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- I learned this weekend that you can't wash a TV remote control in the washing maching. (Yep, hurriedly grabbing up the sheets and throwing them is the washer has unintended consequences.)
- Six people died (three men and three women) and three others were injured in a trailer house on Granbury Lake on Sunday morning after a party. And another person who attended the party was hurt in a car wreck earlier taking other guests home. That's one wheels off party. (And check out the photo in the Star-Telegram at the bottom of this post.)
- But Fox 4 said dental records were being used to identify the victims. I wouldn't think that would be necessary.
- I bet all female roller derby in Dallas would be pretty entertaining.
- The Messenger continued its feature stories on teenage moms in Wise County with a profile of a 16 year old Boyd girl. (The father was 19 at the time of conception, was sentenced to probation for act, and ended up in prison after having the probation revoked.)
- Mark Cuban is talking with Charlie Sheen about a reality show, and last week he exchanged 100 angry tweets with Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger including calling him a "coward." How that guy ever made a dime is beyond me.
- Ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant on Friday night and the server dropped two plates of our food as he was bringing out. I kind of wondered if he was drunk.
- I know they have to do something, but do local TV news stations have to send an anchor out to stand in a gas station parking lot to talk about gas prices?
- Steve Doocy on Fox and Friends this morning about the gas prices: "If there were a Republican in the White House, there would be outrage." And this wasn't in a commentary. It was just the set up to a news piece.
- Did you know companies like Brink's sometime store tons of cash in commercial airport cargo hold? Did you know that on some planes you can remove bathroom panels and get to the cargo hold? And did you know a guy stole $250,000 during a flight because he knew both of those things?
- Three people in Bridgeport, two of whom are teenagers, were arrested for gun "smuggling." I don't know anything about the case, but I bet "smuggling" is an overstatement.
- Pretty cool: A retiring high school basketball coach in his final game steps onto the court and sinks a three pointer in the last seconds. Sure, it didn't count, but it was a nice send off. (Story and video)
- For sports fans, this time of year is an utter wasteland.
- Caught an episode of Cops shot during Mardi Gras yesterday -- that was pretty entertaining -- except I kept saying "acting like fool" a lo. (And Mardi Gras, something I've never been to, looks like a beating. )
47 comments:
Yes, TV stations have to send a reporter to a gas station to talk about gas prices. They also send them to airports, hurricanes and the sides of highways when they could save the money it takes to do that and run stock footage.
"For sports fans, this time of year is an utter wasteland."
I guess that depends on your choice of sports. If you're into NCAA basketball, March madness is the highlight of the year.
The last time I recall, when gas prices were high and a Republican was in the White House, there was indeed OUTRAGE! That outrage seems to be lacking now that a liberal Democrat is in office.
The mainstream media successfully framed the matter as something that was the Republican president's direct doing, to supposedly help his rich oil friends in Texas.
If I were in the media I would frame the situation this way — too many liberals in Washington D.C. will not allow us to drill for more oil domestically, so we thus have to pay higher gas prices.
It would be a good thing for Sheen to sign on with Mark Cuban Gooding Jr. That way we would never have to hear from him again. Hey it worked with Dan Rather didn't it?
I bet an all female roller derby in Decatur would be entertaining also. Just like watching the cows chase after granddad's pickup up when he is feeding.
$95,000.00 for charges on the teenagers is excessive! Doesn't the texas law recommend $10,000.00 on a felony? That would amount to $50,000.00 bonds. JP's need to learn what excessive is, against the law!
Having the original remote die is always a beating. Universal remotes never replicate all the features of the factory original.
My Other Brother Darryl
That picture blows up really well. She looks like a really good Adonis DNA storage unit. I've found my next goddess.
DF You-know-who
TV stations have to put something on to fill the time between the commercial breaks during a newscast. How else would you explain Mike Snyder and Jane McGarry teaming up for such a long time? If a sales department could sell an Indian Chief test pattern instead of "local content," they would. Considering what NBC5 throws out there these days that might be an improvement.
