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- The highest recorded temperature in DFW is 113 degrees. I'm issuing a "might-want-to-watch-that" warning for today.
- Metroplex motorcycle death.
- Did you catch the names of the seven people arrested in Haltom City for alleged illegal gambling/eight liners: Thanh Trang Chau, Hai Van Nguyen, Hoang Dung Nguyen, Nia Thi Nguyen, Tao The Pham, Vo Van Phu, and Txuy Tran. It's like the cast of extras from The Deer Hunter.
- We had a case here in Wise County a couple of months back of a woman running over and killing her ex with her car. A famous and similar case in Houston resulted in a manslaughter (reckless killing) conviction instead of murder (intentional killing) conviction. The same result/verdict happened in Wichita Falls yesterday.
- Edit to above: Come to think about it, the Houston case was actually a guilty verdict on murder but the jury found she acted with "sudden passion" which dropped the range of punishment to the same as Manslaughter.
- My first wave of electric and water bills has come in. Oh, my.
- I really haven't gotten a handle on the Deficit Ceiling Deal other than I know the Tea Party is royally angry.
- I don't understand the "electric grid" everyone talks about.
- Wow: Texas is actually shutting down a prison - one that held 900 inmates only a few months ago - due to budget cuts. I don't think Gov. Perry will be bragging about that in his speeches.
- Something I'm about to start getting really interested in: The true story of the man who was shockingly blown up by a bomb attached to neck while cameras rolled in 2003. After robbing a bank with the threat of that bomb, he claimed to onlookers (as the bomb squad was in route) that he had done so against his will. The bomb squad didn't make it in time. Then the much delayed investigation revealed a bizarre and fascinating story which was featured in Wired magazine this year. Now, it gets weirder as the story has been made into a big budget comedy (yep, comedy) called 30 Minutes or Less.
- A seedy tape involving UNT students was being circulated online yesterday but the oddest thing is that the student newspaper acknowledged it.
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Bacon Scale
Left to right
3.8 out of 5
2 out of 5
0 out of 5
3.9 out of 5
1st and 4th are smoking hot
That third one OMG is so ugly.
Good Pic today.
Hottest recorded temperature in Texas - 136 degrees in Seymour on August 12, 1936. Per the hubby, his dad was helping dig a well that day.
I'm going to get some refrigerator cookie dough and when the temp reaches the predicted 111 degrees, I'm going to bake some cookies--in the pickup parked in the sun.
About the only positive consequence of the debt ceiling deal is that "cuts" became part of the conversation, and the increase was not done matter-of-factly without public attention. Congress created a committee ("a blue ribbon panel!")to make the decisions that Congress is supposed to make. The cuts are not really cuts, which is what Tea Partiers wanted. I think this is simply a very small first step. When the Democrat Vice President calls your group "terrorists," you know you've had an impact.
You might want to check your murder statute. Don't know how the cases you mentioned were charged but sounds like "intentionally or knowingly" cause the death. Wise County case is charged under another lesser known part of the murder statute, intend to cause serious bodily injury and commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes death. Don't have to prove intent to cause death.
The link you posted to Clara Harris case says she was convicted of "murder" and was sentenced to twenty years. Doesn't say she was convicted of manslaughter. Course the news media notoriously does not understand the difference so it could be wrong.
"I really haven't gotten a handle on the Deficit Ceiling Deal other than I know the Tea Party is royally angry."
Maybe because the left is constantly accusing the Tea Party of practicing incivility in politics, when there is no credible evidence to support that claim......all the while Vice President Joe Biden goes on record and says Tea Party members are "terrorists." How is that for civility?!?!?!
(Notice that didn't get ANY play in the mainstream media).
BTW, today's pic is not quite a repeat, but it was apparently taken at the same event where you used another photo.....I know this because the blonde girl on the far right was in the same bikini in another pic you posted last year.
There's a bomb-around-the-neck situation in Syndey right now.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/sydney-suburban-teen-strapped-bomb-reported-extortion-attempt-135613293.html
Skippy, You might be interested in the story playing out right now in Australia with a girl having a bomb strapped to her.
it's too damn hot to comment..
Riddle me this, Counselor: why would the website of a TV station in Grand Rapids be all over the TX prison closing story which ran in the Austin American Statesman? Are they looking out for the POTUS interests of native son Mitt Romney? Are they trying to illustrate that the Texas economic miracle is actually a Potemkin Village? Maybe someone wanted to shoehorn in a Leadbelly reference?
baconruada...?
AWESOME! A refund-gap quadfecta!!!
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/154349984640828/
I have a friend (retired) who literally fried an egg in a skillet on the dash of his car yesterday in an hour. Closed the egg in there and went back in an hour, and it was totally fried HARD just sitting on the dash with the car closed up!
@Arthur: Good catch, although it does look as though they merely reprinted an Austin American-Statesman article.
It seems as though, yeah, as the Texas governor edges closer to running for President, there could be more articles nationally that look at his accomplishments or lack thereof in Texas.
Whatever gets 'em web hits...
Just remember. Obammy's first executive decision was to select Biden as VP.
WordKyle,, maybe you can answer this: do we really need a "blue-ribbon supercommittee" to find cuts when we just spent a few bucks on the Bowles-Simpson Commission which came up with a fairly reasonable plan to cut the deficit and get spending in line with revenue? What's to say the children in Congress won't try to slip the fried liver called hard fiduciary choices under the table to the family dog to avoid those decisions? I believe I'll have to read that Bowles-Simpson Report after I finish "All the Devils are Here" by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera.
