Pigskin Amber Alert: Defenses Reported Missing

Alvord 48 Chico 6

Vernon 14 Bridgeport 55

Jacksboro 21 Boyd 14

Decatur 47 Burkburnett 61

Fossil Ridge 17 Northwest 28

Paradise 48 Millsap 13

Edit: But Bridgeport won't be moving up in the AP Poll.

Anybody Else See This?

From an email: Wanted you to know that I just saw three fighter jets escorting a LARGE jet over Bridgeport (2:00pm)! I couldn't make out what kind of jet it was (Commercial, gov't, etc.), just knew that they had him surrounded. They came from the Northwest and heading towards DFW.

And Another

Link.

Always Trust Bu-Bear*

Thanks to Prawn for pointing out that we have a little liar on our hands. And the fact that she used a "black man" as the fictitious villain tells us all we need to know about her. But I'm proud I sniffed this one out from the beginning. And always remember that Matt Drudge headline. ________________ *Bu-Bear: That's my eBay name that I revealed one time when I sold an ad on this silly blog. It's code for Baylor University Bear but some on here interpreted it to have more of a lovable "Boo Bear" meaning. That's why you'll see the reference on here every now and then.

The Only Thing . . .

. . . that I find more boring than baseball is hockey. But I am a fan of chaos and anytime a grown man can knock another man through the equivalent of a plate glass window, I'm all for it. If they would play the game with two workman actually carrying a plate glass windows back and forth across the ice, I'd get an NHL tattoo. Happened last night.

I've Got To Go Buy A Car!!!!

Frank Kent in Fort Worth is throwing away money: As I write this, a share of GM stock is worth $5.33 a share (down from it's annual high of $87.00 a few years back. And if you think it's a good deal to buy GM right now, just go buy 250 shares and keep your car.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• Man, the Palin/McCain/Bush skit on Saturday Night Live last night was funny. (Will Farrell came back to play Bush.) Link here. Watch it.
• And it was even funnier because I flipped over from the Sean Hannity lovefest with Palin on Fox News to see it. I can't tell Fey and Palin apart.
• Southern Baptist official compares birth control to murder. Is it OK that I refuse to believe that everything coming out of a pastor's mouth is directly from God?
• Man, I feel sorry for the Dallas officer that struck the 11 year old while the kid was on a bike (in the middle of the road, unsupervised, at night). But the local TV stations had a tough decision as to whether to show the dash cam footage from the patrol car. Fox 4 put the footage on its website early in the evening. I watched Channel 5 later that night which decided to edit the tape so as to not show the collision. But Fox 4 decided to run the whole footage, unedited, on TV -- even this morning during breakfast burrito time. I bet they catch a lot of flak for that.
• Sometimes I wake up a night, get a weird feeling, and lock the bedroom door.
• I posted my world wide exclusive story of Miss Teen Louisiana getting arrested for walking a dinner bill and for weed earlier this week. We now have the mugshot.
• There's a couple of bales of hay and pumpkins on display by the stop signs on the Decatur square. No one ever jacks with them.
• I'll admit, most political nutcases tend to be on the left. But, man, this Obama thing has brought out the certifiable loonies on the right.
• I'm hypothetically involved in holding the proceeds of a hypothetical friendly wager that some of you might be aware of. But, hypothetically, I'm not involved since I don't know what's in the envelope.
• Hot sports opinion: Texas Tech loses for the first time this weekend.
• I'm suspicious of anyone who always talks about how "wonderful" their life is. Come on, we all know its a beating.
• It's too early to turn the home heater on.
• Holy crap: Just saw a headline that said the "Dow futures drop 550, triggering selling freeze." The market opens at 8:30 a.m. local time.
• I haven't been to Angelo's in Fort Worth in years.
• An ATF agent shot and killed someone yesterday in Arlington. Somehow I picture a guy all dressed up in his fancy federal uniform that we bought him just waiting for the opportunity to shoot someone with the fancy gun that we bought him. The dead guy, thus far, does not appear to be related to the reason for the raid (drugs!!!!!!) of the Arlington apartment. Is there such a shortage of local police that we have to get the feds involved?
• I heard the oddly named but great 1980s song "Big Country" by, uh, Big Country yesterday. Love that thing.
• In the paper today: The Superintendent of Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD got arrested for DWI a couple of months back. That misdemeanor charge will jeopardize her $285,000 a year job.
• As a follow up to the Sexy Prosecutor Halloween costume, I've also discovered the Sexy Criminal Defense Lawyer and Sexy Judge. Hey, now.
• My hair is getting long. I thought it was Brad Pitt in the mirror this morning.

