Fort Worth Carpet Bagger Alert!!

I love how Jub sells it....so animated...
— Sean Bass (@sbass1310) October 14, 2014

Edit: After 24 hours, I went back and looked at this and realized I posted the wrong tweet.  The intended one was Jeb Bush hosting George P. Bush at the Ol' South Pancake House.

#TotalFail

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• I forgot to mention last week that Greg Abbott on The Ticket just casually mentioned, "In case you didn't know, I'm in a wheelchair because a tree fell on me." Hey, buddy, that doesn't make you FDR.
• I've dogged Dave Carney, the political consultant for the failed Dan Dewhurst campaigns (both against Ted Cruz and Dan Patrick) as well as they very failed Rick Perry presidential campaign, for years.  I found the guy on Twitter last night and discovered he tweets like a drunken sailer. Abbott is using him now and will win, but it is despite of what is probably the worst campaign advisor in the history of Texas. 
• From the Update: "The Decatur City Council on Monday voted unanimously to move the city’s trick or treat observance to Thursday, Oct. 30, to avoid a conflict with the Eagles’ final home football game the following night, Oct. 31."  What? Everyone knows you can't jack with Halloween! This is a horror movie in the making!!! Hide yo wife, hide yo kids!
• Nope, Ebola is not a problem in the U.S. (I did a double take this morning when Channel 11 had a story about a potential new case of a person who came in contact with the infected nurse. Then I saw this sentence: "According to the emailed note, the Alcon employee was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and is being monitored for Ebola symptoms. However, the man has not shown any signs of being sick." Good grief.)
• Hey, that goofy Texas Supreme Court judge is sending Nazi messages!!!
• Man, I've been sick the last two days.
• Kindergarten teacher quits to twerk on Vine and make six figures. (Borderline NSFW.) I doubt this is a good sign for our country's future. 
• Alabama's Tommy Lewis, the guy who famously came off the bench to make a tackle in the Cotton Bowl, has died. Photo impressions: (1) Are we sure that guy would have scored? (2) Everyone in the background looks like a gangster. 
• I haven't been to a concert in years, but I wish I would have seen Paul McCartney last night in Dallas. (Video clips.)
• Hot check book-in photo from Denton. That sad young lady is a Bonnie Raitt starter kit. 
• Our Internet went out yesterday which also meant our TVs went out. Couldn't even play back DVR shows. Throw in that the new washing machine won't be delivered until later this week which caused Mrs. LL to take a trip to the laundromat, and it was a dark day indeed. I'm not sure how we survived.
• "Laundromat" is a funny word. 
• Funny picture below once you read the headline to the far right. 

Preach On

My Favorite Pic From OU/Texas

Wise County Murders - 1957

Edit: Try this. Whole page.

Jump Around!

Just posted on Facebook. I'm pretty sure it is from Wise County.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• The Wright Amendment expired yesterday, and it's about 20 years too late.
• I'm not sure why the Republicans in Wise County didn't  confess error in the appointment of the Elections Administrator and then reconvene and appoint him again. Right or wrong, it seems like a less drama filled resolution. 
• That was a crazy storm last night. Sounds like 287 was shut down near Rhome due to downed power lines in the middle of the night.
• Sports: (1) I stuck with the Baylor/TCU game when Baylor went down 58-37 with 11 minutes remaining. I could hardly cheer the win because I was in so much depression, and I'm still not sure how it happened. Baylor ran 109 plays! (2) I'm about to get the Sports Genius Title removed from me because of my Cowboys over/under prediction. But I'm certainly not alone. (3) And  I would have bet big money that the the Aggies would have won over Ole Miss and Auburn would have won over Mississippi State. (4) When Barry Switzer makes an appearance on the The Ticket there is no question that you can hear how he is getting old. 
• Have I ever mentioned how much I think George Carlin was overrated? Crude. Not witty. Anyone can be crude. (<-- by="" li="" nbsp="" random="" the="" thought="" very="" way.="">
• I'm a sucker for "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell but I had no idea that R.E.M. covered it. (Ditto.)
• I've always wondered why Lane Akin was behind the petition that had Terry Ross removed as a Wise County Commissioner. 
• For 30 years I've written my accountant once a year about my taxes. I met him for the first time on Friday. (He thought I'd be taller.) 
• Man, Clay Jenkins has to be sweating Ebola right now. 
• Whenever a lawyer donates over $694,000 to a DA's race in San Antonio, be very afraid. 
• Ebola Deaths vs. Motorcycle Deaths, who ya got? 

Get Me This Baby!!!

Above The Fold

TCU's Gary Patterson Taking You Into The Weekend

(Oh, come on. We're havin' fun here, no?)

2009, Game Day at TCU:

And to truly take you into the weekend . . . 

