Saturday Giggle

Friday Night Lights: That Bridgeport Game Looks Exciting

Alvord (2-2) 26 Muenster Sacred Heart (3-2) 14 Graham (4-0) 49 Bridgeport (1-3) 48 Edit: Got a message from a very reliable source that read, "ESPN and [UT quarterback] Colt McCoy are at the Bridgeport/Graham game." It's an off week for Texas so he's got some free time. Just not sure what the connection would be. Edit: The answers came flooding in.

Who Knew There Were That Many Indians?

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Does This Look Like . . .

. . . a man who would kidnap his ex-wife near Teasley Lane in Denton and then leave her naked in Corinth? Buddy, trust me, you can't be treating ex-wives life that.

Olympics 2016

It's not Chicago. (Let the Obama haters jump on this.) It's not Tokyo. Madrid and Rio are left. I'm guessing Rio. Edit @ 11:51: Once again, I am all knowing. It is Rio De Janeiro. (Did you just think it was a coincidence that just two weeks ago I posted this beach pic from Rio?) Edit: Girls celebrate Rio's big win.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Elizabeth Smart's father has always struck me as odd. (She testified yesterday regarding her abduction years ago.) And I'm still not sure she's not in a state of zombie shock. (My own trademarked medical term.)
• Maybe I'm getting old, but I watched more of the National Parks special last night on PBS. Great stuff.
• The Fort Worth Weekly has its 2009 "Best Of" edition out this week. But I don't know where to find a hard copy of it anymore.
• I love any "Best Of" edition.
• Had an impromptu picture taken last week. The person holding the camera told me to "suck in your gut."
• The Olympic location for 2016 will be announced today (Obama is overseas working his magic on behalf of Chicago.) I think it's cool when the head of the Olympic committee makes his announcement and the screen is divided with a camera on the crowds in each of the finalist cities. (If that makes sense.)
• I've said it before: Those Bill Curtis commercials for AT&T Internet services are weirdly uncomfortable.
• Fox 4's Dan Godwin is really beginning to get on my nerves.
• Michael Jackson's autopsy revealed he was 5'9".
• Holdout Michael Crabtree has now proven that he's the dumbest man of America. I don't ever remember a drafted NFL player not signing and then going back into the following year's draft. Who would touch him next year?
• I ran across four goth kids while jogging yesterday. One was an angry female teenager with jet black hair, black eye shadow, and a I-Hate-The-World attitude.
• This week I met what might be the hottest 40 something in the history of ever.
• MzChief's comparison of the FBI's stopping of the teenager from "blowing up" a building in Dallas to cops stopping a guy from killing me didn't make sense. (It's in the comments under yesterday's Random Thoughts.) That hypothetical arrestee could actually do what he planned. The Dallas teenager could not.
• Fell asleep last night to Sarah McLaughlin singing live on Austin City Limits. Nice.
• Just released: Unemployment is now at 9.8%. That's up from last month. This Recession isn't over yet.

The Big News On Friday Is . . .

Link.

The Book Cover Is Now Amongst Us

Thank god she has that lapel pen on.

"The room is spinning because of all of the gayness." - Ricky Bobby

A voter-approved state constitutional amendment and the Texas Family Code prohibit same-sex marriages or civil unions. And the Texas attorney general had intervened in the two men’s divorce case, arguing that since a gay marriage isn’t recognized in Texas, a Texas court can’t dissolve one through divorce.

But Dallas state District Judge Tena Callahan ruled Thursday that the state's bans on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law.

Story. Edit: Here's a bombshell: Bud Kennedy reported that the judge represented the two men as their attorney in 1999 in this case.

Thursday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Britney in Target.

I Bring You: The SMU Pony Boys!!!!

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As Much As ESPN Beats Me Down, This Is Pretty Funny

The PeopleOfWalmart.Com . . .

