Dallas-Fort Worth Media At World Series (Via TwitPic)

WFAA's Dale Hansen doesn't like a laptop keyboard

Fox 4's Steve Eagar Prepares To Assault Someone And WFAA Weather Panic Expert Pete Delkus 

Delkus and The Ticket's Gordon Keith Before Heading Out To Gay Bar 

Sybil of 105.3 The Fan Outside The Stadium

Sybil (Middle) With Ranger Fans. Fiona (Left)?

Gordon Keith TwitPic'd This From Media Section In Critical 6th Inning

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And To Think I Normally Say "Dead of Death"

Texas Tech Ranch Horse Team To The Rescue!

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Two cows caused a traffic jam Friday morning when they got loose on the Marsha Sharp Freeway. After several people tried to catch the cows the Texas Tech Ranch Horse team was contacted to help with the capture. (More.)

Check out this student/cowboy/born showman in the blue shirt. He's just eating that camera up --- which means he might be some Dallas fraud because all true cowboys are humble. Look it up.

I've never been on the Tech campus, but I'm guessing everyone is exactly like this guy.

P.S. Don't you love the reporter's question at 1:55: "Have you ever been in a situation where you have been in a situation like this before?"  Fox 4's Lari Barager better watch her back.

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Comments under this youtube clip are kind of odd.  (She's not visible but identified in a puppet show.)

Free Lindsay!!!!

Actually, I think she has already made bond. I can't determine if the judge revoked her probation and scheduled a sentencing date, or if it has been scheduled for a revocation hearing. Those California laws are wacky.

Water Ski Jump Of The Day

• They have competitive water ski jumping at the college level? Seriously? I wonder if someone can sign up for that to get their physical ed elective out of the way. 
• What's up with that announcer? Let's get rid of Joe Buck and put him behind the mic tonight.
• I like the replay method which looks like it is on a reel to reel tape. 
• That was still a heck of a jump even if he did do it the hard way.

Hide Yo Wife. Hide Yo Kid.

Officers armed with assault rifles patrolled Zanesville Wednesday morning, a day after police killed dozens of animals that escaped from a wild-animal preserve, and where the owner’s body later was found. Warning that more animals still were on the loose, officials expected up to four school districts to cancel classes as the remaining bears, big cats and other beasts from the Muskingum County Animal Farm were hunted down. (More.)


Wow. That's one crazy story. Wild animals running wild. Thanks goodness a release of bobcats, cougars, jaguars, leopards, lions, tigers and bears could never happen here. Wait. What did you say? Oh, yeah . . . . 

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• That Republican debate was highly entertained, but that Party has got to be concerned with who they are rolling out there. 
• I'm still not sure why Newt Gingrich doesn't get more traction. Other than Ron Paul (good message, bad package), he seems like the only honest one in the bunch. 
• Rick Perry jumped on Romney for hiring an illegal alien (via a contractor) to do his (Romney's) yard work. Funny line on the radio this morning: "Around here, I don't think you're a real Texan unless you have hired an illegal alien."
• The Denton Record Chronicle had a long article questioning the way grand jury members get selected.  It is a very weird process. Basically, a judge hand picks four (five?) "commissioners" to meet one time to select potential grand jury members. Most judges will tell them to give him/her a good cross section of the county, but that doesn't always work out. 
• Update from yesterday's Random Thoughts: It looks like the murder victim's family did file suit against the Denton convenience store and won a multi-million dollar judgment. How is that possible? How has the local news media not picked up on that? 
• I was looking for a front page for the bottom of Random Thoughts and almost went with the Texarkana paper which had a headline about federal drug indictments of 66 people called "Operation Stateline Sweep" -- proving once again that drug roundups always have to have a catchy name.  One of these days they'll name one of them "Operation Futile Effort." 
• Whatever happened to Hank Hal Ketchum, Radney Foster, and Ty Herndon? (Edit: To the first comment, I'm vaguely familiar with Google. But, see, this bullet point question is what is called "rhetorical." I don't want a a literal answer. I was trying to quickly remind you that many1990s country stars have disappeared. But that "quickly" aspect has now been severely defeated. ) 
• Hot Sports Prediction: St. Louis Cardinals in six. Rangers starting pitching will be the problem. 
• That Chisholm Trail Steak Challenge at the Reunion Grounds in Decatur this weekend got a huge free plug on WBAP this morning from Hal Jay. I think he mentioned that his daughter in law was involved with it. (It's a fundraiser, and they must have high expectations because first place gets $2,500. Second gets $1,000.)
• The Decatur Eagles are still not in the AP Top Ten. 
• If C.J. Wilson gets the loss tonight in the Rangers' World Series game, he will be the first pitcher in MLB history to have an official loss in the World Series, The League Championship Series, The Division Series, and the All Star Game in one year. 
• Herman Cain paid a visit to Crazy Sheriff Joe in Arizona. Why they pander to that guy is beyond me. 
• There's a book on Amazon called Eighter From Decatur: Growing Up In North Texas
• Hey you property lawyers: Check out the first item in the Update and tell me if you see any issues to help out Chico. If it were a law school test, I'd write down something about the Rule Against Perpetuities and then proceed to prove that I know nothing about property law. 
• There's a 22 year old death of a Paradise girl listed in the Update. If it was the one I heard about, it's a tragic and scary situation. A health issue that came out of nowhere. 