The liberal bias media doesn't seem to want to talk about the Planned Parenthood scandals, the waiving of Obammy care to over a thousand companies or unions, the ties to Arab countries with Obammy, the Acorn scandals, the voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers that Holder won't prosecute scandal, the attack on states by Obammy scandal etc. etc. We get to hear about Charlie Sheehan.
Won't your new clean and dry remote click on the channel showing NASCAR?
The All American Sport.
As I understand it, the reason dental records are being used is because the six who died were burned beyond any hope of recognition. The firefighters interviewed said by the time they arrived, the flames were already so bad that they knew the people inside were dead and their main concern was preserving the scene. That was one intense fire.
Mark Cuban has lost his ever-loving mind. Charlie Sheen is a walking time bomb, and I certainly don't want to be anywhere in the vicinity when that thing goes off. Then again, he did set an all-time record by having over a million people sign up for his Twitter feed in a few hours or somesuch. Of course, I would like to think that even though people will sign up to read a train wreck of a Twitter, they wouldn't invest the time to sit down and watch a talk show.
@first poster: What money would you save by not sending a reporter to a gas station. The $10 in gas it takes to drive over there?
I work at a news station, and I'll tell you why they send someone to go live. To give the viewers something else to look at instead of the inside of the studio. Simple as that.
Talking about gas prices...useless and boring.
Messenger articles on unwed teenaged moms....BORING and who cares?
Trailer house fire....that's a shocker! anyone who lives in one of those heaps is asking for trouble.
10:28, Yes you would save the 10 dollars in gas, the amount it takes to pay a reporter and the cameraman, and the wear and tear on the vhicle. Can't you run stock footage of a gas station instead of the inside of a studio?
The "outrage if a Repoublican" thing?
Uh, doofus- that would be because that's the way it WAS for Bush. You simply could not turn on a radio or TV or read a paper without being assaulted over the related freakout and it was nothing like what we are (and will be by summer- nothing even close) experiencing. It was PERVASIVE.
And no- not even nearly a fan of Bush.
The last time gas was this high it was because Bush was sending Americans to die in Iraq, which had never posed a threat to us. This time the price increases are organis--borne from unrest in the Middle East that is not the result of Obama bombing anyone.
Amazing that you idiots can't see the difference.
Rage
Rage, Why didn't you explain that to all the liberal weenies when they were saying it was because of Bush manipulating the oil market with his buddies at Haliburton?
To Rage...
I am certainly not amazed a partisan idiot, such as yourself, is incapable of admitting the FACTS regarding the second US lead coalition against Iraq.
The main reason Bush sent Americans into Iraq was due to EVERY top democrat having warned that Hussein was indeed a threat to the World and the US.
In an attempt to keep from, in the future, proving your ignorance regarding the war in Iraq, you would well served to WATCH the VIDEO and make special note of the dates the Democrats are decrying Iraq and Saddam Hussein is a threat to the World and U.S.
1998 - Medeleine Albright, Sec. of State - Clinton Admin. claimed that Iraq's use of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. is the greatest security threat and a threat against which the U.S. must stand firm.
1998 - Bill Clinton, while POTUS, claimed the U.S. could not continue with an ambiguous third route will Iraq continued to develop WMDs.
1998 - Howard Dean, DNC Chairman and Former Governor (D-VT) had no problem declaring that Iran and Iraq were "International Outlaws" about which something must be done.
1998 - Sandy Berger, National Security Adviser, Clinton Admin declared that Hussein would rebuild his arsenal of WMDs and that Hussein would use WMDs.
Keep in mind those statements were made PRIOR to 9/11.
No one forced/coerced, then Rep. (D-CA), Nancy Pelosi, in 2002, to declare on "Meet The Press" that "Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons, there's no question about that."
2002 - Jay Rockefeller freely made the statement on the Senate Floor: "There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will have them within the next 5 years." He further warns that; "We have always underestimated the progress Saddam Hussein has been able to make in the development of weapon of mass destruction."
