1.26.2011

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts


  • It takes a couple of years to get "used" to a new President. It just seemed very natural to see Obama deliver the State of the Union speech.
  • I didn't see the Michele Bachmann's Tea Party response (only CNN carried it live) but everyone is talking about how she wasn't looking at the camera.
  • Lots of emergency vehicles by the convenience store in Rhome (which has the Grandy's) this morning. Not sure what's going on. 
  • The "NFL Experience" in downtown Dallas doesn't look particularly entertaining. Even for kids.
  • And there has been a pre-Super Bowl commercial running for a month on The Ticket promoting such "fun things" as "community events, a 5K run, and an essay contest".
  • The Family Pup now wants to get up at 4:00 in the morning for no reason. And I discovered a chewed up sandal in the closet. When I showed it to her for one of those "look what you did" moments, she started chewing it again. I give up. 
  • Watched a probation revocation hearing yesterday in the district court in Decatur where a local guy received 12 years in prison. The whole thing was just hard to watch -- I hate those hearings.
  • But it looks like the guy had his chances but continued to screw up.
  • My free three month subscription to Satellite Radio is over. Am I renewing? Nope. Everything I seemed to like had as many commercials as regular radio. 
  • Turned over from the State of the Union to watch part of my first Mavs game of the season because Blake Griffin was in town. I didn't last long. How you guys can watch the NBA is beyond me.
  • The judge in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor is considering televising the trial. The chances of him allowing it are equal to the size of his ego.
  • Video: Handcuffed guy jumps out of back seat of cop car going down highway.
  • There's a strange murder trial going on in Denton where the body of the missing "victim" hasn't even been discovered. Through day one of the trial, there seems to be suspicions that the defendant killed her but the prosecution is miles from proving it beyond a reasonable doubt.
  • And when the prosecutor tells the jury in opening statements that the Defendant "killed his wife", my initial reaction is one of "I'm not sure you have any way of knowing that."
  • Edit: Commentors are confused about Corpus Delicti vs. Habeas Corpus. And can you be successfully prosecuted in Texas if the body hasn't been found. Yes, if the defendant has confessed. I haven't heard anything about a confession in the Denton case. 
  • What's this weird deal of the Fox 4 news anchors walking to different areas of the set?
  • The Update has a blurb about the proposed State of Texas budget cutting local library funding by 99% and requesting protest letters on behalf of the Decatur Public Library. But it doesn't tell us how much of the library's total budget comes from the State.






49 comments:

Anonymous said...

That strap looks like it could easily fall off.


-Janet Jackson

Anonymous said...

Bam pleads for national unity to beat jobs crisis.
In other words: Yall vote me the hell outta here please! I can't handle this President thing..

To 8:36, That's pretty funny Janet.

The Secret Police

House of York said...

A vet told me a long time ago that most dogs will chew like that for the first two years of their life, no matter what.

To this day, I have yet to prove the vet was wrong.

Anonymous said...

Barry, dogs love to chew. Put your shoes away.

How could you possibly convict with no body? I could not if I were on the jury. If he did he will pay on judgement day.

Anonymous said...

Love how the President and the Dems were running all over everyone the last two years doing whatever they wanted to do and reminding everyone that they were the majority and could do it like they wanted.

Now that they aren't the majority, all of a sudden they are begging people to work together. I guess just like they worked with the Republicans the last two years, huh?

Brewcrew said...

Satellite radio sucks. It's a big scam. 90% of the stations are easy listening, jazz or club music. The other 10%, like you said, have as many commercials as regular radio. I wonder if people 50 years ago thought they would ever pay for TV, radio, or roads they already paid for.

Anonymous said...

Live power line was down across 3433 in Rhome this morning.

Anonymous said...

I would be shocked if Charles Stobaugh is found guilty, without a body or a trace of where she went. The piece that ran in the Denton paper is part of a smear campaign against Charles, just like the piece earlier this week where the prosecutors were interviewed, but not the defense.
I don't know if he killed her or not, but a case built on conjecture sounds flimsy at best.

