Random Football Rule

Who knew you could punt the ball to another player who may advance it so long as he catches it behind the line of scrimmage? Lets see those hands. Thought so. (What if it had bounced into him? Could he still advance it?)

But wouldn't have been a little easier just to throw it?

Out Of Inspiration Comes Some Sorriness

From the D Magazine  Frontburner blog: 

Charity Boss Honors Dead Daughter by Paying Himself Healthy Salary. Thirteen-year-old Taylor Storch died in a skiing accident. Her heart was donated to a woman. Her parents, Todd and Tara, started a charity to increase organ donor registrations. They appeared in People magazine and on the Ellen Show. In 2011, the charity generated $163,000, its first full year of operations. Todd, the charity’s CEO, earned a salary of $100,000, plus $8,500 in expenses. Well, that’s $54,500 left to increase organ donor registrations. That’s a good thing, right?

The child's story was inspirational when Todd and Tara traveled to visit the lady who had received Taylor's transplanted heart:




Edit: Wait a second. Some of you are defending him? What if his pitch to you had been, "I'm here raising money for charity. For every three dollars you give me, two of them will go to me and one will go to the charity"? You donating?

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• The Republicans are shooting at each other in this silly Cruz-Defund-Obamacare stunt. 
• Loved the crazy logic of Mark Davis this morning. He said that Republicans didn't have to choose sides but instead could "stand united." With that, he urged those Republicans with "frilly drawers" to "put on their big boy pants" and join him to stand with Cruz. Party unity at its finest. 
• A lady was charged with the murder of her husband near Weatherford yesterday. Based upon her book-in photo, a defense comes to mind. 
• Sports: (1) Peyton Manning was 21-24 for 264 yards and  3 TDs by halftime last night -- It kind of reminds me of when Joe Montana went to the Chiefs with tremendous success, (2) I'm not sure Longhorn fans will -- or should -- see QB David Ash again as he's suffered a second concussion this season on Saturday night, (3) Did anyone see the frightening scene of Green Bay Packer TE Jermichael Finley struggling to try to get off the field after a blow to the head on Sunday? It may just be me, but I didn't see that replayed hardly at all on the post-game shows. I wonder if the NFL is cracking down on the networks from showing the results of head injuries. (5) Ticket Fans: The prank phone calls utilizing the George Dejohn drops makes me laugh out loud. (7) And breaking Cowboy news: Jerry Jones said on The Fan this morning that Anthony Spencer will have another surgery and could be done for the year. 
• When jogging yesterday I passed a lady walking her dog with a beautifully colored bird on her shoulder. 
• I did a Google search on "speaks volumes" and found the phrase was once used by a prolific and conservative Letter to the Editor writer to the Messenger. 
• I only occasional glance at Facebook, but I want to strangle anyone whose posts begins: "Repost this if you have the courage to say you love" your spouse/children/Jesus/your country/etc. 
• Texas Motor Speedway announced plans to build a massive video board which is 79% larger than the one at Jerryworld. It's name?: "Big Hoss." Idiocracy?
• For the first time ever yesterday, I saw the courtroom for the JP and the County Court at Law #2 over in Bridgeport. That's a really nice place. 
• Mrs. LL played the "Alphabet game" (saying the alphabet by seeing the needed letter on a a sign or license plate) all by herself as we came back from Waco on Saturday. After she got to Z she yelled, "Winner!"  The rest of us just looked at her. 
• A "high end" Kenyan mall was not something I expected to hear this week. But, man, those scenes inside of people hiding while a storm of bullets is raining down is frightening. And news now is that three Minnesota teenagers may be involved. 
• As selfish as I can be (which is a lot), I always know the right answer when one of the Kids In The House asks, "Would you like to see . . . ."

Lawyer Gets Ride Home After DWI Arrest

This is a couple of weeks old, but I just saw it.  A lawyer crashed his car in downtown San Marcos, failed the field sobriety tests, and then refused to provide a sample of his breath. Being the first No Refusal Weekend in the county's history, the cops then went to a judge to obtain a warrant for the lawyer's blood.

"Not so fast my friends" (or something like that), the judge said. Since he knew the lawyer and considered him to be a "friend", the judge didn't think he could be impartial and, in essence, recused himself from the warrant process. He was the only available judge.

Ok, that's a little bit of a stretch, but that's at least plausible.  But the cops actions after the judge not signing the warrant were peculiar: Despite having formed probable cause to arrest the defendant, had arrested him, and taken him to the county jail, they took him home because they believed there would be insufficient evidence without the blood sample.

The Ex-NFL Player Who Had His Home Trashed By Kids Is One Weird Guy

Come to find out that his home was in disrepair and being foreclosed on. And, in an interview, he starts off by giving a bizarre Ninja turtles shout out to his grand kids, monopolizes the interview and won't answer a question, and accuses his neighbor of being a wife beater. They finally have to go to commercial break with the guy babbling on.

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: