- Worse weather forecasting for the weekend ever? Turned out beautiful.
- I finally saw Date Night this weekend. Summary: Silly and predictable but with some laugh out loud moments.
- Wow: In 1952, the Boyd Police Chief was shot and a crowd gathered to cheer about it according to this AP story (pdf) in the Seattle Times. (Credit: Bud Kennedy.)
- There was a story on the news last night of a guy in Dallas handing out envelopes with $1 in them and encouraging people to add a dollar and give it away themselves. Good idea. But at what point do you think people would keep the envelope? I say $5.
- Modern Family is pretty funny.
- The First Baptist Church of Dallas has raised $115 million for reconstruction costs. WWJD?
- Saw an overweight family playing tennis this weekend. The dad ended up yelling, "No one in this family has a lick of hand/eye coordination." And he beaned his little son with a serve.
- It's weird that the oil spill in the Gulf really hasn't done much damage to land yet.
- The lady that escaped Wise County Sheriff's deputies last week while handcuffed was recaptured. There's no word as to what happened to the handcuffs.
- Texas A&M basketball recruit died over the weekend.
- Fort Worth police shot and killed a man this morning.
- We've got a computer technician in the office this morning. His phone just went off and it has a ringtone with the theme of The Exorcist.
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24 comments:
115 mil is not much anymore. what would obama do? spend another trillion
tig ol' bitties
The story on the Boyd shooting was fascinating. Time Magazine had an item, and there's another version here. They both had the incident set in '58.
There's a movie of the week in there somewhere. Maybe like Brian Dennehy's In Broad Daylight?
weak daily thoughts but nice chics.... B-
Kids (grown-ups, too), if you think drugs are harmless, just take a look at the woman the police recaptured over the weekend. She's forty-four and she looks like she's about sixty!
And I'm guessing that she did not want to keep the cuffs as a memento of her great escape, considering they would be used as incriminating evidence
So...did the technician exorcise your computer demons?
I found two dollars in the change tray at the self-checkout register last week. Intsead of sticking it in my pocket (would have been very easy) I turned it in to the supervisor, and she chased down the folks who checked out ahead of me. I'm pretty sure it wasn't theirs, but they took it anyway. The supervisor and I both thought it was no big deal since it didn't belong to either of us. Sometimes two dollars falls in your lap and you take it. Other times, you don't.
I think the whole idea of the money envelopes is that they have to stop somewhere. Right? I mean, you prove your point about people being honest and charitable, but then what?
8:25, you have to be the dumbest person in Wise County to make such a statement. Completely off topic and shows your complete lack of of reasoning. Pittyful!
8:55, What's pitiful is that you would call someone "the dumbest person in Wise County" and not bother to use spell check.
I thought the same thing, Jim. ;)
I can still recall the old timers around Boyd telling this story when I was growing up, seems like the general concensus was that they felt the officer deserved it. I always found it hard to fathom people would openly condone the shooting of a police officer...I think this is when I began to realize many of the folks in WC, Boyd in particular, were a little different.
There was some sort of oil spill @ Jasper creek @ Lake B'port fri or saturday. Saw clean up crews working sat morn.
9:52, why wouldn't they? Police are not above the law nor above suspicion. There are many times that police kill or wound innocent people. Why do people cheer that? 'Don't be in the wrong place at the wrong time.' The moment the militarization of police departments stop, the better off we all are.
Wonder what happened to the other 'actors' in the Boyd shooting/mob scene story?
Breaking news.. channel 8 has chopper on way to oil spill running into LB..
As the poster on 5-14 noted, MANY of my posts aren't getting through, so perhaps it's the website and not Barry's censorship! I was truly irritated that my post about Casey James wasn't ever posted last week. His story is not only in the Mess, but the Star Telegram and Fox 4 news. Why wouldn't this blog consider this to be the big news that it is....to have someone from this area as a top 3 on a national talent contest is a big deal. His mom is a nurse at Wise Regional and we're all VERY proud of Casey and his accomplishments. I am trying for the THIRD time to get this posted, so maybe third times the charm. i find this a lot more interested and relevant than talking about trials, politics, or sports!
I've found one of the problems for comments not going through. Once you write in the box, choose your identity, then clik "publish your comment"..... everything happens in a normal fashion, BUT... if you recheck the box where you typed your comment.... many times the comment is still there. It didn't go anywhere. So, you have to recheck your identity, and clik 'publish your comment' again.. and sometimes a third time before the comment finally "goes."
I'm assuming that is a problem with the website. Just be SURE to check and make sure the "leave your comment" box is empty after you have tried to publish. It's a real PAIN to type a long comment, only to have it not show up.
Check it out...and if it happens to you, please post about it here. That way Barry can figure how to get it fixed, I think.
AWESOME PIC TODAY!!!!!!
Ft. Worth PD should have gave directions to Wise Regional and called TEXAS DPS to take care of it. We can kill u on US 380 or the hospital parking area with no questions or investigations.
1:42. You are truly an uneducated idiot.
Yes,12:56 It was getting supremely annoying to post and post and not find my posting included. I was getting a complex and starting to consider deleting the site from my computer all together. I'm glad to know it's not just my posts not getting through!
I have had several posts not go through, and was upset that I was being censored. I was baffled, because I didn't think there was any reason for Barry not to post my comments. Then, I realized that my text in the box was not going anywhere. Now, after I click post, I always doubled check that the yellow box with green text shows up that says something like "post will appear when it is approved by host" or something like that.
3:06PM, might want to review what you post before calling people an idiot. You can't 'delete a site' from your computer. Moron.
RMMT = 9.5, 8.75
So, if the guv were a Democrat, would he live in a walk-up apartment and drive a Prius? Not necessarily defending RP, but isn't the regular Gov's mansion under renovation?
What would Kinky do?
5:56, I can delete a site from my computer and I'm not 3:06. Don't you know how to do that on your computer?
7:14 really is an idiot. And I didn't post before...just merely concurring.
noooooo... 8:17 you're the idiot. just observing.
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