2.28.2018

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts



  • Saw an out-of-town lawyer just casually take a wad of hundreds from his client in the hallway of the courthouse yesterday. Hey, look, I understand having to be paid but can we at least do it in a dignified manner? 
  • Dr. Ben Carson, the head of HUD, had a $31,000 dining set put in his office. And HUD's budget is being cut. 
  • I had the chills all day yesterday, and it wasn't that cold out. That makes me a little nervous.
  • Delkus telling us how smart he is. 
  • Jared Kushner had his security clearance downgraded yesterday. Why does he have any type of clearance at all? 
  • Mrs. LL had recorded a Lifetime movie and was watching it last night. When did that channel start injecting cursing/shocking language? I mean, one line wouldn't have been uttered on Southpark. (And, no, I don't watch them very often or by choice.) 
  • The Denton County Sheriff was curiously doing a lot of grandstanding off the Parkland shooting yesterday proclaiming, "We do not take cover in a parking lot, and we do not wait for another agency. We go in and do our duty. We go in to engage and stop the shooter and save lives.” When is the last time DCSO had an "active shooter" situation like Parkland? (Not to mention that I bet most of Denton County is in the jurisdiction of local police departments and not the DCSO.)
  • There were headlines everywhere last night in DFW that the NFL had now ruled Dez Bryant's "no catch" against the Packers a couple of years back was actually a catch. That's not true. The NFL said the rule going forward should make it a catch but didn't say it was the wrong call at the time.
  • Getting past the meaning of "assault style weapons" look at this lede in the Dallas Morning News which, at first blush, looks like a pretty big announcement: "Dick's Sporting Goods, which has 10 stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, will immediately stop the sale of assault-style weapons, it announced Wednesday." OK. Then I noticed this later in the story: 
  • Hope Hicks appeared before the House Intelligence Committee but she didn't look worried. 
  • The Parkland kids in Florida go back to school today. That would be hard. 
  • The 22 Pound Cat In The House is acting weird.  He head butts dogs. And people. And doors. And he isn't gentle.




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2.27.2018

Lacrosse Mom To The Rescue

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Sir! They Are "Little People"!


More.
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Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts


  • I haven't been out to the Decatur Swap Meet in years but, due to weather, Friday and early Saturday had to have been horrible. That had to be nothing but mud. 
  • Cuban came across badly yesterday. For a staged press conference, his very limited role was horribly scripted. 
  • Car dealer Clay Cooley reminds me of Joel Osteen. And I trust Cooley more. 
  • Rangers TV broadcaster C.J. Nitkowski "liked" a Proud Boys post on Twitter and it might just cost him. (He has since deleted past tweets yet won't apologize.) I talked about that group a lot last year.  
  • He would have run into the Parkland school even if unarmed? He won't even take a raindrop for his kid. 
  • And he's really nervous again this morning: 
  • Flashback: 
  • President Obama said a cop "acted stupidly" and everyone went crazy. Trump calls a cop a "coward" and "disgusting" and we are all OK with it?
  • Lots of headlines say Carroll ISD has "settled" with ex-coach Hal Wasson. Well, if "settle" means that they paid him what they promised to pay him, I guess they are correct. 
  • Austin ISD has voted to eliminate all Confederate names on schools. 



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2.26.2018

Did I Say This Day Was Weird?




With the support of many N.F.L. owners, Commissioner Roger Goodell is prepared to escalate his public feud with Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys and long one of the most influential people in the league, by fining him millions of dollars for his efforts to derail negotiations to renew Goodell’s contract and for his outspoken defense of a star player who was suspended, according to five league officials with direct knowledge of the situation.
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This Is A Weird Day And It Is Not Even Noon


Edit:


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29 Years Ago



The same amount of time that the Cowboys were in existence.
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Random Monday Morning Thoughts



