8.15.2009
Restaurant Review

8.14.2009
Video Game Talk
I've really got nothing since I was in hearings all day trying to defend some constitutional rights while they still exist.
But I thought I'd post this clip from the new Madden '10 that's coming out. I don't play video games, and I don't even own an XBox or Playstation or whatever they are called these days. It's not that I think they are stupid, it's that I'm afraid I'd get sucked into that phenomenon never to return. I mean, look at those graphics above. Sheesh, when I was a kid, my video football game was this thing which had an object of getting a beeping red slash from one side of the screen to the other. And I loved it. I used to make an NFL playoff bracket and sit in my room for hours with the thing.
Told ya I had nothing.
Random Friday Morning Thoughts
A true "home invasion" robbery would be terrifying. (There was one last night in Oak Cliff -- and you hear about them more and more.)
- Sports: Cowboys got killed in a meaningless preseason game, Tiger Woods still great as he leads the PGA Championship, Michael Vick gets a second chance with the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Rangers play a very meaningful series this weekend against the Red Sox as they battle for the wild card. Highlights at 10:00.
- I strained my back mowing the lawn but it's in a weird place -- mid level, far right. At least I know it's not a disc. Maybe.
- I went half the day yesterday before I realized the guy that shot himself while driving near Newark and then was hit by a train survived. That'll be a good story to tell his grandkids.
- Kelly Clarkson photoshopped for Self magazine. I'm guessing she knows where Fred's hamburger joint is (callback reference from yesterday.)
- My Costa Rica trip for January is still a go but, man, flights there are outrageous. Anyone know any tricks? I've got an email notifier every week for changes in rates but I'm getting a big bag of nothing.
- The Town Hall screaming sessions are now giving me Tired Head.
- Things I don't understand: Tarrant County foreclosure postings are up for six month in a row but Perot's Hillwood company just announced that it will build 78 homes in the Heritage division in North Fort Worth.
- Ticket Fans: The Ed Carter bit may be my favorite.
- Steve Lamb on WBAP this morning talking about a few players in baseball who have been released this year but are still being paid: "They must have great agents!" Sheesh. Every major league baseball contract is guaranteed. It's not a great agent. It's a great union.
8.13.2009
Fleeing From Police In Detroit = Firey Crash Today
I've got a question. Did that van intentionally strike the fleeing vehicle?
Friday Afternoon Pick Me Up (Edit: The Day Could Be Wrong. I'm Checking)
For Those Of You . . .

My Ann Curry Obsession Continues

Traffic Ticket Talk
Most people don't know that it is not a crime in Texas to travel in excess of the posted speed limit so long as the speed is "reasonable and prudent under the circumstances." But the State starts with the presumption that a speed over the speed limit is "prima facie evidence" that the speed is unreasonable. (I explained this before here.)
That being said, a conversation with someone in authority yesterday got me thinking. He said that to be traveling at a speed that is "reasonable" requires some proof that there is a "reason" for the excessive speed. That is, "reasonable" conduct means there is a "reason" for your conduct.
In everyday language, is that what "reasonable" means?
Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

- Fox 4 reporter Emily Lopez has a whole lot of Ann Curry "fake concern" in her.
- I watched a traffic ticket trial yesterday in Wise County where the defendant won because the officer couldn't say for sure if the guy sitting at the table was the same person he wrote the ticket to. That was an honest officer.
- Our DA, Greg Lowery, was not pleased with me for leaving out what he felt were critical facts in my post about the dope trial yesterday. That job will beat you down in a hurry.
- I will go to my grave believing the War on Drugs is the dumbest thing this country has ever done. You right wingers don't want the government running our health care system, but you want it to have enough power to lock someone up for smoking a joint on their couch in their home. Makes no sense.
- I have to admit I really didn't know anything about Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
- What was with the weird claymation like recreation of a missing person on the local news last night?
- I think I've found a time to visit the new Cowboys' Stadium: There will be four high school games
- I can't find the link on the Star Telegram's confusing web site, but some place named "Fred's" won the best burger competition. I'm not familiar with it.
- Tried to stop by the new Flip's off of Western Center Boulevard on Friday two weeks ago. Every parking space was taken.
- My dreams have become really bad lately. They aren't nightmares, just stressful. And I wake up breathing hard with tense shoulders.
- I watched a staff member of one of the prosecutors up at the courthouse field an angry phone call from some out of town lawyer. I can easily proclaim that he was one stupid lawyer. Rule #1: Never hack off the member of a staff of a prosecutor.
- That being said, for the first time in years I snapped at someone in the County Attorney's office yesterday. I spent the next hour apologizing. (I think everyone was worried that I was losing it--which might be true.)
- If Channel 8 were to leave Victory Park, it would be a ghost town of biblical proportions.
- Maybe this is the cause of my sleeping problems.
- Bridgeport Main Street has joined Twitter. Bet that's going to be riveting.
8.12.2009
Motorcycle Deaths Update

