I'm Not The Biggest Fan Of These Kind Of Things

But that one wasn't bad.

Rasslin' Is Doing a Tea Party Bit!

From The Dallas Observer: Pro wrestling and Glenn Beck are in a fight . . .  WWE has invented two "Tea Party" villain characters named Zeb Coulter and Jack Swagger. They wear safari vests, hate illegal immigrants, and are real bullish on President's Day . . . . 

It's all very subtle. Slate pretty much calls this one, terming it a blatant publicity stunt. As opposed to the stuff WWE does to promote literacy and fight world hunger. [BSG note: That was funny.]

Several people, probably the ones you'd expect, have taken the bait. Alex Jones and his InfoWars folks got pissed off about it first. Beck leapt on the bandwagon shortly thereafter, asking "Did George Soros buy the WWE?"

My head is spinning. I never watch the WWE (that's some wrestling acronym) so I had no idea this was going on.  I was expecting Zeb and Jack to be over the top, but they pretty much sound like Tea Partiers. Right? So why is Glenn Beck mad? Doesn't he pretty much preach the same message? Sheesh. Cats chasing dogs. The world is going crazy. 

Bomb Threat At Devon Gas Plant This Morning

Developing . . . . (although this is probably about as much as it develops.)

And  this gives rise to a flashback:

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Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• This picture (Facebook) was making the rounds yesterday of tumbleweeds attacking a house in Midland due to the high winds. Pretty amazing. 
• The wind! The cold! I think Puxatony Phil has some explaining to do.
• This is Randy Galloway's column printed 24 years ago today and the day after Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys (at age 46!).  "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. Key yourself down. The NFL oil patch just isn't that easy. And just because you own the Cowboys, and your pal Jimmy Johnson will coach your new team, that certainly doesn't translate into instant success and the glory days of old. 'Jimmy Johnson is worth five first-round draft picks,' Jones said. Jerry, you have so, so much to learn."
• I played online beach volleyball on the X-Box this weekend and somehow I turned on a "chat feature" where I could hear the other people. It sounded like a little girl being coached by her dad to play. I let her win and she was so excited it was as if she won the lottery. I was almost teary eyed as I told the rest of the Family Unit about it, but they didn't seem as impressed.
• And, yes, wise guys. I let the little girl win. 
• A United States Assistant Attorney in open court: "You've got African Americans, you've got Hispanics, you've got a bag full of money. Does that tell you - a light bulb doesn't go off in your head and say, `This is a drug deal?'" A Supreme Court justice was none too pleased with the remark this week. 
• I've got to update my blog list on the side since everyone is getting locked out. It's as private as the CIA over there. 
• After one year in the Big 12, West Virginia is now complaining about the travel issues. Did they just pull out a United States map for the first time? ("Such as").
• Yesterday The Hammer explained, kind of, why he was off The Fan for over a week. It was a "mental issue" and a "physical issue" that kept him locked in his room in seclusion for a week. And he never called anyone to tell them. He even said, "Honestly, I don't know if I'll be able to keep doing this job." That is one tormented soul.
• That's the best picture the Amarillo paper could come up with ? . . . 

Semi vs. Loves In Rhome Today

Britney Spears Killing It At Oscar Party Last Night

Attagirl.

Third Grade Basketball Game

I can't believe the Internet is buzzing about this video.  A "half court shot for the win" some have said. Hardly. Those little sissies aren't even running up and down the whole court. Come on! Kind of like they made up their own rules. On the mean streets of Bridgeport back in the day, this was simply unacceptable.

And doesn't anyone care that the kid traveled? It looked like the NBA. Somebody should have blown the whistle and broken little Mason's heart. He's going to need to start getting used to it after he graduates from the All White League.

And what up with this chick celebrating? It's a bunch of spare third-graders. Nothing to be proud of there. We need some guys to step up and have a little scene control in that gym. That place is sports chaos!

The American Pasttime

You know, I thought this was just an average and boring baseball fight until they showed us how it started. Now that was a serious punch. That's how you know these are college teams. Ain't no one doing that in the major league.

Amarillo By (This) Morning

Amarillo By (This) Morning

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I watched only a small portion of the Oscars last night. Seth MacFarlane was funny but a little stiff. And, man, he looks younger than thought..
• No "sport" cheapens itself more than NASCAR. The "start your engines" by actor James Franco was sponsored by his upcoming movie.
• The Family Unit bet on which lap would be the one with the first wreck. Felt a little morbid yet funny. Mrs. LL won. 
• Those ATT commercials with the guy sitting around with a group of kids are funny.
• Mrs. LL is now obsessed with going on a diet based upon nothing but vegetables blended into a drink. She even made me watch a documentary about it. 
• I watched most of a documentary on Showtime about The Eagles this weekend. As cool as their background is, they produced the most generic music in the history of ever. 
• After almost 20 years, I've stopped running. I've substituted it with a an Xbox Nike fitness routine which has introduced me to burpees and mountain climbing. Running is easier. 
• That being said, I had the craziest slow-motion-old-man-fall into a lawn chair in the back yard as I was catching a football on Saturday. 
• The Ticket's Junior Miller's wife was on Shark Tank on Friday. She was hot but not as hot as I thought she would be. (But, man, that show is awful.)
• The Wise County "shoot a hog" contest now has a new leader as 399 pounds of bacon has now been killed. 
• DPS will get $2.6 million to fund their silly Rio Grande gun boats next year. 
• Airplane was on TV on Saturday morning, and it still makes me laugh out loud. And now Mrs. LL understands why I've told for years, "Good luck. We're all counting on you," whenever she leaves the house. 

Above The Fold

Hair Tutorial Taking You Into The Weekend

This Morning At The Texas Legislature

Guy tries to sit at a senator's desk. (Source)

I Hate Change

They've installed new locks on the Wise County Courthouse outer doors.

Edit: We've now got instructions on how to get out.

(Anybody got the code?)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Boyd's own Greg "The Hammer" Williams has been absent from 105.3 The Fan for a couple of weeks and no one knows why. Uh oh. 
• I'm not sure the multiple media appearances by the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas in light of the Tebow controversy makes anyone want to go to his church. That guy just creeps me out. 
• The Christian Right is being merciless in their dogging of Tebow for "buckling to worldly pressure."  I don't know, maybe he learned that the pastor has said that the re-election of President Obama would "pave the way" for the Antichrist and began to question just how biblical his messages are.
• Jesus spent almost all of his time ministering to the poor, sick, and afflicted. The First Baptist of Dallas just spent $115 million on construction including an elaborate fountain. 
• A drive-by in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip caused a crazy scene and a lot of deaths yesterday morning. It occurred right between the Bellagio and Caesars. 
• The snowstorm moving into the Northeast has been named "Q". So very odd. 
• A teenager in Rockwall sped at over 100 miles per hour on a highway while talking to 911 and claiming there was nothing he could do to stop the car. The whole story has an underlying feeling of, "Yeah, right kid."
• I think "Sixto" is a cool Spanish name. 
• "A rabbit tattoo clinic is 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the [Decatur] Extension Office." What's the purpose of that again?
• These automatic budget cuts ("the sequester") are just a tiny drop in a big budget bucket, right?
• I'm already hearing commercials about learning how to "flip houses." We'll never learn. 
• Just announced: The Blade Runner will be granted bail. 

Tailgating Warning

I don't know why I think this is so funny, but I do. I love the name "powermove". The shirt and tie. The racing gloves. The toothpick (?).

To quote Drexl Spivey from True Romance, "Y'know what we got here? [Expletive deleted] Charlie Bronson."

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