Why The Wise County Courthouse Is Better Than Your Courthouse

Our toilet paper is folded like what you would find in a nice hotel.

Tuesday Morning Pick Me Up At Luv Field For Texas/OU Weekend

@gordonkeith with some of the OU cheerleaders pic.twitter.com/o6aO5wBNQw
— Jason Kellison (@killer1310) October 9, 2014

Those three said their heights were 5'0", 5'0", and 4'11".

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

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• It doesn't look like the Dallas deputy has Ebola, but do you think Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins (who was so cocky to walk through the Ebola apartment without a hazmat uniform) stopped down yesterday when he heard the news of a new possible Ebola case of a guy who had been in the apartment? 
• Hey, commenter who keeps telling me "The CDC has said it is possible for Ebola to become airborne. You need to take this seriously!!!" Uh, focus on the word possible. It's possible you'll get struck by lightning, the Earth will start spinning on its axis, or you'll win the lottery.  Even when you have odds of 1 in a krillion of an event happening, it is still "possible". Think Jim Carrey saying, "So you're telling me there's a chance."
• Remember when I called the Frisco PD inept after the Chief said "we may never know" what happened to the couple found dead? (They had previously falsely and recklessly accused the wife of murdering her son.) Well the medical examiner said yesterday, "Uh, not so much": The wife killed the husband and the wife then killed herself. 
• There's now a Fake Justice Willett account on Twitter, and I promise I am not behind it. (I will admit though that I was given the heads up that he would speak at a Texas high school yesterday so, through a source, I was able to plant a few questions that he was peppered with from the students. Here's a ridiculous picture of him at the school.) 
• "Sales of new homes in north Texas at a six year high."  But I suppose they are being constructed with imaginary workers who have given up looking for work and imaginary materials created by a Fed policy mandated by the President cooking the books. 
• Seriously, for all of you who choose the economy as a reason to criticize the President, look around. Everything is booming. Man, you've got legitimate reasons to dog him but if you choose the economy, you come across as having all the credibility of a 9/11 Truther. 
• If you are going to a Friday night football game, you are going to get rained on. I think. Unless it comes in later. 
• Everyone is gushing over Jimmy Johnson again since there's a 30 for 30 short on his trade of Herschel Walker to the Vikings.  I've mentioned it before: He's also the same guy who had to take Emmitt Smith because he couldn't get Baylor linebacker James Francis, and he wasted a #1 overall pick on Steve Walsh after already having Troy Aikman on the roster. 
• The Ticket had Wendy Davis on for an interview a few weeks ago and she now famously (at least to Ticket fans) screwed up the morning show hosts' name by saying, "Good morning, George, Craig and Jordan." It's Gordon. This morning they had Greg Abbott on who started with, "So I'm talking to George, Craig, and (pause) is it Gordon?"  Funny. He has a smart staff. 
• If Denton bans fracking isn't that the equivalent of the government taking your property (mineral rights.) The government can always take your property but they have to compensate you for it. Have they thought about that? 
• Good lord, soon to be Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has an ad attacking his opponent by referencing ISIS crossing the border.  We have a lot of nuts in Texas politics, but that man is dangerously nuts. 
• Can I be considered an Internet "troll" when you have to come to me? 
• The guy who got drunk in Fort Worth and drove a forklift around got eight years in prison? And that's after he was finally found competent to stand trial? Sentence seems wrong. 
• A Wise County jury gave a guy probation yesterday for Evading With a Vehicle. Sounds like a guy who had never been in trouble before, had a friend and a family member die, was receiving foreclosure notices, and then got into a tequila bottle. Sentence seems right. 
• "PAGEANT REGISTRATION – Registrations for the Miss and Mr. ChicoFest Sweeter Than Candy Pageant are being accepted through Oct 17. The pageant is open to girls age 0-18 and boys 0-5." As for the girls, you'd think an 18 year old would just crush a newborn in the talent competition. As for the boys, don't scar him by letting him win the "Sweeter Than Candy" award. 

Get Ready: If This Guy Turns Out To Ebola+, We've Got Us A Media Panic On Our Hands

Edit: Whoa!!!

America. Texas. Confusion.

