Bad Aggie In Game Going On Right Now

If you get ejected for targeting, you shouldn't celebrate.

Edit: Holy cow!! We've got an Aggie Graduate Assistant who has lost his mind. Twice.

Annual Gallup Poll Results

Poll: @BarackObama is the world's most admired man and @HillaryClinton the most admired woman: http://t.co/Ka5xeln7ka pic.twitter.com/B7S1yAv5Y5
— CNN (@CNN) December 29, 2014

And To Think All We Had Was The Texxas Jam Back In The Day

"Skrillex, Armin Van Buuren, Disclosure, Zed's Dead and Zedd all headlined the Lights All Night festival at the Dallas Convention Center this weekend. [Dallas Observer] Photographer Ed Steele was there to document the action."

Looks like quite the scene. Or something.

I Thought This Was Incredibly Disrespectful

The funeral for one of the two New York officers slain execution style was held over the weekend. As fellow officers watched the funeral on a big screen outside the services, they turned their backs on the Mayor as he spoke inside because the officers do not believe he has been supportive enough.

Newsflash guys: That funeral wasn't about you.

Boston College Coach Whacks Chain Gang Guy

I'm not real sure he had anywhere to go.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• So we have another missing airliner? If this one isn't found, I might join the conspiracy theorists.
• I've been sick for almost a week. It's worse than a cold and less than the flu. But I wake every morning and think, "Is it gone?"
• The homeowner who shot and killed a man in Rhome on the day after Christmas is described as "a  former peace officer with extensive firearms training." I wonder if this is him on Twitter. 
• Mrs. LL trying to describe geocaching to my side of the family over Christmas was a golden moment. You could almost see the question marks forming over their heads. 
• At Mrs. LL's insistence, she ordered The Interview. I watched most of it and found it stupidly funny (but my expectations were zilch.) 
• The Family Cat was roaming around and shattered a drinking glass in the middle of Saturday night. That'll wake you up. Except I was the only one who woke up.
• Sports: (1)  Jason Garrett was crazy for not pulling Romo, Murray or Bryant earlier. (2) Rewatched Baylor vs. TCU on Fox Sports No Huddle over the weekend. I have no idea how Baylor won that game. (3) What a vicious, yet clean, hit on Geno Smith (4) Josh Gordon was suspended after attending a Johnny Football party (Gordon was suspended because he missed practice the next morning. Johnny got suspended for missing treatment. What goofballs.) (5) Last spring, I saw a legitimate offer to enter a drawing for the opportunity to buy tickets to the college National Championship game but you had to enter it by a certified/registered letter. I actually did that and thought I might be selected since who would go to that much trouble for a chance just to buy tickets? I got a postcard a month ago telling me I was out of luck. 
• The Update "scooped me" in an area they shouldn't have: The Fort Worth Court of Appeals deciding the Terry Ross appeal. I normally check for released opinions every Friday morning (that's when they release opinions and not just orders), but I didn't do it this week because I figured there would be none because of Christmas. They released the opinion on Tuesday, and no one noticed. 
• The wife of the convicted ex-JP in Kaufman County is expected to enter a guilty plea this week. She testified in the trial she didn't have a deal with the prosecutors but she has one now. Are we to believe there were no plea discussions whatsoever before her testimony? 
• I read an article from early this year in Texas Monthly about a triple killing in farm house in Pampa, Texas in 2005.  I had never heard about it. Man, it's almost exactly like In Cold Blood -- but with a survivor.
• Rep. Phil King filed a bill to undermine anti-fracking ordinances as they did in Denton.
• Watched some of the original Vacation this weekend and noticed, once the Griswolds got to California, that gas prices were over $2.00. The movie was released in 1983.

Above The Fold

Free Screech!!!!

Link.

