Let's Check In On Oakland A's Tailgaiting

Tailgaters accidentally set fire before @athletics opening day pic.twitter.com/0EkAqXbXXN

— Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) April 4, 2017

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• News this morning is that Tony Romo will go into the broadcast booth. I think its weird that some network would pay him a  bunch of money to do a job he's never proven he could do. Then again, considering all the football talking heads out there, the bar for TV is very low. Edit: How do people read that and think I'm criticizing Romo's football career?
• Texas is rolling out some of the worst looking statues in the history of statues: 
  
• You want to know why there were weird lines on the Ranger's outfield grass last night? During the off season they had a golf course out there.  Here you go: 
  
• The Washington Post reported late yesterday that the founder of the corrupt Blackwater held a secret meeting in the Seychelles with Russian spies in January. He also contributed $250,000 to Trump after the Republican Convention. His sister  is Betsy DeVos who now serves as Trump's Education Secretary. And he was seen in the Trump transition team offices in New York in December. 
• I never text while driving and no one should. But any law to make it a crime is unenforceable. 
  
• I've got Showtime's Disgraced, a documentary on the Baylor basketball scandal, but it's amazing that just three days after it airs Baylor's coach at the time, Dave Bliss, quits his job at a small school in Oklahoma. Why he agreed to be interviewed for that documentary is beyond me. 
• Oh, my:
  
• Let's check in on opening day in Washington: 
  
• Parker County "constable was charged with abuse of his ex-girlfriend after he was 'caught putting a tracking device on her car'" There's a lot going on in that story. 

Celebrating Opening Day With Trump and Bill O'Reilly

On #OpeningDay, @politico takes a look at how politicians celebrate America's pastime https://t.co/tkAwcC6X1m pic.twitter.com/Ia7nsJibGy

— POLITICO (@politico) April 3, 2017

aTm Chilifest Fight

Make chilifest great again @OldRowOfficial pic.twitter.com/jONXr4aoOK

— Cory Janak (@cory_janak) April 1, 2017

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• It looks like we have a terrorist attack in Russia this morning after explosions at two subways stations. Early count has 10 dead and over 50 injured. 
• April Fool's Day is a beating. 
• Five women have claimed harassment at the hands of Bill O'Reilly at Fox and Fox has paid out $13 million. 
• This guy at the run looks like the guy from House of Cards.: 
  
  
  
  
• It's amazing how what you think is a crisis in your life doesn't seem that big when a larger crisis comes around. 
• I've never been to Edgefest but, after looking at the rules, it doesn't exactly sound like Woodstock. And they charged $20 for parking: 
  
• Jerry Jones wants the NFL to stop testing for marijuana. 
• Trump meets with the leader of China this week. What could go wrong? 
• Funny Bit: Some guys were at home and somehow had the number to the Aggie bullpen. They called out there during a game, told the bullpen coach to get a particular player warmed up, and it happened.
• I had no idea so many people were interested in Wrestlemania that happened last night. It's so weird. They know it's fake but get just as fired as if it were real. They truly just get detached from reality. 
• The best game of the weekend was the Women's Semis where UConn had its 111 game win streak snapped on a last second jumper. 

Above The Fold

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

 "Our love is as strong as this dock."

Cue Dueling Banjos.

 Never gets old. 

 Doggie, I'm as confused as you are.

Hot level. Stupid level. Which one you got?

I Missed This Yesterday

Crowd is cheering for Chico the escaped cow, Chico charging his would be captors pic.twitter.com/9WJaxdDyVk

— David Carson (@PDPJ) March 30, 2017

Chico seeks Jesus. And got a GoFundMe page. 

Chico the cow made a run for it. Cops try to capture it. Crowd supports Chico.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• This seems wrong:
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• The "hey, now" from Trophy Club is pregnant. 
• Our under indictment Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal trial will be moved out of Collin County on a change of venue at the request of the prosecutors. Honestly, I can't remember that ever happening before. 
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• Our Ag Commissioner called reporters "peckerwoods."
• The noose is tightening on Trump and the Russian connection. This will not end well.
• Best I can tell, this is the equivalent of a portion of Stemmons Freeway in Dallas being destroyed. 
  
