Baby Drinks Beer After A's Clinch Division

Hey, give the kid a break. He's been a life-long Oakland fan.

Flashback: Wise County Fire In 2008

The Paradise fire. My post back in the day.

How A Litigious Society Will Kill The Taser

Story.

I love tasers (especially when they are used on our County Attorney.)  Video.

But now it looks like they will be used as often as guns -- rarely and judiciously. Many departments are banning their use for the simplest of reasons. This year, the company tweaked its safety warnings to include language that using its products "could result in death or serious injury."

Why? The manufacturer was getting sued when a taser's use resulted in a death. So the company now simply warns officers that the taser can cause death. Problem solved for the manufacturer.

But that puts the officer on the street in a bit of a predicament. If he now uses the taser in a non-deadly force situation, he's been warned he could kill the target. So now he's faced with the question, "You were warned the taser could kill him and you used it even though the situation didn't require deadly force?"

Call in the lawyers.

Kill me.

I'm Not Sure What Flugtag Means . . .

. . . but that looks like a lot of fun in Las Colinas this weekend. Slideshow.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Mark Davis said this morning that Democrats were "startled" by the "boldness" of Ted Cruz. I think the correct term is "amused". 
• " The trial of a former Argyle school board member accused of improperly recording video in a Sanger High School girls’ locker room in February 2012 is scheduled to begin today." I hope the defense attorney at least tried to challenge the constitutionality of the "improper photography" statute which was struck down by an appellate court last month. Yeah, you may want to make it illegal to do what the guy allegedly did, but the statute also makes it a crime to take a picture of a hot gal fully clothed in the park. 
• Sports: (1) I wouldn't buy Cowboy Superbowl tickets just yet, (2) As a reminder, I said the Rangers would fail down the stretch but grab the last wildcard spot -- I may have been wrong, (3) Former Tech coach Mike Leach drops an F bomb on the opposing coach after putting a beat down on his team. (4) Jason Whitlock wannabee Jean Jacques Taylor tweeted yesterday during the Cowboy game that "Bernadeau strong on pass protection that snap". Translation: You guys aren't' watching the finer points of the game like I am. (5) Demarcus Ware became the all time leading sack leader for the Cowboys with 90% of them coming during trash time or meaningless games.  (6) I've always hated the phrase "The ground can't cause a fumble" because it's not true -- as RG3 proved yesterday. (7) Derek Jeter's girlfriend looks like she's 14. (8) So Dez Bryant can shove a defender into the first row for a TD catch? (8) Yeah, yeah, they haven't played anyone, but look at these Baylor offensive numbers: Their 25 TD drives are averaging 4.6 plays, 62.4 yards and 65 seconds. Eleven have lasted less than 60 seconds. Oh, my. (9) Greg "The Hammer" Williams went after 105.3's Mike Fisher this weekend. 
• Is there anything better than a Fall morning?
• Took the Family Unit down to the Baylor game on Saturday.  Hearing the Fifth Grader In The House say, "That was really fun!" on the way back is all you can ask for. 
• I live in the house where the other three occupants were more giddy about the band performance at halftime than a 35-0 first quarter lead. 
• Stopped in West for kolaches on the way home. The Kids chose the Sonic next door instead. (Sigh.)
• On the way to the game we got behind a truck which had an NRA sticker and a bumper sticker that read, "Work Harder - Millions on Welfare are Counting on You!"
• In a bit of embarrassing laziness, I trimmed my hair on the sides all by myself instead of getting a haircut a couple of weeks ago. When I finally got a haircut this weekend, the stylist looked at me and said, "That's how the mullet got started."
• More Tom Delay: “Because I’m walking with the Lord, I had no burden. He’s had the burden. He carried it.”
• Two adults and three children have been found dead in Rice, Texas. (Rice is in between Ennis and Corsicana.)
• Any chance that companies are dropping health care benefits because of greed and simply using Obamacare as an excuse? No question. 
• Even if you don't get or like Twitter, you would love the "History In Pics" feed. 
• Unimportant Breaking Bad thought: I'd like to see the rest of that Jesse upper body strength. 
• There's a Volkswagon commercial which basically reproduces the old Aha Take On Me video. If you know what I'm talking about, you love it. Right?
• Remember the girl who couldn't stop hiccuping and was on all the national news shows? She's been convicted of murder. 

International News Developing . . .

If true, we deserve to be invaded by Kenya, right?

Tweet from Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather)

	Floyd Mayweather (@FloydMayweather)
9/21/13, 9:34 PM Congratulations @JManziel2 for putting on a fantastic show. He may not be able to make money off himself but I can. pic.twitter.com/Tp3sKyznkq

Remember the guy with the $40 million check?

Above The Fold

Taking You Into The Weekend More Traditionally

Desperate Times In Austin Taking You Into The Weekend

(Story really wasn't the good or funny, though.)

It's Friday, Friday, Gotta Get Down On . . . . . Oh, no!!!

(More of story from Messenger.)



*(In the rare event that a rumor takes off that the girls are one in the same, I highly doubt that -- even if there wasn't the missing "c")

Random Boyd News

"At 1231am this morning, Officer Richie responded to a welfare check at the intersection of Jennings at S FM 730.

