Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Who will fall due to past sexual misconduct today? Charlie Rose was thrown out yesterday (and he basically admitted it.) Don't you know there are thousands of entertainers, politicians,  and news people scared to death during these times. 
• What a strange story: A female UNT story student was found shot in her car and she had crashed (presumably post shooting) in Corinth. I say "presumably" because no one knows what happened.
  
• Ms. LL and the Freshman In The House went to a DPS Megacenter yesterday morning. They were given #4099. They were serving #4035.  On a Monday. And they got there around 9:30. 
• One DPS office that needs serious upgrading is the one in Denton on the loop. It looks like a human ant bed with cars parked everywhere -- even on grass.
• 2017 continues to fight: Former Cowboys receiver Terry Glenn died in a car wreck in Irving. He was 43. 
• Update from yesterday: A newspaper has many of his text messages. What a perv. 
  
• A border patrol agent was killed in Van Horn (not exactly right on the border.) Some believe he was attacked. Some say he might have fallen.
• Yesterday Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a room of reporters to say what they're thankful for before asking her a question. It did not go well. Some refused. Others said the were thankful for the First Amendment. 
• And this is just a fraction of the new Texas attorneys. That's all the profession needs. 
  
• Judge Jeanine is law abiding. Who goes 119?
  
  
• I watched Arrival yesterday. Good stuff. 
• There is no way Philadelphia QB Carson Wentz did not receive a concussion on that play against Dallas. Not only was he hit in the head by a helmet, but when he went down and caught a knee to the head. Troy Aikman's most famous concussion came in an NFC Championship Game against the 49ers which was a knee to the head. 
  
• Mrs. LL watched Get Out last night. I watched about 15 minutes of it. It was weird, but I was lost as to the plot. But, man, it has made a fortune despite having a tiny budget to produce it. 

That's A Tough One

I am CRYING. The Weather Channel set up for a live shot of the Georgia Dome being imploded, and at the perfectly wrong time ... this happened (via @ajc): pic.twitter.com/LA0cXpC7oX

— Brett Taylor (@Brett_A_Taylor) November 20, 2017

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• This is a former Texas rep and former Bridgeport guy who, incidentally, I talked to in Brookshires during the summer:
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• I found Ivanka Trump's twitter account and it is shocking because all she does is try to sell crap. Then, over the weekend, she told us this is how we should decorate the Thanksgiving table. What am I looking at? 
  
• A very cursory glance at the Texas high school playoffs revealed that 24 teams (maybe more) scored at least 60 points. And and that does not include 6 man games. 
• There was an Intoxilyzer Manslaughter in Wise County where a man received 5 years (the range of punishment was probation to 20 years.) That's one year above the standard offer for DWI-Third or More when no one is hurt. 
• College football: (1) Tech had the worst field goal attempt ever, (2) OU's Baker Mayfield went nuts but he had more than one reason, (3) Coach Bro has no idea what he is doing at Tech. When they actually started running the ball against TCU, he reverts to the pass with a horrible QB, (4) Texas won at West Virginia but, make no mistake, the game was over when WVU's fantastic QB fumbled at the one inch line and left the game with a broken finger. OU plays WVU this week and that game just became a layup. They are a 23 point favorite. (5) LB Hager for Texas is a punk. He was ejected for targeting and, no, the grabbing of his facemask did not cause it. His attitude walking off the field was a disgrace to the 40 Acres. (6) Good for UNT. But they have to face Lane Kiffen and Art Briles' son in the conference championship game. (7) Hot opinion: Auburn beats Alabama. (8) That punt return by USC was the greatest punt returns in the history of punt returns. (9) UCLA fired Jim Mora? He was 46-30. And they fired him on his birthday. (9) The Dallas Morning News didn't realize TCU, as I predicted, rolled at Tech: 
  
• Sen. John Coryn is very upset that Trump hasn't authorized more dollars for Harvey victims. Man, that "no big federal government" is hard to figure out. 
• "Albertsons buys stake in Latino grocer El Rancho Supermercado with plans to open more stores." Just like if you know the future of Texas politics, Albertsons knows the future demographics of grocery buying. 
• Opening the home windows when a cold front blows through is one of life's greatest joys. Mrs. LL does not agree. 
• Oh, Alabama: 
  
