Wise County Beggar Spotting

From Hurst.

(Thanks S & S)

Girl's Fighting At The Ticket's Fight Night Taking You Into The Weekend

More.

Sundance Square Partying: You're Doing It Wrong

Stripper Follows Customer Who Rejected Her Home

Story out of Houston.  A different news outlet is using a different mug shot:

And a girl with the same name and same approximate age was arrested in Fort Worth in 2007. This her?

When He Goes, He Goes Large

Link.

Did We Ever Hear About This?

Rest of story.  He was convicted of being involved in shooting four people in the back of the head while in Iraq.

He even has a Wikipedia page.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The doberman is huge. I mean huge.  But is as lovable as the day is long.
• The Family Pup, however, is not impressed.
• The Ticket had an amateur "Fight Night" last night in Dallas and one of the participants was Gabriel Thrasher of Decatur. He identified himself as 31 years old and a former linebacker from Midwestern State. He also won his fight.
• Got approached by a hard working Bridgeport Tea Party guy yesterday while on the courthouse square. Man, some of you guys hatred of the President reaches an unhealthy level.
• You'll see lots of headlines this morning that Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles. Not true. Some doping agency has made that pronouncement but they don't speak for the Tour.
• First we had the Navy SEAL who tried to make a buck with the book "American Sniper" and now we've got one ghost writing an unauthorized account of the killing of Bin Laden.
• I never hear anyone talk about it, but the Smithsonian Channel is fantastic.
• C.J. Wilson got rocked again last night.  He has not obtained a win in his last eleven starts.
• Fuzzy's had a line a half a block long the other day at 11:30 a.m.  I'm not waiting that long for any food anywhere.
• TCU Cheerleaders.
• As I press the "publish" button, there is breaking news of multiple people shot at the Empire State Building. 

Rick Perry With That Crazy Lubbock County Judge

"$14.5M settlement reached in family's Louisville Slugger lawsuit"

In a case that heightened awareness of the risks of youth sports, a Wayne, New Jersey family whose son was left brain damaged after being hit in the chest by a line drive during a Little League baseball game in 2006 accepted a $14.5 million settlement Wednesday from an aluminum bat maker. More

Hey, you personal injury lawyers out there, explain this one to me. If the story is correct, there was no allegation that the aluminum bat was defective -- just that it was, well, aluminum and, therefore, the ball flew off of it faster than a wooden bat.  No one disputes that.  So just why would the bat manufacturer settle?

The Doberman Has Arrived

Mrs. LL sends in this pic. I think she's trapped in a corner.

Movie Talk

Stumbled across this while looking into the numbers behind the Obama movie mentioned in Random Thoughts. Man, this is a box office bonanza of a year for blockbuster movies. Compare 2012 (which still has a 1/3 to go) with 2011. Ka-ching.

2011:

2012:

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• I wonder how many college kids don't take a TV to school? With online streaming, I bet that number has decreased dramatically over the last few years.
• Mark Cuban has been making the talk show rounds trying to do damage control for a bungled free agency season. That man is a snake oil salesman.
• Mrs. LL told me that I uttered, "Just walking back towards stupid" in my sleep last night. I might trademark that.
• Those planes carrying the West Nile Virus anti-fog don't look like they are capable of carrying anything. 
• Robin Roberts on Good Morning America reminisced about chasing the mosquito spraying trucks as a kid.  I didn't know it was such widespread fun. 
• Mrs. LL informs me we are babysitting two dogs for two days. One's a doberman? Are there small dobermans? 
• A hurricane might move through Tampa at the same time as the Republican National Convention? Might actually get bigger ratings.
• Back during the primaries, I ran by CSPAN which would provide obscure campaign coverage. I bet I spent thirty minutes watching Mitt Romney's wife arrive, shake hands, speak, and leave from a diner in New Hampshire. There might have been twenty people there. She has to beaten down so bad right about now. That's a long campaign. 
• Richie Whitt tells the story that at Cowboys camp last week he and buddies went to Malibu beach, opened up a beer, and promptly got a $50 ticket for an open container violation.
• Been hearing lots of commercials for the  "Obama's America 2016" movie on that conservative/religious 660 AM station. Is there anyone who would go see that movie who wouldn't love it? They're predisposed to love it.
• 20/20 is doing a story on the Kennedale teacher who was convicted last week. The Tarrant County DA's office, who will sacrifice everything for publicity, tweeted a picture yesterday of the 20/20 correspondent viewing the sex tape. 
• Am I sensing a "We Are Getting Nervous About The Election" feeling from the Right?
• I'm nervous about SMU v. Baylor one week from Sunday because former Evil Empire quarterback Garrett Gilbert is now starting for the Mustangs. (Gilbert, who left school after a dismal sophomore season, was once on the cover of a Longhorn preseason magazine with the title "The Next Great Texas Quarterback.")
• Love the picture below the crazy judge below . . . 

