Friday Morning Pick Me Up

The hot wife of new University of Tennessee football coach, Lane Kiffin. Makes me want to volunteer.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Yeah, Indian Girl two days in a row. But I love her.
• Still don't care anything about American Idol.
• I ate one Lean Cuisine meal and one can of soup yesterday. That pretty much filled me up.
• Yesterday, across the country, 828 lawyers at the biggest law firms in the nation were laid off because of the recession.
• Did you see the picture of the crazy lady who gave birth to eight rug rats before she bingoed? Oh, my.
• I slept through my alarm today.
• Every person on probation in Wise County pays $60 a month in probation fees. I wonder if the probation departments budget is a public record? I'd like to know.
• Most police sketches of subjects don't look very human.
• I don't know why anyone cares about the Mavericks. There is a 100% chance that if they make the playoffs they will be gone in the first round - second round tops.
• 49 people die in a plane crash in upstate New York last night. Get this: There was a female pilot at the helm.

Limited Interest

But I liked it. This has to be the craziest end to a high school game ever. A multitude of technical fouls gave both teams a TON of free throws at the end of the game. But for one guy in the white jersey, he found himself at the free throw line with 18 (yep, 18!!) free throws to shoot with his team down by 11 points with 12 seconds to go. Good times.

Made Me Laugh

A rare "go there" link entitled "A Valentine's Idea For Those Of You Who Despise Your Girlfriend" which is Dallas Cowboys related. And the third comment was gold.

I'm Stunned By This

Since 2001-2002 there have been more Hispanics enrolled in Texas schools than Whites. I'm not stunned that the trend is increasing. But the pure number of enrolled Whites is declining? (Graph via Bud Kennedy's Twitter feed.)

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Yesterday I mentioned that Sirius Satellite Radio was down to 11 cents a share. Now they are worth 5.5 cents a share. But good news: If they declare bankruptcy they can void Howard Sterns $100 million a year contract.
• If I ever get a senior citizen in my office who has been recently arrested, I'm normally in for a pretty entertaining time.
• A huge beat down: Yesterday's Congressional panel of show boaters grilling bank CEOs. It's all about sound bites and nothing more.
• And what do you think the head of Wells Fargo was thinking as he had to sit there getting yelled at? It's true that the bank didn't even ask for the bailout money.
• If the banks aren't loaning money, they are not making money. Are there failures on the horizon?
• I was behind a young girl yesterday on 287 who came inches from going off the pavement. She was texting.
• But it would be dumb to have a law against texting. We've got a law against reckless driving. And if we have a specific law for texting, we need one for radio station changing, newspaper reading, and putting on make up.
• I was desperately out of gas this morning and couldn't find my wallet. I finally rounded up three $1 bills that I had to sheepishly hand to the gas clerk.
• Now that the Stimulus Package has passed, does the far right wing want the economy to fail? (That's the same logic that Rush/Hannity fired off when they said that those that oppose the war in Iraq wanted the carnage over there to continue so public support would drop.)
• "Police in the South Carolina county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the superstar swimmer, a lawyer for one arrested person said Thursday." You've got to be kidding. If they arrested Phelps it would be ridiculous to be "arresting people" on the fringe? Cops Gone Wild.
• I've got Sicko by Michael Moore on top of my DVD player that I need to watch.
• You cannot turn on a premium movie channel without the spare movie Breach being played.
• I finally got signed up for the Cowtown Half Marathon. A buddy of mine is running his first full marathon at the same time.
• Danica Patrick new swimsuit photo spread in Sports Illustrated. I still hate her.

The Cleanse: Day 10 (The Final Day)

• Finally!!
• I think my bathroom scale is screwed up. I can't believe my weight remained constant for the last three days and then suddenly drops 3.5 pounds on the final day.
• It truly became a contest of mind over body. I liked that. And I won't lie, the fact that I publicized my plight here was a heck of a motivation.
• That might be a good trick if you want to try the program: Tell as many people as you can that you are doing the program.
• Should you do it? I guess it depends on your personality. I found it to be an almost spiritual experience.
• What will I eat now? Probably soup today. Maybe some type of Lean Cuisine.
• I cannot believe I went 10 days without food.

Mood: Triumphant Feeling: Great Weight Loss: 9.0 lbs

"Outside Of IGA in Decatur"

(Thanks emailer Tyler) Edit: Minutes later, emailer Adam sent the pic below. (I'm posting it as the silver medal winner.)

Open Your Wallets

The crazy mother-of-14-Angelina-Jolie-wannabe has a new web site where you can give her money. (Either that, or someone has a heck of a scam going on.) (Thanks emailer Rhonda)

Obama Causes Another Crack In Bush's Old School Form Of Secret Government

Story.