Adrian Peterson, the suspended Vikings running back facing child abuse charges, had his arraignment this morning in Montgomery County. For a reason I cannot explained, a guy in a tiger suit showed up. 

Now Back To Chasing That Money

Dallas ebola patient dies - $TKMR shares up b/c rival drug from $CMRX was used in treatment: http://t.co/embZIPthTL pic.twitter.com/FFauC0GJA1

— TheStreet (@TheStreet) October 8, 2014

Ebola: 1

STATEMENT from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on the death of #Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan. pic.twitter.com/u0R02Ego78
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) October 8, 2014

But no need to worry. The Mayor is on it . . .

Following death of #EbolaDallas patient Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings says, "We will stop the Ebola virus in its tracks in our community."
— David Schechter (@DavidSchechter) October 8, 2014

And the press needs to be reminded this is not 9/11:

(PIC) Mayor Mike Rawlings being informed by an aid that #EbolaDallas patient Thomas Eric Duncan died this morning. pic.twitter.com/pYhCfxIjlx
— David Schechter (@DavidSchechter) October 8, 2014

CSI: Bridgeport

April, 1969.

Wise County Book In Photo Of The Day? Year?

And the poor guy was only arrested on old traffic violations.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• After a Dallas DA debate yesterday, Craig Watkins' opponent accused him of drinking by saying, "Have another cocktail." 
• "The Economist last week (Oct. 4) published a pair of pieces lamenting the super-sizing of prosecutorial power and calling for the state to hand back some of its authority to the judiciary." (Source: Grits for Breakfast.) Preach on, bruther. 
• I don't know who Stephen Collins is (7th Heaven isn't exactly in my wheelhouse), but he certainly didn't deny that he admitted to child molestation while being secretly recorded by his ex-wife at a therapy session. 
• Collins last project listed on IMDB is a short named Penance which is described as "A man makes the decision to cleanse his inner demons, revealing a buried past that begs the question . . .  can we ever truly find forgiveness? And just how far will one go to get it."
• Man, there's been a lot of media time wasted on this "Ebola scare." Number of victims contracting disease in U.S.: 1 (and he's still alive.) Thousands die from the flu every year.
• The Family Clothes Washer is on the fritz.  I'd like to blame Mrs. LL for using it to wash band uniforms for everyone in the Southwest Proper, but the thing is also eleven years old. 
• Even some conservatives have cocked an eye at the government stealing a woman's identity and setting up a fake Facebook page pretending to be her in order to fight the War On Drugs. My reaction: If you are offended by that, you'd pass out if you knew what else they did. 
• I get accused of voting for President Obama. Have I ever written that I voted for President Obama? 
• Not sure what the connection is: Maxwell House has a four minute short on the Nokona* company from Nocona, Texas. (*Yep, spelled that way.)
• Sports: (1) The big news about Tony Romo criticizing the fans for selling their tickets to opponents is that for the first time in five years he said something other than "We've just got to practice and get better." (2) I finally watched the TCU/Oklahoma game last night and TCU's Trevone Boykin was incredible. But he also almost got picked off four times. (3) Are baseball playoffs going on? (4) One thing that stuck me as odd about Baylor/Texas was the huge smile Charlie Strong had on his face after the game as he greeted other players and coaches on the field. I don't think the angry fan base wants to see that.  (4) The Cowboys would be nuts to give a long term deal to DeMarco Murray. There is the theory that once a running back carries it 350 times a year, it's all downhill from there. (5) This lady is not good at track. 
• There's a criminal trial going on in Decatur but I don't know much about it other than the Defendant is Christopher Ashby and the charges are Evading with a Vehicle and Aggravated Assault Against a Public Servant. I didn't see anything about it in the Messenger. According to court records, potential witnesses are Aaron Wallace, Adolfo Patterson, Michael Derrick, George Mundo, Mason Torres, Belynda Brooke, Don Dillard, and Linda Dillard. 
• Former Bridgeport resident Michelle (Simpson) Tuegel is one of the lead defense attorneys in this Graf case: 

Above The Fold

Well, Looks Like We Have 100% Proof Of Global Warming

Obviously, with this type of concrete evidence you owe Al Gore an apology.

Edit: I think we might have had an outbreak of the increasingly viral Ebola Dumb Arse Virus take over the comments section recently. Comedy, albeit bad, should not be that hard to spot.

