If Sen.Ted Cruz Wrote This, It's Going To Be A Wild Ride

Complete letter.

A Couple Of Unrelated "Wows"

In Case Your Phone Isn't Ringing

Media Day At The Superbowl

Mrs. LL's Television Debut In "Dallas" Last Night

The back of her head made it.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• 730 South of Decatur is shut down right now due to a jackknifed tractor trailer. 
• Got to love the guy who tried to impersonate a fire marshal in order to avoid a $10 cover charge at the Glass Cactus in Grapevine.
• Todd Staples was on the Mark Davis Show this morning. He's the Texas Ag Commissioner running for Lieutenant Governor. He's also a guy who refers to himself in the third person to a nauseating degree.
• What a weird day: We've got a Red Flag Warning for potential fires with an 80% chance of rain as well. 
• The guy who shined a laser into a Dallas PD helicopter was described as was described on Fox 4 News last night as wearing only boxers and smoking a cigarette. Heather Hays tried to make a joke out of it but everyone laid out on her.
• The Tarrant County DA is taking heat for the "no fault" settlement of a sexual harassment claim. But, as expected, the taxpayer spokesman for his office was defending him in a "statement" released to news outlets. However, that statement is conspicuously absent from the archive page of news releases.
• When a dispatcher sends out a "second tone" to a local fire department in Wise County, does that mean no responded to the first?
• That monkey that Iran says it sent into space may be the saddest looking monkey ever. 
• The conservatives don't sound too excited about proposed immigration reform. 

From My Email Bag

Former Texas Ranger "Josh Hamilton stuck his head in my mom's car last night. probably more to the story but that's all I know."

Say what??????

I've Got To Get Me These Shorts!

Director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)

Park Cities Kid Kills A Pig

Reed Graff is a second-grader at Armstrong Elementary in Highland Park, and presumably enjoys a good juice box, some down time with a video game, and the finest of cookies. He also likes shooting feral hogs with guns as big as him.

There's nothing particularly remarkable about this video other than the unusual bags under the kid's eyes and his gun safety habit of sticking his head in front of the the barrel. 

Our Dog Is This Dumb And This Happy

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• We saw Zero Dark Thirty this weekend. Review will be forthcoming, and I'm definitely in the minority on this flik. 
• Any suggestions about the Florida beaches in the Panhandle?
• There was a time in my life that dogs really did disgust me. Now I kind of want one around me at all times. 
• We were watching some awards show last night, and I tried to shut down the house (unsuccessfully) because the great and white haired Dick Van Dyke was receiving a lifetime achievement award. Afterwards, Mrs. LL said, "I can't believe they didn't show any of the clips from him in the Naked Gun movies."  It might have been the most awkward household moment ever.
• Former WBAP host Mark Davis is becoming a borderline religious zealot nut.
• A bat attacked a college basketball game this weekend. 
• The lack of football began to sink in this weekend. Not that I'd watch it if it were on, but I just like to have the option. 
• The Brazilian nightclub fire fire that killed at least 238 people was horrific. (Irrelevant Side Note: All club-goers that got out seemed to not have shirts on.)
• I've heard that in north Fort Worth a former huge grocery store is being converted into a "satellite church" for crazy pastor Ed Young's Fellowship Church. That means he'll be broadcast on a screen. Idiocracy.
• Dallas debuts tonight. Mrs. LL will be in the crowd scene when Sue Ellen makes a campaign appearance. (Unless the scene ends up in the cutting room floor which would also mean that Mrs. LL will end up on the living room floor.)
• I forgot to mention that at the Stock Show I met a lady who seemed to be in charge of "Bond's Ranch" as in the Bond's Ranch that is the basis of Bond's Ranch Road. 
• The Obama re-election and the Benghazi story petering out may put the Far Right in therapy.
• I'm seeing a headline that a person was arrested in Dallas for shining a laser at a Dallas Police Department helicopter. Without reading the story, how in the world could they ever find him?

Above The Fold

Taking You Into The Weekend

How's That Texas Small Government Working Out For You?

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The Texas Supreme Court handed down an opinion today which really concerns practice and procedure in Summary Judgment proceedings but before you fall asleep: Read those facts. The State of Texas is trying to take a Lincoln Navigator and over $90,000 in cash because some dumb drug dog "alerted" on the money during a traffic stop. Puhleeeze.

And how in the world can the State justify detaining the guy in the first place to wait for the drug dog? Everyone loves the Second Amendment around here but no one cares about the Fourth.

Incredible.

Someone Steal Some Booze?

40th Anniversary Of Roe v. Wade

I'm not sure I understand this. At all.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• A Girl Scouts meeting banished me to one of the corners of the house last night. That was OK.
• The Dallas Police actually had a heck of a rescue this morning after some incapacitated drunk/fool/poor-in-health driver went into Bachman Lake. I'm not sure what I would worry more about: The lake water drowning me or the lake water's pollution. 
• "Stunt airplane in Lancaster swoops near people on runway in video, raising safety concerns."
• We had the neighbor cat sit on the ledge of our upstairs bedroom window which caused quite the commotion once it was discovered in the middle of the night.
• I was surprised to see former great UT placekicker Russell Erxleben charged by the Feds yesterday for running a Ponzi scheme. I was even more surprised when I read the story to find out he's already spent time in federal prison for the same thing years earlier.
• Mrs. LL is sneezing like a fool, and I have diagnosed the problem as records levels of Mountain Ceder (which used to kill me but which I've suddenly become immune to it.)
• A 22 year old was killed by police after shoplifting at a Target in Grand Prairie. Hope that was justified. I think this may be the kid's Facebook page. Lots of Christian thoughts on it as of late.
• Bridgeport's Kassandra Davila's book in photo in the Update yesterday was a happy one. 
• Not so fast: Now it sounds like it was a female impersonating Te'o's girlfriend. (Mrs. LL was reading Deadspin in bed this morning. I don't know her anymore.)
• Drug bust for meth in Newark yesterday. Other news: Sun will rise in the East today.