From Downtown Fort Worth

A buddy sent this to me today. I thought it might be some type of bit, but it looks legit.

Political Junkies Will Find This Old Tweet Funny

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The Most Mysterious Thing About A Ouija Board Is The Way That It Is Pronounced

Daily Mail- Three American friends have been taken to hospital after reportedly becoming ‘possessed’ by evil spirits while playing with a Ouija board.  Alexandra Huerta, 22, was playing the game with her brother Sergio, 23, and 18-year-old cousin Fernando Cuevas at a house in the village of San Juan Tlacotenco in south-west Mexico. But minutes into it, she apparently started ‘growling’ and thrashing around in a ‘trance-like’ state. They restrained Alexandra to prevent her from hurting herself, before treating the three with painkillers, anti-stress medication and eye drops, which seemingly worked. ‘They had involuntary movements and it was difficult to transfer them to the nearest hospital because they were so erratic. ‘It appeared as if they were in a trance-like state, apparently after playing with the Ouija board. ‘They spoke of feeling numbness, double vision, blindness, deafness, hallucinations, muscle spasm and difficulty swallowing.’

Graphic footage that some viewers may find disturbing? Uh, yeah, if you think bad acting is disturbing. Someone needed to throw a glass of water in that Regan MacNeil wannabe and tell her to cut the crap. Honey, unless you can spin your head around in a sweet 360, I'm not buying it.

Kid Discovers His Eyebrows

Just wait until he throws down that routine in Pre-K.  He'll be just slaying it with the ladies.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I watched the documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs over the weekend, and it was basically an anti Drug War film with nothing new to offer. But it did have this gem: We've cut cigarette use by regulation, taxation, limitations on advertising, and a bombardment of public service announcements and warnings. Now what would happen if we just simply outlawed them? Use would explode and a massive black market would be created.
• I was able to watch the soon to be Sophomore In The House play a softball game online on Saturday night. They even had a play by play guy who, surprisingly, was really good. (But at the end of the game I was disturbed to see Mrs. LL and that kid do The Wobble).
• "For the 12th time in 13 years, the Wise County Messenger has been judged the best large semiweekly newspaper in the state of Texas." Hey, I like the Messenger but I ask this every year: How many semiweekly newspapers in Texas are there?
• Walking a dog who is always pulling on the leash is a beating. Lighten up and relax you moron dog!
• That USA/Portugal game yesterday was some high entertainment. 
• As a soccer novice, the fact that they can kick a ball and have it curve/bend it is amazing. (And I haven't just figured out they can do that. That was when I saw the title Bend It Like Beckham)
• After the last World Cup game ends every day (around 7:00) they cut to the outdoor studio where it is dark. I was confused at first because Brazil is basically in our same time zone. Then it dawned on me: It's that tilted Earth thing!!!
• Hope Solo got arrested for domestic violence over the weekend. I've wondered about her since she showed up to a Newsweek interview one morning drinking mimosas. (And I also learned this weekend that her current husband were arrested the day before their wedding for allegedly assaulting her. They got married any way.)
• When I was watching the weather on Fox 4 last night they showed a graphic of local "weather watchers" reporting rainfall. One guy in Granbury reported over seven inches of rain. I called him a liar right to his TV face. Upon further review, I think I owe him an apology. 
• I've heard the construction of the big house north of Bridgeport (Cuban's sister?) is coming along. 
• An off duty Arlington officer killed a man in a Pappadeaux parking lot? Pappadeaux's???
• Augie Garrido, the University of Texas baseball coach, looks like he drinks a lot. And even if that's true, it hasn't impacted his ability to coach. 
• Isaiah Austin played for Baylor basketball last year and got everyone's attention when it was revealed he only had one eye. He got slapped again by life this weekend when it was revealed that his potential NBA career was over in that he has been diagnosed with Marfan Syndrome. He almost immediately granted an interview to ESPN and it was heart-breaking. 
• I think I convinced Mrs. LL that The Wire is pretty great. 
• So the USA and Germany play each other on Thursday and both teams can advance with a tie? Is there anything illegal about cutting a deal for 0-0 tie?

My Analysis Of America's World Cup Win Tie Today

What I was posting during the last minute of play ...

America be like https://t.co/8QZrzRTwbR
— Stars and Stripes FC (@StarsStripesFC) June 22, 2014

What ended up happening . . .

A $24 Million Yacht Burned This Weekend.

Of course, someone launched a drone to record it. Wait, what?

Above The Fold

Greatest Cameraman Ever Taking You Into The Weekend

Potential DWI Suspect Turns Out To Be Diabetic. Cops Rough Him Up Before Figuring That Out.

Oh, and he's 70 years old.

