Watching Smackdown tonight? The show was taped in New Orleans this week and my buddy Dennis (Apoc) is scheduled to appear near the end of the show.
Look for the sad clown getting punched in the face by Kane.
In other wrestling news, John Cena, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Ted “Million Dollar Man” DeBiase and Steve Blackman were on Larry King Live discussing the Chris Benoit double-murder suicide.
Watch the podcast if you missed it.
King also showed clips of a previous interview with Hulk Hogan.
Jericho said he thinks the media took the easy route out by blaming steroids for the Benoit event.
“I spoke at length with a psychiatrist here in Los Angeles who specializes in murder-suicide and she told me it’s never one thing. It’s always a combination of many things. I think it’s lazy reporting and lazy investigation that a lot of people are just tying this up in a nice steroid bow and putting it under the corner and moving along and saying that is the case. I did some research and if you are a massive caffeine user and abuser it can lead to hallucinations, depression, anxiety, violent behavior and sometimes psychotic behavior. Now if I came on here and said caffeine caused this you’d think I was a lunatic but if I take out caffeine and put in steroids with the exact same list of symptoms you’d say ‘Bingo’ that’s it. This is not about steroids this is about a man who had severe mental, damaging, horrible issues in his head that he kept bottled up inside and it exploded into this horrible violent act.”
Category: News & Pop Culture
American Consolidated buys more
According to Forbes Magazine, Jeremy Halbreich and American Consolidated Media LLC said Wednesday it has bought the publishing assets of Kimberling City Publishing Co. Inc., including the Columbus Daily Advocate in Columbus, Kan.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The sale also included two weekly publications, The Baxter Springs News in Baxter Springs, Kan., and the Border Star Shopping Guide of Cherokee County, Kan.
American Consolidated is the owner of the Waxahachie Daily Light and several other papers in the area including the Midlothian Mirror, Ennis Journal, Ellis County Chronicle and the Alvarado Post.
The company was purchased and became a subsidy of Macquarie Media Group of Australia. The acquisitions give American Consolidated 10 daily newspapers and 58 other publications in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Mesquite boy named President
Twelve-year-old Sterling Watson, of Mesquite, Texas was named President of the US for a day thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation.
With the help of a dozen or so government agencies, Sterling, who was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma, appointed members of his family to his cabinet, was greeted by the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division Band with “Hail to the Chief†and presented the division’s soldiers with ceremonial gifts – red pencils printed with “President Sterling Watson.â€
Sterling also gave a speech to the US Postal Service, received a briefing at the Department of Health and Human Services, visited 150 employees at U.S. Customs and Border Protection and held a press conference to name one of the agency’s new canines. He chose the name Yeller.
“It is only in America that a little boy from Mesquite, Texas, can wish of someday being President of the United States and actually have that wish come true,†Sterling said after being inaugurated.
Read the full story from Make A Wish
Lady Bird Johnson dead at 94
Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird†Johnson, former US First Lady from Texas died today at the age of 94.
She was an alum of the University of Texas and married Lyndon Baines Johnson on November 17, 1934, at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas.
She spent years working towards ending poverty, beautifying Texas and US Highways and served as a great ambassador for the state.
Thoughts and comments:
Capital Annex
Thoughts from various Texas politicians via the WDL
Wikipedia entry
Free slurpees?!
WOW oo00oo
FREE SLURPEES TODAY!?
Wouldn’t have known except for a DIY blog post.
Alright kids, it’s time to go get your favorite cool-tasty beverage from 7-Eleven. That’s right, Slurpees are FREE today. Why, you ask? Because it’s 7/11 of course! The Slurpees are small, at just 7.11 ounces, but whose complaining – it’s free, right? Start at the north end of town and hit every 7-Eleven within a 20 mile radius. But get down there quick, because the deal ends at 11pm (of course).
Jet ski over the spillway
Did anyone else see this video?
One of the guys at our Wednesday morning Bible study told us about this accident and I had to check it out.
With all the rains here in North Texas lately many of the lake spillways are overflowing.
Friday evening a couple was out jet skiing on Lake Lewisville when they apparently missed the warning signs and flew right over the spillway. They had a perfect landing but the impact caused both of them to fly over the handles of the jet ski and into the water.
According to the video both are still in critical condition.
Fox 4 has additional video