There is more and I do mean MUCH more. Watch the video before you shoot off your mouth. Stop eating the BS being fed by the likes of MSNBC, CNN and the Daily Kos and there is a chance you will LEARN a few FACTS.
Incidentally, claiming the Democrats were dumb enough to be duped by Bush and his Clueless Crew is not a very good defense and makes the argument that the Democrats are DUMBER than "W".
Thank you for making it soooo easy to see you for what you are, Rage/Troll. BTW...Had you truly served in the armed forces you would know, NO POTUS has ever sent Americans "to die" anywhere.
OMG
I can't believe it. I'm agreeing with Mz.
Barry, Cuban is crazy. But if you had his money, you would be doing the same type of stupid antics. Money elevates one into believing that one is above all rules.
Ditto MZ.
Did you leave a business card for the drunk waiter?
mzchief, You might want to dumb it down for rage. There were some rather large words that you used and quite a lot of them too. Keep it simple for the simpletons.
Rage, Why didn't you explain that to all the liberal weenies when they were saying it was because of Bush manipulating the oil market with his buddies at Haliburton?
Actually, Halliburton isn't a player in the market, which did also play a large part in escalating prices, just like it is now, by being virtually unregulated. Oil is the only nationally vital resource that is virtually unregulated in the markets.
Fortunately for you I could understand your jibber-jabber and set you straight, despite mixing up your Rush Limbaugh talking points.
Rage
I'm pretty new here, but I already love it when one of my little ol' posts cause mzchief to HAVE a STROKE.
First of all, I vote for more Republicans in every election than I do Democrats. Not sure how partisan that makes me, but I'm pretty sure my tickes are split more than yours. That would make you the partisan hack, I think.
Second, I agree that Democrats, while generally not fooled by Bush, should have shown more courage and voted differently. I hate to admit it, because I personally loathe her, but the only Congress-critter I can remember who actually got it right and had the balls to stand up to the Bush/Cheney fear-mongering was Nancy Pelosi. I hate her, but she was right to vote against the war. She could vote that way because she was in a safe district for it. Other Democrats would have been voted out, and knew it, so they voted to authorize "the use of force." Now, what that means, like the UN resolution, is up for debate. You have to remember that the post-9/11 fear mongering was almost like the McCarthy era. If you didn't want to bomb brown people, you were hated and called soft on terrorism. So the Democrats voted to go into Iraq and also voted for the Patriot Act, something else they should be man enough to vote down.
However, I still have yet to understand what an Albright quote from 1998 has to do with going into Iraq in 2003. Same with all of your other Rush Limbaugh hand-picked quotes. The fact is that because Bush was threatening to invade, Saddam was permitting the oversight and destruction of all of hos WMD capability. The UN reported as little as days before the invasion that there were no WMDs in Iraq, something we know is accurate.
Kind of makes all those quotes useless, doesn't it? That days before the invasion we knew something that we didn't know years before? Aren't you supposed to use the most recent intelligence when attacking? I'll explain that word "intelligence" to you some day. I know you're having a hard time choking down all that crow to concentrate on words with more than two syllables.
And finally, are you saying that Bush went into Iraq based on the advice of Democrats? We all know better than that.
Well, maybe you don't. But anyone with so much as a high school education does, or should.
Rage
To Rage...
To be quite truthful, I am in somewhat of a rush and have little patience for your blather, thus, I did not bother to read past your first sentence. However, in the interest of setting straight the record, I did not have a stroke, I merely copied and pasted my 1:32 comment. I have that FACT based comment saved so I can share it with IDIOTS, such as yourself, who failed to learn the FACTS regarding the Democrat's 1/2 decade long dire warnings, of Saddam Hussein's WMD, prior to the US led coalition invasion of Iraq. I merely customized the first and last sentences, for you.
Typically, I do not automatically discount anything someone has said, prior to reading it, but since it is you, I am certain my making the generalized assessment that YOU ARE STILL AN IDIOT is not only accurate but is, most likely, proved by your 2:59 comment.
