Abbey Road

I can almost understand someone getting hit by trying to recreate the Beatles album cover. Not sure I understand someone running across the street like a fool.

Wise County's Last "Legal Hanging"

It sounded like a party. Incredible. Just incredible.

Index

• That was a horrible, horrible wreck. 
• Contrasted with the triplett cows. 
• You can tell that oil exploration was booming.
• I'll admit I'm not sure I knew of the Texas governor who signed the proclamation. And I was always confused as a kid of the "Odd Fellow" donations that were listed in the Star-Telegram during the holidays. 
• Never heard of Sam Wilds, attorney.
• There's a reference in the story about the weather about folks who bought new clothes for Easter and washed their cars.

Out of curiosity, I tracked down the oldest newspaper archived. It's in 1910. Not much to the front page, but I love the movie ad fo for The Alamo: "Costs a dime lasts an hour."

But the bank was booming . . .

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Ted Cruz said yesterday that Net Neutrality was "Obamacare for the Internet." You guys proud of that? (Or maybe he isn't wildly confused and uniformed but is simply coming around on Obamacare?)
• That oft reported number of veteran suicides occurring at a rate of 22 a day seems high. And if it it is true, how is that not a national emergency? I'm mean, compare that to Ebola in the U.S.
• Were post WWII or Vietnam suicide rates equally as high? 
• Most underrated memorial in D.C.: Korean War Memorial. Haunting. 
• Saw a house yesterday with outdoor Christmas lights up. I mean full-throttle Christmas lights. 
• I forgot to mention the question I had posed to me late last week by many individuals: "Why in the world do you have two new car batteries just sitting around?" 
• Very Random Thought: The words of Dr. Seuss and Yoda bugged me at about the same level.
• Someone wrote yesterday that I "couldn't keep a job" as a prosecutor. Might want to check your history books. That was two undefeated terms, sir. As a Democrat. In Wise County. People sit around the campfire talking about that!!
• Kinda sports: Mrs. LL wants to marry WVU quarterback Clint Trickett. After much deliberation, I'll allow it. 
• Who should be ranked higher: Baylor or TCU? Consider this quote after Baylor beat TCU: “We didn't think we could stop them." – TCU coach Gary Patterson, on why he went for it on fourth down late in the game. (But, I'll admit, the rankings dilemma is a heck of a debate.)
• "Duncanville Teen With Cancer Shot and Killed" is a headline that's hard to get your head around. 
• And there's so much news from Duncanville ISD (teacher fired for twitter rant) that former Fox 4 reporter and now Duncanville ISD spokesperson Lari Barager made an appearance on Fox 4 last night. 
• I had no idea that the minister at United Methodist in Decatur is named Brian Bosworth. They have to call him "The Boz", right?
• Not to sound like Hints from Heloise, but the trick of wiping down the stainless steel 'fridge with baby oil after it is cleaned is the greatest helpful hint ever. 
• Stephen King has just released his 63rd book. Quality? Quantity? Both? Neither? (Well, I guess it is definitely quantity.) 
• Looking back on one of the Indexes I posted yesterday, I saw they had a "who checked into/out of the hospital" report. That's just amazing. But the Update did it in the 1990s. 
• Regarding the front page below: If those officials in Fort Worth had simply walked away from that fireball with a cool strut, they'd look just like Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek in Desperado. Really!

Full Throttle

Can't believe the PO-leece car caught up with him (twice).

That's like a video game. A video game that can kill someone, but a full throttle video game.

Index 1955: So Close

According to the Internets, $25,000 in 1955 is the equivalent of $222,043.84 today. But I think a counterfeit $25,000 is worth the same.

I Want A Lost Doggie Humanitarian Of The Year Award!!!!

Obviously A Death Penalty Case

Accused of selling marijuna (!!!!!!!) to an undercover officer.

Prosecutor: "He had no problem whatsoever hitting on the undercover officer on the audio tape -- trying to pick her up and saying, 'Girl you're thicker than  bowl of oatmeal." His expression is priceless.

#TooManyCops #TooManyProsecutors

Index - 1955: This Is Fascinating!

• Wizard Wells had a post office?
• Decatur had parking meters?
• A jury delivers a verdict after midnight?

Edit: This was a pre-scheduled post. That is, I found the newspaper clip on Sunday and scheduled it to go up on Monday. Later I came across an earlier paper which gave background about the murder case. Man, this is a must read. And I had the ultimate stop down moment when I realized this "Bridgeport barber" used to cut my hair when I was a kid. And a triple stop down moment when I saw my grandfather had been called as a character witness!