• There were four guys with leaf blowers on the Decatur square this morning blowing dirt. Uh, what's the point? 
• Man, NBC5 is tricking up their weather. First the Thunder Truck. Then S Band Radar. And now this. What do you say, Delkus? 
  
• I have many friends who now have a parent(s) with memory loss. I think we are entering an epidemic stage. It correspondence perfectly with the Baby Boom. 

"Don't Eat Your Weed"

I've never started off wanting to hate a video and do a quicker 180 than watching this thing.

That's greatness. That's funny.

Well done, gentleman. Well done.

(Shout out to the third floor of the courthouse - south side - for tipping me off.)

Edit: The guy on the left is very Ricky Gervais. Why? Check this out from the British The Office. (The bald guy was trying to hold a training session.)

He's Losing His Mind

The failing @nytimes has disgraced the media world. Gotten me wrong for two solid years. Change libel laws? https://t.co/QIqLgvYLLi

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 30, 2017

What I Feel Like Most Days

But what's up with the flip requirement? Let's come up with a competition of smashing bricks with your brain but then say, "Wait. We need to trick it up a little bit!"

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• I bet Tony Romo retires. 
• This will test your faith: 
  
• As will this: 
  
• Trump is really mad at conservative Republicans:
  
• People are pretty quick to create a "GoFundMe" page. 
• An American Airlines pilot died mid-flight. I guess that's why they always have two.
• I think ESPN's SportsCenter is borderline unwatchable. Sheesh. Just show highlights and shut up. 
• Baseball season starts next week. It will end in November. Therein lies the problem. 
• The Dallas Morning News is getting creative with headlines and graphics:
  
• If you have a jacked up truck with huge tires, you also drive fast. 

Above The Fold

Road Rage Couple Fight!

(1) That one lady had no business being in a fight.
(2) I will never ever ever get out of my car because I'm mad.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• That wind was insane.
• Rockwall did not do well: 
  
• Two cars of weather chasers crashing into each other at an intersection resulting in three deaths is beyond bizarre. 
• A 1939 crystal clear NFL video was floating around yesterday. It is a look back in time.  Tackling without using the head is the way it should be done.
• The Ticket talked about the old ABA this morning and a book about it. I can't remember who Junior Miller was referring to, but he talked about a section of the book where one of the teams was going to get onto a plane at say 7:00 a.m. and arrive on the West coast at 6:45 a.m. due to the time change. He refused to get on the plane saying, "I'm not getting on no time machine."
• Let's check in on Trump this morning:
  
• I think people being oblivious is now an epidemic. 
• When I'm out at Lake Bridgeport, I could watch ducks for hours. And, man, there are a lot of ducks.

Video Of The Day From DFW

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Let's check in on the President's security briefing this morning: 
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• The Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas is really a great idea. However, the NFL once again scams the public by having them pay for a state of the art stadium. 
• Shout out to two young deputies who were involved in a couple of driver's license hearings in Denton with me yesterday. The effort to shake my hand after you were through testifying is an act of professionalism I've not seen in years. 
• When you talk to a client to wrap up what has been my most gut wrenching case in years, and that conversation occurs on a cell phone as you walk up and down the street that you grew up on, played kick the can on, and rode bikes on, it will be a memory you never forget. And it will cause you to sit on the curb for a very long time. 
• Greg Abbott on why Texas and not cities should make rules and regulations: "We are the United States of America and not the United States of Municipalities.” Is he OK?
• The Mavericks are now guaranteed of a having a losing record. This will be the first of a long string of many.
• Uh, oh. I got followed by these boys on Twitter:
  
• Had a reunion in the district courtroom yesterday with two others. We were all rookie prosecutors in the Tarrant County DA's office in 1991.
• I can't do it justice, but from the video I saw of the closing arguments in the "butt injection" murder trial I came to the conclusion that both the defense lawyer and prosecutor are awful. They could barely utter a complete comprehensible sentence. 
• We've got five guys sentenced in a sex trafficking case in Dallas. And, yes, I'm posting this simply because of their names: Audry "Spud" Lane, Alvin "Spank" Lane, Chad "Ocho Hood Fame" Johnson, Deon "Spanish Fly" Bonner and Stanley "Pee Wee" Johnson.