8.20.2013

Major Wreck On 1810 East Of Chico

Sounds like the helicopter ambulance is coming in.

Edit: Yep.


Streetview angle:


at 2:02 PM

Woah



And by "vine" they mean a three second video.

Edit: Article about crash.
at 10:30 AM

"Yeah, That Would Probably Be A Good Idea"



(F Bomb Warning)

You've got to love this guy. He sees his life flash before his eyes as the gun turns on him because he knows, (1) she's goofy enough to accidentally pull the trigger, or (2) she's probably crazy enough to intentionally kill him and then tell the cops, "So sorry. It was an accident. He didn't train me."

Side note: Tennis shoes with a dress while firing a weapon? A "Hey, now" almost slipped into my brain. I've got to back off the testosterone.


at 9:36 AM

Update On Random Shots, Er, Thoughts


Thanks to a loyal reader for reminding me of the name of the cop who killed the unarmed guy. That shooting occurred on August 31, 2012 and the case was supposed to be referred to a grand jury.

Fox 4?
at 9:25 AM

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts



  • A man was found not guilty in Tarrant County yesterday of shaking his baby to death. I'll give the prosecutors the benefit of the doubt that they just didn't speculate about what happened to the child. That would be a dangerous kind of prosecutor. And they exist. Boy, do they exist. 
  • Star-Telegram reporter Mitch Mitchell tweeted that the "jury said [the defendant] did not murder his 23 day old baby." That's not necessarily true. The jury could have simply had a doubt about the man's guilt which was reasonable to them. That's all that is required for a not guilty verdict. And that's not just semantics. 
  • The Tarrant County DA's office fires off press releases at the drop of a hat. Want to place a bet on the chances of there being one about that case? 
  • I got an email about the long time offensive coordinator in Bridgeport no longer being there. What gives?
  • A very funny guest on Hannity last night lead off the show talking about Ted Cruz's citizenship.  "His problem isn't that he's from Canada. His problem is that he's from Mars." Hannity didn't think it was funny. 
  • And how goofy does Cruz sound, upon learning that he holds duel dual [ok, that was a bad/funny one --- dagnabbit]  citizenship, by saying: "I will renounce any Canadian citizenship." It's like a Monty Python bit. 
  • Someone owes former FAN host Richie Whitt $6,500.
  • "Ball girl forgets she not supposed to catch foul balls."
  • Mark Davis really called out wanna be governor Greg Abbott yesterday for opposing the AA/US Airways merger.  And I agree with him. Something isn't quite right about Abbott getting involved in that -- someone might want to check the campaign donations list. (And it was awkward when Abbott kept claiming there was a "smoking gun" conversation by the US Airways president about "jacking up" fares but he couldn't remember what it was. That's kind of important.)
  • Just heard a vague report about a big restaurant fire this morning at NE 28th Street and Main Street in Fort Worth.  Whataburger? That BBQ place? Edit/Update: It's the Lonesome Dove restaurant. The initial address is wrong. 
  • The over/under line for wins by the Dallas Cowboys this year is 8.5.  Here's a hot sports opinion: Bet the house on the Under.
  • The most conservative judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will pay a $25,000 ethics fine (negotiated down from an earlier $100,000 assessment.)
  • I've mentioned this a ton of times but I keep forgetting his name: What ever happened to the metroplex cop who fired 40 (?) something shots and killed the unarmed man who evaded him?
  • What a strange life: Remember the crazy guy who falsely confessed to killing Jon Benet Ramsey? He was never prosecuted for anything and has since had a sex change operation and lives as Alexis Reich.
  • That measles outbreak in Tarrant County is disconcerting, but it gets closer as Bud Kennedy just tweeted that the outbreak is "in Kenneth Copeland's church." Edit: He updated his source to be a Fox 4 story.
  • Mrs. LL watched the first episode of Breaking Bad without telling me. I suspected she had and kept waiting for an opportunity to casually tell her to "tread lightly."  (But it was a little hard to be mad since I had watched it, too.)
  • I understand that some days there's not much news, but I power down when I get to the second item in the Update and it reads "HEALTH FAIR -" followed by the third item being "COOKING CLASS - ". 



at 8:35 AM

8.19.2013

A Random Rant: I Hate Peter King



Peter King is a Sports Illustrated writer. He. Is. Horrible. And he makes at least $1.2 million a year.

A few years back, I finally heard of his Monday Morning Quarterback column which always contains what seems to be a million words and, famously, is written in the middle of every Sunday night.  It's so famous that 60 Minutes even did a segment about it and King.

Did I say he he is horrible?

Take the following example. This is the beginning of his second paragraph in today's edition.

First off, an acknowledgement of the real world in the NFL—even on good teams, change is constant. When [Colt's head coach] Chuck Pagano stared out at his team on the first night of training camp here, he saw 47 percent new faces from 2012 (42 of the 90 players were first-year Colts)

 You kidding me? Let's have a math lesson.  Every team is composed of 53 players on the active roster and 8 players on the practice squad*. That's 61. But at the beginning of the season, an NFL team can have up to 90 players in training camp.  You see what's going on here? Every training camp, even if a team brought every single player back from the year before -- which never happens due to retirements, trades, free agency and cuts -- there would have to be 29 players present who weren't on the team the previous year. Every team has at least 29 "new faces"!

So to have 42 new players in training camp is par for the course. And you know who those guys are except for the seven or so players taken during the draft? Spares!! They are bodies brought in solely for the purpose of practice. 

(Believe it or not, there's a guy who dissects King's column every Monday morning. And in a pretty funny fashion.)
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* I'm giving King the huge benefit of the doubt that he is including practice squad players in not being "new faces". 

at 4:27 PM

Easy There On The Smirnoff, Comrade



I have no idea what's going on here.  Just a Russian guy drinking vodka right out the bottle with two "Hey, Nows!" behind him on a kiddie ride. That's about American as a Russian can get, no?

But I'm throwing a penalty flag on the camera gal for not rushing over there and getting a shot of the post-crash carnage.

($100 says those gals are mail order brides. Or will be.)
at 2:44 PM

Here's Your Sign






I'm not sure how this is even Dallas Observer blog worthy.  But it was.

This guy lives in a condo in the W Hotel. He steals a W welcome sign from the lobby as he drunkenly comes homes (at the very early hour of 8:00 p.m.). Security goes to his condo and ask where the sign is. And he gives it back to them.

And this is news?

I'm more interested in what the sign looks like since it is valued at $2,200.
at 1:54 PM

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


Source.
at 12:30 PM

Johnny Football Sighting Over The Weekend


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


at 11:45 AM

Didn't See That Degree In The Catalog


at 9:41 AM

Duck!


at 9:16 AM

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.


at 8:57 AM

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.  


at 8:38 AM

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 . . .


at 12:38 PM

8.16.2013

Above The Fold

at 10:30 PM

UNLV Cheerleaders Taking You Into The Weekend


at 4:09 PM

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.
at 2:48 PM
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