11.16.2012

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




  • I would like to announce that I had the greatest spicy grilled chicken sandwich in the world yesterday. And I got it at a mall food court. At a place I had never heard of. 
  • Four people dead when a train hits a float at a Veteran's Parade in Midland is beyond horrible. The trailer that was hit was carrying 26 passengers — 12 veterans, 12 spouses and two civilian escorts.
  • Read more: Four killed, 16 injured in parade accident (+ Photo Gallery) - Mywesttexas.com: Top Stories http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_28d27580-2fab-11e2-ac24-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2COiHz2jv 
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  • John McCain is firing off all sorts of hot opinions lately. And this is the guy who thought Sarah Palin would be a good VP.
  • I was in the elevator with a really fat guy yesterday who had to tell the person on the end of the phone that he had to do something like a race horse. Good to know.
  • My seminar crowd is not the normal motley crew of defense attorneys. 
  • Sat by a guy yesterday who spent 30 minutes working on a "Waiver of Arraignment" on his laptop. If you know what's involved in that, you'd laugh too.
  • There are a million high school kids on the Riverwalk . What is going on?
  • Had a loyal blog reader who emailed me and said that he runs a gas chromatography machine all time and he'd be happy to give me a demo. Absolutely.
  • One of the speakers today might be the hottest lawyer I've ever seen in my life. She worked for Gerry Spence for a year?
  • Conversation behind me: "We went down to the riverwalk and had some Mexican food." Other guy: "You were able to find Mexican food?" Reply: "Yeah, down by the river."
  • I bet the leaves might be turning in the Hill Country.  A lazy drive through there sounds more attractive than the tollway (although I won't do it.) 
  • Hostess announced it will go out of business this morning after a bakers' strike. I shed a tear for the Ding Dong.
  • There were four people killed in Benghazi. I bet 98% of the population doesn't know that there were two separate incidents about a mile away from each other. Two were killed in one place and hours later two others were killed in another location. 
  • I don't want to hear the 911 call from the woman who drowned last night when her car went into a pond in Fort Worth and sank. She had her 22 month old daughter with her.  Tell me the news stations up there didn't play it last night. Please. 


62 comments:

Bacon said...

Bacon Scale
Left
4.3 out of 5
DANG HOT HOT

Black and white
3.5 out of 5
Cute

Red
1 out of 5
Not good

Right
2 out of 5
Cute I guess

Anonymous said...

Fake fingernails that don't even stay on and nasty tattoo's are a bummer for Friday.

If they had a TV show with Dean Cain it would be called 'Skankville'.

Anonymous said...

Courthouse techno geek--the Intoxilyzer 5000 is an Infrared Spectrometer, not a Gas Chromatograph. Although I can't remember which type of instrument is used for blood analysis. Maybe both.

Anonymous said...

One of the speakers today might be the hottest lawyer I've ever seen in my life. She worked for Gerry Spence for a year?


Uhhhh..You are going to post a pic or give us a name, right?

Anonymous said...

McCain = Too little, too late.

Anonymous said...

Obama: "I'll try to make it right......here's an iPhone, now get the F outta here."


Woman getting the hug: "Get your hands off me Lucifer! I want Biden to hug me from the rear like he does the biker g-moms."

Anonymous said...

"Four people dead when a train hits a float at a Veteran's Parade in Midland is beyond horrible."

This could have easily been avoided, can't stress it enough to everyone, DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS! I feel for the families and the locomotive engineer.

Anonymous said...

Super Nigger...Praise his name..Do it now.

Anonymous said...

And yes the local news did play the tragic life ending 911 call. Typical news stations. They are like defense attorneys!

Anonymous said...

Tell us who the hot attorney is. Mimi Coffey is listed as a speaker. If she is the hottest attorney you have ever seen, you need to get out more.

Anonymous said...

RTG: Well, a little something for everybody.
#1 Booty for days, nice
#2 kinda butterface
#3 F***in' HOTTT
#4 nice,

Anonymous said...

tell us the name of the place with the good sandwich - maybe we have heard of it before.

