4.15.2010

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

  • Ted Nugent was on WBAP this morning. That guy is so full of it.
  • Sarah Palin spoke at a Tea Party rally in Boston yesterday, and she's almost turned into a caricature of herself. She actually said, ""Yeah, let's drill baby drill, not stall baby stall – you betcha!"
  • Of all the news stations, I think Fox 4 pimped the drunk Jerry Jones video the most.
  • They made an arrest in the murder of the 17 year old Fort Worth boy in the Wedgewood area of Fort Worth. Maybe I'm losing my mind, but I could have sworn Fox 4 put up a book in photo of a white guy last night. (The alleged killer just happened to be black.)
  • New York Times this morning: "Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public." Is that any surprise? That older white guys have more money than the young who struggle to get by?
  • I've been using Chrome browser more that Firefox lately. And I haven't used Microsoft's Internet Explorer in at least seven years. But I bet most people just use Internet Explorer by default.
  • Losing half your prosecutors in one week in the Wise County DA's office would cause quite the headache. (But for those that asked, there's no big scandal or controversy. Just people moving on.)
  • The Right has been dogging Obama about wanting to reduce nuclear weapons. Over at bagofnothing.com, he's got a Jon Stewart video showing Ronald Reagan saying he wanted to reduce America's arsenal by "one third" and some day "eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth."
  • Motorcycle death in Dallas this morning. (But it's been a pretty quiet Spring.)
  • Busy airports in Europe are shut down this morning due to volcanic ash from Iceland. And this includes Heathrow Airport in London. That's a travel nightmare.
  • Decatur has a new strip mall up on 287 near Allsups. That sure looks like a ton of empty spaces they'll be trying to rent out. And not one is leased so far.
  • The NASCAR race in Texas used to get a lot more publicity than it does now.
  • Above the fold: (I may start posting the Star-Telegram instead.)

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

BG---heard on the traffic report on my way in that there was a motorcycle on semi wreck they were currently working in Dallas

Anonymous said...

Today's Random Thoughts Pic = FAIL

Anonymous said...

Oh for Pete's sake...the difference between Reagan SAYING he wanted to rid the world of nukes and Oboma can be seen by Stevie Wonder: Reagan would always have kept one or two nukes in a bunker somewhere (more likely on a sub stationed in the Atlantic) and was committed to the end of Communism and the destruction of the Berlin wall. Oboma on the other hand would probably give our last nuke to the Russians just in case they ever felt like they needed one, has no philisophical problem with communism and might help the Russians re-build the wall if they told him it was a habitat for humanity project.

Anonymous said...

Have you ever met the Ron Paul crowd? I assume these folks morphed over to the tea movement My experience in the DFW area is they are generally younger individuals. Just looking for minimal government.

Stereotypes are fun, they save time.

Football guru

Anonymous said...

8:39 funny stuff

Anonymous said...

Yep, this blog is just about full on dead! Somebody fetch the defibrillator...then get the life support machine ready.

RPM said...

I haven't used IE since the first time I tried Google Chrome. Faster, less bugs...Great browser!

If you liked that Daily Show clip, you should have seen last night's show. FOX News is just throwing breaking balls over the plate for Jon Stewart to knock out of the park.

This is the first of 2 NASCAR Sprint Cup races at Texas Motor Speedway. You should really come down and spend Friday and Saturday night in the campgrounds. You'd have a couple years worth of "pick me up's", but you probably have to censor most of them. When was the last time you saw a portable stripper pole? (Bring beads, lots and lots of beads!)

Anonymous said...

Hey BG, Ted Nugent rocks, and your jealous. Sarah Palin gets your goat, sells it and makes a million, your jealous. Go ahead and call names Libi. Ronald Reagan was so for above and better than your pres. pick Obami, your jealous. HAHAHA Keep up the, yall said this and that stuff when we know who the yall is.

mzchief said...

* The ONLY place I saw the Jerry Jones drunk off his arse video was The Blog.

* No surprise that people who care about the $12,816,538,105,740 and counting/mounting debt, with no end in sight, are people who have made money and understand how hard it is to repay debt. Yes! That is a debt of nearly 13 TRILLION dollars. Due to the median age in the US being 36.7 years, which does not take into account that the voting age in the US is 18, goes quite a ways to accounting for the age of people being involved in politics being significantly higher than the median age of the general population of the US. Funny thing about numbers, if you fail to take into account all of the extenuating factors, the numbers being spewed are meaningless.

Just to give you an idea of how much is a TRILLION.
A million seconds is 11.5 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

If you spent $1,000,000/million per day it would take approximately 2,740 years to spend a trillion dollars.

What younger people do not understand is that THEY are the ones who are going to be repaying the bulk of what Congress is spending. If younger folks would wake up, they would realize they are being REQUIRED to purchase health insurance to subsidize the high cost of insuring older people with health issues. What is AWESOME is that the folks who voted for Obama's "Hope and Change" are getting it broken off in their arses because they are NOT getting free stuff.

* I have not accessed IE for over 5 years. I love Firefox mainly because I am NEVER assaulted by adverts or adware. I am too lazy to learn Chrome.

* The Retarded Right are shooting themselves in the foot over the Nuke issue. What the cretins have yet to figure out is that, due to degradation in the US nuclear arsenal, the majority of the nukes that will be deactivated NEED to be deactivated. The fact the US is not going to replace them is meaningless due to the fact the US has enough nukes to destroy the world three times over. The Retarded Right, hissing and spitting about Obama and the Nukes is akin to the birthers gritching about Obama's birth certificate. The Republicans need to duct tape shut Hannity's mouth.

