Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Fox News was in a frenzy yesterday after former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed in a new book that the President and his cabinet weren't fans of the war of Afghanistan and Iraq and made "political" decisions. Not a fan of the war? That's news? Heck, he campaigned on the issue and we elected him to get our troops out of those places.
• I'm more surprised that Gates would write a "tell all" book. He seems better than that.
• Dennis Rodman made the news yesterday as he went nuts from North Korea in an interview with CNN. If you ever get a chance, watch that brief episode of Vice where they followed Rodman to Korea last year. Some of the best TV ever. (Described here but I can't find the actual show online.)
• A grandfather was beaten in the parking lot of Dallas' Campisi's. The guy interviewed for the story was named Ivan Pugh -- a name that looks really familiar to me. Anyone? 
• Fox News was also all over the story of Al Qaeda taking over Fallujah trying to blame the President by asking, "Why did we fight there in the first place?" Uh, that's what the rest of us were asking when the horrible decision to invade the place was first made. 
• The Swine Flu Frenzy seems to be picking up steam. The fear earned Decatur a Bum Steer Award in 2010.
• I'm not sure I understand it, but Decatur's leading professional cowboys are leading a major defection from PRCA per the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
• My Dennis Prager update: Listened to him briefly yesterday where he was professing to be an expert on global warming and was of the opinion that "things just change."  As an example, he told his listeners to "look at Greenland and Iceland" implying that Greenland used to be green and Iceland used to be ice.  Do you need to know anything more about the guy? Edit to his one defender: Me, lying? He's said it before! 
• Electronic filing has become mandatory for some courts in Texas as of January 1, 2014 but some counties, like Wise, will have much more time for the transition. But it'll be a big change: Just last month, for example, I had to provide a ridiculous 12 hard copies of a multi-page petition to a court in Austin. Now I'll just have to provide one - electronically submitted in PDF format. 
• All of that reminds me of The Office scene when Michael Scott was addressing a business class and told them, "Write this down: Paper is the future." Then all the students start typing madly on their laptops. 
• The Fifth Grader in the House told me that she thinks Mrs. LL is going to leave me for Juan Pablo on The Bachelor. 
• The AP actually ran a story yesterday that said: "Kraft Foods says some customers may not be able to find Velveeta cheese over the next few weeks." This was important, the story said, because Super Bowl parties were upcoming and we all love cheese dip during parties. Anyone else think that Kraft is suggesting a shortage just to increase sales right now? 
• Crazy discussion on the Mark Davis show yesterday about the pregnant lady, technically dead, who was being kept alive only because of Texas law. Davis proposed that keeping the woman alive was possibly interfering with "God's plan" for the child. Davis, and his callers who disagreed with him, seemed so adamant that they knew what God's intent was.