Trump: You Might Be In Trouble

The greatest stats genius ever, Nate Silver, who correctly predicted the results in all 50 states in the last presidential election says Trump cannot win.

We Have A Photo of Johnny Football With a Wig and Fake Mustache in Vegas

Vegas Wig story is 100% true Drunk @ practice true Sad to say confirmed 100% #BillyManziel #BillyFootball pic.twitter.com/cZpyn9yCfN

— Believeland Insider (@Believeland24x7) January 5, 2016

So full throttle.

And I'd be a little nervous if I were him about that little vixen on the right.

Edit: I was duped on that being a photo from last weekend. It is him, but it's old. (But still fear the vixen.)

WhereWhitePeopleMeet.com -- It's Real

And its owner lives in . . .  Dallas.

Story. 

But at least we have the answer to this decades old question  . . . 

Ted Cruz's New Ad On Immigration

Love his slogan: "Trust Ted". I could only think of . . .

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of one of the greatest National Championship games in history: Texas vs. USC. Who would have ever dreamed that so much would change?
• Everyone is telling me to watch Making a Murder on Netflix because it will make me insane. (But the petition to have President Obama pardon the guy has a problem: It was a state crime and a state conviction.)
• Johnny Manziel may be one of the most Wheels Off individuals in NFL history. He was in Vegas on Saturday and Deadspin reports: "Our sources tell us Manziel was at a popular night club on the strip Saturday night. The QB entered wearing a blonde wig, a fake mustache, glasses, and a hoodie. Manziel introduced himself as 'Billy.'"  Maybe he suffers from Affluenza?
• I'm stunned how someone would actually threaten me. Especially when they have so much to lose.
• One of the most mundane things I do as a lawyer is a driver's license hearings. They are important but boring. But with a ton on new lawyers on the scene, the drama of "cross examining" a witness at one of these hearings seems like the most important moment of their lives. Buddy, you are in front of an administrative law judge who doesn't care about your dramatic tone of voice.
• We now have a 21 pound cat in the house, and I'm guessing he will never leave. I can almost hear Hotel California playing when I walk in. 
• I watched Donald Trump give a speech in Massachusetts last night. The guy is a political genius. And I'm learning what he is doing. Be a rebel. Be unconventional. Say things no one else would say. Go all out with no limits.
• I'm hearing great things about that new Quentin Tarantino movie. 
• There was a police chase last night in Dallas which involved drugs. "The 2 lbs of meth seized by DPS agents in NW Dallas has a street value of $100,000. 5 suspects in custody, 1 is still on the loose." Two pounds is 32 ounces which is 896 grams. So the police value the meth at $111.60 a gram?
• Even though TCU's win in the Alamo Bowl was great, it was horribly called by play by play man Brian Estridge when he yelled, "Remember the Alamo!" as the game ended. 
• Fox 4's Clarice Tinsley (she's the gal who reads those goofy Facebook responses on air) just posted a picture of her standing by a gold bar dispensing machine in a 5 star hotel in Dubai.
• I'll say it again: Mrs. LL with a drone running the controls is comedy of biblical proportions.

Hover Board For Everyone!

While Texas Goes "Open Carry", Let's Check In On The Northeast

Story.

Who was this? Marcellus Wallace and his buddies?

Random Images

Ted Cruz's bus in Iowa . . .

Fox News show host . . .

Infamous Williamson County in Texas thought this was a good idea . . .

The Service These Days!