That's A Festive TV Anchor Crew, Too

Messenger Above The Fold

WBAP's Mark Davis Analysis Of Michelle Bachman's Debate Point Abut Income Tax

So true. I support millions of Americans who have no tax liability under the current system to he required to send in $1. The time waste of the taxpayer, the postage, and the IRS administrative costs would make it all worth it.

And then Mitt and Rick almost went UFC on each other.

(The other great moment tonight was when Rick Perry went into Country Mode and called Herman Cain "brother.")

Romney Tries To Make Sure There Will Be No Perry Resurrection

Even launches an Anti-Perry website.

I bet the Perry campaign is debating whether to fire off a, "That wasn't very Christian-like of you, Mitt" in tonight's debate.

Has Something To Do With Cottondale, Texas and Fireman This Summer

Credit Joe Duty Flickr Page

Texas Tech v. North Texas

Not that I steal from other sites, but I steal from other sites. (And I encourage theft of my blog material that I have stolen.) That being said, I saw a blog this morning throwing down this contest. I think I'll go green. Mean Green.

Random Images From Google "Decatur, Texas" Image Search

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Suicide Of A Super Power

Pat Buchanan has been promoting his new book over the last two days, and it is about how America is changing. Changing to the point of destruction. I find this stuff fascinating. And, dare I say, maybe dead on. From Amazon:

America is disintegrating.

The “one Nation under God, indivisible” of the Pledge of Allegiance is passing away. In a few decades, that America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents.

America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.

Buchanan's basic premise, which he has written about before, is the answer to this extremely thought provoking question: "What exactly is a nation?" His answer: "For what is a nation if not a people of a common ancestry, faith, culture and language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes, cherish the same history, celebrate the same holidays and share the same music, poetry, art and literature?"


That has always stuck with me. Maybe that's why I always think of, and reference, that image from the Olympics in China.

I don't know if the U.S. will "disintegrate" but I can absolutely seeing it changing to a point of not being recognizable to our parents. And I mean extremely unrecognizable.  I'm not sure if I understand the history of the Balkins, but if it is a blueprint of an area becoming unique territories formed by people who have flocked together based upon "common ancestry, faith, culture and language, who worship the same God, revere the same heroes" etc., I can see it happening. Traveling from California to South Carolina may feel like traveling through three or four completely different, well, nations.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Love this quote from the Denton County Republican Chairperson regarding an eccentric Denton resident (and Presidential candidate)  who was arrested over the weekend: "My thought is they ought to keep him in jail until he can be tried and convicted.” Good grief. Maybe she can use that line in her next "our Constitution is sacred" speech. 
• Reference on the radio this morning to an old time medical treatment of my childhood: Monkey Blood.
• I just thought about the Texas Tech student struck on his bicycle near Runaway Bay during the summer. I never heard another word about him.
• Kind of technical, but if you get hit with one of those stupid DPS "surcharges" after September 1, 2011 and you are truly indigent, there's a way out of them. DPS just hasn't figured out how to handle the new law they are obligated to enforce.
• Bristol Palin, author - mother - spokesperson, is now mature enough under the law to buy beer today for the first time.
• WBAP's Hal Jay this morning: "I wish my kids would have learned to speak Mexican."  And he wasn't joking. His co-workers made fun of him for the next minute. (7:49 a.m.)
• Softball season is over. 4-6 record. Not bad for a group of kids and a coach who had no idea what they were doing when the season began. I told them at the first practice that I had two goals for them: (1) To be better at the end of the season than at the beginning, and (2) to have fun. They did. And I did.
• Goldman Sachs, despite the horrible economy, has been making money hand over fist while it has faced Congressional investigations and lawsuits in the way it duped investors with mortgage backed securities. Now, suddenly, this morning they announced a third  quarter loss for the first time since 2008. Somebody might want to check those numbers. I smell a "don't be mad at us, we're losing money, too!" PR stunt. 
• Somebody find me more info about this: Back in 2007, a UNT student was murdered with the eventual convicted murderer being caught on surveillance video in a convenience store with her shortly before her death. There was a blurb yesterday in the Texas Lawyer (behind a paywall) about her parents and estate winning an $8.6 million civil judgment after a five day trial in Denton. Who did they sue? Tell me it wasn't the convenience store. 
• Wasn't the bank in Decatur, the one that Wells Fargo purchased about 10 years ago, named "The First National Bank of Texas" I always thought that name was worth a lot, and I don't think anyone else has picked it up (assuming they can.)  There's a century old "First National Bank Texas" without the "of" but that's not the same thing.  Edit: I think I'm right.
• Juveniles are rarely detained in "detention" while their criminal case is pending, and when they are it normally is for 10 days or so.  Wise County sends our kids to a facility in Denton, but I'm trying to remember if we've ever used the facility in Granbury. Is so, county officials just got freaked out because some kid died their last week during an impromptu game of tug-of-war.
• Prosecutors are different in the northeast . . . 

Lubbock Dust Storm Earlier

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