And He Wasn't Even Pointing The Camera In The Right Direction

Stumbled On The Mike Huckabee Show This Weekend

It's the antithesis of the old Sesame Street song of "One of these things is not like the other."

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• The "speaks volumes" commenter on here has to be in elementary school, right?
• How the NFL gets away with charging for preseason games is one of life's great mysteries. How the TV ratings for those things are high is another one. 
• Snake Eyes, a fairly old movie with Nicholas Cage, is equally great and horrible. (I stumbled upon it on cable this weekend and couldn't get away from it.)
• "The Justice Department plans to change how it prosecutes some non-violent drug offenders, so they would no longer face mandatory minimum prison sentences." Say what you will about AG Eric Holder, he is progressive.
• Mrs. LL put up hooks in the garage for three bicycles and it ended up looking like some crazy project for a modern art museam. Then I came home and found she had completely redone it. 
• After four episodes into The Bridge, I'm about to abandon it. Concept good. Writing bad.
• The beginning of the "Say Me Name" episode of Breaking Bad makes every guy want to be Walter White. 
• It wouldn't surprise me if Breaking Bad ends with something shocking, then a pause, and then the playing of the Ozymandias poem.
• I didn't watch a second of it, but I did see an interview of Kyle Busch who won the NASCAR race this weekend. I wish I had the clip because it was soooooo Ricky Bobby. He thanked six sponsors in fifteen seconds. 
• The Ticket's George DiGianni has a commercial for a "30 day fat loss accelerator". That makes me think he's a fraud. (He also drops the names of Mark Cuban, Michael Dell and Dennis Rodman in the ad, and I bet he didn't pay for the permission to do so.)
• I'm hearing more about Brian Cuban's book that I mentioned on Friday. That drives me insane. You can make money by writing  a book about being undisciplined simply because your last name is Cuban?
•  A 21 year old Bridgeport man was killed in a single vehicle accident over the weekend. A quick search of the Sheriff's office records reveals he had two DUI arrests and one DWI arrest. 

You Would Think It Is Photoshopped. Nope.

A perfect photo? Usain Bolt winning 100m at World Championships while a bolt of lightning strikes.

Source: ESPN

Awkward Separated At Birth

The lady found in the freezer in Mineral Wells:

And Catherine O'Hara whom I loved in Best In Show:

Former Cowboys Defensive Coordinator . . .

. . . Rob Ryan had lap band surgery last year.

The man oozes discipline, restraint, and commitment.

Story.

Above The Fold

Rita Rusic Taking You Into The Weekend

I'm not real sure who she is but Wiki tells me she is 53 years old. 

Those Birthers Have A Stick To It Quality

A Twitter Shot At The Aggies

(1 of 2) Meet the Bears is tomorrow. Student-athlete's will not be accepting payment for their autograph. #sicemwithvigilance
— Baylor Compliance (@SicEmCompliance) August 9, 2013

I'm not sure I expected that from "The Official Twitter Account of Baylor Athletics Compliance".

Edit: Hey, we've got a Separated At Birth! Manziel's new lawyer and the sports guy from Anchorman.

