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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Bag of Randomness

  • This is going to be one heck of a work week.
  • Last night I watched some of the original Frost/Nixon interview on PBS.   Yup, I’m one exciting guy.
  • I remember when the Cowboys use to have the Blue/White scrimmage and it was somewhat of a big deal.
  • When Dubya was president, a lot of people compared him to Hitler.  Now there is a website dedicated to comparing Obama to Hitler.
  • Thankfully I’m not a congressman, but if I were and had to hold a town hall meeting on health care, I would probably first start off with a presentation similar to this article and then field questions.
  • Back in college I read 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and the one habit that has always stuck out the most and the one I tried the best to adopt is – Seek first to understand, then be understood.
  • A lot of students in my class were uncomfortable reading that book because the author was Mormon.
  • Speaking of college, Cowboys backup QB Jon Kitna briefly talked about the college playoff game he played in against Hardin-Simmons.  I was actually at that game, and never did I imagine that anyone on that field would ever be in the NFL.  And that game was about ten years ago.  Not bad for a QB out of an NAIA school.
  • I think I have a bad habit of finishing other people’s sentences.
  • I think a lot of people knew Eunice Kennedy Shriver mostly as the sister of a president and the wife of an important husband.  Most people of my generation probably only knew her as the mother of Gov Schwarzenegger.  Other may know her as the driving force behind the Special Olympics.  Very few people knew that even as a member of a very liberal family, she was a hero of the  antiabortion movement.
  • That’s one heck of a shirt to wear during a bank robbery.
  • Mental Floss has some pictures of some interesting items that dogs have swallowed.  I found the Homer Simpson toy to be one of the more interesting ones.  Of course, that reminded me of the time OtherDogGeeding swallowed a sewing needle.
  • Speaking of dogs, this dog does not like Obama.
  • The faster you pedal, the faster the Internet speed.  YouTube
  • Grace.
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