Year In Review: Adults Engaged In Go Kart Brawl

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• "Rhome Police confirm robber shot in house, Wise County Sheriff investigating"
• An armed robbery of a convenience store in Bridgeport? 
• I'm not sure Wise Countians have a grasp of the true meaning of Christmas.  
• Our living room looks like a disaster area. It has nothing to do with a robbery/burglary, but it looks like it. 
• I've battled sickness all month long it seems. And I'm normally pretty healthy. Throw in Mrs. LL on Tamiflu and were close to being a M*A*S*H* unit.
• It's the 10 year anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Almost a quarter of a million dead is still mind-boggling.  Just by chance, I watched The Impossible the other day -- which was gut wrenching. 
• I think Best Buy has changed its policy of salesman trying to get you to upgrade your purchase or buy something else.  I had a great get in/get out experience on Christmas Eve.
• Fox News keeps showing commercials that they might be dropped by the Dish Network. (Insert joke here.)  But stuff like that happens all the time, and an agreement is always reached.
• The Longhorn Network showed four hours of a grazing Bevo on Christmas morning.
• Odd recruiting news: Tech had a five star quarterback decommit and then, within days, announce he was going to Baylor.  Baylor already had a highly touted quarterback recruit, but he then immediately decommitted and announced he was going to Tulsa. Tulsa? He had offers from both Tech and Texas. But Tulsa had just hired Baylor's offensive coordinator as its head coach.  I'll admit it: This is weird.
• I bet I may be the only husband who bought his wife a "Trapped In A Room With A Zombie" adventure.  I bet I may have the only wife who reacted like she had just received a new Lexus. 
• I watched most of A Christmas Story yesterday.  I still laugh when the "old man" receives the lamp in a wooden box, sees "Fragile" written on the outside, and says, "Aaah! "Fra-GEE-leh!" It must be Italian!" (Side note: I saw the movie in a theater when it was first released.)
• "Baby Jesus stolen, replaced with real pig's head".  I thought that was the craziest Christmas headline ever until I read, "Topless woman snatches baby Jesus from Nativity scene at St. Peter's Square in pro-choice demonstration."
• Is this the most under the radar place in Wise County: "The Center for Animal Research and Education is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to education, research, rescue, and long-term care for exotic animals. Located on 20 acres in Bridgeport, TX. CARE currently provides a permanent home to over 50 animals including snow leopards, mountain lions, African lions, tigers, black and spotted leopards, ring-tail lemurs and a coati."
• It's GIF city!!!!!

Boat Accident 1953

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Christmas seemed to come early this year. Or, maybe, the older you get, time flies faster. 
• I received some vintage looking Ray-Bans and a vintage (authentic) LBJ bumper sticker for Christmas. Both are beyond fantastic 
• I've always thought a movie could be made about the "woman caught in adultery" from the Bible. Take a little poetic license about the back story, and then end with a big finish of Jesus writing something in the dust. 
• 38 dead in a suicide bombing in Baghdad. 
• The Interview is now going to be shown on Christmas Day. I'm not prepared to believe it, but was all of this controversy just a publicity stunt? 
• For some reason I ended up watching Deliverance in the middle of the night. It's beyond fantastic, isn't it?
• Mrs. LL caught me watching Deliverance in the middle of the night. She didn't say anything but she did release the dogs on me. 
• But after watching the movie,  I couldn't stop thinking about Smokey and the Bandit or the Seinfeld episode of Jon Voight's pencil.
• BagOfNothing went on a pro-Obama rant this morning. Go get him!!!!
• The economy under a President is nothing but luck, and it had no where to go but up when he took office. But I wanted President Obama to do three things: Get out of Iraq, get out of Afghanistan, and close Gitmo.  I'll take two out of three. But I might get all three by the time everything is said and done. 
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been confined for over 10 years without a trial. We are so better than that. 
• I got hooked into a Lifetime movie yesterday about babies getting switched at birth. I need to learn to just walk away. (But it had the kid from Little House In The Prairie in it. And she played the uppity rich mom! How you gonna walk away from that?) 
• Mrs. LL isn't a crier. Seriously. She can experience deep emotions but she'll never cry. (Her words, not mine.) 
• Heck, I'll cry during a Charlie Brown's Christmas.
• I've always loved Christmas Eve more than Christmas Day. As with anything, the anticipation is more fun than the moment. Oh ....... Merry Christmas. 

