Above The Fold

Insane. Five Six Bodies Submerged For Years.

In Oklahoma.

And they think three of the bodies might be teenagers that went missing in 1970.  Story.

GIF Of The Day

Just a glimpse of a streaker last night, but Washington's expression is priceless.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Tomorrow, Lake Bridgeport should break the twenty foot low mark. It stands at 816.02 this morning down from 836.00.
• The Rangers have gone seven games without ever even having a single lead. That has never happened in Rangers history. (Or in the history of its predecessor, the Washington Senators.)
• Mark Cuban is on Forbes list of richest American at no. 222 with an estimated $2.3 billion.  Didn't he used to have much more than that?
• I'm not sure I've ever been as disinterested in the NFL than this year, and I'm not sure why. 
• Told the story to the Kids In The House last night about how throwing water balloons and eggs was common place on Halloween back in the day. And they looked at me with wild eyes when I told them we'd also get chased by the cops. 
• Not sure why I'm thinking about Halloween, but former Bridgeport Chief Walter Dale would have a big announcement in the paper before October 31st about how water balloons would not be tolerated. It was like war drums banging.
• I was at a hearing in Fort Worth yesterday and the other lawyers began joking about the lack of diversity in Wise County. Not sure what prompted that. 
• The entire Family Unit is going down to the Baylor game on Saturday.  I've spent a lot of time trying to downplay to Mrs. LL what she's about to see (her last two games were LSU and Ole Miss.)
• Remember about three years ago when I watched the first two episodes of Breaking Bad and initially "meh'd" it?  (Obviously love the show now. And I laughed yesterday when someone said the baby deserves an Emmy for the last episode for simply saying "Mawwm! Maaawma!")
• It seems that every time I walk though the living room that Dance Moms is on. 
• So the mass killer in the Naval Yard in Washington was a practicing Buddhist? Who has ever heard of a rampaging Buddhist?
• We're in the process of replacing our backyard fence with neighbors on all sides.  I may need to bring in the United Nations to negotiate. 
• And mark this as the possible beginning of the end: New York teen dies after helmet to helmet football hit. 
• Might be a little slow around here today unless a last second deal is reached: Jury coming in to Decatur this morning. The case? DWI. 

Didn't realize it was that bad!

	The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast)
9/16/13, 1:54 PM At least 12 dead in Washington Navy Yard shooting thebea.st/1eW1FOC #NavyYardShooting

FBI officials confirm that Navy veteran and former Happy Bowl Thai waiter Aaron Alexis is the Navy Yard suspect. pic.twitter.com/jv0jBP1PHt
— Bud Kennedy (@BudKennedy) September 16, 2013

And I Bet Aggie/Alabama Crushed The Rangers, Too

	Barry Horn (@bhorn55)
9/16/13, 10:40 AM DFW ratings scoreboard for Sunday afternoon: Cowboys-Chiefs 25.2; Rangers-A's 1.9. In homes, that's 652,176 vs. 49,172.

Fight! Fight!

There's nothing particularly remarkable about this, but it's still pretty funny. I just don't know how you can be a tough guy when wearing full uniforms in a softball game.

GIF From The Weekend

The funny . . . 

And the not funny  (and exactly the kind of hit that the NFL is trying to ban) . . .

And although not a GIF, an LSU fraternity had some inappropriate humor when Kent State came to town:

Also from LSU:

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I've gone back to jogging which I had really missed. But I learned how I've changed in the last five years: A dog ran from its owner to come over to me yesterday as I passed by. In the past, I had a mentality of "don't stop running" until finished. Now I stopped down and rubbed the dog's head. Dog's happy. Owner's happy. I'm happy. 
• Mrs. LL has now become obsessed with Weeds. From what I've seen, that show is insane. (But I got to point out from memory that Jennifer Jason Leigh and I share the same date of birth - down to the year. And for the life of me I can't recall the name of a popular physic who predicted the anti-Christ was born on that day.)
• Sports: (1) I said the Rangers would fade down the stretch but grab the last wildcard spot. I might have given them too much credit. (2) The Evil Empire is in dire straits. (3) The Aggie/Alabama game was fantastic -- Johnny Football may be an idiot but he's a great QB. (4) Sport's Illustrated Peter King tweeted that Manziel would be playing in the NFL "for a very long time." What an idiot. (5) I told you to bet the house on the Cowboys going under  8 1/2 wins. I feel really good about that. 
• During the Texas game, I felt embarrassed for the team that they have to always run out under a banner of "Joe Jamail Field" -- a plaintiff's lawyer. Then I remembered Baylor's Law School has been renamed for a plaintiff's lawyer. 
• The Fifth Grader In The House and I were watching the news on Friday night when she began to give me details of an upcoming story. "How do you know that?" I asked. She replied, "Fox 4 News at Six!" It would have been a great commercial for the station. 
• The signs in Aggieland in the background of ESPN's GameDay were beyond funny. (Deadspin has a roundup here.) I thinking my favorite was one that read "Heismanburg" and "Breaking Bama" in the appropriate font. 
• Speaking of, Mrs. LL and I watched Breaking Bad live last night. Best TV show ever?
• The University of Minnesota's head coach suffered a seizure during the school's game and had to be taken off in a stretcher. That's the second time that's happened. 
• Four people, including three teenagers, were found shot to death on a rural Tennessee road. And no one knows why. 
• The Parker County Attorney again tried to explain why he is utilizing the excuse of the two year statute of limitations for not filing a DWI case against the Walmart heiress.  For those of us in that system, his explanation is laughable. 
• Mrs. LL, unbeknownst to me, was watching Legends Of The Fall yesterday. When I saw a particularly peculiar scene I asked her, "What are you watching here?"  Her reply: "Brad Pitt."
• Mrs. LL and I were sitting in our cheap lawn chairs in the back yard on Saturday evening. I was thinking to myself, "These are the salad days." Really.

