More Cop Body Slamming

But since it's sand and she wouldn't stop trying to get away, I'll approve this one. And you can kind of see how a crowd could get out of hand in a hurry. (May be some language there at the end.)

Hudspeth from Bridgeport?

Edit: Must be a false alarm. Someone said Fox reported it was Bridgeport, but I haven't seen that.

Now For Something Completely Different

Imagine-a-jump-john-lennon-vs.-van-halen by jackstanleywp

David Lee Roth's vocals from "Jump" overlayed on John Lennon's "Imagine".  At first I thought it was a little bit of a stretch to say they matched up, then the chorus kicked in at the 44 second mark.

In Case You Missed It

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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Fatality accident on 380 near Krum this morning that shut down the highway. I always worry that it's a Wise County resident because I think we use that stretch more than anyone else. 
• The assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan occurred 30 years ago today. For me, that doesn't seem that long ago because I remember it. Kennedy's assassination, on the other hand, seems like a historical event that I can only read about. 
• Idiocracy:  Dallas radio station K104 has unveiled a new radio show called "Te Crazy Azz Morning Show."
• Chico school employees were told yesterday to expect a 5% pay cut across the board.
• Since my confrontation with the Neighbor Boys, things have been pretty quiet. I'm demanding my household thank me for 20 days of keeping them safe from attack.
• I told you I had a bad feeling about the Aggie/Baylor women's basketball game. The Lady Aggies beat them like a drum (with a smothering defense.)
• My prediction that the Rangers won't make the playoffs feels pretty good right now. That team has a bad vibe, and a bad pitching staff, coming out of spring training.
• The 5 Hour Energy Drink commercial where the guy says "Let's do this!" as he walks out the front door annoys me.
• The high school hockey brawl (which I still think I'm responsible for at least some of the local media explosion about) is a little odd because it was an amateur league that used high school team names. The UIL isn't involved at all. 
• But appropriate credit for the video: It looks like the first place it was posted was at Ellis County's The Observer on Monday night. 
• A school open house (went to one yesterday) makes me wonder how a teacher can keep a class of kids focused all day long. 
• I got my hair chopped off for summer yesterday but had to endure the chatty hair-cutter person. (Was it OK to pull out a short-haired-picture of myself on my phone to show her what I want to look like.)
• Lots of folks commented yesterday about the title of the Skip Hollandsworth article about the serial murderer "you've never heard of."  Hey, I had never heard about that story at all. 
• "Obese Ohio Man Found Fused To Chair He Sat In For Two Years." Ok, how many questions jump in  your mind right now? His live-in girlfriend called for help when he became unresponsive last weekend. Uh......girlfriend?
• Anyone have an opinion on Chuck Klosterman's series of books?
• The prosecutor in Willie Nelson's marijuana case might have been joking, but there's something amiss about his statement (other than proving he's a knucklehead): He said he would offer a plea bargain of a fine only if Willie would sing, and I quote, "Blue Eyes Smiling In The Rain" in open court. 
• College football fans: The Fiesta Bowl scandal that broke yesterday might be the beginning of the end of the BCS.
• The tweeting snake is still a funny bit. 

Edit: I'm killing any further Chico ISD posts. It's all been said, it's getting too personal, and some of the comments are pushing the envelope as to allegations.

I Wonder If I'm About To Start News?

This was posted on youtube yesterday, and I just saw it on a blog out of New York. Yep, New York. So far less than 400 hits.

We've got two metroplex high schools in the Texas State High School Championship of hockey and there is a vicious cheap shot. (The clip actually has two angles.)  I hear references to "blood" and that kid isn't moving. If he was seriously hurt (and even if he wasn't), I'm not sure why this isn't being covered by the local media.

P.S. Hey, teammates, way to stand around and do nothing after one of your own just got killed.

Edit: About two hours later, Fox 4 and the Dallas Morning News have got a hold of this. I wonder how.