A citizen had found a 3 year old female walking in the rain alongside the roadway. The citizen had picked up the girl and had dried her off and placed her in the vehicle and waited for the officer to arrive.

Upon Officer Richie’s arrival, Officer Richie recognized the child, knew her name, and knew where she lived (small town policing at its finest). Officer Richie gathered all the information from the citizen and then went to the child’s residence.

There he found the mother asleep, with the door opened, along with the child’s other three siblings. He observed what he considered to be deplorable and unsafe living conditions.

Child Protective Services were notified and responded to the scene. All four children are in State’s custody and the mother is in jail.

This could have turned out much more worse than it did. Hopefully the parent can get some help, hopefully the children will be cared for better in the future."

Via Boyd Police Department's Facebook page.

Rural Texas Prosecutor Worries About A Show That Isn't Real

Article here. (And the comments are pretty good.)

His credentials background:

New Cover Of Texas Monthly

Adviser: "You know, what this photoshoot needs is a shotgun. Yeah. Someone get us a shotgun."

GIF Of The Day

A re-enactment of Frazier/Ali in the Clemson vs. North Carolina State last night.

Good grief.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The biggest infomercial rip off artist on TV, Kevin Trudeau, was sentenced to federal prison yesterday. (I've dogged him for years.)
• “Probably not. There’s too much other stuff the Lord wants me to do.” Tom DeLay when asked if he would re-enter the political arena.
• It's not particularly earthshaking, but the Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed a burglary conviction and eleven year sentence out of Wise County late yesterday. The Sheriff's office may like it because one of its investigator had his papers graded in conducting an interrogation. With approval, by the way.
• Be careful in Rockwall today. It was just announced that a high school was closed at the last second due to a power outage.  Unsupervised teenagers gone wild. 
• "Rose Ann Davidson, 44, of San Marcos, has been sentenced to life in prison after her sixth conviction for driving while intoxicated." Without an injury or death involved, she had to have been to the penitentiary at least twice before to be eligible for such a sentence. 
• I picture of Dwight Schrute last night standing behind a UNT podium with a UNT emblem in the background. 
• If you speed and zip in and out of traffic, I know without a doubt that I'd dislike you if I met you in another setting without even knowing about your driving habits. 
• Fox 4 had a story last night of a woman who had surgery and subsequently passed a small surgical instrument that had been left inside her. She said she had contacted two attorneys who wouldn't take her case because of "tort reform". The story also said, "Texas law limits damages to $250,000 in most malpractice cases." Is that right? I don't think so.  I would think that the attorney's wouldn't take the case because her damages are minimal. 
• There was a shooting in a Chicago park last night that left 13 injured. I'm sure I'll hear in the comments from the guy who thinks everything that happens in Chicago is the fault of the President. 
• I relate a lot to Ed O'Neill's character of Jay Pritchett on Modern Family. 
• Got dressed and walked out of the bathroom around 6:30 a.m. only to see Mrs. LL in the dark watching The Bridge. (I gave up on the show about three episodes ago.) That's such an odd way to start the day. 

A $40 Million Check

Last weekend Floyd Mayweather fought Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in what used to be the great sport of boxing. Beforehand, it was widely reported that Mayweather would make over $40 million from the fight.

Deadspin says this check is authentic.

Someone calculate the income taxes for me (under the silly assumption that's all Mayweather makes this year.)

Kids Break Into Former NFL Player's Home -- Go All Project X On It

And now he's on a mission to identify them by all of their tweets and Facebook postings on the night of the party. He says he wants to "save" them but it does have the byproduct of allowing the police to find out who they are as well. 

Dailymail - A former NFL player’s home was broken into and thoroughly trashed by teenagers in upstate New York over Labor Day weekend. Brian Holloway, a three time all-pro lineman for the New England Patriots, arrived to his second home in Stephentown on Tuesday to find it covered in urine, graffiti and empty cups and booze bottles.hile he and his family were in Florida, the area high schoolers broke into the $1.5 million house and then with the help of Twitter quickly attracted hundreds of their peers from miles around.

Now Holloway, himself a father of 8, has used the same social media methods to gather 100 of the kids’ names and posted their Twitter messages and photos to a site called HelpMeSave300.com. “I want to put aside the very strong emotions I’m feeling and focus on the one thing that is extremely clear the lives of these 300 students. I want them to live. I’ve seen too many young people die because of excessing partying, drugs and alcohol.’ The site he’s created features extensive photos of his trashed 5,000 square foot second residence. Along with the aftermath photos, Holloway has made the decision to post photos and messages he’s gathered from the social media accounts of the party going teens. While he’s turned the criminal part of the case over to local police, Holloway is now on a mission to save the kids who trashed his house and those like the,. ‘300 dreams can be recovered,’ writes Holloway. ‘The 300 are at a key turning point, the decisions they made to commit crimes, drink illegally, destroy property, selling drugs and do drugs are dangerous decisions.’ ‘We need to take a stand and respond as a community,’ he said. ‘The next flash party, I guarantee you, is being planned right now, and it’s not going to be at my house. It’s going to be at someone else’s.’