• Told ya! Told ya! (And you guys thought I was crazy): 
  
• It is that time of year where Lexus runs ad where one spouse buys another a Lexus. I told Mrs. LL that I would (figuratively) kill her if she bought me a Lexus and put it in the driveway. She then said what a great bit it would have been just to find a friend who has one, borrow it, put a bow on it, and walk me out and say, "Merry Christmas, honey!"
• The great David Cassidy is in critical condition at the age of 67, When I was a kid, there were girls on my street that had his poster up in their rooms.And if you are around my age, if you don't have, "I think I love you. But what am I so afraid of?" stuck in your head all day, I invite you to go somewhere else for your blog reading. 
• Charles Manson is dead.
• This is insane. The guy had a court order ignition interlock device. Those things actually have "rolling tests" although I think the manufacturer/installers instruct drivers to pull off to the side of the road to blow into it. But I've always thought that was a horrible idea.
  
• Let's check in on China's Chief Warden's mental health: 
  
• And news from Ohio: "No Way!"
  
• I don't mean to be to hard on Alabama so often over Roy Moore. There are decent and good people there. Especially the staff at The Birmingham News: 
  

Above The Fold

Dear sweet and kind Messenger, please go back to your old online format.

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

 My week in a nutshell.

 Quality comedy, sir. Quality comedy.

 "Leave me alone. It took a lot of work to get in here. I'm napping."

 Double Fake Mrs. Greg Louganis

If this guy didn't say, "Hold my beer",
I don't know America any longer. 

Sweet Home, Alabama

Kayla Moore: Roy Moore is "fighting for life. Fighting against abortion. Fighting for the acknowledgment of God. Fighting for traditional marriage. And fighting to protect the Second Amendment." pic.twitter.com/3Xp9mKxHKQ

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 17, 2017

She left out the RIght to Troll Malls as an 32 year old assistant D.A. for teenage girls. I think that's in the Second Amendment, but I'll have to double check. That law stuff is really hard.

Dogs vs. Cats

Witness a hunter so poised, so deadly, that nothing can escape its merciless attack. pic.twitter.com/KxPlJ6ehYg

— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) November 15, 2017

what a big baby 😍 pic.twitter.com/wrrecfbTcz

— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) November 16, 2017

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• There apparently was a big time Democrat contributing Texas lawyer, Steven Mostyn, who passed away due to suicide. He was 46. He has a Wikipedia page and it is not flattering.  I had never heard of him. 
• This is an example of the stupid exchanges I have with Mrs. LL. Yesterday, she thought that we should get a French Bulldog. My reply:
  
  
• Odd trivia: In Talladega Nights, that line only appears in the DVD and cable versions. The released version in theaters had a line about raising Komodo dragons. Odd.
• Roy Moore is dumb. He doesn't understand what contitutes "evidence." And this guy is a lawyer and served on the Alabama Supreme Court until being removed against his will. Twice.
  
• I had the weirdest moment yesterday in the Wise County Courthouse. And it might be on security video. I'd tell you more about it, but I can't. Let me just say it ended up with torn up paperwork. 
• Minnesota might, and I stress "might", boot Al Fraken on this new scandal in the next election. They probably should. But I bet Alabama will elect Moore. The South is still the South. 
• The ending to Moore's press conference was gold when some woman got up to field questions, Moore walked off, and the woman ended it with her saying "I paid for this microphone" and "I appreciate you coming because you probably got more church than you have in the last ten years."  I think I'm going to make "Got More Church?" a bumper sticker in honor of the old, "Got Milk?" phrase.
• The only comfort I have that Trump has the nuclear codes is that there is no way he will be able to punch them in without screwing it up.
• This is bizarre: "Police in the Collin County city of Princeton have arrested four people in a murder-for-hire plot of a single mother stemming from a love triangle."
  
