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The Sandy Hook Conspiracy

Since I randomly mentioned Sandy Hook this morning, I came across this video. Honestly, I've only watched about a minute (which probably caused brain damage), but this looks like it will be right up there with Loose Change.

And you want to know how many have clicked on it? Over 5.5 million.

Edit: Heck, there's a whole industry of these "films" out there:

Cute Baby At Church

This video has made it all the way to The Today Show and has over a half of a million views. It shows 17-month-old Ethan Anderson dancing at Calvary Church in Irving. His dad, Coffey Anderson, was performing at a New Year’s Eve concert.

Hey, it's cute but not that cute. I was more focused more on the question of why daddy was  singing Brown Eyed Girl in church. Or maybe he had tricked up the lyrics and I just couldn't understand them. 

Pat Robertson Just Throwing Down Some Truth

(That poor co-host. It seems like once a week she has to sit there and just suck up to that crazy guy as he fires off some hot opinion.)

Old News But I Don't Care

Miss New York won Miss America.

Random Monday Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Apparently some parts of the county are a skating rink while others are all clear.
• For about two minutes I was stuck next to an 18 wheeler as we both slid back and forth towards each other. That was stressful. 
• The suicide at Vista Ridge mall yesterday was unnerving. 
• But the suicide of a Fort Worth pediatrician  might by applauded by some. 
• There are actually people who believe that the Newtown shooting was planned by the White House in order to ban guns.
• I wonder if Oprah ever got around to asking Lance Armstrong any questions after she got through talking about herself. 
• Cute puppy dog up for adoption at the Wise County Animal Shelter. (Facebook.)
• The Gangsta Mobile is in the shop awaiting for diagnosis. We had to get a rent car and ended up with a Camaro. I want it. 
• My routine is now seriously in the ditch (figuratively speaking.)

Oh my

Random Thoughts Delayed Because 287 is a Parking Lot

What The Heck Is This Thing On The Square This Morning?!?!

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I woke up 15 minutes late this morning. Man, that messes up my routine which I have down to the minute.
• Mrs. LL's Gangsta Mobile might be having transmission problems or, hopefully, computer problems that control the transmission. She lost power on the highway but it's now running smoothly. If it's a transmission problem it's not going to fix itself, right? We'll find out today.
• Was that sleet? Tiny hail? 
• The Golden Globes was/were on last night, and I say this every year: It is 50 times better than the Oscars.
• I can't stop laughing at this: Tommy Lee Jones was not happy last night at the Golden Globes and someone compared him to "grumpy cat". 
• And Jodie Foster's speech last night after receiving some lifetime achievement award was confusing and almost indescribable  I think she said, "I've been doing this all my life, it has been so hard, I'm done." Cry me a river.
• Sports: (1) That may have been the best NFL weekend ever, (2) the touchdown pass by the Ravens with about 30 seconds left truly had me saying, "You've got to be kidding me", (3) the 49ers put in the option read for QB Colin Kaepernick and he turned into a bigger and (maybe) faster RG3, and (4) Mrs. LL was yelling at the TV yesterday because her grandparents are huge Seattle fans -- she now has a hot sports opinion about trying to "ice the kicker", (5) did you notice that Fox's Second team (Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston and Tony Siragusa) were demoted this weekend and didn't announce a playoff game?
• Mrs. LL told me on Friday evening that she was going on a Girls Night Out on Saturday. Hey, I've seen Magic Mike, what the heck was going on?  But I learned it involved thirty (!) women who went out to eat and then to see a play based upon Footloose in the mid-cities. 
• My favorite Wise County pastor went on a rant about gays yesterday on Facebook. It's amazingly entertaining. (He later complained that his church attendance was as low as it had 
• An internet genius, who was only 26, has killed himself. 
• I really don't follow the "controversy" over the current Secretary of Defense nominee but I did love this comment this weekend: "He's nominated for Defense Secretary of the United States -- not Defense Secretary of Israel."
• I've always found it odd how the Right Wing will go the mat over Israel but also believe no Jew will get into Heaven. 
• I'm still on my X-Box kick.  Bought a family oriented sports game which caused me to yell at some little cartoon girl who was killing me in tennis. 
• Mark Cuban inherited Dirk. If you think Jerry Jones doesn't know what he's doing, just wait once Dirk is gone. You are beginning to see the fraud that is Mark Cuban. 

Django Unchained

Mrs. LL and I went to the 7th Street Movie Tavern on Saturday on the first leg of a month long trifecta where we are going to try and see three Best Picture nominees. You obviously know the first one. The others are Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln.

First things first. I don't think I'll ever go to a theater again that doesn't have food service. In fact, I don't think I've been to anything else in the last three years. Secondly, 7th Street has reserved theater seating over the Internet. Man, I'm all over that concept.

