Earlier this month I wrote about a situation in Red Oak where police officers were being questioned for writing too many tickets.
It appears even the Dallas media is getting involved now. Fox News on Channel 4 ran a story last night and interviewed a couple council members who are pushing the issue.
A Fort Worth investigator has been brought in to investigate the issue and the Red Oak Police Chief and Deputy Chief have been placed on administrative leave.
Sometimes others just say it better
who’s your brother, who’s your sister
you just walked passed him
i think you missed her
as we’re all migrating to the place where our father lives
’cause we married in to a family of immigrants
my first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man
my first allegiance is not to democracy or blood
it’s to a king & a kingdom
there are two great lies that iÂ’ve heard:
“the day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die”
and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class republican
and if you wanna be saved you have to learn to be like Him
but nothing unifies like a common enemy
and weÂ’ve got one, sure as hell
but he may be living in your house
he may be raising up your kids
he may be sleeping with your wife
oh no, he may not look like you think
– derek webb
Why your TV shows are getting streamed
Mark Cuban has an interesting post on online video viewers.
When the Cuban ran broadcast.com back in 2000 he saw the majority of users using the service between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. – while many people were at work.
The next peak came in the evenings after dinner.
So he took a look at current trends with audio and video offerings online.
They seem to be holding true.
So folks at ABC and CBS aren’t worried about streaming their videos online. They know you’re not typically going to watch them during the their original airings anyways. They’re not loosing ad revenue. They’re simply gaining viewers during the day who end up going to their website where they can sell additional online ads.
NBC on the other hand has downloadable shows via iTunes and they’re making $1.99 every time you decide to login during the day.
Very interesting to say the least.
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Viral videos begin for 2008
I caught wind of this yesterday on CNN and Mike shared it on his blog yesterday.
Places like YouTube and Myspace could become huge factors in the 2008 elections.
Here’s an ad promoting Barak Obama that’s a take off on an original 1984 Apple Computer ad.
Here’s the original Macintosh computer ad:
The crazy thing about all this is that no campaign is claiming ownership from one of the first mud slinging ads of the campaign. It appears to be from an unknown fan of Obama. Whether that holds true or not. We’ll see.
Laurie the eskimo-baby
Laurie eskimo-baby
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell.
Laurie’s been putting together a picture montage for our wedding rehearsal and reception. She sent me a few sneak peaks that I had to share with you all. I think she’ll be scanning some old pics of me tomorrow. That could get scary.
For some reason I’ve always figured I’d be the one making one of those videos but she’s taken charge of it and I’m more than happy to let her. I have no doubt it will be awesome, just like the first one she made for us:
100 Things we love about Ellis County: 99
99. The soldiers of Ellis County – Four years ago this week America began it’s campaign of Shock and Awe against Saddam and his Iraqi regime. Like all previous wars, Ellis County’s men and women stepped up and volunteered to serve their country. So far four soldiers from Ellis County have died in the war against terrorism.
So that’s one of the main reasons why we picked the soldiers of Ellis County as number 99.