7.25.2014

That American Ninja Warrior Chick Taking You Into The Weekend








at 2:42 PM

Get Me This Dog Who Passes Out When He Finally Sees His Owner!

at 1:43 PM

Take That, Bud!!!!


He later clarified that it came from Boyd.

at 10:48 AM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts



  • Israeli rockets hit a U.N. school in Gaza killing fifteen. Can they not hit the broad side of a barn?
  • They are building an In-N-Out Burger by the new Costco right off 287 and 35 in north Fort Worth. 
  • Man, the Charlie Strong era at Texas is off to a horrible start with the suspension of two players yesterday for what looks like a horrible sexual assault. (On a lighter note, the typos in the 2014 Media Guide doesn't ooze "discipline".) Edit: Wow. I completely missed these two that were dismissed yesterday. Edit: Three more gone today. Chaos!
  • I love the sign that says, "Obey All Traffic Signs - State Law". Oh, okay. I wasn't going to until you posted that sign. 
  • Fox and Friends hosted Twisted Sister this morning. Demographics, my friends. Demographics.
  • There have been some silly prostitution busts in Denton and Cooke counties and some believe that there might have been some embarrassing arrests of high profile residents. Oddly, the Cooke County Sheriff said the prostitution arrests carry no jail time and are "fine only" offenses. That ain't right. 
  • Wow: Two night's ago the Lifetime Channel had scheduled to air a program called Good Grief - "Take a step deep into the heart of Texas with the Johnson Family Mortuary!" That's the mortuary under investigation for abuse of corpse.  The show didn't air. 
  • Heard this morning that Tony Romo has only missed one game in the last three years. That surprised the heck out of me. But his collar bone injury was back in 2010.
  • More reasons to hate the NFL: They suspended Ray Rice for only two games for knocking his girlfriend unconscious And, at 27, WR Sydney Rice has to retire because of concussions.
  • "Tarrant County Clerk Mary Louise Garcia was cited last month for assault following a domestic disturbance with her husband." Looking further, it was a Class C Assault by Contact which means "offensive touching" without causing pain. Here's a tip: If you ever hear about someone being charged with Class C Assault, be very suspicious about the accusation. 
  • Man, that GIF that BagOfNothing posted is funny.
  • I finally watched the HBO new documentary Newburgh Four about the FBI's ridiculous tricks to find and entrap "terrorists".  It is exactly what I've been preaching for five years. At times, I felt like I had been the director and editor for this must see documentary. 


at 9:40 AM

7.24.2014

From Dallas Morning News Facebook Page


A photo on the Metro cover in Saturday's paper has a lot of people talking. One letter writer, Richard Elsea of Sachse, shared a common reaction: "As I continued reading Saturday’s paper I kept returning to the photo of the protester and her fellow activists. Why did that hate-filled visage resonate so deeply? Seeing angry protesters screaming at someone or about something isn’t uncommon. Then I realized how much it reminded me of a 1957 photo from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. If you squint and let the image blur to a monochrome, you can almost see Elizabeth Eckford walking just to the right of the photo."



at 1:50 PM

If The Guy Had Only Thrown in a "When The Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor" Line



Youtube - Patrick Benson identifies the man being detained as his co-worker Alex. Benson claims the incident began when stadium staff assumed there was underage drinking within their group but says he and his friends are all at least 21 years old.

The video shows the officer allowing Alex to tell his side of the story but when he does not sit down on command, the officer is seen aggressively shoving Alex multiple times. A defiant Alex then demands to be shoved by the officer again and is then handcuffed. “All he had to do is shut up and he would have left,” the officer is heard saying. During his detainment, Alex continues to give what was probably meant to be a patriotic speech but seemed more half-thought drunken ramblings.

Benson says he believes Alex was simply escorted out of the stadium without further incident. In the end f the video, another officer can be heard saying Alex was being physically ejected for trespassing because he refused to leave.

 I think I'm more annoyed by that drunken "United States of America!" rant than the overly aggressive cop. 

 And what's that guy writing down in the background? Talk about focus!

 Edit with an excerpt from Deadspin which posted this later:

 Abuse me again! As a citizen of the United States of America, abuse me again!"

 Alex is shoved and placed in cuffs. Alex is now yelling.
"This is an illegal recremendation [reprimandation? recommendation?? reckaimininldjsation???] of an American citizen," Alex cries. "Thank you!"
at 1:34 PM

I Should Be A Detective



(NBC-LA) Authorities are asking for the public’s help to help find a man that is suspected of killing a peacock in Rolling Hill Estates, officials said. A witness saw the man stop his silver four-door Mercedes-Benz in the 27000 block of Eastvale Road around 8:20 p.m. on July 9, according to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles said in a statement. The man fired from a pellet gun, hitting a peacock in a driveway.