Don't Laugh. Seriously. Stop It.

There's so much to see here. Bike damage. Van damage. Human projectile damage. And then you notice the kids in driveway waiting for their "cool friend" to do the jump. Edit: MzChief says this is from a movie. Ugh. Still funny, though. Edit #2: And the movie didn't exactly wow the critics:

Oh, My

A Tarrant Couny Sheriff's van, apparently full of inmates, has overturned on Loop 820. That TxDot picture shows a row of ambulances lined up. Edit: And the author of the A Word To The Wise . . . County blog took this pic today:

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• I saws a blurb about former Bush Attorney General (and constitution stomper) Alberto Gonzales not being able to find a job. But I couldn't confirm that.
• Everyone tells me to get satellite radio, but I wonder if there will be any satellite radio. Sirius is on the verge of bankruptcy with it's stock selling at 11 cents a share.
• Watching the weather last night on Fox 4, they kept asking one of the weather guys what was going on itn the "chat session". I think they were referring to some chat area controlled by the National Weather Service, but it sure sounds funny.
• Last night's storms were intense but very brief. Just like many marriages.
• Great line from a family member on the concept of Project Graduation: "Why do we have to bribe kids to do what they are supposed to do anyway?"
• Everywhere I go, girl scouts or harassing me to buy cookies.
• Texas Tech and Texas have agreed to move their Big 12 football game to a prime time national telecast on September 19th. I like Tech, but that could be a blood bath at the hands of the Evil Empire. The game is in Austin, Tech is rebuilding, Texas is loaded, and revenge is in the air.
• Decatur ISD is installing flat screen TVs for the purpose of displaying generic school announcements?
• A Fort Worth district judge resigns because $140,000 a year just isnt' enough. These are indeed tough times.
• I once said, "We can't do that. It would open up a can of Pandora's boxes." The room then stopped down and stared at me.
• First the crazy bank bailout by Bush, now the crazy stimulus package by Obama, and now we're moving back to the banks to bail them out again. Can't we just let everything implode and start over?
• Our state government got to kill someone last night. His last words: "My only statement is that no cases ever tried have been error-free. Those are my words. No cases are error-free." Huh?

The Cleanse: Day 9

• I see the finish line, and I'm excited.
• The program, amazingly, gets easier as the days go by. I'm rarely hungry, and I'm certain I could do this for another week. But there's no way I will.
• I'm kind of surprised about losing only 5.5 lbs, but I really didn't have that much to lose to start with. But my clothes are incredibly loser. (Most people lose in excess of 10.)
• Someone wrote yesterday that it was a "waste" since I had loss 5.5 lbs of "pure muscle." Hey, I didn't have 5.5 lbs of muscle to start with.
• But, once again, this was not about weight loss. It was about cleansing, And, trust me, that has been accomplished.
• I've been 100% faithful to the program. There has not been one piece of food of any type that has entered my mouth in nine days.
• Although I appreciate all the advice, there sure are a lot of experts out there.
• The program says that I should start easing out of the program by only drinking orange juice on Day 11. Riiiiiiiiiiight.
• I've continued my routine of jogging every other day without difficulty.
• My Dallas nemeses emailed me yesterday and told me she was sick with the flu. Karma!
• I had some funny text messages from an unfamiliar number last night telling me that he/she was eating Tacos al Carbon at Posada's. The last one was signed "Double Fake Reverse Text Heckler."

Mood: Ecstatic Feeling: 99% of normal Weight loss: 5.5 lbs

Does This Cross Dressing Bank Robber . . .

. . . look like a man who would reside in Wise County and be a registered sex offender? Why, yes, it does.

Since I Am The Wise County Pete Delkus

I am predicting a tornado will not hit Wise County. This prediction does not include an area east of New Fairview. I'll get back to you on that.

Tuesday Afternoon Pick Me Up

This is the gal who is on the cover of Sport Illustrated this week. I think I speak for all guys when I say that her name is not important. We'll just call her future Mrs. Green #8.

Things I Learned Why Drinking My Lunch

This post isn't my normal course of hard hitting journalism, just something that I found interesting. While reading this week's issue of Time magazine at lunch -- what some would call the Liberal Media or Drive By Media -- I came across this story. Pretty fascinating about how a little computer program called Auto-Tune has tricked up popular music to make it sound perfect. "Right now, if you listen to pop, everything is in perfect pitch, perfect time," say producer Rick Rubin. "That's how ubiquitous Auto-Tune has become." I used to gripe to my significant other that I hate bands like Nickelback or Linkin Park because they sounded so "over produced." It was the only way I could describe what I was hearing -- it was as if something wasn't right. Now I know why.