* The South 40 has an AWESOME photo, sent by an Icelandic friend, of the ash cloud over their home in Iceland. Volcanoes are scary business.

Anonymous said...

yeah, FOX4 did initially post a book in photo of a white guy and by the end of the story apologized as they posted a white guy with the same last name rather than the black guy they were really looking for....they fixed it in a later broadcast.

Anonymous said...

New York Times this morning: "Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public." Is that any surprise? That older white guys have more money than the young who struggle to get by? -- Usually works out that way, even when your dad was a young boy. Surprising how that happens, the ones who work, save, and build businesses are richer than the ones who sit home, do nothing, and wait for the government to help them! shesh

mzchief said...

9:24...You're an idiot.

Sorry to toss on the Grammar Nazi hat but your grammar 'tard rant was too much to ignore.

Anonymous said...

Al Gore is hard at work trying to figure out how to make millions off of the volcanoes that produce far more pollutants than mankind and tax us at the same time.

Anonymous said...

The difference in you and Ted Nugent besides the hair and talent - he appeals to a broader audience.

Wow, I somewhat agree with MzChef for once.

I saw some Libertarians speaking at a Tea Party rally on TV. Were you not supporting some Libertarian ideals at one point?

I think Obama should have run with Sarah Palin. That way we could have easily kept an eye on the two biggest goofballs in politics.

I would appreciate more posts about the Taco Casa progress and when CVS is going to start building.

Richard Morgan said...

I guess the reason that many of the Tea Party members are older is because they actually have a grasp of governmental economics. This out of control debt will eventually bring this country to its knees -- and it's going to be on the backs of the younger generation, since the older generation won't be making the money necessary.

Anonymous said...

Your myopic view of the world never fails to amaze me.

You are a sad little man.

Anonymous said...

I want to COPY mzchief by capitalizing certain WORDS to help emphasize a point so that my posts can be AWESOME too. I can also say things like you are an IDIOT or you are a right wind RETARD and make myself look very SMART in doing so. Its almost like mzchief is using the WILLIAM Shatner voice/typing technique.

Anonymous said...

it's obvious to me that our government has proof that the world will come to an end by the end of 2012..so they are doing certain things to keep the system propped up by any and all means available to the world order to keep the masses from going into a worldwide panic and start killing all the "leaders" just for the f'n fun of it..i know i would.

Anonymous said...

9:24 here, Mzchief, got ya, you name caller you. Just me, but your eys have way too much black stuff on them, just me, I dont know, im an idiot. Good stuff 11:10

Anonymous said...

Mzchief is just to easy to draw in. What's wrong with her right eye?

Anonymous said...

11:17

you think the world is ending in 2012 because.......??????? should i even ask???

wordkyle said...

I think you mischaracterize complaints about Obama's nuke policy. His declaration that America wouldn't use nukes under any circumstances, along with his apathetic response to Iran's development of nukes, plus his increasingly anti-Israeli stance, have increased the danger of nukes being used.

Regarding the Tea Parties: First of all, reductio ad klanum -- you can always count on Liberals to imply racism to those who oppose them. Tea Partiers are better educated. If young people could do math, they'd see how government interference is restricting their ability to accumulate wealth. And according to Rasmussen, 24% of regirstered voters consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement -- are there that many rich white guys?.

Anonymous said...

1128 some people just need killing..ya know what i mean?

Anonymous said...

Like I always say:

Fun should be made and had at every opportunity.

Anonymous said...

12:18 - How you liking that dead in job at the freight company? Save your hate for MzChief. I just saw her on the golf course.

Anonymous said...

"Ratards," 100%. The above the fold is boring.

Anonymous said...

There were arrests for the murders of 2 separate victims in Wedgewood yesterday. One happened this week and the other was a couple of months ago. That could have been the reason for the photo confusion.

wordkyle said...

Oh, and anyone who supported candidate Obama should think twice before critcizing Palin's constituent-massaging speaking style. (Or her judgment, experience or ability to govern.)

Anonymous said...

who cares, 12:49?

Anonymous said...

Bad guess 12:49. Not even close, actually.
And stupid comment:

'Save your hate for mzchief' as in, only hate on mzchief????

'FUN should be made and had at every OPPORTUNITY' is her saying.

'Dead in' or 'Dead end'???? good grammar.

Anonymous said...

Mzchief has her own saying. Im just saying.

Anonymous said...

Many of those old, wealthy white guys were once young, struggling white guys. It's called the American Dream and this goofball leftist in the White House currently is doing his best to destroy it.

Anonymous said...

Ted rocks! And he's able to articulate a cogent argument for the philosophy of people getting government off their backs and out of their wallets, all while having a great time doing it.

This blog...not so much.

Anonymous said...

DAGO;Wake to f**k up people,Germany started a war that killed about twenty million people.They want to cry about a little wall?The Russians had every right to kill every German man woman and child as well.They sure didn't cut anyone any slack where they went.We spent billions of dollars and thousands of AMERICAN lives to kick their ass then more to rebuild it.That makes as much sense as having you having a neighbor kill your family,burn your house and build him another one bigger and better than he has at the time.How many countries have we fought and won that we ever got anything out of it.Germany,France.Italy,Japan.China,Mexico and they are screwing us every day.Now we have a limp wristed president that thinks a shoulder hug and a case of cheap beer will get respect.Sheeese

Anonymous said...

10:13, You need to get your talking points from somewhere other than Glen Beck.

Anonymous said...

DAGO;Put your i-pod down and if you can read 'get a few history books and try to figure out what really caused us to be in the screwed up mess we are in.Oh and I don't watch Glen and Rush. Idon't watch much of Soros bunch either,makes me want to puke.But you probably don't know George S is either.