Anonymous said...

Barry, Hwy 281 all the way home. Lowers your blood pressure significantly. And I think I saw a woman buying Twinkies to stockpile this morning.

My Other Brother Darryl

Anonymous said...

"There were four people killed in Benghazi. I bet 98% of the population doesn't know that there were two separate incidents about a mile away from each other. Two were killed in one place and hours later two others were killed in another location."

I guess that makes me a 2%er. This is why I have said all along that this was a coordinated terrorist attack and not a "spontaneous demonstration". Nice try though, to discredit those folks who think there is a little something more to the Obama response on this. I am not saying Obama lied at this point, but this thing is fishy, and as a lawyer I am extremely suprised that you are not more interested the details and investigation. You are so in love with your Messiah you think he is can do no wrong and you just think this is Repubs pissing over nothing.

Just think what your reaction would be if this exact event happened under Bush. You have no credibility as a human if you do not acknowledge your extreme political bias on this one. All of America should be upset on this one. I know, only 4 measly Americans died, no big deal, so why all the misinformation out of the Obama camp? How can you have a "spontaneous demonstration" that coordinates deaths in two locations miles apart? That doesn't seem fishy to you?

Anonymous said...

8:58

Good title for the movie Hollywood will make about him.

Anonymous said...

Will Obama care cover Twinkie addiction?
Damned unions.

Anonymous said...

IH 35 to San Marcus, then Ranch Road 12 across the Devil's Backbone to 281. That is one beautiful stretch of highway. North on 281, stopping in Johnson City at the Hill Country Cupboard for a chicken fried steak. Continue 281 to IH 20. IH 35 is horrible Friday afternoon. US 281 is laid back.

Anonymous said...

I couldn't even listen to the entire story about the woman drowning in the car, much less listen to the 911 call! How horrific! I think that has to be my nightmare of the worst way to die--drowning.

Triple Fake... said...

"I shed a tear for the Ding Dong"
Man, that is like a pie cooling on a virtual window sill. You gotta know some inkernet hobo is gonna be drawn to it, floating along on the innuendo aroma!


"You know what else can be found down by the river?
My a$$ - livin' in a van!"

Triple Fake Motivational Speaker Matt Foley

Anonymous said...

"Four people dead when train hits a float at a Veteran's Parade".

Not trying to poke fun at the death of anyone. But, If this was to happen in Rhome, and they had a paid fire department this would have never happened. The firemen in basketball shorts and t-shirts would swoop out of the clouds of death and would have saved all them. At least that's what their ego's would have told them they could have done.

Anonymous said...

Channel 5 did not air it. He mentioned there was the tape but that it would not be right to air it. Very good call. That's good journalism.

Old White Guy said...

Don't understand Bacon. I will take any of them. Not that I have that option.

I agree 281. Won't take 30 minutes longer and will add 2 weeks to your life.

Watch drivers at railroad crossings sometimes. I do this every time I cross a RR and have never seen anyone do a left/right check. You can't win an argument with a train.

The tragedy in Ft Worth started with running a stop sign. But traffic laws are just a suggestion.

Anonymous said...

I would definitely take 281 this weekend coming home. I-35, especially through Austin, is bad enough normally, but then you add in all of the Formula 1 traffic this weekend.

Anonymous said...

I am constantly amazed how people seem to assign beliefs to BG. Most of what he posts is without comment, but many people "assume" that he is slanted pro Obama and then rips him for a position he has not stated.

9:21 - If you read more about the attack, you might find that the two incidents were hours apart, and that a witness believes the 2nd attack was caused by the Americans being followed there from the first location. It was also a brief mortar attack, and not a planned ground attack.

And to use your words, you have no credibility as a human if you do not acknowledge your extreme political bias on this one.

Just like you have assumed that BG has an agenda here, you are assuming that Obama has done something specificaly wrong, and has hidden it. There is no evidence to support this. The Republicans have been playing the birth certificate game for so long that they can't see straight, and keep coming off looking like idiots. That is why they lost the election. McCain is your laughing stock this week, but somebody else will step in shortly.

