10.11.2014

Get Me This Baby!!!

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10.10.2014

Above The Fold

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TCU's Gary Patterson Taking You Into The Weekend




(Oh, come on. We're havin' fun here, no?)


2009, Game Day at TCU:


And to truly take you into the weekend . . . 





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Firing It Up! -- Video Message!

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And Another - Minnesota


The fact that she is a Catholic school teacher does not help 2014's run for an "And Another" Championship.

Story.
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That Kid Just Workin' The Camera Like Nobody's Business



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The Most Hockey I'll Watch All Year

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PETA Wants A Chicken Memorial In Texas



Animal rights campaigners PETA have requested permission to install a 10-foot high roadside memorial for chickens killed when an 18-wheeler overturned in Bryan last month.

 Thousands of chickens were stacked up on the transporter in cages which were smashed open when it crashed September 30 at the intersection of U.S. 21 and FM 2818. More.

 Oh, come on. I don't mind a plaque for a bunch of dead chickens but a TEN FOOT memorial?

(PETA is good at bits.)

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts


  • That river looks exactly like the one Mrs. LL and I took a rafting trip down in Costa Rica a few years back. Jungle covered high sides with the occasional waterfall. 
  • When Georgia's top running back was suspended yesterday for allegedly making money off signing memorabilia against NCAA rules,  Johnny Football's right hand man, "Uncle Nate", tweeted : "Hey [Sports Illustrated writer] tell the people to let the man make money off his name. Screw anyone that says he shouldn't and can't." Uncle Nate isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. 
  • Some of you implied yesterday that the only ones who benefit from new home construction are "those illegal aliens" who build them. That's mind-boggling. You might want to ask companies, and their employees, which supply bricks, carpet, tile, windows, window treatment, lighting, appliances, insulation, plumbing, electrical, wall paper, paint, door knobs, bathroom fixtures, furniture, etc. 
  • We haven't heard about any law enforcement corruption out of Montage County in a couple of years. Maybe they've all moved on to different counties. 
  • My annual Tired Head: Local media mentioning the ridiculous Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog.
  • My football trip for next weekend: Heinz Stadium in Pittsburgh and West Virginia's stadium in Morgantown. (I might just stay and become one of the Wild and Wonderful Whites.) And, as much as I hate the NFL, I might run over to the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton. 
  • A Texas federal judge slapped down the Voter ID law late yesterday, in part, because it is a poll tax. After reading the opinion (which is a great history lesson on the horrible history of Texas in suppressing the minority vote), I'm convinced it is a poll tax.  
  • When I posted some of the old Index papers here recently, the poll tax was (shockingly) still in effect and wildly popular. It wasn't abolished until 1964 via constitutional amendment. And Texas still tried to enforce it on elections after that that didn't involved federal positions. 
  • "The University is not a place for the 'open minded' where ideas are exchanged and challenged. Parents pay large amounts of money to have their children indoctrinated on leftist ideals." - Dennis Prager. Incredible. Why are people so scared of views outside of their echo chamber? 
  • "It's a Lone Star shame @TexasMonthly hasn't offered me the Ice Cream Editor gig. (I would also accept Bacon Editor.)" - Another goofy tweet by the goofy Texas Supreme Court Justice a few minutes ago. 
  • BagOfNothing surmises today that the Not Ebola Deputy might be just an attention seeker. He didn't outright say the deputy went to the Emergency Clinic just for publicity but, if he had, I'd back him up on it. 
  • Adrian Peterson might go back to jail because he admitted to "smoking a little weed" to the person involved in the supervision of his bond conditions. (1) High minded legal thought: I know you can't be convicted of a crime by just admitting to an offense if there is not some evidence to corroborate that there was, in fact, an actual crime, but I'm not sure that rule applies to bond condition violations. (2) Practical legal thought: Shut up! Deny. Deny. Deny. 
  • I can predict I'll be a bum on Saturday beginning at 11:00 a.m. OU/Texas followed by TCU/Baylor. (But, because I can't help it, I'll be up in the 6:00 o'clock hour. So I'll have time to get stuff done.) 
  • The "Death With Dignity" story of the 29 year old Portland woman who has chosen to end her life on her own terms -- instead of enduring the experience of the inevitable soon-to-occur death which will involve "headaches, nausea, vomiting, weakness and seizures" -- is fascinating. But while watching the story I answered the hypothetical of "Do you want to know the day of your death?" My answer: No. 



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10.09.2014

Remember How I've Been Yelling About Too Many Cops And Prosecutors?



Let me add that there are too many lawyers.

Good lord. Atticus Finch would turn over in his fictional grave.

So who gets to be embarrassed by this?

