Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Over a week ago two people were shot and killed outside of an "after hours club" in Fort Worth named "Liquorville". What are the odds?
• Donald Trump: Keep talking, buddy. If I'm Hillary, I'm sitting on a beach for the next three months as I watch the implosion on the other side. 
• And I keep hearing Trump doesn't have the ready cash to keep the campaign going. Why does he need to spend a dime? He gets his message our for free. 
• I'm slow to the news of Sandra Bland, but it sounds like we'll have some info today. 
• Whatever happened to the case about the Wise County Sheriff's deputy accused of "improper photography" of registered sex offenders. The arrest was one year ago this month. (A civil case was filed against the county under cause number CV14-12-924 but it looks like it was removed to a federal court earlier this year.) 
• As the Dallas Mavericks were getting embarrassed by losing free agent DeAndre Jordan, Mark Cuban was firing off hot opinions on an app he has invested in and constantly promotes. Twitter was full of screenshots of Cuban's comments from the app -- an app which has one job: Your messages should disappear into history. Oh, the irony.
• You can buy the home of the pastor of First Baptist Decatur for $324,900.
• Two greatest investments for hiking I've ever made: A trekking pole and Merrell hiking shoes. 
• Dez Bryant gets a new deal for five years with $45 million guaranteed. You think that's a lot? It is. But consider that the NFL distributes $7.2 billion among the teams to start each year and that doesn't even count stadium/parking/concession/other revenues. Dez may be the best receiver in the NFL. Terrance Williams, by comparison, averages $750,000 a year. And his career will be over by age 30. 

Denton Dixie

Someone painted "this is racist" on memorial to #Confederate soldier in #Denton #TX #WFAA pic.twitter.com/fVxTTdqs0S

— Sebastian Robertson (@wfaasebastian) July 20, 2015

The Back Door To The Evil Empire

Story.

Monday Morning Pick Me Up

@BUFootball #Big12Hardware #Big12Trophy #SicEm pic.twitter.com/jJ2P3YTj0C

— Baylor Spirit Squads (@BaylorSpirit) July 20, 2015

Back To The Grind

Attorneys attack former prosecutor in another high-profile murder trial http://t.co/VSWiQUJ2ro

— TDCAANews (@TDCAANews) July 20, 2015

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I go away for a week and Donald Trump single handedly sends the Republican Party into oblivion? (But I can't wait to see the new poll numbers.)
• Cue the orchestra music, but walking five miles into a jungle and not seeing a soul is one of my life's greatest joys. (Whenever I left at the crack of dawn, I'd leave an email for Mrs. LL as to where I was going with the subject line reading "Coroner Info".)
• I also drank water out of a fresh spring river and then became violently sick for a day and half. But staying all that time in bed, which I loathed, might have been the greatest blessing in disguise I could have received. 
• I became an odd fan of Kermit Tyler on my vacation -- a plaque I read said he was "abused by history". 
• I watched last year's Baylor/TCU game on Fox Sports Southwest's "No Huddle" yesterday. I'll say it again: I have no idea how Baylor won that. And that may be one of the greatest games ever. 
• Random British Open Moment from this morning: Phil Mickelson hit a ball onto a hotel balcony. Photo. Video.
• Dallas Cowboy play by play man Brad Sham will miss the opening game due to a Jewish holiday. (He's either very faithful or wants a "look at me" moment.)
• I almost had a heart attack when I saw that George Will wrote a column suggesting that the Goofy Twittering Texas Supreme Court Justice should get a nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Side note: George Will is great on TV but an incomprehensible writer.) 
• Same sex marriage has been legal for about a month and the world didn't end. 
• There has been an insane number of ATM thefts in Dallas over the last few weeks but it went over the top last night when one was stolen from the Angelika.
• The hook-up-while married site AshleyMadison.com was hacked overnight. (Everyone walk away. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here.)
• Tarrant County DA Sharen Wilson celebrated on Twitter an anniversary of Apollo 11 by posting a photo with her name next to Neil Armstrong's foot print.  (Who is her PR person?) 
• I let the soon to be Senior In The House (groan!) download some music on my laptop. One of her choices: Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon. Attagirl!
• A new photo of Pluto that I can't get out of my mind. 
• I watched a ton of sunsets over the last week, and I appreciated every single second and moment. 

In Random Surfing News

He's OK.

Bauum! I'm Back!

But give me a few hours.  After spending several days sharing one room with all the Females In The House, a man needs time to recover. (I think my portion of the luggage took 3%, I think hair and skin products took the rest.)

Are You Kidding Me?

Some people believe he deliberately misled the legislature in order to increase the budget of DPS.

One thing is true: He certainly got that budget increase.

