Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The former Tarrant County judge and Wise County (short time) lawyer was finally mentioned in the Star-Telegram. 
• Those old Index posts are good stuff right? I get some online criticism but most people I talk to love them. 
• "Thank you" and "I'm sorry" are powerful words. 
• Sports radio has blown up about this Jerry Jones article. I haven't read it yet but they say it is insane. Since I'm not a fan of the NFL, I'd rather have a crazy and entertaining owner than a winning football team. 
• Aggie thoughts on the win against #8 South Carolina: (1) Wow. (2) As a Baylor fan, I know what a fantastic offense looks like. That was a frighteningly good offense. (3) And that wasn't against Stephen F. Austin. That was South Carolina. At home. (4) South Carolina had won 18 consecutive home games. (5) South Carolina had won their season opener for the last 14 seasons. (6) QB Kenny Hill broke Johnny Football's all time Aggie passing yardage record. (7) There was no greater proof of how the Aggie offense could do whatever they wanted to more than that last drive. With 9:30 on the clock and at their own 19, the Aggie's decided to run down some clock since they had the game won. They went on an 18 play drive which ended with 40 seconds on the clock. Holy, cow.
• Some conservative radio hosts yell, "We must eliminate ISIS!!"  How naive.  Like the poor, they will "always be with us."
• If I were Jerry Jones, I'd make the last preseason game free. Just tell the season ticket holders that the game isn't included in the package (they won't care) and then just open up the gates. He'd  make a fortune in beer sales and parking alone. 
• Speaking of, the chairman of the Republican party of Dallas County angrily proclaimed on twitter last night that there was no reason that parking should cost $60 at Cowboys Stadium. Two things: (1) Uh, capitalism and free market? and (2) He actually spent his time last night going to that game!
• I have a stranger who emails me from time to time, and I have no doubt that it is law enforcement trying to bait me into having contact with a fake underage girl. And it's not generic. The emailer started the contact by referencing people I know in Wise County ("she" likes someone in the probation department). After I wasn't particularly chatty, "she" sent me a very inappropriate photo and then quickly followed up with, "I'm so sorry, I sent that to you by accident. Please delete it."  I ignored it. Yesterday, after months of inactivity, I received an email from that account with no text but  just a face pic of two females. One who is probably 20 and the other who is ambiguously younger. 
• Woke up during the pouring rain storm last night. Loved it. I tried to stay awake just to listen but there's no way. 
• I caught myself talking into the mirror last night and then thought, "Holy crap, I've turned into Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver!"
• Aledo and Cedar Park play a high school football game at Baylor's new stadium tonight. I'm thinking about going. 
• In the last five days, if you had owned Radio Shack stock, you would have doubled your money. It's gone from 70 cents to over $1.40. (Their are rumors someone is about to come in and bail the company out.) 
• Several years ago I told a Jacksboro friend that there would be nothing more entertaining than to give up my felony docket and start a second blog that did nothing but focus on the Wise County DA's office, it's prosecutors, and how they handle their cases. If defense lawyers thought they had a case they were getting screwed on, they could tell me about it and I could do a post on that particular case. I still think about that. 

New "Heisman House" Commercial Featuring Roger Staubach and Johnny Football

"That's A Bold Statement"

Kid Not Happy Mom Is Pregnant

Preach on, little man.

Index 10/9/64

• Huge steer!
• John Tower was in Jacksboro? (With a Goldwater reference)
• I'm not sure what the product liability laws were back then, but Elmer Gober probably had a decent lawsuit on his hands.
• The Bridgeport football game story seems as if it was written by a PR guy on Bridgeport's staff. 

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• A Texas jury acquitted the guy of murdering a drunk driver who killed his two sons. I questioned the legal defense of "I didn't do it" the other day. That was dumb on my part. When I finally looked into it, the prosecution had basically no proof. (Then again, a jury is much more inclined to find a "reasonable doubt" when they don't care that much about the alleged crime.)
• Probably my weirdest nemesis is the Josh-Gordon-Is-Not-The-Best-Receiver-In-The-NFL nemesis. Dude. 
• I'm pretty sure I saw a fire truck with lights on turn down the Decatur high school entryway this morning. 
• I finally went through the traffic roundabout they put in at Harmon and 287 (Harmon is the last exit before you hit I-35 going into Fort Worth.)  Who came up with that idea? We aren't smart enough to handle that. 
• Traffic was shut down on I-30 and Beach east of downtown Fort Worth yesterday afternoon after someone jumped off the bridge into traffic. This morning we learned it was a 17 year old high school girl. Good lord. 
• While talking to the Wise County DA yesterday he tells me, "By the way, we've got our online Fantasy Football draft at seven o'clock tomorrow." Sheesh! Short notice!  Just another example of the government pushing the common man around. 
• You probably have to be weird to listen to this (I did), but if you want to listen to a moderately conservative appellate judge (Reagan appointee Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit) absolutely brutalize Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Timothy Samuelson on Tuesday during oral arguments about Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage, listen to this. I was cringing. (From a legal background, all you need to know is that the "Loving case" is a reference to the Supreme Court case striking down a ban on interracial marriage.) Note to future legal advocates of a ban on same sex marriage, if a judge asks you why it is justified, do not say, "Tradition."
• I got sucked into the Abilene Christian/Georgia State game last night on ESPNU which was wildly entertaining. And Bridgeport's Jace Hudson had a touchdown catch (video).
• Me in January of 2009: "I don't buy the 'President Bush has kept us safe since 9/11' line. If some terrorist wanted to cross the Mexican border and set off a bomb in a Las Vegas casino, it could be done tomorrow." Fox News headline today: "Al Qaeda magazine hints of looming attack; urges bombing of Vegas".
• I'm insane now: A picture of a covered RG3 statute statue [edit: I use "statute" way too much] posted by the twitter account of Baylor Stadium (yep, a stadium has its own twitter account) who throws down some pretty funny comedy. 
• The Star-Telegram has a big story today of how a barge has been brought in to suck water out of Lake Bridgeport. (Complete with photos and a video.)  It's located just south of Twin Hills. 

If This Is The Same Mr. Baldridge, This Is Amazing

I'm guessing that "healthy" is a nice way to say something else.

 And then this news note appears in the next edition a week later:

Index - 9/4/64

• Shootin' Blind responds to the courthouse crowd that believes he implied they must be drinking. And then takes a shot at the courthouse. 
• Rook Ramsey reference!
• Somebody tell me what's going on with that "Monster Invades Paradise Alley" story. I scrolled up expecting the date to be April Fool's Day, but it wasn't even close. 
• TXI employees vote against forming a union, 32-31. Any chance that vote was fair and square?
• Kathy Burgin, love your hair!

Astro Fan Tries To Kill Ground With Ceremonial First Pitch

The reaction of the mascot is probably the best part.

(MLB owns the rights to the video so the force the 15 second commercial on you.)

I Owe Frost Insurance Agency An Apology

I made fun of their production value yesterday. While glancing at another Index last night I realized they were doing a bit. And not a bad bit for 1964.

Random Index Excerpt

Check out the school enrollment. (And I'm not sure Chico and Decatur did an actual count.)

And I love the game summary from Bridgeport vs. Azle. It is like the box score was handed to someone who had never seen a game before and told to write a story about it.

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.

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