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- Youtube video of the "Wise County Task Force" watching a DC-10 drop water on the Montague County fire that happened last week. It's pretty amazing, but is that water drop really that effective?
- I saw where Texas state Sen. Florence Shapiro won't be running for re-election. She may have done more damage to the "justice" part of "criminal justice" than anyone else in Texas due to her support of Draconian laws. Good riddance.
- And Sen. Jane Nelson needs to go next.
- I'm ready to concede that I was wrong about my prediction of the Rangers not making the playoffs. I was close, but they consistently played barley above .500 for the last three months and that's all it took.
- I'm not sure what to do about running drills for the Softball Team when one girl clearly isn't in good enough shape to keep up with the rest of the team.
- "Coach, you looked like you almost skipped getting the ball right then," - comment by one of my players at practice which I knew a handful of you would get a big kick out of.
- A man jumped to his death yesterday off of a Rosedale Street bridge in Fort Worth. His name was so unusual that I googled it, and a Fort Worth man with the same name owns/owned what seemed like a pretty big business. I don't know if it is the same guy.
- I guess suicides are newsworthy if they occur in public? Never have understood the double standard.
- I said yesterday I thought the Decatur Eagles would be in the AP Top Ten. Boy, was I wrong. The new poll released later in the day revealed they still haven't even received a single vote.
- I'll post it in a bit, but Fox 4 News' was Wheels Off during the first five minutes of last night's broadcast. The camera stayed on Mike Doocy for a good 15 seconds after a lead report (he just waved to the camera while having "Failed Smile"), and the camera cut to Steve Eager at one point who said, paraphrasing, "The camera is on me for some reason and I have no idea what I'm supposed to be saying."
- Facebook page of the Bridgeport guy injured in the wreck with a fire truck yesterday (as referenced in the Update.)
- Ennis High Shocker: 80 students and faculty tested positive for tuberculosis after being exposed to a teacher who had the disease. I don't think we know yet whether the teacher actually knew that she had the disease or not, but I hope this was an innocent mistake. And, as a side note, I guess we just sit back and watch if any of those 80 don't have medical insurance.
- WBAP's Hal Jay this morning said he was "confused" by reports that x number of people don't have health insurance in the state because "if they show up to John Peter Smith they'll be taken care of so how can they say they don't have insurance?" Good grief.
- Half of Wise County becoming part of a new Congressional District? Not so fast. The Justice Department officially says the whole new map "ain't fair". A three judge panel now must make a decision in the first step of "pre-clearance" under the Voting Rights Act. (I don't think they had any trouble with Wise County in particular but it was an all or nothing endorsement.)
- Did I hear talk show host Mark Davis refer to Chaz Bono (currently on Dancing With The Stars) as "that thing" at around 8:24 this morning? Surely not.
- Tony Romo practiced with a "punctured lung"? Instead of considering him courageous, I'm more inclined to believe that term means something different than what we think it means.
- They love crime news in Texarkana . . .
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Would think that if you dropped as much fire retardant as that DC-10 does, then it definitely makes much more of a difference than a regular air drop. Kind of like if you throw a cup of water on a fire compared to a bucket of water.
Why on earth would a woman do that to herself?
Bacon Scale
4.9 out of 5
HOT HOT HOT
Please don't use google, use Bing instead. google owners are socialists and America haters. Bing's results are just as good.
Is it just my computer, or is there a new link or something when you click on the LL pictures?
I am not complaining, however I do like to blow up the pics of uplifting motivational items and ogle them to see if they appear to be degraded.
If Obama points his finger one more time...well, I'm not gonna like it.
What's this? The Obama Justice Department disputes the new Republican-designed and Democrat-opposed congressional map of Texas? Democrats claim the proposed redistricting will harm minorities? Democrats insist that Democrats should represent more congressional districts before a plan can be legal?
I am shocked.
I agree. Shapiro and Nelson both need to go. If for no other reason, they've been there way too long.
9:06 - WTF?? Go back to watching Faux News and and gold commercials.
"I guess suicides are newsworthy if they occur in public? Never have understood the double standard."
Correct. As a former newspaper reporter, I can verify that suicides are only newsworthy if they happen in public.
WHY, you ask?
For the same reason a newspaper photographer can legally publish just about anything he/she photographs out on the streets — it's public domain (meaning if any casual person out in public can see it, then it can be published).
Suicides that happen behind closed doors, however, are completely off limits, unless the deceased was a public figure.
The "maxpreps" website lists Decatur as #31 in Class 3A after Week 4. Mineral Wells comes in as #52, and Bridgeport as #57.
Strength of competition is the issue.
Funny 9:06, I just Googled it and the interweb says you are an Amerihater.
Someone has reduction surgery in her future. Yes indeed.
