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. He suggests buying Canada for $12 trillion dollars. Why would they agree to be bought? We’d bribe them, of course:

Canada has 23.4 million registered voters. Under the Constitution Act of 1982, amendments to the Canadian Constitution require the consent of two-thirds of the provincial legislatures representing at least 50% of the national population. We would essentially make a tender offer to 12 million of the country’s registered voters offering them $1 million in tax-free U.S. dollars to support an amendment to their Constitution dissolving their sovereignty and annexing themselves to the United States of America.

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Comments (1) Mar 31 2009


Sprint: WiMax rollout coming to Dallas/Fort Worth in 2009

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Sprint just released a press release in which it lists the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth as one of 10 which will get WiMax service deployed this year. The other cities in which Sprint will also deploy WiMax (or “4G”, as Sprint is calling it) are:
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You can read the full press release here

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What Bottom? FT: "US Economy contracts 6.3% in the Fourth Quarter of 2008"

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Just yesterday, a Dallas Morning news blog entry titled “Good News Alert” talked about how the freefall in the economy was slowing down.

Well, I’m here to tell you that unfortunately, the freefall is just getting started:  The Financial Times (and just about every other publication out there) is reporting today that the US economy contracted 6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2008 alone:

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The US economy shrank in the fourth quarter at its fastest rate since 1982, revised official figures showed on Thursday, as corporate profits fell at the sharpest pace in 55 years and jobless claims continued to climb.

The final GDP figures were expected to show a contraction of 6.6 per cent, but the results signal that a deeper contraction could be coming this quarter.

“All the incoming data suggest that the economy will contract by a staggering 7 to 8 per cent in the first quarter, before the economy begins to stabilise,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.

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Dallas Victory Park in danger of Default: German Financial Times.

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“This is not unusual,” he added, “and you will see firms now doing this earlier on.” He asserted, “A lot of firms are trying to renegotiate their debt contracts. It doesn’t mean they’re going into bankruptcy.”

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Where do Dallas Residents come from?

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Surprisingly, most Dallas residents are Texas-born, by a wide margin:

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DART Expenses grow $216 Million, Revenues $23 Million

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Since 1999, Operating Expenses at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) have far outgrown Operating Revenue.  Operating Revenue comes in the form of fares from bus, rail, and paratransit users, as well as other miscellaneous revenue sources, mostly advertising and leases.  As the following graph shows, Operating Expenses from 1999-2008 have gone up $215.9 Million dollars, while Operating Revenue has gone up slighty more than ten percent of that amount: $23 Million dollars.

Here are the numbers that make up the chart:

Fiscal Year Operating Revenues Operating Expenses
1999 $36.80 $296.30
2000 $37.70 $306.90
2001 $42.20 $342.00
2002 $42.60 $391.10
2003 $42.90 $410.90
2004 $44.90 $388.90
2005 $46.20 $427.50
2006 $49.90 $447.10
2007 $50.50 $460.90
2008 $59.80 $512.20

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Dallas Area Rapid Transit: Heavily Subsidized

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Ever wonder where DART gets its funding? If you said “well, from the fares, of course!”, you’d be 7% right. The truth is that in 2008 DART got only 7% of its revenues from fares, while the rest came from other sources (mainly taxes):

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Let's Follow One DISD Class from 8th Grade to Graduation

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So, what if we could follow one class, and see how many students of each ethnicity were enrolled in DISD from, say, 8th grade until 12th grade, and even graduation? Wouldn’t that tell us much? No percentages. Straight, hard numbers. Direct from the TEA Standard Reports.

Turns out, we can.

In this next step of our journey, we will follow the class of 2007, from its Eight Grade (in 2002-2003), all the way until 2007, and see how many actually made the walk across the stage. The number may surprise you, and maybe even sadden you a bit. Come with me after the jump for 7 fascinating graphs that tell us plenty about the Dallas ISD Class of 2007.

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Hope

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Hope does not require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together.
A thin wire will do, just strong enough to get you through the night until the winds die down.”

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