• It's been a hard year for The Family Unit and dogs. Yet, this made me laugh yesterday:
  
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• You know who benefits greatly from Trump's Tax Plan that passed in the House yesterday? Me. You know who wants it to fail in the Senate?  Me.
• The lady with the "[Expletive] Trump" sticker has been arrested. Luckily for the Sheriff, it was on unrelated charges. The DA's office told the Sheriff they wouldn't accept any charges for the sticker. 

  

  Obviously a Clear and Present Danger

• Look out: TCU's QB Kenny Hill will not be making the trip to Tech this weekend. And by "look out" I mean that I think TCU still rolls with a true freshman QB. #SportsGenius
• Johnson and Johnson is getting crushed with verdicts. That's the third one in Dallas and there are others across the country.
  
• Deion Sander's 29,000 square foot house in Prosper is up for auction. WFAA has a video of the inside. It's insane.

Watch A Da Vinci Painting Get Sold For $400 Million

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi painting just sold for $450 million at a New York auction! 💰‼️ pic.twitter.com/kA4EKhthjl

— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) November 16, 2017

After fees, the total cost was $450 million.

A Must Read

I don't care if you don't listen to The Ticket. This interview is indeed a must read for anyone over 40. No one makes me laugh and think everyday more that Gordon. But he talks about depression and the loss of his parents and how it has impacted him.

The line of "divested me of the immortality delusion" stopped me down. I understand.

A Friendly Reminder That My Nemesis, Wordkyle, Wrote A Book

Shameless self-promotion time: BLOOD DEBT was reviewed (kindly and generously) in the Nov-Dec issue of the MENSA Bulletin.

— Kyle Word (@kyleword) November 16, 2017

Link to the book. I don't have a link to the MENSA reviews. I don't think they would accept me.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Roy Moore's lawyer, who appears to be as dumb as Roy Moore, says that the signing of the year book of the 14 year old (who certainly appears to be a victim) is: "A forgery!" Worst. Lawyer. Ever. The signature is dead on. 
  
• Roy Moore is threatening to sue the New York Post. I pray that he does that. It would be like putting Trump under oath: A disaster.
• He references a teenage cheerleader movie? (Uh, "It's already been broughten!")
  
• Mrs. LL taught me a self defense technique the other night. I don't even know her anymore.
• I've started watching Ken Burn's Vietnam. I'm hooked.
• "Nope!":
  
  
• I had guy who was behind me in a check out line, with a heavy Australian accent, ask me, "Are you in line, mate?" I wanted to strike up a conversation but I didn't. I regret it.
• A guy in Flower Mound  thought about going after his wife's paramour.:
  
• Full disclosure: When I was DA, Mark Peterson was my investigator for sex crimes. One of our policies is that if he wanted to make an arrest, he would type up a Probable Cause affidavit  and bring it to me for review and we would talk about it before I approved, modified,  or rejected it. In one of them, he used the term "paramour." As a thirty-something year old, I looked at him and said, "What the hell is a 'paramour'?" I still remember him laughing.
• Helter Skelter, (electric guitar), Helter Skelter: 
  
• Sheriff, you might find it just as offensive as I do, but you are going to be sued. It's called Freedom of Speech.  Let me direct you to Cohen vs. California which was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1971.
  
• The goofy tweeting Texas Supreme Court judge quietly had his Senate hearing yesterday before he gets confirmed to the Fifth Circuit. He caught a little bit of heat, but there is nothing that can be done to stop his confirmation.
• What?
  
• He will probably get fired, but Fox New's Shepard Smith has debunked the Hillary "Uranium One" story.
• Too many cops? 
  
• Oh, Sean. This is WhatAboutism at its finest. 
  
