5.21.2010

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

  • Did everyone in Midlothian have a camera in their hand when the tornado appeared? There's about a 1,000 pictures of it.
  • The guy that was struck and killed on 183 in Irving a couple of days ago was in the military and on a layover for the night after landing at DFW. But why was he walking on a highway at 6:00 a.m.?
  • Another weird story is a guy found under an overpass in Dallas whose motorcycle is missing. It's like he went over the side of the highway with the exception the motorcycle is no where to be found. He is the son of a Dallas policeman.
  • Brett Michaels, who is recovering from a brain hemorrhage, revealed he was at home watching Busty Cops 3 when it happened. (Which, I don't mind saying, is better than the last Batman movie.)
  • The most hypnotic video in the history of ever: Red Light Runners Getting In Crashes. [Link fixed.]
  • This license plate I saw last night reminded me of a Seinfeld episode.
  • The trailer for the new Sex In The City movie has Carrie uttering the line, "We're not in Kansas anymore!" Really? That line? You really want to go with that?
  • I'm awful at to do lists and reminders, but I discovered Evernote which is a really, really cool.
  • How with all the great minds in this world can we not stop that oil leak in the Gulf? It's bordering on ridiculous.
  • I had to make the double trip to the grocery store last night. You know, you get home from the store and realize you didn't buy something you have to have that night. Beating.
  • WBAP's Mark Davis, who is losing it lately, went on a rampage the other day with "How dare the Mexican president come to OUR country and criticize one of OUR states. How dare you, sir!" Please. That would be like, heaven forbid, President Obama going to Mexico City and criticizing the lawlessness in the city of Juarez.
  • I think over the next 20 years we'll see a huge move away from Windows with programs which run on our desktops to Google's Android operating system where all the programs and data are kept in the clouds.

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my, a pushup bra at the beach?

Total misery.

Anonymous said...

Any word on a wreck on Hwy 101 at FM 2265? Emergency vehicles from Decatur were headed that way about 7:30 today.

Scott said...

The trick, though, about the Mexican President criticizing us over the Arizona law is that this law is completely legal. He used the same standard lines that all of the opponents of it have it, saying that we would be racially profiling, etc.

I just challenge someone to show me just how this law is not legal. It is the same as the Federal law, the only difference being is that at least Arizona is going to do something to enforce it.

Also, instead of being angry that he would dare criticize us in the Senate chambers, all of the Democrats stood and gave him a standing ovation! What idiots!

Anonymous said...

how many americans are in mexico illegally comitting awful crimes and sponging off their tax payers? how does that compare?

Anonymous said...

Barry,

Your $12 Twins made the news on radio station KSCS (96.3) The Dorsey Gang show this morning. Claimed the ad was posted by a "woman from North Texas".

Mark said...

Red light runner link doesn't work

wordkyle said...

Thought-provoking post today.

- Perhaps you should have used Evernote to create a grocery list.

- Everybody knows you can't follow the story in Busty Cops 3 unless you've seen Busty Cops 1 and Busty Cops 2.

- There's already a viable redneck solution to clean up the oil. Texas Tech also has a solution.

- I propose a different analogy: The Mexican president's remarks are like Obama going to Mexico City and criticizing Juarez's passing laws to prevent violence.

- My nomination for the funniest license plate ever

Anonymous said...

But Barry, you are so off base. Arizona is not being unlawful like the Mexican border states, it is actually being lawful in attempting to enforce statutes already on the books that the feds refuse to enforce. How in the heck does that make them unlawful? Your bias is glaring.

Mark said...

Red light link does not work

Anonymous said...

I dont always agree with Mark Davis, but in this case he is correct. Mexican President Napolean needs to get himself and his illegal people out of this country. They should take away his booster seat the next time he visits.

What is taking so long for Texas to come up with similar legislation like AZ?

That Mex Pres said some other stupid crap too. He and Hussein are 2 peas in a pod.

Anonymous said...

How can ANYONE criticize a state for upholding a law that PROTECTS our citizens? I agree with 9:14....get the illegals out of the country. I only wish Texas would follow suit. Load 'em all up in the back of a truck and ship 'em home.

Anonymous said...

I am a fan of Mark Davis. He pointed out that Mexico's immigration laws were stricter than those of the U.S. or those of Arizona that mimic the US law. Maybe we could tell the head wetback that we agree that our laws are not perfect so we will just replace them with the language found in the Mexican law.

By the way, it is perfectly legal under U.S. law to stop anyone and ask for ID and proof of citizenship.

Anonymous said...

BG, I can't get the pictures to attach, but I'm sure this is out there somewhere and you can find it. Should should find it and post this...



Hey everyone out there!

We, in Arizona , know you're boycotting us -- but you really should come out here and see
our Beautiful Sonoran Desert .

It's just gorgeous right now! We know you'd love it and maybe you can share what you
saw with the rest of the country so they can love it too!



This is on an 'illegal super - highway' from Mexico to the USA ( Tucson ) used by human smugglers.
This area is located in a wash, approximately 1.5 miles long, just south of Tucson , Arizona . If a
flood came, all this would be washed to the river and then onto the sea!




It is estimated over 5,000 discarded backpacks are in this wash. Countless water containers,
food wrappers, clothing, feces, including thousands of soiled baby diapers. And as you can
see in this picture, fresh footprints leading right into it.



As we kept walking down the wash, we thought for sure it was going to end, but around
every corner was more and more trash!





And of course the trail leading out of the wash in our city, heads directly NORTH to Tucson ,
then leads to your town tomorrow.




