Tebow!!!!

The CBS crew after the game:

John McCain Might Want To Head On Back To Arizona. His Work Is Done Here.

That Video Board At The Death Star

Check out the people in the background looking up.

Our Own Little Pentagon Papers

FORT WORTH -- Visiting Judge Elizabeth Berry issued a sweeping gag order Friday in a capital murder trial that prohibits the news media from reporting or disseminating anything that happens in open court outside the presence of the jury . . . . Among other restrictions, Berry's order states that the media may not interview attorneys, litigants, employees of the district attorney's office, parties, witnesses, victims or relatives of victims until the trial ends.


That's baloney, and I'm proud the Star-Telegram is going to fight it. We have conflicting constitutional rights of giving someone a fair trial vs. freedom of speech, but this is insane. You'll often hear of "gag orders" which prevent lawyers from discussing the case (which I'm not sure the Supreme Court has ever addressed) and that makes some sense when one party is trying to influence a trial or potential trial. But telling a newspaper how it will gather and report news is downright frightening.

Messenger Above The Fold

LeeAnn Rimes Still Killin' It

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Boy, metroplex news stations are obsessed with the Porsche-in-a-canal story (but so am I.) A 41 year old lawyer with a couple in their early twenties running around in the middle of the night? I bet something seedy was going on.
• And he might have been a good guy, but a 40 something asbestos lawyer who drives a Porsche is near the bottom of my list of people I would want to hang out with.
• I heard this morning that his wife had filed for divorce two days after Christmas. I bet she finally locked on to those give-your-wife-a-Lexus-for-Christmas commercials and he didn't deliver. 
• The Cotton Bowl played at night on January 6th is just wrong.
• There was a small earthquake between Dallas and Irving overnight. With no science to back me up, I'll blame fracking.
• Ryan Seacrest's "Hey, Now" girlfriend at the beach.
• Rick Santorium is now denying that he even said "black people" in Iowa when he clearly said, "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money." Mindboggling. 
• Breaking this morning: The unemployment rate falls to 8.5% as 200,000 jobs were created in December.  Now if you are a right wing Republican, that makes you happy doesn't it? You want prosperity, right? There's no part of you that wish unemployment would skyrocket before November, 2012, right?
• I used to stay up until midnight all the time. These days I'm normally asleep by 10:30 p.m.. (And I can always fall asleep within 10 minutes of my head hitting the pillow.)
• I like Tim Tebow. I think his days as an NFL quarterback are numbered, but I like the guy.
• Here's a pic of the four Aggies that sat behind us in the Alamo Bowl. It looks like they would be a beating, but they were really pretty funny.
• But one of them was whipping me with hot sports opinions. 

Bridgeport ISD Made Channel 8

The story made reference to "a blog" but, once again, I was denied recognition for being the most trusted source.

Link.

LeAnn Rimes Making Strong Case For Official Liberally Lean Girl 2012

I Didn't Think . . .

. . . you could even get three people in a Porsche until I remembered Risky Business with Tom Cruise. I'm pretty sure Miles was in the backseat when they were being chased by Guido, The Killer Pimp.

Story.

Edit: According to the Star-Telegram, the victims have been identified by the Dallas County medical examiner as Kenneth Lark, 21, of Austin, Kaat Debeuckelaer, 21, of Colleyville and Ronald Eddins, 41, of Southlake

This is the gal per Facebook (don't know if that's the guy):

Everyone Has Been Telling Me To Post About This

I don't know about you guys, but that gal looks like she's not done killin'.

Edit: Wait a second. There was a moment in the video when they referred to this lady's husband as having died over the holidays after a bout with cancer. Then the they showed us the picture below.  I don't want to be callous, but that picture looks like it was taken in the 1970s, and he looks to be over 30 way back then. I then wondered how old little Calamity Jane was and it turns out she's 18. We gots us a whole nuther story!

And did the graphics person take this story serious enough?

