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- Mavs coach Rick Carlisle looks sick to me. And about a year ago he collapsed in practice and was taken to the hospital -- an incident that was brushed off as "no big deal." I wonder.
- Fiona in a red dress this morning. (Facebook.)
- A lot of people are griping about changes to Facebook this week. I'm not one of them because I've never really figured the whole thing out from the get go. (But it's getting really tricked up with the announcement of "timeline" yesterday.)
- Moneyball sounds like an odd choice to make a movie out of a book. (But it'll be years before I see it because my movie watching has fallen off a cliff.)
- I've got Wise County criminal justice news as soon as a certain government web site starts working.
- I generally don't like out-of-town lawyers who have never been to Wise County asking my advice about how things work in our courthouse. Unless you're fresh out of law school, being hired to walk into a venue that you have no familiarity with doesn't seem fair to your client.
- I think I lost some coaching clout when the girls noticed last night that my whistle has a "Hello Kitty" strap.
- Funny line from Rick Perry last night during the debate about who on stage would be a good vice-president: "I don't know how you would do this but if you could mate Herman Cain with Newt Gingrich."
- WBAP's Hal Jay was announcing the results of the Fox News poll of who won the debate but had to stop about four candidates and proclaim, "Wait. I've got this wrong. This isn't in order."
- Here's the guy scheduled to be executed next in Texas who,as of yesterday, will not get to order the "last meal" of his choice. Do you think he uttered, "Man, I just can't catch a break" last night?
- The Alvord School Board President wanted to fight a 70 year old man last night? (Update) And I think historically the Messenger wouldn't report on something like that.
- Phillip Nivens in the obituaries in the Update as well?
- I've thought for years that Channel 8's Debbie Denmon was really getting fat. She must believe that WFAA thinks the same thing because she has filed a claim against them alleging Fat Discrimination.
- The "Best Of Dallas 2011" by the Dallas Observer has been released. I like stuff like that.
- I saw a Wise County trooper on video the other day tell someone he had arrested, "Watch your mouth. I'm a very religious man."
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The Random Thought Girls in quality order this week:
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Picture not good at all not a good way to end the week
So Perry is FOR guys mating now?
Cain and Gingrich WOULD make a cute couple...
Alvord School Board is a ticking time bomb. tick..tick..tick..BOOM! They can't keep acting this way, something has to be done. Called meeting every time you turn around cause they are scared of what the citizens might say in open forum, oh i am sorry they are protecting their employees. Whatever! They just don't want the loyal followers that come to every meeting to hear what is really going on. They want to keep them fooled. Probably have the longest executive sessions compared to other boards. They will not answer questions of citizens. Faculity is scared to take any issues to them cause they are scared of ramifications. President of board chases a 70 yr old man. Secretary of board writes "her opinion" to the letter to the editor. BOTH of you are elected officials. YOU should have higher standards than others. GROW UP!! If you can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen!
Is there something in the water in Alvord that makes for crazy meetings? The Alvord ISD school board president had all the authority needed to conduct a civil meeting without asking for a fight. Perhaps a first grade teacher needs to teach him how to keep order!
I hope you never have to go to an unfamiliar courthouse and try to figure out how things are done. Sounds to me like you are probably upset by the out-of-county lawyers who are willing to travel to Wise County rather than refer the case to you.
Fiona is saucy. Or is she just drawn that way?
My Other Brother Darryl
PS - the only things missing are her arms akimbo
Perry is an embarrassment.
To help with the Texas budget problem -- where the rich couldn't possibly pay any more taxes -- people who get child support are now paying a $3 per payment processing fee. If you are a single mom of one child and get $222.80 in child support, they are taking $12 a month or 5.3% of your money. That's the new American way -- take from those who can least afford it so the rest of us don't have to contribute. So sad.
I hope Debby Denman screws WFAA to the wall. The latest trend to discriminate based upon weight is just as intolerable as to discriminate against sex, age, race. If more people would follow through with discrimination suits, perhaps this trend will be outlawed as well. It makes me sick that employers judge a person's worth on their appearance.
I bet the Alvord board wasn't discussing "rolling backpacks" like the DISD board did!
The Messenger has gone down hill since it sold. And the new reporter that covered the Alvord meeting will end up costing them in the long run. Watch and see.
1st off, thanks BG. You are a rock star with Tiger Blood in your veins. (of course that is the new energy drink of choice). i am now able to ogle the random gurls.
Now about that whistle, it's not the quality of the whistle but how you blow it that counts.
