Walk By This Every Day In Decatur

If I had caught all of it, you would see that it reads "Please God show me how to help my liberal friends to think RIGHT."

"Excuse Me A Minute"

Kind of funny yesterday.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Can we have this morning weather every morning? Fantastic.
• "Tomorrow we'll take the dog out and talk some more like we always do. But this time even longer." - Second grader to me last night. Awwww.
• Cowboys' prediction = Win. Arkansas prediction = Close but no cigar. Rangers' prediction = I'm still confident.
• Might have to break down and get a new/used/whatever car for Mrs. LL today. Her's is close to giving up the ghost. (As vain as I am, I've never cared much for what I drive.)
• Bridgeport motorcycle death. Awful.
• Late Saturday night I heard loud music coming from down the street. I'm not irritated but I am nosy so I grab the new pooch and walk around the block looking for the source. I think I've found it when I look back and see the pooch take off like a rocket the other way and around the corner. I take off running after her in a panic because I'm a dead man if I lose the dog. Fortunately, she was sitting at the front door without a care in the world when I get back to the house. Dumb dog. Smart dog.
• Those miners are still trapped in Chile.
• The commercial where the tiny giraffe kisses the rich guy on the cheek causing him to laugh crazily makes me giggle.
• I was sent to the grocery store to get "regular" Doritos. Talk about Confused Head as I stared at the chip aisle for five minutes. Did you know they stop making them years ago? But apparently the default regular Doritos are now nacho cheese flavor -- at least to someone in the household. (I bought Tostitos to the chagrin of the Family Unit.)
• I think the Rangers won the East, but Josh Hamilton (because of his addiction problem) had to stay away from the clubhouse where champagne was flowing. If you listen to that guy talk, you can tell his brain is fried.
• Does Roy Williams performance for the Cowboys make me think he's great? Nope. Makes me think how he must be dogging it 90% of the time. 
• Oklahoma is a 4 point favorite over Texas. They both look awful. 
• Stephen Colbert testifying before Congress on Friday is the closest thing to Idiocracy that I've seen. And I don't think that guy is funny for a second. Jon Stewart, yes. Colbert, no.
• Guy in wheelchair gets run over in Florida game. 

Above The Fold

The Death Star Got Hit!

The last time UCLA came to Austin they won 66-3 in 1997.  I'm guessing Burnt Orange Nation thinks this is worse.

And UCLA only passed eight times. At one point, they ran the ball seventeen straight times. Wow.

OU next week.

Bridgeport, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

Valley View at	19
Alvord	22
	FINAL
Boyd at	26
Pilot Point	27
	FINAL
Bridgeport at	27
Alvarado	35
	FINAL
Ranger at	35
Chico	13
	FINAL
Iowa Park at	28
Decatur	10
	FINAL
Northwest at	7
Denton Guyer	50
	FINAL
Paradise at	34
Nocona	14
	FINAL

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Free Lindsay!!!

She just got thrown in the hoosegow! (But I bet that in court video will be priceless.) She'll set there until a hearing next month regarding whether she violated probation.

Friday Morning Pick Me Up. Wait. What?

Sheesh! Finally we've got a super secret video released to the masses that proves you gals have been lying to us guys for years! Pregnancy is easy!

If This Is Real, It's Crazy

Kid is said to have survived. The other pictures are equally wild.

(Thanks, Lori.)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Lots of news stations ran a quick clip of the "botox bandit" because she was pretty hot in court. I'm pretty sure they ran it because, well, she was pretty hot in court. 
• Motorcycle death at Northside and Main in Fort Worth last night led to arrest for Intoxication Manslaughter.
• Mrs. LL had to go outside at 2:00 a.m. because the dog needed to "potty". I just had to take a break because the cat was tearing up a kitchen table flower arrangement.
• All of a sudden I have a desire to see the movie Pet Cemetery.
• Saw a press release yesterday where TXI lost a big bag of money last quarter. Is it still a big player over in Bridgeport?
• Cowboys Stadium is turning into the premiere season opening venue for college football. Likely to open the 2012 season: Alabama v. Michigan.
• I don't think I've watched a season premiere of a new sitcom in years, but I caught Outsourced last night that came on right after The Office. The premise? A young American is shipped off to India to manage the telephone help center for a U.S. novelty company. Verdict: Really, really funny.
• And I love how NBC promoted it. The show fired up the second The Office ended with no commercials and then ran 20 straight minutes without any other commercial break. 
• Did you know a second grader can talk your ear off?
• Boy, I was wrong about the "dog scent lineup" case making the news. I haven't seen it anywhere. 
• More lack of class from Dallas DA Craig Watkins in a debate yesterday when asked about the difference between himself and his opponent: "I have a backbone and a brain."
• There was a bad wreck that shut down 114 at FM 51 yesterday evening, but I have no other details.
• An H-E-B grocery store is opening in Burleson today. You go to Waco and on southward and you'll see them everywhere.
• Elton John is playing at the Tarrant County Convention Center in November? That just seems weird.
• I've always been skeptical of the "consultant" and UNT just paid one $2,000 a day for this.
• Hot sports opinions: Rangers lose in first playoff series. Cowboys win this weekend. Arkansas beats Alabama.
• Edit: I forgot to mention that the death of Eddie Fisher was all over the news this morning, and CNN even made it "breaking news." I'll admit, I've never heard of him. 