Edit: The video went viral but the original poster of it on youtube took it down. I found a different copy which seems a little shorter. (And the hit counts have changed.)

Edit @ 9:00 p.m.: Fox 4 News leads with this story. I'm pretty sure they meant to credit me for finding it but some technical error prevented it from happening.

I Assume, Hope, Pray There Was More To This Scene

Scattershooting while wondering what ever became of these girls: This is from a movie called "To Grandmother's House We Go".

AlvordOnline.com

I honestly don't check AlvordOnline.com very often but I ran by it a second ago. And when I did, I just had to look at their "Last Week's Poll Results"  Hmmmm. 50% on both sides. I wonder how many people voted.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Cars were sliding off the roadways all over the place this morning in Wise County. I guess that bit about a combination or a little rain with roadways built up with oil and grit is true.
• The guy that slammed into the tanker truck in Fort Worth causing the death of it's driver in a fireball had been at a club in Fort Worth called Embargo. According to its web site, that night was called/featured "Mezcla Latino." Somebody tell me what that means.
• Almost saw an on field controversy last night at a 2nd Grade softball game as to whether there were two or three outs. 
• Yesterday's Random Thoughts were riddled with words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Hey, I type fast.  I was going to refer to them as homonyms but then it seemed like the correct word was homophone and now I think they may technically be called heterographs. That's unnecessarily confusing. 
• A national sports columnist (who I can't decide it brilliant or a nutcase) reports that Bobby Knight is going to Purdue for $10 million a year for three years. Maybe he's a nutcase after all.
• An apartment balcony collapsed led to a man's death in Kaufman over the weekend. The fall was only 12 feet but having concrete fall along with you would not help your odds. 
• That apartment complex put notices on a handful of apartments telling them their home was unsafe. On WFAA, a couple was complaining they had no where to go because "we both work at McDonald's and have four kids."
• Woke Mrs. LL up yesterday and she groggily reached towards the corner of the bed and said something about trying to find the "curbside speakers." 
• The Wise County Sheriff's Office is auctioning off two donkeys and a pig on Saturday.
• A cobra escaped from the Bronx Zoo a couple of days and apparently he has started a Twitter account while on the run. Funny. Very funny.
• Anyone know what's going on with Fox 4's morning anchor Tim Ryan? I think I've seen him on TV one time in three weeks.
• My "hey, now" radar has been going off lately for actress Amy Adams.
• I saw last week the weird story of a deputy sheriff being injured by a cow in East Texas but didn't mention it here. I will now because the deputy died yesterday. 
• Libya: When W invaded Iraq, I just thought he was a reckless redneck who was going after someone "who tried to kill my dad." With Obama's attack on Libya, I think something deeply calculated is going on behind the scenes that he's lying to us about.
• Despite our propensity to bomb anything that moves, Congress hasn't passed a Declaration of War since World War II.
• Lots of buzz about Skip Hollandsworth's new article in Texas Monthly about a "1970s serial killer nobody have ever heard of." I haven't read "The Lost Boys" yet but it's available online here

The Other Tournament

Yeah, I know: Women's basketball is boring blah blah blah blah blah.

Well, not for me. And if you have any interest at all check out tomorrow night's game of Baylor/A&M with the winner going on to the Final Four. Baylor has lost only two times this year with one of those loses coming at #1 Connecticut by one point.  The Lady Ags have lost only five times this year, and three of those loses came to Baylor.   Somehow, I don't have a good feeling about this. (In the Big 12 Championship game, A&M started off with a 12-0 lead.)

And, if anything else, you've got to see 6'8" Baylor center Brittney Griner who scored 40 points last night. That girl is a freak of nature (and with a voice that is just a little too deep.) She was featured on ESPN's "Sports Science" this week.

First He Wouldn't Pull His Pants Up At The Mall And Now . . .

They were talking about Bryant's penchant for spending money like it's nobody's business on the radio last week. They might have been correct. (Story)

Over and under until his relationship with the Cowboys turns South: 3 more years.

