Dirty, Dirty Fox News

The first part of the clip shows Obama reading a question (and answering it) at a town hall meeting. The last part of the clip shows how Fox News cuts up the tape to give the impression that Obama held the belief of the question. Shocking. And I've been told to only worry about the "liberal media." Source.

Happened Today

Come on, how can you not like the guy? (Especially at the 35 second mark.)

Something happened. I'm out of office.

Afternoon Pick Me Up : Going Old School

Taken From Some Where In Wise County

And emailed in. Is that a Crown Victoria owned by Victoria who crowned it her secret?

Update

Recall James Carroll Franklin who last January, moments before he would have learned that the jury was to grant him probation in our Wise County district court after a drug conviction, bolted from the courthouse and headed to the hills. He was caught a short time later. (We don't have hills nearby.) The next day the judge granted him the probation that the jury had dictated, but required him to spend 180 days in the Wise County Jail. Well, I learned today that the defendant actually appealed the sentence (his right) and was released on an appeal bond (required). Now I don't want second guess anyone, but do you really want to appeal a probated sentence when the range of punishment was from five years to life? (Side note: If the appeal was only about the sufficiency of the evidence, the appeal would make sense: The appellate court could only affirm the conviction or acquit the defendant. It could not require a new trial.) Anyway, it looks like the defendant didn't pay his lawyer (who was also his bondsman) and a warrant was issued once the lawyer "went off the bond." The appellate court also ordered a hearing in the district court to determine if the defendant actually wished to pursue his appeal. It was scheduled for this morning but I've got a feeling the defendant won't make it.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• The Swine Flu issue: Hey, people! Everyone who has contracted it in the U.S. simply gets sick and then gets better.
• Getting in your car this morning was a greater risk to your life than the Swine flu.
• Anybody else question whether 152 people have really died from that flu in Mexico?
• I never get a flu shot.
• Those paper masks? Do they work? I wouldn't think so.
• The 41 year old hot swimmer from last year's Olympics, Dara Torres, has written a book that she she promoted on WBAP this morning: Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams At Any Stage In Your Life. Seriously, what could she possibly say that hasn't been said? And what if I dream to be an Olympic swimmer, can I "achieve" that "dream", too?
• And did her book publisher pay WBAP a fee for that 5 minute commercial described as an interview?
• Someone emailed me and said they saw the Decatur Beggar outside of Vista Ridge Mall over the weekend.
• Someone also emailed me that he saw a pickup in Boyd with a bumper sticker that read, "I Voted For The White Guy."
• Both apologized for not getting a pic.
• Some spare guy doesn't get drafted by the NFL last weekend and some blog posts a bunch of pics of his very hot sister. I love the Internet.
• Cancer is horrible. Every time I see a human interest story on the news about some guy battling the disease (and I saw one last night), you know they aren't going to win. I'll go back to a Dale Hansen quote: "My ex-wife lost her battle with cancer this year because it wasn't a fair fight."
• Heck, even I would have been freaked out if I had seen the airliner flying low over Manhattan with a fighter jet behind it.
• A guy was arrested for stealing Huggies in Grapevine. Anybody else thinking of the line, "I'll be taking these Huggies and any cash ya got."

Maybe Monday Is Good TV Night

Gov. Perry is moderating a panel discussion tonight in Garland about Obama's first 100 days in office. Bud Kennedy sends along this pic "30 minutes before showtime" via his Twitter feed. "The event, expected to draw as many as 3,000 people, is one in a series of events Perry is using to reach out to the more conservative wing of the GOP on his path to a 2010 re-election bid expected to include a primary battle against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison."

Love That Chicken From Pop Eye's

I've never ran a TV news room but lord knows that I could. If someone ran this clip past me before air time, I'm pretty sure I might grab a the female reporter by the neck and ask, "You couldn't find one white person to interview? Do you understand what a sterotype is? Do you understand that this is going to end up on youtube for promoting racial sterotypes? Do you want to come over to my place on Saturday if you're not doing anything? Wait. Forget that." And then, after it ran, I'd personally go fire the anchor for the intro when she said, "Tonight customers were clucking their disaproval."

We Are Losing The War On The Pig Flu!!!!!

It's gonna be panic! Panic, I tell you!!!!!

Speaking Of Needing A Cheeseburger

Lindsay Lohan is skinny.

Monday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Just Saw This In Time

"Unlike many other young Marines, Lance Corporal William Allen, 26, who appeared on Time's cover in 2005 (above), joined the military the day before 9/11. But like many who fought in Iraq, Allen suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He died [last week] of a drug overdose after self-medicating."

Radio News

I don't listen to The Bone because I got sick of the stuff they play when it first came out a krillion years ago, but if you liked The Bone, bad news: It's not The Bone anymore. I bet radio is a brutal business.

Art and Death

This picture was on the front page of the Messenger this week and there's no question the angle was intentional in order to get the billboard in the background. It's kind of a contrast between birth and death especially since the fatality involved a very elderly individual. I really don't have any problem with that at all. Edit: I'll be. He says it wasn't intentional.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Anyone else remember when Southlake had that small Dairy Queen on the right off of 114?
• Swine Flu Pandemic: Panic, Overrated.
• There was an obituary this week in the Messenger of an elderly man but the photo that accompanied it was that of him as a young man. I used to have a problem with that. Now, I support it.
• The Rev. Jeremiah Wright was in Dallas last weekend. He managed to fire off, "Never had a black woman sleeping legally in the White House every night, and she doesn’t have to sneak in through the servant’s entrance." That guy has some hot sports opinions.
• I can't help but watch the NFL Draft every year, but it makes me uncomfortable. A bunch of rich, white owners deciding what healthy black men will work for them.
• Dumbest Cowboy pick: With a young, great kicker already on the roster with Nick Folk, Dallas drafts a kicker in the fifth round. (Although apparently he is so freakishly fast and strong that he might be able to play special teams)
• On the first day of the draft, ESPN had a camera on the Cowboys' "War Room". Everyone wore a dark suit except Coach Wade Phillips who wore a yellow shirt over his plump frame. He stuck out like a banana. The guy has no idea.
• "The Mexican" is on every movie channel all the time.
• Bea Arthur died this weekend. On The Ticket this morning they mentioned there was an episode of Maude where she had an abortion. Man, I had no idea. (Then they brought up that Edith in All In The Family was sexually assaulted in one episode.) I think they didn't understand "comedy" in the 1970s.
• I have never been remotely entertained by The Doors.
• I randomly clicked on an issue of The Spin from 2005 and saw this: "An inmate who was sentenced last week to at least 30 real years in prison commits suicide in the Wise County Jail." I have no memory of that. That kind of scares me.
• Underrated actor: Jason Statham.
• I watched Iron Man yesterday. I think my brain is programmed as such that I don't like Super Hero movies even if everyone else proclaims them as great.
• I've said it for years: A pitcher intentionally throwing at a batter (in the American League where the pitcher does not have to bat) is the most cowardly sports act in history.
• I didn't watch a second of NASCAR but the end at Tallagdegha was crazy. Carl Edwards car goes airborne into the chain link fence. Eight people were hurt but I'm still amazed that car didn't go into the stands.

Nothing To See Here

OK, this may be of extremely limited interest because it starts incredibly slow and the whole thing is only marginally funny. Frankly, I have no idea what the heck this is. But there is one part that made me laugh out loud: The Katie Couric segment which begins at 1:20 (although the "Angry Gorilla" across from Sean Hannity right before it did make me smile.)

Oh, My

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