- The boss in the British version of The Office, Ricky Gervais, might possibly replace Steve Carrel who is retiring from the American version of the show. I think he's the only one who could do it.
- Whatever happened to kitchen trash compactors?
- A California federal judge struck down the state's gay marriage ban yesterday. Opponents say the ban was voted in and was the "will of the people." Well, so was black and white water fountains at one point.
- I guess this heat is worth a generally pleasant winter. Maybe.
- Kevin Kolb will start at QB for the Philadelphia Eagles this year. I think he spent a handful of years in Decatur before he graduated high school somewhere else.
- The Ranger auction last night, which the Ryan Group finally won after upping their original bid by about $88 million, was a newspaper's deadline nightmare.
- Sorry individual: After being paid $32 million over the last year, Redskin Albert Haynesworth fails three conditioning tests and then claims a sore knee which has kept him out of practice for eight days.
- ESPN's Erin Andrews has a hot sister?
- Four funerals listed in the Update today and all were in their 50s.
- I completely missed out on the announcement that Decatur was getting a Wendy's. But that's all we need: Another reason for people to clog that area of FM 51.
- I wonder if this family drove through Decatur on their way back from Dallas before being involved in a tragic wreck in near Vernon.
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Today's Pic Double Wow.
Another lib weanie, homo judge usurps the will of the people of California.
And Barry, your lame attempt to correlate this with past racism is a rather stale argument.
Hey Barry you missed this headline from the Star-Telegram:
Former Miss USA arrested in Denton over unpaid-for items
As for Erin Andrews' sister, I have to agree with the person that wrote the article. She does remind me of RuPaul.
Erin Andrews's sister MIGHT be hot, but it's hard to tell from that photo, because she's wearing a reedonkulous amount of clown makeup. The black and white striped dress doesn't help much either - the makeup, dress, and unnaturally red hair = meh
Yeah, you're disparaging the Wendy's now...but I bet we get some pics of the Green family truckster there at some point. (Whatta ya know, it actually IS a family truckster now!)
Albert Haynesworth is a sorry individual for not staying in condition, regardless of the amount of money they paid him. But his true sorriness (sorryness?) was evidenced when he did the Mexican Hat Dance on Andre Gurode's noggin, back when Haynesworth was a...a...Titan?
Whatever happened to whipping hookers with a wire hanger when they didn't bring in enough cabbage - cuz I needs my money!
Too random?
Good luck Kevin! We are pulling for you!
OMG!!! Barry!!!! Set your TIVO now. just caught a brief bit of an ad on FOX 4 for your most favorite TV celebrity.
It looks like Nancy Gray is going to have an afternoon show on FOX called "Swift Justice with Nancy Gray". Just think of the Judicial Protocols she will bring to her audience.
Wendy's, clogging our hearts and roads since 2010! Now where do I got to go to get my Frigid Frog fix?
Tattoo on wrist lost me
Kevin Kolb would have stayed here and finished his high school career in Decatur if not for some parents thinking there children were mistreated as well as Decatur school administrators that helped to run his family out of town. Shows how smart they are now with him making millions of dollars as the starting quarterback of the eagles. Good luck Kevin!
Barry, you're like the Skip Bayless of the blog world. Skip will take the most controversial issue of the day and then say the opposite of what everyone else in the whole world is thinking (Example: You know, i'm really glad that the Federal Government is going after Lance Armstrong. Everyone thinks that he's such a great guy just because he battled back from cancer, won the tour de france for a decade and set up a foundation that raises tens of millions of dollars that go directly to cancer research, but we don't really know for sure he's a good guy) all for the purpose of kick starting talk. Everytime there's a gay oriented story in local or national news, i can count on this blog to have an entry taking the pro-gay stance. Unless your recent nuptials are fake, i have to think that that such pro-gay comments in the heart of uh, there's really something wrong with that land, are designed to do nothing more than generating comments. Way to go Skip.
Right on 9:49....that move cost Decatur a State Championship!!
Kevin Kolb graduated from Stephenville
Kitchen trash compactors are still around, got mine at Sears years ago and love it. They still have them.
I hate her tatoo. I was in Walmart last night and think I saw more tatoos than I saw teeth.
