Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

12.04.2012

Secret Video Of Wise County Toy Run

(Or it might be just some French journalist.)

Count The Errors

Portion of letter sent out by Northlake Municipal Court.

(Thanks PB.)

A Wise County Dog Was Adopted By A Guy Engaging In A Major Sports Violation!

Credit: Mrs. LL

It's Christmas

Story.

Our offense continues. Defense? We don't need no stinkin' defense.

Report: Bomb Threat At Decatur High School

Developing . . . .

Edit at 10:51 am: Bomb threat confirmed. School evacuated.

From the school: "This morning, the high school received a bomb threat. Although we feel that this is a hoax, we have taken the precaution of clearing the building and taking the students to the practice field while the fire department sweeps the building. As soon as we receive the 'all clear,' we will return to the building. Any students checked out will be counted absent. While we wait, students are escorted to Carson Elementary for restroom breaks. Students who are STAAR testing have been moved to Carson to finish their exams. As soon as the "
'all clear' is issued, we will post it on the website."

Bob Costas Double Downs On Gun Control Today

"Why do you need a semi-automatic weapon? What possible use is there for a citizen to have a semi-automatic weapon?"

I'll bet $100 he doesn't know the definition of "semi-automatic weapon."

What's The Deal With This Old Double Decker Deck Bus Sitting Off The Wise County Courthouse Square?

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

I'm going to take a pass on the Dallas (Half) Marathon this year. Maybe I'll do the one in Fort Worth in February.
The Family Cat vs. Christmas Tree war has begun. Hey, maybe the cat actually does engage in a "War On Christmas?"
The Bob Costas' rant about gun control reminds me of how much of a difference there is between how the North and the South think about guns. For instance, NFL player Plaxico Burris accidentally shot himself in the leg in a New York club. Down here, he'd probably get probation. Up there, he was sentenced to two years in prison (and that was even after a plea deal.)
Brady Quinn on the murder suicide involving the Kansas City Player: "We live in a society of social networks, with Twitter pages and Facebook, and that’s fine, but we have contact with our work associates, our family, our friends, and it seems like half the time we are more preoccupied with our phone and other things going on instead of the actual relationships that we have right in front of us. Hopefully people can learn from this and try to actually help if someone is battling something deeper on the inside than what they are revealing on a day-to-day basis.”
Random Thought That Hit Home Yesterday: Criminal law can be a gut wrenching business.
Some guy wrapped his Mercedes around some trees in Turtle Creek last night and was killed. His name was released but really the only thing you could learn about him was that he lived in a half million condo. Edit: I bet that's him.
You would think technology will improve over the next couple of decades to such an extent that with either holograms, glasses, and other technology that you could "experience" a location just like you were there. (I.e. Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel, the Super Bowl.) I mean it would be an experience that is 99% life-like.
If you missed RG3 on Monday Night Football last night, you missed a show. I was hopeful he would be good, but I had no idea he would be this fantastic in NFL. Then again, he can't be taking that beating that he has. One of these times his shoulder is coming out.
Hey Aggies, if you want a sure fire prediction site as to who will win the Heisman, this is it. My Sports Genius Prediction: It's Johnny Manziel in a landslide.
A 23 year old from Chico is listed in the death notices in the Update.
Two San Antonio Spurs have got to get fined for this Halloween picture showing them with fake guns at the head of a fake referee. Oh, my.
Fleetwood Mac has announced a reunion tour including Stevie Nicks. Are all the rest of them still alive?
Is the New York Post crossing the line?

12.03.2012

Yesterday In Canada: Speaking of Toys

Often imitated, never duplicated, the WHL's Calgary Hitmen's annual Teddy Bear Toss is the best spectacle in junior hockey, and it's for a good cause. Fans bring stuffed animals to the game, and upon the Hitmen's first goal, they're hurled onto the ice in an orgiastic torrent of plush. The bears are then donated to local hospitals and charities. (via Deadspin.com)

We babysat of Friday night. Before that night, I had a baby spit up on me maybe once in my life. I then went through four shirts before 10:00 p.m. I guess there's a reason you see that towel drooped over a mom's shoulder.
And we also ended up with two little kids. I had a first: I was offered a french fry dipped in syrup.
We started decorating the front lawn with Christmas stuff yesterday. Mrs. LL played Christmas carols which gave rise to a very cheesy setting -- but in a good way.
When did the ground get so hard?
Mrs. LL and the girls want me to see some Christmas design a few miles away but I'm a little worried when the Fourth-Grader-In-The-House said, "I'm not sure he should see it because he won't like our decorations after that."
I caught parts of The Terminal yesterday with Tom Hanks which I had seen before. It's pretty cheesy -- in a bad way.
Wrong way driver on 635 in Dallas this morning injures six.
Bob Costas has caused quite a stir because he went on a gun control rant during the Cowboys' game last night in light of the murder/suicide by the Kansas City Chiefs' player. Hey, it was just an opinion of one guy, but all the talk radio shows are acting like he's introduced legislation to ban handguns. (And get ready for crazy Ted Nugent to get all sorts of press today.)
And they are already blaming the murder/suicide on NFL concussions?
The "Paradise model" got in a wreck over the weekend.
Mrs. LL and the girls went to see the Nutcracker at the Tarrant County Convention Center. All of them said it was very "amateurish" except for about two dancers.
Mitt Romney had lunch with the President this weekend at the White House. Free government lunch?
It's December of 2012. That 12/21/12 guy has been posting in here for what I bet is at least three years. Finally that date will arrive.
Sports: (1) Baylor beat OSU in football and Kentucky in basketball at the exact same time on Saturday. I was giddy. (2) How UT does not have a quarterback on the roster is a great mystery of the universe. (3) College football hit of the week. (4) The BCS does a good job of putting #1 vs. #2 together, but other than that it is a mess. Northern Illinois is the Orange Bowl? (5) Baylor is going to the Bridgepoint (not Bridgeport) Holiday Bowl which I hate. It's a Thursday and I've been to San Diego and that stadium before. Hard to justify going again. (5) TCU hung tight against OU and is a really good team, but they now have four losses.
There was a Rhome man killed in a wreck this weekend according to the Update. Doesn't it seem a little premature for a trooper to say, "He was likely intoxicated"?