And another at the same location!

Edit: Most people agree that the intersection (circled below) would be safer if the eastbound 380 traffic had the option to exit onto Business 380 where the red arrow is depicted.Count me among those people. That's the way it used to be.

Map Prepared By Liberally Lean Engineering Department. All Rights Reserved.

Remember That Guy From The Green Mile Who Married The 16 year Old?

Well, it turns out she's creepier than he is. And is she really 16? Really? If so, she makes those gals on The Real Wives Of [Wherever] look like like 14 year olds.

P.S. Hey, blondie, give me back my dog.

Wise County Government Goes Digital?

Link.

Time Waste Of The Day

Oops: This should have posted at 12:38 p.m. but got sent back to 12:38 a.m. until I fixed it.

Head Shake

I think I'm about to start agreeing with the Obama bashers. This country is going down the toilet, and this little boy is Exhibit A.

Listen, kid. If you wanted the ball, you should have fought for it. Don't let some adult chick in front of you beat you out. You give her an elbow in the ribs, push her aside like an ex-wife, and you take that ball.  That's what America was built on: Getting what you work for. You know. Always Be Closing.   But noooooooooooo.  Nowadays, all a kid has to do is whine like a little girl who lost her Barbie, and the whole world will bend over backwards to make sure he gets something for nothing.

Case closed. I'm moving to Costa Rica.

I Don't Want To Bag On The Messenger, But I'm Going To Bag On The Messenger

They need to get their social media scene together. Case in point: I've been seeing a ton of Decatur kids running in the early morning hours over the last two weeks so I was curious as to what was going on. So I see a tweet this morning from the Messenger come across my Twitter feed.

Maybe Joe Duty has some cool pics. Maybe it's a story on how early those kids get up to run even though school isn't even in session. I'm just interested enough to click on the link, do so, and it takes me to .....

Ok. That's a little confusing. It's the Messenger's website with the text of the tweet reprinted with yet another link. A little frustrating but I'm already there so I clicked on the link and got ........

It's a post from the Messenger's Facebook page telling me to see the preview in this weekend's paper. *sigh*

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Thirty-seven percent of spouses admit to digitally spying on their spouse. I wouldn't think 37% would know how to digitally spy.
• Pretty manly night at the house last night: When I went to bed, there was hair highlighting going on while Phantom of the Opera was on TV.
• Mapsco can't possibly still be in business, can it?
• A screenshot of a Liberally Lean post made Fox 4 last night in a story about the poor-spelling-lawyer-in-the-appellate-brief. (It was voiced over by how that news was all over the "blogosphere.") Unfortunately, my masthead didn't make it. Lari Barager has turned on me once again. 
• There sure are a lot of rumblings that Oklahoma and the Aggies are really upset ever since UT signed a deal with ESPN to create the Longhorn Network.  I'm not sure the Big 12 will still be in existence in three years.
• Me to Mrs. LL  last night as she walked by: "Love me?" Mrs. LL: "Usually."  Wait. What? (It was followed by a laugh. Funny. I think.)
• Sean Hannity sure is mad at Republicans for slowly backing down on the Debt Ceiling Crisis. But I'll give him credit for calling them on the carpet when he gets them on his program. 
• Hal Jay and WBAP staff were laughing about a report in San Francisco of an electronic construction warning sign being hacked to warn of zombies. They wondered if such a thing would ever happen here. Note: The same thing happened in Austin two years ago.
• The Rangers scored eight runs last night but had their 12 game winning streak come to an end. Have I told you how it is all about pitching?
• Three college students were swept over a waterfall at Yosemite after climbing over a rail. When Googling the name of the waterfall, I came across this unrelated image of three guys standing in front of the same rail with the waterfall in the background. 
• As of 4:57 a.m. this morning, the money pit of the Space Shuttle program is finally over. 
• Baylor says that daily Bible reading makes you more liberal (or at least more interested in "social justice.") Kidding aside, that makes perfect sense.
• American Airlines has lost $4 billion since 2007 so it just ordered 460 new planes at an estimated cost of $36 billion. That doesn't make perfect sense.
• The BagOfNothing guy posted a clip of Bono and The Edge signing while sitting next to David Letterman. I finally watched it but became irritated when the audience-clap-along started which I hate even more that The Wave. However, I think Bono hated it too because he got The Edge to change the beat until it stopped. (2:35 mark.)

Unrelated News That Got My Attention

The Dallas lawyer who thought he had done something worthy by shooting a huge alligator in Texas has an arrest warrant out for him. You knew the Game Warden would find a way to get him. Edit: Wow. Texas Parks and Wildlife is even promoting the arrest by a press release.

The Dallas Morning News proves it is one step closer to death as its biggest (and hugely overrated) sports columnist, Jean-Jacques Taylor,  is headed to ESPNDallas.com. The over/under until he uses the phrase "abject failure" in a column is two weeks. In his defense, writing for a newspaper that keeps your work behind a paywall probably isn't the best gig these days.

A caller to the Fort Worth Star Telegram believes Beach Street at 820 is not in Haltom City. The youtube clip the paper put together is pretty funny.

Calling My Real Estate Law Buddies (If I Have Any)

I saw this story the other night and the only part that really got my attention was this guy filing the "avidavit" (pic below.)  But if a mortgage company forecloses on a house and then goes bankrupt, I can just move in an own the house by "adverse possession" after x number of  years?  (That link is pretty instructive and even refers to an "affidavit of adverse possession.") I'm skeptical, though.

And I think our freeloading hero might have a tax problem. Won't the local taxing entities sell the property at auction for unpaid real estate taxes? And won't the buyer have title free and clear?

But, as I always say, if the file doesn't have an indictment in it, I'm not the guy to ask.

Does This Look Like A Texas Couple . . .

