Without Using The Google . . .

Cheerleaders from unknown school celebrate Baylor victory.

. . . can someone tell me where the National Championship game is? I've gots to makes me some reservations.

News: Scandal?

This is still preliminary, but I'm getting word that news of a Bridgeport Teacher Sex Scandal is about to break. No names. Developing.... Edit: It's in the Update as of 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. I hope it works out of the guy. (Comments off for now.)

In Honor Of Labor Day Weekend

I bring you Houston's Pregnant Lady In A Bikini Pageant. (Think about it. See what I did there?) (Thanks, John.)

Friday Night Lights: Alvord Prevents A County Meltdown

Gainesville 27 Decatur 17 Bridgeport 27 Mineral Wells 30 Gunter 51 Boyd 30 Paradise 13 Henrietta 51 Petrolia 11 Alvord 18 Valley View 54 Chico 0

Bridgeport Cancer Survivor Gets Guitar From Make A Wish Foundation

Saw it on Channel 8 News, but it was a pretty quick story.

News

Occurred Bridgeport Middle School Student fell from motor vehicle Being Transported by LifeStar 4 to JPS in Ft Worth - Email from confirmed source

Boyd ISD's Decision On The Obama Speech: Treat It Like An R Rated Movie

Link.

The Punch I Mentioned Earlier

It's a little different than the typical post-game handshake.

Edit: And a faithful reader sent me another of the same throw down, but this one is tricked up to have a little Rock Em Sock Em Robot effect. But, man, the University of Oregon is in a pickle. The Muhammad Ali like running back is a good running back. If he was just some spare, they would kick him off the team. But this kid can play so that ramps up the Foregiveness Factor in a big way. It's in the Bible - look it up. Edit: Just heard he was suspended for the season.

Courtroom News

Hey, it's Friday before Labor Day so it's not exactly News Central around here. But I just saw that the district courtroom in Decatur is about to go high tech with a couple of 50" screen and other stuff. Taxpayer waste? Naaa, not really. The money came from a fund which got $1 off every case as court costs. And I heard that Star Power was the vendor and installer. But I do loves me some technology.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• North Texas won a football game last night. North Texas! And looked good doing it.
• I fear the lightening strike.
• I had a conversation with a guy yesterday that wouldn't shut up. I tried a dozen times to wrap it on the phone but he kept going. It was one of those where I took the phone away from my ear and just stared at it about a foot from my face.
• Traffic has been rerouted in Decatur because of some construction close to downtown which brings a lot of cars by my office. I asked my law partner is we could put a big purple inflatable gorilla on our roof.
• Fox 4's Dan Godwin interviewing Mike Judge was kind of awkward. (And I'm not sure if the new movie "Extract" deserves to be associated in the same breath as "Office Space". Then again, I haven't seen it.)
• Is it "I've said my peace" or "I've said my piece"?
• If I see a young attorney's obituary in the Texas Bar Journal, I always try and find out how he died. Anybody know what happened to Stephen C. Ackley?
• Texas Tech star Michael Crabtree is the only drafted player not to have signed an NFL contract. Idiot.
• If Obama were to make a personal visit to Decatur ISD, would there be parents that would keep their kids home?
• Observation from the Cowboys game last weekend: White people like the Jason Witten jersey.
• After the Boise State/Oregon last night, a player threw one of the most violent sucker punches ever. Then he went into the stands. If that kid isn't suspended for a couple of games -- maybe more -- I'll be surprised. (I'll try to find the video.)
• Obama's Approval to Disapproval rating is 55% to 39%. That's a landslide if it were election returns.

"Horse Kicks Man In Chest" aka "Good Times"

Let's Talk About Me

You guys can argue about the future of humanity all you want, but today is the start of college football season. I don't care about the NBA, MLB, and especially the NHL. But I care about college football like I care about my firstborn gifted and talented son I never had. As Derrick Boyd said in the courthouse this morning, "Today is like Christmas. Only better." Preach on, bruther. And I got especially excited a couple of months ago when I learned that the Baylor v. Wake Forest game was going to be a regional/national telecast by ABC on 2:30 on Saturday. (In case you haven't heard, Baylor has a quarterback that trails only Jesus in popularity in Waco. And it's a close race.) But I started getting nervous earlier this week when all the TV listings had Georgia at Oklahoma State on that channel at that time. What gives? Was that possible? I know ABC has about four regional broadcasts but Dallas-Fort Worth was not getting the Baylor game? Do they not know how many good Baptists we have around here? Well, today I got my answer. I'm screwed. The regional broadcast of the Baylor game will be shown only in the black areas in the above map. Sheesh. There's more blue in that map than the Obama landslide of 2008. But wait! There's hope! WFAA, I learned, is showing the game on it's alternative "HD Channel 8.2". Of course, I had no idea what the heck that meant. Well, with a little more checking I found out that's pretty much only available if you have an HD antenna or are part of Charter Cable -- both of which I ain't got. So what's my other option? Subscribe to ESPN GamePlan for $25 for the weekend or for the season for $115. I'm sure I'll do it. I just wish the government would step in and provide a Universal Football Plan to cover me in these times of trouble.

Brit!, Save Us From The Anger!

Decatur ISD Protects Your Children From Hearing Obama Say, "Stay In School"

Link.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• I showed up for County Court in Jack County yesterday, found the sign in sheet, and noticed my court appointed client had arrived before me. I then looked around and didn't see him -- an oddity that was explained when his exasperated girlfriend came in later to tell me "they arrested him when he came in." Sheesh.
• His bondsman had turned on him, by the way.
• My health insurance company wrote me to tell me my monthly premium is going up $50 a month. That's with not filing a claim in 5 years and having a deductible that would buy a nice vacation.
• My house plants never die. And I really don't do anything other than water them when I see the leaves going limp.
• Hey, Right Wingers, don't worry about the Obama speech to your children. They are kids. It's a speech. It's school. They'll be asleep or daydreaming within 2 minutes.
• I like watching a bird flap it's wings in water.
• Prediction Fail: I said the Rangers would fade down the stretch. I was wrong. It's September and they are 3 1/2 games behind in the division and 2 1/2 games behind in the Wild Card. My bad.
• I've said it before, but the "Promiseland" televangelist/religious show is worse than what Robert Tilton ever did. I know you've never seen it, but if I ever run across it I'll watch it until my blood boils.
• OK, after proclaiming The Dark Knight was awful after seeing it in the theater last year, I've had a chance to reevaluate my position after watching it on cable. Verdict: I was too kind in my review. It's corny and simplistic.
• Texas A&M just lost a game in 2015 and 2016 because they just agreed to play USC. Why, oh why?
• My travel companion, who happened to be female, took this photo at the Cowboys game on Saturday night. I hadn't noticed the little Photo Bomber on the right.
• Funny: Our main governor candidates have created YouTube channels to attack each other. Gov. Perry named his AKayOticCampaign while Kay Bailey Hutchison named her's TrickyRicky2010.
• Someone keeps telling me that the attendance for the Texas Rangers is "great." No so fast my friend. The average attendance for this year is 27,637. That would rank 10th best over the last 13 years.

Wednesday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Hey, that's that guy from Jon & Kate Make 8 (or whatever it's called.) Welcome to the single life, buddy! I promise you it's like that every single day.

Listen Up, Class

"Next week, on Tuesday, Sept. 8, President Obama will be broadcasting an address directly to students in the nation’s public schools. The text of Obama’s school speech has not been made available to parents at this point, although lists of classroom activities for elementary school students and older students are available at the Department of Education website. "President Obama does not plan to broadcast on major network channels, but the speech can be viewed live online at the Whitehouse website. Broadcast begins at 12:00 noon Eastern time." This will be interesting. The county didn't want to lower the flag for Kennedy, will the local school districts allow our President to talk to our kids? Anyone heard anything? Edit: Good grief. Republicans are already going crazy: [The] Republican Party of Florida . . . released a statement "condemning President Obama's use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda."

"As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," said Jim Greer, party chairman, in a news release.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• There was a lady call into KLIF this morning who had been a teenage mother and "grew up in Bridgeport." She said the only sex education she had was "that film they showed us in sixth grade." I know what you're talking about, sista.
• I had no idea that the new starting quarterback for Alabama, Greg McElroy, played one incredible year for Southlake Carroll.
• Since redesigned, the Star-Telegram's web site doesn't seem to be updated as often.
• A Fall movie I'm interested in: The Invention of Lying which stars and was written by the great Ricky Gervais. It also has Tina Fey in it.
• Romo's new girlfriend. (I'm certain I profiled her about a month ago but can't find the link anywhere.)
• You would think even her biggest fans would get tired of Oprah. She is an immediate power down for me.
• PeopleOfWalmart.com
• Today's Messenger has almost no coverage of this weekend's Wise County high school football games. I don't know what happened with Robert Morgan (and I won't let you speculate), but they are struggling over there in the sports department.
• KFed, who was able to defeat me in my quest to be Mr. Britney Spears, is huge. Not like in "huge star" but just "huge."
• I would think even Fox News fans don't believe it's "Fair and Balanced." It's simply news presented from the conservative perspective. Why lie about it?
• My jogging routine changes but I've been going with the outside/early morning routine. And by "early morning", I mean "still dark." But I've got the oddest experience working: Every time, about two miles away, I meet a guy walking the opposite direction. And although I meet him at the same location every time and wave, he never responds.