Texas Tech Groom Cake



Decatur Dope Trial Update

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

- When you think of it, Sarah Palin needs to find a job to help the unemployment numbers.
- I have no idea what The Time Traveler's Wife is about.
- I think the country is finally turning the corner into the era of enlightenment. Fifty years from now, much like we look back in astonishment at the concept of black and white water fountains (well, some of us at least), future citizens will shake their collective heads at how backwoods we have been.
- I wonder if I can get on one of those "Obamacare Death Panels" that the far right talks about? I'm pretty good at decision making.
- I've got my AC on remote control (you know, raise the temperature when I'm gone and have it cooler when I return.) Great invention.
- Low quality video of Fox 4's Chip Waggoner, Evan Andrews, and Fiona Gorostiza in a band. If that Fiona chick jazzes you, you'll like it.
- Does Jerry Jones wear a hairpiece? The controversial evidence.
- Schedule for a regular practice day during two-a-days for the Evil Empire. Sheesh.
- There's a guy exposing himself to kids in McKinney. Two things, Fox 4's Tim Ryan called him a "pervert" this morning (always makes me laugh), and he was last seen at the intersection of Abbey Road and Penny Lane (developer obviously a Beatles fan.)
- I always go to the mail box with a feeling of excitement and never have that excitement satisfied.
- I've got a post about the current Decatur dope trial that will go up at 9:00 a.m.
- College football news: A team 30 miles from Decatur ranks at the top of ESPNS's "Worst Top 10" list, and Tech's Mike Leach will be on the cover of Texas Monthy wearing a pirate eye patch.
8.11.2009
Messenger Preview

After A Lull, It's Motorcycle Chaos Today
Denton County Angry Mob
This idea was kind of a funny concept, but not the best in execution. But I couldn't get over the fact that most of the protesters interviewed didn't quite grasp that the guy was doing a bit.
Credit: Denny Crane.
War On Drugs: The Battle Contines
Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

- I'm sick of seeing "inspirational quotes" all over the place. Ann Curry's twitter feed is full of them.
- I've never heard of a crime called "Disregard Police Officer" but a black guy in Denton got arrested for it yesterday. (Source).
- On Sunday I posted the video of the "tire gone wild" almost striking a constable. Yesterday a loose tire killed a construction worker in Lewisville.
- You right wingers were in a lynching mood yesterday based upon your comments.
- G.I. Joe led the box office over the weekend with $54 million? You've got to be kidding.
- There really aren't any movie type of movies made any more. It's either mass explosions, animations, or silly comedies. No Country For Old Men was a rare exception. (Here are the box office leaders so far this year to prove my point.)
- I'd like to be placed under house arrest.
- If the street construction around the square in Decatur is costing over a million dollars, we ain't getting our money's worth.
- I watched most of the the Teen Choice Awards last night. Our future does not look bright.
- My weekdays are very Groundhog Day like.
- Jarhead's guest blogger suggests, rightly so, that we 'mericans don't know much about Canada and Mexico. (Jarhead, when reached for comment, could only mumbled "get me more tequila and a donkey.")
- Do not mess with Hillary. (If you haven't seen this, you must.)
- Legal drinking age map.
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi caught a little heat yesterday when she called the protesters at the town hall meetings "un-American." She's wrong. Yelling, name calling, and refusing to listen is distinctively American.
8.10.2009
It's Race Talk Monday

Wholesomeness Taking A Beating
Random Monday Morning Thoughts
Universal shotgun sound. Had to use.
- I wonder how many of the "protesters" in the town hall meetings already have private insurance. And I wonder how many of the older protesters that have Medicare understand they they are taking advantage of a government health plan.
- Elvis made 31 movies and you never see one of them on TV.
- I mentioned last week that Giant's QB Eli Manning had a new contract with $35 million guaranteed. I had forgotten that Detroit's first round draft pick Matthew Stafford, who has never thrown a pass in the NFL, received guaranteed money of $41 million.
- And for those fans of the bikini clad girls, this is how the same Matthew Stafford celebrated this summer.
- Justice Sotomayor was confirmed by the Senate on Saturday but 31 Republican senators voted against her. Bush spent 8 years bending over backwards to include the Hispanics and now the GOP runs them off in less than a year.
- Note to my Hispanic Texas friends: Remember when you next go to vote that Texas Republican Senators Cornyn and Hutchison voted against Sotomayor
- When Sotomayor was sworn in on Saturday by Justice Roberts, Roberts read the oath of office to her. He must have learned from his screw up when he swore in President Obama.
- A horrible auto accident involving a police chase in California over the weekend that you may not have heard about.
- College football note (and I'm so happy it's nearly arrived): UNT will go to Alabama on September 18th. Ugh.
- There's a "Rocky's Bar" in the Comfort Suites in Bridgeport that has live acts? (See August 27th date). Edit: LINK FIXED.
- I had a dream that I was giving a closing argument and jurors were twittering -- and I was getting killed.
- Comments on Denton book-in twitpic. http://twitpic.com/d8ksk
- I'm sure you've seen the Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton bar pics by now. Wow. When that man falls off the wagon, he really falls off the wagon. (Here is the amazing Sports Illustrated article from last year chronicling his wheels off life.)
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