You know its hot when you see two trees fighting over a dog on the way home yesterday.
Wow: Texas is actually shutting down a prison - one that held 900 inmates only a few months ago - due to budget cuts. I don't think Gov. Perry will be bragging about that in his speeches.
He should be bragging. 25 million saved over 2 years? Then, let's work on our backwards 'throw away the key' mentality and start saving some serious dough and human lives...
Sorry but better check those quotes. Biden did not call anyone a terriorist.
Thanh Trang Chau, Hai Van Nguyen, Hoang Dung Nguyen, Nia Thi Nguyen, Tao The Pham, Vo Van Phu, and Txuy Tran.
I gave my son a couple of old pots and pans to bang around the other day, these were the sounds they made!
God, the Tea Partiers are a bunch of titty babies. Get called one name by a guy they don't even like, and they get all up in arms.
The Tea Partiers were the biggest loser in the whole deal (aside from us taxpayers, anyway). They almost tore apart their own party, which was exposed by the CBO as offering almost nothing. The "cuts" weren't cuts in Boehner's original plan, and they still aren't. They just agreed not to spend as much in the future. I guess they're learning from Clinton, the only president to actually balance a budget in the last four decades.
I kind of agree with Bacon. I like the tummy on the girl on the far right. His 0 is pretty close to accurate, but he over-valued the albino gremlin in black. Of course, she would presumably have the low self esteem that I like in a one-nighter.
Rage
"Hottest recorded temperature in Texas - 136 degrees in Seymour on August 12, 1936. Per the hubby, his dad was helping dig a well that day." That record was broke yesterday at my home. I suspended my thermometer two feet above my black asphalt driveway and boy it was hot, 137.7 to be exact. I guess it does not matter if the prior record high was in a hay field and the new record we might see today is in the middle of 100,000 acres of asphalt and black roofed buildings.
Also, why wouldn't Perry tout lower crime rates AND lower incarceration rates? He had nothing to do with either, but he should try to take credit for both.
Rage
Good gosh Barry, why not just go ahead and post totally naked women. Today's girls (the one in black) leaves little to the imagination.
Will this one circulate in a Sunday School Class at First Baptist in Bridgeport?
Just got back from Decatur where I saw a fire hydrant trying to bribe a dog.
My contribution to the it's so hot:
I went to the bank today for a loan just for the cold shoulder.
Uncle Wally
I wet my pants when I saw today's honey...
10:12 - have him prove it by sending a picture of the egg to Barry, so we can all see.
Hey Barry,
Newschannel 6 in Wichita Falls covered that case via twitter. Plus, they've posted video of the entire trial, and the defendant's interrogation video on their site. It's really cool, you can check it out here: http://www.newschannel6now.com/story/15140860/killed-by-car-trial
Barry,
This is why I read your blog. The terms "Potemkin Village" and "titty babies" in the same daily comment listing. Something for everyone.
My Other Brother Darryl
to 11:37 - I slightly erred; that should be 120 degrees. But hot is still hot once you hit 100.
So when people call Obama a muslim Rage you have no problem with that?
2:53, it's factually incorrect and demonstrates that person's bigotry. It is certainly less true than calling a Tea Partier a terrorist.
Rage
Yep, every member of the Tea Party has been trained in terrorism as children; answered the call to terrorism five times a day; and they describe the Terrorist call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset". Somebody send everyone an outraged e-mail with this Big Secret.
2 trees and a dog comment gave me a good laugh. Thanks. I needed that.
The one in black = fugggly.
they always have to have a ugly wingman in the bunch
And of course Rage is dishonest, giving Clinton credit for balancing a budget...It was Newt and Co taking over congress, after decades of dem control, who cut spending, and balanced the budget. Clinton was just fortunate to be in office while they did it.
Remember his quote, " the era of bit government is over"? I guess Bush and Obama did not get that particular memo.
Anyway, Clinton owes Newt and Bill Gates for a successful economy. But give him credit, at least he did not screw it up with draconian regulation as Obama has done.
If Obama wants to improve the economy, drop his health care program, and cut out the energy restrictions. That will help get things going immediately.
Suck on that truth Rage.
Terrorist call to prayer
Because all Muslims are terrorists.
It's hilarious that in a post claiming that not all Tea Partiers are bigots, you show yourself to be one.
Stop lying wordkyle.
6:15: To improve the economy, let corporations destroy the planet and allow Americans to die without health care.
Yeah, fantastic plan.
I love how nothing is Clinton's fault that went well, and everything that goes wrong is Obama's. Y'all are hilarious.
Rage
Haltom City has been little Saigon for many years! Next to them is little Mexico. We should have held our ground, but white flight happened in the 70's. bummer!!
Glad to hear crime is down. Had not heard about the closing of prisons. I have always thought that rehab would be better than lockups. What horrible things happen in those prisons.
I know one way the conservative save Texans from pork icon Perry could save the state $10k a month. Take a lesson from Mike Huckabee.
If you aren't willing to sacrifice personal extravagance on the taxpayer's cuff, don't expect voters to swallow your fearmongering swill about spending even if you hold a prayer meeting for Jesus to solve the problem.
"'UNT is committed to providing its students with a safe, challenging and vibrant educational experience. Activities that do not support the educational development and positive growth of our students are not supported by the university.'"
Oh, there was positive growth upon viewing that video.
...positive growth in my pants.
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