 Mike Ditka has always had a temper, probably drives a Mercedes, and would kill a peacock just for looking at him wrong. Boom!:

at 12:17 PM

Random Face On Fire

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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts


  • The location I saw the car backing up on the 820 freeway over the weekend is about the exact same place where a car took out a huge overhead sign this morning. Photo. If you've ever come up east 820 from I-30, you've seen that sign. 
  • It's been a year since Kidd Kraddick's death and the ratings for his show are, amazingly, up.
  • I've noticed what  I believe to be Decatur's girls' cross country team running the streets of the town around 7:00 a.m. 
  • There was another botched execution last night. This time in Arizona. 
  • Highs will only be in the 80s mid to late next week.
  • I wonder if this is the Twitter feed for the young girl injured in the wreck southeast of Decatur yesterday. 
  • Jerry Jones said they didn't have formal conditioning tests on the first day of training camp but was encouraged that most of the players did it anyway. Jason Garrett later said that the conditioning test was cancelled because it could give rise to injury in conjunction with practices the next day. He then was asked if he was concerned then that the players did it anyway. He had a deer-in-headlights explanation as he realized he had just painted himself into a corner.
  • As soon as I heard Garrett speak yesterday, I thought, "We've got to go through another season of listening to him say nothing?" Oh, well, it's a process.
  • Heard a weird rumor of a local lady dying which may or may not be associated with an infection she obtained after going to the dentist. 
  • Whenever I see one of those "Cash With Car Title" stores I think there's someone inside getting ripped off. And I'm pretty sure I'm right. 
  • I think one of the goofiest retorts is a comment that says something along the lines of, "You wouldn't feel that way if that happened to one of your family members!" 
  • An Algerian airliner with 110 or more on board has crashed this morning in Northern Africa. Been a heck of a season for commercial jets in the Eastern Hemisphere. 
  • WFAA's Joe Trahan tweeted late last night: "Sources tell me former defensive lineman Josh Brent will be released next Thursday." I thought he meant that the Cowboys would cut him, but he was actually talking about being released from rehab after his Intoxication Manslaughter conviction. Makes sense since I guess he's not on the roster to release. 
  • I did my normal jog yesterday but have finally become smart enough to walk a short distance every now and then if the heat and humidity gets too much. Cloud cover helps but not much. I'd rather run when it is in the 30s.
  • The horrificness of the Fort Worth mortuary which hadn't properly disposed of a few bodies got ratcheted up yesterday when it was revealed that one of the bodies discovered was an infant who had died two years ago. 


at 8:38 AM

7.23.2014

Guilty . . .




. . . of being cheap and hanging out at the Glass Cactus.
at 1:21 PM

War Crimes By Whom?


Edit: Maybe committed by both Hamas and Israel.

at 12:10 PM

AP Twitter Feed And The Need For A Comma Or Two


at 9:33 AM

And Another - Oregon




Story.

And who could have possibly seen that coming? Oh . . .


at 9:27 AM

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts



  • Hey, Messenger: Was the "Bob Buckel - Foster Parent" on Fox 4 News yesterday your Bob Buckel?
  • If you're a middle aged current or former Cowboys fan, the news of the death of Robert Newhouse caused all sorts of flashbacks.
  • And for some reason it caused me to recall former Cowboy Scott Laidlaw (kind of a spare) who spoke at our high school athletic banquet in Bridgeport and dropped an S Bomb. 
  • I caught a portion of Real Sports last night (like bagofnothing did) and saw the segment on how some golf course, faced with dwindling revenue, are tricking up the sport by installing 15 inch holes. I had heard about that on the radio and thought it was idiotic. Then I watched people play and realized they were having so much fun. And it sped up play by one hour. The concept is that the younger generation isn't willing to spend four hours of frustration on old school golf. Amazingly, Jack Nicklaus wasn't against the crazy innovation. 
  • And they also took a visit to Top Golf. I had no idea that place was so insane. 
  • A former "employee" of Bleacher Report posted a loooooong article on Deadspin entitled "The Top 200 Ways Bleacher Report Screwed Me".  I want to read it but there's no way I'm going to. Instead, I scrolled through the comments to try and get a feel for the article. I laughed when one of them read, "Can't you sum this up in a slide show or something?"
  • Fox 4 had a story last night of some idiots throwing rocks and railroad ties off a bridge onto oncoming traffic. I had someone drop a golf ball size rock onto my windshield over 20 years ago in I-35 in Fort Worth. Scared me to death. It hit the upper left corner and almost went completely through. I'm still not sure if shards of glass didn't screw up my eyesight in my left eye. 
  • "Shards" is an underutilized word.
  • Is the "immigration crisis" story already fading away? It's like civil war torn Syria that we were about to drop bombs on and then the news suddenly vanishes. 
  • The Sixteen Year Old In The House was denied the right to take a driving test yesterday. It was very confusing because all I could get out of it was "social security card" and "Homeland Security." 
  • I'm kind of worried about Crazy Texas Mommy. She rarely posts on her blog anymore (over there ---->) and her last few seemed a little angry. 
  • I haven't been to the Wise County Reunion in years but it has to be a beating in this heat and humidity, right? 
  • And there were 243 teams in the "washer" tournament last night? When did that end? Dawn?
  • I only do criminal law and not civil and certainly not federal civil law. With that, the news is reporting that the jury deliberating the Jessie Ventura vs. American Sniper libel lawsuit must be unanimous. Is that right? (I know a Texas civil case can be won on a 10-2 verdict.) But I saw where it is a federal jury of 10 people. 




at 8:37 AM

7.22.2014

Solar Car Race Going Through Wise County Right Now


This is the University of Texas entry getting cooled off in Alvord. They are going from Austin to to Minnesota.

(Thanks emailer.)
at 2:25 PM

Trouble In Frog Land

Last week:


Earlier today:




Later today:


at 12:33 PM

EPA Tweets Promotion For Kardashian Game - Later Apologizes




Things keep getting weirder and weirder.

Source.
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Headline Of The Day

Story.
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