(Now back to vacation).

Abbreviated Random Friday Morning Thoughts

. . . Because I'm mostly off the grid.  No girl. No front page. No links. Google is your friend.

• Decatur's Tuf Cooper disqualified for mistreatment of a horse? Strange Canada standard especially when you consider the end result in calf roping from the calf's perspective.
• A scandal in the Tarrant County DA's office.
• This is the official tenth year anniversary of Liberally Lean.
• Enterprise car rental gave me the greatest/easiest car rental experience today. Kiosks!
• Finally read the two part series on the "Silk Road" online at Wired. Beyond fantastic. It is soon to be a book. 
• A ten foot gator in the Trinity River?  If the bodies weren't enough to scare you off . . . .
• A cop is the grand jury foreman in the Waco Twin Hills Biker cases?

Random Thursday ... . Uh . . . Past Post Generator? Yep, It's My Vacation Time

I've tried to create a random post generator which you should see over to the right. Man, some of those are gold. Some are awful. And a lot of the formatting has been lost to the ages.

I think it will grab old posts which number over 1600. (Sheesh). The formatting in the old ones are gone. But it's funny to reflect and see the old comments.

I'll update later.

Comment review will be very delayed.

Am I To Understand The Mavericks Lost A "Committed" Free Agent?

pic.twitter.com/yfpd6O677L

— nick pants (@nick_pants) July 8, 2015

Even Brian Cuban got involved yesterday.

Let's Check In On Management/Employee Relations At Panera

"Oh, snap!" indeed.

(There sure is a lot of hitting going on these days.)

Source: Gawker.

Ex-Texas Judge Allegedly Places Hooker Ads For Ex-Girlfriends

He even included real photos and their phone numbers. And to post the ads, he used  the name "Don Tequila". I can picture him trying to post the ad and looking around for help to come up with a fake name only for his eyes to stop on an empty tequila bottle beside him. (He would have had better luck using "Keyser Söze".)

More. (Including search warrant affidavit.)

I was wondering why he was a former judge: "Dupuy pleaded guilty in September 2013 to two misdemeanor charges, abuse of office and perjury, and was sentenced to two years deferred adjudication. He was barred from running for office during that time."

The justice system is not his friend.

And Let The Panic Begin

Earlier: 

And it's all fun and games until I can't logon to my bank account . . . and I can't!!! I will presume this is all a coincidence.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Saw in the Update that Wise County has had one same sex marriage license issued. 
• Wise County's Walmart made Fox 4 News last night with an incident of "improper photography".   (And a personal trainer at JRobs got a big interview.)
• The Improper Photography law was struck down a year ago since it was so poorly written, but the legislature passed another one this summer to try to fix its flaws. Most media reports were telling me it was already in effect which caused me to yell at the screen because new laws take effect on September 1st. (Then I looked it up and found out Senate Bill 1317 was a rarity and became effective on June 18, 2015 when the governor signed it.) 
• So let me back off some of my past criticism of Gov. Abbott for "signing" bills in public when they all take effect so long as he doesn't veto them. There are a few laws, like the new Improper Photography law, which take effect immediately upon his signing. If he didn't sign them, they would take effect on September 1, but at least the signing has some purpose.
• And while Fox 4 was in Decatur, the Whataburger got some press as it was used in the background for a story on how they will not allow open carry. (That chain won't be the only one to ban open carry, right?) 
• I think that slow moving storm that drenched Abilene might have parked over the Lake Bridgeport watershed last night. 
• The City of Aurora has a public service message about your junk flying out of your pickup on 114. (And, man, I love the alien on their Facebook page banner.)
• There are reports that the gun used in the killing of the San Fransisco woman by an illegal immigrant "belonged to" a federal agent.  (The Fast and Furious crowd got incredibly interested until they learned it had been taken in a simple burglary.) 
• Weird: The Tarrant County District Clerk's Office has stopped issuing passports because of an "investigation into a 'possible infraction' is completed by the U.S. State Department." (Side note: Wise County voluntarily got out of the passport business about 10 years ago.)  

"The lights are on, but nobody's home"

The old hidden 1st baseman trick https://t.co/aVxT1wF2pJ

— DraftKings (@DraftKings) July 7, 2015

Florida State QB Has Been Dismissed From The Team

He's been "dismissed" from the team.

There are some folks trying to defend him because the girl was the initial aggressor.  He is allowed to use "reasonable force" under the "circumstances" to defend himself.  Good luck with that.

(Man, the similarities between this and a similar incident involving an Oklahoma running back last year are pretty amazing. That video wasn't released publicly but shown to the media who described it. He was dismissed from the team -- for one year.)