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11/10/04  Not adult entertainment! 

It is an oxymoron to call sex clubs and pornography "adult" entertainment.  They are entertainment for horn dogs and perverts who never got past their nighttime "..." dreams as an adolescent fantasizing about sex.  The more appropriate term for sex clubs and pornography is "horn dog" entertainment, or how to stay a frustrated teenager forever.

And, PLEASE -- don't say the hookers gyrating on stage are just eye candy or sweet girls working their way through school -- unless you are talking about the School of Prostitution.  They once had the potential for being women, but working in sex clubs permanently reduces them to girls, just like the horn dogs who hang around watching them are permanently reduced to boys who have to get their thrills vicariously or through their imagination.  Pretty sad for both sides.

The only winners in the horn dog industry are the pimps who own the horn dog clubs and promote the myth that depravity is adult entertainment.

Just when you think things might be getting better we have a week like this one.  Once again, Randy Staff turns out to be right about who is really behind the sex clubs in this town.  It's city hall -- all the way up to the City Attorney!  Just like Randy Staff has always said. 

No one at City Hall likes to hear from Randy Staff because he never calls to tell them what a good job they are doing.  According to Randy, no one at City Hall will take his calls, much less return his calls.

I was at a Bachman/NW Hwy. community meeting Monday night where Randy Staff picked on our guest speaker -- THE CHIEF OF POLICE.   Anyway, I missed the 10 pm news and Sarah Dodd's report on the city leasing OUR convention center to the horn dog entertainment awards event.  You can catch her report on www.cbs11tv.com under "CBS 11 Video, X-Rated Convention at Dallas Convention Center".  When I got home there were several messages from people who did see Sarah's report, and they were hopping mad.

As bad as it is to have those perverts and hookers-in-training (giving them the benefit of the doubt about their current status) in our convention center for only $20,000, how the event got approved is almost as bad as having it staged on city owned property.  They were turned down by Adams Mark.  That's how bad these events are that a Dallas hotel would decline their business when our hotels are struggling to stay afloat.

They were even turned down by the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau.  Of course, that may have had more to do with seeing their boss forced to resign last year after it was disclosed his staff was entertaining convention planners at topless clubs.  Still, the DCVB people turned down the horn dog and prostitute gang.

Being ever resourceful, the horn dog and prostitute gang went to the weak link in our chain, city hall staff at the convention center, and were granted a night at our convention center to strut and stroke their stuff for only $20,000 and the promise of no public nudity.  Right off the bat, when Sarah Dodd reminded the the horn dog and prostitute gang's spokesman that there were naked/painted females at their awards banquet last year, the guy said the paint counted as coverage.  What you want to bet city staff goes along with that?

This is all arrested development.  We have sickos who think pornography and horn dog clubs and prostitutes are OK!  That's because they never got past adolescent attitudes toward sex.

We have arrested development at City Hall, when our Wannabe City MisManager says "she doesn't have a major problem with it, you know we've got problems.

Adult license fees to be cut; Lawsuit prompts city to lower costs for sexually oriented businesses  November 9, 2004 By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News

Dallas officials said Tuesday they intend to significantly reduce licensing fees for the city's sexually oriented businesses ? just two days before an adult entertainment awards show debuts at the downtown convention center.   Dallas Mayor Laura Miller said the fee change, which would drop licensing costs from $4,800 to $1,400, is the result of a lawsuit filed by local topless clubs. And she said the timing was poor, considering the risqu?awards show ? which approached the convention center after being turned down by the Adams Mark Hotel ? is scheduled for Thursday night. ... When city officials increased the sexually oriented business licensing fees in 2002, Ms. Miller said, they received bad information from a consultant. By law, the city isn't allowed to collect more money in a fee than it takes to do the inspection and give the business a license.    "We made a mistake," interim City Manager Mary Suhm said. ... "It's like dangling a carrot," said Millie Winston, who lives near White Rock Lake. "It's saying, 'We want you here, and so we're reducing fees for you.' " ... A lawyer who filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of several adult entertainment clubs said permit fees for sexually oriented businesses were raised from $750 to $4,800, compared with $1,400 for dance halls. This discrepancy prompted several clubs, including the Million Dollar Saloon and Baby Dolls, to sue the city. ... Lowering the licensing fee for topless clubs will cost the city $130,000 annually. ... But council member Ed Oakley said lower licensing fees won't result in more sexually oriented businesses.   ... "Whether you're getting a building permit, paying a water meter fee, or getting a dance hall license, you've got to be fair," Mr. Oakley said. "You have to be able to justify why you're charging that fee for that license." ... Ms. Suhm said city officials have the right to turn down events they deem inappropriate. While this event was approved by convention center staff without her knowledge, Ms. Suhm said, she doesn't have a major problem with it. ...

See, Randy Staff is right!

When our City Attorney has never grown past her debate classes in colleges and thinks she has to argue both sides of an issue rather than look out for the interests of Dallas residents and legitimate business, you know we've got problems.

Our City Attorney is just plain afraid of going to trial.  When we do, we win, but time and time again this woman and her predecessor City Attorneys have wienied out and cost us millions by recommending settlement and acquiescence when we should have stood firm and fought the battle.  If she wants to play the helpless little lady, she needs to get a job teaching law -- not practicing it!

Here's an idea!  Rather than reduce the horn dog club fees to the level of dance halls (which cause just as many problems), why not raise the fees on dance halls up to the $4800.  If that won't work using Ed Oakley's logic (and he has a conflict of interest regarding anything related to dance halls), let's slap a $3400 annual surcharge on all dance halls and horn dog clubs and designate those funds for DPD new-hire salaries!

Club DMX is a dance hall and not only was the scene of a policeman's murder a couple of years ago, but frequently is the scene of fights and other mayhem that spills out into the community when the club closes -- like the murder at the NW Highway Jack-in-the-Box this week.  That was the culmination of a feud that started a couple of weeks ago at Club DMX and was reactivated this weekend.

We are told it is necessary for us to have dance halls and horn dog clubs, so let them pay for the "adverse secondary effect" their businesses cause to the community.  See www.NoStripClub.com (another Allen Gwinn) production for real numbers to back up our position.

We do have the hope that when Grandpa Warbucks takes his Cow Thugs to Arlington that many of our local horn dog clubs will relocate there, too.  Many of the same arrested development horn dogs who stand around gawking at topless whores like to stand around gawking at professional sports bums, who like to stand around gawking at topless whores, too.  They all have the same adolescent attitudes toward women. 

We can't expect the horn dogs who have to spend money to look at or touch or be touched by the topless whores in the sex clubs to ever grow up, but we can hope things will get better at City Hall.  That will not happen if the council hires Mary Suhm as City Manager.  She comes from the same mismanagement school that claims John Ware and Ted Benavides as alums. 

Things will not get better at City Hall if we don't get a new City Attorney who sees the job as a law enforcement position, not as a debate society. 

So, here's to grown ups who know that "adult entertainment" does not mean spending money to watch a bunch of sickos pretending to have sex with themselves or others.  And, here's to gentlemen who would never be caught dead in a horn dog club!

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