9:57 so what, its high school f'ing football. why do you care?
this this the second time that the california ban on gay marriage was found unconstitutional. it wouldn't have mattered if 99% of california voted in favor of prop 8, that only means that 99% do not understand the concept of equal rights and to be quite frank, should not be concerned with who other folks are marrying.
Why would one dude want to marry another anyway? What's the point? They can't make babies. It boggles the mind. I love my toaster. Can I marry it? No. Can you picture a gay married guy teaching kindergarten at Rann Elementary? Can we laugh at them on Friday nights at the football stadium for holding hands or will we be arrested for laughing? Does the will of the people matter in anything concerning civil rights legislation? What planet am I on? If my religion tells me one thing and the state says another, what do I do? Is there no common sense anymore? I guess I should just pick a number, sit down, and wait for them to come for me.
I am happy for Kevin Kolb. He's probably a good kid. But I am one of those parents who complained about his dad. Unless you were there, you don't know how he treated the kids. The grade one year older than Kevn's class was ignored and belittled. Kolb never gave them any attention. He was rude and arrogant. Maybe he wasn't this way to classes ahead of them, but he was to this class. I have a son that was on the team and I saw first-hand how it was. Ask any of those boys, they can tell you. Ask the parents too, because he was rude to them also.
If you weren't there, you don't know.
One kid can't cost a championship. Maybe DISD did the right thing and move out a coach that cared only for his son, and not the rest of the kids he was hired to coach. I understand he did a good job until Kevin got into middle school. Then the 8th graders were treated with contempt and ignored.
Couldn't care less about DHS football! Who cares...win, lose, it's all a bunch of bull****.
As for gay marriage, I don't care what they do in the PRIVACY of their home, but I do NOT want to have to look at any PDA from any gay folk, nor should any good parent want their child exposed to such as an option. If they choose to live such a lifestyle, keep it at home and behind closed doors so you don't disgust the rest of us.
You only make it my business when you flaunt it in front of me.
HATE tatoos....not sure why this young generation thinks they're ok. They make a nice kid,male or female, look like a piece of trailer trash.
Can't you just be happy for Kevin and his success? He didn't choose his parents, isn't responsible for his parents or their actions and shouldn't be judged for those actions! Go get 'em, Kevin! Hoping nothing but the best for you!
What is the old saying.."Sins of the father..."
I wasn't there, didn't see the dad act ridiculous and rude, but don't belittle a kid for his/her parents actions...just sayin..
Yay for California, with this and the overturning of the Arizona immigration law we are actually starting to move forward rather than backward.
It's a stale argument? How so, because you disagree with it? And calling the judge names doesn't change the fact that he ruled against your belief. End your prejudice.
10:49
If your religion says one thing the state does not say another. Making gay marriages legal does not mean you have to do it. It will not change your life, it simply gives a gay person the right to get married. It will not affect you or your religion. You will not be forced to leave your wife and marry a dude. You are a prime example why there is no common sense anymore. You can pick a number, sit down and wait but no one will come for you unless we pass a law to lock up all the loonies.
Tatoos on women are nothing but pure trash.
NASTY
The Kolb's didn't move because anyone ran them out of Decatur. They moved because they were pursuing an opportunity for Kevin to have more exposure in football. They saw the potential in Kevin and made the most of it. Don't all parents want this for their children? I'm sure that when Roy and Lanell look back now, they do not regret for one second their decision to move. The move to Stephenville started a chain of events that moved him to the University of Houston and now look where he is. Pretty impressive! Good luck, Kevin Kolb! We are proud to say that you started out here in Decatur!
It's hard for me to wrap my mind around the argument that the same part of the Constitution, the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause, provides a constitutional right to both gay marriage and abortion. The Fourteenth Amendment apparently was designed to prevent Americans from reproducing.
I get tired of the liberal weenies say they should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home. If that's the case, why can't I cook crystal meth or have sex with children? Drugs used to be legal in the US but laws were passed to make them illegal. Keep putting up liberal judges to legislate from the bench and it will be anything goes.
