President's Going All William Wallace On The GOP

BREAKING: Obama says Congress can't shut down Obamacare, it will start on Tuesday.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 30, 2013

"And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR [OBAMACARE]!"

A Fort Worth Cop Car Had A Bad Day

Link.

Hug It Out

Back story: WBNS sports anchor Dom Tiberi returned to the anchor desk at the Columbus, OH, CBS affiliate after his daughter’s death. He thanked viewers, friends and colleagues for their support. “It’s never going to be the same. A little piece of me died,” said Tiberi with support from his co-anchors on set. He later added, “We’re going to try to make a positive out of this and thanks for sticking with me.”

Tiberi’s daughter, Maria Elizabeth Tiberi died after her car crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer the night of September 17.

That was the Ohio State team, by the way.  I'm stunned the guy kept it together. I'd be crying like a baby.

It's Tuba Carnage!!!

(Still trying to figure out which high school this was.)

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• From the Update/YouGottaBeKidding Department:  "Bridgeport Coal Miners Heritage Festival is 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday on Halsell Street. Events include the Battle of the Badge Wise County law enforcement donut-eating contest."
• Sports: (1) I predicted the Rangers would fade down the stretch but get the last wildcard slot -- I never dreamed they'd fade then rally down the stretch to, perhaps, get the last wildcard spot. (2) The news of Lane Kiffin being fired made me smile on Saturday morning. He made my list of most despised coaches last year. Even the Family Cat wasn't impressed. (3) It looked like a Cowboys home crowd in the background when Dez Bryant caught the first TD pass. (4) What are the odds Nelson Cruz - whose suspension has now ended - will be in the lineup tonight? (5) I've never seen the NFC East so pathetically bad. (6) Bridgeport is 0-5 and was down 51-0 at halftime on Friday? What's going on over there?  (7) Texas legendary QB James Street has died. 
• Hey, Liberally Lean Critic, this morning Gordon Keith mentioned the Dallas-homeowner-shot-story and the Argyle-video-in-the-locker room story that I wrote about on Friday. Once again, obviously stealing. Right?
• If the local media doesn't pick up the story of the Bridgeport man bidding almost $1 million to jump Snake River I'll be shocked. 
• This government shut down will blow up in the Republicans' face, right? 
• I've raved about how great weather forecasting has become but, man, that was a crazy screw up on Saturday. It was supposed to rain all evening and night (that's why they moved the Rangers' game) and it ended up to be nothing more than a midday brief storm. 
• Mrs. LL cried during Breaking Bad last night. (And wasn't that show fantastic!) My favorite line came from Skinny Pete: “The whole thing felt kinda shady, like morality wise.”
• Have any of the Obamacare critics even looked into the new health insurance exchanges that begin tomorrow? Dare I say it looks pretty good?
• Ted Cruz on Meet The Press yesterday: "The best way to get health insurance is to get a job.”  Good lord. 
• I've got two incredible talents: (1) The ability to tell you what time it is almost down to the exact minute, and (2) Being able to catch something before it hits the floor (like a glass) after I drop it. Maybe I can get a job at a carnival. 
• There's no way I'm watching the new Robin Williams television comedy. I have the long held belief that he's the most overrated comic in the history of ever. But, as a dramatic actor (i.e. Good Will Hunting), he's pretty good. 

Bridgeport Man Pays Nearly $1 Million!!??

Story.

So how have I never heard about Big Ed? (If it is the same Big Ed who occasionally comments  on here he needs to take one of us along - you know, to be in the back seat or something during the jump.)

Heck, he's even got the jump all planned . . .

Above The Fold

Tuesday* Addams Dancing You Into The Weekend

It's just so insane, I had to use it. 

*Edit: I have made an egregious error. My apologies to "Wednesday" Addams.

And Another - North Carolina

2013 making a huge comeback.

Link.

Oh, My!!!!

Now This Is Confusing

I was prepared to rant about another story of the cops saying, "He pointed his weapon at us so we fired in self defense". But then I went beyond the call of duty and actually read the story.   The statements of his neighbors makes this whole thing even crazier than the headline reads.

All Hail The Crazy Female Protestor

Youtube description: Anfield-born Hollie-May Saker, 18, was modelling for Nina Ricci at a show in the Tuileries gardens yesterday when two half-naked female protesters invaded the stage.

I have no idea what that sentence means since I've never heard of Saker, Ricci, or Tuileries gardens. And  I'm not exactly sure what they are protesting. 

