3.26.2014

Not The Dairy Queen!!!


at 3:42 PM

If Usain Bolt Were White And A Cop

at 3:10 PM

Think Your Life Is Hard?

bagofnothing (@bagofnothing)
my dying friend went coffin shopping 3littlecowboys.blogspot.com/2014/03/bellie…


at 1:14 PM

Almost Like The Ending Of Speed*



(NBC-Chicago) Thirty-two people were injured, none seriously, when an eight-car train continued through the end of the platform and struck the escalators leading to the terminals at O’Hare International Airport early Monday morning. “The train actually climbed over the last stop, jumped up on the sidewalk and then went up the stairs and escalators,” Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Jose Santiago said of the crash, which happened just before 3 a.m. on the CTA’s Blue Line.

 *(Yeah, Speed was about a bus but they threw in a silly subway scene at the end.)
at 12:00 PM

Fun With TV Sports Watching And Demographics


NASCAR:

NBA:
 

Racial make-up is vastly different. Income, however, about the same. Age incredibly different with NASCAR having 86% of its viewers being 35 and older.

Charts for other major sports here.
at 11:09 AM

Ever Wonder What A Klan Application Looks Like?


As I said earlier, these folks are recruiting in Wise County.

Dues of $120 a year? What do you get for that? A sheet? Hood? Subscription to "Modern Klansman"?
at 8:58 AM

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts


  • The Young County Attorney (Graham) decided to run for an unpaid position on the board of the city's hospital district. He then learned that cost him his job per state law. 
  • I saw a video the other day of a cop in Wise County who had one of those new lapel cameras. It's awful when compared to the dashboard camera. I felt like I was watching a paparazzi video on TMZ.
  • I'm not sure why blocks and blocks of downtown Dallas had to be shutdown yesterday when an "active shooter" (who later was discovered to not have a gun) was barricaded in an apartment and surrounded by police.
  • If Yu Darvish has a serious neck injury (he is scheduled to see a big time surgeon) the Rangers will need to worry about the Astros instead of making the playoffs.
  • There's some big civil case going on at the courthouse.  I think it has something to do with alleged wrongful termination, but I'm not sure. 
  • At first I thought this kid arrested for Public Intoxication in Denton overnight had a serious facial birthmark. But that birthmark also appears to be on his hoodie. Paint? What the heck is going on there?
  • Cops pretty much execute a guy for illegal camping in New Mexico. Incredible. 
  • The new Messenger has a story about Boyd High's 1600 meter relay team saying it came within an "eyelash" of breaking the 1992 all time school record of 3:30.06 last week in Springtown. They ran a 3:33.08. I'm no track expert, but that's a long way from an "eyelash", isn't it?
  • Someone commented the other day, in light of my callback to the U.S.'s financial implosion under Bush, that there was another round of bank failures coming. Not so fast. The Fed said a few days ago that after the most recent "stress test" of the nation's thirty largest banks, twenty-nine passed. 
  • According to the Update, the Loyal White Knights of the KKK are recruiting in Wise County. Don't worry, they are just misunderstood. According to their website, they are not a "hate group," However, they do "hate drugs, homosexuality, abortion, and race-mixing . . . . Our goal is to help restore America to a White Christian nation founded on God's word. This does not mean that we want to see anything bad happen to the darker races, we simply want to live separate from them." I think I've read stuff like that in the comment section before. 
  • Dramatic footage yesterday of a rescue of a construction worker in the crazy fire in Houston yesterday.


at 8:37 AM

3.25.2014

Above The Fold

at 10:28 PM

Random Political Commercial



Ol' Joni comes out throwing a haymaker.
at 3:16 PM

One heck of a fire

DFW Scanner (@DFWscanner)
NOT DFW - Massive 4 alarm apartment fire in Houston. pic.twitter.com/UjzWhEesLh


at 2:09 PM

We've Got A Reverse "And Another" Civil Lawsuit


Story.

"Bobbie Edmonds, [a Fort Worth] attorney for the former student, said that the relationship with [the teacher] damaged [her client] mentally and emotionally and that it has also delayed his plans to begin his career in the Marine Corps."