Alvord, 'nuff said!!!
Outsiders need to know our current excitement at board meetings is caused by:
A Messenger reporter who has taken a side.....chosen to frame the news...left out significant details in his reporting.
A woman the previous admin/school board labeled "the crazy Lady" and even banned from school campus and activities
A man once removed as Alvord Supt and defeated in a landslide election this last election and filled with venom and hate.
A family patriarch who once ruled Alvord with an iron hand, but now has a hard time dealing with his diminished stature.
That's four people causing the trouble. Enough said.
We lost a good one in Phillip.
“I’m not going to let ‘em run over our meetings”
How dare a taxpayer speak up! Who does he think he is?
Your team might think less of you, but don't worry about folks on this here blog. We already knew you were a "Hello Kitty" kinda gal
Nice to see that you are all finding the fourth-grade humor in Perry's line from last night. But, it's right there in the name - running MATE. Are we gonna have to follow it now with the Seinfeldian qualifier "Not that there's anything wrong with that"?
It'ss reedonkulous that Debbie Denmon would use Dale Hansen in her defense. Seems like the station would counter with "We don't have a problem with somebody starting out young and thin, then getting older and heavier. He's the proof that we don't care what you look like as long as you bring in the ratings." Not everybody is cut out to be an anchor, or even on-air.
"The bubble-headed bleached blonde comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye"
Triple Fake Don Henley
I'm with you about the best-of lists. I wish I lived in the Decatur area again so I could enjoy listening to the Musers in my car. And I seriously miss the Hardline (the old one with Sweet Greggo!).
Gern Blansten
You know my standards are low, so I wouldn't think twice about hitting that random girl. That said, it looks like you finished the week with a weak choice. What happened to you, man?
Still, I know my pringle's can would put a smile on her face...
Is that of of them Sashtwats or somethin?
8:58 - Age, gender, and race are things that you ARE and cannot change (leaving the sex change operation out of the picture). In the majority of professions, weight does not play an issue. Having an image based job, like a news anchor, brings the public preference into question, and weight definitely is an issue. Would most men rather watch Debbie or Fiona?
Mmmm, Fiona. Daddy like!
Has that school board forgotten where their bread is buttered? Obviously so. Whata bunch of dipshitses! ♫
9:48 Oh I forgot. Men don't watch news to actually learn about the news. I forgot that men think with their nether parts rather than their brains.
"Here's the guy scheduled to be executed next in Texas who,as of yesterday, will not get to order the "last meal" of his choice. Do you think he uttered, "Man, I just can't catch a break" last night?"
Dang. I guess that sticks the needle to my latest eatary concept--"Death Row Diner."
Debbie Denmon is nice looking and the size of many women her age. I think that is the age of the local TV news audience.
Will a younger, thinner gal attract a younger audience? Kim Fisher didn't.
Newt looked like Wade Phillips last night. They should mate!
What, no update on the firing of the Aggie's interim chancellor and his pulling a knife? http://www.theeagle.com/am/Kimbrough-fired-from-A-M-System--pulls-knife
Football guru
9:48
Most men would rather watch Debbie AND Fiona....together.
9:48 my exact thoughts. Blogger needs to input the "Like" button.
I haven't read the pleadings in the case and don't know anything more than what i've read here, but...Debbie Denman is no Gloria Campos. Maybe if she gets John Willey Coyote Price to be a jury consultant they can stack the jury with a bunch of folk he knows and pull in some serious coin.
Amen 9:24 - Phillip was one of the best!! He will be missed by many!
Board member chases 70 yearold man out the door wishin for him to "Just hit me " Boy what a badarse, The way it sounds I'd laid 5to 1 the 70 year old would have gave the board member a "Country Arse whoopin" (Roy D Mercer) Talk is cheap buddy, didnt your granpappy teach ya this while youre talkin the 70 year old would beat yo arse!!!!! Cout your blessing " BIGBAD BOARD MEMBER that ol' feller has prolly been around the block a few times and you'd looked like a goon to get the Shiznit beat ouut ya by a "OLD man"
I know the name Phillip Nivens but, can't remember who he is. Will someone refresh my memory please.
Baylor not hiring smokers because smokers cause major money loss to insurance? How about the donut eating, fat ass people. I say fat people are making more health cost! I am a smoker. Have had insurance all my life. Only time I used it was having two babies and one minor surgury. I paid more than I recieved. I say this is our government at work!
WTH is Debbie Denmon trying to do?
