Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• That Bryan Cranston/Julia Louis-Dreyfus kiss at The Emmy's when compared to the kiss they shared on Seinfeld: Oh, my.
• When I was a kid, I was lucky if there were two college football games on TV every weekend. There are almost 650 regular season games set for this college football television season.
• There's a "cop watch" group in the metroplex which videos any cop when he makes a traffic stop. Absolutely 100% legal, by the way -- so long as you don't interfere. (But Fox 4, where I learned of the story, interviewed a "former police chief of Cockrell Hill and a law enforcement expert" about the group. If I wanted to hold myself out as a law enforcement "expert", history tells me you don't want the corruption plagued Cockrell Hill Police Department on your resume.)
• The Collin County grand jury is meeting on the possible murder case against Frisco resident, and woman of Indian descent, Pallavi Dhawan (the case is the one about the kid who died of unknown causes and she didn't immediately call the police.) Look, grand juries don't meet about ONE CASE unless something is up. Unless the prosecutors are idiots (wouldn't rule that out over there), they are trying to convince them not to indict. If they were smart they would simply begin, "This case cannot be won at trial because any rational juror would have a reasonable doubt. And if the jury did convict, which they shouldn't under the law, the appellate court would throw it out." But the frightening thing is that her defense attorney has raised so much hell in the press that he's probably hacked some prosecutor off who now has the frightening attitude of, "I don't care if we lose, let's take a shot. Indict her." 
• I could teach a law school course based upon that last bullet point alone. (Criminal law, criminal procedure, appellate law, and ethics are all involved.)
• The Junior In The House has always been in high school band. Sheesh, what a beating in time commitment she goes through. I had no idea. 
• ESPN's College Game Day is in Sundance Square on Saturday morning. I might go to that. 
• It looks like a Dallas cop shot someone last night. Man, Dallas police kill a lot of people. All justified, I'm sure.
• As Labor Day approaches, have we ever had an official audit regarding all the money raised by the Jerry Lewis Telethons? 
• And speaking of audits, where does the $7.5 million a year go that ESPN pays some group called Little League International for the rights to televise the Little League World Series?
• Blew past Bill O'Reilly last night and he had some female radio talk show host on and asked her, "What would you specifically do to stop ISIS?"  You think anyone who works in the high levels of the Pentagon turned up the TV volume and thought, "Yes. Tell me. I need help."
• "HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel will revisit the story of Nick Schuyler, the former University of South Florida football player and sole survivor of a 2009 accident that killed Schuyler's three fishing companions when their boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico." Man, I watched it last night and it was fantastic. There's is a 100% chance I would have died. The story is going to be a movie which I'm excited about except that it will star The Rock. 
• Goofy Granbury ISD and/or the constable's office has notified parents that a "uniformed deputy" will visit a student at his home or parent's workplace for an unexcused absence. 
• A shooting instructor in Arizona was, for some reason, teaching a nine year old how to shoot an Uzi, and she ended up accidentally killing him. BagofNothing had the footage of the incident moments before the shooting. 

Above The Fold

I'd Avoid I-35 East

Look what happens when power lines go down in Corinth and cross both north and south bound lanes causing them to be shut down.

Remember This Morning When I Said A USC Cornerback Hurt His Ankles Saving His Nephew?

We might just have our first crazy story of the college football season. A guy from Notre Dame once had a fake girlfriend. A guy from USC may have a fake nephew. Or a nephew who wasn't drowning.

Developing . . .

And we've already got comedy (LaQuan McGowan is a Baylor offensive lineman listed at 6'7", 390):

Why am I in this cast? I just saved LaQuan McGowan from ball pit at a McDonald's PlayPlace. And no, I will not be taking questions right now
— TinyArtBriles (@TinyArtBriles) August 26, 2014

I'm Going To Guess The Parents Don't Quite Understand

Threat of a lawsuit forced Midlothian schools to cover up religious signs. Parents now rallying to bring them back pic.twitter.com/AcrCXlVZA6
— Zahid Arab (@ZahidArabFox4) August 26, 2014

Holy Cow

I have no idea how this ended.

Random Ads From Same Page of Bridgeport Index 6/26/64

Have to love the production value: 

Hand cranked. $9.88 in 1964? Man, that's pricey.  You're mom may have yelled through the screen if you boys wanted some homemade ice cream, but it sure was a more expensive simpler time and place.

Source page.

