Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Hot Scary Clown Opinions: (1) This is ridiculously overblown, (2) There's a huge difference between a threat made to a specific person/entity by someone signing off as a clown online and someone who is just outside in a clown suit. (3) Being in public in a clown suit ain't no crime, (4) Those who are actually dressing up are just doing bits, and I'm a little surprised we haven't had more clown sightings. This country loves bits. (5) I bet it is actually hard to find an adult sized clown suitably priced for short lived comedy.  
• Dear Messenger: I am stealing this Update item in light of the above bullet point as a matter of public concern. (Everyone go buy a paper this week or subscribe online so they won't sue me.)
  
• There was breaking news as I write this of a "body found in Anna."  Didn't that Arochi guy just convicted of kidnapping go near Anna on the night of his alleged crime? (Or the body might be related to something that happened overnight. No facts yet. )
• The Rangers first two playoff games are in the afternoon on a weekday? Ranger Derek Holland must have been so upset that he hit up on a Playboy model yesterday.
  
• I'm guessing he looked like this after the typed that:
  
• From the comments yesterday: "I know you mentioned a lot of traffic cases out of South Wise County. I've been driving 730 south to Azle for a job lately and Wise County patrols all the way to Azle. They routinely park at Briar but see them past Pelican Bay. Why are they in Tarrant Cty?" I've seen evidence of the same. 
• Trump got a a little of a raw deal for being criticized for saying that those who suffer PTSD weren't as "strong" as those vets in the audience who had "seen the same things."   I know what he was trying to say. 
• This parent got 15 years in Georgia for having a sexual relationship with her daughter's fifteen year old boyfriend? That won't win you Parent of the Year honors but that seems harsh. Especially for Georgia.
  
   
• I can't believe I haven't mentioned Decatur's new motorcycle cop.  (Didn't they have bicycle cops many years back?) Suggestion: Get a second motorcycle and find your two cops most closely resembling these guys and then dress them accordingly. Then have them ride in a pair around Decatur for the week of Halloween and you might go viral. 
  
• It's interesting how the coaches at Tech and at Texas have the same problem on the field but handle it completely differently. They both have atrocious defenses. Tech Coach Kliff Kingsbury deflects criticism by readily saying he has "nothing" to do with that side of the ball. UT coach Charlie Strong's reaction is to take over the defense and now have nothing to do with the successful offense. 
• The sports radio boys were saying Jason Garrett was mad a the media yesterday during his press conference. Something was really, really wrong with him even so much that one question was, "You, OK?" But I'm making a wild sports prediction that its not the media that's bugging him, it is something negative that he learned about since the game which we'll learn about later this week.

Florida Chuck E Cheese Fight!

Story and video. 

I didn't see what part of Florida this is from but it has to the the panhandle, right?

Crime Blotter

If you recognize this armed robbery suspect please call us at (972) 273-1010 reference case 16-21625 or email ipdcrimetips@cityofirving.org. pic.twitter.com/0pGu61xEJR

— Irving Police Dept. (@IrvingPD) October 3, 2016

Lots going on here.

• What do you think he is doing when he bends over by the front door? Is he keeping the door ajar?
• Perfect Crime points deduction for forgetting to put his mask on. 
• Do we have a "Hey, you forgot some of the money" at the 34 second mark? Any chance that was bait money?
• How much cash does a cell phone store have just laying around? 
• Is that a UT cap?
• Love the clerk who went from a hands up position to a hands on hips position right in front of the guy. 

The Return Of Jimmy's Cowboys In More Way Than One?

Snoop Dogg -- Parties with Dak Prescott & Ezekiel ... After Cowboys Victory (VIDEO) https://t.co/cQj4amnn4T

— TMZ (@TMZ) October 3, 2016

Then again, no need to panic. It's just a guy who smokes a plant from time to time and supports law enforcement.

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Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• It's not that Donald Trump may not have paid taxes over the last 18 years that gets my attention. If it is legal it is legal.  What I want to know about are the details of the $916 million loss in one year.
• Kim Kardashian was reportedly tied up in her Paris condo and robbed by fake police of $10 million in jewelry. Kayne dramatically shut down a concert due to the family emergency. She was not harmed. Hey, Conspiracy Theorists! Get on this! 
• A 12 year old out of Saginaw who went missing for four days was found safe yesterday. The only explanation was she "stayed with acquaintances during the time of her absence." (Thoughts of  Latarian Milton bounced in my head.)
• I saw an ad for a new show called Conviction -- A TV series about a conviction integrity unit. It has come this far? Wrongful convictions are so commonplace we can make a TV show about it?
• Tweet by Arlington PD Chief: "Lots of @ArlingtonPD Officers representing APD at Tarrant County Pride Parade in Fort Worth on Saturday." Pretty progressive. He also posted some pictures with the tweet with one of them making me ask, "How tall is she"?
  
• I'm a fan of that Rent Doctor cleaner. Honestly,  I really don't know if it does that good a job but I get a sense of satisfaction that I did my best to get a carpet clean.  
• I think I may have posted this before. Sexy Harambe Halloween outfit? 
  
• If you didn't see Jerry Jones get hit in the head with a helmet thrown down to him, here ya go.  And here's a photo from the other angle:
  
• Sports: (1) Barring winning out, Charlie Strong is gone after this season, (2) The Oklahoma State big man who picked up the blocked PAT and instantaneously lateraled it to someone who could actually score may be the most heads up play I've seen in a while, (3) Someone at the Messenger tweeted that the Ryder Cup was greater than college football. I'm asking for a copy of his birth certificate because that doesn't sound very American. County club American, yes. Red blooded American, no. (4) A great breakdown of Ricky Williams crazy rookie contract with the Saints and how much all the great runners of the NFL would have made under the incentive laden contract. (5) OU will win the Big 12 conference. (6) Baylor's schedule until playing again on October 29th against Texas: Bye. Kansas. Bye. (7) I'm fascinated by the gal who shadows TCU's Coach Gary Patterson with a towel so he can frequently wipe off his sweat. 
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• Strange thing in Minneapolis last night: Six people were shot in two incidences one block away  from each other in the downtown area. It was even right by the main police station. And none of the victims are being cooperative. 
• According to the first item in the Update, Wise County has a full scale war going on within the local Democratic Party. 

It's Friday. Let's Get Out Of Here.

 Too much effort

 Not enough effort. (But a better relationship bet.)

 What I see when I hear, "They have good hamburgers." 

 "Let's go hiking" vs. Reality

 The plot of every single episode of Three's Company

Still a classic.

Taser: Australian Style

Love this. Crazy gal. Patient cops. And once tased she takes off running like like a bikini clad rocket.

Video.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Trump fans are mad that the media is talking about him "calling a woman fat twenty years ago." There's some merit to that. So what does Trump do at 4:30 this morning? He keeps the story alive: 
  
• And does he really want me to "check out [her] sex tape"?
• Hillary had a little "shimmy" during the debate the other night (which led to a brilliant Hillary Shimmy video). But no shimmy will ever beat the greatest shimmy in the history of ever:
  