Drudge Fear Mongering Again

He quickly toned down the headline and linked to the story. And that story indicates: - She was robbed at a bank - She had a McCain bumper sticker on her car but no where does it say she was a volunteer - She refused medical attention. (Edit: This new story calls her a McCain "staffer" but she's also a 20 year old Texan.) "Developing" indeed. I want to see a picture of the "mutilated" girl. Edit: Thanks to wordkyle, I found her picture which mysteriously is on some blog and not on some news web site. The comments there are interesting. Something isn't right. Edit #2: Thanks to bagofnothing.com, here's her Twitter feed. Edit #3: And a right wing columnist smells a rat. Edit #4: After 12 hours of thinking about it, I'm betting this girl is lying.

The State Is Really Ready

This is the greatest idea ever. Not only is it great for Halloween, it would be perfect outfit for a real prosecutor. Negotiations would become incredibly one sided, something like this: Sexy Prosecutor: I've looked at the file and the proof that your client committed the misdemeanor offense is very slight. I don't have a good case. Me: Okay. Sexy Prosecutor: But, I'll offer a plea bargain of exactly what that pedophile got last week - four life sentences. Me: Okay. Sexy Prosecutor: Stacked. Me: Okay. We'll do it. Do you like Chinese food?

More Proof Baseball Is Dead

If you were to randomly pick 20 homes last night in DFW and walk in and see what was on their television invention, only one of them would have been tuned to the World Series. Really.

Since It Has Come Up

Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.

Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.

Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.

Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.

Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath.

Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.

Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.

Jazzing Decatur 76234

I've always been a fan of Jennie Garth. And she is looking Happy Good these days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Bridgeport apparently suffered a traffic jam yesterday morning when two huge pieces of oilfield equipment had to be moved through the town.
• WBAP's Mark Davis sunk to a new low yesterday when he had some nutcase lawyer on who was ranting about how Obama didn't legally qualify to be a nominee for president. Davis was really impressed by his guest's credentials of being a former "deputy attorney general" of some state. Sheesh. That's a spare government job which probably involved looking at open records requests.
• I like pulling into a parking slot to see the one in front of me open as well. I'll move forward and park in it so I won't have to back up when I leave. I'm a bad backer.
• The "more cowbell" bit is still funny.
• The Wise County Courthouse is a beautiful place but ridiculously crowded on the inside. Trying to find any room to have a private conversation is next to impossible.
• Recently deceased NBC political guy Tim Russert would be having so much fun right now.
• "One features a smiling little girl in a tiara with the message: 'One day my husband will kill me.'" -- Dallas Morning News story describing advertisement on Dallas buses.
• On Saturday morning, the Star Telegram used to carry at least a blurb about every Wise County High School football game. Now not a peep. And the Dallas Morning News doesn't acknowledge any Wise County team.
• When I was jogging yesterday I came across a guy that looked exactly like John Kerry. Not kind of like John Kerry, exactly like John Kerry.
• Every time I turn on The Ticket, the chance of hearing a commercial is greater than 60%. Radio had better figure that problem out. It's beginning to irritate me.
• And for about 200 yards during yesterday's jog there was this little kid on a bike who rode about four feet behind me and wouldn't pass. Little stalker. And when he did pass he looked at me like he was a kid right out of The Shining.
• How hard is it to move overhead power lines underground? Nothing makes a place uglier than overhead power lines.
• A guy yells at Wade Phillips. I don't think there is anyone in this world more opposite of me than him (the yeller.)
• I like voting on election day even if it means standing in line.
• A salesman came to my door the other day and I simply said "No" before he finished his first sentence and shut the door. It was probably rude, but I didn't feel badly at all.
• "This is a song I wrote about that special someone who throws a football really good." - Jessica Simpson before singing a song at the State Fair last week.
• I'm disturbed by the sin of gluttony more than the others.

