Might Want To Calculate That Fuel Requirement A Little More Closely

A twin-engine plane flying to Hawaii’s Big Island from California was forced to ditch into the Pacific Ocean Friday evening local time. The pilot was the only person on board and was uninjured.

The twin-engined Cessna 310 (N23BT) aircraft was about 12 hours into its flight from Monterey Peninsula Airport (MRY) to Hilo International Airport (ITO) when the pilot, a 65-year-old man, according to Hawaii News Now, radioed the Coast Guard for to advise he might run out of fuel about 35 miles east of Hilo and be forced to ditch into the ocean.

A US Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and the Cutter Kiska rescued the pilot immediately after ditching 13 miles northeast of Hilo and transported him to Hilo Medical Center.

Charity Group That Raises Money For Families Of Fallen Troopers Are Thieves

First graph is money received.

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Wise County Crime Reports

Messenger Above The Fold

And if says "Saturday" on the masthead instead of "Sunday" for the first time.

Decatur 30, Bridgeport 16

Helicopter Delivers Game Ball. Manages Not To Kill Anyone.

Did Decatur score on a 64 yard run with less than a minute left?

The Battle Of 76426 vs. 76234 -- This Time It's More Personal Than The Last Time When It Was Really Personal

"Letter From Decatur": Ultimate Fracking Fighters

This couple seems to be everywhere with their Anti-Fracking cause, and the above article comes from this month's Texas Monthly.  Their claims may be true or false, I don't know. But their biggest complaint seems to be something that could happen to any of us. We live on land where the mineral interest is owned by someone else. When they come to exercise that right, it may not be pretty.

At Bay Landing In Runaway Bay

Opening act will be "Fireworks Prohibited." Be sure to tip your waitress.

(Thanks, Emily.)

"We're Liiiiiive From The Cotton Bowl Down Texas Way."

Haunted House Reactions

Genius. (Tons more in the link.)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The Tea Party protesters and the Occupy [Location] protesters have some things in common: You both think you are getting screwed, you want to organize, and you want to exercise your American right to protest. Oh, and you both hate each other since you disagree with each other. 
• Former Channel 8 hot sports reporter drops an F bomb - and way too easily at that.
• The media will portray today as the 10 year anniversary of the War in Afghanistan.  That's OK, if you want to refer to it as the 10 year anniversary of the invasion. No, if you say it is a "war" that it is still ongoing. I refuse to say this "war" has gone on longer than Vietnam, World War II, or the Revolutionary War.
• It is more of a war than the Cold War, however. (Call Back argument.)
• I can't tell you how glad I am to have TCU back in the Big 12. Just the thought of Texas, OU, Tech and Baylor coming through Fort Worth every other year is great. But now I really hate the fact that the Aggies will be gone.
• And think about that TCU: You've got to worry about OU, OSU, Tech, and the Empire but you get to avoid Nebraska and the Aggies.  It's still a tough neighborhood but the gang violence has been significantly reduced.
• For those that say, "How can you defend those people?", there's far, far more that is being defended than just the person.  Things that you hold dear but just don't realize it. 
• Unemployment figures released this morning: Still at 9.1%. Obama haters, rejoice.
• I've had a few people send me Texas/OU Random Girl pics over the last month. I'll try to post them today. 
• Saturday Night Live did an "Internet Comments Talk Show" bit. Not hilarious but kind of funny.
• Had one of my little softball players come up to me before practice and respectfully say, "Coach, you seemed upset with me during our last game, and I want to make sure I know what I did wrong and what I can do to get better."  It was almost like it was memorized (and it may have been), but it was almost enough to melt me to see a kid (and parents) who care. 
• Glanced at the end of the Yankees/Tigers game last night to see A-Rod strike out to end it which makes it two season ending strike-outs in a row. He made $32 million this year to hit a baseball. If my math is correct, that was $310,679.61 for every hit during the regular season. 
• In August, The Ticket's Bob Sturm and his family went down to Honduras to finalize the adoption of a child by picking him up, having a court sign the order, and getting him a visa. How long does that take? The family, one person larger, gets to come home this weekend. 
• And it is sad for the Rangers not to go back to Yankee Stadium which was the source of the greatest animated GIF ever of New York fans last year. You see something new every time.
• ESPN Magazine's: The Body Issue (you're on your own) is a creative concept. Get athletes to get naked, pose in an athletic position, but don't show anything that you normally see when someone gets naked.  And I never knew I look just like Blake Griffin.

JP Dispatched

The Messenger reports that a Justice of the Peace has been summoned to an "injured person" call at a construction zone along 380 east of Decatur.

Translation: Someone is dead.

For some crazy reason, Texas still requires a Justice of the Peace to be called out to conduct their own "inquest" when "a person dies an unnatural death from a cause other than a legal execution."

Thursday Afternoon Pick Me Up

Economic Profiling In Bridgeport!

Someone posted this pic in Facebook of the Bridgeport police in action this morning. They stopped someone in a Cadillac? Is this some kind of Occupy Wall Street protest by the cops?

"Occupy Wall Street" Becomes "Occupy Dallas" Today

Dirty corporations!!!! (Isn't he supposed to be a hippie? Maybe he's just in character.):

Give this man a prize:

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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Mrs. LL went to bed early and emailed me this while I was still downstairs. Geek humor.
• Funny: During jury selection in my trial this week, the prosecutor briefly brought up this blog. (Only five or six people had ever heard of it.) But as the prosecutor was leaving the subject he, mostly joking but perhaps 1% serious, said that he just wanted to make sure no one on the jury panel posted by the screen name "Rage". Good times.
• Another odd moment. One potential juror identified himself as a state trooper. Five minutes later another potential juror said, "I don't trust what any cop says." 
• I saw the breaking news of Steve Jobs' death on a device he invented. (After I wrote that sentence I looked over at bagofnothing.com and learned President Obama had already made that observation.)
• Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford has been getting lots of buzz since his death yesterday. I actually sat down and watched it last night. The content is excellent. The delivery - reading without true emotion - is awful. (He talks about death at the 8:50 mark.)
• Texas/OU is my favorite sporting event of the year. The Sooners are a 10 point favorite but, and I'm serious, I've got this weird feeling that the Empire might win that thing outright.
• Newsweek had an interesting article last week about how much Fox News controls the GOP debates. Not only on what questions to ask, but when to go split screen or focus on a candidate's reaction when he's being skewered by another candidate. That's a lot of power.
• I know no one heard it, but KLIF's morning talk show host did a segment this morning at 7:05 with the CEO of Worthington Bank to purportedly discuss bank fees that have been in the news this week. It was 100% a paid infomercial disguised as a talk show segment. I've been ranting about ads disguised as content for years now. Watch for it. 
• I missed it, but a "Squirrel!!!" ran across home plate last night during the Phillies/Cardinals game. (Video.)
• Anyone flown Spirit Airlines out of DFW? They have really good travel deals but I don't think I've ever even seen one of their planes. 
• The most bizarre feeling in the world. Watching someone handcuffed and taken to jail inside of the courtroom and then walking outside and realizing how much I value simply, well, walking outside.
• Sarah Palin announced she wasn't running for President at a carefully timed 5:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon so that it  would be the "news of the day" for Thursday. ("Family comes first.") Then word of Steve Jobs' death broke one hour later. Goodbye headline. 

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