Current Dallas Cowboy and Former Baylor Bear

NFL's Terrance Williams Challenged to Foot Race Outside Dallas Strip Club https://t.co/vOLVFUUDsN

— TMZ (@TMZ) July 18, 2017

And there's something about the race occurring at 5:00 a.m. on Monday in Dallas which makes it extra special. (For the record, Williams said the race was at 3:00 a.m. and not 5:00 a.m. and, therefore, called it a "fake story.")

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• "Repeal and Replace" Obamacare is dead once again.  The Republican have the House. They have the Senate. And they have the Presidency. Yet, it's over. So much winning.
  
  
• Oh, my!
  
• There was a really wild story about a medical school dean at USC. He was full throttle. But I bet that happens far more than anyone is willing to admit. This is the "young companion" - not the dean.
  
  
• A gal who just happens to be transgendered managed to get a photo with Greg Abbott. (He didn't know.)
  
  
• If you don't watch Game of Thrones, skip this. If you do, it'll take you a second to recognize her: 
  
• The Balch Springs ex-cop was indicted yesterday for killing the young black kid. But I don't think the  Dallas D.A. knows what it is like to be D.A. You don't make guarantees:
  
  
• As far as the top three are concerned, most Texas prosecutors would call it theft.
  
  
• Heck of a day for the Cowboys: Zeke allegedly punched "DJ Dtrain" and Lucky Whitehead's dog was held by "Boogotti Kasino".  Edit: If you want to see the crazy Boogotti video wanting $20,000 for the dog, it is here. And I've issued language warnings before, but now I'm issuing a triple not double fake language warning. 
  
• What does this mean?:
  
  
• The Ticket has spent several segments spending the entire time promoting various HBO shows without one word of criticism. These are ads. (You really believe both The Hardline and The Musers think the documentary The Defiant Ones is worthy of a full segment?)
• Fox and Friends came to the defense of Ann Coulter this morning:
  
• I got this promotion yesterday in my Twitter timeline. Yep. Their super-computing-demographic-profiling-ad-targeting technology just proved I'm a little hipper than some of you boys believe.
  
  
• Those Whataburger commercials where people recount how they did anything and everything to get to Whataburger makes me very sad for them (if they were real.) And I like Whataburger.
• This is from Fox News. May I remind you Trump won Wise County with 83.8% of the vote.: 
  
• The Iran nuclear problem has suddenly been solved: 
  
• Here's the link to the college debt story referenced on the front page of the Morning News (below). It's entitled, "As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away."
• It's Decatur Church vs. Oilfield Operating Company in the first paragraph of the Update. That caused me to think of "prescriptive easement" for the first time in 30 years. 

                              

When You Can Have A Life Sized Tonka Set Delivered To Your Home

The potential photo ops are mind-boggling. The last time:

Edit/Update: It begins.

Edit: And the press secretary thought it would be a good idea as he takes pics with his phone. Trump can't help himself. He's a man-child who got giddy about a fire truck.

President Trump in fire truck.
Reflection of Press Secretary Sean Spicer #caughtgrammin'. pic.twitter.com/klwNZaEiNY

— CSPAN (@cspan) July 17, 2017

Edit: Oh, no, he didn't!!!!

Edit: Wait a second. Who paid for this? You or Lockheed Martin?

Who paid for the Marine One flight to the South Lawn for the WH photo op? pic.twitter.com/TiQpWYtEBn

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 17, 2017

Get Me This Dog!

Trump Tweets Mid-Morning! Conservatives Respond!

Edit: Some of you don't think Bill Kristol is a conservative? The founder and editor of The Weekly Standard is not a conservative? Do you not know his background?

Someone Kidnapped A Cowboy's Dog? (Lucky Whitehead's)

.@dallascowboys @ninjafast22 says his dog has been stolen is being held for ransom. @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/idk62peyeE

— Pat Doney (@PatDoneyNBC5) July 17, 2017

Above The Fold

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Breaking news about the dumbest Cowboy there is. Allegations are he punched a bouncer at the club Clutch: 

  

  "Who, me?"

• One TCU student and a recent graduate of Missouri were killed on Lake Palo Pinto over the weekend in a Jet Ski accident. (Sounds like it was in the middle of the night.)
• If you didn't see Ann Coulter throwing a Twitter hissy fit because she didn't get her assigned seat on a Delta flight, you should. By last count, she fired off 19 tweets because she was so upset (including one of a picture of the person who ended up in "her" seat and saying she had "dachshund legs.") It took a great turn when Delta responded to her letting her know that they would refund her $30. 
  
