O.J. is Innocent!

I am not sure why all the media is so hot and bothered about the latest so called “O.J. crime wave.”  It is obvious to me that O.J. is innocent.   More than that, he was set up by the L.V.P.D.  Where is the evidence?

A little videotape… it could be doctored.

Eyewitnesses… people can be bought.

He hasn’t denied taking the merchandise… and that is probably because he hasn’t been asked the right questions.  I’m sure someone is manipulating his answers by misleading him with tricky questions.
Come on, it isn’t like they have a bloody knife, gloves, or have him fleeing the scene in a white Bronco.  Now if they had that, then we could take about a sliver of a chance that he might be guilty.

What?

Really?

Oh.  Never mind.

A Spanking is a Spanking!

Friday night the smack talk was laid aside as two combatants gathered in the arena to find out who was to rule the day.

The serves were fast and tricky.

Many aces were scored.

Sweat poured.

Frustration ruled.

Finally, after multiple 4/7 series, it was obvious that a spanking had been administered.

That on this day, there was a clear champion of skill in the world of ping pong and without a doubt one competitor had administered a spanking on the level of standing with your butt exposed during a F5 tornado tearing through a paddle factory.

Yessir.  Spanked and made to like it.

Sigh.

I hate it when I lose that badly.  Congrats Mike!

Thurber, TX

Went with Twyla and kids to visit her parents, sister, and niece at the New York Hill cafe followed by a trip to the museum and historical village.  Being the history nut that I am, it was a great trip and what an insight to how quickly a boom town can flourish and just as quickly die.

Thurber was a coal mining town supplying the majority of the coal for the coal burning trains of the Pacific Railroad.  Founded by a company of mutually invested businessmen, the Texas Pacific Coal Company quickly grew into a company town of over 10,000 people.  The town soon had an opera house, electricity, indoor plumbing, schools, private academy, and a 150 acre man-made lake that supplied the town with water.

Over the years the town began to produce bricks from the remains of coal ore and majority of the streets of Texas were paved with those red bricks.  The company branched out to try oil and were the first folks to strike oil in the Ranger oil patch that would grow to an extent where 1 million bucks worth of oil was coming out of the ground a day (remember, this was in 1917 and this oil field was given credit by some as the reason the allied forces won victory in WWI as the allies sailed to victory on Ranger oil…).

Overnight the Texas Pacific Oil Company decided to shut Thurber down, selling off all of the houses and knocking anything else left down.  The only remainders of this town are a few ruins and the smokestack from the old powerhouse.

A great day perusing history with my love and her family.  Excellent!