Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• That "Settle down, Captain Happy" audio from over the weekend (a confrontation between pilots and an air traffic controller) was funny. 
• Some days you just dread what is on your work schedule. Today is one of those days for me.
• Got an email telling me that prices are rising for next year's Fort Worth Half Marathon. Early registration is $80.00 and they don't even tell you what the "late" (after 7/31/14) fee will be. Sheesh. That's a little pricey. 
• A protester outside of Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins' home on Saturday. Lady, you may have a smirk on your face but you've got a lot of hate in your heart. And you protest at his home on a weekend? Get a life. 
• I love all of those who are vehemently anti-illegal immigration but say "we welcome those who wish to enter out country legally and are willing to go through the process." Yeah, so long as it takes fifteen years and those trying are likely to give up. Let's streamline the "legal" process to six months and see how that attitude changes. 
• The case of the doctor dying from the Ebola virus is scary. I bet he is quarantined like nobody's business. 
• I've never had a decal on the back of any vehicle I've owned in over thirty years. 
• The opening line for the UT/North Texas football game is the Empire by 25. I think that's insane.
• I doubt if any of you heard it, but "author" David Horowitz was on Sean Hannity's radio show yesterday and not only did he sound like a nut, he sounded like he was about to have a heart attack.  It was weird.  And Hannity commented on it. 
• The sale of the locally owned North Texas Bank sure did fly under the radar. 
• I still think someone will die on the field during an NFL game one day. And when it happens, everything changes.
• Take a pig out to the front yard and you become an instant celebrity.
• ESPN's Sports Center is almost impossible to watch. 

Random Saint Jo News

I'm surprised they even listened.

Story.

Hey, It's A Monday

New Dallas Maverick Girls

Photo gallery. (You don't have to read the CBA to understand it.)

Electric Selfie

Saw this on the news, and it really doesn't seem that dramatic to me.  But I'm just not sure why the guy thought the mask was a good look.

I Hope This Is The Weirdest Thing I Read All Week

More.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Bonus pic from Star-Telegram's Rockin' The River. The heights confuse me.

• One of my guilty pleasure movies is Executive Decision (which, frankly, was way before its time.)
• I woke up sick yesterday but then something weird happened: Whenever I laid down, I would go to sleep. I slept all day. I mean all day. And when I woke up around 11:00 p.m. (an oddly decided to go outside and water the lawn), I went back to bed and slept all night. 
• I tried to get the Sixth Grader In The House to watch Evil Roy Slade with me on Saturday. I pointed out to her that I had never met a female that thought the movie was funny but that guys loved it. (Baiting her.) As the credits rolled, she said, "Meh."
• Weirdest moment of the weekend: Getting involved in a Twitter fight with the very grumpy ex-Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark over Beatle songs. 
• The pig won't stop growing. 
• I found it odd once when I saw the statue of former Fort Worth mayor Bob Bolen at Alliance Airport. With news over the weekend that the Perot boys may be involved in the John Wiley Price scandal, I read that Bolen was instrumental of granting the Perots request to annex their Alliance land. Hmmmm.
• Sometimes I feel bad for whomever has to write the Update. But they have plenty of material today. What a wheels off Wise County weekend. 
• I watched the 30 for 30 episode on Greg Lemond and was pretty confused. Maybe it was because I couldn't see past his blue eyes and full upper body brace.
• A five star running back recruit for OU allegedly punched a Euless girl in the face at 2:30 a.m. as he was out celebrating his 18th birthday. Nice start. 
• The over/under line for total Cowboy wins is eight. I'm working on my "bet the house" prediction that made so many of your rich last year. I'm leaning towards the under (especially since Tony Romo couldn't even take part in the second practice.) 
• I wonder if my Baseball Nemesis is currently in therapy after picking a fight with a Sports Expert. 
• The Texas Bar Journal has a "short story" contest every year, and I've always thought I could win it. But, man, this year's top three finishers were really, really good and extremely dark. Although this sentence in the winner almost made me throw the magazine across the living room: "Wafts of fresh scone from the nearby bakery pirouette through aircraft doors deliberately cracked." How pretentious. 
• “The idea that we can’t assimilate these eight-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.” - George Will this weekend on immigration. There may be hope after all.

Tweet from Kristen Tribe (@WCMtribe)

	Kristen Tribe (@WCMtribe)
7/27/14, 4:17 PM The woman killed in this afternoon's accident was from Lake Bridgeport. More details here ... wcmessenger.com/2014/update/ac…

I Wonder If Joseph Is In Trouble?

Kids Seriously Hurt Trying To Get To Reunion

Messenger story.

Edit: And we had a stabbing!

Above The Fold

That American Ninja Warrior Chick Taking You Into The Weekend

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

Take That, Bud!!!!

Letter from Wise County: "Re: Iligal Imirgrants. It is time Americans rise up and demand our politicians inforce laws on iligal imigration."
— Bud Kennedy (@BudKennedy) July 25, 2014

He later clarified that it came from Boyd.

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. 

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."

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!"

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!: