4.16.2014

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts



  • Almost 400 missing in a ferry accident in South Korea.  Picture as it was going down.
  • I want to watch Game of Thrones but I'd have to see 32 episodes to catch up. Worth it? 
  • Blake Beaven pitched against the Rangers last night. I can't find it for the life of me, but on the day he was originally drafted by the Rangers in 2007 he ridiculed Texas' pitching staff and said, and I'm paraphrasing, he could do a better job than any pitcher on the roster. He's pretty much been a bust ever since. 
  • As of this morning, American Eagle is known as Envoy Air. I've flown on American Eagle once and really didn't mind it.
  • Live shot of The Fellowship Country Club Church in Grapevine attempting to set a world record for the largest chalk drawing. After it's finished, I assume they'll return to saving souls. Or raising money. Or doing bits.
  • We probably need to seize on the Bundy Ranch publicity and immediately take over the LBJ Grasslands from the federal government. After all, how dare they take Texas land!!!!
  • The Mavs are in a critical game tonight and the Stars are in a playoff game. I have no interest in either one. And it's not out of the question, and quite probable, that the Rangers game will outdraw both of them in the TV ratings. 
  • We've got some fancy make-one-cup-at-a-time coffee maker in the office, and it looks intimidating. 
  • The direct link to the Update on the Messenger's home page is screwed up. Today's is here. 
  • "The Housing Authority of the City of Decatur will be closed Thursday for training." What's the Housing Authority?
  • "According to a statement from the Academy of Country Music [whoever runs the show], the 50th anniversary edition of the CMA awards show, which will be held at ATT [Cowboys] Stadium next April 19, sold out 70,000 tickets in 18 minutes this morning." Good grief. 
  • I'm hesitant to use the term "pedophile", but the guy sentenced yesterday in Fort Worth earned the title. (And there's a nugget in that link that he admitted yesterday to being the 1970s "Baseball Cap Bandit" in Houston.)
  • This is a first: An "And Another" has escaped from jail. Edit: Oops. Should have read the article. Make that "escapes jail time". 
  • Sports Illustrated put out a casting call to the people of Boston for last Saturday to take a photo for the anniversary of the bombing at the Boston Marathon.  The photo which made it to the cover was just released. 


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4.15.2014

Above The Fold

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Random News Of The Day




Got curious and looked him up. Here's a video of the incident from 2000.  The most amazing thing is that a guy can shoot a trooper and then walk around holding a rifle in front of a bunch of cops and not get gunned down.
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Your Big Story Tonight




Highland Park chase a stolen minivan but then "back off".  Vehicle keeps going and smashes into another car killing a teenager and critically injuring his mom.  Two suspects in the minivan fled on foot and are still on the loose.

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That Kid On Hannity



My beef with this segment in Random Thoughts is that no one challenges this cocky kid? Are we supposed to just believe what he says?
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Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts



  • The guy who wanted to kill Jews but instead ended up shooting three non-Jews in Kansas last weekend once ran for the Senate and produced some wild White Power radio commercials. That prompted him to become a guest on the Howard Stern Show. 
  • Did I get up to watch the Blood Moon? Not a chance in the world. Any chance I see a thousand pictures of it today?
  • WFAA announced the "will host a live, on-line roundtable discussion w/ Texas GOP Lt. Gov. candidates @DavidHDewhurst and @DanPatrick on May 7 @ 10:30a.m." Online roundtable? On a Wednesday morning? Will this thing have video? Are we not going to have a live, prime time debate between these two knuckleheads which would be highly entertaining?
  • I learned a little bit about KISS over the last month since they were recently inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (how ridiculous is that?) but what I've primarily learned is what a tool Gene Simmons is.
  • I'm not the only one "on" to Joel Osteen. The producer of the Mark Davis show researched every post he made on Facebook and Twitter and learned that the last time he mentioned "Jesus" was over one year ago.
  • A lawsuit has been filed by a former waitress against a strip club in north Fort Worth claiming the club should have known that a manager "had a propensity towards violent behavior".  Her lawyer, curiously, doesn't practice personal injury or civil litigation but represents himself to "exclusively" practice criminal defense law.
  • The more I read about this Bundy Ranch case, the more I'm stunned that the Right, who supports "The Rule Of Law", is on his side. The guy blatantly disregards court orders.
  • I couldn't believe what I was seeing last night when Sean Hannity interviewed the kid who is the basis of the book and film Heaven Is For Real. I had never heard the story, but the kid, age 15, described how he "died" when he was age four and then saw God and actually talked with Jesus. He was, however, a little sketchy on the details.  You know, Hannity has become a political Joel Osteen. (Side note: The movie amazingly stars Greg Kinnear and Thomas Haden Church.)
  • That shocking US Airways tweet yesterday (look it up but tread lightly) gave rise to some hilarious responses on Twitter. 
  • Hey, where's my nemesis who said the Rangers pitching staff would be fine once everyone gets healthy? Colby Lewis returned to the mound last night and the Rangers lost 7-1.
  • Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel had a show from DFW last night. That might have turned the Fifth Grader in the House into a vegetarian. (The part with the cow head probably did it.)
  • Big news over the weekend when geologists linked fracking to small earthquakes in Ohio.  However, I was all set to tap the brakes and give Dennis Prager credit yesterday when he said that one of the researching geologists was actually married to the founder of an anti-fracking group called Frackfree America. That would be newsworthy. But I looked it up and found that wasn't close to the truth. There was, in fact, a reference to that lady in the story but she's just married to some Youngstown State geologist who simply commented on Ohio's new regulations. There's nothing that said he was a geologist who took part in the study by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Prager. (Said in a Seinfeld "Newman" voice.)
  • Google has bought a drone company. Look out. 
  • Northwest High School has hired Marble Falls' offensive coordinator as its head football coach. The coach at Marble Falls is Todd Dodge. Did they consider him? 
  • You've got to read the first item in the Update as to what happened at the Alvord ISD school board meeting last night. Cue the Benny Hill music. 


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4.14.2014

Southwest Flight Attendant Has A Comedy Routine



I'm not really sure I understand this. The youtube comments are absolutely positive about her, and her on-plane audience is something every comedian would die for.  Just slayin' them.

I, however, had an urge to strangle her.

As a sidenote, looking at all those passengers jammed in there is visual evidence of what a beating flying is these days.

(And I realize that the big Internet air industry news of the day involves USAirways, but I'm not touching that.)
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Homeless and Mentally Disturbed



A scorched door gets you seven years?  Let's keep locking up the poor and the mentally ill. That'll solve all of our problems!
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Greek Mythology Has Always Been His Achilles' Heel

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Better Picture Of The "Open Carry" Advocates At Main Street Arts Festival


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Random Monday Morning Thoughts



  • I've never understood why the Main Streets Art Festival decides to set up in what is a downtown Fort Worth wind tunnel during the windiest month of the year.
  • But, while the weather was still good, some "open carry" activists decided to walk through the crowd. 
  • I'm not sure how I feel about the federal government/rancher standoff in Neveda. It's been settled (for now, at least) because the feds have backed off. But it sure seems like the rancher is in the wrong on this thing. 
  • Sports and sportsy related things: (1) A great job is the "noncompeting marker" -- the member of Augusta Country Club who gets to play with the last place qualifying player when an odd number of players made the cut, (2)  The final round of The Masters went from riveting to boring in about 30 minutes, (2a) Jordan Spieth dates a Texas Tech sorority girl, (3) There's a 30 for 30 on Tuesday about the "Hillsborough disaster" --  a human crush in a soccer stadium in England that resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others twenty-five years ago tomorrow. I'm in. (4) The Nebraska coach and his cat was a funny story on Saturday, (5) Official Liberally Lean player Chris Davis finally hit a home run this weekend. (6) Ticket Fans: Departed Rich Phillips' name truly was "Dick Hicks". 
  • I ended up getting caught in the rain while jogging yesterday morning. That's happened a couple of times to me, and I always hate it at first but then end up loving it. But I'd never begin a jog in the rain. 
  • I watched the season premier of Mike Judge's Silicon Valley on HBO. It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be, but it has promise. 
  • What's up with Best Buy? It used to be that you couldn't find a salesman in there to save your life. Now they are everywhere but are hell bent on trying to sell you something you don't want. I had one get visually put out with me when I didn't want to hear his pitch to upgrade a laptop purchase. But the craziest experience was being approached by some independant contractor Best Buy had allowed in the store who asked me if I was "happy with my cable service". Really? You'll let your customers be harassed by some Dish or DirecTV salesperson? 
  • "Despite their best intentions when they set out to conquer a seven-day, 150-plus-mile [foot] race through a North African desert, a Colleyville trio dropped out after the 21-mile first leg." Who would have thunk it? A family from Colleyville couldn't accomplish that? (And the story screams of "Rich People Problems.")
  • "Utah mother, 39, arrested after 7 dead babies found at former home."  The odds are great that we'll get a comment about abortion. 
  • There were about four big cardboard boxes stacked up in the garage so I decided to be productive and whipped out my man sized box cutter and reduced them to pieces small enough to go into the recycle bin.  Then Mrs. LL tells me she was saving them for a specific purpose. 
  • A teenage girl learned not to make Al Qaida jokes to American Airlines on Twitter.
  • That "I'm Not Impressed" Olympian looks like she could be the next Lindsay Lohan. 




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4.13.2014

Pete Delkus And Wise County: The Two Mixed Like Never Before


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4.11.2014

Above The Fold

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Well, That Went Just About The Way You'd Expect



She didn't end with a bang or a whimper.  Just another glitch.
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Wow




(But what's "TV viewer on the scene"?)
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Tech Coach Gets In A Dance Off Yesterday



I'm not real sure what the purpose of this is (team building?), but Tech had a little dance off yesterday at spring practice.  Kliff Kingsbury gets involved at 1:40.
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The Hillary Shoe Duck From Yesterday



Launched by this gal who, dare I say, is kinda hot?


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Random Friday Morning Thoughts



  • "Your mail is going everywhere, but I'm tracking it down. I've got your back." -- Decatur mailman to me in the courthouse hallway yesterday. But I'm not really sure what he is talking about.
  • Heard reports that a deputy had his radio mic open in one of the Wise County courthouse offices a few days ago which prompted a conversation amongst four or five employees to be broadcast county wide.
  • It was the 35th Anniversary of Wichita Falls tornado yesterday. I remember where I was later that night: In a storm cellar (or a fallout shelter -- I'm not really sure what it was built for.)
  • "Iraq poised to legalize marriage for girls as young as 9".  We love bringing democracy to other countries but are horrified when they exercise it in a way that we don't agree with. 
  • I've only watched a few minutes, literally, of The Colbert Report -- the guy who is getting David Letterman's slot. Because of my lack of interest, I had no idea he was doing a "character".
  • "Ten people - including five teenagers - have perished after a tour bus carrying high school students collided with a FedEx truck in a horrific fiery crash in Northern California on Thursday." Good grief. 
  • I hate the USA Today's web site. It's like a page hovering over a page and some video commercial will ultimately fire up. 
  • Mrs. LL bought the little Google's Chromecast gadget, but I'm still not sure how it works. She sure was giddy, however, of being to broadcast a video from her phone onto the TV with the greatest of ease. 
  • "The NBA issued a two-game suspension to Dallas Mavericks public-address announcer Sean Heath due to tweets criticizing officiating." Is this Russia, Danny?
  • Today is the 20th anniversary of the official opening of the The Ballpark in Arlington. I was reminded this morning that a lady fell over the railing that day and plunged about 30 something feet. She didn't die but broke a few bones. WFAA tracked her down four years ago. 
  • I finally watched half of that Discovery Channel show on the Wylie Axe Murderer. It was horrible. The One Act Play group at Krum High (no offense) could have done a better job. 
  • Man, I missed Jeb Bush's remarks about some illegal immigrants who come here to join their families: "Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love." The Far Right isn't going to let him get away with that, are they? 
  • What? There's news about Kathleen Sebelius? Hadn't heard a thing.
  • "Chico Mayor J.D. Clark was named 2013 Small Community Library Advocate of the Year by the Texas Library Association and Small Communities Library Round Table." If we don't hear from the DF J.D. Clark on this, I'll be disappointed. 
  • A guy gets caught taking "upskirt" photos at a Target in Rockwall and then tells police, “I was actually about to go meet my probation officer for my sex addiction class.” Wheels. Are. Off.




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