Bag of Randomness

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  • About the only thing I will order at a Starbucks is a cafe mocha.
  • And it’s always a small, or whatever the fancy coffee drinking world calls a small.
  • The instant hot water thingy is working quite well in our house.
  • A very close friend of mine is an editor and recently wrote one of our senators a letter.  When he got the senator’s response, he noticed quite a few of grammatical errors and decided to write back and correct the senator.  That made me laugh.
  • More than likely it’s a form letter put together by a college intern, but either way, it cracked me up.
  • I wonder if it does much good to contact your representative about anything since I suspect they never lay eyes or ears to your communication.  Well, they probably get to see or hear a few, but it would be impossible for them to respond to all of them personally, so they more than likely just have their staff tell them them an overview of what most of the communication was about.
  • I remember contacting several congressmen for a paper I was writing in college.  That was when only a handful of congressmen actually utilized the Web.  At the time, I thought it was pretty cool having congressional sources for my paper, and was the first student to ever do such the thing in my professor’s thirty plus years of teaching.
  • The average age that males first see a copy of Playboy or Penthouse magazine is 11 years old.
  • From the factory, Timex watches are set exactly 10:09:36.
  • Something I recently overheard that made me think, “Art is for rich people and college students.”
  • I really didn’t know much about Joe Medicine Crow, so I had to look him up on Wikipedia, and was quite impressed with this part about how he became the last War Chief of the Crow Tribe without really knowing it.
  • The airport code for Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, is SUX.
  • The premier of HBO’s Hard Knocks was pretty good.  Lots of former Cowboys – Roy Williams, Tank Johnson, and Mike Zimmer.
  • I think Roy Williams has been on Hard Knocks more than any other player, and Mike Zimmer more than any other coach.
  • One players wife was packing her husband football cleats and said, “That’s love,”  as if what she was doing was a major sacrifice.  All I could think of was his multi-million dollar contract he got by continuing to sacrifice his body and time to support her.
  • I think yesterday’s high was on 93, which made yard work not so bad.
  • I had a dream that the Cowboys first team didn’t take their time on the field against the Raiders seriously, and something bad happened.  I just can’t remember what the bad thing was.
  • I’ve been really pressed for time this week.  All these posts today were done in less than 15 minutes.
  • Grace
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Lubbock County removes judge’s racially charged posters

County Judge Tom Head defended on Friday potentially offensive posters that commissioners removed from a public bulletin board he maintained in the courthouse.

He intended the posters, including one that contained racially stereotyped descriptions of Obama supporters, to spark conversation about modern issues, he said.

“Nobody’s ever said anything to me, personally,” Head said. “Apparently it’s performing its task now, because somebody got emotional about it.”

Commissioners removed the posters, saying the county faced bigger issues and did not need a new distraction.

Head said he began posting to the bulletin board five to six years ago. Most of the postings reflected his socially and politically conservative views, and he intended for people who held different views to contact him, he said.

McCay removed a series of printouts that began with a short narration of a person contemplating waking up, putting on an Obama T-shirt and then abusing drugs, robbing a store and hitting his wife.

A sheet of mug shots of mostly black men wearing Obama shirts had been tacked beneath the narration. Another printout suggesting no mug shots would show a criminal wearing a shirt supporting a Republican president hung beneath the pictures.

Full LubbockOnline.com Article

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