• I don't know what to think about Trump's crazy search for water during his rambling speech yesterday. 
• I wrote this a couple of months ago. I was told, "Pets are great, but the downside is that they die before you do." There are few moments worse in your life than sitting on the ground after burying a pet, dirt on your jeans, dirt on your shirt, dirt on your face, sweat dripping off you, and crying. Godspeed, my friend.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• How much money does TCU have? 
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• The Texas lawyer I wrote about, who has become infamous in the Texas legal community, now represents the Proud Boys -- a group I can only describe as a non-violent watered down Klan of guys who couldn't beat up your average high school volleyball player. I learned yesterday he was up at the Wise County courthouse. He'll be back again on 12/11 for a hearing. I'll be there with my popcorn. 
• Stolen and modified from Richie Whitt: On Thanksgiving day in 2012 Robert Griffin III, Heisman winner and later Rookie of the Year,  shredded the Cowboys with 4 TDs. In the same month, Johnny Football lead the Aggies to an upset of Alabama. Five years later - poof - both gone from football. 
• Long time readers know I go crazy over news stories disguised as ads. Along those lines, Mrs. LL was watching Survivor the other night and one of the rewards was a meal from Outback Steakhouse. I certainly cocked an eyebrow. Then they show them eating and one guy says, "This meat is so tender it falls off the bone!" It is Idiocracy where everything is sponsored.
• Remember the Trump federal judicial nominee who has never tried a case or argued a motion, and didn’t disclose that he’s married to a White House lawyer? He spent a year as a paranormal investigator. You can’t make this stuff up.
• What?
  

  

  She looks familiar.

• The Dallas County ADA who was fired for going on a rant against an Uber driver thought it would be a good idea to make a public apology yesterday. It did not go well as she spent most of her time trying to defend her drunken actions. That lady is the perfect example of the worst kind of prosecutor. She brought down her wrath on defendants every day but when she screws up, she deflects blame. She deserves to be booted.
• And she said, "That is not who I am." Darlin', that's exactly who you are. We are all are what we are.
• Fishing news: "Twelve of the 18 lakes would revert to a 14-inch minimum size limit for bass. Those lakes are Granbury, Possum Kingdom, Ratcliff, Bryan, Cooper, Old Mount Pleasant, Bridgeport, Burke-Crenshaw, Georgetown, Madisonville, San Augustine and Sweetwater" Being known as Lake Bridgeport's Kayaking Jimmy Houston, this will impact me greatly.
• Look out! Sean Hannity has turned on Roy Moore by give him 24 hours to explain himself. (That's very Wild West sounding.)
• There appears to be a fraternity hazing death at Texas State. I have never understood hazing. Fraternities are as close to Neanderthal as we can get.
• Bridgeport backed down on its annexation plan. I'm surprised it took them that long. 
• Welp, I was robbed again. 
  
• It will be slow around here today. I'm burying another Family Dog. If 2017 isn't the worst year on record, I'm hard pressed to find a worse one. (And for those who know us, no, it is not the Yorkie.)
• Mrs. LL, who was crying last night, said, "If you die or Precious [the Yorkie] dies, I'd be devastated." I did the head-cocked-confused-look nod with the thought of, "I think that was sweet because she loves that dog."

Uh, We Have A Problem

May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI and Law Enforcement has arrived.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017

This was from last night. This is evidence of dementia.

And look out! He's up early this morning throwing a tantrum!

While in the Philippines I was forced to watch @CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad, and FAKE, it is. Loser!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017

I Love This Woman!

This is a hearing during a break in the Twin Peaks trial which ended in a mistrial. The prosecutors had met with a witness, learned that he had evidence favorable to the accused, and never disclosed it. People have gone to jail for less than that.

There's an old saying: "If you have the facts, pound the facts. If you don't have the facts, you pound the law. If you don't have the facts or the law, you pound the table." Watch what the dumbest DA's office in the State does.

Reyna is the DA. He is walking around because he is incompetent. The guy doing the talking is an ADA brought in from corrupt Williamson County. And I have some advice for the young, blonde ADA: Run.

How In The World Did That Truck Stop So Quickly?

The Dorsett McDonald's Is On Notice!

I FOUND IT I FOUND IT!  😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that pic.twitter.com/F9SwEALgA2

— BrothaMan Alex (@ThatGuyAlex89) November 12, 2017

We are doomed. [Language warning.]

I have some question as to whether this is real. Is that a wig? And she has good lower teeth which you wouldn't expect (but maybe a chipped upper one.)  And the camera panning down almost before she said the clerk looked her "up and down" gave me pause.

We've Got Nuclear Snark This Morning!