Bag of Randomness

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  • If you would have told Sooner fans two years ago that Bob Stoops would lose to both Texas and Baylor in the same year they would have said you were out of your mind and on the off chance of that happening, they would want Stoops fired.
  • Last night was a very good win for Baylor, but I still don’t think they are sixth in the nation good especially when you look at their competition.  OU is having an off year, especially offensively and losing to a weak Texas team who started their backup.  The Sooners simply were ranked too high coming into this game.  I think OU really should have been ranked either in the high teens or low twenties and I feel Baylor is in the lower teens.
  • The most interesting play last night was in the first quarter when OU tried to score on fourth down and hurried to the line and the Baylor safety had his back turned trying to get the end crowd to cheer when the ball snapped.  That safety is not looking forward to film session.
  • Just what America needs, a third party – Philly elects first Whig in 157 years – If the description of that party in the article is accurate I think it’s a good thing, but it will be one heck of an uphill climb
  • In the Double Down: Game Change 2012 book I’m reading it talks about how most of the Republican establishment wanted then Indiana Gov Mitch Daniels to throw his hat in the ring, but he just couldn’t convince his wife and daughter to go along for the ride. Bush 43 even had Daniels over to his house when the Super Bowl was in town and he offered up all of his family political resources and then he and Laura called Daniel’s wife to try to sway her.  One reason Mrs Daniels was reluctant was that her and Mitch divorced, she married a doctor, divorced the doctor and returned to Mitch and didn’t want to talk about that period in her life.
  • There’s a lot of references to the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of D.C. which I never heard of before this book.
  • The book also mentions and goes into great detail how much Romney detests fellow Mormon John Huntsman.  Interesting fact, Huntsman father founded the packaging company that created the clam shell box for the Big Mac.
  • Bob Sturm was on the TICKET morning show and stated how the folks up north where he grew up overwhelmingly preferred pro football over college football.  I kind of thought that for DFW since the Cowboys were so good for so long and without there being a major university football program in the area.
  • I wasn’t aware that Lou Diamond Phillips was a product of the University of Texas at Arlington.
  • Bacon deodorant?
  • Sriracha candy canes??
  • Franklin Graham pimped out his father on his 95th birthday.  An author used the occasion to plug a book and write about the time Obama visited Graham.  The author pointed out that Obama was the first sitting president to visit the Graham home.
  • It’s not rocket science – A team of BYU physicists who like to call themselves the wizz-kids think they have found how to minimize urine splash-back in a urinal-like environment.
  • When I first read this story, I thought the double amputee was going to parachute into the Cowboys Stadium roof.
  • I don’t like it when the Cowboys play Sunday or Monday night, it throws off my Sunday.
  • Things I learned from this NFL Cheerleaders Infograph: The Cowboys Cheerleaders have not altered their uniforms in 17 years, the average age is 25, and a Seagal is an ordained minister but despite five minutes of searching I can’t find in what faith or denomination and he Facebook page doesn’t provide any details.
  • Kevin Pollak is under-rated.
  • A California high school has an Arab mascot.
  • I wasn’t aware that I didn’t have to work on Monday until someone reminded me yesterday.
  • Another one of those emotional touchdown stories, these are getting as common as a soldier coming home from deployment and surprising their kid at a school assembly  – A kid from a small West Texas town who survived a stroke and brain surgery was allowed to score a touchdown.
  • Texas sales tax collection rises for 43rd straight month
  • Dad ‘unfit parent for refusing son McDonald’s’
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    • You can now buy Whataburger pancake mix with free ground shipping.  I’ve never had their pancakes, I can’t get past the taquitos.
    • I started Double Down: Game Change 2012  yesterday.  It’s 512 pages and I’m a little over a hundred pages into it.  This is the first ebook purchase I’ve made and I’m using WifeGeeding’s Nook with E Ink as my reading platform.  I like how much easier the E Ink is on my eyes and I think it makes reading faster as my eyes don’t have to scroll so far across a page and it I have to look up from an interruption, it’s easier to find where I left off than a traditional book.
    • From the book, liberal or conservative, Valerie Jarrett isn’t well like.  The book also points out in much detail how much Obama dislikes playing the politician, that is, the fundraising and rubbing shoulders part which Clinton was masterfully skilled at.  Somewhat surprising to me was how much of a hot head Robert Gibbs was and how Rahm Emmanuel was able to keep his cool during contentious situations.
    • So far the book has only covered Obama and briefly Biden.  I find Obama a lot like Bush 43, I like the man and their character more than their ability to preside, though I do have my leanings.
    • Only one sitting member of the U.S. House has been elected president in history (Garfield); only three presidents have been elected with U.S. Representative as the highest elected office attained on their resume (Garfield, Madison, Lincoln).  I always thought Lincoln went from Congress to the White House, but I was wrong.  He left the House in 1849 and his presidency stated in 1861.  He spent that span of un-elected office hunting and slaying vampires.  A total of thirteen presidents have served time as a representative in the U.S. House.
    • An interesting photo of the Fort Worth Star Telegram’s digital news desk which came from a Bud Kennedy tweet.
    • The War on Christmas is off to an early start, but at least there’s a theme song. [SayMerryChristmas.net]
    • It looks like Aaron Rodger will be missing some time, and just think that Vince Young was extremely close to being his backup for the season.  That would have been interesting for Packer fans.
    • A former Houston Texan organized an effort to get current players to drive senior citizens to vote yesterday.
    • Those Nick Saban to UT rumors are back.
    • I caught an Antiques Roadshow the other night in which a man had a baseball that was signed by Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, and Mickey Mantle and it was authenticated.  The ball was first signed by Ruth and held in safe keeping for many years and brought out later and signed by the other two when they were chasing Ruth’s single season homerun record.
    • The Tea Party vs. the $70 million Texas high school football stadium –  I like how this CBS News article points out that at 14,000 seats, the cost comes to $5,000 a seat, which I think is a very valid and strong point.  Unlike Allen, this stadium will support seven schools.
    • Tiger Woods hit golf balls from Europe straight to Asia.
    • Brittne Griner had a strong opinion about the WNBA makeup application class.
    • I was in Sears recently and had a lot of similar observations – 18 Depressing Photos That Show Why Nobody Wants To Shop At Sears
    • At our local Babies R’ Us I noticed an employee taking a smoking break about twenty feet from the store’s entrance.  It surprises me that management doesn’t just tell them to smoke in the back because I didn’t appreciate smelling the down stream of smoke as I entered the store.
    • “It’s a dog eat dog world and I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear” Norm Peterson ‘Cheers’ – Dog saves camper from bear attack, camper eats dog to survive
    • There may be a successor to one of the coolest and fastest jets of all time, the SR-71 Blackbird.  The SR-72 will be a drone that travels six times the speed of sound and will come with Beats from Dre.
    • Miss USA mistaken as a Transformer at Miss Universe pageant
    • Netflix is trying to get a deal to stream movies 45 days after theatrical release.
    • Two pieces from Lady Bird’s diary on Nov 22, 1963 that stood out:
      • “Suddenly I found myself face to face with Jackie in a small hallway… You always think of someone like her as being insulated, protected. She was quite alone. I don’t think I ever saw someone so much alone in my life.”
      • “I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood – her husband’s blood.  Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.”
    • Jackie Kennedy’s pink suit will become eligible for display in 2103.  A month after the assassination Jackie’s mother mailed the suite,blouse, handbag and shoes, and even her stockings to the National Archives.
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