. . . just keeps on bringing it.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• After watching the Cowboys on Monday night, I was reminded how much ESPN's Chris Berman sucks the life force out of me.
• Walked by a pharmacy in a grocery store last night and saw the longest line ever.
• I've never had a flu shot.
• GM's Saturn line was going to be sold to Penske, but not anymore. That line of car is officially dead.
• I like the words "strong cold front."
• I'm surprised we haven't broken out into a crazed Swine Flu Panic.
• Sarah Palin's new book is #1 on pre-orders on Amazon? Do we need to know anything else about the state of America?
• I've stopped watching DVDs.
• This blog got mentioned in jury selection on Tuesday by a potential juror in the Wise County Court at Law. That also got the person struck off the panel by one of the lawyers. (I wasn't there.)
• Some people start off everyday with a Facebook update of, "Everyone make it a great day!!!" I'm not one of those kind of people.
• Did you know Marion Barber left the stadium on Monday night after he was told he wouldn't play due to injury. Then Wade Phillips lied to the media about it on Tuesday.
• I'm still amazed everyone thinks the arrest of the 19 year old "terrorist" in Dallas is a huge victory on the War on Terror. Don't you think if the Feds dedicated a krillion dollars to monitoring white supremacy chat rooms they could at least find one teenage idiot who, after weeks and weeks of coaxing, would agree to park a free fake car bomb at, say, a Grambling State game?
• Ken Burns has a new series on PBS about our National Parks. I blew by it last night and got sucked in for about 45 minutes. Now I'm mad at myself for not visiting even more of America.
• If you like high school football screw ups, I've got a doozy for you: Fast forward to around 1:20 if you don't want a big set up. Man, oh man.
• China had a military parade yesterday. Wow, they are impressive. And I think Vegas would make them the favorite in a war with us.

ESPN and The Mexican

This is weird. A buddy of mine pointed out a very odd "rule" in a long set of rules in a sports game hosted by ESPN.com. The game seems fairly simply, keep alive the longest streak of winning predictions on particular games (i.e. which team will win) or propositions (i.e. will the first points be a TD or a field goal). How to play the game here. But when he looked at the official rules, (you know that boilerplate stuff about how employees and family members of ESPN are ineligible, blah, blah, blah), he ran across Rule 14.4: What's up with that?

Breaking Up The Routine

Wednesday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Shakira say's that she was bored by that last Second Amendment post.

Hold On To Your Guns

The Supreme Court, with that new "liberal wienie" Justice Sotomayer, today has agreed to hear a case concerning an issue I suspect most of you didn't even think existed: Does the Second Amendment's "Right to Bear Arms" apply to the states and local municipalities. Stay with me here. The Second Amendment says "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" But the problem is that when the Bill of Rights was first enacted, all the amendments applied to the federal government and not the States. No one disputes that, and the First Amendment, for example, even starts out with "Congress shall make no law . . . . " Let that sink in. In the beginning, the Constitution did not prevent a city, state, or county from preventing a citizen from speaking his mind, preventing a defendant from having a jury trial, or banning any newspaper. There might have been other laws enacted by the states that would provide that protection, but the Constitution didn't help out. But after states and local governments began trampling on its citizens, the Supreme Court began considering whether the Bill of Rights could, in some form or fashion, be used to prevent states, cities, counties, and any public subdivision from committing civil rights violations. Here is where your head will spin: So began a series of cases using the "Incorporation Doctrine" which decided, on a right by right basis, whether that right "applied to the States through the enactment of the 14th Amendment." If you want to research that, go ahead. Basically, it says that the 14th Amendment sucks out some, if not all, of the first ten amendments and makes them applicable to the states. Call it mental gymnastics or judicial activism or just plain craziness, but you can't take a Con Law class without studying it. But, like I said, the Court has previously made those decisions on a right by right basis (freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, right to counsel, etc.) But as of 2009, I think there are currently only two rights in the Bill of Rights that the Supreme Court has not decided whether they "apply to the States." The first one is the right to a Grand Jury indictment (which doesn't matter to Texas because Texas law requires that anyway) and the other is the Right to Bear Arms in the Second Amendment. Yep, this Supreme Court is going to decide whether the Second Amendment prevents, for example, the State of Texas, the City of Decatur, or Wise County from enacting laws that would ban gun possession. (If the Second Amendment doesn't apply, that doesn't mean all guns are automatically banned. It just means that states and local governments are free to enact any law they want concerning the right to own or possess a gun.) Think it's impossible for the Supreme Court to rule that the Second Amendment doesn't apply to all aspects of government? Justice Sotomayor and a the Second Circuit Federal Appeals Court have already done just that. Annie, get your gun.