8.19.2013

Hey, There's Another Reason For The Cops To Stop You And Extract Money From You!


Source.
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Johnny Football Sighting Over The Weekend


Bonus fun: Spot the guy with the tattoos. (Source.)


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Didn't See That Degree In The Catalog


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Duck!


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What Kind Of Barbie?

He's been licensed less than three years but he had a hot opinion about Wendy Davis this weekend:


Greg Abbott thanked him.


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Random Monday Morning Thoughts




  • Slumped Shoulder moment of the weekend: When I proclaimed that Lost was "horrible", the Sophomore in The House retorted with, "But you think Paul Blart: Mall Cop was bad, too!!!!"  
  • Celebrated my parents 60th wedding anniversary this weekend at III Forks in Dallas. 60th! Side note: Are there people who just casually decide to go to a restaurant like that outside of a special occasion? I'm sure that's true. I'm just not one of those persons. 
  • I got accused this weekend of anonymously commenting. I'll admit to doing that maybe three times in the last seven years. And that was for humor. 
  • Former Texas Ranger Chad Curtis was convicted of sexual assault of a teenager on Friday. A faithful reader emailed me to point out that he will begin to collect his $100,000 a year Major League Baseball pension in three years.
  • A popular blogger commits suicide but then has a post automatically go up that gives the GPS coordinates for a stash of gold and silver coins he had buried. (Which people believe to be a hoax.)
  • The Update's lead item says someone "was arrested on suspicion" of a crime. Let me say this for the millionth time: No one can be legally arrested based solely on a suspicion. (Although, unfortunately, that does happen all the time.)
  • Sports: (1) I tried to ignore it, but I think RG3 hates head coach Mike Shanahan, (2) I actually watched some of the English Premiere League this weekend and a save on a penalty kick at point blank range by the Liverpool goalkeeper made me think I shouldn't have ignored this sport, (3) NBC is smart to jump on the soccer bandwagon because football won't exist in fifty years, (4) What a strange moment it was when the fantastic pitcher Stephen Strasburg was thrown out of a game because of three wild pitches in a row -- the umpire thought he was going to kill someone and Strasburg didn't argue, (5) I've been promoting Phil Steele for years and this is why -- the AP college football poll came out this weekend and he predicted all 25 teams that would be in it, without error, back in April. 
  • I've got two little relatives of Mrs. LL staying in the house this week. That makes a house of five girls and me. 
  • Friday motorcycle death.
  • I don't know what it's about, but that Crazy Texas Mommy blogger is some kind of contest. Give her some love. 
  • I've only heard of one individual refer to being a "veteran of the Cold War." 
  • Someone keeps commenting how the BagOfNothing guy always brings his "A Game" unlike me. Sir, you're right. I'm very disturbed. Since both blogs appear on the Internet at the same time there is no possible way that people can read both of them. You are obviously aware of this. But I would appreciate you not promoting his blog because it could kill my ad revenue. If I had any.
  • Flipping across the TV this weekend I had two movie thoughts: Vegas Vacation stands up over time, and no one has been as mis-casted miscast as Dustin Hoffman in Outbreak.  


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8.18.2013

New Study: Wise County Doesn't Make The List


Link

But I think I know why local law enforcement doesn't pick on the African American here . . .


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8.16.2013

Above The Fold

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UNLV Cheerleaders Taking You Into The Weekend


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Texas Politics Has Come To This?




Dan Patrick, who is challenging David Dewhurst for Lt. Governor, directs his followers to a website which isn't exactly statesman-like. Note: It's primarily re-living the night of the Wendy Davis filibuster fiasco with the story "told by cats". As in animated gifs of cats.
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Robin Thicke Sued Marvin Gaye's Family -- Claim They Didn't Steal A Dang Thing


In order to shield "Blurred Lines," the hottest hit of the summer, Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr. are going to court.

 A lawsuit was filed Thursday in California federal court by the trio against Marvin Gaye's family and Bridgeport Music . . . .. At issue are complaints about similarities between "Blurred Lines" and at least two songs.

 "[T]here are no similarities between plaintiffs' composition and those the claimants allege they own, other than commonplace musical elements," states the lawsuit. "Plaintiffs created a hit and did it without copying anyone else's composition." More.

I don't know about that.

Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines:




Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up:

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Random Twitter Photo From This Morning


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Random Friday Morning Thoughts



  • All Texas high school championship games will be at Cowboys Stadium this year including, for the first time, the six man championship. I might go watch that one. I've never seen a six man game.
  • The Muslim Brotherhood has called for "A Day of Rage" in Egypt.
  • The 44th Anniversary of Woodstock was yesterday. On the 10th Anniversary (which I heard about on the radio and thought "wow, that is ancient history") I was at the "front pool" at Runaway Bay getting a massive sunburn, and I bet it was a Friday since that was my day off. (How I remember that, I have no idea.) 
  • Courtney Stodden went to the beach.
  • "Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to have his deputies put up white wooden crosses near the sites where authorities find bodies of immigrants who are dying in the desert."  I'm guessing he sees no problem with government erecting crosses. 
  • I think Bill O'Reilly is tolerable. 
  • Corby Davidson on The Ticket yesterday told of a girl who came to his door and said her dad was in prison and mom had run off causing her to live with relatives. She then told a further convincing story that they didn't have any money but needed school supplies. Corby's wife gave the girl $20. A day or so later there was a thank you note left at their house but asking for her to purchase some additional items including back packs for her and her little brother.  I smell scam. 
  • When cops illegally detain someone, many courts will give them by out by saying "Oh, no. It was just a consensual encounter" -- you know, just the cops walking up and and talking to someone. At least one new study says there's nothing consensual when cops approach you. 
  • For some reason Mrs. LL is re-watching a lot of the episodes of Lost. This despite her responding, "Yes!!!!" to my question of, "You think the writers made all that stuff up on the fly?"
  • Mark Cuban had a crazy quote about expectations yesterday in the Mavs pre-season press conference. I was very Jerry Jones like, but I can't find it to save the life of me. 
  • Red Sox fan Ben Affleck's birthday was yesterday. The Red Sox are now 0-14 on Ben Affleck's birthday since the release of Good Will Hunting in 1998.


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8.15.2013

We Can All Sleep Safer Tonight


Cops investigate large online gambling ring (made up of people who want to take their own money and do with it what they want), and then the cops gamble pays off as they get to seize millions of dollars. Of 18 defendants, only one has gone to jail -- and that's for a year -- so at least there's one rational part of the story.

Law enforcement doesn't have enough to do.

And there had to be a cute name for this operation, but I can't fine done. Operation Snake Eyes, perhaps?

Story.

Edit: More . . .


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Hey, It's More People From That Dallas Sisu Place Again


More.
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The Obama Clown





I've been hearing about the rodeo clown who lost his job for wearing a President Obama mask, and finally saw the clip.  What's worth watching (and it isn't much) starts around halfway through.

I think a bigger punishment would be to have to be a part of that rodeo every Saturday night. But, seriously, why get punished at all?

But leave it to a Texas Congressman to have a level and intellectual debate about it:


In a press release he wrote: “Liberals want to bronco bust dissent. But Texans value speech, even if its speech they don’t agree with.”

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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



  • Fort Worth police will soon begin wearing body cameras. I'm all for it. Some on the news last night argued about "privacy concerns" but that makes no sense. That would only apply if the cops are somewhere they weren't supposed to be and, if that is happening, I want it videotaped.
  • I've never heard of the Spillway Club located near Eagle Mountain Lake but an argument started there last night which ended with one dead and three wounded.
  • Up at the courthouse yesterday, I ran across a couple of lawyers upset that their Texas Wesleyan Law School degree now bears the name of a school that doesn't exist. When Texas A&M bought it several months back, that wasn't supposed to happen. 
  • Former Bachelorette hangs herself in suicide. And you would have thought all those women would be emotionally stable.
  • Oh, no! "Houston Texans unveil world's largest HD video board" --- even larger than those at The Death Star. 
  • Someone wanted me to post the video of the African-American kid praying about the President but even I feared the racist comments directed at a little boy. Others did it and the reaction was exactly what I thought it would be. Incredible.
  • Local talk radio thoughts: (1) Jeff Bolton is filling in for Mark Davis and he is beyond awful, (2) I don't listen to Dennis Prager anymore because I just couldn't take it, (3) I've never understood how Ben and Skin have their own show, (4) Corby Davidson is much better when Rhyner takes the day off (though it rarely happens), but his "I'm going wireless" bit is a big bag of nothing, and (5) I still think the It's Just Banter podcast with Ticket boys T.C. and Jake is really, really good. 
  • Testosterone update: (1) I'm feeling better but I'm getting real sleepy earlier in the evening -- related? (2) There must be a ton of guys using the stuff because I've had lots of people talk to me about it. 
  • A former Texas Ranger (baseball)  is on trial for doing-you-know-what with a teen, but I haven't heard any local coverage about it at all. (In fact, if someone hadn't emailed me, I wouldn't know about it at all.)
  • I forgot to mention that Brent Musburger was in the Mary Decker documentary interviewing her decades ago. Man, he's been around forever, and I think he's great. A college football game that starts off with his voice saying, "We are liiiiiiivvvvee from . . . . " makes me smile. 
  • The Hard Right is having a tough time processing their position on all of this Egyptian violence since the military government (loaded with U.S. arms) is killing members of the Muslim Brotherhood left and right. I think they've gone to the default position of: Blame Obama.


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8.14.2013

Two Things She Might Want To Keep Off Her Resume



Stripper and alleged dog killer.

Link.

Edit: In 2015, she eventually received five years probation.
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