Everyone Straighten Up! We've Got A Guest In The Metroplex!

.@GovernorPerry will travel w/ President #Obama to @DallasLoveField http://t.co/oZERg9Xuli #dfwnews pic.twitter.com/e9f0eRaBM4
— CBSDFW (@CBSDFW) July 9, 2014

Air Force One is always an awesome sight. Welcome to #DFW, Mr. President! pic.twitter.com/m1sUDTEzAh
— DFW Airport (@dfwairport) July 9, 2014

From earlier this week:

Say What?

BREAKING - Cedar Hill officer set on fire at the Wingstop parking lot... more details to follow
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) July 9, 2014

Brazil Reactions From Yesterday

America

The President shaking hands with a guy wearing a horse head. In Denver.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Stomach ache. Day two. This is weird.
• Missed this yesterday: Wise County was selling around 100 foreclosed property at auction. Is a massive sale the best way to do it? Does that bring out the most buyers or is that too much supply at once?
• Wise County has suddenly turned into the War on Drugs capital of Texas based upon recent trials.
• Jesse Ventura's defamation lawsuit against the "American Sniper" is a little bizarre. No question Chris Kyle had trouble with the truth but he's dead. Let it go. 
• The older I get, the more I hate Texas summers.
• The right wing went nuts when Costco, for whatever reason, pulled the book "America: Imagine a World Without Her" off the shelves. Wait. Hobby Lobby has rights that deserve defending but Costco doesn't?
• I know nothing about soccer but that beat down of Brazil by Germany was crazy.
• I bought some new headphones for jogging. They arrived. They are pink. I have no idea how that happened but Mrs. LL will end up with a new present. 
• Now we have neighbors coming over to see The Pig In The House. 
• The Ticket's Craig Miller participated in a triathlon while he was on vacation. He wrote about it at length, and it sounds impossible. 
• I'd love to hear a conversation between President Obama and Perry.
• Me the other day to the Sixth Grader In The House: "I'm glad I don't have to put on a uniform every day." Her: "Uh, you kinda do." Dang it,
• I haven't thrown up this morning. I kind of wish I would.

Above The Fold

Not That What They Look Like Makes It Any More Tragic But Whoa

Bond set at $1 million for Josh Beard. Charged w/cap mrdr in death of gf's daughter - Tylea Moore. Pic from prom. pic.twitter.com/rSVuP6NbJD
— LARI BARAGER (@laribaragerfox4) July 8, 2014

Those Open Carry Folks Will Eventually Cause An Incident - Rightly Or Wrongly

They are technically correct in most states (this is said to be Vancouver, Washington) but, man, this is going to end badly one of these days.  I would think most of these folks are very politically conservative,  but I'm not even sure about that.

Some Gal From TCU Making You Miss The Holiday Weekend

Random Baseball Analysis

This was making the rounds this morning. I may need my Baseball Nemesis to clarify a couple of things.

Is this really a great play by Jeter? Doesn't the shortstop always move to second when the runner at first takes off? Isn't that what the runner expects? And wasn't that guy sprinting to second on this hit-and-run regardless of what Jeter did? I think he would have been thrown out any way even if Jeter didn't do the fake catch.

New Reality Show Has Strangers Getting Married

And they get to decide after four weeks whether to stay married or get divorced. Sign me up! I'll have three divorces in the months but, hey, it's all in the rules.

The contestants . . .

 No question. Might even try to talk her into week five. 

 Three weeks and I'm out. High maintenance. 

I'm sleeping with one eye open. Huge chance of being on the crazy train.

Midland On The Brink!

Story.

And Another - Houston

Story.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• My stomach is killing me this morning. That's unusual for me. 
• The pot bellied pig project is a success so far. I think. And the coolest thing is that The Family Pup and The Family Cat are very protective of it. I think they are very confused by it. 
• The head of the Dallas County Republican Party, Wade Emmert, is filling in for Mark Davis this week. Yesterday he said the most "compassionate" thing America could do to for those children south of the border would be to build a wall. Strange concept of compassion. 
• The Republicans will announce the host of next year's Convention which is currently down to Cleveland or Dallas. I think they'll chose Ohio for political reasons. The GOP needs Ohio. 
• A naked Prince Fielder in ESPN's "body" issue. 
• I just threw up. (Not from the Fielder pic, but from the stomach issue.) 
• Gov. Perry and President Obama issued dueling invitations for a meeting neither one of them cares to have. 
• Nothing wrong with fundraisers, but this sentence in the Update is vague: "All assigned tasks must be within reason."
• I jogged yesterday and got way too hot. I'm not sure I can do summer jogging any longer. That's depressing. 
• Low flying jet at England air show. Oh, my.

Ain't no party like a Southwest Texas State* party cause a Southwest Texas State party don't stop.

* I refuse to acknowledge the new name after the University of North Texas was denied the right to it. (Which I'm sure happened but can't finding anything to back me up.)

Crazy Scene On My Street Saturday Morning

Full Throttle

Random Monday Morning Thoughts - That Didn't Load On Time!

• "I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way, that you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from,” Rick Perry on the current immigration issue while appearing ABC’s This Week on Sunday. And you guys think I butcher the English language.
• Please, Governor, run for president again. I need material. 
• Mashable.com had a list of "13 Short Stories That Will Blow Your Mind" this weekend. I read The Lottery again for the first time since high school (still creepy) and read Zombie by Chuck Palahniuk (creepy even by today's standards.) 
• I was asleep on Saturday when I was awakened by Mrs. Mrs. LL and the Kids launching some type of fireworks that had to be illegal.
• As I was getting a haircut yesterday, my "stylist" stuck out her tongue to show where she had bit it.
• I'm embarrassed to say that we all watched the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest live. 
• My administrative assistant called into question the wording of a sentence I had written in a letter last week. We then then struggled over it for about a minute before we got it right. I liked that. 
• Tony Romo needs 3,378 yards to become the Cowboys all time leading passer (in yards) over Troy Aikman. He's done that at least six of the last seven seasons. 
• Fox and Friends Brian Kilmeade wrote a book last year? Those guys over at Fox just let their name be used as a co-author, right? 
• The Wimbledon women's final took 55 minutes. The men's took 56 minutes and three more hours. 
• A high tone Austin lawyer gets caught in a $60 prostitution sting conducted by the FBI. More proof we have too many cops 
• If you want to hear a lot of angst, listen to talk radio on the immigration "crisis". Mark Davis had no where to go on Thursday when he was confronted by a right winger on his lack of "Christian kindness." He had to resort to, "There's is no teaching that says it it is to be done in disobedience to, or ignorance of, the law." Huh?  
• It sounds like the University of Texas president is being forced out. Something weird is going on in the Evil Empire. 
• We've got a pot bellied pig in the house. It eats like a pig. And squeals like a pig. I have no idea how I got talked into this. 
• It's an elusive little thing.