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I'm Old Enough To Remember This

ICYMI, footage of the absolutely wild slide attached to the Oil Derrick Observation Tower at Six Flags Over Texas. WFAA. May 24, 1969. https://t.co/rZRgfIfssi

— SMU Jones Film (@SMUJonesFilm) March 18, 2018

And you would catch air. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Another bomb went off in Austin.  That's number four.
• This is the first time since 1980 that the state of Texas has had two teams in the Sweet 16. Tech and Aggie are in. 
• Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe was fired late Friday night. To make matters worse, McCabe learned about it 9 minutes before the media did. He was a few days short of getting his pension. 
• And Trump had this planned. Look what he said in December. 
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•  But McCabe, like any smart person, wrote memos after every time he met with Trump. Now he has turned them over to Mueller. And Trump doesn't understand how memos to the file work. I do that maybe 50 times every single day.
  

  
• This is a screenshot from Fox News that is not photoshopped. Idiocracy.
  
• I find this story weird. Deputy Manosuhagian, who was head of K-9 department for the Wise County Sheriff's office, is leaving to go to Lake Worth. (Stolen from the Messenger.)
  
• Mrs. LL and I went to a place I visited almost 30 years ago: A little known cemetery in Wise County, East Mound, where most of the headstones, old and aging, tell you the birth of that person was in the 1800s.
• This place in Fort Worth was demolished on Sunday. It used to be a hipster place. And quite the history: "On Nov. 15, 1963, a week before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Casa del Sol also took a two-minute phone call from Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, according to the Warren Commission report." It was in the medical district south of 30.
  
• For the first time ever, a sixteen seed beat a number one seed. That was UMBC (Google it). Look what happened to them earlier in the year.
  
  
• Kids, this is what is called "consciousness of guilt". He is scared. He's in full scale panic mode.
  
• "Hundreds of volunteers helped create a realistic mass casualty drill in Downtown Dallas Sunday morning. Violence wasn’t the focus of the training, instead the exercise focused on how first responders react to injuries and death." Uh, this was weird.
  
• That's her?
  
• I saw either and oil rig or natural gas rig off 287 this morning. It's been a few years since one has appeared on the horizon.

Sunday Update

It Is St. Patrick's Day And That Means . . .

The Leader Board As Of Saturday Morning

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Above The Fold

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

 Every new lawyer. They never see it coming.

 America.

 #MeToo

If I had a son, he would look like this.

When your dad is a jerk.

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Black Hawk Down. Seven service men are dead in a helicopter crash in Iraq. There is no evidence of hostile fire. This happens way too often. 
• Another one? He fired someone he affectionately called "Mad Dog!" Trump is unhinged. Edit: I screwed up the Mad Dog part.
  
• The Southlake Police Department does bits by telling people where they will be. (They probably won't be there.)
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• My radar went off when I saw this story. Something doesn't seem right. I'm still not sure what is going on. 
  
• Someone needs to find out whatever happened to Honey Boo Boo. 
• Junior has been acting weird lately. His wife seems to have noticed that, too. He is a pretentious, privileged jerk, and his wife is willing to walk away despite the fact he is the son of the President. Perhaps she knows more than we do?
  
• Always remember: He smirked as the held up an elephant's trunk while holding a knife: 
  
• I should start doing a Liberally Lean flashback bullet point. Example: 
  
• After Trump's economic adviser quit over the tariffs, he hired a guy from CNBC. This will certainty go well:
  
• Many people ask me if Mrs. LL gets mad about me posting the Random Thought Girls. The answer is never. She understands my concept of "They come for the picture but might just read what I write." 
• A bridge collapse kills six in Florida.

The Trump Family

How is this not the movie poster for a B-list screwball comedy pic.twitter.com/lPzqzBU0o4

— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) March 14, 2018

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Have I said I'm going to retire to the jungle in Costa Rica?
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• There is a commercial on The Ticket which begins with references to your destiny. Paraphrasing: "How do you want to be remembered? A good guy? A good friend?" And then it goes on to tell you that's not enough. That you need to be "King of the Hill": Let me tell you something, the first part is enough. 
• From the Update this morning which updates us all on Wise County news: "TRAILER FALLS ON MAN – A man was flown to Medical City Denton from the intersection of Farm Road 407 and Martindale Lane in New Fairview after a double-wide mobile home fell on him Wednesday morning."
• Question for the masses: Do these things work better than a mop? I'm on a floor cleaning mission.
  