  • That was some incredibly thick fog this morning. 
  • Fox 4 did a segment on the Bridgeport's "off road" park. 
  • There is a growing number of companies boycotting the NRA mostly in the travel industry. How many of their members fly or rent cars?
  • Trump went off the rails at CPAC and his "Snake" poem about, as he said, immigration was maybe the most racist thing I've ever heard from a president of the U.S. 
  • Jessie Ventura, who has said some crazy things, did say something one time that makes perfect sense: You have to be twenty-one to buy a beer, sixteen to drive, and eighteen to die on the battlefield. He didn't care what age we picked, but let's make it consistent across the board. 
  • Mueller, the special counsel, got another guilty plea on Friday from a guy close to Trump for connections with the Ukraine. He does all of this on Friday to keep out of the news cycle as much as possible. I'll say it again: Tell your kids they are watching Watergate x 10. It's coming. 
  • Last week a fifteen year old Russian won a gold medal in figure skating. I thought about asking the Freshman In The House, "See what you could do?" but I'm afraid she would come back with, "You're a lot older, tell me about your gold medals."
  • Everyone dogs me for my "commercial disguised as content" stance, but I'll never give it up. My favorite radio station, The Ticket, over the last week has dedicated multiple segments to Black Panther where every member of the show (hosts and producer) went to see it -- and those guys never go to movies. And on Friday night, NBC Nightly News had a segment on a USA Network show about the deaths of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. I looked it up: The USA Network is an NBC property. 
  • Since Sheriff Clarke is no longer a sheriff and can no longer show up with a hat and medals, Fox News has found a new one. 
  • I finally have a car with remote start. Greatest. Invention. Ever. 
  • When the news broke of the home that exploded in Dallas on Friday one station gave the exact address. When I googled it, its value came up and it was close to $300,000. (It's close to some high tone properties.)
  • This was the dumbest editorial I have read in a long time. There's a law against student-teacher sex and an equivalent law about law enforcement-inmate sex. You simply can't do it. It's not a "loophole" at all. The penalties for non-consensual contact are harsher. 
  • The Texas political ads are insane. It's Republican on Republican carnage. 
  • I've got all the Waco episodes recorded. The more I watch it, the more infuriating it makes me. The whole thing from beginning to end was a cluster. (The Dallas Morning News put this on the front page yesterday.)
  • Mrs. LL has bronchitis and it is not pleasant. (But I did laugh when she took a swig of cough syrup this morning and proclaimed, "This is good stuff!")


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2.24.2018

Oh, The Irony


This is the guy running against Craig Estes. I'm no fan of either. But Fallon is a dangerous far right wing nutcase.

His above post demonstrates he hasn't been to a movie house that serves dinner and drinks lately. Heck, maybe even a regular movie house in Frisco lately.

From the Wichita Falls Times Record News:

“I’m not going to apologize for having a little bit of success.”

 The three-term representative for Frisco is giving up his House seat as of Dec. 31, 2018, to challenge against Estes. Fallon had about $1.4 million on hand to bludgeon all comers when he filed his Jan. 15 report with the Texas Ethics Commission. He has loaned his campaign $1.8 million.

 And since we are talking about money: "State legislators in Texas make $600 per month, or $7,200 per year, plus a per diem of $190 for every day the Legislature is in session (also including any special sessions). That adds up to $33,800 a year for a regular session (140 days), with the total pay for a two-year term being $41,000." 

 That is, obviously, $20,500 per year.

So what's the return on investment (comparing how much a movie house makes on a Coke) for being a run of the mill Texas senator?
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Above The Fold


Full page PDF.
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2.23.2018

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

Getting past that was a sorry thing to do, why use your foot instead of just your hand?
I do that same walk every morning on the stairs after I get up due to old age. 
I expected a split trampoline and a broken back. 
Even against a kid, that's David Copperfield stuff. 
That little kid! And the Keystone Cops women!
Smartest kid on the court. 
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Random Friday Morning Thoughts


