is pretty terrible. The Dumas Dairy Queen is a fly infested hole of a place. And slow. I think travelling Texans just demolish those places in July and August.

The gas is cheaper in Clayton than in Texline. Plus, Texline has all those feedlots that stink.

The Allsups in Clayton is nasty. A gigantic toilet of a gas station but has easy access to the highway and cheap gas. Just nasty on the inside. And...they don't sell Diet Dr Pepper. Black mark and a pox on their house for that.

An off duty Dallas Police Officer who was not wounded made initial contact with the suspect. After the other officers arrived, the off duty officer went to the on duty police officers squad car to verify the suspect was wanted. That is when the shooting occurred in the loss prevention office area. Pleasant Grove in Southeast Dallas has the worst population of criminals in Texas. An entire subculture of criminals and criminal mindset runs through that area. The suspect lives on Buttercup Lane and it is in the heart of thugville. Criminal activity is bred there.

Sesame Place had a gigantic cargo net with multiple tiered levels. I imagine it now the size of a 4 story parking garage. Maybe it was not that large but it was pretty high up there towards the top.

I use a very small seat bag. It holds a tube, tube repair kit, tire levers, multi-tool, $20 bill. Small pump attached to the frame. I don't like carrying a lot of stuff in my jersey pockets. Since all that stuff is attached to my bike, I never have to worry about forgetting it.

Get a bike that fits. That cannot be overstated. I would stay away from a cyclocross bike. Bikes like that are good on road surfaces, ok on dirt but excel at nothing. On road surfaces, a road bike will always kick a cyclocross bike's ass. Same with a mountain bike on natural surfaces unless it's mown grass. Cyclocross bikes are almost always someone's 3rd bike that they add to their collection. The gearing is a little weird, fit is different.

I know that the Dallas County Sheriff's Office has been pulling stolen cars out of the Dowdy Ferry Road junk yards recently. Quite a few stolen sports cars.

What part of Dallas did they find the car in?