As A Follow Up To My Hot Economic Opinion This Morning . . .

. . . comes this news just released: Get ready, people. (From the Dallas Business Journal.) Edit: Hey, a new one added late in the day: Edit again: CNN has referred to this as "Bloody Monday" with even more layoffs than documented here. (Credit: Found that link at another Wise County blog here.)

And Another

Link.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I saw Revolutionary Road last night. It starred Kate Winslet, Leonardo DeCaprio, and Kathy Bates ---- it took me a second to realize that it was darn near the entire cast of Titanic.
• Line of the movie when referring to our daily grind of getting up and doing the same thing: "Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness." (Yep, this is a recurring theme with me.)
• Woah! The new weather girl on Fox 4's morning news, Fiona Gorostiza, has arrived. Very hawt. Watch her dance, yep dance, here.
• So this morning there was Megan Henderson, Krystle Gutierrez, and Gorostiza all on the same show. Mercy.
• If I were a hot girl (stay with me here), I think I'd walk around the mall just to catch people looking at me.
• Light freezing rain tonight and tomorrow? From the NWS: "Freezing Rain Advisory in effect from 6 PM this evening to 6 am CST Tuesday... Winter Storm Watch in effect from Tuesday morning through late Tuesday night."
• Women are confusing.
• I still think an economic crisis - far worse than anything we've seen -- is coming later this year.
• Just your average college basketball face stomp over the weekend.
• Had a friend say that we should follow "Me Love You Long Time" as a cute Asian girl walked past us (we were trying to find an exit.)
• I heard The Knack's other hit "Good Girls Don't" last night on the radio for the first time in I bet 20 years.
• Good grief. Paul Blart: Mall Cop was at the top of the box office again. They'll probably have Mall Cop 2 out by the end of the summer.
• Will this story never end? One private school beat another private school 100-0. Nothing happens for 10 days until the Dallas Morning News printed a front page story about it. Six days later, the winning coach was fired. And the losing team has been glorified somehow.
• I watched a little of the Senior Bowl this weekend -- enough to see Tech's Graham Harrell play awful. And I mean badly.
• I have no interest in the Fort Worth Stock Show.

In Case You Missed It . . .

. . . and everybody did, Miss Indiana became Miss America 2009 this weekend. And Miss Texas didn't even get into the Top 15. How far the Texas Hotness Factor has fallen. Edit: Hey, Now.

Random High School Sports Excerpt

I'm not sure I've ever seen high school crowd harassment acknowledged in a story before. But I could be wrong. (Collin White is from Bridgeport.)

Future Mrs. Greens

Sure you laugh. Until the 1:00 minute mark. Edit: At least one person claims it won't play. Direct link is here.

Random Tonya Harding Pic

Decatur Beggar Spotted Today In Decatur

(Thanks emailer.)

Cool

You start with this: And you can zoom in this close: If you want to play around with an amazing "scan and zoom" pic from the inauguration, click here.

Decatur's Friday Fast Food Crisis

The humanity! Line around Whataburger drive though at least four cars deep to order: Taco Bell stacked up:

Friday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Plastic Chairs Injured At Australian Open

Although I refuse to watch tennis unless it's Wimbledon and I'm sitting on my couch in my underwear on the 4th of July weekend, I was pretty excited when someone promoted this clip as a "near riot" happening outside the Australian Open. My disappointment level, however, couldn't be greater. That's a fight? Throwing plastic chairs at each other from 10 yards away? Sheesh. I've cleared the bar at Frilly's with more violence than that. And what's up with the fat man in the yellow shirt? He can shut down the whole fight just by raising his hand? He should have just held up one of those "Quiet" signs you see at a golf tourney -- I think the hooligans would have run away at the sight of it.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Just knowing it's Friday is-a-good.
• Regarding the suppression of the blood results in the judge's case mentioned below, the prosecution can still try the case. But it would be a weird trial because both sides would have to pretend in front of the jury that the request for blood never happened.
• The State can appeal the judge's ruling to suppress the blood results -- and trust me, they will. It's one of the few appellate rights the government has. For instance, the government can never appeal a "not guilty" verdict.
• The judge ruled that the affidavit which gave rise to the search warrant for blood was insufficient. Honestly, it would be hard to screw one of those up. Most are cookie cutter forms which have check boxes for signs of intoxication (i.e. bloodshot eyes, red and glassy eyes, smell of alcohol, staggered walk, slurred speech, etc.)
• I once saw the judge that recused himself in the case catch a plastic replica of the female genitalia in the hallway of the Tarrant County DA's office. (Crazy story that would take too long to explain.)
• I would like to be the official White House photographer.
• I think a blog that covered nothing but what was going on in the Wise County courthouse on a daily basis would be very popular.
• Reunion Tower in Dallas was opened in 1978. I've been to the top of it once.
• I don't want to get old but I look forward to the day where my actions can be excused because I'm just "old and crazy." And, man, I'm going to milk that for all it's worth.
• If I could go back to school, I might major in History. If you can fire off a bunch of history in any conversation, you sound pretty dang smart.
• There are very few people in this world that I "connect" with. But my internal reaction makes me smile when I see them -- like we both have a funny story to tell each other even though we don't.
• I could do this: Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter is building a 31,000 square foot house on land he bought for $6 million. And he didn't take out a mortgage.

Uh, Oh

Right or wrong, I don't think this is going to sit to well with the general public. Story. (Thanks, Kevin.)

Thursday Afternoon Pick Me Up

This may be my greatest Pick Me up of all time. I'm so proud of myself that I'm having my secretary create a Certificate Of Achievement In The Field Of Finding Hot Women. (Note: I think I've got that saved under the folder, "Me Loves Me Some Me.") And I think I'll put a Paypal button on this blog so you guys (and select gals) can send me buckets of cash for making your life better today. And, man, I'm a fan of the shiny bikini.

Does This Look Like A Wise County Family . . .

. . . that would be arrested for meth? I wonder which one has the most remorse? And that one on the lower right kind of looks like the actor from Speed Racer and Alpha Dog.

Big 12 Humor

You really need to be a college football fan and be familiar with the Big 12 to enjoy it, but if you qualify: Here is Hitler's rant. (Thanks emailer.)

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• I'll be glad when the week is over.
• The wreck that took the life of the Decatur teen yesterday was so odd. No collision with another vehicle. Open and wide road. No intersection.
• And I saw where the Decatur Football Banquet has been postponed. I'm sure it's because of the accident.
• I get tired of all the commercials telling me to invest in gold. (Hey, the fact that it is "near and all time high" is a bad thing.)
• Lost tried to bring everyone up to date with a one hour show last night at 7:00 p.m. Despite having seen the first season, I could only think, "Craziest show ever." Uh, they moved the island?
• The chances of me talking on the phone after I leave the office for the day is easily less than 5%.
• I really get excited when one of the national networks abruptly breaks into regular programming with "breaking news." Not this local "breaking news" crap, but with real stop down news. It happens maybe three times a year.
• Watched Office Space again last weekend. I hit replay on the "show her my O face" scene a couple of times.
• I programmed my home DVR over the Internet from the office yesterday to record the local news about the local tragedy/wreck.
• When I click on a video from a news web site, I'll put up with a commercial that lasts no longer than 15 seconds. If it's 30 seconds, I'm out.
• The nominees for the most over-rated award were announced this morning: The Academy Awards. By the way, the over-rated Dark Knight received no nominations in the top categories other than Heath Ledger. And Clint Eastwood didn't get nominated for saying "get off my lawn" (yeah!!!!!!!!!).
• I think I've lost a little weight.
• I like it when I pass toddlers on the street and they scream "Hi!!!!" at me.
• Funniest scene in a DWI video I watched the other day. An arrested and angry female asks the trooper if he's married. Trooper responds that he is. Female looks away and sarcastically says under her breath, "Luuuuuucky gal."
• Yep, Obama had to be sworn in again. It wasn't necessary but it's the only way to shut up the wackos. But I wonder if he went back and re-signed the handful of documents that he signed on Tuesday?
• But the Drudge Report has a headline screaming this morning that "No Bible Was Used" during the do over. The entire right wing may suffer from a collective heart attack before the week is over because of the Obama presidency.
• I've not had a Big Mac in over a decade. Maybe 15 years.
• Amazing stat: Fort Worth had the fewest number of homicides in 40 years last year. With more people, more guns, and more general craziness, how is that possible? You know what Freakonmics attributes the lower crime rate to? Roe v. Wade.