Brian Williams Rap On Jimmy Kimmel

It's all most hypnotic.

(And I wonder how long it would take to put that together.)

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• That was a really entertaining U.S. soccer game at the World Cup yesterday although I don't understand why a guy has to be hauled off on a stretcher for a hamstring injury like he's been shot. (But that broken nose suffered by Clint Dempsey looked like it hurt. Badly.)
• Someone explain this to me: The Rangers Double AA Frisco team is being purchased by Chuck Greenberg? So a minor league team is owned by someone who doesn't control which players are on his team? I've always thought the owner(s) of the major league franchise owned all the minor league teams as well. 
• 660AM's Mark Davis wants to send troops back into Iraq. Even his crazy right wing listeners are calling in to tell him he's nuts. 
• Man, some guy on Hannity's panel discussion last night said that if a lawyer believes his client is guilty then he is obligated to withdraw. That's idiotic yet no one called him on it. (They were dogging Hillary for representing someone in a criminal case 40 years ago.)
• The person who failed to yield the right of way in Arlington and was then involved in a crash that ended up killing a baby in a stroller on the sidewalk will only receive a citation. It's amazing because I was beginning to believe law enforcement no longer believed that sometimes accidents simply happen. 
• I didn't know that a Howard Stern fan prank called Peter Jennings live on the air at the end of the O.J. Simpson chase. (Today is the actual 20th anniversary.) 
• Random DWI book in photo from Denton: She looks like she was in a cat fight. 
• When I heard former Cowboy Marion Barber was being observed for mental issues, I thought about this gal I saw in line at Cowboys Stadium five years ago. 
• Motorcycle death at 820 and I-35 last night. Edit: Okay, make that a motorist killed. My bad. Although there was a bad motorcycle wreck at 35 and University in Denton this morning. 

Crazy Sight In The Land Of The Children Of The Corn

NOW: Powerful duel tornadoes on the ground near Wisner, Nebraska - @ABCNewsLive pic.twitter.com/vrKOATTTtP
— ABC News (@ABC) June 16, 2014

Duck!

Hey, How Do You Know You're Facing Mecca?

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• There is an obituary notice out of Ohio which lists a survivor as "Mark Schomburg of Oklahoma". I bet that's the guy that was convicted of murder in Wise County two years ago.
• There was  couple of lengthy sentences out of Tarrant County last week in connection with the very bizarre murder at a Tanglewood home a couple of years back. It is a crazy, crazy story.
• I watched a little bit of Pet Semetary yesterday. Man, I had forgotten how dark it was -- not often do you have a movie allowing a little boy to be killed twice. (But it made me look up the great Fred Gwynne where I learned (1) he had a very high tone upbringing, and (2) The Munsters was only on for two seasons but those two seasons consisted of 70 episodes.)
• The Wise County Democratic Chairperson is after Phil King for not reporting $37,000 in campaign donations.
• For some reason as I was going to sleep last night Mrs. LL decided to check everyone's blood pressure and sugar count. 
• Yeah, keeping troops in Iraq would be the exact same thing as keeping them in Japan and South Korea. That's idiotic. 
• And I got mad at Bush all over again as I thought about his "Let Freedom Reign" note in response to learning that Iraq was "sovereign" in 2004.
• Casey Kasem died over the weekend. I was an incredible American Top 40 fan when I was a kid and couldn't wait to turn on the radio after I got home from church. 
• If the Family Pup does something wrong and we say, "Bad dog!", she'll wait until we aren't looking and then go to an upstairs bedroom and sulk. It may be one of the saddest/sweetest things I've ever seen.
• World Cup: That diving header from the guy from Spain was fantastic -- and the ball traveled 50 yards in the air before it happened. 
• Johnny Football dropping an F Bomb and looking like a guy who will be a disaster in the NFL. And I'm now at the point of wanting that to happen. 
• I'm trying to make Mrs. LL watch The Wire, and I got her through the first episode. I'm telling her to stick with it but it would help if fifty major characters weren't introduced at a rapid pace. (I started making a flow chart to keep up. And I've seen it before.) 
• But she did laugh at one line about the War on Drugs: "You can't even think of this [deleted] as a war." "Why not?" "Wars end."
• For some reason on Friday I decided to record A Football Life on the 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers and then their coach died over the weekend. 

The Only Moment Of The NHL Finals I've Seen

Above The Fold

Pig Making A Break For It Taking You Into The Weekend

America: Boats Lining Up For The House Burning

Cue the Talking Heads.

“@TXChooChooTrain: We take you now to a LIVE FEED of the Texas Rangers' 2014 season: pic.twitter.com/7Fi8SIY0DI”
— Cody McCoy (@CodyMcCoy06) June 13, 2014

If You See Something Crazier Today, I'm Worried About You

Story.

And Another -- Pennsylvania

She taught what? Story.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• A UTA reporter went to the Texas GOP convention dress as a veiled Muslim and she did not like how she was treated.
• As the NBA Finals were starting up last night, Mrs. LL looked up and said, "The Spurs are still in it?" I told her right then she earned this bullet point.
• Odd Couple: Matt Drudge and Ann Coulter sat by each other at that NBA game last night. 
• I never watch Channel 8's Ron Corning in the mornings, but here is a picture of him wearing thigh high boots. Good morning to you. 
• If the local TV stations don't televise the Lake Whitney house burning today at 10:00 a.m., they are crazy.
• Hey Fox 4 reporter last night: If the house did fall into the lake, boaters would not be in danger because of a "tidal wave" that could be "up to twenty feet tall". (Yes, that was really said.)
• The Messenger had a huge typo of "Courhouse" in a big headline in its print edition. But the pdf version online has it corrected. They changed history!
• I haven't read it yet, but some anti-gay protesters had their convictions for "Interfering With Public Duties" reversed by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals late yesterday. It looks interesting because it involves a gay pride parade in Fort Worth, protesters from the "Kingdom Baptist Church", cops from the "Zero Tolerance Unit" (sheesh), and the use of a "skirmish line".  What a combo!
• Nothing is so popular yet operates in what seems to be obscurity than the Eagles Canyon Raceway near Slidell.
• From the Update: "ROLE PLAYING GAME DAY – Decatur Public Library is hosting RPG (Role Playing Game) Day 10 a.m.-2 p.m." A question mark is either forming over your head or you're childishly giggling. 
• Speaking of the Update, there is a death listing for Betty Ann Monroe. Is that the same Betty A. Monroe who crashed into Jackie Murphree in Decatur leaving her paralyzed?
• The New York Times has a very crazy but cool multi-video collection of Brazilians watching the first goal in the World Cup and they are all "synced up". It took me a while to figure out how to work it.  
• Was there anything more predictable than Iraq falling into disarray? And if you blame the President you are saying you would rather have U.S. troops over there dying in order to keep the peace and you're willing to allow those young lives to be lost in perpetuity? 
• Random Brazilian newspaper . . . 

Hey, Even I Think This Is Funny

For those that missed it, Hillary Clinton told Diane Sawyer in a very recent interview that she and her husband were “dead broke” when they left the White House.

Mad Magazine. Still killin' it after all these years.

Bergdahl Letters From Taliban Prison Released - Explains Why Left Post

“Leadership was lacking, if not non-existent. The conditions were bad and looked to be getting worse for the men that where actuly (sic) the ones risking thier (sic) lives from attack,” he writes in a letter dated March 23, 2013 and obtained by The Daily Beast. It’s one of two letters sent by Bergdahl to his parents during his five years held by the Taliban-allied Haqqani Network in the tribal region of Pakistan.

“If this letter makes it to the U.S.A., tell those involved in the investigation that there are more sides to the cittuwation (sic),” he adds. “Please tell D.C. to wait for all evadince (sic) to come in.”

Source.

We can all conclude: This guy never won a spelling bee.

I Guess That's One Way Of Handling It

Hill County Sheriff confirms house falling off cliff will be set on fire. No timeline on when that will happen. pic.twitter.com/X75KL7KhEf
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) June 12, 2014

Actually, This Seems A Little Harsh

Story.

This is really pretty dry stuff -- a defense lawyer claims that a prosecutor used one of his free strikes on a juror because of race. The prosecutor tries to explain why that wasn't true. (For those few really interested, the actual transcript is here.)

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Weird tech day yesterday: Feedly (the RSS reader that I use) was down all day after an extortion attempt followed by a Denial of Service attack. And there was some weird bug in Tweetdeck (which I don't use) jacking up everyone's twitter feeds.
• The World Cup starts today. I'll try to be interested but won't be.
• There's been a lot of poor cameramen filming that Lake Whitney house for hours yesterday waiting to catch the moment it would fall into the lake.
• I thought I'd get killed for suggesting Eric Cantor was defeated for being the only Republican Jew in Congress, but I barely caught any grief at all. Maybe it's a legitimate theory.  Let's be honest, I can't imagine the Tea Party ever voting for anyone who says he does not believe that Jesus was the Son of God.
• But I did get called out for suggesting that DPS warn the "illegal racing" participants before they were arrested. You kidding me? I know law enforcement warned a recent 8-liners guy in the county a few months back and he was only arrested after he allegedly failed to stop running the operation.
• Representatives for the GOP convention were in Dallas yesterday and were met at the airport by, of all people, the Cowboys' Rowdy. 
• I think you can see the Messenger articles online only if you have a paid subscription. And they have shut the comments down on every story.
• I first mentioned this Open Carry craze in August of 2012. (I think there might have been one before that but lord knows I can't find it.)
• Some people think attorney Rusty Hardin's firm is abusing the taxpayer for the cost of an investigation about some possible silly impeachable offense by a Texas Board of Regent. When you charge $1,350 for an email (even if it is "lengthy") and take five associates with you to a hearing at a total cost of $26,600, those people may be correct. And from the sound of it, the firm really loves the hourly churning of the typically useless practice of "document review."
• "UIL basketball tourney likely to leave Austin after 93 years, head to Alamodome." I know one judge who will not be happy.
• Rick Perry is catching flak today for comparing homosexuality to alcoholism. To the extent that he's saying a person can be genetically inclined to both, that's really more open minded than I thought he'd be.
• George Bush turns 90 today and will jump out an airplane again to celebrate. He might want to start rethinking that. 
• NBC had a two hour special on the O.J. Simpson case yesterday since it was the 20th anniversary of the Bronco chase. That was one crazy cast of characters. 
• Crazy soon-to-be Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's son was a Harris County prosecutor before being appointed by Gov. Perry for district judge. On his campaign page, he references a Bible verse. I wonder what a Christian would feel like walking into his court if he had referenced the Koran and "do it all for the glory of Allah."
• Mrs. LL and I watched the pilot for Modern Family and were surprised to learn the characters are almost identical to what they are now. Most sitcoms take some time to develop a character into who they ultimately become. 
• It looks like Iraq is falling into chaos and now it can truly be considered as dumb of a war as Vietnam. (And I hope we cancel that jet order that Iraq has with Lockheed.)