11.21.2016

Brutal


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Which One Is Meeting With Trump Today?


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Above The Fold And More


The Messenger finally changed the way online subscribers view the paper.  Nice, nice change.
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Get Me This Dog!

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Incredible

The audio isn't good but you'll get the gist.

I was channel surfing between the Big 12 and SEC on Saturday and came across this. That's Jimmy Swaggart's son. That Jimmy Swaggart. He is mocking Muslims in, I suppose, Christian love.

Edit: I will revise this. He isn't necessarily making fun of just Muslims. He's making fun of any religion which is different.

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Random Monday Morning Thoughts


  • My new mantra for Trump may be: "If you voted for him you own him." No more "What about Hillary" justifications. You own him.
  • Charlie Strong will be fired as the head coach at Texas. Hot Sports Opinion: He would be perfect for Baylor. He's a "character first" guy, and it would be two redemption projects. 
  • I'm officially old when during the great (justifiable) Cowboy hysteria I really perk up when I see an old clip of Tony Dorsett. 
  • Have the Cowboy cheerleader shorts gotten shorten? They look like bikini bottoms.
  • Here's an advertising twist: We have a Geico commercial with the lizard who references Helzberg Diamonds. 
  • I hate restaurants. But with the College Freshman In The House home for the holidays, we went to one last night. I basically recreated a scene from Pulp Fiction when I looked at the menu and, using my best  John Travolta voice, said, "$10 for a hamburger? $10? Let me get this straight. It's meat between two pieces of bread, right? And it's $10. Ok."
  • Talking to the College Freshman about "where do you get your news?" was horrifying. She's a smart and wonderful kid, but it was horrifying. 
  • The clip of Dak Prescott missing the trash can while throwing away a water bottle and picking it up is golden. I think that means a lot. It is very similar to my belief that you should always make your bed every morning.
  • Someone alerted to me on Friday to a show which was basically Cops but was "live." It was like the Red Zone channel for cops. From a Fourth Amendment standpoint, it needs to be shown in law schools.
  • The killing of the San Antonio officer during a traffic stop is sickening. And make no mistake about it: It had to have been captured on video. 
  • "Pope Francis says abortion can be forgiven by ordinary priests instead of requiring the intervention of a bishop." If I started writing a bullet point about this, I would never stop. 
  • Trump will spend more time at Trump Tower than the White House? Practically, it makes no difference. But how in the world would you not want to live in the White House?  
  • Trump settled the lawsuit against Trump University for $25 million. The President of the United States - Elect has just paid $25 million for conning dumb people who trusted him. 
  • I watched another episode (an old one) of Black Mirror last night. Man, I love that stuff. Mrs. LL and I would hit pause and discuss what we thought was going on. 





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11.20.2016

The President Elect Is Thin Skinned




And he will have the nuclear codes.

(Side note: Him saying he  has heard that the cast of Hamilton "is highly overrated" sounds like something that Alec Baldwin would say in a Saturday Night Live skit.)
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11.19.2016

If You Voted For Him, You Own Him

What was said at Hamilton. Good, lord, what is wrong with this?:

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The Most Epic Game In Decatur High School History

Decatur loses 82-73.  (Even made the Ticket's Ticker this morning.)

Sidenote: "Along with the win, Gerber [Levelland's quarterback] broke the Texas High School single-season passing touchdown record of 71 previously held by Shelton Eppler of Navasota, which he set in the state title game in 2014. It took Eppler 16 games to set his record, while Gerber — now at 73 total — surpassed the mark in 12 games.



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11.18.2016

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




 I didn't mean get out of here that fast.
 "Dear Barry, You are so funny on Liberally Lean"
Sorry, Scarlett, the feeling isn't universally shared.
 Wise County Hillary supporters this week.
 It's the roof. The roof. It's the roof that's on fire.
 Democrats hearing about the Jeff Sessions appointment.
Closing time.
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From Bridgeport

Story.

Edit later in the day: On the issue of tolerance for someone different than you, whether it be on race or religion, we all got what we expected in the comments. sheesh. Remind me to do a poll asking whether the Comment Section actually reflects the views held by Wise Countians.


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Random Friday Morning Thoughts



