Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

5.28.2012

How I'm* Spending Memorial Day**

Link.
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*Hey, watching it. Not doing it.
**Alternative title: Someone has got on board the crazy crane.

I Don't Think It Is Ever "Happy" Memorial Day

Edit: And the guy who is in France (see the Mona Lisa post below) visited Omaha Beach today. What a day to make that trip.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts - Limited Edition

San Antonio teacher gets probation from a jury for Intoxication Manslaughter. That follows on the heels of a flight attendant who received the same sentence a couple of week back. mc death
Arlington motorcycle death./
The Mrs. and I planted a ton of bushes this weekend. After one day, none have died.
I found the show where people bid on lost airplane luggage without having the chance to open it first. I would absolutely do that.
Love this in an article about a column written by Randy Galloway and the quitting of a TCU Running back. "Despite the lengthy piece, however, the coach did not specifically address Wesley’s situation, at least in quotes utilized by Galloway for the article." Translation: Galloway mails it in by bloating his columns with quotes that often ad little or nothing.
I watched an Anthony Bourdain episode over the weekend where he went to the Texas/Mexico border.Did you know ferrel hogs could swim across the Rio Grande.
Yale gal writes about her future for the school paper, and then dies after graduation one week later. "We're so young. We're so young."
WBAP's ex Mark Davis has a new home.
Trouble at the Empire: "The Texas football team is 13-12 over its last two season. The Longhorns men's basketball team has won two NCAA tournament games the last four years. The women's basketball team hasn't won any.Meanwhile, UT's baseball team has just completed its worst regular season since 1998 and just when the school's softball team seemed to be on the verge of a special year, they fell one victory of its first Women's College World Series appearance in six seasons after losing twice to Oregon on their home field Saturday in the Super Regionals."
It hadn't made the news yet, but I'm hearing that Fort Worth police responded to the wrong address over the weekend. and then shot a barking dog. Edit: Has made the news.

5.26.2012

Alvord Girl Killed In Accident

Story.

Facebook page.

This guy was arrested for "criminally negligent homicide" -- no allegation of drugs or alcohol -- just a sad situation.

5.25.2012

Hula Hoop Girl Taking You Into The Weekend

Taking You Into The Weekend (Part 1)

Bono Waitresses

Edit: Be nice.

Edit: Bud Kennedy on Facebook is on to this.

For Ticket Fans Only (Seriously. No One Else Will Care.)

As a joke, someone sent the producer/board op of the Norm Hitzges Show a copy of "Out" magazine.

Then someone got a picture this morning of Norm holding it.

For some reason, I like it when people post vacation pictures on Facebook while they're there. (At least if it is some place cool.) One guy I follow is making me jealous as he walks around Paris. He went into the Louvre and posted this picture of the Mona Lisa. Look how little it is.

Sadly, I'd be thinking, "So this is the scene of the murder in The Da Vinci Code?"

Another Umpire Giving Strike Three The What For

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

A train outside of Decatur yesterday had about 10 of those giant windmill fans on it. Seems a smarter way to transport them than by mega-truck.
The Taliban has one American soldier being held captive: Bowe Bergdahl. The U.S. was close to cutting a deal for his release (but couldn't label it a "deal" since we "don't negotiate with terrorists") but it fell through earlier this year.
If you went to a theater at Northpark Mall last night and dropped your cocaine, the police have it.
Best anti-drug movies: Less Than Zero and Requiem For A Dream.
Mrs. LL tells me that some of my former softball players have been asking about me. That's perfectly normal and not unusual, but I think it's so cool.
Local newscasts always refer to DWI as DUI. In Texas, DUI is reserved for minors who have consumed alcohol but who are not intoxicated while driving. It's the equivalent of a traffic ticket.
Dallas is having a "no refusal" weekend. Once again, you can refuse a breath or blood test. However, the government will take your blood by force.
The TCU baseball team gave up 11 runs in the ninth inning yesterday. And still won
I always vote in the Republican primary. At the alternative, there aren't many choices and it's kind of lonely.
Mrs. LL was a volunteer for someone who was getting trained to apply spray-on tan. It turned out well. except the Mrs. might have touched an area of her body as it was bring applied leaving handprints in a very funny/awkward place.
Learned a softball rule: What happens if there are two strikes and the batter swings but the ball deflects off her hand. Foul ball? Take your base? Strike? (Answer below.)
Just heard a sound bite from Tony Romo. He continues his five year streak of saying "work" and "get better" in every interview. Ever since he fired off that "if this is the worst thing that happens" quote after a playoff loss, he has shut the media out.
I'm really liking my terrorist book, but I'm struggling to learn anything significant that wasn't in a two hour National Geographic TV special (which I can't remember the name of and can't find.)
The Update makes reference to a new Texas Monthly article about great drives in Texas -- one of which ends in Decatur. Trust me, that tiny blurb in the Update is the only thing the article says about Decatur. It gets one small paragraph.
And the drive is from Paris to Denison to Gainesville to Decatur. Let me know if that excites you.
Answer: A strike.
That's a huge alligator . . .

