Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Horrific: The news on Saturday of a father who opened fire on his kid's birthday party at a Grand Prairie skating rink and killed five.
• Morbid: That skating rink opened for business the next day.
• I wonder what the record is for a mass killing in the metroplex? Texas' current capital murder law for killing more than one person during the same episode was based upon a Dallas nightclub shooting in 1984 that killed five as well. 
• By the way, "family shootings" in the U.S. left 14 dead and 53 injured over the weekend. 
• But nothing compares to the madman (he's a white Muslim-hating male so we can't call him a Terrorist) who shot and killed at least 86 people at a youth camp in Norway on Friday. Think about that: Killing 86 with a firearm - not a bomb. 
• Mrs. LL was daydreaming about what to do with the backyard on Friday and asked me if I'd rather have a "pool or a pond." As much as I tried to refrain, the next five minutes was spent explaining why I responded with "a pond would be good for me - you know, whatever" due to Caddyshack. 
• Mrs. LL went to the Ranger game with her mom last night, but I was more than happy to simply have it on TV -- especially when I learned that the game time temperature set a Ranger record at 105 degrees. 
• If you remember the Cat Lady Online Dater and like tricked up music mashups, you'll like what someone did here. 
• There are some rumors that the car that was involved in the head on collision in Wise County killing four over the weekend was passing a car which was occupied by friends of the deceased. If not, what are the odds of three cars being at that exact location in the middle of the night at FM 730.
• I've yet to see any news source say alcohol may be involved in that crash. 
• Man, a lot of people died over the weekend. 
• Today will be the 25th consecutive day of 100 and above temperatures. And they are talking about temperatures getting in the 110 range over the next few days. (Prediction of 106 for today.)
• You had to have only one: Internet, Radio, TV, or Air Conditioning. Give me AC.
• Has potential: The Wise County Reunion's dead and gone Roscoe The Rat has a Twitter feed. (Edit: Just saw that the Messenger mentioned this in the Update. I bet someone over there is behind it.)
• Sweet Ranger game moment last night as a guy kissed his girl on the forehead during God Bless America. (Jarhead dogged me for posting that.)
• I went by Taco Bell in Decatur and the lady at the window asked me if I wanted sauce. I say yes. I get back to the office and found one packet in the bag. 
• An AA jet bound for Brazil had to return to DFW Airport yesterday after engine problems. WFAA says this is a picture of it during a "fuel dump" as it returned. Does that fuel dissipate so much that it causes no damage on the ground? 
• Crazy crime in Rockwall: Thieves left 30 cars up on blocks at a dealership after stealing the tires off the cars. That's a lot of work for someone not willing to work. 

Moonwalker Slugs Man Who Says There Is No Such Thing As A Moonwalker

I'm 100% sure the "you're a coward and a liar" line put ol' Buzz over the edge.

Amy Winehouse Dead

CNN reported it (relying on other sources) before noon. Her song "Rehab" might become iconic.

The Ticket's Gordon Keith predicted it last month. (Video of her last wheels off concert removed, though). Edit: Video here.

Edit:

Wow! Four Dead In Wise County Car Crash Early Saturday Morning

Give Messenger credit. They had a report of three dead shortly after 5:00 this morning. (Question: If the Mustang was passing another vehicle, did the vehicle it passed stop? Not that he had a legal responsibility to, but you would think the driver would. An unidentified commentor posted that the Mustang was racing another vehicle -- something that is absolutely unconfirmed.)

Developing....

Anyone with any info?

Latest shortly before noon: WISE COUNTY, Texas — Four people were killed early Saturday morning in a head-on collision on a rural highway in Wise County.exas Department of Public Safety Trooper Lonny Haschell said the accident happened at 3:15 a.m. on FM 730 about six miles northeast of Decatur when the driver of a northbound Ford F-350 pickup truck saw a southbound Ford Mustang going the wrong way on the two-lane road.

Both drivers apparently tried to take evasive action, but they collided.

Four passengers in the Mustang were declared dead at the scene. The driver of the car was airlifted to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth for treatment of serious injuries. Haschell said some of the victims were teenagers.