At 11:41

Rain begins to fall. Sky darkens causing outside lights to come on. Cool breeze. So I was less than 10 minutes off. Pete Delkus, I'm coming for your job. Edit: It's one day later and I finally saw that the photo is really screwed up. How odd. I sent it directly from my phone to here.

Speaking Of Nobel Prize For Physics

From the Update: Am I missing something here? Water is going from Lake Bridgeport to Lake Texhoma [sic]? Isn't that what they call "uphill". Edit: That "before" word is a bit tricky, but I guess that makes sense. Perhaps better: "Star-Telegram reports today that the 60-mile pipeline would pick up water from the Beaver Creek drainage basin and transport it to Lake Bridgeport thereby diverting the water from Lake Texoma."

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Viral video of the day: Sarah Palin says a VP is in "charge of the U.S. Senate." That lady now officially wears me out.
• And things are going too well for her as stories break of $150,000 makeover by the RNC and her perhaps improperly billing the State of Alaska for the travel of her children. Let's go ask Joe the Plumber or Joe Six Pack how they feel about that.
• Sometimes I pretend 18 wheelers are living creatures (I think that was the premise of an old Steven King novel.)
• Everyone complains about doing laundry. Laundry is easy. Throw it in the washer. Throw it in the dryer. Put it up.
• Tony Romo won't play again this week. Cowboys, as a whole, probably won't either.
• Cowboy Roy Williams, who broke his arm again last week and is out for the season, is supposed to receive a $6.6 million bonus next year. Go ahead and strike him off the 2009 roster.
• I get claustrophobia driving through Lake Worth on Jacksboro Highway.
• In case you missed it, Jarhead voted anti-Wise County yesterday.
• What an awful wreck on 51 yesterday afternoon. The Messenger has a full page picture of it on page 1, above the fold, this morning.
• I've learned my nephew is now an intern/yuck monkey on ESPN radio in Waco. That job sounds better than mine.
• Gas prices are ridiculously high in Wise County when compared to the metroplex. I think, on average, they run 30 cents a gallon higher.
• I'm not sure why the right wingers got so bent out of shape over Obama's "spread the wealth" comment. That is exactly what our progressive tax system does: Take more from those who earn more and then spread it out to others. That's not exactly ground breaking news.
• When I'm at home alone, I'll swear I see people out of the corner of my eye every now and then. It used to startle me. Now I'm used to it.
• Most confusing story: An elderly lady suffering from Alzheimers wanders away from DFW Airport in 2001. They now believe her remains have been found near the Lewisville damn. Oddities: (1) Her bones were actually found a year ago but the connection is just now announced, (2) the connection was due to her personal effects being found this month around the same place - that's our scientific proof?, and (3) assuming she walked that far (and all indications are that she did) can you imagine how many people drive past her as she moved north of the airport?
• The NBA is in preseason and I'm already bored by it.
• I'll probably go stand out in the parking lot when the cold front blows through.
• DA candidate Clint Phillips seems like a nice guy, but no one can win as a write in candidate. I said the other day that I didn't think Greg Lowery, who is expected to win in a landslide, would get more than 5% of the vote if voters had to remember to write in his name.
• It's weird that "humans" include both a Nobel prize winner for physics and someone you'll see get confused at the Walmart checkout stand today.

Fire Trucks Collide In St. Louis

They were actually responding to the same fire. (As seen on Fox 4 ..........News tonight.)

Wreck

Getting reports of a bad one on 51 north of Decatur near Slidell.