Change WFAA to WFAT?
Oh Nette,
The TRUTH & NOTHING but the WHOLE TRUTH is going to set YOU free!
Hee Haw! Gotta luvs me some TRUTH!
Tracy Lodes
Would three way with Fiona and Debbie be considered a four way?
Fiona is hot; Debbie is fluffy hot and I KNOW she handle this baby arm!
Got some serious problems when your board pres thinks he's a bada## & another is nothing more than a "big mouthed" woman that needs her 'ol man to put her back in her place. After her daughter graduates she won't give a rat's rear about that school anymore anyway.
Phillip Nivens, one of the many Nivens's from around the Alvord area. Father is Jerry Nivens. Went to school in Bport until middle-school, then moved to Pampa TX. Moved back to the area in his 20's. Was involved with several companies in the oil field business in and around Wise County. Started the Hard 8 BBQ in Stephenville. Most recently lived in Granbury.
9:23 am Well said...
the Messenger reporter should be unbiased, but NOT, everyone should call and try to get another reporter to cover (maybe someone compitent to be unbiased)
"the crasy Lady" enough said about her, remember she is uneducated and knows no better!
(Pray for the sick!)
Your forgot about the removed x-super sued the district
iron hand is now just a feble old man, who can only try to pick a fight! (pray for the weak)
12:59 Sounds like you only got the Messenger side. Did you hear the board President to ask him to stop his out burst? How many times did the "old man" tell him to throw him out?
3:11 Did you get your version from the Messenger?
2:12 Really, you run for a position on that board? You post all that scripture, but live by none of it. Thank God I had the good sense not to vote for you! You are shameful to your communtiy and your family!
Next Alvoid school board will be wanting a Afro Turf football field.
Remember AlVoid it's for the kids.
I agree, Barry..Debbie Denmon has been gettting larger and those belts and little jackets she has been wearing sure don't help her outfits any. Why is she suing? She get canned?
oh, no she didn't get canned..just pissed she isn't a weekday anchor.
Sorry, my link didn't highlight at first.
All this talk in their comment section about the weekday anchors, and...BORING..zzzz
4:23 PM
I am glad you read my facebook but I have NEVER said I was perfect. I am a redeemed mess & a work in progress. Sounds to me like you are judging me & you have NO RIGHT because you don't know me!
Too bad your such a coward, that you won't sign your name to your post and you have to hide behind Anonymous.
You say I am shameful, uh maybe you might want to make that statement to the people you are listening too!.............What do you call your friend that tried to blackmail a school board candidate. I believe, she is the same one that use to pump me for info a few years back and when I asked her (I quote from the email 7/21/2008), "I was wondering, if anybody among us, knows anybody on the inside, that is willing to tell the TRUTH an NOTHING BUT the TRUTH". Her response back was, "Keep digging - you're the best researcher"......But I forgot, you probably already know all this because you were at those parent meetings, right along with me.
Your comment about the x-supt suing the district, would you please provide that info to me, because I sure would like to read about it? I have tried to get that info from the nurse & Ward, ever since they told me about this incident, but NO info will be brought forth.
Comment about the Messenger, I believe ya'll griped about the last owners & reporters also, because they wouldn't print anything and now your griping because they are printing. Look if ya'll feel like the truth isn't being told, I always have my tape recorder going in those meetings & anytime, anywhere, everyone of you belly aching can hear what is going on.
Heck, I might even start bringing my video recorder, like Vic use to do. Wish I had brought it in last night, like I started to do, but didn't. That would have been the best AISD Board Meeting ever recorder in history.
I will end with this paragraph from a letter handed out by a citizen (now a board member), at a AISD Board meeting not so long ago:~~~~~~~~~The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America specifically grants the right to: Freedom of Religion, Press and Expression." No longer will the citizens, tax-payers and voters of Alvord be censured at an ISD meeting and told that they may only say "positive" things. In so doing, The Alvord ISD is in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States of America and in direct violation of an individuals Civil Rights.~~~~~~~~~~
Tracy Lodes
Major changes need to be made in Alvord. First, we need a very grounded and sensible citizen to run the board. I don't care what the circumstances were or who the parties involved were, NO decent human being who is grounded and sane will behave as K Wood did. That is just inexcusable.
I happen to know the "crazy lady" and believe that when she has asked legitimate questions of the administration, yet received no straight answers, she has every reason to move her concerns up the ladder.
The other end of this debacle are the employees who are the gossip mongers and will cut the throats of people who they used to consider friends and even co-workers.