• We used to have an Anti-Animated GIF guy in the comments who would lose his mind if I ever posted one. I miss him. 
• I mentioned Judge Meyers on the Court of Criminal Appeals using the phrase "all the feels" in an opinion last week, but I completely missed something else he wrote in a dissenting opinion. He went off -- and I do mean went off -- on all the other judges on the court for, in essence, only providing justice to the Gov. Perrys and Tom Delays of the world -- two people the court had recently ruled in favor of. But if you are a nobody, Meyers wrote, the other judges will write 40 pages to rule against you. 
• The majority opinion and Meyers' opinion's appendix detail the facts of the case which actually involved Montague County. It includes a who's who of the Montague Justice system and some Wise County names are big players. 
• Bridgeport played a high school football game last night. I'm guessing they probably have before, but is that possibly the first Thursday night game for the school ever? And another fun fact: They played Benbrook Middle-High School. Yep, "middle-high."  That's even more unstable than playing high school football on Thursday. 
• Hey, I basically predicted that Dez would be out for the year with the knee injury and, based upon the circus at The Star, I wouldn't rule that out from being the actual prognosis.
• The Tarrant County DA's office has decided to seek the death penalty in a case from April where a guy allegedly dumped his better half off of a bridge over Lake Worth.  I hate the image  of two or three prosecutors sitting in a room deciding whether someone should die but I don't know how I would change the law. Sure, they don't have the absolute power to kill someone (they have to go through a jury) but they do make a literal life or death decision because they could guarantee the State doesn't kill him. 
• I thought the Texas Lottery was faltering. Officials announced there have been a record $5 billion in tickets sold this year.
• Speaking of feeling uncomfortable, put the following new release on the list as well. There's just something odd about government teaching us "how" to interact with government. (And if there is anything in the "how" that says we should be "responsive to officers questions", I'll go nuts.)

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• There was a minor viral video of a guy briefly losing the engagement ring while proposing in the crowd during a Yankees game. The video didn't do much for me, but I did smile when I first heard the TV guy quickly referencing what he was seeing as being "like a lost and found in a border town" with a guy "looking for a diamond ring." But he ruined the moment by (1) referencing that he was actually quoting lyrics -- hey, buddy, just leave it hanging out there, and (2) saying his "buddy Kix Brooks wrote" the song. 

Separated At Birth

Home Depot pulls Scary Peeper Creeper from stores in Canada after complaints it was too scary https://t.co/XhG3WCTZTH pic.twitter.com/L5aTQV2yLK

— CNN (@CNN) September 29, 2016

It was $29.98.

Compare:

Or . . .

Funny $100 Payoff

An American heckler won a $100 bet off @JustinRose99 after draining this putt. 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/i1eY208JrM

— NBCSN (@NBCSN) September 29, 2016

I didn't look up the whole background on this but I know enough. Funny. And that's some great Tiger mimicking that the guy pulls off.

Attempted Attack On Prosecutor

Everything pretty much happens in the first 15 seconds. Story.

Not sure how we got a Surrender Cobra out of it . . .

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Dez Bryant missed an MRI and more as he went AWOL for about a day and a half. The guy is such a knucklehead that I'm surprised we don't see stuff like this from him five to six times a season. But, in the grand scheme of things, he's been under the radar.
• I think the Messenger should do a story on Freedom Texas I see referenced in the Update all the time: A "group [which] works to educate people about the sovereignty, security and self-sufficiency of Texas, and promotes its eventual independence."
• Nothing like a constitutional conservative . . .
  
  
• DPS got $800 million of your dollars for border security in the last legislative session. The result?  DPS Director Steve McGraw now says it made two counties safer but that all the crime just moved to other places along the border.  Can I get Vegas odds on him now asking for more money to waste by arguing that having more millions would allow them to secure more border counties? No one cons the legislature like this guy. 
• A "radar dome" being assembled near Ennis looks mysteriously like a broken egg. 
  

• I wonder if the Ennis Radar Dome would have fit into the Waxahachie Superconducting Super Collider.
• There's some talk of putting a man on Mars. We need to have many more decades of waiting to get over the NASA waste from the post Apollo years. 
• The guy who killed two people in a crazy spree in Cedar Hill and was later caught in Georgetown, Silvestre Franco-Luviano, had been deported three times. I bet Trump mentions him. Trump would be a fool not to mention him. 
• A judge in Tarrant County in the Vandagriff murder (the TWU student) case ordered the defendant receive a mental competency exam. I'm confused about this. First, the guy hasn't even been indicted so its a little early to wonder if he is competent to stand trial. Secondly, the order was not from a district judge but from a magistrate judge. Is that routine down there?  
• I learned a ton as a kid whenever Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley would go visit Phineas J. Whoopee, and Mr. Whoopee would pull out his chalk board to explain something.  This summer, Mrs. LL was confused as to how a sail boat on Lake Bridgeport was moving against the wind. "Tacking," I said. How did I know that? Mr. Phineas J. Whoopee.
  