They've already come through here. Isn't Arizona just beautiful, America ?
Why would you boycott us??? Our desert has basically been turned into a landfill.




The trash left behind by people illegally crossing our border is another Environmental Disaster to hit the USA.
If these actions had been done in one of our Northwest Forests or Seashore National Parks areas,
there would be an uprising of the American people.....but this is the Arizona-Mexican border.

You won't see these pictures on CNN, ABC, NBC or the Arizona Republic Repugnant newspaper. Nor will
they mention the disease that comes from the uncovered human waste that was left in our desert.

However, with respect to CNN, ABC & NBC, they do offer us "Special Reports" on cheating celebrity spouses....

This information needs to be seen by the rest of the country.




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Anonymous said...

When a dinner guest criticizes the food, I ask them to leave. Adios, Calderon. I think we should go one step further and adopt the same immigration laws as Mexico. When you trespass into their country, if you survive the gunshot wound, you are given five years in prison.

Anonymous said...

Lose the above the fold. Boring.

jim said...

Barry I am very proud to grade you at your first

A+

you have raised the bar my friend...

Anonymous said...

Calderon is the biggest hypocrite I have ever seen. He was on CNN the other night and was asked about the immigration policy in Mexico. When asked if they check the papers of someone they suspect is illegal, he answered "of course". He criticizes the Arizona for attempting to do the same thing? This is astonishing, but no more than the liberal idiots that gave him a standing ovation. These people need to be tried for treason.

and...more of the Obama global apology tour. A man ashamed of our country.

Anonymous said...

Good news Barry! Since all students in High school will have a laptop, your viewers will go way up!

Anonymous said...

Barry, I know you're against the Arizona laws but I don't know why. Explain?

Anonymous said...

After watching the red light runners video, I will not be running anymore read lights! The last one on the video is horrific!!

Anonymous said...

I agree with 9:40

11:02 Future clients of his. He needs them.

Anonymous said...

11:02 - That's the liberal way. Believe in something with absolutely no sane basis. When you ask for an explanation all he will do is point out something he doesn't like about the other side.

Anonymous said...

I don't like the "above the fold" either, just for your info.

Again, how can even the libs be against upholding the LAW and deporting illegals? I just... don't... get it. If they are here illegally, they are BREAKING THE LAW just as a thief, a murderer, a drunken driver. Ergo.....no proof of citizenship, deport. What's the problem????

Richard Morgan said...

There's a difference between going to a country and criticizing lawlessness and coming to our country and criticizing a law that is only designed to enforce the existing laws. Stop setting up straw men in your arguments.

Anonymous said...

Yea - over $880,000 dollars worth of readers. Why couldn't DISD have picked cheaper laptops? With all of the new laptops available now on the market the iPads are much cheaper than what they are buying. Go TURF!!

mzchief said...

* Do you think some preacher, in some Baptist church, will use Brett Michaels having an aneurysm while watching Busty Cops 3 as evidence that God will get you if you watch porn?

* I accidentally watched about 10 minutes of an episode of Sex In The City and it showed the 70 year old arse of a creepy old man one of the Sex girls was boning for profit/gifts and I have made a point to NEVER watch that dreck. At their ages, it is just pathetic that the Sex girls are still looking for sex in the city.

* BugMe is the best note/reminder/alarm app for BlackBerry. I think it comes standard with the iPhone.

* The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is approximately a MILE beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico which means the pressure is approximately 2400 psi. Atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14.7 psi. NOW, are you understanding the problem? It is easier for a human to work in space than it is a mile below the surface of the sea/ocean/gulf.

* It is NEVER appropriate for the leader of a foreign country to interject themselves into the LAWFUL actions of a sovereign state of the United States. It is disgusting when the POTUS PUBLICLY stands shoulder to shoulder with a foreign leader who is criticizing the US. If US funds, sent to Mexico, by illegal aliens in the US, was not the second, only to oil and gas exports, source of foreign income for Mexico, Calderon's concern for the treatment of Mexican illegal aliens in the US, MIGHT have a wee bit of credibility. Calderon gritching about Arizona enforcing US immigration laws is akin to a drug lord gritching about law enforcement arresting drug dealers.

Anonymous said...

Vis-à-vis Señor Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa's inappropriate comments to the U.S. Congress - I think former Texas Governor William P. Clements expressed the way many of us feel, most succinctly, when he said: "He's just another Mexican with an opinion."

Remember the Alamo.

Anonymous said...

Oh, I get it: see, the track is hypnotic trance music...

I'll bet you a billion dollars 90% of the light runners were on cell phones.

Anonymous said...

Mark Davis is a GIGANTIC douche...

period...

Anonymous said...

Stopping people who you "suspect" to be illegal is the problem. If they check on someone's immigration status AFTER they've been arrested for something , fine.

How do you look at someone and suspect they are here illegally? I think I'd be pretty pissed if a police officer stopped me on the street and asked that I prove I was here legally. Why? Because I stopped at a taco stand?

Hellllloooooo Gestapo

wordkyle said...

1021 - The racism that you imply has been addressed by the Arizona Governor's Executive Order: "an individual's race, color or national origin alone cannot be grounds for reasonable suspicion to believe a law has been violated." The Arizona state government went to great lengths to address the issue before they passed the law.

Perhaps if more people (Holder, Napolitano, et al) read the legislation and what the Arizona law actually says, the debate would be a bit better informed.

Anonymous said...

1021 if your holding up the taco stand and dont speak english I think there may be a reasonable suspicion to ask to see your ID.

Anonymous said...

RFMT = Oh, Sandy...

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