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Prisoner Sues NFL Over Bryant Non-Catch | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth - http://www.nbcdfw.com/blogs...

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Terry Hendrix, an inmate in Colorado, sues the NFL and its officials for fraud and negligence, seeking nearly $88 billion in damages, after referees overturned Dez Bryant's catch at a pivotal point in their playoff game against Green Bay. Hendrix is acting as his own attorney in the case. - GuitarBuster - -

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This would make sense if Hendrix's release was conditioned on the Cowboys winning that game. - GuitarBuster - -

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Sidney Bechet + Louis Armstrong + Django Reinhardt 1952, La Route Du Bonheur (excerpt) http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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12TH ANNUAL DJANGO REINHARDT FESTIVAL: FW "The Only Annual Festival in the Southwest" Fri-Sat-Sun...January 23,24,25. $25 per night, 3-Night Ticket $60 Friday & Saturday: Doors Open at 6:30 pm, Film at 7 pm, Music at 8 pm. Sunday: Doors Open at 5:30 pm, Film at 6 pm, Music at 7 pm. - GuitarBuster - -

Friday: GINNY MAC Saturday: GYPSY MOON followed by SLIM RICHEY'S STRAY GYPSIES Sunday - A Gypsy Journey: MARCELO BERESTOVOY, AMERICAN BEDOUIN and STRING THEORY MANOUCHE GYPSY GUITAR WORKSHOPS - $25 Each, $20 with Student ID Students must reserve a place in class and must know basic guitar chords. Saturday 3-4:30 pm Gypsy Chords & Rhythms Beginning with Linda Sriro of Gypsy Moon Saturday 3-4:30 pm Gypsy Chords & Ryhthms Intermediate with Ray Sriro of Gypsy Moon Sunday 3-4:30 pm Gypsy Chords & Rhythms Int-Advanced with Kim Platko of String Theory Manouche - GuitarBuster - -

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Abandoned UFO like Futuro house, Munson, Texas, USA - http://www.artificialowl.net/2008...

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No, not Munson, Tx. It's South Munson Road, Royce City, TX - GuitarBuster - -

The Futuro house was a product of post-war Finland, reflecting the period's faith in technology, the conquering of space, unprecedented economic growth, and an increase in leisure time. It was designed by Suuronen as a ski cabin that would be “quick to heat and easy to construct in rough terrain.” - GuitarBuster - -

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Kolaches in DFW: in search of Czech-style goodness | Star-Telegram.com - http://www.dfw.com/2015...

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According to Bon Appetit magazine, my grandmother is a trend-setter for 2015 — even though she died in 1975. Bon Appetit restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton listed kolaches, the Czech pastry, in his 13 food-world predictions for the upcoming year. Under the heading “Kolache Triumph Over Cronuts” (getting old-school there, using kolache as a plural), he wrote: “These filled dough pockets are a Texas-by-way-of-the-Czech-Republic tradition. Whenever I’m in Houston, I grab a few stuffed with things like jalapeño, cheese, and sausage. “The kolache craze is spreading as spots like St. Philip in Austin and Kings Kolache in Brooklyn push the envelope with fillings like black beans, corn and chorizo.” - GuitarBuster - -

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Kasa Kolache Bakery & Cafe, 761 S. MacArthur Blvd. No. 113, Coppell; 972-745-8822 ; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://coppellkolaches.ne... ; Grapevine, Valley Ranch, DFW Airport - GuitarBuster - -

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DJANGO REINHARDT DIAMANT-BERGER CLAIR DE LUNE http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Long lost film Clair de Lune 1932 - GuitarBuster - -

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Awesome Trucks - The "Undisputable Cuz" 18-Wheeler Barbecue Pit | The Pit Boss BBQ Tool BeltThe Pit Boss BBQ Tool Belt - http://pitbossbelt.com/wp...

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The Undisputable Cuz has a YouTube channel! - GuitarBuster - -

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World 039 s Largest BBQ Pit | eBay - http://www.ebay.com/itm...

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2000 Liddell Trailer 24 Door BBQ Pit 76 Feet Long Fire Box that has a tube that controls the heat Walk In Cooler Beer Taps Place for TV and Stereo Equipment 40 K generator diesel "Undisputable Cuz" Shipping will discuss upon purchase Truck is extra but if you purchase the Pit the truck is a 2000 Peterbilt for an extra $50,000 without pit $65,000 - GuitarBuster - -

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This would be a bargain price if it were fully loaded. Based on comparing to a large competition smoker, this could hold about 25,000 lbs of beef, at $15/lb of brisket, that's already $350K. - GuitarBuster - -

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How "America's First Drug Czar" Waged War Against Billie Holiday and Other Jazz Legends | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2015...