• Cartoons have always been great educational tools. I bet they would work for adults if we were brave enough to try.
• There was a murder in Arlington last night in a residential neighborhood. The female arrested is accused of shooting her fiancee at 3:00 or so in the morning. 
  
• The kind-of-hot judge I've mentioned before (she got mad when a defendant was brought to court without pants, and let another defendant hold his baby) is in the news again after getting cussed out.
• If you consider the movie plot of Tom Hanks' Big from the standpoint of the mother, it is a horror movie. 

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Breaking: Tim Tebow Hits Home Run On First Ever Pitch In Instructional League

The footage. https://t.co/aj08dB8Nwp

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) September 28, 2016

In more news, instructional leagues apparently have crowds the size of a 12 and under softball game with the demographics of a Trump campaign rally.

We've Got A Cowboy Emergency!

Oh no. https://t.co/i1RhgWFh1U

— Gordon Keith (@gordonkeith) September 28, 2016

Random Overly Critical Observation

From 660 AM - The Answer:

 Seems like a nice gig.

So what will there be for kids at this event?

I'm guessing they aren't raising money for postpartum care.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• I don't know what to make of it, but there's a Texas government run website which  shows up to date payments on government contracts at that state level. Glance through it. Remember how many times I've told you that the way to get rich is to be in the private sector working on a contract basis with the government? The amount of money thrown around is amazing.
• Trump spent the morning after the debate calling a woman fat. This woman: 
  
• I saw her on CNN and Fox News last night but had a hard time understanding her. She didn't speak 'merican to good.  It was a little like watching Gloria on Modern Family. 
• Regarding the heroin epidemic in Ohio, this news from right across the border: "Clearfield, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania coroner says a Guatemalan found dead over a guardrail had swallowed up to $500,000 worth of heroin and was killed when one of the packets burst."
• The Dallas Morning News has a story on mums. This silliness like below happens in the big city but not around here right? 
  
• That Arochi trial took a twist when the defendant agreed to have the judge and not the jury assess punishment. I don't understand that. (1) A jury, although unlikely, could grant probation. A judge can't.  (1A) You've basically given up any possible reversible error from being committed by the prosecution during the now fast-tracked punishment phase or error in a no-longer-necessary court's charge. (2) That judge has already played to the media a little bit, and I'd bet it will be a shockingly long sentence for that media as well as future political campaigns. (3) There's a consensual underage sex case against the guy still pending. Sheesh. If the defense doesn't think there's any legitimate trial error, try to cut a deal with the State on both cases. Assuming the State would listen (a big assumption), it would be a steep price. 35-40 years maybe. 
• I say it every year at this time: I love the red clouds at dusk and dawn.
• Former Texas prosecutor John Bradley, who had a controversial role in the Michael Morton wrongful incarceration case, has resigned his job as Palau’s Attorney General. A job, by the way, which looks great simply by doing a Google image search of Palau.
• A prominent Bridgeport resident had a hot sports opinion on the Bridgeport/Decatur football outcome.
• And despite the commentors yesterday: I reserve the right to pull out a Pulp Fiction reference whenever I wish from now to eternity. 
  
• Mark Davis on the radio this morning went on a double rant that everyone should pay respect during the National Anthem and that almost every black shooting by cops wouldn't have happened if the victim had "complied."  That's really scary when you cut it to its core: You  must show respect to government. If you do not comply with that government, you might die. 
• I didn't even know there was a Houston Forward Times.