  
• There's one Dennis Prager fan out there, and the rest of you don't know who he is. I've been dogging Prager for years because he's a simpleton, and he didn't disappoint this weekend: 
  
• The only person dumber than Trump may be his lawyers,  After one goes on a profane filled email rant, another one, Jay Sekulow, was on ABC News' This Week and said this about the Trump Jr. meeting with the Russian lawyer: “If this was nefarious, why’d the Secret Service allow these people in? The president had Secret Service protection at that point. That raised a question with me.” The Secret Service immediately fired back and called him a liar. 
• Gordon Keith of The Ticket made a great point about Trump this morning: "He's the most American president we've ever had. He acts like us."
• Fox News' Shepard Smith to Fox News' Chris Wallace about the Trump Administration: "The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling . . . . why are we getting told all these lies?" Wallace: "I don't know what to say."
• Mrs. LL threw out chicken feed this weekend. Then we had two gangs of geese show up for a fight for it It wasn't pretty.:
  
• Lockheed Martin will hire 1,800 more workers for the F-35 (which price just increased). Hot opinion: In this day of drone warfare, do we need the F-35? 
• Mrs. LL and I went to Top Golf on Friday. Two thoughts: (1) It was an absolute scene and a blast, and (2) Their overhead has to be insane. And Mrs. LL, who has never swung a golf club, was really, really good. For any of you married guys, can you imagine giving golfing lessons (head still, left arm straight, transfer your weight, bend at the knees, this is how you grip it, relax) and your wife listening? She did. I kept waiting for the, "I'll do it if you'll stop talking."
• Who wears it better: North Korean generals or Sheriff David Clarke?: 
  
• Former Longhorn D'Onta Foreman was arrested for allegedly possessing weed and a gun. If the facts are what his lawyer says, he's home free. (And that's a very smart lawyer.) Question: How many Texans are possessing a handgun and/or weed at this moment?
• Shout out to the commentor who picked up my Pulp Fiction joke last week. (It was in my Blue Apron bullet point.)
• A church in Chico burned down. The pastor says they need stuff: 
  
• Is there any more meaningless stat for a pitcher that won/loss records? I.e. Nolan Ryan and Yu Darvish. 
• The eldest Bush's letter to W. I miss them both. 

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

That's probably Mr. USA's girlfriend who will be in the ER later.

Not a bad idea.

Loved that game as a kid. Saw that happen several times as a kid.

New Age Cat

Same look as every girl who takes her 

first shot of tequila.

Speaking of a drinking from a straw and McDonald's

Sean Hannity's Show: His Definition Of Humor

In case you missed it here is @w_terrence's last word for tonight #Hannity pic.twitter.com/WTF7r0M7l9

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 14, 2017

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Back in November, Lt. Gov's Dan Patrick's son was defeated in an election in Harris County and thrown out as a district judge. Yesterday, Trump appointed him as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. Patrick is Trump's Texas campaign manager. I knew something like this would happen as I wrote in November of last year but I just didn't think big enough: 
  
• There were a bunch of stories of a worker being "stuck" behind a Bank of America ATM and sliding notes out of it to customers in order to be saved. Anyone else skeptical? Every story sure does prominently display the Bank of America name. Publicity stunt? 
  
• Crazy story out of Pennsylvania: Four young guys go missing this week. They are eventually found dead with the help of the murderer after prosecutors cut a deal with the him to take the death penalty "off the table."  (Regarding the accused: "[P]rosecutors said he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. He also suffered a head injury in an ATV accident a year ago.")
• It was a great moment seeing President Clinton and President Bush together in Dallas yesterday. I miss them both. And this was a great moment as Bush poked fun at himself: 
  
• And the meeting gave rise to a fantastic picture:
  
• Both Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick are proposing mandatory salary increases and bonuses for teachers. This makes teachers love them. This makes administrators and school boards cringe because, by and large, the local districts have to come up with the money. Patrick's explanation yesterday:  Districts "have to be better about how they spend the money. They have to put more focus on teachers." (Related note: The Update reports Boyd ISD might be facing a deficit.)
• New New Yorker cover:
  
• I'm don't know if it will happen, but there's a sentencing this morning in the Wise County District Court for a woman who allegedly stole over $200,000 from one of Karl Klement's businesses. If I'm reading the docket notes correctly, she pled guilty earlier this year, waived a jury, and chose to go to the judge for sentencing. At the time, the judge was John Fostel who has since passed away. Now she'll face a visiting judge. The uncertainty would make me very nervous.
• NBC News with a scoop this morning. Probably not a bombshell but just proof there will be more and more coming. There was someone else at the Trump Jr. meeting: 
  
• That inflatable marijuana thingy is funny: 
  
• The Houston Chronicle has now picked up the Bridgeport cop-almost-hit-by-alleged-drunk-driver story, and refers to his "fancy foot work" as saving his life. 
• How many times did every Republican Representative and Senator vote to completely repeal Obamacare when they knew the vote didn't matter because Obama would veto any bill trying to do so? And how many of them made a campaign promise of "I will vote to repeal Obamacare!"