Thanks for playing. I wish I had more time to intellectually eviscerate you but my work is done and the snow is too awesome to pass up this afternoon.
I merely copied and pasted my 1:32 comment,
Nobody here is surprised that you don't have an original thought on this topic.
Rage
Rage, oil has got to be one of the Most regulated things on this planet. You really are a dingbat.
Dear Secret Police:
...in the markets...
Please do the following:
1. Read (preferably every part of a post;
2. Think (this may take longer for you, but keep trying); and
3. Post.
In that order.
Sincerely,
The entire free world who is tired of your ignorance.
Also, Rage
That's funny Rage, I was going to suggest you do the same thing to your own posts before you click on submit.
You lose son. Better hit the books.
P.S. I've been trying to read your stuff, but it's a little blurry through my tears of laughter, so maybe that explains why you are SO misunderstood.
OMG: Sunday's issue of the mess is quite possibly the most boring and un-newsy one yet! How they can fill an entire THREE PAGES of crap about an unwed mother is absolutely ridiculous. Never again will I waste my money on this rag.
8:54 AM, do you have stock in a file footage company or something? I'll say it again and be a little more clear. We send reporters (I am one, I should know) to show something different than the inside of the studio or file footage which is used on every other story. Wear and tear on the car? Uh... that's what we have them for, brutha!
The Wise County Messenger would do better if they had some serious competition. It's nothing but a snoozefest. They don't generally know how to get interesting articles.
I've previously suggested that the troll pursue more education -- a fruitless pursuit, likely, thus the comparison to Wile E. Coyote -- but it looks like he's been schooled pretty well already. That mzchief can raise some blisters when she really puts her mind to it.
4:41, you are over paid. Now go put on your flourescent vest and go stand by the highway while you report on the effect of high gas prices. Sheesh
I think her blisters are from the herp.
Y'all can't even respond to Rage, you just have to have this circle-jerk that you always have?
I just don't think any of the three theives have enough sense to (smuggle)anything.They are not smart enough to know that they can be shot for what they were doing.Bail would'nt be high enough for me if they had stolen from me.One of them never had a chance;I don't know about the other two.If their priors were published I bet it would not surprise me.
Rage is also wrong about Saddam allowing inspections. He would not let the inspectors go where they wanted to go, and finally kicked them out of the country.
Rage is simply a liar.
8:17, You're right. We can't respond to incoherent babble.
Troll & Friends - Here, this will help.
To Rage at 3:38...
The comment is MINE however, your brand of stupid is not original so I merely copied and pasted my ORIGINAL comment so as to avoid wasting time typing it anew every time I ran into a troll, such as yourself, who is too stupid/ignorant to realize that it was the Democrats who proclaimed, for 1/2 a decade, that Hussein had WMD and it was just a matter of time before he used them.
Stupid is fairly common thus it is you who lacks originality.
FYI...Ignorant is when someone lacks knowledge. Stupid is when someone has knowledge but lacks the ability/will to utilize/accept the knowledge.
I'm throwing up now.
Get 'em, MZ, Wordy and Secret Police!!
Note: if you think this is MZ "having a stroke", you haven't been on here long. She is just playing with the troll.
gun smuggling are you kidding two of them dont even have as much as a driving ticket on them. the other one well he's got some issues, but the oldest and the youngest just knew the wrong people.
just got charged for knowing and not talking. wow! way to go their lives have been put up in the air! these were two that just didnt want to get into someone else business and now face smuggling charges. smuggling charges are you kidding me!
I have heard the same things about these young men arrested in Bridgeport. The oldest would never do anything to put his family in jeopardy, either; his wife and dauighter depend on him.
sad day for all.
Dont Feel to sorry for the young man who fathered that little boy and then went to prison. He impregnated 3 girls in one years time. Made one girl so sick she became almost fatally ill. Not one girl knew about the other until after the fact and one girl wouldnot admit he is the father of her unborn baby and another left his name off the Birth Certificate all together.
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