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Oh, The Glamorous Life

DM –  An agitated murder defendant poured a cup of water over his attorney’s head during trial just as jurors were getting ready to start their deliberations. Jerome Power, 50, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, dumped the water on attorney Steve Addington, of Des Moines, catching Addington, jurors, and the judge off guard. Power, charged with first-degree murder, has been accused of strangling his 68-year-old neighbour, Doris Bevins, to death in her home on September 19, 2010. ‘It should have been a mistrial,’ Power shouted after dumping the water on Addington, ‘You sold me out!’

Go ahead. Watch L.A. Law, Law and Order, Matlock, or The Practice. The chances of the regular lawyer getting a cup of water poured on his head during the course of an average day is a heck of a lot more realistic.

P.S. What's up with this camera angle and the perfect photo? I'm not sure the photographer didn't slip ol' Jerome there a pack of smokes to give Mr. Addington an impromptu bath. 

This Is Some Blogger Named . . .

. . . Chloe Melas for some site named Hollywoodlife.com?  I've been doing this for years and the paparazzi never bothers me when I'm lounging around in my favorite speedo at Wise County Park.

No justice.

Well, There's Peace In The Middle East Again

Let me guess: "Israel, hereinafter knows as the Party of The First Part, and Hamas, hereinafter known as Party of the Second Part, do hereby pinky promise not to launch missiles into one another for at least a couple of days. And even though the Party of the First Part kind of likes retaliating with great vengeance and furious anger by pinpointing the driver's side of a car from a drone strike from miles away, it agrees to this ceasefire even though the Party of the Second Part has trouble hitting the broadside of a barn."

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Talked to someone who saw Lincoln last weekend. Gave it a big thumbs up. That's no surprise but I keep hearing, "It's not exactly like you would think." 
• I caught a little bit of Kevin Burns' Dust Bowl on PBS last night. And from the sounds of it, it'll happen again. 
• Israel has a great anti-rocket defense system. If I saw the news segment correctly, if multiple missiles are incoming, an anti-missle rocket launcher will target only those that are headed to a populated area.
• One of the rabbits made a break for it when I was out of town and found a hole near a kitchen baseboard. Mrs. LL and tow teenagers then removed a portion of it and sent the cat in to go get it. The repair job was actually pretty good.
• I got yelled at for eating a cookie yesterday when the Fourth Grader In The House turned me in to her momma.
• Those who go shopping on Black Friday (or Black Thursday) are crazy.  Those who camp out in advance of Black Friday are certifiable and have no idea about the value of time. 
• This morning Mark Davis called Walmart workers "punks" who were contemplating striking on Friday.
• WBAP had some guy on from Doomsday Preppers who said he's planning for the "social unrest" that is coming. Not surprisingly, he managed to plug a book and website. 
• Speaking of hacks, when did Oliver North jump the shark?  He was on Hannity last night going crazy over Israel and then said, "It all comes back to Benghazi." Say what? Fox News has become an Echo Chamber that borders on ridiculous.
• Sports: (1) Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big 10 yesterday Maryland and Rutgers?! (2) But I loved Maryland's president yesterday who said the move was about one thing: Money, (3) Yeah, I know the Lady Bears finally lost last week, (4) I've got the Longhorn Channel and it broadcasts UT's outdoor pep rallies every week -- the phrase "you can be louder than that!" is a common yell, (5) Mack Brown walks into it like he's the President greeting Congressman at the State of the Union, (6) UT basketball was beat by Chaminade last night. I hadn't heard "Chaminade" in years. 
• The picture of the home explosion in Indiana a week or so ago is amazing. And now they are calling it a homicide investigation.
• Prediction: Over the next four years the economy will rebound in a big way and it would have happened regardless of who had been elected President.
• I traveled I-35 through Temple on Friday and now this happens on Monday:

Oklahoma Teen Ordered To Go To Church For 10 Years . . .

. . . as a condition of probation after pleading to an Intoxication Manslaughter charge. In other news, a copy of the U.S. Constitution has apparently not made it to Oklahoma yet.

Westboro Baptist Showed Up At The Baylor Game This Weekend

But one guy snuck in and did a bit.

Messenger From The Weekend

When Did This Happen?

Funny.

Edit: "The President is not impressed." Now he's become the subject of photoshop.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I agree. That picture is a little weird.
• We've got a murder charge in Wise County. Here is the victim's Facebook page.
• I slept a bizarre amount this weekend. Not sure why.
• I was also basically off the Internet all weekend as well.
• I even slept through the first part of #1 Kansas State v. Baylor and only heard that an upset was happening when I was in the shower. I yelled. Mrs. LL then came scrambling up thinking I was in distress.
• A Bridgeport man is featured in an Ohio piece about the "father he never knew."
• I took the new tollway on the way home from San Antonio. 85 miles per hour is very fast -- especially when full trash bags would suddenly appear in the road.
• And troopers were everywhere. It was a ridiculous number of those guys.
• They are repaving one lane of I-35 in between Waco and Fort Worth. That was a beating.
• I made Mrs. LL watch Roadhouse this weekend. She was not impressed.
• I know Israel has a much better military than those around them, but they might want to be careful stirring up the millions of folks that surround them.
• I had the weirdest dream about hanging out with women who were in the Wise County Jail. 
• Conservative talk radio is in panic mode. 
• I'm hearing lots of bus about 60 Minutes last night. Something about an incredible Colombian drug organization and a segment on college football. 
• I don't understand any discussion about whether Texas can legally secede from the Union. It doesn't matter. That declaration would be more akin to an act of war than a divorce decree.

Miss Big Beautiful Woman International 2012 Taking You Into The Weekend

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Jeff Gordon's 42 Year Old Wife

This War Will Be Twitterized

Israel posts constant updates of its bombing of Gaza on Twitter.  It's like a "I just ate a sandwich" posting by a military.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• I would like to announce that I had the greatest spicy grilled chicken sandwich in the world yesterday. And I got it at a mall food court. At a place I had never heard of. 
• Four people dead when a train hits a float at a Veteran's Parade in Midland is beyond horrible. The trailer that was hit was carrying 26 passengers — 12 veterans, 12 spouses and two civilian escorts.
• Read more: Four killed, 16 injured in parade accident (+ Photo Gallery) - Mywesttexas.com: Top Stories http://www.mywesttexas.com/top_stories/article_28d27580-2fab-11e2-ac24-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2COiHz2jv 
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• John McCain is firing off all sorts of hot opinions lately. And this is the guy who thought Sarah Palin would be a good VP.
• I was in the elevator with a really fat guy yesterday who had to tell the person on the end of the phone that he had to do something like a race horse. Good to know.
• My seminar crowd is not the normal motley crew of defense attorneys. 
• Sat by a guy yesterday who spent 30 minutes working on a "Waiver of Arraignment" on his laptop. If you know what's involved in that, you'd laugh too.
• There are a million high school kids on the Riverwalk . What is going on?
• Had a loyal blog reader who emailed me and said that he runs a gas chromatography machine all time and he'd be happy to give me a demo. Absolutely.
• One of the speakers today might be the hottest lawyer I've ever seen in my life. She worked for Gerry Spence for a year?
• Conversation behind me: "We went down to the riverwalk and had some Mexican food." Other guy: "You were able to find Mexican food?" Reply: "Yeah, down by the river."
• I bet the leaves might be turning in the Hill Country.  A lazy drive through there sounds more attractive than the tollway (although I won't do it.) 
• Hostess announced it will go out of business this morning after a bakers' strike. I shed a tear for the Ding Dong.
• There were four people killed in Benghazi. I bet 98% of the population doesn't know that there were two separate incidents about a mile away from each other. Two were killed in one place and hours later two others were killed in another location. 
• I don't want to hear the 911 call from the woman who drowned last night when her car went into a pond in Fort Worth and sank. She had her 22 month old daughter with her.  Tell me the news stations up there didn't play it last night. Please. 

"Squatter" Sentenced This Morning

That's pretty far from that "possibly life" sentence the media kept hyping.

Reading For You (The Seminar Is Actually Good So Far)

This is an update on the Tanglewood teenager murder. I haven't read it yet but I'm guessing it's not bad.

• I'm typing this from a seminar hall in a hotel in San Antonio. Do you know how hard it is to find a Random Thought Girl with people possibly looking over your shoulder?
• I miss the Austin bypass right past Georgetown every time. (Make that twice.) It is horribly marked with no words like "tollway", "bypass", or "alternate route".
• I'm taking it on the way back, however. I'm even getting on the new section that comes in east of San Antonio which has an 85 mile per hour speed limit. Wouldn't surprise me to find Spritle and Chim Chim in my trunk.
• I'm at the Menger Hotel. Something about a ghost?
• I may have a ghost in my shower because something definitely made the hot water go to "burn your body" mode this morning.
• There was an Aggie receiver that has been missing since Monday who was found last night. They are releasing details in a second.
• I like "alone time" but I generally hate traveling alone. Weird.
• What's up with the outlet mall north of San Antonio. Has all the high tone names but I'm guessing it's a rip off. Right?
• I found a stuffed toy monkey in my baggage. Definitely the work of Mrs. LL.
• I used to attend these things and get a seminar notebook that was four inches thick. Now they give you a thumb drive.
• Topic at 10:00 a.m.: "Introduction to Gas Chromatography". Ugh.
• The thought of George P. Bush running for office (it looks like Texas Land Commissioner) powers me down.
• Anyone else tired of the Petraeus "scandal"?
• Nothing wrong with the Mark Schomburg murder plea bargain mentioned in the Update but the Tarrant County D.A.s office would have tried it just for publicity since it sounds so sensational. That would be wrong, but they would do it. 

Afternoon Pick Me Up: Twin Peaks Calendar Shoot

Not Lizzie Borden

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