Happy Birthday to Channing Tatum!

Love,
Mrs. LL  ahem.... You can just call me Kat, Channing.

(Sigh)

Tuesday Random Morning Thoughts

• The 7th Grader in The House had a softball tournament last night. We made it to the 8:00 pm Championship Game....yay! And we're going to State! I could do a whole post on my evening....I carpooled four middle school girls, got Subway in between games when 911 had to be called for a guy that passed out in front of me in line and I was also the scorekeeper for both of our games. So much drama in my evening.
• I heard an 8th grader use the phrase, "I don't want to throw shade his way, but....". I officially feel old because I have no idea where that came from.
• Berry White was on the news again. Another storm is a brewing.
• I meant to make the crazy shootings in Ohio a bullet point yesterday but didn't quite get to it. That has to be the craziest story yet. And, oddly, yes there was marijuana involved.
• Update on Barry? He's doing really well. He did spend a couple of weeks in two different hospitals and was discharged late last week. He'll be back at the blog before you know it. He's an oddly private guy that blogs publicly. I'll let him post on what he's been through. I will give ya updates though.
• I'll apologize now for the slow approving of comments. I, thankfully, still have a job during the day.
• I like posting pics of available cute dogs at the Animal Shelter, but be warned, the female portion of the Liberally Lean Nation wouldn't mind some Man Candy. It'll happen.
• I actually have a sports post. I listened to the The Cowboys Pre-Draft Press Release on The Ticket before the softball game. Jerry did not disappoint. Listen. 
• Hey! We have reader submitted bullet points! Thank you, Caleb!
• The Republican candidate for Denton County Sheriff stepped into this weekend when he waded into the “bathroom debate” on Facebook. (http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/denton-county-gop-sheriff-candidate-tracy-murphree-calls-for-violence-against-transgender-people-needing-to-pee-24013) What this has to do with his Sheriff duties is a mystery.
•  Ted Cruz and John Kasich have teamed up to try and stop Trump from winning Oregon, New Mexico, and Indiana. Cruz will make a play for Indiana (where he is behind in the polls) and Kasich will take Oregon and New Mexico. You can’t make this stuff up.(http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/us/politics/ted-cruz-john-kasich-donald-trump.html)
•  Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island vote today. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton lead their races – by double digits. Remind me how they’re going to #StopTrump or the public is #FeelingTheBern.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• How cute is this pup? You can find him and maybe even give him a different name than Bozo. Then again, he does have pretty big looking feet. 

• I can't tell you how much I appreciated all the positive comments yesterday....on my grammar. A little insight into the Liberally Lean Headquarters.....his grammar mistakes drive me bonkers. All that said, I'll admit to two mistakes. Anyone catch them? One is not grammar related. 

• We have chances of severe weather again this week. I'm not sure Lake Bridgeport can handle it. I may have to fire up the Liberally Lean Weather System. 

• I went for a jog today and saw a Mama Duck with her tiny baby ducks. A little later I stopped to see another Mama Duck with bigger ducks and a male duck. I appreciated the Daddy Duck for hanging out with the family. I never see that. Abit more during this jog, I see four males ducks hanging around one female duck with tiny babies. I actually stopped and pulled out my head phones only to realize this was not a friendly scene. I'm not sure I've seen anything so violent in nature.  

• A DFW elementary school is taking submissions to rename the school. They'll take this seriously, right? Surely.

 

• Next month The Senior In The House will turn 18, experience prom and graduate. I'm in full panic mode. I'm being told there's nothing legal I can do to enforce an agreement that she signed at the age when she was five that she would never grow up.

• Speaking of Prom, this story makes me very nervous. 

• Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Maryland go to the polls tomorrow. Political Progress on my part.

• I have a non Wise County relative that is a HUGE Bearnie supporter. She started posting articles about him last year.  

Friday Morning Thoughts

• This blog has been temporarily taken over by Mrs. LL. He's on Wife Enforced Rest. Give him a couple of weeks and he'll be back. In the meantime, if you have any news tips, please send them to me at kat at wisecounty dot com. I'd love the help. But, seriously, how hard could this be?
• (I can do this.) Barry basically blogs about Sports, Politics, and Local News with a mix of entertaining headlines to get you coming back the next day. Surely, it's not the barely dressed RTG you are focused on. At any rate - I promised to "not screw this up". (Generic promise.)
• Some of you guys were pretty mean to Prince yesterday. Ok, I didn't admit this to my coworkers when the news broke, but I wasn't a Prince fan. I've always found him a bit too odd for my taste. Did you know he was only 5'2"? 
• Sheesh, Bridgeport's park is under water. I was just at this park with the kids in the house.
• I think I need to install number eight on this list in my shower. It would make me laugh and make Barry cringe.
• I'm guessing Bacon doesn't like the pic, but anyone else that does can possibly adopt it through this group. Maybe I'll do better Monday with an actual RTG.
• Mavericks lost yesterday. (Sports topics are going to be a little hard. I'm guessing you don't want softball updates everyday.
• Politics. Go here.
• Someone once commented that I'm not much of a blogger. This may be harder than I thought. 

