Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

1.10.2013

This Gun Battle Is Very Nuanced

Random Thought: Time Travel

"If time travel were to one day be possible, why don't we run into people now who have traveled back in time to us?"

I'm not a science fiction guy, but I like this question. My first inclination was to answer that if time is a train, then we are simply at the front of the train and there's no one in the future who could "come back" to us.

But if time travel were to be invented tomorrow and I were to go back to, say, 1953, wouldn't the people of 1953 have believed up until that point were in the front of the train as well? So can we safely assume that we are in front of the train?

(Side note: Want to feel old? In Back To The Future II, Marty was transported into the future with a specific date of October 21, 2015.)

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

We had our carpets cleaned yesterday and they look fantastic. Check back with me in a couple of months, however.
Elections have consequences.
That being said, they are not coming for your guns. This crazy hysteria out there has those not suffering from the hysteria shaking our heads in amazement.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who may be nuttier than Rick Perry or David Dewhurst, even quoted Hitler last night to pander to the Far Right.
Who out there thinks the government should not provide flu shots to children who are not insured?
Mark Davis had a legitimate thought this morning: Any chance those who sell the flu vaccine/medicine are behind this flu panic in the news? I sure would like to own the company that sells Tamiflu.
Oscar nominations this morning for Best Picture: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Silver Linings, Zero Dark 30, Lincoln, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Amour, Django, Argo. How many of those have I seen? None of them.
But, man, look at this list of Who's Who for Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tommy Lee Jones, and Christopher Waltz.
I watched Best Funeral Ever last night (filmed in Dallas, by the way.) That's not real, is it?
Mrs. LL was shocked that anyone would ever write out a prayer in advance.
Any commercial that uses the phrase "what they don't want you to know" is an absolute tune out for me.
Very delayed: There will be graveside services Sunday for Samantha Jo McNorton who was found murdered in Wise County in November. (The suspect, David Malone, later killed himself in the Wise County Jail.)
Ninety percent of drug related arrests in Texas are for possession.
I think the college head coaching job at a major college (Texas, Alabama, Florida, etc.) is a heck of a lot better job than an NFL head coaching position.
I don't understand this lengthy hearing for the Aurora shooter to determine if there "is enough evidence" in order for him to stand trial. I wish we had that right in Texas which, for all practical purposes, we don't.
Arguments were held in the Supreme Court yesterday on whether the cops can draw a DWI suspect's blood without a warrant because of the urgency created by the evidence of alcohol dissipating in the bloodstream. The State's attorney received a haymaker right out of the gate when one of the Justices asked him, "How come it took so long for this State to figure out that it needed to do this without a warrant?" Meaning, getting a search warrant has been good enough and fast enough in the past so what has changed?

1.09.2013

The Drudge Report: Always Measured And Reserved

Ok, folks. Turn in your rifles on Thursday, shotguns on Friday, and handguns on Monday. The White House has to take the weekend off to form a New World Order and write a new constitution based upon Sharia Law.

Sheesh.

That's Supposed To Be A Signature

And not just any signature. It belongs to Jack Lew who today was nominated to become Secretary of the United States Treasury. So you know what that means? This:

Credit.

People Can Be In Horrific Pain

Turned out to be this lady, wife of the pastor of the Park Cities Presbyterian Church of Dallas:

The Dallas Observer reviewed the situation today and a column that was written about the death in the Dallas Morning News. The author questions calling the underlying reasons that cause suicide to always be a "mental disease": "But I do have a mini-rant to offer on the assumption that suicide is automatically and always a symptom of disease. What if people really do have overwhelming problems they can't overcome? And here is the really tough one: what if they just don't want to be alive anymore?"

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Has Decatur's Firehouse Gym out on 287 shut down? Seems to have an empty parking lot this week.
Decatur's Wise Regional Health System recently announced a new hospital in North Fort Worth. Yesterday, HCA North Texas announced plans of a $71 million hospital pretty close to it.
This time I think all this flu talk is based more reality than just the typical hype. (And don't you freak out a little if you believe you are beginning to feel anything other than normal?)
On Cowboy's firing of defensive coordinator Rob Ryan: I won't miss him, not sure he deserved to be fired, but I'm not sure he should have ever been hired.
I'm not sure why everyone got so bent out of shape about Brent Musburger's comments about the girlfriend of Alabama's quarterback. You can't mention that a girl is hot any more?
I went through a preliminary workout with the Xbox using some Nike program. Sheesh. I'd rather run five miles any day. But I'm seriously thinking about retiring from jogging and going to some other fitness routine. Just seems time to move on.
I thought I was just kidding about building an ark.
You always here about some shooting at some spare bar in the parking lot of some seedy Dallas bar but last night a guy was killed in the evening hours at Red Rock Bar at Midway and Frankford. That's a pretty high tone area. To make the story more bizarre, it occurred on the patio of the bar after an argument.
When did Ruben's Ballroom on 380 towards Denton become the Crazy Horse?
After hearing everyone talk about it, I recorded Best Funeral Ever on The Learning Channel last night. Haven't watched it yet.
And I caught the first ten minutes of Frost/Nixon last weekend. Man, that really got my attention. Politics. Media. History. It's almost a trifecta for me.
Alabama playing the Aggies on September 14th this Fall might end up being the most hyped game ever. (And how did the Aggies manage to get eight home games next year?)

1.08.2013

Above The Fold

A Single Digit Loss

The new Perot Museum Of Nature and Science in Dallas sounds fantastic. But about a week ago a wall of silence went up after a patron had suffered some type of injury on some type of interactive exhibit. The museum wouldn't say anything else.

Until this afternoon. Someone lost a finger. Oh, my.

Reunion At Wise County Animal Shelter

And look at that little thing in the background.

Gals Switch Channel From National Championship Game To "The Bachelor"

Thanks, Mrs. LL.

Someone Was Excited About Baseball Season

The official Dallas Cowboys twitter feed was not impressed. Story.

Couple Buys House For $500. Finds It Torn Down.

You hear stories like this all the time. Some demolition crew tears down the wrong house, someone mistakenly buys the wrong property, and in this case it looks like their new house was demolished after a tax auction. Regarding the details, I don't really care. I just love this picture. He has the most beaten down look on his face in the history of ever. She has a subtle I'm-Dating-An-Idiot look.

Heck, that $500 is worth the story to tell your friends. (And it kind of ruins the story to read that the $500 was refunded. Maybe he's just a beaten down guy in general.)

There was a commercial before the National Championship game which featured the actor who played "Rudy". I mentioned it to Mrs. LL. She was confused because she thought I was talking about Rudy from the Cosby Show.
There are rumors floating around that RG3 will need knee surgery and will be out 12 to 16 months. In this day and age where the NFL proclaims that player safety is its number one priority, I'm beyond angry.
Alabama's quarterback seems like a nice young man with a hot girlfriend, hot mom, but one freaky chest tattoo.
In case you haven't heard, we might want to build an ark based upon the amount of rain we are about to get.
I think the Little Kid In The House (who is staying until Friday!) and Mrs. LL are about to go to war. They can only stay cute for so long, right?
It was announced yesterday that our state government has an $8.8 billion surplus. Thanks for the conservative Texas GOP for not taxing us too much.
If you heard the Al Roker story from yesterday, you may never want to watch Al Roker again. That is beyond bizarre to tell that story.
The Eighter From Decatur apartments caught on fire yesterday. That wasn't the first time.
Just think: President Obama's second term hasn't even started yet.
The Family Unit bought some Dance Game for the X-box. Let me tell you, it ain't American Bandstand. It's all set in a club of your choosing. And let me tell you, it's not Frilly's or Bono's.
The 911 operator who took the call from the guy in Grapevine who said he "might have two dead teenagers in his house" sounded like he almost passed out from shock. Don't blame him. (But they will never be able to tag the other surviving kid in the house with Criminally Negligent Homicide for not getting help in time -- there's just not going to be enough evidence.)