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Jay Leno was at Bass Hall this weekend and according to the Star-Telegram, he "he told jokes about headlines dating as far back as 2007 as if they were current. Larry Craig's bathroom stall incident and Anthony Weiner's Twitter indiscretions were among some of his most passionately pursued anecdotes. He even referred to Charlie Sheen's 'tiger blood' shenanigans of early 2011 as having happened 'last year.'" And he gets paid for that? 
• For those of you who think BreitBart.com is legitimate, the retraction at the end of this article about President Obama's nominee for AG should make you rethink the source of your news. Laughable. I didn't know hate could keep you from fact checking. 
• I got my haircut at one of those run-of-the-mill places this weekend and had a "stylist" who just happened to be African-America. (At least I think so. You all know that I don't see color.) But I almost laughed out loud when I looked at her Cosmetology license on the counter which mandatorily showed her picture. She was throwing up the sideways "V" sign. 
• Sports: (1) For all those who took my advice and "bet the house" by taking OU and the points against Baylor, don't kill me. I'm officially taking the rest of the year off from my otherwise well deserved "Sports Genius" status. (2). Love how some refer to TCU as having a "Baylor Problem" when it comes to their chances of getting the Final Four. Look, if TCU and Baylor win out (which now seems possible), Baylor jumps TCU. You simply cannot rationalize a head to head loss. (3) Cole Beasley is in trouble for a tweet. He needs to remember he's a spare. (4) Texas High School Playoffs are ridiculous. There are two 1-9 teams who made it: Freer and Rio Grande City Grulla. And there are nine teams who made it at 2-8. (5) Messenger sports editor Richard Greene had a great point over the weekend: Northwest won by two points on Thursday which, due to some screwy margin of victory rule, kept them out of the playoffs and put their opponent, Keller, in. That led to the crazy scenario at the end of the game where Keller, although losing, took a knee and then celebrating.  (6) Former South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore needs to be the poster boy for the eventual abolition of football. He was the SEC Freshman of the Year and a second-team All-American in 2010 when he rushed for 1,197 yards and 17 touchdowns. Then he blew out his ACL twice in consecutive years, was drafted in the NFL last year but didn't play, and announced last week that he was giving it up. Chewed up and spit out. (7) I didn't know Bridgeport had any African-American young athletes. I guess I'm wrong. Finally. 
• Good grief, we found another lost dog last night. We are trying to find the owner because there is no way we can keep it. "We can't save the world," I had to proclaim. But this dog, unlike the others we've found, seems desperate to go home despite the love and affection he gets from us. 
• Police State: Irving police kill a man last night. Sansom Park police killed a "hostile" man on Friday.
• Twenty-five years ago I remember watching news footage of the uprising in East Berlin with a lawyer who had a masters degree in foreign affairs from UVA: "East Berlin will crush those people," he told me. 
• My recurring question: When did it become a custom in the U.S. to put your hand over your heart during the national anthem? I KNOW that was not done when I was a kid. We simply stood at attention. We only put our hand over our hearts during the Pledge of Allegiance. (By the way, at any sports event I stick to my roots which makes me a little tense when I'm around a bunch of Bubbas.) Edit: Fascinating. A commenter points out a portion of the U.S. Code which says you should place your hand over your heart. But it was amended in 1998 and 2008. I'm trying to determine if the "hand over your heart" law existed before then. 
• The Messenger over the weekend still said the name of the guy killed in the tractor accident in Boyd had still not been released. (I think they accidentally listed his name in the death notices last week.)

Above The Fold

Oklahoma Taking You Into The Weekend

But let's not forget priorities.

Ok, Baylor. You've got your marching orders.  Go get 'em.

Get Ready: Pete Delkus Is On His Knees Praying For Bad Weather and TV Time

It's on the way!! RT @RyanMaue: Next week's Arctic blast will threaten 41 States and 250,179,444 people pic.twitter.com/MR78ssJVVL
— Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) November 6, 2014

Polar plunge! Temps struggle to make it to 50s by end of next week. Haven't seen high temps this cold since February! pic.twitter.com/sCy8Zn8ZjI
— Pete Delkus (@wfaaweather) November 6, 2014

One Of The Many Reasons Why A Democrat Cannot Win In Wise County

After straight ticket voting, you don't stand a chance.

Take the County Judge's race.

