10.15.2009

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

  • For Gov. Perry to declare Cameon Willingham guilty of murder yesterday is crazy. How does he know? He's doing damage control (he can't have an innocent man executed under his watch, can he?) and looks bad doing it.
  • The Dow closed above 10,000 yesterday and has increased an amazing 53% since March. Blame Obama.
  • There was a guy from Nigeria yesterday represent himself in a traffic ticket case in the courthouse who told the jury that it was a racial issue. That ended with a "guilty" by the way.
  • I would have enjoyed being a computer programmer and, oddly for my current gig, that was my major in college.
  • I swear I saw an AWACS plane heading towards the old Carswell Air Force Base yesterday.
  • Our County Attorney got tasered at the Sheriff's Office (voluntarily) with his shirt off. There are pictures. He has them. I've seen them. I'm begging him to let me post a couple of them. You guys would like to see that, right?
  • Motorcycle death in Dallas last night (no link yet.)
  • SMU is offering holders of a Texas/OU ticket stub the chance to see its night game against Navy for $10. Good luck with all that.
  • When I posted the Stephen Wren story two days ago, I decided I wouldn't post any negative comments. I only had to reject one which was a generic negative comment about lawyers.
  • I don't understand the obese football coach. You preach discipline, dedication, and hard work but you can't control your own appetite? Especially when you are surrounded by athletes?
  • Somebody reported this ad in the Wise County Classifieds as offensive. I don't think so.
  • The previews for "Where The Wild Things Are" creep me out.
  • Random number: One year tuition for ivy league Columbia Law School is $48,004. I thought that was outrageous, but a full time student at Texas Wesleyan Law School in Fort Worth is $26,000.

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

barry, be a man and try that taser deal out. that would go a long way to convince us u r not GAY !

Anonymous said...

racsism in wise county? no way!

Anonymous said...

The DOW has inched above 10,0000 in spite of Obamanomics, Barry.

WRSDemon said...

I think it's very interesting that not only every positive economic instance but also a Nobel Peace Prize is given to a president that hasn't been office a year. Does everyone actually believe that out president's mere presence is changing things because to my knowelege none of the changes he's implemented have had the proper amount of time needed to work.
I'm not tryong to knock what he's done or is doing, He's our president and whether or not we like him is beside the point he represents US and leads our country. That being said I still find it very hard to believe that the news media and even you B can stomach the idea that he is the cause of EVERY POSITIVE INSTANCE IN THE WORLD TODAY!

Denney Crane said...

No one told the Nigerian that Americans are sick of having the race card thrown at them.

I will be glad to pay his fine if he would take his happy arse back to Nigeria within the week and stay there.

Texas may not be the best place for him to assert his rights as a black person. I feel Texans will edumakate him quickly.

And yes, I would pay good money to see the County Attorney collapsing and flailing around on the floor after being tased. He should have called around and charged admission!

Denney Crane said...

8:47 AM

You know very little about world economics, but thank goodness you can read headlines and formulate your opinion.

Dow > 10,000

Due to devaluation of the dollar, not the rebounding economy. Same as $74 a barrel oil. It hasn't gone up, the dollar has gone down. DIP!

Wall Street may soon want Euros or Yen instead of dollars. Bankers do.

Anonymous said...

The DOW reached the number because Companies in the U.S. have stopped laying off or are slowing down the lay-off process. I'm not sure Obama had anything to do with it other than like most politicians, he'll take the credit. He did win the Nobel Prize you know! I'll just be glad when Washington takes the same approach as private business in America, which they hate by the way, and stop spending when they don't have the money. But, since it's not their money they don't care. As well, on a different note, the health care issue isn't about health care and people better wake up. The majority of people who voted for the amature wouldn't like what's coming down the pike. Gotta luv that change!!

Debbie Macik said...

Since these guys catch numerous negative comments on here.....

I want to say a big thank you to the EMTs who came to my aid yesterday. Even though my situation was mild compared to some of the traumatic situations you can experience on any day, you still exhibited the uptmost care and professionalism towards me.

Denney Crane said...

That gal in the picture, she should have spent the money on a nose job instead of her boob job.

Boob job (BJ) - employment position requiring little intelligence. Use of other personal or profession assets attract employers to create and/or fill this position... vacancy... uh... never mind.

Anonymous said...

The Dow hit over 14,000, highest level ever, with Bush at the helm. So since it just hit 10,000 then Obama must not be good economist?

DocLogic said...

This just in.....Obama has been awarded the Cy Young award for the 2010 season. They viewed his pitching mechanics and said he would win it next year anyway based on his mechanics.

Anonymous said...

Clueless!! What story about Stephen Wren? Can't believe I have missed a story...

Anonymous said...

The inflated DOW is not a good indicator of anything except the weak dollar...and yes, you certainly could blame Obama if you weren't such a liberal sycophant.

Anonymous said...

I don't understand your first comment about Willingham. The "How does he know?" statement specifically. The Gov. Rick "The Hair" Perry did not declare him guilty of murder, a jury of his peers did. Perry was stating the outcome of the trial.

Your comment almost makes me wonder if maybe you didn't know that Willingham happens to be dead, executed by the great state of Texas in 2004 for the murders of his 3 young daughters by arson.

The case was reviewed multiple times, including the Supreme Court, prior to the execution.

I think its Barry Scheck and company that are out of line on this one. They specialize in freeing innocent people using new and improved DNA testing techniques, and I support their cause 100% using hard, scientific data, but their recent comments on the Willingham case are based on the findings of their teams arson specialist reviewing the work of other arson specialists. Right or wrong, its his opinion, not hard data, that the recent comments are based on.