Worthy Of Channel 8 Coverage?

Story and video.

Ton of comments on Facebook about this story.

Above The Fold

I'd Hate Having Friday Night Duty At The Messenger

But someone over there is not very familiar with how a box score works. (Original page.)

Fire

Structure Fire (Wise County, Newark) Multiple departments are working a structure fire off CR 4847 and FM 718.... http://t.co/y2hv3mZue6
— DFW Scanner (@DFWscanner) September 13, 2013

GIF Of The Day: Regretful Foul Mouthed Tech Girl

Crazy Like A Fox

From last night's Tech/TCU game.

Some speculated that this was a publicity stunt by Fox Sports which has launched its own all sports station.  What did they have to say for themselves? . . . .

We're getting a lot of tweets about a FOX on the field. We cannot confirm nor deny any involvement.
— FOXSportsLive (@FOXSportsLive) September 13, 2013

Greg Abbott Hired This Guy!!!!

Last year I went a little nuts over how horribly the campaigns of Rick Perry for President and David Dewhurst for Senate were conducted. And I was dang near giddy when (after more research than I normally would have to do, I discovered the campaigns were run by the same guy. My post began:

So yesterday there was some political commotion when Greg Abbott's "top political adviser" tweeted that Wendy Davis was "too stupid" to be Governor. Who was that "top political adviser", THAT GUY!!! He hired that guy!!!

I thought Abbott was a shoe-in for governor.  Not any more. That guy could screw up Ronald Reagan running for chairman of the the Tea Party in Wise County.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Email last night: "Rhome city council just voted to eliminate the paid first responder position on the fire department."  Sounds like there's lots going on in the background down there. 
• A female inmate in the Wise County Courthouse complimented my tie the other day as I passed her in the hallway. She didn't want any help because she was getting out of jail that day. She was just being nice. While in handcuffs. And in an orange jumpsuit.
• I had another inmate I was in the same room with say, "Hi, Mr. Green. Have you lost weight?" I have no idea who he was. (And I definitely haven't lost weight.)
• It's so easy to forget when watching Breaking Bad that we've already seen the future with Walt walking through his abandoned house (and buying a car with a machine gun in the trunk.) We just have to get there. 
• Tarrant County prosecutors are pursing a "deteminative sentencing" option against the teenager who allegedly drove drunk and killed four people in southern Tarrant County.  He faces up to 20 years with a twist. If sentenced, say, to 15 years. He serves up until his 18th birthday in a juvenile facility. Then there is an all important hearing where the juvenile judge decides whether the remainder of the sentence should be spent in adult TDC or whether he be released immediately on parole under juvenile jurisdiction until 21. (I think that's the way it works -- I'm not sure we've ever had a true determinative sentencing case in Wise County's history.)
• I heard that one Keller high school administrator came over the loud speaker on 9/11 to mention that historic day to the students but did so by referring to it as a day when "the Muslims" flew the planes into the World Trade Center. He later came back and apologized. This is unconfirmed, but I'm pretty sure it happened. 
• I really haven't listened to it, but it just seems weird that Kelli Rasberry and the bunch have continued with the Kidd Kraddick radio show. It would be like watching Seinfeld with Elaine, Kramer and George yuking it up in episodes after Jerry had suddenly passed away in real life. 
• I rarely use any type of paper. I've gotten to the point now where I email myself quick notes or use an iPad note taking app (using a stylus) for longer writing sessions.
• "A Keller man was sentenced to five years [deferred adjudication] probation Thursday for taking photographs up a woman’s skirt while she was shopping at a North Richland Hills store last year." I wonder if his lawyer knows that the statute his client was charged under was declared unconstitutional last week by a San Antonio court? (Maybe so. The San Antonio ruling is by no means the final word, and the lawyer might have agreed to give up a constitutional challenge in exchange for a good deal.)
• The other day my bank mailed me my bank statement as well as the statements of three other people. Somehow the three other statements got affixed to the back of my envelope. It was so weird that I'm surprised the post office didn't catch it.  
• Tech/TCU Thoughts: (1) I bet TCU will be yelling about the officiating for weeks. (2) Does Gary Patterson really have to scream at a player when he's two inches from his face? (3) Mrs. LL said during the game, "This is sooooo confusing." Due to all the crazy plays, replays, and rulings, I couldn't have agreed more. (4) There's a famous (and awkward) video clip of the Tech bell ringer. Deadspin put up a new one last night. 

Alabama Taking You Into The Weekend

Sorry Aggie.