10:49 Coach Kolb did not ignore the grade above Kevin. The grade above Kevin's greatly underperformed, did not work hard, and frankly didnt care. This was evident by the time they went through high school ( with Coach Kolb gone) they still did not perform well and a large portion of the complaining kids had all quit! It was not Coach Kolb. It was simply the kids in the grade above Kevin that didnt care or try.
12:08
You bozo, you can't do anything in your home that is against the law.
You can't cook meth or have sex with children in your home because it is against the law anywhere. You can have sex with your wife, girl friend, another dude or any willing adult in your home because it is not against the law. Am I going too fast for you? Read this again s l o w l y.
wk - may i suggest to you that if you spend time trying to wrap your mind around the courts' interpretation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, you are wrapped to g*ddamn tight.
Doesn't it digust anyone but me to see same sex folks kissing, etc? I truly don't give a care if they have sex with rhinos in the privacy of their own home, but why do some feel the need to flaunt their homosexuality in our faces? I think that's what most people find offensive. It's not up to me to judge them for right/wrong, but I can choose not to want to look at it, same way I don't want to LOOK at porn or snot or copious blood and gore. Just sickens me, and that's a fact.
11:37
You are the poster child for the hypocrisy that is the left. You refer to the similarity of the overturning of Prop 8 and the Arizona immigration law. Yet the Ariz. law was struck because there were already fedral laws in place that superceded the state's right to legislate. Now one man, a federal judge, overrules the voter's recognition of the FEDERAL Defense Of Marriage Act and you proclaim that we finally got things right.
The one future advantage the right has, as noted by Wordkyle, is that at least the left has shown no desire to reproduce.
1:42...Were you peeking in my window, how did you know about the Rhino?
Amen 1:45, I say lets just exercise our 14th amendment right and abort all liberals!
1:14, Laws are written by people, not judges. School is now out. You flunked.
maybe some homosexuals find it offensive when heterosexuals kiss in public.
i bet the percentage of heterosexual males that enjoy a bit of lesbian kissing in public is pretty dang high.
"A visitor from Decatur, Texas
left "Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen - The Cult That Is Wise County, Texas" via hotsexyscenes.com"
Now that's funny right there.
"Today's Pic Double Wow."
I think one wow is slightly larger than the other wow.
Double Fake Dr. Oz
12:09 Were you there? I was, my son was, and his friends and their parents were. You will always have those that complain. We didn't, but maybe we should have. My son just went to practice, did what he was told, and played throughout high school. Kolb did that grade no favors. Not all of them complained, but they had every right to do so. There were many valid complaints made and maybe someone thought htey were valid also. Unless you were a coach, a parent, a player, or a school board member, you don't know. A member of my family taught at the middle school and saw this first hand.
116 - I'm sure you're right, but I'm not sure what you said.
I think we should just let the government have more power that way it can keep us on the right track.
Decatur Meet the Eagles Night! This Saturday! BRING YOUR OWN LAWNCHAIRS!?!?!?!? Good crap. Will someone step up and put some dang bleachers up on that dang practice field? If DISD is going host and encourage the public to support such events as this one and track meets, than it ought to have the dignity to provide some public seating. Either that, or host the event somewhere where there already IS public seating!
Unforgivable.
2:05------------------------
You got me on your second point there, gotta admit.
But I would gladly sacrifice that little fringe benefit homosexuality brings to our lives not to have to explain to my kids what two men do together.
And taken as a health risk, the buggery gay men engage in is reprehensible. If uncontrolled human waste brings about so many dire medical extremes, how is it a good idea to allow people to put there genetalia into its source? For fun?
Kinda makes smoking look pretty safe by comparison
Trash compactors pretty much became obsolete when recycling came in to play.
Trash compactors and repeal of Proposition 8.
Very subliminal today...
there are no trash compactors in the degobah system, however, there is one helluva trash compactor in the death star
11:46 Just a matter of taste... my guy thinks it is hot...
4:45 you are a pussy... bring your chair
8:38
You invoked "the will of the people", so the analogy to the racism of the past is apt. The question, of course, is if the will of the people should extent to the limiting of civil rights. It is worthy to review the "will of the people" in a historical context. Perhaps you should also look up the definition of "Republic".
4:53
So do you wish to outlaw anal sex? Apparently, you are unaware of the sexual practices of many heterosexuals. Or is your issue with preserving marriage? 52% of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce (forbidden in the bible, by the way). Are you ready to sign a petition to outlaw this as well? And why should you explain to your children "what two men do together"? Why is their sex life any business of your children...or yours? And, more to the point, why are you so preoccupied with sex between men?
The people voted down same sex marriage and the activits gay judge changed the law sending this to the Supreme Court. The same thing happened in the abortion issue. If this was left to the individual states, we could decide at a local level. Texas would say NO to same sex marriage. Using the protection clause under the 14th admendment to overturn hundreds of years of law on marriage being between a man and a woman shows how far the judge would go to push his political agenda!
12:32 I am not 4:53, but I agree with that person. It's not my business what you do IN PRIVATE and I couldn't care less. I don't believe it's any more of a sin than the sins I commit, gossip, white lies, whatever....that's not my issue with it. MY issue is that when displays of affection, i.e. kissing, groping, etc by either two males OR two females are done in PUBLIC, then that MAKES it my business because not only do I have to watch it and get disgusted but may have to explain the acts to children, which is just wrong. I would have the same issue with tryinig to explain heterosexual petting in public. It's just best kept in private, where it's NO ONE's business but yours.
This has turned into a very icky topic. I just lost my breakfast!
Maybe we should outlaw marriage for everybody, then it would at least be fair to all citizens and not just a benefit to some.
I don't think any of you would want to be told what you can do regarding your loving, bonded and lifelong relationships, why should homosexual people not have the same rights?
Kitchen trash compactors are still available at HD et al. Funny you should mention this as I'd been curious as well and have seen two recently in new expensive homes and was told by one homeowner,"They're making a comeback."
should be kept in private, like mothers who breast feed in public, but there aint a damn thing a person can do about if they decide to kiss and grope in public.
11:32 makes compelling argument - just do away with it from the government's point of view. however, if you want to still have your church ceremony and call yourselves married and wear wedding rings and all that, have at it. just take the government part of it out of the equation. seems like more and more folks are becoming atheist/agnostic each year anyway.
9:00
I seriously doubt that you hold heterosexuals to the same standards as homosexuals. And this ruling concerns marriage, not PDA. Nice try though.
I happen to find the eating of oysters "icky". I especially don't like to see people do it in public. Therefore, the eating of oysters should be banned.
10:49
"Does the will of the people matter in anything concerning civil rights legislation?"
No, it shouldn't.
As marriage is truly for the sole purpose of procreation, I propose the following:
1. That any legally recognized marriage proposed between a single man and a single woman be herewith subject to medically supervised, legally recognized confirmation as to their respective physical ability to procreate.
2. That any existing marriage which has not produced viable offspring shall henceforth and officially be rendered null and void and excluded from any recognition or legal benefit.
3. That those marriages (whether present or previous) which have initially produced offspring and have yet failed to further contribute to the population in the form of biological offspring for a period of three years shall henceforth be rendered null and void and excluded from any legal recognition or benefit.
As marriage, historically understood (regardless of municipality, county, state, jurisdiction, region, province, nation, village, neighborhood, Klan) is solely designed and instigated for the primary and exclusive purpose of producing independently viable, living children, not to include “still births”, (involuntary or otherwise), those offspring not carried to full term, any child deceased prior to the legally determined age of 15 (regardless of circumstances), any child produced by either party of the legally recognized marriage not determined to be a product of both parties in the legally recognized marriage, any child living in the household not determined to be a product of both parties in the legally recognized marriage including children who are adopted, wards of the municipality, county, state, jurisdiction, region, province, nation, village, neighborhood, Klan, etc. or those determined to be of “foster” status, or any child determined to be illegitimate by the legally recognized whims, prejudices, bigotry or majority vote of said municipality, county, state, jurisdiction, region, province, nation, village, neighborhood or Klan.
Good luck Kevin! Can't wait to see you on TV this fall!
Roy and Lanell made a tough but wise choice in moving Kevin to Stephenville. I miss you guys!
It would appear to me if we are really serious about the 'sanction' of marriage we should ban divorce.
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