. . . who got into a fight after their three year old grandchild found a loaded pistol on the dresser and when the cops got to the house the guy pointed out the gun which was near some meth?

(Just by reading the bold faced words you know this was not going to end well.)

Source.

We've Got A "Best Of" Robbery!

Who's here every morning? Who would never bore you with a Minerals Club announcement or FHA news? Who doesn't post pictures of gruesome car crashes (so what if it's because I can't get there in time)? Who gives you Random Girls? Who is your most trusted source in news even if it's based on rumor and hearsay? Who gives a forum to Double Fakes? Who keeps you up to date on Britney? Who is free?

Who has never ran a "best blog" or "best website" contest and declared themselves the winner?

This guy!!!!!

And to think people consider the Casey Anthony verdict an injustice. It's a dark day in Wise County, my friends. A dark day indeed.

Edit: One of the commentors is right. If the Liberally Lean Nation doesn't gather at the courthouse and have a Middle East type uprising, something's wrong.

Young People Just Can't Stay Committed These Days

I know I blogged about these girls before, but for some reason I can't find anything when I search the archives of Liberally Lean.  (That's a shame. What if Mark Twain's best work was lost to the ages?)

Anyway, these two used to be cute little Nazi's that had a band named Prussian Blue. They are making news this week because they are all grown up, have given up their minority hating ways, and are pretty much hippies (they both hold medical marijuana cards.)

(Although there can't technically be a good White Supremacist T-shirt, the one they used to sport was probably about as clever as you could get.)

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Need a little help: There was a drama-type show on Saturday morning (not a cartoon) in the 1970s that depicted a family, a boat, and perhaps Hawaii. (I think it came on after Land of the Lost). I have no idea what the name of it was but for some reason it's bugging me. I remember they wore the same clothing in every show. Edit: Ok, the older daughter wore a halter top. (For research purposes only.)
• Edit: The readers come through!!!! It was "Westwind" -- which ran one year and had 13 episodes. (The dad in the show had played the Green Hornet in a prior TV series.)
• The Rangers raising the height of the railing in response to the guy that died recently is silly. God bless the guy, but he was 100% at fault in that incident.
• I jogged the other morning before sunrise and came across another jogger who ran behind me for about a mile with a flashlight attached to him. That was creepy -- the light bouncing off the ground in front of me. I felt like I was about to be a victim in a slasher movie.
• The A/C repair guy left the coolest and greatest flashlight in the attic. Do I have an obligation to call the company?
• Someone commented yesterday that they thought it was odd that I was disturbed by the deaths of those in their 40s. Hey, send me your long list of accomplishments because apparently life has nothing left to offer you once you hit 50. 
• Yeah, that sounded a little grumpy of me. 
• Mrs. LL planted a tree last night. I offered to help but you would have thought I was interrupting De Vinci while creating a work of art. 
• The Rangers collective ERA over this 12 game winning streak is 1.91. (Or so the radio told me this morning when I was half asleep.) It's all about pitching. 
• A guy committed suicide over the weekend who is now believed to have run a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme that sucked in a bunch of coaches (including Baylor's basketball coach). But the craziest one is new Texas Tech basketball coach Billy Gillispie who lost $2.3 million -- the exact amount of his settlement with Kentucky after they fired him.
• Rupert Murdock is a modern day snake oil salesman, but I hated to see someone try to give him the pie-in-the-face treatment yesterday while testifying in England. (But I hope Mrs. LL would slap any would be attacker like his young wife did.) 
• The Messenger has a story today about how a Bridgeport running back might miss the season after a blood clot scare last week. I don't know why it stuck out, but one of the sentences contained a quote from him along with the phrase that he was speaking "while his parents were in the room." I guess that was just a disclaimer of "Hey, we are reporting on a minor's medical condition but we want you to know his parents say it is OK." 
• Speaking of, the Messenger's "Best Of Wise" edition is out today (or whatever they call it now.) If they don't have a Best Blog category (they used to) and if I don't win it again (check out my mantle) , I'll never steal material from them again. 

Messenger Above The Fold

I should do this more often. I suppose they wouldn't mind since you would see the same thing if you looked down at the paper in the convenience store.

Edit: For the official Internet Record, I received three negative comments that were too harsh to print.

Lawyer Slap Down - For Those Who Like That Sort Of Thing

Some high school girl out of Carrollton didn't make the cheerleading squad and files a federal lawsuit. It gets thrown out at the trial level and then it is appealed to the Fifth Circuit. The Court issued the opinion last week that began with (ouch):

 And ended with (double ouch):

And they even finished it off in a footnote with a roundhouse punch that Rocky would have been proud of (Correction!!!! I, mean "of which Rocky would have been proud." )

Source (with thanks to "My Other Brother Daryl").

Edit: The Above The Law blog identifies the lawyers as Harry Jones and Jessica Brown

The Fad of "Leisure Dive"?

No wonder they hate us for our freedom. (Website.)

Liberally Lean Adopt-A-Rider: Laurens Ten Dam

I really haven't watched much of the Tour De France but, when I have, I've seen more bodies fly around than at UFC fight. It's Crash City this year.

Which brings me to: This weekend I learned of the guy in the video who continued to race despite not being able to win any Male Afternoon Pick Me Up Awards after the crash. (Pic.) Maybe a Pic-Me-Ugh Award instead.  But I've got a question: On Sunday, I'm sure I saw a medical car pull up next to him while he was pedaling away, and I'm sure I saw him grab the car and just get towed along as he talked to the medical team inside. It only lasted less than a minute, but is that legal?  I'd hate to see the first ever Liberally Lean Adopted Rider get disqualified.

You Guys With The Helmets And Guns Got My Back, Right?

"Get him! Get him! Get him!"

"Maybe we need to go over that plan one more time."

Source.