http://www.stimuluswatch.org/

This is a fine example of the use of open source applications to create an organic, bottom-up discussion/information repository/oversight mechanism.

Not only is this worth looking at in terms of the stimulus efforts (characteristically, the biggest project in Dallas is a signature bridge. 'Cause just plain bridge won't do. We have to have imported Italian steel and tiresome but highly branded ClaptrapCalatrava design...it stimulates our betters.

http://www.trinityrivercorridor.com/images/I30BridgeSml.jpg

The site is also interesting as a development model for this one, IMO. It incorporates many features I repeatedly mentioned over at pop indy.

Yeah, they like their bridges in Dallas. Sure are a lot of them considering how little water is in that city. Not only do they like steel, they also ALL have big fancy carved stars on them. Big Texas star... they put those things all over the place.

And I also noticed $99,600 for doorbells in Mississippi. Who is getting those, Trent Lott? And there sure are a lot of golf courses on that list. Priorities, priorities...

man, i always hated dallas. (no offense, pinko.)

Squid you and I have that in common. I had to live there for an entire year once. Could not wait to move. Not that it's great still being in Texas (I'm from the midwest originally), but at least Houston is more of a normal place with the ports and all.

I liked Dallas.

Never seen Texas, 'cept from an airplane window & that wretched Houston airport.

After hearing 'Progressive Blues Experiment' could never think of Texas without hearing pale Johnny's words,

"Goin' down to Dallas
Take my razor and my gun.....

There's so much shit in Texas
Yer bound to step in some."

Of course I know better now, as though a South Carolinian's got a right to talk about anybody.....

I liked Dallas.

There's always one in the crowd! Heh, jk. I still have some very good friends there. It's like anyplace ... good and bad. Their bridges really are comical though. And that big mansion from the show "Dallas" on teevee? A real disappointment when you go to tour. It's just this normal ranch house in a corn field with neighbors fairly close by. They did have some pretty horses there. I'm not sure what I was expecting.

I'm a-skeered of Texas. Back in the day ;) (1993 or so) my bro Hobbes got busted in TX with many pounds of pot in his car door panels. They 'found' him in his jail cell having 'hung himself'. Yeah fucking right. We used to drive out of our way to avoid even passing through the northern part of the state after that (like Oklahoma was so much better for the hippie-folk, lol). Been to 40-something states but not TX.

That website is pretty interesting though, Rusty, thanks for posting it. I could sift through it all day! - oddly, there is nothing on it for my city. I know there is a home winterization project in my county that has been expanded as part of the stimulus. I make a little too much $ to qualify for it though, which is a shame since my little house has original windows from 1941 and no insulation. Oh well, I'll just have to keep paying ridiculous heating bills until I can afford to do it myself.

MM, I'm assuming that is slang and Hobbes wasn't literally your brother. Tragic either way :(

Don't know much about Dallas but San Antonio really sucks

I'm a-skeered of Texas. Back in the day ;) (1993 or so) my bro Hobbes got busted in TX with many pounds of pot in his car door panels. They 'found' him in his jail cell having 'hung himself'. Yeah fucking right. We used to drive out of our way to avoid even passing through the northern part of the state after that (like Oklahoma was so much better for the hippie-folk, lol). Been to 40-something states but not TX.

That website is pretty interesting though, Rusty, thanks for posting it. I could sift through it all day! - oddly, there is nothing on it for my city. I know there is a home winterization project in my county that has been expanded as part of the stimulus. I make a little too much $ to qualify for it though, which is a shame since my little house has original windows from 1941 and no insulation. Oh well, I'll just have to keep paying ridiculous heating bills until I can afford to do it myself.


So ya made me look......

Not a damn thing for this county, nothing for the Upstate for that matter. And, just to piss in my krispies, they are turning the Old Purrysburg Rd, a 2 lane dirt hwy from the colonial period and formerly one of the best snake hunting places in the East into a 4 laner.

Progress....the Low Country is so fucked.

It must lead to good golf courses, bp. ;)

You know I do our household budget, and I don't think I'd be spending 98K on doorbells and 30 BILLION on aid to Isreal so they can blow up more hospitals and schools, without first being sure I could cover our family's health care costs. Since Paul Volcker admits he has "no answers" maybe it's time for Obama to sign up for a simple home economics class. What is wrong with these people?

It must lead to good golf courses, bp. ;)

You know I do our household budget, and I don't think I'd be spending 98K on doorbells and 30 BILLION on aid to Isreal so they can blow up more hospitals and schools, without first being sure I could cover our family's health care costs. Since Paul Volcker admits he has "no answers" maybe it's time for Obama to sign up for a simple home economics class. What is wrong with these people?


You tryin' to rile me up, TBF?

Goof courses, house on the creek with the sunset view, New Years at Hilton Head with the 'smart people', road killed cooter and exterminated flatwoods salamander, all the same to me. Just more of the afflictions of the bourgeoisie.

I liked Dallas.

There's always one in the crowd! Heh, jk. I still have some very good friends there. It's like anyplace ... good and bad. Their bridges really are comical though. And that big mansion from the show "Dallas" on teevee? A real disappointment when you go to tour. It's just this normal ranch house in a corn field with neighbors fairly close by. They did have some pretty horses there. I'm not sure what I was expecting.


Big brawling city about the same size as Detroit. Felt right at home lol.

If it's any consolation, BP, I can't stand them either. They don't allow you to run on them, nor walk your dogs there (although what they don't see .... ).

If it's any consolation, BP, I can't stand them either. They don't allow you to run on them, nor walk your dogs there (although what they don't see .... ).


I just think of what was there before them, field & pasture, woods & swamp. I might be more congenial towards them if they did something useful, like raising cattle, they'd have to abandon the chemo intensive grass management model and bulls would make very challenging obstacles.

I'm a-skeered of Texas. Back in the day ;) (1993 or so) my bro Hobbes got busted in TX with many pounds of pot in his car door panels. They 'found' him in his jail cell having 'hung himself'. Yeah fucking right. We used to drive out of our way to avoid even passing through the northern part of the state after that (like Oklahoma was so much better for the hippie-folk, lol). Been to 40-something states but not TX.

That website is pretty interesting though, Rusty, thanks for posting it. I could sift through it all day! - oddly, there is nothing on it for my city. I know there is a home winterization project in my county that has been expanded as part of the stimulus. I make a little too much $ to qualify for it though, which is a shame since my little house has original windows from 1941 and no insulation. Oh well, I'll just have to keep paying ridiculous heating bills until I can afford to do it myself.


That blow dry plastic really does a good job of insulating windows, and isnt' that expensive if you buy the generic...I don't so the south side of my house...actually this year my new cat shredded most of it, but if you don't have a cat it does work (actually my other cats never bothered them). My house is a mix of 60's triple track and older wood frame storms...the plastic does save I think anyway, and you can see through it like glass...

That blow dry plastic really does a good job of insulating windows, and isnt' that expensive if you buy the generic...I don't so the south side of my house...actually this year my new cat shredded most of it, but if you don't have a cat it does work (actually my other cats never bothered them). My house is a mix of 60's triple track and older wood frame storms...the plastic does save I think anyway, and you can see through it like glass...


Seconded. We do that in northern Michigan. I was skeptical, but it worked.