Sacramento Executive: Dallas

This week Pierre and I are in Dallas.

Here are lessons we have learned so far

We should definitely pass any bill necessary to get Governor Schwarzenegger eligible to be President. We have never seen so much infrastructure construction ever as there is going on in Dallas. There are flyovers and flyunders and a highway that cuts a giant swath called George Bush Highway (named not after the present one, but the previous one). Since we were here 8 years ago, a sleeply little village, Frisco, now has its own Nordstroms. We figure there's some (alot of some!) pork barrel money that comes to the state that gets its governor elected President.

We are close to finding the woman that really did shoot up her lips so big that they exploded. We have met the one who can barely talk anymore.

It is illegal to take an unregistered gun into a restaurant. And every restaurant has that sign very prominently displayed.

Car dealers are now citing the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security to aide them in selling cars (and violating your privacy).

Whole neighborhoods are being torn down to make way for 'progress'. Downtown is a ghost town, even on Mavericks' game day. I guess that doesn't speak well for the idea of building a downtown arena for the Kings.

The Mavericks still didn't find heart to win those tough games in the last minutes. I guess that's a Kings' ditto also.

The extended stay hotel in 'the heart of telecom corridor' is like a ghost town. I guess telecom still has a ways to go to recovery.

Regular gas is $2.04 a gallon. Another reason to get Governor Schwarzenegger elected President.