I'm also a big fan of Quentin Tarantino movies. Pulp Fiction is at the top of my list with Reservoir Dogs being a distant second. Death Proof might fight for the second spot as well as a quasi Tarantino flick called True Romance. I liked the Kill Bill flicks and InInglorious Bastards but, overall, slightly disappointed.

This movie? Fantastic. The basic premise is that of a bounty hunter (a great German character played by Christoph Waltz) who searches for and "finds" a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx who is beyond great in this role) to assist him in identifying three former evil plantation hands who have become wanted by the U. S. Government. The next plot is a search across the South to find Foxx's character's wife -- a slave who has been sold to an unknown but eventually discovered plantation owner played by Leonardo Dicaprio.

As to be expected, it is bloody -- very bloody -- and shocking. But it also has some incredibly funny and tender moments. If you like Tarantino, you'll loved this. If not, stay away.

And, finally, the "n word" is launched about a hundred times in this movie -- appropriate if you want to capture America back then (and now?). But that dialog can be uncomfortable. Especially for me once I noticed the inter-racial couple at the end of the row.

Above The Fold

Gal With Glasses Taking You Into The Weekend

Ugh

An historic home in Grapevine this morning caught fire. There are varying reports, but the house was built around 1900.  The top pic is from Google Streetview. The second was taken this morning per Facebook.

Snake On An Actual Plane

Story.

Fat Kid Sinks Last Second Three Pointer

I've got to admit, I'm confused by this video. Did this kid have the OK from the coach to launch that shot? Was the game firmly in hand? This looks like some spare weekend game but we've got two professional looking refs. Is that the word "church" around the center circle? And is that a chick in red jersey #42? And that kid in the plaid shirt who comes running in at the end sure is focused on  hugging.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• "The Texas attorney general's office has ruled that Tarrant County must make public information related to a sexual harassment complaint filed against District Attorney Joe Shannon." About a year ago, the DA's office hired a Public Information Director who I have dogged constantly as being nothing more than a mouthpiece for a re-election campaign.  Now we'll learn if I'm wrong. What will she say, if anything, about this?
• Mrs. LL waited up past midnight to open our house up to a couple (relatives on her side of the family) who are in the metroplex to begin an adoption process this weekend. At least I think she did. When I left this morning the guest bedroom door was shut, and I assumed there were people in there. 
• Nothing makes a house cleaner than having guests come over. You are all invited for the rest of the year. 
• Thoughts on the Cowboys hiring of 72 year old Monte Kiffin as defensive coordinator: (1) I guess his age doesn't bother me, but I can't convince myself, (2) He's the father of the "Tampa 2" defense (which I truly don't understand) but I'll credit The Ticket's Jake Kemp with a great line yesterday: "He invented a defense 20 years ago to stop the West Coast Offense that no one runs anymore", and (3) I wouldn't hire him because of his idiot son. 
• What a horrible fire: Four people, three of them children, dead in Haltom City. But there's something weird about that one. It looks like it was a small fire that was contained inside the house but filled the place up with toxic smoke. It occurred in the afternoon. My internal "something ain't right" alarm is going off. 
• The NRA and Joe Biden met yesterday. Afterwards, the NRA said that the Administration could now check the box that reads "met with the NRA" and now they'll "do what they want." Even I agree with that.
• The Wise County Republicans are holding a raffle with a chance to win a .22 rifle with a scope. Timing, people. Timing. 
• 71 degrees this afternoon. 39 degrees tomorrow afternoon. (But I'll never utter that "Texas Weather" cliche which is like nails on a chalkboard to me.)
• There's a lot of talk about the Second Amendment and what the "well regulated militia" phrase means.  A couple of year's ago the Supreme Court interpreted that Amendment and, although I haven't read it, I suspect the opinion contains a first rate history lesson. 
• I see lots of headlines about a "trillion dollar coin" in connection with the debt ceiling debate, but I've not clicked on a single headline. 
• I know I keep mentioning the X-Box and Kinect, but I continue to be amazed. You manipulate menus by sweeping your hands right to left. It is right out of Minority Report. (But I actually yelled at my virtual trainer in my exercise program last night when he said, "Come on. Don't stop on me" when the device detected that I wasn't completing an an exercise routine.)
• And apparently the Kinect is a big player in Paranormal Activity 4.  Mrs. LL, a huge fan of the series, will freak out. 
• Wow. Hunter S. Thompson and I have the exact same daily routine. 

"I’m a gunman and my target is on the inside."

Love this guy. This former firefighter went to the Celina Elementary School yesterday and made the above statement along with some others in order to test "the district’s security at his child’s school and wanted to expose weaknesses."

The school, and local police, were not amused.

He kind of reminds me of someone else who would do something similar.

"Fact: Celina Elementary is not secure."