Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• How deep at the bottom of the ocean might the Malaysian missing aircraft be? Deep. Very deep. (That's a crazy graphic.)
• The revelation that Al Sharpton was an informant for the CIA against the Mafia is crazy. He's not a guy I would expect to cozy up with the government regardless of the cause. (But I think I like the old Fat Al over new Skinny Al.) 
• A documentary called American Bloggers looks as boring as you think it would be.
• I dog radio guy Dennis Prager about once a month (I refrain from mentioning him more because I know only 1% of my audience knows who he is), but this is what he looks like. And that's a borderline racist joke he made. Edit: Hey, goofballs, it's him pointing out which one he is that's borderline racist.
• When UConn cut down the nets on Tuesday they used a Werner ladder. You couldn't miss it, because Werner had paid for that right --- complete with a advertising graphic on screen. March Madne$$. Edit: Apparently they've had that deal for years.
• Draft Day, a new movie about the NFL draft, has three big things going against it: (1) Kevin Costner is in it, (2) Chris Berman is in it, and (3) The NFL cooperated with the film.
• The Ultimate Warrior (who I know nothing about) is dead. He used to be a local DFW figure? Edit: Link fixed
• Dueling news on "Equal Pay" this morning. I flipped over to Mark Davis who was telling me not to be fooled by the oft quoted figure that a woman makes only 77% of the average man because that is based upon the total salary of all men and women in the work force. I flipped over to The Ticket and Gordon Keith, who was also discussing the 77% figure at the exact same minute, said 77% factors in such things as education and length of employment. 
• Attorney General Eric Holder became visibly upset yesterday with Texas Rep. and Tea Party fac Louis Gohmert during a congressional hearing.  It's at the 2:30 part of the video and mildly entertaining. 
• Breaking this morning: Nine people taken to hospitals in Pennsylvania after stabbings in a high school.  Edit: WFAA says that number is 20. Fox is now going with 10. The AP is going with 4. (All those numbers were released within minutes.)
• Scantily clad Julie Louis-Dreyfus on the cover of Rolling Stone. 
• I think I finally found an Aerial America that I didn't enjoy: The one on Nebraska. Unless you love corn fields, there is not a whole lot to see in Nebraska from the air.
• The UConn women won their ninth NCAA title last night. Clever headline . . . 

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The Most Pretentious/Odd/Weird "Save The Date" Video Ever

A couple of high tone lawyers getting married. Him. Her. The wedding website.

(Source).

Innocent Mistake But Still Funny (And Possibly Freudian)

"Human Barbie" Doesn't Like Race Mixing

NYDN – She may be a living doll, but she doesn’t have a pretty mouth. Valeria Lukyanova, the Ukranian woman dubbed “Human Barbie” because of her multiple plastic surgeries, shared her thoughts on race and beauty in a new interview with GQ Magazine - implying that the push for plastic surgery procedures in the Western world is “because of the race-mixing.” “Ethnicities are mixing now, so there’s degeneration, and it didn’t used to be like that,” said Lukyanova, according to GQ. ”Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.”

I suppose the article is about her views on race. I just can't get past her looks. Here she is on Google Images.

Houston Texans* Cheerleader Tryouts

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*This very important post originally left the "n" out of Texans. I regret this error.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• "Standup comic John Pinette dead at 50; acted in Seinfeld finale."  That headline reminded me of what a horrible episode that was. 
• I'm not sure if I'm more surprised that three McKinney teens have died of synthetic LSD or that it is called an "N-Bomb."
• America: Screen shot of Bill Clinton, George W, Jason Garrett and wife, Tony Romo and wife, and Jason Witten at the game last night.  
• Louisville beat national champion UConn three times this year (once by 33 points). SMU beat them twice. Even Houston beat them. 
• Taylor Swift and Jerry Jones' grandson, Spaulding, take  a selfie.
• President Bush and Jerry Jones' grandson, Spaulding, take a selfie.
• I threw the softball with the Sophomore In The House about three years ago. Back then, the chances of her throwing it into the ground two feet in front of her were great. Yesterday we played catch again. She dang near knocked me down.
• The Family Unit turned on me last night for calling Prince Fielder "fat". I revised it to "Big Boned."
• Ticket Fans: Nothing makes me laugh as much as Jake Kemp's prank phone calls with drops of George DiGianni and now Norm Hitzges. (Can't find the link.)
• I don't know much about golf, but when a Decatur sophomore wins the district tournament by 26 strokes, that gets my attention. 
• I haven't seen Mike Judge's Silicon Valley on HBO yet, but it's on my radar.
• First term Louisiana "Congressman Vance McAllister, who campaigned for office last fall as a devout Christian and devoted husband and father, was caught in video surveillance two days before Christmas passionately embracing and kissing one of his congressional aides." Here's the gal. Not bad. 
• If I was a great college athlete, I'm don't think I'd leave for the pros until my eligibility was up. What do you think Vince Young would give now to return for his senior year at UT?
• I watched A Football Life episode last weekend on Jimmy Johnson where, near the end of the show,he philosophizes about having "quality time left". It was funny because as he said, "In the end, it's not about the money" as the documentary cut to a clip of him in his "Three Rings" boat. 
• "This NCAA Championship brought to you by Ameritrade, Jeep Cherokee, and Godzilla." -- Actually heard last night.

Crazy Amanda Bynes Sighting

Girl is in Cabo.

She's looking better than when compared to a few months back:

Wrestlemania Was Last Night

That looks like a sold out Superdome. The Internet freaked out because "The Undertaker" lost. This is real life. This is America. We're all doomed.

Open-carry protestors rally at San Antoinio police substation

Story.

In addition to the Confederate flag, zooming in shows these gems:

 Where'd you get that badge?

And that badge? (But funny t-shirt)

Source.

We Have A Liberally Lean Pick 'Em Winner

Here's his bracket (tonight's game will not prevent him from winning.)

The list:

2014 - Chris R (tell me your last name if you want.)
2013 - Tad Billmire
2012 - ????
2011 - Wise County Attorney James Stainton
2010 - Nine year old Blake Cooper (son of former Decatur stationed DPS Trooper Scott Cooper)

And Another - Houston

Strong to quite strong.

Story.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I don't care about NASCAR but I feel bad for NASCAR fans. Normally we have beautiful April days, but not this weekend.
• There was a TV shot yesterday morning at Sundance Square where ESPN's Game Day was set up and it looked like a ghost town.
• I found Bruce Springfield [Edit: Make that Springsteen. Not sure what happened there.]  online last night and I'll give the guy credit: Cold and rainy and he was still giving it the what for.
• “They did everything they were supposed to do to win the game and we hit a ridiculous shot . . . . And the shot they took -- if it banks in, they win."  - Kentucky coach John Calipari explaining that there's not much of a difference between teams.
• "Nobody is better with concrete than Dallas-Fort Worth. It's everywhere and it somehow looks good." - CBS Reporter. I had friends visit from New Jersey a couple of years back, and they remarked on the amount of concrete in the area.
• Death Machine: "After the U.S. Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976, the first Texas execution took place in 1982; by the end of that decade, the state was responsible for 33 of the country’s 116 executions." 
• Where's the Right Wing applause?: More than 2 million illegal aliens have been deported under the Obama Administration. 
• There was a high school visitor of the Sophomore in the House this weekend who (1) asked me if the Cowboys used to be good, and (2) remarked "That song is so old!" when she heard Fergalicious in the background on TV.
• I saw a commercial for a ridiculous pillow shaped as a triangle  for the head of the bed. You know, not a bad idea. 
• No one saw it but UT beat Baylor 5-4 in baseball on Friday night when the Evil Empire, with two outs and a full count in the bottom of the ninth, hit a three run double. I was in a fetal position. 
• I have a wheel barrow and use it more than you would imagine
• Mrs. LL and I used to go out on Saturday night like crazy. In the last year we've become home bodies. I'm a little scared to ask her if it's OK. 
• Final Four tickets from $117 on Stubhub.
• Funny picture: Former Auburn coach Gene Chizik in the background of his daughter's prom picture. 
• I don't understand "Geocaching" but Mrs. LL is obsessed with it. 
• Oddest item from the Update this morning: "Funerals - None pending."
• "You're Americans. Act Like It."

Final Four Concert

LL Cool J on the stage. A good crowd out here!! #WFAAFinal4 pic.twitter.com/CWFJJw0XuE
— Ryan Wood (@RyanWoodDFW) April 5, 2014

Not so sure about that second sentence.

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The Final Four Taking You Into The Weekend

Texas School Bus Driver Mocks Crying Girl

Well, we are missing a big part of the story here: What was she crying about? That could change everything.

Have the flu? No mock
Dog died? No mock
Dropped candy? Mock
Just drove by horrific car crash? No mock
The Wiggles were still on when you left the house? Mock
Learned Justin Bieber got arrested? Mock
Learned Liberally Lean won't be updated that day? No mock.

It's all relative. In criminal law, where there is also a lot of crying, we call it "totality of the circumstances."  We need more information.

George W. Reveals His Paintings Of World Figures on Today Show

Putin! Those eyes!

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