Out of San Antonio.

287 Traffic Question

That's what it looks like right now between Decatur and Rhome. Northbound traffic is backed up. Is that because of a wreck or is that a daily occurrence now that they've taken 287 down to one lane for construction project south of Decatur?

(Mrs. LL would like to  know. She's stuck in it.)

But It's On The Internet

I had never heard of the North Texas Pigeon but it didn't take me long reading this article to figure out it was satire like The Onion. But the number of comments where people actually think it's real is staggering. And entertaining.

How Not To Run On A Treadmill

'Merica: Viral Photo Of The Day

A handsome mug shot of a Northern California man arrested on felony weapons charges has gone viral on social media, attracting more than 33,000 "likes" and drawing comments praising his high cheek bones, chiseled face and striking blue eyes.

Jeremy Meeks, 30, a felon, was arrested Wednesday on five weapons charges and one gang charge, according to Officer Joseph Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department.

"I have not seen that many likes for a photo before," he said. More.

Did Attorney General Greg Abbott Just Cost You Over $1 Million Because He's A Bad Lawyer?

This is complicated, and I may need someone smarter than me to interpret it. But it looks to me that when the defendants in the lawsuit that the State of Texas brought in connection with the Voting Rights Act prevailed, they then sought attorneys fees. They filed a motion to get the money and Greg Abbott basically blew them off. The court awarded the fees because the State's response was so bad that it was the equivalent of no response at all.  Look how this opinion, released two days ago, begins:

Wow.

And this may get some press because one of the parties who was awarded attorneys fees was none other than Wendy Davis who had intervened in the case.

Edit: The Austin American Statesman is on it.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Jimmy Buffett played in Fort Worth last night. In the early 1990s, I proclaimed my head would explode if I ever heard Margaritaville again. He's like a musical demon to me who won't leave.
• 193 pics in the Star-Telegram of the Miss Twin Peaks contest held in Dallas this week. (Ticket fans will see a familiar face on #84)
• The O'Bannon vs. NCAA trial is going on and it is putting a huge and fresh spotlight on how crazy the current system is in allowing schools to exploit athletes.  The immense financial impact that RG3 was to Baylor, Johnny Football to the Aggies, or Vince Young to the Empire, yet none of those players could receive a dime. We'll look back one day and be in disbelief that the current system existed at all. 
• Pete Sessions gave an answer to a question while visiting a high school class which makes you think he's a 9/11 Truther. 
• Any radio or TV ad which has a theme of "we accidentally over-purchased from the factory and now we've got to clear out warehouse space" tells me the company not only lies but also doesn't think its customer base is very smart.
• I slowly drove through the remnants of the gravel spill mentioned in the Update during the clean up stage and, because I was behind a rock truck, I couldn't see more than five feet in front of me. It was amazing. I can't imagine what it was like immediately after the spill. (And we don't know who spilled it.)
• I've never met the BagOfNothing guy but we share a weird sense of similar interest. Last night I teared up while watching the NBC Evening news when it showed footage of when the President called the most recent Medal of Honor recipient to tell him he would be receiving the award. (It was filmed from the vantage point of the honoree with his mother in the background.) I just looked at Bag's blog and he wrote about the same thing (although he prefers the CBS Evening News.)
• We may be the only two people left who actually watch the national evening news of one of the big three.
• I've never had a desire to see The Jersey Boys.
• TV shows I don't know if I'll ever get around to watching in their entirety (number of episodes I've watched in parenthesis): The Americans (2), Game of Thrones (0), Rectify (0), Fargo (0), Dexter (0), Sons of Anarchy (0), Mad Men (3), Veep (2), 24 (0), Orange is the New Black (0), and House of Cards (5). I've heard they are all great. How do people have the time? 
• There's an 11 year old girl who is competing in the U.S. Women's Open in golf this week, and she's fantastic. But I'm a little suspicious that her PR team might be a little out of control when they had her show up for her post first round press conference eating ice cream. 

Fargo 911

Man, I think this is funny. A golf course. So many cops. Golf clubs in the foreground. Golfers running in the background. A helicopter for good measure!

And I just picture this lady leading the chase . . . .

Dick Cheney Before He Became Insane

This really is incredible. After the first Iraq invasion, he explained why the U.S. didn't go forward and bring down Saddam Hussein. The guy was exactly right. Of course, he did a 180 a few years later.

This video surfaces in light of Cheney forcing himself into the news again as he criticizes the President about the current state of Iraq.  Harry Reid had a great zinger yesterday: "If there is one thing we can all agree on here, it’s that we should not be taking advice on Iraq from Dick Cheney."

Edit: I missed that Fox's Megyn Kelley was all over him, too.