5.06.2009

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

  • Whatever happened to Michael Richards (Kramer from Seinfeld) after his nightclub debacle?
  • The weathermen aren't doing a very good job lately.
  • Is it me, or is there a commercial proliferation onslaught on the radio these days?
  • A lawyer out of Houston was "twittering" about a prostitution case he was watching in a courtroom yesterday. You'll have to scroll down quite a bit, but it was here.
  • We still prosecute people for prostitution? (The case involved an undercover officer going into a massage parlor. I noted that he testified he got neekid and laid on the table because "they won't talk to you unless you take your clothes off.")
  • Joe Shannon is apparently going to be appointed to replace recently deceased Tarrant County DA Tim Curry. I'm pretty sure Shannon played a pretty big role in the Cullen Davis prosecutions.
  • I saw he was in New Orleans for a legal conference yesterday. The taxpayers probably don't need to be sending an assistant DA to a conference in New Orleans.
  • I'm feeling more and more that people have no idea what I mean when I talk about Cullen Davis.
  • We live in a politics of fear kind of world: The Swine Flu, Bush: "they'll follow us home" from Iraq, Obama: "the economy is going to collapse", Pete Delkus over-the-top weather warnings, incoming hurricanes being a "possible Category 5", and the list goes on.
  • Speaking of fear: The Taliban appears to be in the process of taking over large portions of Pakistan. Last time I checked, Pakistan hand nukes. Yet another reason to quit jacking around in Iraq and focus on what's important.
  • I get stopped pretty often by someone who wants to congratulate me or berate me for the quality of the Random Girl pic.
  • Normally it is to berate.
  • Never a big fan of Dom Deluise.
  • Fox 4 had a segment on Ninja motorcycle crashes last night captured by DOT traffic cameras. Oh, my.
  • I took one of those silly "What Kind Of Crime Are You?" web quizzes yesterday. The results scared me because the answer seemed to know me better than any real person.
  • At docket at the County Court at Law yesterday, I saw a cute young gal (holding a baby) who seemed to be crying. Later I learned she was sentenced to 180 days in jail for a violation of probation. As I began to give the prosecutor the business on his successful efforts to jail her, I found out she had had several chances to get her act together.
  • Always feel odd stringing the "had had" together in a sentence.
  • Saw this a few weeks ago: Click a button and chat with a stranger. The politics of fear have me too scared to click the button.

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Surgically enhanced or not...She is HOT!!!

Anonymous said...

Shouldn't that shirt read "XL" for those things.

Anonymous said...

So what kind of crime are you? Probably something that makes the vice squad shudder!

For what it's worth, if I met you somewhere, I would never berate you for the quality of your random girl pics. Here's something folks on this here blog need to remember - We're guests here, nobody is forcing us to visit. There's an old saying that goes "You vote with your feet", meaning: "If you don't like it, leave!" If people don't like what they see here, they can vote with their feet (web feet - quack!) That's like being a guest in somebody's home and critiquing the host's artwork.

Keep the pics coming. If I like 'em, I just wipe the drool off the keyboard. If not, I move on. Simple
When I comment on one, it's usually to say something positive.
I positively love today's pic. Looks like a late "Happy Cinco de Mayo to me"

Anonymous said...

I would like to see a picture of the girls about 30 years down the road. Interested to see if they would still qualify for "Random thoughts" or "Mid-afternoon pick me ups"

Double Fake Hugh Hefner

Anonymous said...

We can take a had had before another is is.

Anonymous said...

It is good to see your aggression against Pakistan. At leasts you aren't a dove liberal.

Anonymous said...

Joe Shannon is a good guy, but Tim Curry's shoes are mighty big to try and fill. Best wishes to Joe.

Andria said...

I think I'm going to have to watch Cannonball Run this weekend in honor of Dom.

I only know about the Cullen Davis story because of a very campy Lifetime movie I watched way too late at night.

Mark Bennett has a pretty interesting blog...nothing so fabulous as this, of course...but still not a bad read.

Anonymous said...

Push-up bra, I say the real deal.

Anonymous said...

world reminds me of lyrics of billy carrington's song

"God is great, beer is good and people are crazy."

