- AI guy in a self check out line in Walmart yesterday was telling people behind him, "I might be a while. I've got a lot of pennies." He then methodically stood there paying in pennies like it was a slot machine. Shouldn't you cash those pennies in first before going through the check out line?
- The Texas Senate voted for term limits (two of them) yesterday. The most vocal opponent was Wise County's own State Senator Craig Estes. Maybe he needs more than two terms to find Wise County.
- The legislature is also considering allowing government entities to post required public notices online instead of having to buy space in local newspapers. Local newspapers are not impressed with this idea.
- The Family Pup #2 (the Yorkie saved from death row) is a little bit more rambunctious than The Family Pup. He'll hound you to play fetch all day long and has this weird ability to jump onto window sills that are over two foot off the ground.
- And Mrs. LL, I promise when I look around and see the chaos of you, the kids, the dogs, and the cat, I don't say to myself, "What have I gotten myself into?" Promise. Double promise.
- Whatever happened to the metroplex cop who was involved in a high speed chase and then shot the unarmed fleeing man a krillion times?
- The President is in Israel today? I thought you guys told me he didn't care about that country.
- After my Vicksburg trip, I've gone back and watched some of Ken Burn's "The Civil War" documentary online. I was stunned to see it first aired in 1990.
- I wrote over Thanksgiving that everyone should read the two part series in Texas Monthly about the falsely accused Michael Morton who was falsely imprisoned for killing his wife until DNA led to someone else. That "someone else" is now on trial for Morton's wife's murder and Morton took the stand yesterday. He is, after all, a witness as to the last time he saw his wife alive.
- I missed
George Mason Robert Morris beating Kentucky in the NIT yesterday. The game had to be played in the 3,000 seat home arena of George Mason Robert Morris because Kentucky had a scheduling conflict. Kentucky averaged 12,000 at home per game. Edit: Huge error. Kentucky averaged 23,099 per game.
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Robert Morris, not George Mason.
Your Florida trip has produced some of the worst RT Girls you've ever posted. Not, at all, what enters my mind when I think of Florida and Spring Break.
They are screaming bloody murder about the term limits, but if it were more Democrats in office they would be all for it. With the prediction of Texas becoming a blue state in just a few years I wonder if this wasn't forward thinking damage control by the GOP.
Shouldn't you cash those pennies in first before going through the check out line?
Money is money. Business need to get over it. I have been forced to use coins to by gas and things before, so F'em.
The Garland cop who chased a suspect and then shot at him 41 times was fired last week. Surely a just and proper punishment for murder.
The President is in Israel today? I thought you guys told me he didn't care about that country.
Read the articles. He doesn't give much crap about Israel. He is there for the first time in his dictatorship, right?
That babe is pretty, but she don't seem to be too thrilled to be on that stage.
Obama also recently visited with Republicans for the first time in years. How much do you think he cares about them?
Is the RTG chick dead or a manakin or womankin?
Wow! You used the word "krillion" twice in one day. Is that the word of the day on your toilet paper?
Israel trip should be awkward as Israeli PM actively attempted to campaign for Rommney, then lost part of his base at home in his own election, clinging on to power only with aid of Russian emmigrants who are a new power block in Israel.
No American president has ever abandoned Israel, or will one in the future.......the Jewish lobby is too powerful
They are so powerful they nearly derailed new Sec of Defense Hagel because he dared speak truth about them while he was in the Senate.
And all he said was "there is a Jewish Lobby."
"Obama in Israel", the devil is everywhere.
Bacon Scale
1 out of 5
This is bad BG.
Not a good start to my day.
Obama may be in Israel, but I can promise you he's not happy to be there and would rather be elsewhere!
The Jackal
Why is it that the police are allowed to have guns that have a krillion round clips but the average citizen can't?
Do you think Obama will be brought in to the palace via the trash-butler-back door like Obama forced other dignitaries to use?
Palestinian's:
We hate you Obama!! You are not welcome!
Now give us $33 billion more!!!
GHB slowly kickin in on that chick or what?
"I've got a lot of pennies"
-At least the dude has some source of income. I'd rather see someone whip out a million pennies, than a friggin Lone Star Card. I've never been embarassed while paying with change. It's all money.
"Whatever happened to the metroplex cop?"
-You will likely never hear about that again. It's funny how the justice system works in favor of law enforcement, ain't it?
"Senator Craig Estes"
-WORTHLESS. 'Nuff said.
Use the self checkout for your 1 million pennies, or else someone will call you a Wise County Obama jew.
Also Craig Estes does not answer his mail unless it is from one of his pipeline buddies.
Police officers are above the laws we enforce. We are untouchable, deal with it.
Remind me to never get in the checkout line behind Al Guy.
Senator Estes was very responsive to Alice Walton, one of his constituents, in last session. The fact she is a gazillionaire probably had nothing to do with it. Nah!
