My family is originally from West Texas and we still have a small ranch outside of Dublin, Tx. So, I always enjoyed a sugar sweetened Dr. Pepper when I was visiting my grandmother and when I stayed at the family ranch. It was one of the treats from my childhood that I remember and think fondly of.  I can’t imagine it not being there.

That is where the lawsuit lies. Dublin Dr. Pepper has a certain folklore status in West Texas and as such labels their bottles “Dublin Dr. Pepper.” Well, this doesn’t sit well with the corporate suits in Plano that now run Dr. Pepper, who ever they are these days. Corporate is suing Dublin Dr. Pepper insisting that they remove the “Dublin” from the bottle, or else… they will lose their bottling license. Looks like a real dickhead move to me, so my response? I will not drink anymore Dr Pepper, 7up or Snapple related products until these morons give up this lawsuit and allow a small bottler that controls 1% of Dr. Pepper’s consumption to do what it has done for the past 120 years, sell Dr. Pepper in Texas.

Of course the cause of this whole mess is spending more than we make. Everyone seems to have decided to spend 1.25 for every $1.00 they made and the result is a lot of worthless noncollectable debt and many over priced houses that should never have been built for people spending too much. The bottom line is the housing market and a lot of other goods to have to depreciate to a point where the average American can afford them again. So 15% seems like a lot but I am going to guess the number is closer to 20-25% in the drop of home values in DFW. Of course that varies greatly by neighborhood. I wouldn’t expect anything inside the loop to drop more than 5-10%.