Anonymous said...

Hostess and many others will be going out of business...the ding dong remains in the White House.

Anonymous said...

281, definitely. I worked in SA for 6 months. I would drive down there on 35, but I always took 281 home.

wordkyle said...

1024 - "Birth certificate"? That "game" was entertained briefly a couple of years ago by a few outliers, never by any major serious Republican. Falling back on that is like describing all Democrats as playing the "9/11 conspiracy game."

As for Obama and Benghazi, his administration's response from the time of the attack to the present has been a Marx brothers movie. As for wrongdoing on his part personally -- between Executive Privilege and an abundance of other people who can be made the goat, Obama's hands will never get dirty.

Anonymous said...

9:55 - It still would have happened because Decatur still does not have turf, and Alvord is void of Al. Besides, the fire department guys in Rhome wear cutoffs and wife beaters, not basketball attire.

Anonymous said...

Human waste has been pouring into New York Harbor.

So Barrack just needs to leave. (rim shot)

Anonymous said...

American bakeries have become the walmart of the nation. The Mexicans are the only ones that want them now. Grupo Bimbo/Mrs Bairds

Anonymous said...

More jobs left the country under Bush-Cheney. Noone complained until the white house went black

Anonymous said...

The Rhome FD guys do a good job considering the constant morale beating and spying on they get from their own city.

Anonymous said...

1024 - "Birth certificate"? That "game" was entertained briefly a couple of years ago by a few outliers, never by any major serious Republican.

Just their main fundraisers, like Bob Perry and Trump.

But hey, not the candidates themselves, so it's OK.

Rage

Anonymous said...

10:24

There is no evidence yet.

DF Leon Jaworski

Anonymous said...

Looks like we are learning the Obama administration really did lie about the 9/11 attack.

Tsk Tsk LMAO

KABOOM!

Anonymous said...

You people trying to play a game regarding the attack on the embassy should take a step back and quit trying to micro-analyze individual situations. The fact of the matter is that the state department's representatives choose to put their life in danger and realize that the worst might happen. They are, as we speak, attempting to put diplomats on the ground in Syria, with full knowledge that Syria is an immensely dangerous area, that in all probability will be impossible to fortify and defend. During the 1980's the embassy in Beirut was in a halfway destroyed hotel, and it is a wonder that no one was killed there. It is the unfortunate truth that often our emissaries will be sacrificed to gain intelligence, secure relationships, and as twisted as it sounds, to further the spread of democracy. It is in no way uncommon for such people to face such peril.

Anonymous said...

1024 i would like to take a baseball bat and bash your f'n brains out you f'n asshole, we all know BG worships osama obamma hussein.

Anonymous said...

First off 10:24, BG has made his political associtions widely known here...Liberally Lean? He has always defended Obama, sometimes outright, and other times through silence on important issues.

Their is also evidence that the second location was compromised, and was known to Al Queda prior to requests for additional security. We may never know the true answer here, but nothing about either attack appear to be result of a "spontaneous demomstration".

You say I am biased but I clearly stated that Obama may not be in the wrong, we do not know yet. I just point out that this whole incident from Bengzhai to Petreus doesn't pass the smell test.

Point out anywhere that I mentioned a Birth Certificate.

Signed 9:21

Anonymous said...

First they take my Twinkies
and now they Target Walmart
(pun intended).
Damned unions.

Anonymous said...

11:44, No one died in Beirut? What happened on April 18, 1983? Did I just dream that?

Anonymous said...

11:44

What should be uncommon is our
leaders lying to cover it up. If
they screwed up, admit it and try
to move on. They get the respect
they deserve like everyone else.

Anonymous said...

Obama lied, 4 died.

Anonymous said...

Obama's chickens are coming home to roost.

Anonymous said...

Welcome to Obama Land

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-fha-federal-housing-administration-bailout-20121116,0,1915053.story

Anonymous said...

Word:

The basic premise here is that no matter what Obama does, the Repulicans will jump on it with lies and misinformation.

If somebody corrects what they say with facts, they just tell the lie louder, or let their surrogates carry the ball for them.