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The U.S. government’s so-called “War on Drugs” predates Richard Nixon’s coinage of the term in 1971 by many decades, though it is under his administration that it assumed its current scope and character. Before Woodstock and Vietnam, before the creation of the DEA in 1973, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics—headed by “America’s first drug czar,” Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger, from 1930 to 1962—waged its own war, at first primarily on marijuana, and, to a great degree, on jazz musicians and jazz culture. Anslinger came to power in the era of Reefer Madness, the title of a rather ridiculous 1938 anti-drug film that has come to stand in for hyperbolic anti-pot paranoia of the ’30s and ’40s more generally. Much of that madness was the Commissioner’s special creation. - GuitarBuster - -

Like so much of the post-Nixon drug war, Anslinger staged his campaign as a moral crusade against certain kinds of users: dissidents, the counterculture, and especially immigrants and blacks. According to Alexander Cockburn’s Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press, Anslinger’s “first major campaign was to criminalize the drug commonly known as hemp. But Anslinger renamed it ‘marijuana’ to associate it with Mexican laborers,” and claimed that the drug “can arouse in blacks and Hispanics a state of menacing fury or homicidal attack.” Anslinger “became the prime shaper of American attitudes to drug addiction.” And like later despisers of rock ‘n’ roll and hip-hop, Anslinger’s hatred of jazz motivated many of his targeted attacks. Ansligner linked marijuana with jazz and persecuted many black musicians, including Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington. Louis Armstrong was also arrested on drug charges, and Anslinger made sure his name was smeared in the press. In Congress he testified that “[c]oloreds with big lips lure white women with jazz and marijuana.” “Marijuana is taken by… musicians,” he told Congress in 1937, “And I’m not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.” Although the La Guardia Committee would refute almost everything Anslinger testified to about the effects of smoking pot, the damage was already done. (Anslinger’s prosecution of jazz musicians, particularly Louis Armstrong—paralleled that of another power-mad, paranoid bureaucrat, J. Edgar Hoover.) Anslinger did not simply dislike jazz. He feared it. “It sounded,” he wrote, “like the jungles in the dead of night.” In jazz, “unbelievably ancient indecent rites of the East Indies are resurrected.” And the lives of jazz musicians “reek of filth.” And yet, writes Johann Hari in his book Chasing the Scream (excerpted in Politico), his campaign largely failed because of the jazz world’s “absolute solidarity” in opposition to it. “In the end,” writes Hari, “the Treasury Department told Anslinger he was wasting his time.” And so, “he scaled down his focus until it settled like a laser on one single target—perhaps the greatest female jazz vocalist there ever was,” Billie Holiday. Anyone with even the most cursory knowledge about Holiday knows she had a drug problem in desperate need of treatment. And, of course, Holiday wasn’t addicted to a relatively harmless substance like marijuana, but to heroin, which—along with alcohol abuse—eventually lead to her death. Yet, as Cockburn writes, Anslinger had “hammer[ed] home his view that [drug addiction] was not… treatable,” but “could only be suppressed by harsh criminal sanctions.” Accordingly, he “hunted” Holiday—in Hari’s apt description—sending agents after her when he heard “whispers that she was using heroin, and—after she flatly refused to be silent about racism.” Recruiting a black agent, Jimmy Fletcher, for the job, Anslinger began his attacks on Holiday in 1939. Fletcher shadowed Holiday for years, and became protective, eventually, “it seems,” writes Hari, “fall[ing] in love with her.” But Anslinger broke the case through Holliday’s viciously abusive husband, Louis McKay, who agreed to inform on her—something no fellow musician would do. In May of 1947, Holiday was arrested and put on trial for possession of narcotics. “Sick and alone,” writes Hettie Jones in Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music, “she signed away her right to a lawyer and no one advised her to do otherwise.” Promised a “hospital cure in return for a plea of guilty,” she was instead “convicted as a ‘criminal defendant,’ and a ‘wrongdoer,’ and sentenced to a year and a day in the Federal Women’s Reformatory at Alderson, West Virginia.” After her release, Holiday was stripped of her cabaret license, restricted from singing in “all the jazz clubs in the United States… on the grounds,” writes Hari, “that listening to her might harm the morals of the public.” Two years after her first conviction, Anslinger recruited another agent, a sadist named George White, who was all too happy take Holiday down. He did so in 1949 at the Mark Twain Hotel in San Francisco—“one of the few places she could still perform”—arresting her without a warrant and with what were very likely planted drugs. White apparently “had a long history of planting drugs on women” and “may well have been high when he busted Billie for getting high.” (See the declassified case against her here. Her manager John Levy is erroneously referred to as her “husband” and called “Joseph Levy.”) A jury refused to convict, but Anslinger gloried in the toll his campaign had taken. “She had slipped from the peak of her fame,” he wrote, “her voice was cracking.” After her death in 1959, he wrote callously, “for her, there would be no more ‘Good Morning Heartache.’” For her part, though Holiday “didn’t blame Anslinger’s agents as individuals; she blamed the drug war,” writing in her autobiography, “Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes, put a tax on insulin and drove it into the black market… then sent them to jail…. We do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs.” Many jazz musicians, but especially Holiday, paid dearly for Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ “war on drugs.” Hari documents the “race panic” that underlay most of Anslinger’s actions and the egregious double standard he applied, including a “friendly chat” he had with Judy Garland over her heroin addiction and kid gloves treatment of a “Washington society hostess,” in contrast to his relentless prosecution of Holiday. His persecution of Holliday and others was accompanied by a propaganda campaign that demonized “the Negro population” as dangerous addicts. As Hari points out, Anslinger “did not create these underlying trends,” but he promoted racist fictions and manipulated them to his advantage. And his singling out of cultures and groups he personally disliked and feared as special targets for vigorous, prejudicial prosecution helped set the agenda for anti-drug legislation and cultural attitudes in every decade since he decided to go after jazz and Billie Holiday. - GuitarBuster - -

