10.09.2014

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts


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  • It doesn't look like the Dallas deputy has Ebola, but do you think Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins (who was so cocky to walk through the Ebola apartment without a hazmat uniform) stopped down yesterday when he heard the news of a new possible Ebola case of a guy who had been in the apartment? 
  • Hey, commenter who keeps telling me "The CDC has said it is possible for Ebola to become airborne. You need to take this seriously!!!" Uh, focus on the word possible. It's possible you'll get struck by lightning, the Earth will start spinning on its axis, or you'll win the lottery.  Even when you have odds of 1 in a krillion of an event happening, it is still "possible". Think Jim Carrey saying, "So you're telling me there's a chance."
  • Remember when I called the Frisco PD inept after the Chief said "we may never know" what happened to the couple found dead? (They had previously falsely and recklessly accused the wife of murdering her son.) Well the medical examiner said yesterday, "Uh, not so much": The wife killed the husband and the wife then killed herself. 
  • There's now a Fake Justice Willett account on Twitter, and I promise I am not behind it. (I will admit though that I was given the heads up that he would speak at a Texas high school yesterday so, through a source, I was able to plant a few questions that he was peppered with from the students. Here's a ridiculous picture of him at the school.) 
  • "Sales of new homes in north Texas at a six year high."  But I suppose they are being constructed with imaginary workers who have given up looking for work and imaginary materials created by a Fed policy mandated by the President cooking the books. 
  • Seriously, for all of you who choose the economy as a reason to criticize the President, look around. Everything is booming. Man, you've got legitimate reasons to dog him but if you choose the economy, you come across as having all the credibility of a 9/11 Truther. 
  • If you are going to a Friday night football game, you are going to get rained on. I think. Unless it comes in later. 
  • Everyone is gushing over Jimmy Johnson again since there's a 30 for 30 short on his trade of Herschel Walker to the Vikings.  I've mentioned it before: He's also the same guy who had to take Emmitt Smith because he couldn't get Baylor linebacker James Francis, and he wasted a #1 overall pick on Steve Walsh after already having Troy Aikman on the roster. 
  • The Ticket had Wendy Davis on for an interview a few weeks ago and she now famously (at least to Ticket fans) screwed up the morning show hosts' name by saying, "Good morning, George, Craig and Jordan." It's Gordon. This morning they had Greg Abbott on who started with, "So I'm talking to George, Craig, and (pause) is it Gordon?"  Funny. He has a smart staff. 
  • If Denton bans fracking isn't that the equivalent of the government taking your property (mineral rights.) The government can always take your property but they have to compensate you for it. Have they thought about that? 
  • Good lord, soon to be Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has an ad attacking his opponent by referencing ISIS crossing the border.  We have a lot of nuts in Texas politics, but that man is dangerously nuts. 
  • Can I be considered an Internet "troll" when you have to come to me
  • The guy who got drunk in Fort Worth and drove a forklift around got eight years in prison? And that's after he was finally found competent to stand trial? Sentence seems wrong. 
  • A Wise County jury gave a guy probation yesterday for Evading With a Vehicle. Sounds like a guy who had never been in trouble before, had a friend and a family member die, was receiving foreclosure notices, and then got into a tequila bottle. Sentence seems right. 
  • "PAGEANT REGISTRATION – Registrations for the Miss and Mr. ChicoFest Sweeter Than Candy Pageant are being accepted through Oct 17. The pageant is open to girls age 0-18 and boys 0-5." As for the girls, you'd think an 18 year old would just crush a newborn in the talent competition. As for the boys, don't scar him by letting him win the "Sweeter Than Candy" award.