Prince Has Died

Age: 57

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• The Lake Bridgeport level is 4.88 above conservation level and I bet it will crest above 5' today with the runoff. Do they have the flood gates wide open? I bet not or Eagle Mountain Lake would flood.
• Nevesta Jones of Bridgeport and Berry White of Runaway Bay were interviewed on Fox 4 last night (via tape) about the flooding.
• You think MADD isn't in it for the money? They get paid $800,000 for a two year contract from "many" states to monitor and report how DWI cases are handled. In Texas, there's an official publication by the State every year which already does it 
• The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday whether a person arrested for DWI who refuses to give blood or breath can be charged with a crime for the refusal regardless of whether the person is eventually acquitted of DWI. In Texas, a refusal normally causes a driver's license suspension up front but in several states the refusal is an actual crime. Those were the cases before the Court. The defense argued, correctly, that some states were making it a crime to assert your constitutional right not to have your breath or blood searched. If the cop wants your blood, get a warrant. 
• The trial next week of the assassination of a Cartel lawyer in the high tone Southlake Town Square sounds like it will be fascinating. 
• The killing of the fitness instructor in Midlothian by a person dressed as a swat team member is equally fascinating.  That was a designated hit, right? 
• I missed a Supreme Court case from March where, amazingly, prosecutors are still hiding evidence which cause cases to be reversed. The rule is simple: “[T]he suppression by  the  prosecution  of  evidence  favorable  to  an  accused  upon  request  violates  due  process  where  the  evidence  is material  either  to  guilt  or  to  punishment,  irrespective  of  the  good  faith  or  bad  faith  of  the  prosecution.”  And that has been the law since 1963. (And the rule was later modified that the evidence had to be disclosed even if the defense lawyer didn't request it.)
• My health has improved dramatically but I've still got a ways to go until I get a full release. But this is the best I have felt in over a year or more. And I'll never again mock someone who is hospitalized due to stress/exhaustion. 
• The Texas Hammer is now running commercials with his lawyer son who also yells at the camera. I cringe for my profession every time. 
• Man, Amazon hires a lot of people in North Fort Worth and the explosion of businesses and restaurants in the area of 287 and 35 and North Tarrant Parkway has been nothing short of mind blowing.

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Pic From 380 At Runaway Bay

380 in Runaway Bay is shutdown from flooding. Bridge is above water but west side road isn't. #WiseCoProblems pic.twitter.com/Dui50xjSSA

— Jrod (@TyHasABday) April 20, 2016

I heard that the water had reached the One Stop convenience store but that's unconfirmed.

Edit: It's getting close.

Video from bagged up gas stations in Runaway Bay @wfaachannel8 pic.twitter.com/7o0Ci5nUkn

— Todd Unger (@ToddWFAA8) April 20, 2016

I Hope That Happened During An Infield Pop Fly

How about this weather? Crazy dust devil interrupts softball game. https://t.co/MikBT6T1Dr pic.twitter.com/aj1BQQSyqt

— VICE Sports (@VICESports) April 20, 2016

380 Near Runaway Bay Bridge Over Lake Bridgeport CLOSED

The Messenger has a list of all road closings. And we've got more rain coming tonight.

Fan Picks Up Live Ball -- Immediately Considers Suicide

[Video would not embed but can be found here.]

Was that a security guard that got them out of their seats? I'm guessing they weren't getting kicked out but taking them somewhere safe just in case the crowd got rowdy,

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• In Houston, someone was indicted for creating,with intent to harm, a Twitter account where it was not identified as a parody account but a real account.
• Trump crushed Cruz in NY last night but it'll be close if he can get enough delegates to seize the nomination. We may be headed for a brokered convention and it will be the most entertaining political event in history. 
• You think Ted Cruz regrets his derogatory "New York values comment now?
• Hillary destroyed Sanders. That race is over. 
• Johnny Football's new agent quit on him. And yesterday Nike severed ties with him. What a moron.
• Lake Bridgeport is 4.07 feet above conservation level this morning. Who would have believed that 2 years ago?
• Gotta go. My physical therapist just showed up unannounced.
• Edit: OK, I'm back. The therapy is about my left leg that I felt like I was "losing" -- so much so that I had developed a limp. But, I'll be, therapy has improved it. And I came up with a  genius idea: Put a two pound ankle weight around the "bad leg" only. That made me work it harder even when simply walking.
• People Magazine has named Jennifer Aniston "The Most Beautiful Woman In The World." Did you know she is 47?