DF Political Observer
Barry,
I am glad to read you enjoyed your Vicksburg visit. Its been a favorite of ours. I highly reccomend a trip to other "western-theater" battlefields if you get the opportunity. Some especially good ones...
Shiloh, TN - Sprawling park with good driving tour
Pea Ridge, AR - One of the best preserved battlefieds
Franklin, TN - One of favorites. The Carter House at Franklin Tennessee was the epicenter to larger assault than the more famous Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. You can walk up to it today and put your fingers into bullet holes, still in the brick. The preservation of the battlefield is a shame... which is one of the reasons you should visit. To appreciate history and how we could do a much better job of preservation.
If you ever get in a reading mood for CW non-fiction I can loan you a copy of Wiley Sword's "The Confederacy's Last Hurrah; Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville". highly reccomended.
Matt Van Hoose
I think we need to careful throwing the "krillion" word around, that's a lot of ammo to shoot at a person, I bet it was more like a "bazillion". jus sayin.
I think you might want to double check that average attendance for UK. That place holds 24,000 and it usually sells out. Maybe add another 10k.
Some folks are really hard to please thinking there is something wrong with today's RTG. Other than a really disinterested look on her face, she is alright
Guy in self-checkout line was just being self-conscious about using all those pennies. There are now at least eight registers in that little area, so the turnaround is pretty quick (assuming you were in our Decatur Walmarts)
And Mrs. LL, I promise when I look around and see the chaos of you, the kids, the dogs, and the cat, I don't say to myself, "What have I gotten myself into?" Promise. Double promise.
Get some! Get some!
Double Fake Rafter Man (That was for you, Triple Fake)
How much do you think he cares about them?
Wait. Are these the same ones who keep calling him a secret foreign-born Muslim bent on destroying the country? Because I don't see why he'd visit them at all. They're not capable of civil discourse or even the most basic courtesies due the office of the President, much less the President himself.
The Carter House at Franklin Tennessee was the epicenter to larger assault than the more famous Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
But it wasn't a march right into the mouth of the largest collection of artillery the world had seen to date. The size of Pickett's charge wasn't what made it important, it was the sheer lunacy of it. Even ol' General Hood was pissed about that one.
Rage
If you were a 20 something male living in Wise county during the civil war, there is a good chance you would have been in the 15th cavalry. It was the unit of Wise, Denton, and Collins counties. It became dismounted and fought as a infantry unit under Pat Cleburne's division and Hiram Granbury's brigade at the Battle of Franklin Tn. Both generals Cleburne and Granbury were killed in the battle.
The 15th Cavalry battle flag is on display in Austin. It was a blue flag with a white circle in the middle with a red star. Cleburne's divisions were known as the blue divisions because of the color of the battle flags.
What to do with coins
1. Don't use them, use a debit card
2. Use them instead of breaking a dollar
3. Cash them in at your bank, they usually don't charge
4. Roll them up yourself
5. Cash them in using Coinstar and pay 8 to 10%
6. Use them at a self-checkout lane
7. Throw them onto the counter for the cashier to count
10:42...I was against the Civil War in 1861. I've got witnesses!
Triple Fake Sly Green
10:46 NO Crap!
WOW -- You and a couple of comments on here are really up to date! TERM LIMITS, as being voted on, are for statewide held offices. Does not effect the legislators. Get your facts straight before you make a fool of yourself. We can only hope this is a precurser to all elected officials.
Banks no longer want coins rolled, as they previously did.
Also, why doesn't WallyWorld have a self-checkout setup for more than 20 items?
"The size of Pickett's charge wasn't what made it important, it was the sheer lunacy of it."
Somebody needs to get out their Civil War primer and do some studyin'. Gettysburg is more famous (East Coast press!), but it takes a back seat to the lunacy out west!
Pickett's assault was preceded by a massive artillery barrage in an attempt to soften up the Union defenses. Cleburne's charge had no such benefit.
Pickett's men advanced over a mile of open field toward hastily improved defenses. Cleburne's men marched twice that distance, and faced fortified positions.
Plus, the number of command officers lost at Franklin was enough to make it a devastating loss, but there were also approximately four times as many casualties at Franklin.
Hood was probably more PO'd after the battle, considering he lost the use of an arm. And he almost always favored charging the enemy head-on, with disastrous results. He was not famous as a tactician. Methinks the Black Knight from Monty Python fame may have been modeled after ol' JB - slowly getting whittled down and coming back for more. There's a lesson in there...
You can continue to crow about some lame movie quote I made a week ago, but you've stepped on your own wiener by throwing out popular but misinformed notions about Civil War history
Ahhh, Triple Fake. Wyy you so angry? It's not your style, man, even if your booty buddy doesn't like me.
