I'll Always Be A Sucker For The Domino Video

Baby On Board

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We Don't Need No Education

This was a quote from a new Keller ISD board member: "Do you realize because SO FEW voters took the time and responsibility to VOTE in the municipal elections - YOU NOW HAVE A 'MUSLIM' on the City Council!!! What A SHAME!!!!"

And seconds later I came across another nonsensical rant from Dennis Prager who cries wolf about the liberal evils of education from any source other than home schooled. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I watched some of Top Gun this weekend while channel surfing. How have I not realized that the dialogue in the movie is beyond awful?
• The Star-Telegram's Mac Engel was on Fox 4 last night, and I am now convinced Mrs. LL is going to run off with him. Gal wouldn't stop staring at the screen and saying, "Hey, now."
• We went to the batting cages on Friday, but I just went for the putting green that was right by it. I don't know why it was so funny to me, but Mrs. LL asked me "How was your putting?" as we were leaving.
• We then let the Sophomore in the House drive us home through probably one of the most dangerous traffic areas in the metroplex. I was wearing a seat belt. In the back seat. While having a panic attack.
• Sports oddities: On Saturday, TCU won a 22 inning game, and Baylor's softball team came back from 0-7 in the sixth inning for a win. 
• A really interesting chart on the moral differences between Republicans and Democrats.
• A faithful reader sent me a picture of this sign from a topless club in Burleson. Edit: Link fixed.
• Alice of The Brady Bunch has died. 
• So Donald Sterling's wife tries to sell the Clippers by claiming her husband is "mentally incapacitated" and, we now learn, agreed to "indemnify" the NBA from any lawsuits? Doesn't that pretty much prove the NBA is in cahoots with her in this scheme? The league is setting itself up to be sued into oblivion. 
• I watched part of the induction ceremony of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and my life force was sucked out of me when I saw Peter Gabriel doing choreographed dance moves to In Your Eyes (a song I mentioned a couple of weeks ago as being very spiritual and moving.)  I then saw a song performed by Bonnie Raitt, Emmy Lou Harris, Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow and Carrie Underwood. Carrie Underwood!!!???
• I couldn't tell you anything about NASCAR or hockey. 
• I never thought I'd see the day where J.D. Clark is mentioned more in the Messenger that Andrew Rottner. 
• I have a weird habit of saying "There's nothing wrong with [insert name]" instead of just saying someone is good.
• The first entry today in the Update almost made me insane with the references to, I presume, bull names. 
• We traded three Guantanamo Bay prisoners for a military hostage? Mark Davis said this morning the hostage didn't have "an ounce of honor" in him if he had a choice in that agreement.

Above The Fold

Car Washing Gal In Dress Taking You Into The Weekend

I know what you're thinking: It'll take her forever to fill up that bucket spraying it that way.

Spokesman News

Pres. Obama announces that Jay Carney will be replaced by Josh Earnest- LIVE now on C-SPAN2: http://t.co/7SaMsfWELk pic.twitter.com/Q5GSmhguvA
— CSPAN (@cspan) May 30, 2014

What took him so long? That guy had to be the worst press secretary ever.

Grapevine Police Are After This Man

SOON TO BE BUSTED... @GrapevinePolice looking for suspect who hid camera in Braums bathroom http://t.co/fq5dHw9Fnq pic.twitter.com/QygGoy3YP8
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) May 30, 2014

Easy. Case solved. Boom.

Wolf Blitzer

The Guy Who Wants To Buy The Clippers Back In His Microsoft Days

It's like an unfunny Michael Scott on cocaine.

Government Creating Crime Again

BOSTON (AP) — Five airline employees were charged Thursday in a sting operation with using their security clearances to secretly smuggle more than $400,000 in cash through Boston's Logan Airport. More.

Huge deal, right? The Feds have busted some ring which is smuggling cash for drugs or arms out of the country!!!! 

Nope. It was a set up. The money was all under the control of the cops and part of a sting operation. The guys were paid to bypass security with the fake drug cash. And those big time defendants were all in their twenties with the exception of one who was thirty-one. 

If you can't justify your jobs by finding real crime, create fake crime. 

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Well I'll be, the new V.R. Eaton High School in Northwest is named after the father of the Messenger's owner and publisher Roy Eaton. Can't believe I missed that (or knew it and forgot it.)
• The Log Cabin Republicans (the gay ones) are being refused a booth at the Texas Republican Convention in Fort Worth. The Texas Supreme Court has previously unanimously agreed they can be excluded -- a court that had Greg Abbott and John Cornyn on it at the time.
• Wait a second, at the PBR Challenge in Decatur this weekend, local "celebrities" Fernando Escobar, J.D. Clark, Beau Bell, Joe Neil Henderson, Jeff Sicking and Wade Watson are going to ride a bull? Do I have this right?
• What are horrible scene in Arlington yesterday when a car wreck at an intersection carried over onto the sidewalk and killed a baby in a stroller. 
• One of the people killed in the motorcycle/car accident last weekend near Slidell was Cassie Marlana “Pocahontas” Turner of Ardmore. Here's a photo and obit of her from the Ardmore paper.
• So Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is willing to pay $2 billion for the Clippers? Two thoughts: (1) The players might want to remember that the next time the collective bargaining agreement expires. (2) That'll teach Donald Sterling!!! 
• The $2 billion calls into question all of those Forbes "most valuable" lists. Earlier this year they valued the Clippers at $575 million.
• And speaking of Sterling, he has been declared "mentally incapacitated" which allows for his wife to act on behalf of their jointly owned trust which technically owns the team? No way. He's getting robbed and will win if he wants to fight it. And if the NBA was behind this whole scheme, they've got big trouble on their hands. 
• I got sucked into the finals of the National Spelling Bee live last night on ESPN which included a girl from Abilene and a guy from Fort Worth (and formerly of Keller ISD) who eventually was the co-champion. It was really good TV. (And the kid yelling "What!" after missing a word became a video sensation.)
• The spelling bee also reminded me of the great documentary Spellbound. In it, a young competitor having immigrated from India said, as she reflected on the different ways of life, "America is different because in India you don't get second chances."
• I was excited to have Baylor in the Softball College World Series. That is, until the first game yesterday: They lost 11-0 with the game being stopped in the fifth inning because of the ten run rule which was reached dramatically on a grand slam. What a beating. 

Chainsaw Cadillac

A faithful reader was in Denton today and took a snapshot of this.

Looks like something out of Mad Max. (A very dated movie reference.)

Random Graphic

Created after 50 Cent's first pitch the other night.

A Perfect Quote For A Horrible Story

A dog was found shot to death in a wire cage Wednesday morning with 10 puppies still nursing, Parker County authorities said Thursday.

Investigators asked for help identifying and finding the suspects involved in the animal cruelty case.

“Parker County does not have an animal problem,” said Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler in a Thursday news release. “We have a people problem." 

More.

Edit: Wow. Fox 4 shows a picture.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/05/29/5857138/suspects-sought-in-parker-county.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

I Thought She Was Crazy

This really isn't much of a story about a new legal filing other than (1) it confirms my earlier beliefs that she had to be nuts in order for me to feel any sympathy for Deion, and (2) it informs me that she has changed her name to Pilar Biggers Sanders Love El-Dey.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Of the top fifty Texas Republicans on the ballot this Fall, only one is a woman. That's really incredible. I know the GOP is concerned about its relationship with Hispanics but they better worry about women. (The Democrats offer females for Governor and Lieutenant Governor.) 
• I'm not real sure why Charles Krauthammer seems to be all over Fox News (selling a book, perhaps?) The guy is like a poster child for the Angry Old White Guy who looks like an undertaker simply for entertainment purposes.
• Two of the three Ladies in the House pronounce "picture" as "pitcher" and it drives me incredibly insane. And I've worked on this for years!
• How does the Update report an overturned tanker truck near downtown Bridgeport but doesn't tell us the name of the driver or the company? 
• "Manhattanhenge — sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice — is a circumstance which occurs twice a year, during which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan." It happens today. 
• Mrs. LL was doing some deep cabinet cleaning yesterday and came across a thick book and multiple CD set called "Mastering Spanish" I had bought many years ago. I was thinking about learning the language at the time, so I went all out and bought it. Only afterwards did I learn it probably should have been named "If You Already Are Pretty Good In Spanish But Really Want To Master It". 
• The Update has a reference to Northwest's new V.R. Eaton High School today. Is that the monstrosity under construction south of 287 about a couple of miles past the Tarrant/Wise County line?
• And as I was thinking of the number of people that Northwest ISD employs, I also became curious about government employment in Texas. The percentage is 16.1%. Take into account the number in the private sector that directly depends on the government for income (that school, for example, isn't being built for free), I bet government in Texas is directly responsible for 1 in 4 of all jobs. And that's a Texas run by "true conservatives." 
• Steve Blow of the Dallas Morning News has a column today where he proclaims Texas will go Democratic in the future due to demographics. And he acts like that's some big revelation. If even I've been saying that for ten years, how does he have a job?
• I'd like to know the number of times I've walked up the Wise County courthouse steps over the last twenty years. And I've amazingly never fallen. 
• I just learned there were a bunch of arrests in the county early this year for the very odd offense of "illegal horse racing." 
• Ticket Fans only: The Dan McDowell challenge of Norm Hitzges' proclamation of "becoming a grandfather for the first time" was something to behold. Dan said it didn't count because it was based upon Norm's adult stepson of only two years, who has never lived under the same roof with Norm, had become a father. Dan's radio partner said, "Dan, I think the words you are looking for are 'Congratulations, Norm.'"
• Crazy lawsuit: Last year a bus carrying senior citizens to an Oklahoma casino crashed on the Bush tollway in Dallas. Three died. Now the North Texas Tollway Authority has sued the bus company claiming that the traffic jam caused by the wreck cost them $100,000 in tolls. 
• Cowboys: Sean Lee was allegedly at practice yesterday to help younger linebackers. (If I were him, my mindset would be, "My career as a player isn't going to last much longer. Maybe I should start sending messages that I'd work hard as a coach.")

Graduation Season

The best military academy graduation photo today didn’t come from West Point. http://t.co/5CUnocsOs7 pic.twitter.com/DrM9snstyv
— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) May 28, 2014

Maid Of Honor Rap

Vegas has put the line on the chances of the bride killing this bridesmaid at 2:1. Know what has more anger than a woman scorned? A bride who had some floozy try and steal attention from her on her wedding day.

I'm surprised it didn't turn out to be like the wedding in Kill Bill right after Ms. Look-At-Me took her final bow.

Edit: That reminded me that Mrs. LL had a relative send her, unsolicited I might add, a photoshopped version of that movie poster. It's both equally funny and disturbing.