  • A house blew up in Dallas this morning.
  • Greg Abbott approving clemency for a guy set to die was surprising to me. The fact that he announced the decision less than an hour before the government was going to kill the guy was not. 
  • The Canadian hockey player is catching heat for removing the Silver Medal seconds after it was placed around her neck. I don't have any problem with that, and at least one of America's greatest athletes would agree with me. 
  • The ice on the trees in Wise County is/was amazing, but branches were snapping left and right. And while I was driving in Decatur yesterday I found myself dodging long lines of ice dropping from power lines (and Decatur has a ton of above ground power lines.)  
  • "Kaufman County investigators searched the offices of a defense attorney for video evidence in the sexual assault investigation involving boys on the Forney High School soccer team." Say what? 
  • This is cool: 
  • The school resource officer, Scot Peterson, who did nothing during the Parkland shooting, must not have heard of the "they run towards the danger" slogan.
  • And that guy only has one t in his first name, but when I heard it yesterday I just thought about this man: 
  • Ivanka has arrived at the Winter Olympics (but she brought along Sarah Huckabee Sanders so we can't rule out an international incident to be forthcoming.)
  • Breaking: 
  • For some reason I watched A Football Life on Eddie George last night.  The number of blows to the head he took was staggering. Today, flags and fines would be flying. (Side note: Do I have correct subject-verb agreement in that second sentence?)
  • More bad news for the Mavericks: Dennis Smith, Jr. is named by the FBI in their probe of "corruption and bribery" in NCAA basketball. So is a current player for the University of Texas. (More shocking to me is that the FBI "intercepted" 4,000 calls in less than a year.)

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2.22.2018

The NRA Is At CPAC And They Are Angry

I think this is in Deuteronomy:



This lady got roasted last night in the town hall at the arena I referenced earlier.





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Google Has Fixed The Comment Section


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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



  • PSA: Trump's mistress, Stormy Daniels, is coming to Fort Worth. This PSA, of course, does not encourage you to visit that establishment on that date:
  • Man, it was cold yesterday. And I don't need to remind you I'm The Hardest Working Man In Show Business.
  • "Please be advised that the Needville ISD will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness!!" Superintendent Curtis Rhodes said. Does the school district not have a lawyer? What if a group of kids want to have a moment of silence during lunch? What if one guy wants to walk through the hallway with his fist up? What if three friends come dressed in all black? 
  • Since Texas has passed "open carry" I have never seen someone open carry.
  • The Trump "Listening Session" was very suspicious.  Did you know no one wanted to talk about guns? The students and parents didn't even mention it other than a "guns aren't the issue" reference. What a coincidence! This Administration, for however long it lasts, will always be selling snake oil. That was a staged PR stunt. And . . . 
    He had to have a note which said, "I hear you."
  • Flashback: 
     
  • Trump supported arming teachers yesterday during the Listening Session. That would be as dangerous as me walking around with a gun at the courthouse. And let's do another Flashback: 

  • DPS has purchased 17 drones. One cost $48,000.
  • Hey, local school districts, our Governor has solved the school shooting crisis. You guys get right on that, OK? (Side note: He "orders" it?)
  • Mark Cuban's defense of not firing Earl K. Sneed (who I had never heard of until yesterday) is ridiculous. He screwed himself yesterday giving that interview to ESPN.
  • Before the Cowboys ever played at old Texas Stadium, Billy Graham had a crusade there. I was in attendance.
  • I'm stunned that one of the new allegations in the lawsuit by a former player does not include Patterson sending Trevone Boykin back into the game after taking a cheap shot to the head by Baylor's Ahmad Dixon in 2013. Boykin lasted just a couple of plays and was clearly suffering from a concussion. I've heard horrible things about Patterson for years. 
  • One of the craziest things I have ever seen was a "town hall" (held in an arena) on CNN last night concerning the school shooting in Florida. Sen. Marco Rubio took a beating which even I found uncomfortable. That crowd was openly hostile. (And Rubio, in defense of taking donations from the NRA, saying, "People buy into my agenda" was tone deaf.)
  • When the sleet and icy roads hit Wise County around noon yesterday, there were a few school superintendents who had to have been freaking out about not closing their schools from the start. (In their defense, the weather forecasts did not not predict it. Thanks, Delkus.)

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2.21.2018

Mark Cuban Is Having A Very Bad 24 Hours




Translated: It cost him over a half million for saying it was in the team's best interest to tank the rest of the season.

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Firing It Up


We've got some pretty heavy sleet at 11:30 in Decatur.

Edit: Well, that escalated quickly.  For those on 287 or 380, stay out of the ditch.





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