J.J. Takes A Right Hook

The worst part of this video is not the blow that caused J.J. to go down like he'd been shot by a sniper. No, it's the fact that momma was the one rolling tape at the time the defender went all Manny Pacquiao on him. Now we are left to wonder for the ages if momma committed the act of murder right there on the soccer field.

Britney Plays Vegas On Friday And I Just Now Find Out About It?

I'm slipping.

Photos.

Liberally Lean Tourney Update

Full list here.  But looking at the "possible points" of many of those remaining, it's already the end of the line.

And one potential winner who shows up at the courthouse everyday would take great joy in winning the first place price from attorney Mark Howell and myself.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• That certainly got your attention if you turned on the news this morning: A wrong way driver on I-30 east of Fort Worth smashed into a tanker truck, killing its driver, and sending flames shooting into the air. The freeway was shut down.
• Entertained out of town friends this weekend which means trying to hit some highlights of the area.
• I thought Joe T. Garcia's would be a good idea for lunch, but being seated in the sun instead of the shade wasn't the best idea. (But this continues my streak of receiving the worst table in any restaurant.)
• Uh, is their food overrated? (Sidenote: I hadn't been there in a while and expected too just see their standard two choices of meals, but they had a full menu.)
• We ran by the Water Gardens in downtown Fort Worth on Saturday only to find it closed on a beautiful day for some type of construction. (So they didn't get to see the landmark that was featured in Logan's Run and what in 2004 was the cause of the death of four.)
• To show them Texas barbecue, I chose The Railhead in Fort Worth.  Good choice?
• We toured Cowboys Stadium yesterday. (Note to self: If you park on the wrong side of the stadium thinking it's a quick walk around to the other side, you will regret it.)
• It's pretty fun to go onto the field, to sit in a suite, and go into the locker room (which had to be the most underwhelming aspect of the tour - I bet their are Texas high school locker rooms that are nicer and bigger.)
• The most bizarre thing we did was go see women's roller derby over at the Texas State Fair Grounds. Wheel's Off. The league is called "Assassination City" and there's a JFK theme running throughout the event. They even had cheerleaders sprinkled throughout the arena wearing pill box hats and calling themselves the "Jackie O's."
• Hey, don't jump on me for that choice -- even the Dallas Observer was there in the announced crowd of just over 1,800 to take pictures.
• And if you like people watching, that was the place to be. It was like a crowd of nerdy bikers mixed in with women that could easily beat you up. 
• On I-35 in Fort Worth we saw two Ninja motorcycles pass us with one of the riders then deciding to ride side saddle while the other did a wheelie. But no motorcycle death.
• Back to normal random thoughts ... Fiona put up a new "hey, now" and one with a stalker-looking-guy. Edit: These are Facebook pics that I thought anyone could see even if not being a member of Facebook. I think I'm wrong about that.
• Heard that our Wise County Park Murder For Hire lady was featured in the National Enquirer this week but I can't confirm it. 
• I was watching Channel 8 news last night when they threw in a "filler piece" which concluded that a new study found that those who attend church in adolescence have a 50% of being obese as an adult. I'm no statistician, but having a 50% chance of anything doesn't seem to prove anything. 
• Edit: Grammatical errors duly noted and hopefully corrected. It was a long weekend with a rapid fire post.

Covering News From All Parts Of The Clobe

Faithful readers and Wise County residents send in this photo from a restaurant in Waco that made news this week.

"The place was packed. All of the news pub had her almost completely sold out of food, not to mention no burgers ( we arrived at 6:30ish). Anyhow, items such as Soul-Ho, Fat Chicken-Ho, etc are all over her menu. We shall return to try a burger in the future."


Edit: So I check in after an exhausting weekend to see I typed "Clobe". Ugh.

Liberally Lean Tourney Standings

Brought to you by attorney Mark "The Decatur Hammer" Howell and myself. (Assuming he remembers to chip in.)

Complete list.

Almost Motorcycle Death In Wise County

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