I would think this is just an urban legend/fake but a Fox affiliate in Indy is running with it. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• "According to Alfredo Corchado, a reporter at the Dallas Morning News' Mexico bureau, Ethan Couch [the affluenza kid] stayed in his room for much of his time in Puerto Vallarta. On one night when he did go out, he availed himself of a local strip club, before being escorted back to his hotel by a waiter and manager from the club. He didn't have enough cash to pay his bar tab, so [his mother] had to pay it for him."  (Source: Dallas Observer)
• I still can't get over that TCU game.
• Cue the orchestra music. This is what Mrs. LL and I saw last week in a span of 24 hours: The Washington Memorial, The Lincoln Memorial, The Vietnam Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery (which includes the JFK Immortal Eternal Flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier), Ford's Theater, the IRS building (Boo!). The Capitol. The Supreme Court. We drove by on a tour bus by the Jefferson Memorial and the WW II Memorial. We were running out of time.
• Mrs. LL and I began a bit of taking silly political pictures. Here is an example. 
• I spent a lot of time in huge crowds over the holidays. That is the same thing as saying I was surrounded by down jackets and yoga pants. 
• The size of the Washington buildings are unbelievable. The Department of Education building would cover all of downtown Decatur -- from the site of the old Wells Fargo location on the west to the post office on the east. And I may be underestimating it. (It is also 6 stories. And the department has a budget of $77.4 billion. And what exactly what do they do at the federal level?)
• And then we moved via Amtrak. That was fun. Look out the window and see the country.
• We stayed with friends in New Jersey and they picked us up in Trenton. "Trenton?" he said to me. "Could you pick a spot more in the hood than this? Are you crazy? I was scared to get out of the car." I had no idea. I told him I had read 1776 and I thought it would be cool.
• From there we moved to Manhattan after two days.
• The 9/11 Memorial, Central Park, The Dakota building where John Lennon was killed and then on to his "Imagine" memorial about a block away. Times Square.
• There is nothing more comical than watching us try to navigate a subway system. We did fine in DC but not so much in NYC.  Apparently there is "local" and "express".  We found that out when Mrs. LL looked up and discovered we had shot by Central Park and were in Harlem.
• You fall asleep on a plane, you're fine. You fall asleep on the subway, you're screwed.
• But subways, once you figure them out, are fantastic. How the "great State of Texas" has not figured that out is beyond unbelievable. 
• Mrs. LL made me feel like an old man when she scolded me with, "You do not walk off by yourself because you'll get lost, and I'll never find you!" She was probably right.
• I'll say it again, Virgin America is fantastic. I watched the TCU game on a screen in front of me for "free". And the fare was cheaper than America or Southwest.
• I've noticed an obvious pattern: If you are traveling southbound on 287 in Wise County with license plates from the South, DPS will stop you. Why? They want to search you to see if you are transporting weed from Colorado.
• ESPN sees a 36% drop in overnights for the College Football Playoff semifinals. That's what happens when for some inexplicable reason you schedule them on New Year's Eve.
• On a more serious note, the 20 year old UNT student shot in the head during a possible road rage incident on New Year's Eve was a horrific story. 
• I've still have to figure out the President's plan on Executive Order on guns, as well as the "armed standoff in Oregon [by] a group of militia members". Oh, and the stock market is down 300 points. 

Trump Goes After Camera Man

The guy is crazy. And the people love it.

That Was Insane: TCU Comes Back To Win After Being Down 31-0

Here's the Win Probability chart from #AlamoBowl -- TCU win probability bottomed out at 0.9% pic.twitter.com/WgSyDY21c9

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 3, 2016

Oregon's quarterback got hurt, but TCU was playing with their backup after their idiot one decided to sneak out in the middle of the night and got suspended.

Maybe the craziest college game ever.

And, in an absolutely unrelated game, this was funny. "The play is over when I say it is over!":

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The hardest working man in show business
• Maybe
• Edit: what follows is a Random Thought submission Because some folks thought I was being a slacker :
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• Wayne Rogers from Mash passed away last night.  Trapper John McIntyre, rest in peace.  
• Let's all take a minute and appreciate Houston Coach's hey now wife. 
• The Dubai fire was intense. Terrorist related? LL news team will be following this story closely. 
• Ethan Coach has been found. Now back to searching for El Chapa.
• The Toddler in The House has given me the name of George. Do I remind her of Contanza?
• Resolutions anyone?
• 25 year old accused NYC terrorist arrested for planning an attack at a bar in Rochester. If you get one chance at am attack, wouldn't Manhattan be a more likely place?  
• Now go eat some black eyed peas for good luck.  
• Happy New Year, LL Nation!

The Son of the Lead Singer of The Cure?

	sparky (@its_sparky)
1/1/16, 10:16 AM @BSG Jason taking us into 2016 with strong mugshot then spikes the ball with the charges. pic.twitter.com/QaO2fswEfT

Oh, my!

Get Me This Blimp!

I Thought Something Looked Familiar

TCU QB Suspended For Bowl Game and Proves He Is Not Very Smart

	Mark Schlabach (@Mark_Schlabach)
12/31/15, 9:04 AM Preliminary details from San Antonio police dept. regarding #TCU QB Trevone Boykin. Has not been formally charged pic.twitter.com/69wEPLBaF7

• Gary Patterson might get so mad he might catch a murder charge because he will kill this guy. 
• How many people saw the news at a Las Vegas sports book and ran to bet on Oregon?
• Which makes me think those sports books have to have someone monitoring all sports news so they can yell within moments, "Take that line off the books!"
• If I'm reading the lines in Vegas correctly, TCU has gone from a one point favorite to a ten point underdog. 
• Edit: Buddy, when I posted this he had been suspended. I'm the hardest working man in show business. Keep up.