It's All Fun And Games Until A Rent-A-Cop Turns Into Rocky

You know, the security guard is getting some heat for this. I'm not sure that's fair. Ever seen a bunch of drunk girls at a bachlorette party? They are meaner and more aggressive than the Crips or the Bloods (except they wear makeup and have more tattoos.) The fact that he was able to take two of them down while trying to throw out "little Miss Innocent" is the equivalent of Frazier knocking Ali to the floor in that famous fight.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Had my first full throttle rehab session yesterday and I'd like to say I slayed it by walking up stairs and lifting a 4 pound weight in exercise routines. But in all seriousness, my left leg which seemed to be going "dead" on me felts a heck of a lot better.
• I even had a lady come in and give me a memory test. Trust me, I'm getting examined like I'm about to enter the NFL draft.
• I mentioned that the most recent Texas Monthly article is dedicated to guns. One was written by a woman who was part of the mass shooting in Killeen in 1991. She normally carried a gun in her purse but had taken it out and kept it in her car because she feared arrest. Both of her parents were killed as they sat across the table from her. She went on to become a Texas legislator.
• I don't understand anyone being excited about the Mavs making the  playoffs. (Yeah, that was a heck of a game but the Rockets could not have played any worse and still almost won - They'll probably win the next three). The best thing that could have  happened would have been to miss the playoffs and at least take a flyer in the lottery. And next year they won't be as good as they were this year which could best be described as mediocre.
• It's New York election day and Trump will come within inches of guaranteeing his nomination. Incredible.
• Lake Bridgeport is 2.79 feet over conservation level with a huge storm about to it the watershed this evening.
• Texas fought the U.S. in the Supreme Court yesterday on immigration. Question: Why did we have to pay for AG Ken Paxton to go to D.C. and stay in a hotel when he didn't argue the case and simply watched?

Firing It Up

I Have A Baseball Post!

Ian Kinsler was genius on this.

One out. There is a guy on first who is as fast as Usain Bolt.  Since there is only one runner on base, the "in field fly rule"does not apply. Kinsler is actually smart enough to know this.  If Kinsler catches the ball, the fast guy stays on first and the batter is out. Instead, Kinsler intentionally lets the ball hit the ground and throws it to second for a force. Now the fastest guy on the other team is out instead of remaining on first.

Sneaky, but brilliant.

(Stuff like this was why I almost won Manager of the Year of a bunch of sixth graders who were lucky enough to remember to take their gloves into the field after they just went 0-fer in their at bat.)

It's Tax Day

Here's what your 2015 income tax dollars paid for https://t.co/ul33YRpdUv pic.twitter.com/naDOK4iGib

— CNN (@CNN) April 18, 2016

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Barry Held Hostage: Day 6. Ted Koppel has to be thinking about firing up Nightline again.
• Other than one brief night in the hospital 15 years ago, I've never been through anything like before. 
• It's insane. You get out of be and an alarm goes off.A sweet attendant will show up and will stay with you until you walk back to bed.
• If you simply want to walk down the hall, one of them must come with you.(And they walk with you like your a toddler yet I'm fine!) Strangest think I've ever seen. (Then again when they give me dope at 4:00 and then I have to walk a ways two hours later I might look like a toddler).
• If get to my feet and either Mrs. ll or the staff asks me for the billion time, "What are you doing?, Local law enforcement will have the joy of locking me up because I will go on a rampage.
• I know why health care costs so much: I meet with doctors, aides, physical therapists, multiple nurses, a guy who draws my blood, a guy who monitors my blood pressure, a case manager, a CNA, etc. I even had a lady come in to watch me eat to see if I was "swallowing correctly." And that doesn't begin to calculate the cost of the analysis of the blood and other interpretations of the tests. 
• Then throw in a MRI, CAT. EKG, and EEG and the price is through the roof. And that doesn't even factor in the hospital room and the extreme cost of a band-aid. Good lord.
• Don't get me wrong, the health care I have received has been excellent, it is the cost that is out of control.
• Yesterday, two different nurses asked me if Mrs. LL was my daughter.
• I wish I had Anthony Bourdain's career.
• Lake Bridgeport level is 2.5 feet over conservation level this morning and rising.And, by the way, the lake is CLOSED.
• LAKE WORTH - Fort Worth police found a body in Lake Worth on Saturday morning."

My Rehab This Morning

This is what it was like:

After that we all bonded together to get a tatoo.

View post on imgur.com  (It's more like one minute than 10 minutes)