The Fog In Dallas This Morning

Cool.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• A seventeen year old girl from Ennis can go missing and you never hear about it (but for stumbling on this picture and tweet about her this morning.) Kind of makes you understand how all those "Missing" posters in the lobby of Walmart exist. 
• It'll be interesting to see if a conviction for attempted capital murder (of a peace officer) can be obtained for the trial that has started in Wise County. A tractor as the attempted murder weapon is a little unique. (Original story here.)
• It's kind of odd that the defendant in that case, Timothy Herring,  has the same name and is the approximate age of a guy charged with killing a police officer in Chicago. 
• Trevor Hartfield, the kid from Alvord that fell out of the pickup a couple of weeks ago, will be released from the hospital tomorrow. 
• TCU announced its quarterback will leave school to enter rehab after his DWI arrest, and Coach Gary Patterson announced he will donate $100,000 to to help raise the profile of the "TCU Recovery Support Group."
• From a Sports Illustrated cover story on Patterson last year: "[Patterson] picks me up in his silver GMC Yukon, the stereo set to Sirius's '70s on 7. We hit three bars, a beer in each: Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse . . .  then Grace . . . then Michael's, empty at midnight, where we sit a few minutes before he gets restless and decides to show me his new house."
• Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson and others from Fox do the Gangnam style dance. Shut down the Internet, we're done here. 
• Here's a better video of Mr. Punk hitting the fan. (I mentioned it yesterday and didn't get one comment about the comedic genius of calling him "Mr. Punk.")
• Something that jumped out at me in the Update's reporting of that crazy wreck at Panda Express yesterday: Harris Hospital in Fort Worth is now known as "Texas Health Fort Worth Hospital." That changed slipped past me. 
• Nothing powers me down more than the release of the Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog and it's silly and over the top gift. (This year, a jet pack.) 
• Those who dog the Rangers seem to have complete amnesia that they lost Colby Lewis and  Neftali Feliz for the year. That was a huge hit in the middle of the summer. 
• Mexican authorities claim they had killed the head of the Zetas drug cartel but then turn around and announce his body was stolen by masked gunman from a funeral home? Something seems fishy.
• Local coach Pete Hart hit a cow this morning. He's OK. Cow is OK. His vehicle might need a little work, however.
• Competing Pennsylvania headlines on the Sandusky sentencing:

Messenger Above The Fold

Crazy accident

I'm out of pocket, but the Messenger is reporting that a 18 wheeler left 287 and ended up in the Panda Express parking lot. How'd that happen?

Edit: This was the second story on Fox 4 tonight.  Crazy scene. A "local teacher" was injured?

Edit:

Might Want To Avoid 820 and Rufe Snow If In Fort Worth

Two people have been shot, one fatally, at a fast food restaurant.

Mugshot Of The Day

Story.

Christina and Hillary Afternoon Pick Me Up

Cockroach Man

If you haven't heard the story, here it is.  And it's an age old story at that. Man sees giant python. Man falls in love with giant python. Man enters a cockroach eating contest to win giant python.

It ended like a Greek tragedy.

Crazy Skydiver Live Broadcast

But it's on hold at the time of this posting. Link.

Great Moments In Television Fainting

This one was posted a couple of days ago. I wonder if she lived?




But nothing beats this old classic clip from the old Glenn Beck show.  That guy warns Beck a couple of times that he is going to faint and then finishes it off with a "Gone" (at the :23 second mark) before he hits the deck.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Polls indicated yesterday that the presidential race was tightening up and all the Right Wingers who last week were saying the polls were wrong suddenly were embracing them.
• The former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader, who comes in second place behind Debra Lafave as the greatest "And Another", pled guilty yesterday but will avoid prison.
• A skydiver is attempting to break the sound barrier this morning. I fear for his life.
• Gruesome: The aftermath of a car wreck in Dallas, which included flames, was caught on tape. The video was played on Fox 4 last night with the story being the slow response time of the fire department (9 minutes.) First, nine minutes seems pretty quick. Secondly, they were given the wrong address.
• How in the world did Texas Tech start out as only a four point underdog to West Virginia?
• If you turned on sports radio yesterday, it was all Josh Hamilton talk all the time.
• Mrs. LL recorded Access Hollywood yesterday because Courtney Stodden was on it promoting something called Couples Therapy. But I haven't watched it yet. 
• I don't know who CM Punk is and I couldn't find RAW on my television if I had to, but Mr. Punk slugged a fan on that show right now. 
• Now there's a pet turtle in the house.  
• The killer of that Arlington pastor sounds like one bad, bad guy. (And I realized yesterday he was part of a sad Dallas Observer cover story about another man who died in the Tarrant County Jail.)