at 10:06 AM

Hey, Brides, The W Hotels In New York Are Offering Something Special


at 10:01 AM

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts



  • A huge question mark formed over my head when I saw the headline that the lead singer of Gwar had died.
  • Sports and Sports Media: (1) Baylor's men and women's team are both in the Sweet 16 and the football team won the Big 12. Oh, these are the salad days. (2) I was going to predict that the Rangers wouldn't make the playoffs but now that seems too easy. (3) Mark Cuban Struggle Face. (4) Cuban elaborated on why he thinks the NFL will implode in 10 years because of greed by writing a five point essay -- and only one of the points had to do with greed. (5) Yesterday morning, The Ticket had the Fake Nolan Ryan on to talk about his curse on the Texas Rangers -- they've done the Ryan bit since the 1990s. Yesterday afternoon, the talent deprived Ben and Skin Show on The Fan had the Fake Nolan Ryan on to talk about his curse on the Texas Rangers.  (6) Fox 4's Mike Doocy said last night that going to New York in the NIT is more valuable for SMU than an early exit from the NCAA Tourney. Couldn't disagree more -- no one remembers that Baylor won the NIT last year. (7) The time a Randy Johnson fastball destroyed a bird in spring training. (8) There's a photo going around of former Buffalo Bill QB Jim Kelly in a hospital room with his daughter as he battles cancer. I don't know if it is touching or daughter self-promotion. 
  • What was that Malaysian press conference about? That the plane is probably at the bottom of the ocean? Was that really news?
  • I've seen Meet the Parents a ton of times but never realized Phyllis George was in it. 
  • Watched Capote again this weekend. It's weird because it is so entertaining watching Phillip Seymour Hoffman in a movie that isn't at all entertaining. 
  • A couple of guys parachuted off the Freedom Tower last year. A video was released yesterday -- it takes a while to get going but it's pretty wild. 
  • "And Another" - Georgia.  2014 takes a step backwards with this one but gets a little extra credit for involving the Waffle House.
  • No two words have been abused more in the last decade than "Breaking News." 
  • Fascinating story in last month's Texas Monthly. Basically a couple of ex-Baylor students take the Bible very literally and form what may or may not be a cult in Wells, Texas. In fact, that's the subtitle: "When is a church a cult?" It's a fine line. 




at 8:38 AM

3.24.2014

Rumors Of His Death Were Greatly Exaggerated


I don't know who Quinton Ross is but apparently he went to a Dallas area high school, SMU, and briefly played for the Mavs.  Twitter blew up with news that the New York Post was reporting he had been found dead in a shallow grave in the New York area.

Everyone jumps in . . .




And then these "not so fast: type of reports come in  . . .




Apparently the dead guy is Quinton Ross. Just not that Quinton Ross.
at 2:40 PM

Another Reason To Feel Old





(And the movie plays a role in a more recent film, Pitch Perfect. Pitch Perfect is a chick flick. That's about all I know. But I swear that thing is on what seems to be some endless loop in my House Full Of Girls.)
at 12:41 PM

Cop v. Cop

Would you put up with sexual harrassment from this Texas Constable?
 This deputy constable said he was subjected to it but was just awarded $567,000 by a jury for his trouble. (That was $200,000 more than his attorney asked for.)

at 10:03 AM

Of Course, Every Other Day They Retract and Correct Prior Reports


at 9:14 AM

Random Monday Morning Thoughts



  • Longview decided it didn't want Ted Nugent to perform at a festival in the city so they are paying him $16,000 to go away. (Maybe my favorite statement was from the mayor who said, “Not a lot of people know who Ted is. Younger people here don’t know him.”)
  • A man who was subject to the Bataan Death March and who lived in Tarrant County for a while, died over the weekend. (I raved about this book a few years back about the March.)
  • Saw some tweets this weekend that Stephen F. Austin is the ultimate party school. I'm not sure I've ever heard that. 
  • A guy was shot and killed outside of a pool hall in Arlington over the weekend. He was 24 and  "the father of three sons and another baby is due."
  • I read the Lake Waco Murder article I mentioned last week, and I had totally forgot how controversial former Waco DA Vic Feazell was. He was indicted by the feds but ended up being found not guilty. And WFAA went after him in a 10 part series which prompted him to sue the company and ultimately win $58 million.
  • Man, CBS just wouldn't leave a crying Kansas kid alone in the Stanford game yesterday. 
  • "Present-day college freshman and devout Christian, Josh Wheaton, finds his faith challenged on his first day of Philosophy class by the dogmatic and argumentative Professor Radisson." That's the premise of the film God's Not Dead which finished fifth at the box office this weekend. And we've got the blockbuster Noah coming out soon. 
  • Random fact:  41 percent of all American children are born out of wedlock.
  • Regarding the solicitation case reported by the Messenger last week: "[He] was arraigned on the solicitation charge by Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Terri Johnson in Decatur and was transported to the court of jurisdiction." Huh? I have no idea what that means. Everyone just sits in jail or bonds out. 
  • "And another" from Oklahoma. (Actually occurred late last year.)
  • James Rebhorn, a character actor you have seen a million times but didn't know his name, has died. 
  • Sports: (1) Didn't expect Baylor to win by 30 last night -- and it wasn't that close, (2) The Rangers appear to be in book trouble. Profar is out 10 to 12 weeks, and their pitching staff is the worst in years, (3)  Mark Cuban thinks "the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion" because of greed. Is there a place I can bet him on that? It's simply silly. (And he might was to focus on a basketball team that he is running into the ground.) 





at 8:38 AM
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)