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Montague county wreck in the area of 101 and 287. If I am right, five helicopters ten patients and one possible doa. Head on

I Wonder If Kids Even Know What It Means

And on a completely different note, the "Painter of Light" has died.

Messenger Cartoon

Messenger Above The Fold

English, Do You Speak It?

Ranger game in the first inning. Just checking out the advertising in the background. Yu Darvish Effect?

Over Decatur This Morning

Stolen from Kevin Burns facebook page.

The Statue

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• In light of suspended defensive coach Gregg Williams being caught on tape telling his players to target body parts of particular players, The Fan's Richie Whitt said yesterday that his pee wee football team would chant, "Kill. Kill. Blood makes the grass grow." So did mine.
• When I can, I like sitting down for Opening Day. Then I get bored by inning number two.
• Did that Arkansas coach really think no one would find out? That no one would request a copy of the accident report?
• I don't think I ever had the Easter Bunny come visit me at night when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure my house wasn't going to trick up a religious holiday.
• I used to think it was silly when a governor toured the site of the disaster. I still do, but I also understand how I'd feel if I perceived state government as not caring at all. All in all, I'd rather him show up.
• There were a lot of kids in my house for a sleepover last night. 
• I think everyone in the world has lost interest in the Republican primary process. 
• When I'm in line at the grocery store, I always think the person behind me is looking at my items and making a judgment about me. 
• I got to watch Ann Curry on The Today Show this morning. Man, I miss the joy of head shaking that she gave me. 
• Whatever happened to Suzy Bogguss?
• There will be free wifi at DFW Airport beginning on September 1st. That's hard to believe.
• The story of the 80 year old lady landing the plane after her husband/pilot collapsed and died is really amazing. (Audio was released yesterday of the event.)  I'd have to tell the control tower my experience consisted of playing Microsoft Flight Simulator for about two hours without one successful landing. 
• Video of hail destroying a car in this week's storms.
• Breaking: The unemployment rate fell to 8.2% last month. Remember, that's good news for your country. 
• Joe Avezzano's death while running scares me senseless.
• Dallas Cowboy first round bust Bobby Carpenter was signed by the Patriots yesterday. That will be the fifth NFL team he has spared to death. 
• I saw a Wise County pastor on Facebook cheering the fact that JC Penny laid off 14% of its staff at its Plano headquarters yesterday -- he attributed it to the "protest" of the company having Ellen Degeneres as a spokesperson.  I'm speechless.
• A drunk guy showed up at an Austin Walmart last night and police were called. The result: An Austin police officer was shot dead.

Married Arkansas Coach Had A Motorcycle Wreck This Week. . .

Bobby Petrino Before Mrs. Petrino Gets A Hold Of Him

. . . but he and the school weren't exactly truthful when asked about whether he was alone. It could be because it was this 25 year old "Hey, Now" who was on the back of the bike  . . . .

Not Mrs. Petrino

Younger Days. Game, set and match.

Moldovan Pick Me Up Of The Day

We've all heard of Xenia Deli, right?

"Coach Joe!"

Former Special Teams coach of the Dallas Cowboys during their glory days has died.

I Want This Pirate Ship

Throw in a puffy shirt, an eye patch, and a parrot and you'd never see me again.

WBAP's Mark Davis Unemployed?

I'm a talk radio fan, and it is on in the background almost constantly with me. And in the mornings, I'll normally have WBAP's Mark Davis on.  Despite my jabs at him from time to time (I actually had a letter to the editor in the Dallas Morning News  printed where I dogged him about his presidential prediction last time), I really like the guy. I think he's smart. He's not saying crap just to get the masses riled up (see Hannity, Limbaugh, etc.). He's honest: He candidly admits that he wants Santorum elected and that he attends a mega-church. And he at least tries to see both sides of an issue. He might be an arrogant nerd, but he's good at what he does.

But a substitute host showed up in his time slot this week without an explanation as to why. On his blog (which is normally dormant), Davis started firing off the equivalent of "random thoughts" this week which I thought was odd. He certainly wasn't on one of his many vacations. Then moments ago he released the above statement explaining his absence. His contract ran out and "we have been unable to reach an agreement on a renewal". What does that mean? Does he want more money and Cumulus said no? Or does the owner want to cut his salary and he's balking? Remember Belo cut Dale Hansen's salary and he gladly accepted it. And also remember that Cumulus, which owns KLIF, let go a morning talk show host on that station just two weeks ago. Throw in the fact that Mike Huckabee is about to launch a new syndicated show which is perfect for WBAP, and I don't know what to think.

The media, it is a-changin'.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Looking at the tornado damage under the light of the next day was just jaw dropping. I'll repeat what everyone else says: It's a miracle no one died.
• When a first responder declines to be called a hero and instead says, "I was just doing my job", I always tend to agree.
• The Star-Telegram has a story of a man being released early from probation. That hardly ever happens in Wise County. In fact, I refuse to be hired on those cases since I think the chances of success are basically non-existent.
• Yep, the Frisco girl kidnapped-and-taken-to-Oklahoma story has faded into oblivion.
• Mrs. LL, who is still kind of new to softball, beaned the Third Grader In The House last night while playing catch in the back yard. Said Third Grader acted like she had been hit by a sniper. Good times.
• Motorcycle death in Richardson last night.
• The Rangers today unveil the statue of the guy who died when he fell over the railing last year. I just don't understand that. 
• Every year the Augusta National Golf Club comes under criticism about its discriminatory practices in selecting its members. And every year they bring out some boob who absolutely butchers a press conference because he simply can't say, "We are a private organization in America and, just like you have the absolute right to decide who enters your home, we have the right to choose our members."
• American Airlines still has 63 planes out with hail damage and 323 flights have been cancelled for today. What a headache.
• Description of Mrs. LL trying to catch fly balls: Get underneath it, hold glove out, do a crazy dance where her feet look like fast moving pistons, and then get out of the way while laugh-screaming. (In all fairness, she got the hang of it shortly thereafter.)
• President Obama's statement that the Supreme Court overturning a law "passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress" would be "an unprecedented, extraordinary step" was reckless and can't be defended. I tried to parse it in such a way that it makes sense but couldn't do it. (That being said, the federal judge on the 5th Circuit who took umbrage to the remark is a nutcase.)
• For me, I think we are in the middle of the best three weather days of the year. I wish Texas was like this year round. 
• Hey, Liberally Lean Tourney Winners, I'm getting the prize selections of winners 1-3 and then I'll move on to 4-6. I have not pocketed the prizes and fled to Costa Rica. Considered it, yes. Done it, no.
  
  
  Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/04/04/3861524/5th-circuit-judge-jerry-smith.html#storylink=cpy

Remember Him? We Have News.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Let's not be moving too fast here. It was only over 10 years ago when the Twin Towers fell, so the government might want to tap the brakes on this rush to judgment. Maybe they need more time to decide what to charge him with.

The next thing you know we'll schedule a trial for 2020.

Car Was In Coppell Yesterday During Hail Storm

It's no comparison to a house being destroyed, but I bet that made quite the noise if the driver was inside it at the time. (Thanks emailer.)

And here's a new collection of amazing pics from yesterday.

Baylor Law School Screw Up

Baylor Law School released the personal data of every student accepted for attendance via an email attachment over the weekend. That's bad enough, but for the academic minded, every new student now knows the LSAT score and the GPA of his classmate. For those interested, a web site collected the scores and published them here (that site being decent enough to delete the names.)

I have no idea what a good LSAT score is or a bad one. They've changed the scoring system in the krillion years since I took it.

And it's interesting to note that the list had data for over 400 students. But the fall and spring class have 80 students each and the summer class has 30. That's a whole lot of accepted students not attending.

Justice Of The Peace Office Hours In Jack County