12,485 total votes cast.

• Approximate Straight Ticket voting by all voters (which was around 60%): 7,490
• Of which 87% were Republican: 6,517
• 13% by Democrats: 973
• That leaves non-straight ticket voters at: 4,995

So......the Democrat could receive every one of those 4,995 votes which were not cast as straight ticket and he'd still lose 6,517 to 5,968.

Index - 1956

Remember the old Andy Griffith Show where the Sheriff would pick up the phone and say, "Sarah, get me Gomer down at the filling station" ?   (And operator Sarah was notorious for listening in on telephone calls after connecting the two parties.)  Bridgeport apparently had a "Sarah" until 1956.

When I was a kid, we only had to dial five digits. I'm not sure if it started off that way in '56.

Get Me This Hispanic Dog* Who Won't Wake Up!

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*Oh, come on. It's obvious. 

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• If the Republican controlled Congress' first piece of business is to "repeal Obamacare" (legislation which will be vetoed) we'll know what they think about you. It's just a dog and pony show. 
• I had a bullet point here about the Navy Seal who is trying to get publicity, but bagofnothing beat me to it. Old man thought: Does the younger generation thinks it is starring in its own movie?
• Speaking of, BagofNothing wrote today that his neighbor is in great shape and busty. I post pics of Random Thought Girls and he lives by one of them? No justice.
• The morning show on The Ticket has been in England all week and I sooooo want to go there. But I would want a personal guide. There has to be an informal service for that, right? Kinda like Uber except for sightseeing. Or just some twenty/thirty-something willing to show you around but not costing an arm and a leg. Heck, that would seem to be viable in large American cities as well. 
• "If you ever quote anything I say on the blog, you have to give me a cool fake name!" -- Courthouse employee yesterday. 
• I oftentimes pack a TV dinner in my briefcase for lunch. The Junior In The House discovered that for the first time yesterday when she got up early to make sure he car would start after "Car Battery Chaos 2014".  "You use that as a lunchbox!!!!" she said. "I thought you used it for important business papers!" It was like I had been defrauding her for years.
• By the way, the problem was the battery and not the alternator.
• Special note for Wordkyle: Breaking news -- unemployment is down to 5.8%, 
• This is the biggest game in memory for TCU (and much larger than that fraud of a game in the 2010 Rose Bowl year when they played Utah. Utah ended up with three losses.) And I think they'll win, but I wouldn't bet on it.  That Thanksgiving game against the Evil Empire might be an ambush. Edit: Hey, goofball. Did I say they played Utah in the Rose Bowl? The Utah game was the only "big game" in that Rose Bowl regular season. 
• A Wise County SO investigator posted a pic because he "got lucky" yesterday. (Credit to Mrs. LL for finding this one. She might have said, "There's a lot going on there.") 
• Rick Perry's lawyers are attacking whether the special prosecutors properly took the oath of office. Hey, I think that prosecution is silly (too many prosecutors in this world) but that defense tactic is a time waste. If they are right, it takes two minutes to fix it. Get on with the fight.
• Legal stuff: The Fort Worth Court of Appeals, in an opinion issued yesterday, dogged someone for filing a 2 1/2 page brief. Looking up the case, the attorney listed for the person who got dogged is a former justice on that court of appeals. Something doesn't seem right.
• The funeral for Jesus Saldana, the subject of a bullet point yesterday, is not listed in today's Update.
• High school football team executes the ol' "bounce pass" play. I promise I thought about that play last week, and I looked without success for black and white footage of it used successfuly in the Cotton Bowl. (At least I think it was the Cotton Bowl. As I remember it, the receiver took three or four steps in fake disgust before launching the pass. Some of you old-timers help me out on this.)  Edit: Thanks. It was aTm vs. UT in 1965. 
• There was a high profile kidnapping in the news this last week which was solved, in part, because the kidnapper had a GPS device installed in his car by a car dealer so the car could be found and repo'd if he defaulted on the note. Apparently he had bad credit among other flaws.
• You think we'd see a rise in divorces because of technology. Between spycams, spyware, cell phones, and hidden GPS devices, no one can get away with having an affair, can they? 

Anonymous North Texas vs. Texas Nazis! Live From Rockwall! Who Ya Got?

And do not let that complimentary bbq persuade you.  That's an oldest Nazi trick in the book.

(Source.)

And I'm dating myself, but I can't help but think "I hate Illinois Nazis" when I look at that photo above.