The Decatur Beggar Spotted In Metroplex With New Lady Friend

(Thanks, Patrick.)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• A woman's body was found in a freezer in Mineral Wells. Police Chief Dean Sullivan said, “We’re treating this as a possible homicide.” I now picture the chief from The Simpsons.
• Johnny Manziel has hired a couple of lawyers out of Lubbock El Paso and, although their reputation is outstanding, they sure project "country" by their photos. 
• "Public tribute for Kidd Kraddick set for August 15th at 5:30 p.m. on the AT&T Plaza outside the American Airlines Center." Outside? In this heat?
• Mark Cuban's brother, "a non-practicing lawyer", has written a book about how wheel off his life was.  "I became what I thought I had to be in order to fit in to that crowd — a drug-using, drinking, obnoxious club-hopping douche bag." 
• I had no idea that Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad also had the recurring role of the dentist on Seinfeld.
• Fernando Cantu of Bridgeport was found guilty of a lesser charge of negligent injury to a child yesterday in Decatur. Make no mistake, that's a huge defense victory. I've heard the guy has a ton of support from west of the Big Sandy.
• NBC is going hard into soccer by obtaining the rights to broadcast the English Premiere League. Its sports channel is basically running informational shows right now on what it is and who you might want to cheer for. I got a little sucked in last night. (But from what I can tell, that twenty team league has only four teams that are capable of winning it.)
• Randy Galloway will retire from radio at the end of the year. I've found him nearly unbearable to listen to for the past decade. 
• A couple of days ago I made a reference to Take It Easy by The Eagles. Yesterday, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a civil case that had this line in the beginning: "On November 10, 2008, Wipff was the conductor for a train traveling from Winslow, Arizona, to Seligman, Arizona." 
• Here's the crazy Facebook story on the cover of the New York Post.

2013 Texas School Accountability Ratings Released

If I'm reading it correctly, for Wise County, only the high school in Boyd failed to pass. Eighty-four percent of all schools across the state qualified as "Met Standard".

Release.

How'd I Miss This?

The "Girls On Fox News".

(Thanks, Julie.)

Sign Of The Apocalypse?

At this moment we are being threatened by storms that do not understand the concept of a high pressure system.

Facebook Big Sandy Wars

Unfortunate Photograph

If you can't read it, it's about two ladies investigating a "death" in a citizen's police academy.

Credit: Bud Kennedy.

Edit: Photo being placed to the two headlines is what makes the placement unfortunate. (Did I really have to explain that?)

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Mark Davis said this morning that no Republican candidate could beat Hillary Clinton in the next presidential election other than maybe a Ted Cruz/Chris Christie ticket.  That man take up drinking?
• The Fifth Grader In The House told me she felt sorry for me for having to dress up all the time. Tell me about it, child. 
• Sports: (1) TCU coach Gary Patterson chastised LSU for reinstating a player yesterday which might lead to an LSU throttling of the Frogs in a couple of weeks, (2) the NCAA will either suspend Johnny Football which will ultimately lead to the organization's demise, or it won't suspend him which will also ultimately lead to the organization's demise, and (3) There's a new Ticket app which everyone is going crazy about -- all the podcasts are there and you can pause and rewind the live radio feed. 
• A group of us at the courthouse, including men and women,  had "Testosterone Talk" yesterday at the courthouse. It was pretty fascinating. Females afraid to broach the subject with their husbands and men admitting why they might want to take it. 
• The "Double Fake Chris Davis" comments on here every time he hits a home run. That's a funny bit. And the real official Liberally Lean MLB player is up to 40 home runs for the season. 
• And some commenter for years has blamed the mortgage crisis on Clinton because he "forced banks" to lend to poor people.  You, sir, are clueless.  Ask companies like Bear Stearns if they went out of business because they were "forced" to do anything.  
• A Mavs Maniac dancer (a group of fat men who perform at Dallas Maverick games to keep the crowd interested) allegedly shot and killed four people last night. 
• The alleged Saginaw killer of a little girl (who was from Decatur but we don't talk about that) had his book-in photo released yesterday. Wheels. Off. 
• Over the last twenty years, government jobs -- even in Texas -- are becoming more attractive than private sector jobs. The wages are equal or better and the benefits exceed the private sector by a mile. 
• George Dunham of The Ticket said this morning that We're The Millers is funnier than The Hangover or Bridesmaids. I'm not sure that's possible. 
• My three favorite Muppets: (1) Grover, (2) Animal, and (3) Beaker.  Edit: A commentor said that I should double up on the Testosterone after reading this. Pay the man, Shirley.
• We had about 15 spare bricks and 20 decorative bricks that we needed to get rid of. Mrs. LL put an ad on Craigslist to "come get them for free" and she received a landslide of responses.