  • Fort Worth: That's where he practices.
  • aTm: Where he got his undergraduate.
  • Texas Tech: Where he graduated law school with honors.
  • Judge Judy and Stephen Colbert (his role models per his web site). 
  • Humanity.
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Montgomery County Seems A Little Wheels Off


(1). A judge (justice of the peace) holds a "prayer breakfast"?

(2) The judge in Adrian Peterson is trying to be recused by the DA after the DA gets nervous because the judge called one of Peterson's attorney's a "media whore."
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Why The Wise County Courthouse Is Better Than Your Courthouse



Our toilet paper is folded like what you would find in a nice hotel.
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Tuesday Morning Pick Me Up At Luv Field For Texas/OU Weekend




Those three said their heights were 5'0", 5'0", and 4'11".
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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts


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  • It doesn't look like the Dallas deputy has Ebola, but do you think Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins (who was so cocky to walk through the Ebola apartment without a hazmat uniform) stopped down yesterday when he heard the news of a new possible Ebola case of a guy who had been in the apartment? 
  • Hey, commenter who keeps telling me "The CDC has said it is possible for Ebola to become airborne. You need to take this seriously!!!" Uh, focus on the word possible. It's possible you'll get struck by lightning, the Earth will start spinning on its axis, or you'll win the lottery.  Even when you have odds of 1 in a krillion of an event happening, it is still "possible". Think Jim Carrey saying, "So you're telling me there's a chance."
  • Remember when I called the Frisco PD inept after the Chief said "we may never know" what happened to the couple found dead? (They had previously falsely and recklessly accused the wife of murdering her son.) Well the medical examiner said yesterday, "Uh, not so much": The wife killed the husband and the wife then killed herself. 
  • There's now a Fake Justice Willett account on Twitter, and I promise I am not behind it. (I will admit though that I was given the heads up that he would speak at a Texas high school yesterday so, through a source, I was able to plant a few questions that he was peppered with from the students. Here's a ridiculous picture of him at the school.) 
  • "Sales of new homes in north Texas at a six year high."  But I suppose they are being constructed with imaginary workers who have given up looking for work and imaginary materials created by a Fed policy mandated by the President cooking the books. 
  • Seriously, for all of you who choose the economy as a reason to criticize the President, look around. Everything is booming. Man, you've got legitimate reasons to dog him but if you choose the economy, you come across as having all the credibility of a 9/11 Truther. 
  • If you are going to a Friday night football game, you are going to get rained on. I think. Unless it comes in later. 
  • Everyone is gushing over Jimmy Johnson again since there's a 30 for 30 short on his trade of Herschel Walker to the Vikings.  I've mentioned it before: He's also the same guy who had to take Emmitt Smith because he couldn't get Baylor linebacker James Francis, and he wasted a #1 overall pick on Steve Walsh after already having Troy Aikman on the roster. 
  • The Ticket had Wendy Davis on for an interview a few weeks ago and she now famously (at least to Ticket fans) screwed up the morning show hosts' name by saying, "Good morning, George, Craig and Jordan." It's Gordon. This morning they had Greg Abbott on who started with, "So I'm talking to George, Craig, and (pause) is it Gordon?"  Funny. He has a smart staff. 
  • If Denton bans fracking isn't that the equivalent of the government taking your property (mineral rights.) The government can always take your property but they have to compensate you for it. Have they thought about that? 
  • Good lord, soon to be Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has an ad attacking his opponent by referencing ISIS crossing the border.  We have a lot of nuts in Texas politics, but that man is dangerously nuts. 
  • Can I be considered an Internet "troll" when you have to come to me? 
  • The guy who got drunk in Fort Worth and drove a forklift around got eight years in prison? And that's after he was finally found competent to stand trial? Sentence seems wrong. 
  • A Wise County jury gave a guy probation yesterday for Evading With a Vehicle. Sounds like a guy who had never been in trouble before, had a friend and a family member die, was receiving foreclosure notices, and then got into a tequila bottle. Sentence seems right. 
  • "PAGEANT REGISTRATION – Registrations for the Miss and Mr. ChicoFest Sweeter Than Candy Pageant are being accepted through Oct 17. The pageant is open to girls age 0-18 and boys 0-5." As for the girls, you'd think an 18 year old would just crush a newborn in the talent competition. As for the boys, don't scar him by letting him win the "Sweeter Than Candy" award. 


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10.08.2014

Get Ready: If This Guy Turns Out To Ebola+, We've Got Us A Media Panic On Our Hands


Edit: Whoa!!!


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America. Texas. Confusion.

Adrian Peterson, the suspended Vikings running back facing child abuse charges, had his arraignment this morning in Montgomery County. For a reason I cannot explained, a guy in a tiger suit showed up. 
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Now Back To Chasing That Money

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Ebola: 1

But no need to worry. The Mayor is on it . . .

And the press needs to be reminded this is not 9/11:






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