The driver of the pickup truck, who was wearing a seatbelt, suffered minor injuries and was taken to Wise Regional Health System.

No names were released and the cause of the accident remains under investigation.


Edit: From WFAA ...

Four passengers in the Mustang were declared dead at the scene.  Two of them have been identified:

• Kevin C. Brickey, 19, of Blue Mound
• Vincent G. Williams, 19, of Wakefield, Massachusetts

The driver of that car, 17-year-old Danny R. Nalley of Fort Worth,  was airlifted to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth for treatment of serious injuries.

Edit: Here's a Facebook pic of a Kevin Brickey who went to Saginaw High School: (Edit: Fox 4 used this photo in its coverage.)

Edit: Star-Telegram article with some updates.

Messenger Above The Fold

His Political Views Are Just Like His Tech Knowledge

Both are based on the Stone Age.

(And I wish there was a Las Vegas betting line on whether this guy is a liar. Easy money.)

The Ex-Wife Of The Guy Who Ran Off With LeAnn Rimes Is Thinking About Taking You Into The Weekend

More.

Last One Out Of America, Turn Out The Lights. We're Done.

Dude. Just, dude.

Twitter and Breaking News

Within the hour, there was a bombing in Oslo, Norway (which I can't even begin to explain) but it's huge news. It sounds like there was a massive explosion next to a building that was very well built.

I find it interesting that the first pics come through Twitter. Some gruesome.

Edit: It gets weirder:

Don't Ask Her What They Call A Quarter Pounder With Cheese In Amsterdam

I don't watch this show so I don't understand what happened when the little kid wrote "78" on the screen. Was she trying to trick the lady or is that kid dumb, too?

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Talked to a person yesterday who had consulted with a Fort Worth lawyer about representation in a felony DWI case and was quoted a fee of $25,000. That is more of a crime than felony DWI. 
• I heard that Fox 4 reporter Krystal Guitterez had the most unfortunate blooper this morning while reporting from Hunt County. I'm working on that. 
• For some reason, Thriller fired up in the middle of the night in the house.
• "Family Angered By Hit and Run Defense".  I don't know if it is true, but the "I don't remember anything" isn't a bad defense in that case. 
• Mrs. LL goes to the grocery store last night and came back with a University of Texas candy bar. Can this marriage be saved? (That question was always on the cover of my mom's old Redbook magazines. At least I think it was Redbook.)
• Want a Texas Theater Oswald T-Shirt?
• Baylor has new uniforms (and will continue to use two different colored helmets which is incredibly unstable. No credible program would ever do that.) Edit: Yep, I forgot about Oregon. But since the football team is basically owned by Nike, they don't count. 
• We had a prostitution arrest in Wise County last night but the warrant had been issued out of Tarrant County. (Booking #71883) That ain't exactly Pretty Woman.
• C.J. Wilson gave up two hits and no earned runs and the Rangers still lost yesterday afternoon. I guess sometimes it's not about pitching (at least until you consider the other guy was equally good.)  And Wilson is going to make a fortune as free agent this winter -- and it won't be from the Rangers.
• Edit for the perpetually confused: When I say "It's all about pitching" I mean "the only way you can be an elite team is through pitching".
• The City of Dallas shutdown a "fake church" which they said was actually a dance club that stayed open until 7:00 in the morning.  The Dallas Observer had a slideshow of the place a few weeks back. I don't think that's First Baptist. 
• An Alvord 27 year old is listed in today's obituaries. Any word on that one? I noted that the Sheriff's Office did have a report of an "unattended death" in Alvord yesterday.
• I watched the second episode of CMT's "Texas Women" (the "reality" show about four chicks in Fort Worth) last night and two of the gals went to the Bridgeport Rodeo!  I would post some screenshots but they showed basically nothing of the crowd or the facility. 
• Whenever I see two women "power walking" (or whatever you call it), they are always yacking up a storm. 
• The "Skippy" guy really wanted me to explain Separation of Church and State. Sure, the 1st Amendment is pretty simple. Government can't establish a religion. Government can't interfere with our free exercise of religion. Sounds like a wall separating the two to me.

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.)