Trooper Stiff Arm To Protect Nick Saban

Fine form, sir.

Get Me These Fighting Kangaroos!!

That Texas Supreme Court Justice

When you're at @ChickfilA & your wife calls while you're in the bathroom & you hear your phone back at the table blasting "Brick House."
— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) October 7, 2014

I know I may be the only one who cares about this, but this guy continues to drive me nuts. This is what he sent out in the 10:00 o'clock hour on a work day this morning. Once again, a salary of $150,000 a year.

Let's see what's going on here:

• It's a silly tweet unbecoming of a member of the judiciary. 
• The restaurant just happens to be ChickfilA. You may recall, that fast food joint became the darling of conservatives last year.
• He let's you know that he is a loving husband because he thinks his wife is hot. That's the reference to Brick House.
• He also is trying to appeal to the older, white guy who thinks Brick House is still a kick arse song.
• The bathroom reference? Not sure. Maybe to let you know that even a Texas Supreme Court justice goes to the bathroom? 

And, of course, this tweet is just a bit and not factual. You don't leave your phone on the table in a fast food restaurant (even if there are people to guard it), and you dang sure couldn't hear the ringtone from the bathroom.

Lot Of Buyers And Sellers At The Courthouse This Morning

Texas Property Code Sec. 51.002.  SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER CONTRACT LIEN.  (a)  A sale of real property under a power of sale conferred by a deed of trust or other contract lien must be a public sale at auction held between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. of the first Tuesday of a month.  Except as provided by Subsection (h), the sale must take place at the county courthouse in the county in which the land is located . . . . 

That number of people is really unusual. Based upon some of the participants,  I think we have some tax foreclosure sales going on.

Index - 1969

Fires and beauty pageants. There were a ton of both back then.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Jesse Jackson is following Ebola to Dallas!
• Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins is a twofer: Not only does he look goofy, he sounds goofy. 
• So the Supreme Court ruled it would not decide whether lower courts were correct when they declared same sex marriage bans unconstitutional? That allows for same sex marriage in five new states. That's odd because it only takes four votes for the court simply to decide it will hear the case. (And if you want to really be confused, earlier five judges of the court had voted to keep the ban in place until they decided whether they would hear the case.)  Now what are they going to do when the crazy Fifth Circuit (which rules Texas) declares that Texas' ban is constitutional in a pending case? The Supreme Court will have to hear that appeal, right? 
• Ted Cruz immediately did some time-wasting grandstanding yesterday when he announced he would introduce a proposed constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. Let's see, that would require two-thirds vote in the House and the Senate and then a ratification of three-fourths of the states. That's going to happen when the majority of Americans support same sex marriage? 
• Lots of reports that people are acting nuts in Chico over the last couple of weeks. I mean, it sounds like Zombieland breaks out. 
• Blacks are upset in Dallas over police brutality. Find out that you can carry a long barrelled firearm in public. So they do their own open carry police protest. 
• A great chart showing the number of flights Southwest is adding to new destinations and what they are cutting back on once the Wright Amendment is officially repealed this month. 
• Tom Delay was exonerated by Texas' highest criminal court last week so now he wants to sue his prosecutors. Not a chance. After throwing his weight around forever, he finally learned what it is like "when the rabbit got the gun." And, if the rabbit misses, he just gets to go back in his hole and reloads. 
• There is a real good chance that the Cowboys are selling unsold tickets on Stubhub. I went to a Tennessee Titans game in Nashville once, bought the ticket on Stubhub, and those around me told me I was sitting in the seat of a guy who didn't renew his season tickets. Did the Titans then simply put the seat up on Stubhub since they could even get more than face value? 
• Baylor is 21-1 in their last 22 home games. The last loss: TCU. 
• Speaking of grandstanding: "Gov. Rick Perry today announced the creation of the Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response, which will assess and enhance the state's existing capabilities to prepare for and respond to pandemic disease, such as the Ebola virus." That means: (1) Hold a press conference since it's cheaper than buying a campaign ad, (2) Have a committee spend a bunch of taxpayer money preparing a report, (3) Have another press conference releasing the report, (4) Toss the report aside never to  be read again.