Radio Guy Mark Davis With Two Rockettes This Morning

The Rockettes are performing at the Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie right now.

(Who knew they wore those outfits even when not working?)

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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• How long have there been fuses in Christmas light strings? 
• The guy behind the failed Rick Perry campaign and the failed David "Chinese Ads" Dewhurst campaign now says that the Republican Party does not need to re-invent itself. That probably means the Republican Party should re-invent itself. 
• A guy goes through an SMU dorm offering free massages. He was arrested for criminal trespass since it's not illegal to offer free massages. 
• Here's my favorite sentence from that story: "One student claimed that Kim touched her inappropriately during a massage." So someone took him up on it?
• I've never watched Homeland but everyone is griping about how horrible the last episode was.
• Last night everyone began to freak out because Syria was getting extremely close to launching chemical weapons on the rebels. This sounds frighteningly serious.
• I've got a tiny, tiny chip on a tooth but it is like a magnet for my tongue. 
• I learned of three marriage/relationship breakups yesterday of people I'm acquainted with. Kind of jarring.
• I was not allowed by the Freshman In The House  to season hamburger meat (with some package that said add it and water to meat and bring to boil) because she thought I would screw it up.
• No one is coming to take your guns away. 
• The murder victim in the murder/suicide by the Kansas City Chief will be buried today in a tiny town in Collin County, Texas. 
• Bob Sturm on The Ticket yesterday explained how every year he and a group of guys visit a Guatemalan orphanage.  Man, his description makes it sound so shocking. (And he has done more than just visit, he adopted a Honduran child a couple of years ago.) 
• Johnny Manziel (Aggie quarterback and future Heisman winner) turns 20 today. 20!
• Ann Coulter was on Hannity last night. I'm convinced she does meth. And I'm serious. 

Penn State Sorority Isn't Helping The School's Image

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Viral Video Of The Day

Kids might want to get back to Chess class. This may be the worst high school video ever.

Chick Runs Over Ex-Boyfriends Momma After Break Up

AUSTIN (KXAN) - An Austin woman is in a host of trouble after a less-than-amicable breakup, according to police.

Police said she called her ex-boyfriend hundreds of times a day and severely injured his mother with her car. According to a police affidavit, 22-year-old Elizabeth Segundo McClain is accused of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and stalking.

Court records indicate McClain texted her ex-boyfriend on Nov. 4 -- which also happened to be her birthday --  126 times in a row. All were blank text messages, except for two that read, "Annoying Uh?"

Police said McClain on Monday sent 50 blank text messages to her 25-year-old ex-boyfriend and then a series of messages suggesting that she was at his home. Less than 30 minutes later, the ex-boyfriend allegedly received a text message from his mother’s boyfriend saying McClain just hit his mother with her car. Two minutes later, police said McClain sent a text message to her ex-boyfriend saying, "How’s Life LOL." (More)

The ex-boyfriend needs to call me because I've got some advice for you: This is just the beginning. Women are crazy. And if you date a hot chick for three years and don't put a ring on her finger, there's going to be consequences. Big consequences. You are lucky if you just get a krillion phone calls and your momma run over --- things can get nuts. Remember when Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez burned down Andre Rison's house? So don't be whining. It's just the price players gotta pay.

Above The Fold

It Was Trooper Breakfast Day At Fuzzy's This Morning

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• There's just no way to ignore a bomb threat (Decatur ISD received one yesterday if you haven't heard), and I don't see how that will ever change. 
• The Update says the school is offering a $2,500 reward for an arrest and conviction of the suspect.  I'm not saying that's a bad idea, but I don't know how they have the authority to award tax funds as a reward. We've got a Crimestoppers funds which has to have tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars in it. 
• Breaking Bad fans: I'm all the way to "The Fly" episode. So far, I'm getting close to proclaiming this as the greatest show of all time, but I hope it doesn't jump the shark. 
• Kate Middleton's firstborn will trump Prince Harry in the succession line to the throne. If she had twins and if they were delivered by Cesarean section, the doctor's choice of which one to remove first trumps his twin sibling for that role. 
• Had a client charged with forgery out of Boyd who swore to me she didn't do it. I hear that all the time, but I believed her although the victim picked her out of a photo lineup. Yesterday, with the cooperation of the DA's office, we agreed to get the two together so the victim could see my client in person in order to see if the victim would actually be willing to testify in court that it was her who passed the check. He looked at my client for about 10 seconds and boldly said, "That's not her." The case was dismissed. Kudos to the DA's office. They could have declined that interview and offered a "take or leave it" plea bargain and made us risk going to trial to find out if the victim would ID her in court. 
• Some defense lawyers in other counties will think I'm nuts for agreeing to, in essence, a one person line up. But those guys have never practiced law in the same small town for twenty years. And those guys don't know if they can trust the prosecutor they are dealing with. 
• Haven't seen a James Wood Motors commercial in a while.
• Sports columnist Jason Whitlock is getting a lot of press in light of the Bob Costas' rant. That guy constantly brings out a flamethrower with over the top opinions. (He's also the guy who will tweet, "Hey, someone throw me a link to my most recent column" for some ultimate "look at me" attention.)
• I heard about the capital murder suspect in Dallas grabbing a deputy's gun and escaping from Parkland Hospital last night. I had no idea it was the guy who allegedly sexually assaulted a 16 year old and then tricked her into meeting him off Facebook in order to prevent her from testifying against him.  (He was captured, but I'm stunned he didn't off himself.)
• Christmas lights are more fragile than newborns.
• There's a new "viral" video of a kid crying about a sports issue. This time, a kid is told Mike Napoli  is leaving the Rangers to go to the Red Sox. Message to parents: You are a bad parent if you film your kid for the sole purpose of watching him cry on video in order to do a bit. 
• Now the New York Post is running front pages about its front page. 

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

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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? 

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)

Wise County Toy Ride

That poster from last week caused a small ruckus, but the turnout looks incredible.