Ironically, Facebook Has Crashed This Afternoon

Forbes announced it's annual 400 Richest Americans list today. Oh, to be 26 and a billionaire.

Edit: And by "crashed" I mean Facebook was down for an extended period this afternoon.

Edit: Funniest Tweets about the downtime here. Example:

Get Me This Tattoo!!!

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• It was a cleaning frenzy in my house last night. Yay! Benefits!!! (Then again, how did it get so messy in the first place?)
• KFC pays college girls to wear pants that say "double down" on their booties to promote their crazy sandwich?
• The local Fox weather guy this morning in reference to the "double down" story: "I'm not going to say a thing because whatever it is, I'll get in trouble for it."
• The new kitten is bi-polar. We should get along fine.
• That looked like a pretty good collision yesterday in Decatur when a couple of teenagers decided to run into each other.
• Saw that Michael Douglas was on the cover of People with a headline about his cancer battle. Awful thought: What if he is overstating his health condition just to promote his new Wall Street movie?
• That was one very intense and very brief storm that blew through Decatur yesterday.
• The Shell convenience store across from James Wood Motors has to be the worst managed place ever. It seems like half the pumps don't have gas most of the time and several of the screens are absolutely unreadable. And it's been that way for a awhile 
• Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy this morning.
• Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis at movie premiere in same dress. (As in two dresses that look the same.) Still kind of hot.
• Someone commented yesterday that there is no way that Dallas could beat the Houston Texans this weekend. No way? Hey, this isn't Baylor going to Austin. It's the NFL where there are no sure things. 
• There was news yesterday that Fox had cancelled the new DFW filmed TV show Lone Star after one episode. That turned out not to be true, but most expect it to happen after the second episode. Short. Leash.
• Dallas DA Craig Watkins is unveiling an ad attacking his opponent for representing someone on a felony charge? Really? 
• "Rollback" Fail that I saw at Walmart last night. Edit: This will help.

Boyd turf from sky

Texas Justice

I bet this is going to make the news today. The guy above was convicted of murder and sentenced to 75 years in prison. The first appeals court affirmed the conviction.

Today, Texas' highest criminal court, which is sickeningly conservative, actually reversed the conviction and ordered him set free.

The opinion ends with: "It cannot be denied that the jury and the court of appeals found the dog-scent lineup evidence in this case to be compelling. In 2004, two different dogs alerted only to the scents of appellant's son and daughter. In 2007, three different dogs alerted only to appellant's scent. But, the question essentially presented in this case is whether dog-scent lineup evidence alone can support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. And, while this evidence may raise a strong suspicion of appellant's guilt, we nevertheless decide that, standing alone, it is insufficient to establish a person's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."

A "dog-scent lineup"? That was it? Really? How scary.

The Perfect Video

Hot chicks running in high heels with a comedy ending.  Even James Cameron couldn't envision something like that.

I Wonder If There Is Any Truth

Story.   The story is that it wouldn't happen this week but would if they lose to the Texans and go to 0-3.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Someone emailed me this video in the middle of the night adding that they think they found one of my ex-wives. 
• Kids in the house cause strange neighbor kids to start hanging around. Who are these people?
• The Chico Dragons haven't won in their last 20 football games in a row. 
• Mrs. LL's car is making a weird noise. Kill me.
• It's amazing how your first place Texas Rangers became and afterthought once football season started. (And their magic number after the last three games has been 6, 6 and 6. Uh. Oh.)
• Heidi Montag in a bikini again.
• Watched a little bit of the Channel 8 morning news show this morning. That group has the worst chemistry ever. And Cynthia Izaguirre drives me nuts with her "serious news woman" reading voice.
• Jay Leno actually had a funny line last night about the Iranian president saying Iran will lead the world "into the future" at the UN yesterday: "He would have elaborated, but he had a stoning he had to get to," Leno said.
• I would think the funeral for the trooper killed in Montague a couple of days ago will be quite the production. 
• Whenever I see former UN Ambassador John Bolton on TV, I know I'm about to hear some Crazy Talk.
• Fox News is already going bonkers over this quote from President Obama in a new book coming out:  "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger." Not sure what the big deal is. 
• I'm glad easily injured baseball players don't play football, they'd be in intensive care (with Josh Hamilton and Ian Kinsler having full time rooms.)
• Lady with baby gets in fight on bus. Idiocracy.