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I was amazed! I have never been to a meeting where it was announced that the questions were "pre-approved". All the questions end up being are paragraph headings for the speech to be given. But I do appreciate Tanner's honesty in telling everyone that they were pre-approved.

The PR for the meeting was very, very misleading - IT WAS NOT A TOWN HALL MEETING! The exercise of telling people to fill out cards with their questions for the mayor was juvenile, considering the reality.

Since the meeting was billed as lasting from 2-4, with the meeting adjourned at 3:30, 30 minutes were available for open questions.

As to timing of the Beck announcement, I read it on the DMN website before I went to the meeting. The DMN posting was time stamped 11:59.

I was told by someone at the meeting that their information was that Beck had Blanton's, Cass's and Jernigan's property under contract and that the closings had been delayed repeatedly. Does anyone know if either is true (who's tracts are contracted for or that the closings have been repeatedly delayed)?

Let's try to limit our comparisons to apples to apples and oranges to oranges.

It's their job. That is the job description. That's what they signed up for. If they don't like dealing with those people, get another job. Since you know them so well, who did they think they were going to be working with and what did they think the job description was?

And don't let them fool you, including benefits, Dallas cops are some of the best paid in the country.

"These are people who risk their lives every day"

I get so tired of that phrase. First of all - no they don't! Some of them are at risk occasionally. What did they think the job was when they signed up for it? And lots of them sit behind desks every day. And Dallas cops have the best benefit package in the country and (because of the 27.5% the taxpayers have to contribute to their pension fund) are among the most costly police in the nation. The pension contribution was increased to cover a potential shortage something like 30 years ago and then they added benefits so the 27.5% contribution needed to continue. And then they bitch about their pay. Why don't they alter their benefit package and take more of it as pay? Then the citizens of Dallas wouldn't have any trouble recruiting new police officers. And the new police officers would know they were signing up to do police work and get in risky situations - That's the job. Big surprise!

When the city council passed this law, the proponents had some brain injured individuals appear at the council hearing. Interestingly, their injuries didn't need to have any relationship to bicycle riding. One brain injured example was actually injured while driving drunk and pulling out in front of an oncoming car in the middle of the night.

But the effect of the brain injured was compelling. Unfortunately, the proponents were less than candid about the true causes of the the injuries but they got their helmet law. If I remember correctly, the driving force within the proponents was from emergency room personnel.

You gotta see his yard!! I understand he concreted both his front and back yard - COMPLETELY!! No grass. Nowhere.

Who thinks this guy isn't really, really weird?

Does he really not understand that he is safer and his property more valuable with LH near him than not?

No prostitutes, no drug dealers, no homeless because the owner of LH will not tolerate that activity in that part of the Cedars and is willing to be a "man" about it and openly address the problems instead of hiding behind multiple pseudonyms.

Now, just WHO has improved the neighborhood?

"Bemused [veracity/clarification/pampas (Chris Jones)] formally withdraws from this forum"

What happened???