Firing It Up! -- Video Message!

And Another - Minnesota

The fact that she is a Catholic school teacher does not help 2014's run for an "And Another" Championship.

Story.

That Kid Just Workin' The Camera Like Nobody's Business

The Most Hockey I'll Watch All Year

PETA Wants A Chicken Memorial In Texas

Animal rights campaigners PETA have requested permission to install a 10-foot high roadside memorial for chickens killed when an 18-wheeler overturned in Bryan last month.

Thousands of chickens were stacked up on the transporter in cages which were smashed open when it crashed September 30 at the intersection of U.S. 21 and FM 2818. More.

Oh, come on. I don't mind a plaque for a bunch of dead chickens but a TEN FOOT memorial?

(PETA is good at bits.)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• That river looks exactly like the one Mrs. LL and I took a rafting trip down in Costa Rica a few years back. Jungle covered high sides with the occasional waterfall. 
• When Georgia's top running back was suspended yesterday for allegedly making money off signing memorabilia against NCAA rules,  Johnny Football's right hand man, "Uncle Nate", tweeted : "Hey [Sports Illustrated writer] tell the people to let the man make money off his name. Screw anyone that says he shouldn't and can't." Uncle Nate isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. 
• Some of you implied yesterday that the only ones who benefit from new home construction are "those illegal aliens" who build them. That's mind-boggling. You might want to ask companies, and their employees, which supply bricks, carpet, tile, windows, window treatment, lighting, appliances, insulation, plumbing, electrical, wall paper, paint, door knobs, bathroom fixtures, furniture, etc. 
• We haven't heard about any law enforcement corruption out of Montage County in a couple of years. Maybe they've all moved on to different counties. 
• My annual Tired Head: Local media mentioning the ridiculous Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog.
• My football trip for next weekend: Heinz Stadium in Pittsburgh and West Virginia's stadium in Morgantown. (I might just stay and become one of the Wild and Wonderful Whites.) And, as much as I hate the NFL, I might run over to the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton. 
• A Texas federal judge slapped down the Voter ID law late yesterday, in part, because it is a poll tax. After reading the opinion (which is a great history lesson on the horrible history of Texas in suppressing the minority vote), I'm convinced it is a poll tax.  
• When I posted some of the old Index papers here recently, the poll tax was (shockingly) still in effect and wildly popular. It wasn't abolished until 1964 via constitutional amendment. And Texas still tried to enforce it on elections after that that didn't involved federal positions. 
• "The University is not a place for the 'open minded' where ideas are exchanged and challenged. Parents pay large amounts of money to have their children indoctrinated on leftist ideals." - Dennis Prager. Incredible. Why are people so scared of views outside of their echo chamber? 
• "It's a Lone Star shame @TexasMonthly hasn't offered me the Ice Cream Editor gig. (I would also accept Bacon Editor.)" - Another goofy tweet by the goofy Texas Supreme Court Justice a few minutes ago. 
• BagOfNothing surmises today that the Not Ebola Deputy might be just an attention seeker. He didn't outright say the deputy went to the Emergency Clinic just for publicity but, if he had, I'd back him up on it. 
• Adrian Peterson might go back to jail because he admitted to "smoking a little weed" to the person involved in the supervision of his bond conditions. (1) High minded legal thought: I know you can't be convicted of a crime by just admitting to an offense if there is not some evidence to corroborate that there was, in fact, an actual crime, but I'm not sure that rule applies to bond condition violations. (2) Practical legal thought: Shut up! Deny. Deny. Deny. 
• I can predict I'll be a bum on Saturday beginning at 11:00 a.m. OU/Texas followed by TCU/Baylor. (But, because I can't help it, I'll be up in the 6:00 o'clock hour. So I'll have time to get stuff done.) 
• The "Death With Dignity" story of the 29 year old Portland woman who has chosen to end her life on her own terms -- instead of enduring the experience of the inevitable soon-to-occur death which will involve "headaches, nausea, vomiting, weakness and seizures" -- is fascinating. But while watching the story I answered the hypothetical of "Do you want to know the day of your death?" My answer: No. 

Remember How I've Been Yelling About Too Many Cops And Prosecutors?

Let me add that there are too many lawyers.

Good lord. Atticus Finch would turn over in his fictional grave.

So who gets to be embarrassed by this?

• Fort Worth: That's where he practices.
• aTm: Where he got his undergraduate.
• Texas Tech: Where he graduated law school with honors.
• Judge Judy and Stephen Colbert (his role models per his web site). 
• Humanity.

Montgomery County Seems A Little Wheels Off

(1). A judge (justice of the peace) holds a "prayer breakfast"?

(2) The judge in Adrian Peterson is trying to be recused by the DA after the DA gets nervous because the judge called one of Peterson's attorney's a "media whore."