I Had Never Heard Of This

Story from Star-Telegram.

I'm Posting This Before I Watch It

Because everyone tells me it's great. We'll see.

Look What They Did In Romney, Texas

In case you were curious where Romney is on a map:

Love This Picture

Wedding Bliss

Philly.com – A man died of heart attack after an all-out brawl broke out at a Society Hill wedding early this morning, and part of the melee was caught on video. Police had little information on the wedding fight, which occurred at the Society Hill Sheraton on Second and Walnut streets, but a video posted by a hotel guest to YouTube this morning shows a chaotic scene with guests fighting police and a woman letting out blood-curdling screams. At least seven police officers can be seen on the video, one of whom repeatedly uses his baton to strike a wedding guest. The person who took the video, who says that it’s his birthday and he wishes the wedding guests would just go to bed, at one point asks “Did they just deck the bride?” Police said a 57-year-old guest, reported to be the uncle of the bride, was found unconscious outside of the wedding at 2:06 a.m. He was taken to Jefferson University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead of a heart attack at 2:51 a.m.

I tried to break this video down like the Zapruder film to try and find when the bride got decked. There's just too much going on to keep track of her.

And the uncle died?

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I wonder if any Wise County pastor took part in "pulpit freedom" Sunday by endorsing a particular candidate. I would think the answer would be "no". 
• The small plane crash that killed members of that Southlake family was simply awful. I fear the small plane.
• All heck broke out this weekend in MLB when the "infield fly rule" was called when a ball was hit to the outfield. Apparently most people didn't know, including me, that the rule can be invoked when a ball can be "caught by an infielder with ordinary effort". It doesn't say that the infielder has to be in the infield, however. 
• There was a Denton DWI "Hey, now" on Saturday followed by another one.
• TCU learned they weren't in the Mountain West this weekend. Even lowly Iowa State can put up a fight. 
• Someone posted a picture of Mount Rushmore this weekend. I don't know what it is about the photo, but it stopped me down as I thought about how amazing that monument is. 
• Mrs. LL participated in some "mud run" this weekend.    And I think she wore at tu-tu while she did it. 
• Ticket Fans: If you haven't seen a cross dressing Junior Miller interrupt Channel 8's morning show, you can do so here. (He walks across the screen in the beginning and reappears at 1:06). Edit: Link fixed.
• The doberman is gone. And the Family Cat acts like she has been released from prison. 
• Saw a kid in high school bobble the snap as the holder on a game tying extra point in the final seconds this weekend. I must be getting old, because all I could think about was how awful I felt for him. 
• That three part series in the Star-Telegram on the alleged murder of a Fort Worth attorney is pretty good. But the site is weird: I read part one yesterday without any trouble but this morning it is behind a paywall.

Predictions Revisited

Well, I feel your pain but I predicted the Rangers wouldn't win a post season playoff series. If they had won this game, I was prepare to argue that it wasn't a "series". Alas, I didn't even have to worry about that.

And what about this quote from Josh Hamilton about being booed :  “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you in your hometown, leave that town and shake the dust off your feet.''  For those who understand the reference, I hope you are shaking your head as much as I am.

Actual Post-Game Locker Room Photo

What was my other prediction? Oh, yeah, President Obama wins re-election.

If only I lived in Vegas.