My Other Brother Darryl
A 71-year-old man died this morning after jumping from a West Rosedale Street bridge,
The highest suicide rate in the United States is for white men over the age of 65. The suicide rate for 65+ white men is almost 3 times the national average. Yikes.
I can understand your doubt about whether it's the same guy - "Gabor Sztamenits" is such a common name around these parts.
Public suicides do get more attention simply because of the venue. In this case, there were witnesses and the "victim" wants the attention - that's why they do it in public. Plus, people can drive by the place that they drive by every day and say "That's where the guy jumped/landed."
Crime news in Texarkana:
does this mean you think Obama taxing the rich is a crime...or that Texarkanians do?
I bet that place is a vacation paradise. But their daily paper is still only $.75, soooo...they got that going for themselves
Oh! and a hot blonde (Britney) with a gun!
Crazy Hot!
Skipped as in "forget about it" or skipped as "gaily frolicking"? (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
8:54 If I was her I would do it to myself if you know whata mean man.
Why doesn't the media have the courage to say where all this TB comes from?
As a liberal, I would think you to be an expert on the double standard.
why are we not outraged that the Decatur police "arrested" a 10 year old for an incident that the school had conbsidered closed? The parents were not permitted to see the child for over 40 minutes? Doesn't this scare you for your children? Anyone can make a charge against your child and your child would be arrestede?
Think about this and speak out!
The Rangers are 60-39 since June 1. That is over the last 3.5 months. Since they are currently 23 games over .500 for the season, that means they played only 2 game over .500 for the first two months of the season. They actually turned it on over the last half to pull away and win the division.
Please do some research before you post random nonsense.
How would you like to pay high school taxes to your local ISD just to see that money sent to the state for someone to buid football stadiums and fancy schools? If you would not like that, neither did Florence Shapiro.
9:27 I binged you and turns out you skip a lot.
Campari on ice....nice!
Since you have singled out the child on your team that is not in good enough shape to keep up with the others why not put a big sign on her back stating as much?
Why tax the rich even more? Why not make the losers living on Welfare and Medicaid pay their fair share?
9:55 what's the other side of that story? Don't really care for your side if we don't know the other.
I don't care how many times Disney/ABC/ESPN tell me Chastity is a dude, she's still a chick.
Denise Milani's bit is played out. Girl, show 'em or gtfo.
Cynical Tuesdays.
Why don't people stop being minorities? Sick sick sick of poor me attitudes.
"I'm ready to concede that I was wrong about my prediction of the Rangers not making the playoffs. I was close, but they consistently played barley above .500 for the last three months and that's all it took."
Barley? Really? I think I'll just rollover in my grave now.
Double Fake Johnny Oates
Today's Random Thought Girl, Denise Milani, is actually a very savvy marketer. You'd think the internets would be crawling with topless photos of her, but alas I could not find one after hours and hours of research. She just teases us, you see. Show 'em just enough of the goods to keep 'em coming back for more. Of course, this is just my hypothesis; more research is needed.
"And, as a side note, I guess we just sit back and watch if any of those 80 don't have medical insurance."
What a freaking jerk. I had no health insurance for myself and my family for most of my adult life. I never had a problem receiving or paying for medical care.
And since I negotiated for care, I bet my costs were much lower than those with insurance
To receive health care, you only need a couple of things...a patient and a Dr. You do NOT need an insurance company, and you surely as hell do NOT need the freaking government. The more layers of paper pushers involved, obviously the more that health care will cost.
Jonas Salk
Re: Mark Davis; Ahem,...Chaz doesn't have "a thing".
We live near Ennis. That district is wheels off...what else could happen there? Google it. Ha!
"I guess we just sit back and watch if any of those 80 don't have medical insurance." That is what they have been doing re: med ins. Therefore, since they have sat back and watched, shall we assume the conclusion you come to is that Americans who do take care of that issue for themselves have failed them, and should, without any effort on the uninsured's part, provide it for them? Shall we assume that your reaction to that question is "Duh!"?
How many Americans won't brush their teeth again today? Shall we send a dental hygienist to their residence to do it for them?
Continuing with your theme, here are a couple of side notes: and I borrow from Around The Corner, who borrowed it from Denney Crane:
"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured...but not everyone
must prove they are a citizen." Or, how 'bout a society that requires the working folks, whom are taxed to pay for welfare, to pass random drug tests in order to keep their job so that they can continue to pay taxes, but that doesn't subject welfare recipients to that test?
Of course I can't be certain, but I'm guessing that Hal Jay was thinking something along the line of that because they don't have insurance doesn't mean that they don't have health care available to them, and at no charge to them.
I will never feel sorry for the poor.
Being poor is a life choice.
We could all be poor if we wanted to.
Hello Common Sense.
Barley? Did you and Anonymous 9:55 (above) sit together in school?
How appropriate that Obammy's picture is in the Texarkana paper along with all the other crime news. GE, Solyndra,LightSquared, Fast and Furious and Tony Rezko.