Aside from Vicksburg, the war in the west pales in comparison to Gettysburg. No battle was as important for the South to win in the West as Gettysburg was. PIckett's Charge was just one part of one day's fighting at Gettysburg.
It's not just a popular opinion, it's just the way it was.
Pickett's men advanced over a mile of open field toward hastily improved defenses. Cleburne's men marched twice that distance, and faced fortified positions.
And yet the losses at Franklin were far less than at Gettysburg. Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the war. Period. Franklin wasn't even in the top ten. I know you think you have some unique insight and knowledge of the war, but you're flat out wrong here. A battle in a location that was only significant because the war in the east was going so badly (i.e. Gettysburg) and that had about a third of the casualties of Gettysburg is hardly more significant than the battle in which largest Confederate army on union soil was better supplied and more organized than they had ever been, actually north of the Union capital, and between the main Union force and the capitol. Strategically, politically, you name it. In every way Gettysburg was more important. You can make up some BS theory all you want, nothing can change the numbers and the geography.
Rage
The Battle of Fairfax Courthouse, now that was a bloody battle.
Just saw on MSN where the dumbass Secret Service put gasoline in the Obammy wagon in Isreal(It is a diesel) and it is now in the shop over there.
Can't fix stoopid!
DF Ron White
"President Barack Obama's limo broke down in Israel this morning after the Secret Service filled the giant Cadillac with gasoline instead of diesel, according to multiple reports."
I don't care about those troublemakers running Israel.
I don't care about Iraq.
I don't care about most other places.
"President Barack Obama's limo broke down in Israel this morning after the Secret Service filled the giant Cadillac with gasoline instead of diesel, according to multiple reports."
So a Nigger and a Jew walk in a Bar...
RTG: F__KIN' HOTT!!!
I'm sorry my previous comment caused some consternation. I wasn't trying to get into a "what was the most significant battle" argument. More of a "there was a bigger assault than the more famous Picket's charge."
The assault at Franklin was indeed the main action in a totally insignificant battle in the greater History of the CW. Nothing was accomplished but the bleeding of the AOT. And yes the casualty rates were pretty much similar.
But Franklin was larger in terms of troops involved, in penetration of the attacking forces, the period of close quarters combat involved, etc. etc. And the decimation of the command structure of the AOT was far and away the worst seen during the war.
Glad to read the Civil War posts on the blog. I'm an avid student of that period.
Matt Van Hoose
I'm angry? I'm angry!? You're the one who keeps bringing up the quote from FMJ like it was a personal insult to you. You'd think I just took a dump on your family's burial plot. And the fact that somebody else possibly doesn't like you is irrelevant but understandable, because you seem like a total dick who thinks every word you say is gospel. (All he said was that Pickett's charge was more famous)
I thought we were comparing the lunacy of the two charges, but you changed the rules to include all of Gettysburg, so I'll go ahead and refer back to a comment you made last week about the relative importance of the loss at Gettyburg vs the fall of Vicksburg.
Gettysburg: yes, huge loss - strategically. Also very demoralizing for the troops, the home front, and for Lee personally.
Vicksburg: huge loss strategically. It was the last bastion in the West and the last stronghold on the river. Now the Union could run the length of the river with impunity and not have to run the gauntlet that was Vicksburg. It also completed the Anaconda Plan, to surround and strangle the bulk of the South. It was equally demoralizing. Even with the loss at G'burg, the rebels could have said: "Well, you might have whupped ol' marse Robert and his boys, but we've still got Vicksburg!" The bitter taste of that loss was passed down for generations, until Eisenhower - or whoever it was - told them to just get the hell over it! and start celebrating Independence Day again.
I'm not saying Vicksburg was more important. I'm saying that you saying Gettysburg (and everything else that happened in the Eastern theater) was way more important/decisive is a popular notion, but it ain't a fact. We're not trying a case here. Relax, find a pair of shoes that's a half-size bigger
This concludes the "Jane, you magnificently ignorant slut..." portion of our program (from my counterpoint, anyway). You can keep arguing or whatever
3:55 Laying out all night with hookers will catch up with you eventually!
I enjoyed that little civil war discussion. Interesting to read both sides and see their different views.
I'm a bit partial to Rage. His comments are often compelling, and usually funny. And his tone seems rather laid back, at least to me it does. Just from reading the comments, it does seem that Triple Fake is the angrier one of the two.
Triple Fake, your comments are interesting too. Steady..... steady.
6:46, did he fill up at Loves?
3:55 Laying out all night with hookers will catch up with you eventually!
Triple Fake sure seems to have caught the brain syphillis.
Rage
If the guy at Wal-Mart had wheat pennies, he could get 2-cents each for those at the coin shop in Wichita Falls. I just got $25 for $12.50 in pennies. I told my boss if he would start paying me in wheat pennies, I could double my salary.
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