Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

6.14.2006

"I Sooooo Wanna Go Back to Fox News!"

"White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, left, and White House Counselor Dan Barlett, ride in a military helicopter wearing helmets and flak jackets for a trip from Baghdad International Airport to U.S. Embassy in the Greenzone Tuesday, June 13, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Snow and Bartlett traveled with President Bush who made a surprise visit to Baghdad. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) "

Kudos To A Faithful Reader For Pointing This Out

From the Update today: "MEETING TODAY — There will be a meeting at noon today at Decatur City Hall for anyone interested in helping plan Wise County’s 150th sesquicentennial celebration."

Boy George is 45 Today

Gay?

Father's Day Thought

In Time magazine this week there is an article called "Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?" The author points out that our "memory" will seize on our most "powerful" images. He explains that a guy can sit through an 8 inning boring baseball game but if it ends with a home run in the bottom of the ninth, a glorious memory has been created and the boring eight innings are forgotten. And then he says this: "The . . . moment when our 3-year-old looks up from the mess she is making with her mashed potatoes and says, 'I wub you, daddy,' can erase eight hours of no, not yet, not now and stop asking. Children may not make us happy very often, but when they do, the happiness is . . . both transcendent [above and beyond the ordinary] and amnesic [allowing us to forgot the bad stuff]."

What's Next? Santa? The Easter Bunny?

I'm not into "Larry the Cable Guy" humor, but those that are will find this clip interesting. It's Larry before he found his Cable Guy sch tick. Git er.....uh.....life force draining now.

Rebecca Simpson Trial Begins

"Prosecutors in the solicitation of capital murder case against Rebecca Simpson began their case Tuesday by describing the privileged life they say she led as the wife of a prominent attorney in Bridgeport, a small town in Wise County. "'Rebecca Simpson was a woman who had it all,' said Tarrant County assistant district attorney Kim D’Avignon, mentioning Simpson’s two children and the large home she shared with her husband, Ross. 'She had a wonderful life, but it wasn’t enough for her.'" (Rest of Star Telegram story here) Edit: Comments temporarily disabled.

6.13.2006

The President's Surprise Visit To Iraq Today

Jon Stewart (of The Daily Show) said: "A few weeks after U.S. troops dropped two 500 pound surprises on al-Zarqawi , [uh, that was last week - but I digress] the White House dropped a 190 pound surprise on U.S. troops in the form of a presidential visit. Said the Iraqi Prime Minister to the President, 'If I had known you were coming I'd have built an infrastructure'." And, "A sign of progress will be when he can make announced visits."

Human Nature

I love this pic of Paris Hilton outside of the David Letterman Show yesterday. Not for her, but for the crowd. You know, those people weren't taking pictures to capture her image (there's tons of pics of Paris out there), they were taking them to prove they were that close to Paris.

This Has To Be A Baylor First

From the Morning News: TCU's football season opener at Baylor, originally scheduled for Sept. 2, has been moved to Sept. 3 to accommodate national television on Fox Sports Net. Kickoff will be at 4:30 p.m. CDT at Floyd Casey Stadium in Waco. For the first time in school history, TCU will have all its regular-season games on television. Five of those 12 contests will be seen nationally. September 3 is a Sunday. (I guess the NFL season will not have started yet.)

OK, I Shouldn't Do This (But I Can't Help Myself)

There's been a pretty big scandal about Heather Mill McCartney (who is getting divorced from the greatness that is Paul McCartney). Apparently one of the London tabloids discovered some pics of Heather from the 1980s where she was engaged in some soft porn. (And when she had both of her legs). I found one that was relatively safe (but don't click on it if you're gonna yell at me). For some reason, Heather must have been really, really bad because she's about to get a . . . oh . . . you know.

"Ann, You've Changed"

Henry Rollins' open letter to Ann Coulter. Who knew "F-Bomb" humor could be so funny? And, bruther, are there ever a couple of F-Bombs. Link. (The pic has nothing to do with the link. But it's funny.)

A Courthouse Worker . . .

. . . just asked me if I had ever seen the "arrow" in the Fed Ex logo. I'll swear, I had never seen it before.

Random

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Is It That Time Of Year?

Dave Campbell's Pre-Season Top 25 is out and two Wise County school's make the 2A group: 1. Tatum 2. Jefferson 3. Early 4. Lexington 5. Crawford 6. New Boston 7. Paradise 8. Hempstead 9. Marlin 10. Newton 11. Rice 12. Farmersville 13. Boyd 14. Lone Oak 15. Blanco 16. Mart 17. Henrietta 18. Arp 19. De Kalb 20. Stratford 21. Troy 22. Childress 23. Comfort 24. New Diana 25. Wall Source: The message boards over at FridayNightFever.net where those boys talk Wise County high school football 24/7.