Anonymous said...

Cullen Davis? You mean the guy that was accused of putting on a wig and shooting his wife and her lover in his own home/mansion, got off with Racehorse Haynes as his attorney, after they had to move the trial to west Texas (that's west as in a direction, as opposed to the city just north of Waco), then was accused of trying to kill the prosecutor (or was it the Judge?) strike that, trying to arrange for the killing of the prosecutor (or was it the Judge?) and got Racehorse Haynes to get him off of that as well, then had acquittal remorse and tried to punish himself at what appeared through published report to be the urgings of a local TV minister by throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Jade statues into one of our fine area lakes? THAT Cullen Davis?

Anonymous said...

Your statement "I saw he was in New Orleans for a legal conference yesterday. The taxpayers probably don't need to be sending an assistant DA to a conference in New Orleans", I find really funny since the little old town of Decatur spends Tax payer money as if it isn't theirs, to send people to San Antonio, St. Louis, Minneapolis Minn., So they can learn about big-city politics. Funny how you can't seem to point the proverbial finger at your pals at city hall. The Public works dept. makes sure that a builder cannot construct anything without landscaping being a large scale budget, but just go down and look at their building -- weeds. And that isn't just what is growing outside. The city needs to pull a few of their parasitic weeds on the inside that don't pull their weight for the tax payer wage. C.O.C.

chupacabra said...

The chat with a stranger deal is trippy. You'd think you could say anything since they are strangers but, I lied with what I did say which wasnt much.

Anonymous said...

Tuesday is better than Wed. I think
but either one proves life is good.

chupacabra said...

Connecting to server...
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hi
You: hows it going?
Stranger: fine,from?
You: where are you? Im in texas
Stranger: i'm italian
Stranger: near milan
You: o italia
Stranger: do tyou like it?
Stranger: *you
You: I love it. very friendly
Stranger: i want to go away from italy...
You: Why?
Stranger: mmmhh...because the work is less then past years,girlfriend breks up with me 10 days ago...
Stranger: sorry for my english!
You: thats ok what do you do for a living?
Stranger: i need holiday!
Stranger: die casting...
Stranger: you know?
You: I know the feeling gotta go take daughter to dentist take care. yes i know die casting isnt that how they make tos and stuff
You: toys

Anonymous said...

I am reminded of the exercise in which the word "had" is validly repeatedly eleven consective times, to-wit:

Tom, while John had had "had," had had "had had;" "had had" had had the teacher's approval.

Thank you very much. I will be here all week.

Anonymous said...

How wise we are to separate church from Government.

Anonymous said...

WCM front page = gold

Anonymous said...

10:49, enough already...we've been had

Anonymous said...

"Twittering"
Sounds like something a prostitute would get busted for

"they won't talk to you unless you take your clothes off."
I find the opposite is true in my case. People won't talk to me until I put some clothes ON!

"As I began to give the prosecutor the business on his successful efforts to jail her..."
Because she was young, or cute, or a mother? Would you be willing to put in a good word for the old, ugly, childless defendant?
Attica! Attica! Attica!

Anonymous said...

Hey Barry,
Give us a new poll to vote on:
Will the Bridgeport ISD Bond Pass or Fail this Saturday?
Just for Fun!
(It includes an indoor practice facility...FYI)
Thought it might be fun to see how close your audience mirrors the real vote.

Anonymous said...

yes, that Cullen Davis, 9:55. Good re-cap.
And if I remember correctly he tried to hire a hitman to kill the presiding JUDGE of his divorce trial; that charge got thrown out because of entrapment. (He could be heard clearly on the tape trying to hire the hitman.)

That's THE one Cullen Davis.

I hear that he has another, church-lady wife, similar to his 1st wife, and lives the life of a conservative, wealthy businessman.

The murder of Priscilla Davis's 12 year old daughter remains unsolved.

Bigwillie02 said...

8:26 - That's what it says. Everything is backwards in Spanish.

Double Fake; Mrs. Hamlin

Anonymous said...