Index 8/28/64

• Wow. Plane lands on FM 920. Looks like some high tone college administrators from Colorado. (Hey, where is Mr. Fred Glass in that photo!!!)
• Shootin' Blind takes a shot at a local business guy, Decatur, and the courthouse workers.
• A strike? We had unions here? Five men beaten? The Rangers called in? District judge restraining order? 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• House Republicans are filing a silly lawsuit against President Obama and have hired a lawyer who bills $500 an hour to do it. And the taxpayer foots the bill.
• The female vampire on the ATT Uverse commercial who asks, "Is it the biting? I can stop!", makes me laugh. And I've seen it a ton of times.
• The Sixth Grader In The House went to her first softball team meeting the other day. "What'd ya think?" I asked her once she got back. Her response: "I think this team is going to be wheels off."
• A 28 year old first grade teacher in Arlington was allegedly drunk during an in-service day on Friday. KXAS reported last night that "concerned co-workers called the police."  I'm not sure the co-workers motivation was out of "concern". There would be other ways to handle that. 
• “There are so many different ways to consume TV. People don’t necessarily watch them when they air anymore. The most DVRed show of the past season was The Blacklist. Game of Thrones was the most pirated show. And Duck Dynasty was the most VCR-taped.” - Seth Meyers hosting the Emmy's last night. 
• The Wise County Courthouse elevator needs $70,000 in repairs. Riding it is like going back in time. The elevator doors shut and then this old metal gate slides over the doors. Everyone who rides it momentarily thinks, "I'll never get out of this thing." I'm not sure I've ridden it in the past decade. 
• I bet I've watched more DPS Trooper videos of them interacting with stopped motorists than anyone in Wise County -- even their bosses or prosecutors. And I could be a heck of an evaluator of ability. By and large, they are incredibly professional, but there are a couple who look like they are one comment away from drawing down on someone. I've seen some do some Christian witnessing on the way to jail. I've seem some be borderline inappropriate flirting with a cute arrestee. Every now and then, one will casually mention on tape that he's working his shift simply due to a grant and/or overtime. But mostly they play it by the book. And they are all aware of the book. 
• Sports Notes: (1) Hey, I'm having a hard time defending Ahmad Dixon these days -- I'm not sure he shouldn't be suspended for this, (2) Shin-Soo Choo having season ending surgery makes the Rangers season beyond ridiculous, (3) The Tickets's annual "Fight Night" was scheduled on the same night as aTm/South Carolina? (4) A star USC cornerback has injured both ankles after jumping off a balcony to save his drowning nephew.
• Learned from the radio yesterday: Wilford Brimley was only 49 years old when he starred as an elderly man in Cocoon. That's insane. 
• After reading through the political opinions in the early 1960 Indexes, I'm stunned about how little things have changed. 
• My lawn doesn't look as good as usual despite watering it the same amount. I think what I did wrong was I forgot to raise the blade on the lawnmower back in June like I normally do, so it wasn't as allowed to grow as high as it has in the past to protect itself from the sun. (I think that would be Neil Sperry's diagnosis. I know you were concerned.)

The Most Violent ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Ever

Shut it down. Let's go home. (But assuming she's ok, that was some top notch comedy right there.)

Wise County Police Work: 1964

Officer Pennartz was a real life Sheriff Andy Taylor.  And I love how the police chief's home is referenced in the story.  (I tried to find the ending because I really want to know what happened to Raymond Stutt of Paradise, but I couldn't. Sounds like the Decatur police had him in "Vineyard" -- wherever that is -- but we may never know.)

Edit: Pennartz left the force the next year.

Random 1964 Wise County History

Saw this ad in the Index archives.  Chico had a roller rink? And that new $20,000 rink was never built was it? (There has to be some Chico historian out there.)

Bridgeport Bull Hype Video

Has this been going on for long? With this type of production value? They've come a long way from "the newspaper is here boys, gather over here and line for your picture."

If there is one for Decatur or any other Wise County school, let me know.

Teacher vs. Lion

Mirror- This is the moment a teacher cheated death in front of her pupils after being attacked by a lion when she entered its cage as a volunteer. The animal leapt on Roxana Guevara and tossed her around like a rag doll at a circus in the Peruvian city of Cuzco. Miraculously, she managed to get up and stagger to safety after it freed her from its jaws as the lion tamer chased it around the cage, trying to beat it with a stick. Roxana, who had taken her pupils along to watch the show, suffered severe scratches to her neck and chest. Speaking from her hospital bed, Roxana relived her terrifying ordeal. Ironically, she said volunteered to demonstrate the lion wasn’t aggressive.

Man, even though she's fine, that's hard to watch.  At least the kids will learn to respect and fear wild animals.

Forney Woman With Kids Wrongly Stopped By Police

Story and video. Edit: Updated link.

Cops can stop and detain someone when they have a "reasonable suspicion" that some type of criminal activity is afoot. This is what happen when the cops know that the courts, with a wink, have obliterated that standard which for all practical purposes lets them get away with detaining someone based upon a "guess" or a "hunch".

Once again, the aspect of "big government" no one seems to care about.

And I'm a little worried about the exercise of their Freedom of the Press right by Channel 8 here. "Accidentally"?

We've Got A Decatur Puppy Dog Alert

I don't have it but I know who does. They are looking for the owner so I thought I'd help out. It was found this morning.

Bridgeport Index 3/20/64

I'm giving up the chronological order and will just jump around on posting future issues.

• Check out the expressions on the faces of those girls. It's like they were taken from a concentration camp and told to pose for the photo. Fantastic.  Take note of the cute girl in the scarf and the one with the glasses. And I love the one on the far left who is sending some message with here eyes. 
• What is that "Big Wind from California" reference in connection with Jack Ruby at the end of Shootin' Blind?
• Polio Serum. Wow. 
• Burglars take money from funeral home but return it and leave it in the hearse. 
• Bridgeport's track meet will include Lewisville, Frisco and Plano. And I bet those "towns" had just one high school back then.
• I  never knew there was an "old Chevrolet building on Halsell street."

"Shapely"