Anonymous said...

If the emergency vehicles didn't have their lights blinking, maybe they were all just enjoying the biscuits and gravy!

Anonymous said...

Isn't there something about "habeus corpus" (sp?) in the law books somewhere? How can you have a murder trial without a dead body?

Anonymous said...

I absolutely love Sirius XM radio... listen to what ever you want and lock in. Any type of music... Get ever sports game you want....

Best thing going in radio right now.

Anonymous said...

and in another couple of years, he'll be the used-to-be president

9:26 -
I hope you were being facetious. Habeas corpus refers to the prisoner or defendant, not the victim, you ignorant wretch. Your Latin is worse than your English!

Triple Fake Johnny Ringo

Anonymous said...

Let's all hope that he have to get "used to" another president really soon!

Anonymous said...

Triple Fake FU** Habeaus Corpus means Where's the Body? or Where is the evidence.

You ignorant Fu**.

House of York said...

The Governor of Hawaii has admitted there is no birth certificate for this president in his state? Is this true?

Anonymous said...

House of York, I have read that. Also, because birth certificates are not open to the public, we cannot prove it. However, the birth certificate index is public record and Obama's name does not appear in the index. There is a Certificate of Live Birth but no birth certificate.

Anonymous said...

Bad news we're on the road to wreck and ruin, good news we're making record time.

TF Cris Wall

Anonymous said...

It just seems so natural to see my obama, your a girl.

Anonymous said...

Barry is at it again, come on people he's up to his old tricks about the prez, anyone with a pea brain wouldn't want this man as Prez. Barry is just padding his blog numbers...... (right Barry? tell me that you are not that dumb).

Anonymous said...

10:56
You are so correct. Thanks for helping add to my blog numbers. Keep up the good work.

DF Barry Green

Anonymous said...

I heard Carol Lynch was arrested for DWI, is it true??

Anonymous said...

re: Michele Bachmann not looking at the camera
It's called reading from a teleprompter. Seems like an appropriate response...
zing!

Anonymous said...

Michele Bachmann video....bad bit of TV production there....reading the teleprompter or cue cards too far away from the camera...

Anonymous said...

who's Carol Lynch?

and who the hell is Cris Wall?
It's "wrack and ruin", not wreck

Anonymous said...

Obama is a two-termer, you heard it here last.

And Bachmann was looking at the webcam for her Tea Party folks. She's a big bag of crazy ...

Anonymous said...

There have been numerous cases throughout the US that have been tried and won without a body. Evidence such as a large amount of blood at the defendents residence, or a place he/she has access to. Also, other circumstantial evidence such as computer searches to find out how to dispose of a body, or anything leading up to the disappearance that appears incriminating. Use of the missing person's credit cards, or possesion of their belongings with no real proof of how they obtained access to the missing person's property. A retracted confession to the murder, when it is obvious that a defense attorney got to the killer and had them recant so they can waste taxpayer dollars!

CT said...

WHAT?!?!??! You don't want to listen to the best station on satellite radio (or anywhere else for that matter) anymore?? Channel 41, baby--Hair Nation!! (screech when you say it!!)

and, my daughter would KILL me if I didn't have 20, 21 and so on...

Anonymous said...

"...but the prosecution is miles from proving it beyond a reasonable doubt. Really? You think anyone could prove this murder case, beyond a reasonable doubt, on DAY ONE?

And as for Cary Piel saying that the defendant "killed his wife," is that with any less conviction that when a defense attorney gets on the news and pleads his client's innocence? Because, I'm not sure a defense attorney has any way of knowing that either.

Anonymous said...

8:58

What planet do you live on? The Dems controlled nothing as they rarely could muster 60 votes to break Repub filibustering. Thank you Joe Liberman.