• A navy jet crashes off of Key West and kills two. (This happens so often.)  Fox News immediately blames Obama.
  

• I was piddling in the driveway yesterday and a childhood friend stopped, got out of his truck, hugged me, and we talked. 
• I've read the United Airlines story of the dog dying. I'd get off the plane and raise holy hell before I put my dog in the bin. 
• Your last chance last chance to enter the $20,000 Liberally Lean Tourney.

I'm Insane Now

A drag queen dressed as Elsa just single-handedly freed a stuck police wagon from a blizzard in the middle of March. If that sentence doesn't perfectly encapsulate the spirit of Boston, I don't know what does.

Video credit: Christopher Haynes pic.twitter.com/6IiXVWFVvw

— Sarah McGonagall (@sarahmcgbeauty) March 14, 2018

Credit to the guy who yells out: "Let it go!"

"And Mexico Is Going To Pay For It!"

“According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the $18 billion wall will pay for itself by curbing the importation of crime, drugs and illegal immigrants who tend to go on the federal dole...” https://t.co/NdLC6jZwWE

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2018

First them. Then us. And now it will pay for itself.

What a con man.

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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Stephen Hawking has died. A Texas legislature member sent his thoughts and prayers in Christian love:
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• Man, that was a close race for Congress in Pennsylvania last night but, barring a recount, a Democrat has won. And that's in a district where Trump won by 20 points and where he traveled to campaign for him. The Day of Reckoning is coming. Fast. 
  
• Chico now has a curfew for those under 16 years old from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.  For the life of me, I've never understood the constitutionality of government imposed curfews. It is the ultimate Nanny State.
• Well done, New York Post. Well done.  I love call back jokes.
  
  
  
  
• The family of one of the guys killed in the helicopter crash in the East River has filed a lawsuit. Uh, you want to mourn and bury the guy first? 
• The Bradford Pear has two weeks of glory.
• Trump deleted this yesterday after someone pointed out the typo. (By the way, Mueller was a marine.)
  
• Random book-in photo:
  
• The Dallas Morning News picks up on a topic I've been preaching for years. The guy is an embarrassment.
  
• An Alabama Sheriff thinks it's OK to pocket $750,000 in grants for inmate food in a personal account and go off and buy a second house for $740,000. 

  

  "Give me a Diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it quick."

• Trump wants a "Space Force . . . ’cause we’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space." Who is advising him? Trey Parker?
• I mocked the Redskins for taking Kirk Cousins in the same draft has RG3.  Cousins is expected to sign a three year fully guaranteed  contract with the Vikings for $84 million.  The last two years he has earned $20 million and $24 million from the Redskins when they put the franchise tag on him. And he is an average quarterback.
• Funny moment a couple of days ago when Mrs. LL and I were driving through Decatur and see a guy on a bicycle on the shoulder. of the road. I say to her, "You. On the bicycle. Tonight only. The Blues Brothers." She laughed out loud and said, "I cannot believe I understood that and laughed at it."
• Yesterday we learned our governor opposed the "bathroom bill" but was too much of a coward to say it publicly.
• Time is running out for the Liberally Lean Pick 'Em Tourney. (Mrs. LL yelled at me about the $20,000 prize, but I explained it was impossible for anyone to correctly guess every single game. She looked at me with a "It'll probably happen to you" face.)

This Is Wild

The guy grabs a pen and goes after the witness and ends up being killed by bailiff/federal marshal. Both the defendant and the witness were gang members. This occurred in federal court in 2014, but the video was ordered released yesterday.

An original news story about the incident and the defendant's background is here.

If There Is Any Doubt Wise County Is Red

This is a pic a took of a fairly small magazine rack at an unnamed grocery store. I went up to it a few months ago looking for a football magazine and nothing sports related could be found. But if you have an interest in guns, that place is the mother-lode.

And what is not in the picture is the slew of magazines in the Doomsday Prepper genre.