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Point taken, Janet, but aren't you glad that a llama didn't climb in your hair this morning. - GuitarBuster - -

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Editorial: Shooting for open carry with no license misses mark | The Baylor Lariat - http://baylorlariat.com/2015...

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Rep Jonathan Stickland, Bedford, sponsors bill for unlicensed, open carry in Texas. - GuitarBuster - -

"It's our God given right" - GuitarBuster - -

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The FBI's List of the Most Dangerous Cities in Texas | Texas Monthly - http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-p...

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"Gentleman from Odessa” is a euphemism. Supposedly, there are no gentlemen in Odessa, TX. - GuitarBuster - -

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Saudi King Abdullah dies: State TV, citing Crown Prince - http://www.cnbc.com/id....

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Bill Belichick throws Tom Brady under the bus - Sports - The Boston Globe - https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports...

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“I have no explanation for what happened,” he said. “I honestly never touched a game ball. It’s not something I have any familiarity with on that. Again, I was completely and totally unaware of any of this that we’re talking about in the last couple of days until Monday morning.” - GuitarBuster - -

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They already have a punishment for under-inflated balls, it's a fine and loss of draft picks. - GuitarBuster - -

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Kolaches Are Apparently the "It" Food This Year | Texas Monthly - http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-p...

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In the first week of the new year, Adam Rapoport, the editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit Magazine appeared on the Today Show and declared the kolache to be one of the It Foods of 2015. The news came after Chris Svetlik, a Texpat living in Washington, D.C., announced he would soon be opening the first kolache place in our nation’s capitol. Maybe Svetlik is homesick for the Czech pastry (which the Today Show describes as a “a savory dough pocket”) that some might argue can’t be properly duplicated outside of Texas (although people have certainly tried). Or maybe he envisions a world where everyone can grab a sausage and jalapeno kolache with their morning cup of coffee, a laudable mission, to say the least. Either way, the migration of the kolache is something to be celebrated. If you can’t beat us or join us, at least eat like us. - GuitarBuster - -

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7 Day Forecast | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth - http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather...

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Tickets $3, $4, $5, $6 I have no idea who the special guest was. - GuitarBuster - -

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2 Simple Maps That Reveal How American Agriculture Actually Works - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015...

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Driving through the farmlands of Iowa looking for fresh food to eat is a lot like sailing through the ocean looking for fresh water to drink. In the ocean, you're surrounded by water that you can't drink; in Iowa, you're surrounded by food you can't eat. Even though Iowa generates the second-highest amount of revenue of any state off its crops -- $17 billion in 2012 -- the overwhelming majority of that comes from field corn, which is destined mostly for animal feed and ethanol, not dinner plates. I came upon this startling fact while trying to answer a seemingly simple question: What crop generates the most money in each state? The Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistical Service produces reams of data on such matters, so I figured the question would be easy to answer. But it turned out to be trickier than I thought, because when I pulled the data, I realized that in most states, the biggest crop was one that was used mostly for animal feed. For well over half the states, field corn, soybeans or hay was the crop that generated the most cash in 2012, the latest year for which data are available. Though a small share of some of these crops does eventually get eaten by humans, in the form of things like soy lecithin and high-fructose corn syrup, most of it is fed to animals raised for meat or dairy. To get more meaningful results, I decided to strip away those crops that are used largely for animal feed, and focus on crops that people actually eat. I plotted the results on a map, which revealed some surprising trends: - GuitarBuster - -

More amazing than the fact that I've seen the Grateful Dead live? I've been to Iowa. - GuitarBuster - -

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Another round of precipitation is expected across North and Central Texas Thursday night and Friday. With colder temperatures in place, light snow could fall in areas as far south and east as Lampasas, Hillsboro, and Sulphur Springs. Any snow would be light, and accumulations would be generally under 1/2 inch. - GuitarBuster - -

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