But that bottom photo is an instant classic.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The new Big Tex weighs so much more than his predecessor that this one will not use guy wires. (I hope an engineer was consulted -- Having the thing topple over and crushing someone eating a turkey leg would not be good.)
• Explained to the Sophomore in the House that I disliked Oprah because of her "look at me" style. Less that an hour later we are driving and ended up behind a guy in a Corvette convertible with personalized license plates. I said, "There's a whole lot of Oprah in that car." She told me that was a horrible joke. Ma'am, that was a tremendous joke. 
• Ok, "Where da goat at?" explanation: Three or so days ago I saw a photo on Facebook of a Wise County guy serving beer to his goat. It was really funny so I posted it. Later in the afternoon I got an incredibly polite request that I take it down, so I did. 
• Remember the Argyle middle school principal who was accused of placing a hidden video camera in a locker room during her daughter's high school basketball game to see how much the coach yelled at the players? Well she was convicted yesterday of "unlawful interception of oral communications". (She was found not guilty of the goofy "improper photography" law.) Was it necessary to criminally prosecute her for that? A public reprimand or suspension isn't good enough?
• Kind of goes back to my post the other day about government prosecutors suing/prosecuting other government workers all the time. It's like busy work. 
• After the guilty verdict, the prosecutor and defense lawyer agreed to a probated sentence instead of having the judge or jury assess the punishment. But this is odd: The defense lawyer said he would now appeal the conviction. So the prosecutor agreed to a post-conviction plea bargain on punishment but didn't make it a condition that the defendant would waive an appeal? 
• Glee is a big player in our house and last night they had a Beatles theme. The show began with one of the girls walking around singing "Yesterday" as a tribute to the cast member who died over the summer. (And every time I tried to walk out of the room they'd fire up another Beatles song.)
• And I know the Comment Dog Pile that I'm asking for by mentioning Glee. Hey, I don't watch the thing -- it's just on. I'll just look up from my lap top from time to time. (But then normally the room begins "to spin real fast... cause of... cause of all the gayness.")
• Explain this to me: Last night the attendance at the Rangers/Angels game was 26,198. The game against Houston on Wednesday night drew 43,207.
• By the way, time is running out for the little Rangers. 
• Hey: To the goofy guy who always accuses me of stealing from "Gordo's Corner" (which doesn't make sense due to that segment on The Ticket coming on after I post Random Thoughts), Gordon mentioned the Fort Worth McDonald's story early this morning when I posted it yesterday. He obviously stole it from me, right? I mean he mentioned a major metroplex news story so he could have only heard of it from one place. 
• One of my weird life's pleasures: Eating at an airport restaurant before a vacation starts. 
• I knew Ted Cruz would be crazy but I didn't know he would be so crazily entertaining. 
• Ticket fans: Man, if you listen to the station over the Internet you will absolutely be driven crazy by the commercials of Progressive's Flo, Granada Theater, and "I'm having a stroke".

There's a video?

	WFAA TV (@wfaachannel8)
9/26/13, 8:28 PM Video shows Wise Co. man violently attacked while sleeping in his bed bit.ly/1h73oyX

Cruz Is Trying To Go Over The President's Head!

Ted Cruz in a prayer outside the WH pic.twitter.com/MqcRfyYHkX
— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) September 26, 2013

Big Tex's New Face Revealed

 You mad, bro?

Edit: He was unveiled earlier today:

The old:

Flash back to 2012:

Johnny Football And Uncle Nate Resurface

Looks like he showed up in Houston for Slim Thug's* show this week.

But the best part of this picture is that Uncle Nate (Nathan Fitch) is there. For the uninitiated, Uncle Nate is Johnny Football's 20 year old best friend who dropped out of college to be his manager. If real life were Entourage, Johnny would be Vincent Chase and Uncle Nate would be "E" but with the personality and brains of Turtle.

Second to his parents (who don't know how to parent), Uncle Nate (background here) is the worst possible influence on on Johnny Manziel.
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*I will readily admit I have no idea who Slim Thug is. I presume he is a rapper who has a somewhat thuggish disposition and prefers low fat meals.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• I'm not sure why there isn't more coverage of a near mass killing in a McDonald's in Fort Worth on Tuesday. Gun jammed, gunman goes outside and unjams it -- firing twice -- comes back into the restaurant and the gun jams again. One cop channeled Jules from Pulp Fiction calling it "divine intervention."  (As Vincent Vega explained: "That means God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets.")
• America won the America's Cup yesterday in a sport only the one-percenters understand or care about. 
• The Rangers are down one game for the final wild card spot with four games to play against the Angels. What the ultimate beat down: C.J. Wilson and Josh Hamilton come back to keep them out of the playoffs.
• A criminal court magistrate in Tarrant County (who I think is related to the Billy Bob's family) is placed on administrative leave but we don't get to know why? That seems wrong. 
• An extra depressing fact in an Update post about a house fire yesterday in Lake Bridgeport: "A broken down 2005 Expedition sitting close to the house also burned."
• I'm kind of surprised that the home in Alvord, which was the scene of a "home invasion", had security cameras that actually worked.
• Troy Aikman, in all seriousness, said this morning on The Ticket thought he could still play in the NFL. (That boy must be suffering from concussion syndrome.)
• I remembered a shocking case of two young Oklahoma girls being found murdered along a remote Oklahoma road in 2008. I looked the mystery up and learned that an arrest was made a couple of years ago of a man named Kevin Sweat. The last update I saw had the judge granting a motion to have "all three" murders tried at the same time. Amazingly, he's also accused of killing his girlfriend in 2011. (But it is beyond bizarre that all cases would be tried together.)
• Came in from jogging last night to catch the kids scrambling with their plates from the living room to the kitchen table. My rule of "no food outside the kitchen" may be being violated. Just a hunch. 
• There was a fantastic brawl in the Atlanta-Milwaukee game last night after Carlos Gomez hit a home run and crazily taunted everyone on the bases like a madman during his home run trot. The catcher was waiting for him.  (Video and break down here.)
• Cumulus radio has posted a "help wanted" ad to replace Randy Galloway. (h/t Richie Whitt). The Ticket bought 103.3 ESPN earlier this summer and the speculation was they would put Galloway justifiably out to pasture.
• Cumulus will also replace Sean Hannity nationwide with Michael Savage. (Although Savage won't help the nation's IQ).
• Breaking Bad note: Go back and watch Walt watching the Charlie Rose interview in the bar. I'm not sure he's as stunned by seeing the owners of the company he founded as he is when  Rose says there are still reports of "the blue meth" being on the streets. Walt's eyes get slightly wider.