Edit: Thanks to the comments, good stuff here.

Not that you're going to Jefferson County but . . .

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• More visual proof that Mark Cuban is far closer to classless than the common man. Yep, I can't stand that guy. 
• Saw this on Twitter last night: "Sobering reality: Khloé Kardashian Odom has 1.39 million more followers than the New York Times."
• Best moment of the Orange Bowl last night was seeing an Orange Mascot getting tackled in the end zone.
• I really don't want to question how someone grieves, but what Iowa Causcus Golden Boy Rick Santorum and his wife did upon her having a stillborn child isn't exactly, uh, "normal."
• I didn't know former Southlake/UNT coach Todd Dodge had spent the year as quarterbacks coach at the University of Pittsburgh.
• The front of my thighs still hurt. Weird. 
• Kyra Sedgwick "Hey, Now"?
• Forgot to mention that Amberly and Debbye on the third floor of the Wise County Courthouse won our fantasy football league. (We all laughed at them when they drafted Cam Newton at the beginning of the year.)
• I'm interested in the identities of the two bodies found in the submerged Porsche yesterday which ended up in a canal near Las Colinas. (By the way, I've never understood the thrill of driving fast.) Edit: Driver identified as 41 years old Ronald Cary Eddins. There's a Dallas asbestos lawyer named Ron Eddins who seems like a high-roller but I have no idea if that's the same guy. 
• Mrs. LL declared she was cooking a Cajun meal tonight. (All I thought of was Newman on Seinfeld saying, "Jambalaya!" in the Soup Nazi episode.)
• Former Cowboy Sam Hurd was indicted by the feds yesterday for trying to be a drug kingpin. He never would have been, but he told the wrong people that he wanted to be. That'll get you locked up in this country. 
• More good news for the President: Unemployment claims dropped again for the last week of December (that's four drops in five weeks.) 
• It's fun to listen to Limbaugh and Hannity try to sabotage Mitt Romney as being too "moderate" while realizing they'll have to end up supporting him. (And John McCain endorsing Romney yesterday just killed them.)
• Update of the shooting of the 8th grader: Two officers. Three shots. One to the back of the boy's head.. . . 

Trophies Thrown Out At Bridgeport Middle School . . .

 . . .  allegedly to make room for art in the trophy case.  Some people ain't happy.

Developing.

Dallas Judge Who Ruled Death Penalty Process In Texas Unconstitutional . . .

. . . looks different on TV . . .

. . . that she does in her campaign pictures.

(And that's why I'm the most trusted legal analyst in the Southwest Proper.)

"What Was Going Through Your Mind?"

One of these days, some kid from Wise County will kick a game winning field goal in college or in the pros. It'll be epic.  And then in the press conference, he'll be asked what he thought about before the big moment.

"Random Thoughts Girls," he'll say. "Ever since I've been in the big time, I've thought of Random Thought Girls whenever I line up for a kick. Everybody back in the 'hood knows what I'm talking 'bout."

I'm here for a purpose.

This Is Weird

A few days ago I read about a guy who was shot and killed when he tried to enter the wrong home in Fort Worth. The shooter was a woman and the lone occupant of the house and had even called 911 while the guy was trying to enter. She shot him once.  From all accounts, it sounded like an intoxicated guy got lost and tried to enter a home that wasn't his.

Turns out the guy was an SMU graduate and somewhat of a Fort Worth socialite.  Growing up, he did all of the Fort Worth high tone things: Country Day High School and the Steeplechase Club.

I wonder what the story is on this.

(And "Castle Doctrine" or not, this is the kind of case that would never be prosecuted regardless of the black letter of the law.)

Obit.

I Hope That Was Absolutely Necessary This Morning

Updates.

Edit: Based upon the comments, I'd like to say "My bad." I had forgotten that Police Shooting = Justified before any facts are released. Liberally Lean apologizes for this error.

Edit at 4:52 p.m.:  Oh, my!!