Shapiro is a fraud! Wendy Davis is the real deal. Shapiro is too busy trying to impress Ogden with her cuts to education for Texas kids. If your school lost a Teacher, Aide, or anything else due to budget cuts, then thank Shapiro. Davis will fight for Texas school kids and stand up for women.
Redistricting will put Rhome, Newark, and Boyd, in the same precinct. Now if that isnt an unholy Trinity of stupidity, trash, and Saddam type leadership, I dont know what is!
John Peter Smith collects enough from us insured patients to treat the uninsured. In other words, you and I pay for the health care of the uninsured. Another thing to say about this is that the hospitals are not treating anyone "for free" since they are charging insured patients double.
Your health care insurance premiums are based on the amount that the medical care facilities collect from you when you need their services. These facilities collect enough to not operate at a loss. So your inflated insurance premiums assume that you will pay for the uninsured.
I bet most people do not realize that they are helping pay for the 4,000 sq. ft. mcmansions by paying for the medical care of the illegal workers that show up at hospitals.
Hal Jay didnt have insurance and still got a hoveround.
Denise Milani's bit is played out. Girl, show 'em or gtfo.
Same here man, same here. At least she's not sorting that huge gut any more though.
Ennis? The whole town can catch TB, VD, and anything else, for all I care. (Yeah, they're a high school rival.)
wordkyle upset about Democrats doing something that Democrats would do? Get a new schtick wordkyle. Or show equal disdain when the Republicans do something similar.
Rage
11:08 - contact Wordkyle - he does research for all of us who don't know how to do research...if those are conservative boobs, he'll find what you need.......
Thank you Shapiro!!!!!!
I for one have no problem with any cuts implemented.
One of these days you idiots are going to realize there is too much spending for uneccessary crap.
Funny how all the schools who did do get rid of uneccessary baggage are running just fine.
12:16 you're a complete idiot and no doubt an Obama follower piece of crap.
"And Sen. Jane Nelson needs to go next."
Don't tougher laws on DWI and other public safety issues make it more likely that defendants will need legal representation? Doesn't that make for more business for Texas defense attorney's? Isn't that what puts gas in the General Lee and buys gazillion dollar running shoes?
Isn't that Kool Aid a little bitter?
Redistricting will put Rhome, Newark, and Boyd?
So? What's the big deal?
It's stupid to care about who gets put where!
Geeezzz I am so sick of you Demoflops and Libs.
Want to see a typical Obama follower aka who the Democrats/Liberals want you to feel sorry for?
Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk
I'd love to lick the rim of her Campari and slowly suck on her straw.
Those of you who profess to love the cuts to spending on education in the State ...should appreciate the abolishment of athletic programs (no more Friday Night Lights) and the associated stuff that attends them (band, cheerleading, etc.).
Those of you who profess to love the cuts to spending on education in the State ...should appreciate the abolishment of athletic programs (no more Friday Night Lights) and the associated stuff that attends them (band, cheerleading, etc.).
I call bs on Romo's "punctured lung". they are trying to make him a hero he isn't.
Uncleverly Disguised, We would much rather the money that is being wasted at the Dept. of Education be sent to the local districts where they know how to spend it. Not some beauracrat in DC. Play ball.
Criminal Justice.....that's a big f'n joke. There is no justice for the victims when the criminals have all the rights. I say we go back to public hangings on the square. Eye for eye type justice. You steal lose a hand. You rape lose a....well you get the picture! Bet there would be far less crime!!!
12:56 sounds like they enjoy seeing kids in wheelchairs losing their special needs Teachers and Aides. When did our children's Teachers become enemy number 1? And the districts are not running fine, many schools had to layoff people who shape our kids future. 12:56 sounds like a rock hauler with Bush-Cheney mudflaps.
I think the DC10 was not very effective...very expensive drop.
Hey Bubear...you need to stay away from baseball comments because we all know how you are with numbers, statistics and facts and stuff. Leave to us pros to make those comments.
For example, I have predicted the Rangers will make it all the way to the Super Bowl this year.
Double Fake Hal Jay
12:56, if you believe that schools are running fine then you clearly no nothing about the issue. The fact that a school opens in the morning and closes in the afternoon doesn't mean it's running fine. You just wait til this year's test scores start coming out.
Shapiro is a criminal, and Nelson isn't far behind.
5:20, that sounds like Sharia Law to me.
Holy mammaries, Batman!
The children if infected will receive meds and other related care free.
Although there are infected kids from that school it would be highly unlikely any of those infections would have occurred from contact with the teacher.
They simply would not have been close enough contact for long enough to her and the A/C would have circulated too much of the droplets from her cough (assuming she had any)away from the the classroom where it would be trapped by filters and/or diluted to the extent there would be nearly no threat beyond a very weak hypothetical one.
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