  • There has been a problem with the comments since for the first time in a long time some have been going to my Spam folder.  Lately I've needed a "Dumber Than Dirt" folder.
  • One of the clubs in question is Dakota's Dixie Rose Cabaret in Abilene which, if I were to take a wild guess, no reasonable guy would believe the girls worked there:
  • Some sent me a link to an article on the tweeting Texas Supreme Court judge who I've dogged before and called it "Barry bait." That's funny. And I took it. My gripe with him is not about his intellect, it's that I think he runs a constant political campaign when he should be working. And does the government pay for his phone and/or his phone bill?
  • And that article was fantastic as it analyzed his judicial philosophy. He might really be an activist judge but a right wing activist judge hiding behind a series of dad jokes and an "aw shucks" persona.
  • I was right about the general location of the most conservative Trump county in Texas by percentage. But Wise County was right on its heels: 
  • And the video has some great interviews but none greater than the guy pictured. He thought Trump had been "talking out of his ass" but still voted for him.  Once again, his voters didn't take him literally, they took him seriously. 
  • Right now, UT's Charlie Strong has the worst winning percentage in Longhorn history (22nd out of 22 coaches). And if he splits the last two games, which is said will save his job, he will still be in last place. 
  • Rev. Robert Jeffress is in the headlines again. This time for calling someone else, in Christian love no doubt, "nothing but a thug." 
  • Trump having Mitt Romney up to the Trump Tower is really confusing. If I were Romney, who berated Trump to no end during the election, I would be fearful that I'm being called in to to get ambushed with a  chewing out and then told to see the door.
  • A legal bomb that only appellate lawyers will appreciate happened yesterday at the Supreme Court. The Court had agreed to hear an antitrust case brought to the court by Visa. Briefs had been submitted and it was set for oral arguments in a couple of weeks. The court yesterday summarily dismissed it without warning for what amounted to a "bait and switch" trick by the lawyers and the court didn't seem too happy about it. I'd hate to make that phone call to Visa. (And the lawyer ultimately responsible has one heck of a resume -- even appearing on The Colbert Report and in House of Cards playing himself.)
  • The subject of my post a couple of days ago about the accidental invitation by a grandma to a guy for Thanksgiving dinner made  NBC Nightly News last night. They are actually getting together for Thanksgiving. 
  • The radio station The Edge is no more. It had become nothing but a shadow of what it used to be when it hit the scene in the late 1980s  playing alternative rock that none of us had ever heard. And it was fantastic. Here's a playlist from 1992. 
  • The punch of the woman by the cop in Flagstaff is beyond shocking. He, as he should be, will be gone. It was a perfect example that force needed to be used but only reasonable force. Slugging a gal who is being restrained ain't it.  
  • Did Halloween somehow bring to an end all of the clown sightings?
  • There were at least two commentators on here yesterday who believe Trump won the popular vote. Think about that.

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11.17.2016

What Was Going On Here?



I can't find any backstory so maybe it's just as simple as a teacher being mean. But teachers aren't generally mean, and they certainly aren't mean in front of a room of parents.

The kid before the last one said, "Thank you for coming." Was that the end of the play and the last kid didn't have a line at all and just wanted to speak into the mic? Still a power move by the teacher.
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The Only Mannequin Challenge I've Enjoyed




That is one well trained dog.
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Deer vs. Runner: Who Ya Got?


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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




  • On Friday night, there will be 132 Texas high school playoff games. (And that doesn't include six man football.)
  • A couple of years back I went to the Death Star to watch some high school playoff games and saw my first six man game. It was the greatest open field tackling ever. It has to be.
  • Has there ever been a six man player become a well known college player in Texas?
  • A guy who fell into hot spring in Yellowstone last June and died actually "dissolved"? That looks like fake news but appears to be real. 
  • There was the equivalent of a Fog Bowl college game on ESPN2 last night.  That's a close up of fans on the other side of the field.
  • Twitter is banning some alt-right accounts. They are not pleased. Hey, I thought you boys loved the free market?
  • Mark Davis on Twitter last night: "Someone tell Megyn [Kelly] that a book release is not good time to say silly things that dent her already waning likability." Should she lie to sell books?
  • I wonder if Wise County's "Freedom Texas" group, which promotes seceding, will now disband because of the Trump Election. 
  • Rick Perry is now being considered for head of the Department of Agriculture.  That's the department he could not remember and wanted to eliminated during his Oops Moment.
  • Also in the news was Trump's possible proposal of a Muslim Registry. Why stop there? How about Hispanics? Koreans? And those French haven't been real friendly over the years. Let's add them. Sheesh. So how did a spokesman for a Trump SuperPAC justify it on Megyn Kelly's show last night?: "We've done it based on race, we've done it based on religion, we've done it based on region," he said. "We've done it with Iran back — back a while ago. We did it during World War II with Japanese."
  • I exchanged direct messages with Kevin Von Erich on Twitter last night. I was almost giddy. He told me his senior year in high school that his team, Lake Dallas, beat Bridgeport 14-12.
  • This morning: Jobless claims fall to 43 year low and housing starts reach a 9 year high. Think back eight years ago.
  • Finally, FBC of Dallas' Robert Jeffress is being called on the carpet for all his crazy non-Christian comments over the years.  The Ticket's Corby Davidson even casually referred to him as a "lunatic" the other day and caught no blowback.
  • If in fact 20 billion barrels of oil was just discovered in West Texas, won't that drive oil prices down even if it's in the ground? Or does a supply not yet tapped have no impact at all?

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11.16.2016

Grandma Gets Wrong Guy In Text Group





I'm going to assume this is true because we all need a little racial harmony.
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Iowa Woman Livestreams Her Rant At Police Officers

Link.

That lady is crazy.
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