The day after the attack, Obama called the attack an act of terrorism. Romeny lied about this and got called out for it on national televison, but the lie continues to be repeated.

FYI, the current "Impeach Obama" group is still playing with the whole "birther" thing, so don't pretend that it has gone away.

I don't believe that Obama has squeeky clean hands, but then neither does any politician anywhere. The problem is that Republicans are so busy looking for something to criticize, they are overlooking facts and tripping over each other to get there first.

This is why you had the whole string of "rape" comments, the 47% issue, the "giving away stuff" BS, Palin is smart but Susan Rice is a dummy comments, and skipping an intelligence briefing to hold a press conference to complain about not being given information that was given in the briefing.

To people in the middle, the Republicans look stupid, and it is getting worse instead of better.

Anonymous said...

Here is how Republicans roll:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57550681-10391739/mccain-misses-libya-briefing-while-criticizing-lack-of-info/

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Anonymous said...

You went to a mall you've never heard of?

Anonymous said...

"tattoo's". Geez.

Anonymous said...

11:44, That might be the most egregious revision of history in attempt to make a point...I guess it completely skipped your mind why that was a "halfway destroyed hotel"!

Anonymous said...

BP said that too....

Anonymous said...

John McCain was one of the major voices against Sarah goofball Palin's vp nomination.

Anonymous said...

I'd bet a million dollars its not the 1st time you've shed a tear for the "Ding Dong"

Anonymous said...

When the Rhome fire staff goes paid, Obama's chickens will not come home to roost.

Anonymous said...

Cickens better not come home to roost. Most of them people like chicken and water melon and big azz rims on the nigalade

ANDY said...

MOM AND POP FAIL SO OFTEN NOT BECAUSE WAL-MART SHOWED UP BUT BECAUSE MOM AND POP WANT TO GO HOME WHEN THE REST OF US DO.YOU CAN MAKE A LIVING SELLING TO THE UNEMPLOYED AND INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY.MOM AND POP DIDNT PAY ALL THAT WELL EITHER.

Anonymous said...

If any of you have actually read the available accounts of the 9/11 attack, do you have an explanation why only 2 died at the consulate compound? Many other workers who were there were "rescued" by a CIA security team of 6 men. They evacuated the consulate staff to the CIA safe house several miles away then to the airport - successfully! Unfortunately, two of the security men were killed at the safe house - not the consulate - by mortar fire after they had executed the rescue. Why the ambassador and the computer tech stayed at the consulate compound is unknown to me. They died there of smoke inhalation (while burning and destroying sensitive documents). But I agree that at least 98% of our population seems to be unaware of these facts - including wordy.

Old White Guy said...

Chickens been on the nest since 11/6.

Anonymous said...

RTGs - Photo shoot outside the strip club?

Although, the Jaguar, and girl #2 from the left, are hot.

Leiah said...

30 minutes on a Waiver of Arraignment??? Here is Louisiana, we do waiver of appearance, enter a NG plea and ask for a trial date - all in one document. In about 4 minutes I mean, I do have to change the docket number and defendant's name after all. 30 minutes. Can't wait to tell my boss about that next time he asks why I'm not through editing a writ.

Anonymous said...

Praise his holy name

wordkyle said...

123 - The problem is your basic premise is flawed. It's an ideological assumption on your part, which then taints the rest of your opinions. Let's start with your statement "The day after the attack, Obama called it an act of terrorism." While he used the phrase "acts of terror" (notice the plural; not a singular description of the Benghazi attack,) it was a generalization and he avoided directly describing Benghazi as such. All of which is immaterial because his administration spent the next several weeks blaming a video for a "spontaneous attack." If Obama had decreed it a terrorist attack, his subordinates would have fallen in line with the boss's description.

Keep playing the "birther" card if you want to, but realize that other people know you're simply using it as a pejorative and not a substantive argument. That seems to fall in line with most Liberal points. The fact that the tactic worked in the election does not elevate its quality in the least.

Anonymous said...

NRS pays good you A hole!