I thought you lawyer boys understood the process. I have to tell you I'm disappointed in you on this one Bubear.

Don't make me whip out the "Mister Hart, here is a dime. Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer." quote on you.

Double Fake Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.

Anonymous said...

8:58

Why don't you preach your same rhetoric to the retardicans...they blame everything negative that happens on the President. Don't ya think it should go both ways?

Barry - Hooray!!! You FINALLY mentioned the Retardicans' governor of Texas!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't it funny how they keep whining about our President but they still have not iterated a single syllable about the obvious cover-up by double-fake perry! We're talking about a man who has been put to death by our state who has been proven to be innocent via forensic evidence over and over now. He fired all of his nay-sayers the day before the reveal of such and now there won't be another hearing scheduled until AFTER the primaries..WOW!!!! Talk about a political blunder!

Buck up Retardicans and let's hear your rhetoric concerning this issue...oh i forgot, you probably haven't heard about it, cuz FEAUX NEWS probably isn't reporting it (fair and balanced) blah blah blah. You can read about it in the Dallas Morning News! Enjoy!

Barry - I would love to see the wise county attorney being tasered. How entertaining that would be. LOL!

THANKS AGAIN BG - TODAY'S TOPICS ARE THE BOMB!

Anonymous said...

This just in....

Obama wins the PGA Player of the Year award for 2009, narrowly beating out Tiger Woods.

Obama tweeted that he was "Humbled" to edge out Tiger.

Obama is now on Airforce One winging his way to Cleveland, OH where later today, he will be named the starting QB for the Cleveland Browns and then he will fly to Oakland, CA where later today he will be named the starting QB for the Oakland Raiders.

"If any two teams in the NFL need a Savior, its these two. I'm "humbled" they are interested in using my Savior super powers." said Obama.

Film at 10.

Double Fake Clinton News Network

Anonymous said...

10:19

You obviously don't have enough to do today.

Double Fake Rick Perry

Anonymous said...

I wonder why Obammy didn't win the Nobel Prize in economics also? OK, I'll give him credit for the DOW reaching 10 thousand if you will give him credit for the unemployment rate,

Anonymous said...

If you had gone into computer programming, you would now be out of work because your job was moved to Hyderabad, India and is being done by Suresh Patel.

One major telecomm company where I've done some work has two-thirds of their development team located in India.

The information technology biz has taken a huge hit in job losses to "Offshore" companies.

Double Fake H. Ross Perot

Anonymous said...

We want to see pics of the 'taser dude'

Old Timer said...

9:12 Evidently you don’t follow what is going on. The Businesses that you praise are the same ones whose greed wreaked the economy in the first place. Now the same ones that we gave the bailout money to are set to give their executives more big bonuses to reward them for wreaking the economy.

Anonymous said...

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/10/perrys-general-counsel-benefit.html

Interesting! Hypocrits at best!

Anonymous said...

Tip of the day: Don't do the taser
thing unless you're wearing dark pants. Peeing yourself in public isn't cool.

chupacabra said...

Where Wild Things Are trailers very creepy- give me nightmares.

When I was at DHS we had a ginormous football coach I don't recall the name but, he was constantly shoving food in his mouth ALL the time. He drove an old Chevy truck that literally leaned over toward the drivers side. I wouldn't be surprised if he's dead now. What was his name?

The AWACS is nothing: I see black helicopters circling my place all the time.

chupacabra said...

Oh, the DOW issue? Dude, many, many, MANY things happen in this carazy mixed up world we live in in SPITE of other things- not because of them.

Nothing he's done as economics is understood could help the economy- he hasn't applied his charm (and why hasn't he?)toward inreasing consumer confidence and business doesn't know what to do since they don't what to be eviscerated in a tax hike/healthcare fiasco.

Anonymous said...

Tell me what year you are referring to (DHS) Chupacabra, and I can probably tell you the coach's name.

Anonymous said...

Taser: yes!!

"In the face!! In the face!!"

Anonymous said...

Mangino the Hutt is the worst. From what I hear, a great guy. But dude, drop a couple (hundred), will ya?

Anonymous said...

Re the obese coach:

Barry, I always aspired to be the coach in The Last Picture, sitting at the end of the gym spitting my tobacco as the kids legged out another lap around the hardwood.

Run you little pissants, run! (spit)

My Other Brother Darryl

Richard Morgan said...

The Dow closed above 10,000 based on bottom line cost-cutting measures (read "layoffs"). We've now reached the bottom of the barrel, and companies can't lay off any more employees. That means that next quarter, the numbers are going to be awful. For crying out loud, Barry, learn a little something about economics.

Anonymous said...

1:32 I've got a hundred bucks that says the DOW is higher one quarter from now than it is today. Forget it--I'll invest it so that it turns into $110 in that same quarter's time.

Anonymous said...

6.25

Anonymous said...

2:06

Let me know where you are getting a 40% annual return, before compounding the interest. I need some of that right now.

Double Fake Bernie Madoff

chupacabra said...

2:06 leave the weed (or crack) alone before you think about shifting any of your millions around. I don't like it at all- but, next quarter is going to be TERRIBLE.

You read it here first.

Or not.

Anonymous said...

Lke it or not Perry is the boss and the smart thing to do when one has employees starting s--t fire their a--.I guess the statement from his wife in 2004 kinda backs all the courts.He was just another prick that the anti death penalty people could use to further their cause.As for the new d n a clearing people ;that's great but when Codis catches people you don't hear much.If d n a will get anyone realesed do it tomorrow'if not build a twenty man rig and whack them tomorrow.DAGO