Edit: Loved one of the comments about the gator. Paraphrasing: "What do you mean it's not self defense? It's an 11 foot gator! I'm scared of it and I'm two counties away!"

5.24.2012

Scenes From Bridgeport's "Every 15 Minutes" Program Today

Hey, you can even get a Grim Reaper outfit for $60 from the official "Every 15 Minutes" store.

Bill Is 100% Honey Badger

Source.

Edit: Sheesh. TMZ cropped some chick out:

Good Grief

It's a crazy world when a judge promotes the approval of nutcase who called a college student a "slut".

Background on this ad. And here's the judge's Facebook page (sigh) that he basis the ad upon.

(Side note: I've always thought it was ironic that Loftin is perceived as a "law and order" judge in Parker County when his dad was the defense lawyer in one of the county's most famous cases.)

Edit: This is beginning to make national news as Bloomberg has picked it up.

Catering To Demographics

The various morning shows start their summer concert series tomorrow.

On Fox and Friends:

On The Today Show.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I think campaign ads must fund the budgets of local TV stations for the year. And I've yet to hear one that does not have "conservative" in the text.
I've got someone who promised to send me pics today from the "Every 15 Minutes" program being held at Bridgeport High School. (Although I think that program, in general, is a little over the top.)
The last time I went to the Colonial golf tournament I saw Tiger Woods walk up the fairway twirling his golf club. He's not been back since.
I don't know how the NHL survives. At least around here.
I've jogged injury free for about three years but I was stopped in my tracks by a cramp in my calf yesterday. But I wasn't going to get back home by just standing there.
Nicest email from an old friend yesterday: "I had to laugh the other day when my oldest, who's at UT, quoted me quoting you. I have always referenced you and your making sacrifices to keep up the A's. So when he skipped a party to study for a final and said he could only think of 'your friend Barry Green' it made me smile…hope it makes you smile as well!"
Having fun in college is something I never experienced.
Idiocracy: Bench pressing while doing a wheelie on a motorcycle. (But it's kind of impressive.)
Is Jane McGarry still off the air?
I don't think I mentioned that I watched the documentary Exit Through The Gift shop -- a documentary, in part, about the secretive graffiti artist Banksy. It got rave reviews, but I didn't think much of it at all. (But for some reason I did buy a t-shirt based upon Obey.)
Disturbing: It's almost impossible to get a dead body off of Mt. Everest. And pictures of them can be found here.
It's not the crime of the century, but the eighth cop in Fort Worth has been indicted for falsifying tickets to justify fake overtime. But it does send the message of the main problem with the Fort Worth PD: Dishonesty. And that's a problem if you're a cop. A big problem.
I'll try to find the source and update this, but I saw that Wise County only has about 50 more felony cases on the docket than it did ten years ago. I find that shockingly low.
The White Rock Marathon is now known as the "Dallas Marathon." That's bland. Why not the Dallas White Rock Marathon?
Members of the Dallas Cowboys had a home run contest yesterday at the Ballpark in Arlington and only one player was able to clear the fence. And the overall winner was coach Jason Garrett who got the most balls into the outfield. I think I've discovered their problem: The team has no athletes.