There is no stability in Alvord and no leadership. There is deception, lies, back-biting, nepotism, and wasted tax payer money.
The reporter reported the incidents that occurred and for good reason reported the inexcusable behavior of a board president who should be extremely ashamed of himself! In fact, he should remove himself from the board!
Alvord has administration that is raping the community of taxpayer dollars, but no one seems to notice or care?
That board room should be packed full of our citizens at each and every meeting. Questions should be asked and answered in a professional and truthful manner.
Believe me, when a board refuses to answer questions the citizens pose, there is deception at hand and it is only bringing our system into the toilet.
3:11 That "women should just lay down and take it" attitude died in the 50's. My guess is that her "big mouth" is why she is on that board and her "take no crap" attitude is why she was re-elected. I know that is why I voted for her - she's the only one with enough guts to take a stand and get things done around there, until last night. I'm glad the board president escorted that 70-year old man out of there - He has done nothing but cuss, scream and slam doors since the old super left and he can no longer get all the freebies from the taxpayers.
My money's on the old fart!
I don't have any confidence in school board presidents
Is Alvord the new Decatur?
Alvord is the "New" wheels off Rhome.
8:04 - Were you at the meeting or are you taking the word of that "crazy lady" as the gospel? Odds are - you were not there because there are only three people that were there that would share your opinion. Those same people were on that crazy lady's hit list not too long ago - she was accusing them of the same things and found nothing to support her claims. When you wise up and see her for what she is, it is likely you will be her next enemy. Remember, when it happens, you were warned.
It's no better in Decatur. The school board is clueless about what really goes on in the schools. The weight of backbacks is a joke compared to the horrible morale that exists among parents, students, and teachers. I wish Decatur ISD taxpayers cared as much as Alvord parents do about what goes in the schools and school board meetings. I went to curriculum night for my kids and was appalled at what I heard from the teachers...basically, the philosphy is that we have a new mountain to climb (STAAR test) that will be nearly impossible, our whole curriculum revolves around it, and your kid will need additional schooling when he/she gets home because we are now teaching them what you (the parents) learned two grades later than your kid is learning now. In other words, my first grader is having to learn what I learned in the third grade. I may not be in the inner loop of the educational world, but I know that a first grader's attention span hasn't changed that much since I was a first grader and some concepts are just to hard for them to learn before a certain age. I came home from those meetings feeling like a crummy parent for sending my kid off to a very stressful and taxing enviornment. Not ONE TIME was art, music, or technology classes mentioned in two separate sessions I went to...the lack of any reference to that tells me that school has become one big ass whipping to my kids; they are too young to know it yet, but it will sink in soon. And it's obvious that it is just as much as an ass whip to the teachers. Total downer for everyone involved.
8:23, as soon as that poster made that comment, I quit reading. It rendered anything he/she said without value.
Has anyone tested the water in Alvord lately?
By a certain government website assuming you mean Wise County. We wait 11 months for this new technology to work. I say escort the webmaster out of their job and find a new webmaster.
This Odyssey Program is up and running in many counties in TX, but Wise County aeh!
The other end of this debacle are the employees who are the gossip mongers and will cut the throats of people who they used to consider friends and even co-workers.
9:26, You must be one of the above described, especially if you condone the actions of the board president.
Todays random thoughts girl looks like she might be the daughter of Red Jacket Firearms owner Will on Discovery Channel's "Sons of Guns".
Hey What's going on in Alvoid? The company has had me out of the country for a few weeks. I come back, and all the wheels are falling off. No offense to the Blog owner, but there is as Paul Harvey would say, "The rest of the Story" between the so-called "Update" and what gets printed in Sundays "Messenger". Just sounds like somebody got pushed once too often and let their emotions get the best of them. BTW, is the Prez. male or female (not that it matters)?
Philip Nivens was a good guy that will be missed. I remember when he built his first pump truck after leaving Haliburton. He followed my workover rig around for about a year to pay for the truck. He has been shooting for the stars ever since.
RIP Philip Nivens
Big Ed
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then He made school boards."
Mark Twain
Having been here a few years(21), I have learned one thing about Wise County public schools: Don't believe anything you hear, and less than half what you read in the ocal papers.
Just want to encourage the crazy lady...Keep it up! Your many years of hard work will pay off!! Thank you for persevering thanklessly, against odds and criticism!!
2:06 - Encourage her to keep posting too. Many will thank her after the "pay off."
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