C.O.C. is on the money. As a builder, I find that doing business in Decatur is becoming more absurd by the day. The level of incompetence is astounding in the . With the exception of a few, dealing with the building dept. is a joke. A new inspector gives a red tag to a fellow contractor for not providing a shower curtain rod in a duplex. This isn't a permanent part of a permanent structure. Knowledge of codes are not interpretation of codes. The hiring of these people show the very incompetence I speak of. Ego is not a replacment for intelligence. Their hiring record speaks for itself. The taxpayer should be aware that many contractors, including myself, have spoken to one another and will begin to look elsewhere to do business.

LandShark 5150 said...

The hitman spoken about is the actor Woody Harrelson's father.

Anonymous said...

Cullen Davis lives in Colleyville in Highland Meadows addition. His house he lives in is probably priced about $350,000.00, and probably about 20 years old now, that's not very much house in Colleyville. He does live a somewhat modest life now. I used to babysit next door to his house. His neighbors all seem to like the man, though they can't get over the fact that he might have killed those people.

Ruby Red Lips

Anonymous said...

Landshark,

There's enough T. Cullen crappola out there that i could be wrong, but i think that there was no "real" hitman. If memory serves, Cullen was actually working with an FBI informant and didn't know it at the time. The tape recording referenced above was obtained from an FBI informant who was wearing a wire. He showed Davis a phot of the Judge, in a bizzaro world twist, that had been created with the help of the Judge, who was stuffed into the trunk of a car and had ketchup smeared all over his head and chest to appear as if he had been shot. Davis makes some comment about what a good job it was, and then the "hitman" asked Davis if there was anyone else he wanted capped, and of course there were several folks on his (s)hitlist. But this is the best part: at trial, this guy who has already been tried for the murder of his wife's lover, WINS ACQUITTAL with the story that he knew what was going on and was actually running his own sting to catch crooked FBI agents.

Anonymous said...

To: Anonymous 11:56 a.m.

No, what you are finding is that the old and crooked way of doing business in Decatur is changing. The new people being hired are competent and will be enforcing the regulations that have been in place all these years, but have never been enforced because that's the "Decatur way" of doing business. It is interesting that the only contractors and builders complaining about the way the City is handling development are the locals. Why is that? It is because you guys have never been forced to comply with the regulations. You make under the table deals and you expect the staff to turn and look the other way because of who you think you are. Well, the tide is changing and I for one am glad. I submit that there have been marked improvements in the Building Department in the last 3 1/2 years than in the 5 years before that under the "old turn your back, grease your palm and it will go away" regime. I am hopeful that there will be many other changes to come as well!

The new professionals that are getting hired (cudos to the City Manager and City Council) are exceptional individuals and have done much in their efforts to take this town out of the dark ages. I understand they are all amazed at how the rules have been inconsistenly applied when applied or outright broken for "Mr. City Founder" and how the City has managed to not get its proverbial ass sued in the process over these many years. These new professiohnals seem to be more interested in protecting this City and ensuring that it develops orderly and with direction than you contractors for sure.

So, you and other contractors are thinking about doing business elsewhere? So what? The City will not shut down nor will it shrivel up. Looking at what you've built so far, whose loss is it really?

wordkyle said...

No Country for Old Men trivia: In Cormac McCarthy's book, a character refers to a "hitman killing a judge in San Antonio." The hitman referenced was Charles Harrelson, father of Woody Harrelson, who appeared in the movie version of the book. Note: the line of dialogue did not occur in the movie.

Anonymous said...

If you think the shirt is likely to hit the fan in Pakistan, ask yourself this: How handy is it going to be having about a million battle hardened troops and a lot of cool hardware already in place at forward bases in Iraq?

Those military types probably aren't near as dumb as you seem to think (nor was GWB for that matter). Count your blessings that those guys are pros.

Obama would have us all living under Sharia law with his lack of experience and naivete.

Anonymous said...

3:05 you don't have a clue.

Anonymous said...

To 3:05 sounds as if you take this at a personal level. And you should because of your 3.5 year statement you implicate yourself. In the last said 3.5 a high school and some hotels, your contrabution, landscaping. Try giving the taxpayer 8 hour days for their money, then you can comment.

Anonymous said...

you've had that girl up here before- different pose.