Point of fact, Dems had to bargain away (which proved to be embarssing) to get health care, and O had to cave to Repub on tax breaks for millionaires or nothing would have been accomplished during the lame duck session. 40 Repubs actually signed their name to letter to O saying no issue would be brought to the floor until he caved.

Yes there are 58 Dems and 2 Ind. But about 10 of those Dems are Dems inname only.

Anonymous said...

11:43, all of your evidence that you state has been used in the past is neat... But they don't have anything other than a pending divorce and some friends of hers that say Charles was weird, and had a cold shoulder. That doesn't make him a murderer, and there is no evidence of a struggle PR blood or remnants of a trauma.
Again, I don't know if he did it or not, but so fat I couldn't convict a guy based on what they have so far.

Anonymous said...

Obama spelled backwards is Nigguh.

Anonymous said...

There was a case here in Cincinnati back in the mid 90's involving the disappearance of Carrie Culberson (look it up on Google). I believe her boyfriend was convicted of her murder and is in prison now but no body has ever been found. What if she just fled town to get away from him and is living in Mississippi somewhere?

Anonymous said...

TF Johnny Ringo

Excuse the ef out of me for not being up on shister lingo. My point was how can you have a murder without any proof of anyone being dead. Just missing does not mean dead. Or did you miss that in law school. You lawyers are all alike, you think because you have studied the law, you are the smartest on the planet. The only reason you have any credibility is because your scumbag friends run everything. You have so convoluted the constitution that it no longer stands for anything. You are the problem with this country. You would'nt last a day in my business. We have to produce to get paid. Not just blow wind.

Jack Daniels said...

DITTO 2:11. Well said. I completely agree!!

Darth Vato said...

Still concerned about a birth certificate? Strange, how when the terminator was elected the wing-nuts wanted to change the law so that he could run for president... or did everyone already forget this?

That teabagger is full of bologna... talking about deficit spending in the last two years and government this and that and the other... Amnesiac!

Jack Daniels said...

And by the way, TF Johnny Ringo, learn the lines before you go quoting them. It's "Your Spanish is worse than your English." Not latin.

Stay goofy my friend

Anonymous said...

11:33

She is the lady that had the wreck in the update where the truck looked horrible and her daughter was care flighted

Anonymous said...

Uh,Jack, I'm pretty sure "habeas corpus" is LATIN.

Anonymous said...

Can't find the "twit" you must acquit!

DF - Johny Cochran

Anonymous said...

10:31 that is not wha he said. He said that he could not release The document because of the privicy rule. Get a grip Looser

Anonymous said...

JD @ 2:50
I was paraphrasing the line from the movie. My response was in reference to the comment about habeas corpus... a Latin phrase

2:11
nice rant about lawyers - too bad it's directed at somebody who isn't one. I just happen to know what the term "habeas corpus" means. Did you automatically assume that I was an attorney because I know a legal term? I think maybe I would last at least a day in your business!

Oh, and if you're gonna insult me (or lawyers), the word is "shyster"
Definition of SHYSTER
: a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics

Triple Fake NOT Noah Webster

Anonymous said...

3:51---------------

You want 10:31 to get a grip? But do it looser? there would seem to be a contradiction in terms, as a grip, by definition, must be tighter rather than looser.

Oh, wait! I bet you intended to call him a loser. But you misspelled it. Very impressive, Pot. I'm sure Kettle is properly chastised.

Anonymous said...

4:31 Do you write for Obama?

Anonymous said...

Not a lot of love on the blog today.Kumbaya, folks, kumbaya.

My Other Brother Darryl

Anonymous said...

3:51, I have worked around public records for 30 years. When I know that Obama's name is not in the public accessible birth certificate index, that tells me that no certificate is on record. And don't give me the Certificate of Live Birth crap. I did not fall off a turnip truck down in Georgia.

Anonymous said...

8:36 was the best post of them all.....

Anonymous said...

Leche dulce!

Anonymous said...

channel 74 blues...great with a lot of music history

Anonymous said...

Who's the owner of those swell sweater muffins?