This May Be No Big Deal

BREAKING: Man locked himself in cockpit of an American Eagle jet in Baton Rouge. Plane is empty. Was originally bound for @dfwairport.
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) August 22, 2012

But if he knows how to fly that thing, it sure will get interesting. (Although I suppose security at Baton Rouge is adequate to keep it from getting off the ground. I suppose.)

What that type of plane looks like:

Breaking (At Least To Me): Wise County Messenger Changing Hands

At least I know Roy Eaton is back in charge after a five year absence, and Phil Major is no longer "President and Publisher."  I suppose other changes are coming but I'm not sure what.

Comments: Be nice.

Shoutout To The Cop

You guys want to know something crazy? You can carry a semi-automatic rifle around on the street with you in Texas. Yep, right down a sidewalk. I was talking to an assistant DA in Wise County about this just the other day. Most people don't know that (and I think I'm glad most people don't know this.)

This guy in the video with the gun has taken a crash course in criminal law because he is firing out all sorts of buzzwards: "encounter", "detention", "Terry v. Ohio", and "article 1, section 9" (the last one which is the Texas constitution's equivalent of the Fourth Amendment.")  He's looking for a fight - or, more accurately, a cop screwup, but he knows his rights.

But the cop did a fantastic job here. The rules are this: If he has a reasonable suspicion that some type of criminal activity is ongoing, the cop can "detain" him to further investigate.  The cop's basis was that the weapon the guy on the street had might be fully automatic.  Once he determined it was a semi-automatic, he did the only thing he could do: Hand the rifle back to the kid.

I'm sure being recorded may have greatly influenced how the officer handle the guy on the street, but it was textbook.  And I didn't think such a thing ever happened.

Lubbock County Judge To Personally Fight Obama United Nations Troops!

Judge Tom Head:

[Obama] is going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the UN. Okay, what’s going to happen when that happens? I’m thinking worst case scenario here.Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. We’re not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations. We’re talking Lexington-Concord take up arms and get rid of the guy.

Now what’s going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He’s going to send in U.N. troops — with the little blue beanies. I don’t want ‘em in Lubbock County. Okay. So I’m going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say ‘you’re not coming in here’. “And the sheriff, I’ve already asked him, I said ‘you gonna back me’ he said, ‘yeah, I’ll back you.’”

Man, that's a whole different meaning to "get your guns up!"

Prince Harry Just Killin' It In Vegas

You know, that Royal Family changed quite a bit once Lady Di came around. Before then you'd just see pictures of Queen Elizabeth and her entourage looking all, well, royal. But Prince Harry's momma was a full throttle partier once she ditched Prince Charles. I'm mean, my obitutary will never have a line like hers after she died with that Dodi Fayed guy: "They had stopped in Paris en route to London, after having spent nine days together on vacation in the French and Italian Riviera aboard the family yacht, the Jonikal."  Maybe, "had stopped in Cottondale en route to Boonesville after having spent three days together on the Brazos and Trinity Rivers aboard their innertube. the West Nile" but it can't get much better than that.

P.S. Did you Prince Harry's real name is Prince Henry Charles Albert David. Introduce yourself at a Vegas pool that way and every other guy in the room is just going to slink away. Ain't no way they're competing.

Not That Fuzzy's In Decatur Needs Any More Free Publicity

But here's a couple of pics.