NASCAR Mania

Fight begins around 1:30.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Video of General Petraeus' paramour.
• The timing of that scandal has absolutely nothing to do with Benghazi.
• I never would have believed the Aggies could beat Alabama in Alabama.
• "President Obama is not the Antichrist. But what I am saying is this: the course he is choosing to lead our nation is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist." - That crazy Robert Jeffress, senior pastor at the First Baptist Church in Dallas
• Is love cleaning up after your wife throws up violently?
• I think some Decatur moms did the gangnam dance at the pep rally on Friday but I haven't seen any pictures.
• There are some beautiful trees around right now but they just seem to last that way for a couple of days.
• Being hot is uncomfortable. Being cold kind of hurts.
• I told Mrs. LL that the couple in Breaking Bad kind of reminds me of us. She just kept saying, "Don't say that! Don't say that!" I think she knows something about the show that I don't. 
• The man who died in the house fire in Wise County over the weekend was named Henry Crowson.
• Florida was finally called for the President over the weekend bringing the final electoral college vote to 332 to 206.
• Does the county surveyor position in Wise County, which may or may not be immediately abolished, have a salary associated with it?

Bus Accident?

Sounds like there was one on Highway 114 at CR 4841. Eastbound shut down at that point.

Edit:

Not Much Info So Far

Link.

Tech Coach Not Pleased Yesterday

Morning Bridgeport Accident

Oh, my.

Above The Fold

New Aggie Uniform Taking You Into The Weekend

Job Opening: America's CIA Director

Story.

Texas Helmets For Saturday

By the way, I hate that style they've had for several years because of that vent at the end of the horn on left. It always makes me think that one horn is deformed and excessively long.

Former Channel 5 Anchor and Viral Video Star Arrrested

The highlight of the story has to be when he allegedly tells his girlfriend, "It's time for you to die like O.J."  I know what the guy meant, but the girlfriend should have replied, "You killed O.J.?"  Either it would have diffused the situation with a discussion about sentence structure. Or it would have ended very badly.

Dirk Singing Or Pretending He Is Indescribable Pain

London Jewel Heist

Story about it.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• There have been two arrests in the death of the Tanglewood homeowner who found the teenager dead after a botched robbery.  Recall his body was found in a burnt out car on what would have been the teenager's birthday. Police now believe he was strangled beforehand. 
• We had to dog sit three dogs last night due to an "emergency".  I felt like a Petsmart manager.
• Conservative talk radio is discussing everything from changing its stance on immigration and abortion to "finding a more attractive messenger to convince those people we are right."
• I never thought TCU and Kansas State the Aggies would do as well as they have in their new conferences but they've also done about as well as anyone could have predicted. (Does that make sense?)
• I just don't remember as a kid the temperature being in the 80s as high school football season came to an end.
• The first openly bi-sexual member of Congress is also a "Hey, Now."
• I've watched probably 15 minutes of Pee Wee football/practice over the last two years but some of the coaches are way too hard and physical with those kids.  (I was a TXI Mustang, by the way.)
• Kay Granger will speak in Rhome tomorrow. That's surprising. As in surprising she crosses the Wise County line.
• Darrell Royal retired from coaching at 52.  Mack Brown is 61. (And everyone says that this long article about Royal published this week is really good.)
• High school geometry looks harder than I remember.  And I saw words on a "biology spelling test" last night that I had never heard of. 
• "Mortgage giant Fannie Mae earned $1.8 billion from July through September [and] paid a dividend of $2.9 billion to the U.S. Treasury and sought no additional federal aid." Funny how all that worked out after all.
• Great photo of a model of the re-creation of the assassination of JFK. (If that makes sense.)
• I've seen one James Bond movie and that's because a girlfriend made me go see it in theaters. I don't even remember which one it was.
• The new outfits by the Mavs Dancers are catching attention. 

Someone Is Not Winning Graciously

Someone's wise guy Tumbler page here.

"The Case Of The Missing White Voter"

Drudge linked to this story today. That really is amazing. Projections are that 6.68 million white voters stayed home when compared to 2008.

Edit: Absolutely unrelated to the "white vote" (but interesting nonetheless), in Tarrant County the percentage of voters who cast "straight ticket" votes was 65.36%.  I still haven't heard a Wise County figure.

Diane Sawyer

Some people think she was drunk during election night, but now this video has surfaced of her apparently popping pills and drinking a little red wine before Primetime Live in the 1990s. In other news, she was smokin' hot back then.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Headline today: "Texas last fatality-free day on Texas roads was 12 years ago today." You'd think that would happen a heck of a lot more frequently than that. 
• Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh were all smiles and optimism yesterday.  I thought the future of America depended on the election?
• Mrs. LL got up at 5:00 to do swimming/exercise.  Then we almost hit each other as I left for work and she returned.
• The Fourth Grader in the House has yet to acknowledge that there are only two bunnies and not three in the cage.  She absolutely knows, though.
• Fox 4 had a story last night on a dilapidated trailer park in Parker County between Azle and Springtown.  It was awful. No one should have to live in those conditions. 
• The NFL channel had a one hour documentary on Jimmy Johnson last night. It was great. Man, it's fun to see him and Jerry Jones in the beginning.
• Maybe the best explanation of the election: There's just not enough old angry white guys.
• WBAP's Hal Jay keeps saying "We need to get back to an Andy Griffith way of life."  Chris Matthews would interpret that as "code" for something else.
• Heard by me: "It's yoyo for dinner." Me?: "Huh?" Her: "You're on your own."
• Heard a million times on the news yesterday: "Fiscal cliff."
• There's a Danny Thomas and a Burt Lancaster listed in the funerals in the Update today.
• Those Obama girls sure have grown up, haven't they?
• My blood sugar turned out not to be at a diabetes level but still high. I think I'm going to take a class on how to control it. 
• In honor of Darrell Royal, the Longhorns will line up in the wishbone on their first play on Saturday.  But I can't imagine them doing anything other than handing off to the fullback because running the true triple option isn't easy. And passing out of that formation would be very un-Royal like. 
• Sarah Palin was on Fox on election night and had a really drawn in face. 
• Ted Nugent on Obama's re-election: "I cry tears of blood for The Last Best Place & the warriors who died for this tragedy." "Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools." "What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives." Sheesh.