Get Me This Dog Who Chases The Ambulance Which Is Carrying His Owner!!!!!

Worst People of 2014 List

• Ray Rice (Wife beater)
• Joe Jamail (UT embarrassment, Yep, I'm obsessed as of late.)
• Mark Cuban (His promotion of his stupid app is driving me insane)
• Sean Hannity (How is he still on the air?)
• Jodi Arias (Hey, even I know she's guilty)
• Roger Goodell (Incompetent NFL commissioner who makes millions)
• Joel Osteen (Snake oil salesman)
• Ed Young (Pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine and also a snake oil salesman)
• Mark Davis (Talk show host who is a shadow of his former self because he's gone all Sean Hannity on us.)
• Gary Patterson (TCU coach. He really didn't do anything this year but I'm not going to leave him off this list because of spite.)
• Nick Saban (Alabama coach who might actually be Satan.)
• The Blade Runner (Stop crying, buddy.)
• Ferguson cops.
• Ted Cruz (I think people are beginning to realize what a nut case he is)
• Peter King (Sports writer who has nothing to offer). 
• Pete Delkus (That crying wolf will get someone killed some day)
• Jonathan Stickland (A Texas legislator who loves cheeseburgers as much as starring in his own Idiocracy)
• Jerry Jones' grandson Spalding.
• Chris Christie (Crooked Governor and fake Cowboys fan)
• Justice Don Willett (Twitter goofball who is doing damage to the bench)
• Wendy Davis (What a horrible campaign)
• David Dewhurst (A worse campaigner than Wendy Davis)
• Greg Abbott (Get ready, people. This is going to be bad.)
• Dan Patrick (Lt. Gov. elect. This is going to be triple bad.)
• The Texas Tech cheerleader who loves to kill animals.
• Brian Estridge (WBAP talk show host who gets away with shocking right wing comments only because no one listens)
• Ed Bark (Angry TV critic with thin skin who thinks he is an expert of every subject.)
• Jean Jacques Taylor (Local sportswriter for EPSN who hasd become an afterthought. Unless you think of chicken wings.) 

Your nominations?

Dallas Cowboy's House Burns

Rolando McClain’s $1.5M home in Alabama burns down http://t.co/KY8C0y3w64 pic.twitter.com/OH8tV2A6pr
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 23, 2014

Christmas Items In Bridgeport - 1967

Mormons Gone Crazy!

Edit: The greatest slow mo of a punch ever? . . . .

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Mrs. LL is sick but was smart enough to go to the doctor immediately.  But now I'm not feeling very well. Maybe just sympathy pains? Naaaaaa.
• Christians are fatter than atheists? There would be nothing more ironic if that is true.
• Cowboys are in the playoffs and gas is under $2.00. Hello, 1990s!
• The Sixth Grader in the House was dressed so crazy for church on Sunday that I told her she looked like Cindy Lauper.   I shouldn't have been surprised when I got a confused look in return.
• The Wise County Courthouse is closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Huh?
• If anyone disagrees with my hatred of Joe Jamail, watch this. And to think the University of Texas has his statue side by side with the great Darrell Royal.
• Former Bridgeport resident Allen Vaught is in the Dallas Morning News.
• I'm so conflicted about that goofy Texas Supreme Court Justice.  He's no idiot. Yet he's not that smart. But he's definitely a nerd on Twitter. And then he upped his game on Friday when he dissented in a decision by quoting Ferris Bueller (in a decision saying that the court should interpret how much protection bloggers have.) He did it only to get publicity and it worked. Crazy like a fox?
• The Dow just broke 18,000 this morning. It was 7,949 when the President took office. 
• "North Korea’s fledgling Internet access went dark Monday, days after President Obama promised a 'proportional response' to the nation’s alleged hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment."
• I failed to mention it yesterday, but the fact that one of the Wise County Sheriff's Office's servers was crippled by a hacker is the story of the year. A $500 ransom? In Bitcoin? You're kidding me!
• I'd like to have an accounting from the Salvation Army.
• This is my 17,924th post. That's insane.