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So like others, I loaded up my entire digital music collection, hit shuffle, and here were the first 10:
"Ready For Action" by Crystal Method "Anything You Can Do" by Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat "The Isle of the Dead" by Rachmaninov "Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor" by Bach "Meat is Murder" by The Smiths "Symphony Number 2" by Mahler "Sin" by Nine Inch Nails "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns and Roses "Nothing Even Matters" by Lauryn Hill Scary. 7:07:10 PM  What do you think? [] trackback []
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This is an excellent article on what it's like to be childless in America. Via BitchGirls. 6:19:30 PM What do you think? [] trackback []
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If you live in Dallas, you probably know that Jerry Jones is shopping around the idea of a new stadium for the Cowboys, a stadium that would probably be financed in large part by a rise hotel and car rental taxes. Jones is pushing for a $1 billion complex that would not just include the stadium, but also an entertainment complex full of ways to spend money much like the American Airlines Center. But the problem with that theory is none of the supporting development has gone into Palladium, the AAC entertainment center. Of the necessary $650 million for a new stadium, Cowboys officials want $450 million in public funds but there are plenty of folks who are rather opposed to that idea. Taxes like the hotel-motel tax and the car rental tax are often sold as taxes on visitors, tourists, and business travelers. However, that doesn't stand up in Dallas as 80% of the car rentals in Dallas county are to people who live here and most of the visitor rentals happen at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Tarrant county which would be unaffected by this hike. This is a classic example of stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. The Cowboys like to spin this as a way to get a Super Bowl in Dallas. But that's a false argument. If the stadium gets built, Dallas will probably host a Super Bowl, that much is true. But that is irrelevant to how the stadium gets financed. This seems like the perfect place where people who use the service should pay for the service. What's really interesting is the fact that the new legislation that makes it even possible to raise the taxes was lobbied for rather strongly by Jerry Jones himself with $140,000 going to political action committees in Austin. The American Airlines Center tax financing just barely passed referendum and I expect that this time around, the voters will be organized well enough to this off. If you're interested in more information, go to No Jones Tax for a wealth of ways to fight this. |
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