The Campaign For DA

5.10.2021

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




It looks like the sheriff's deputy was Seth Aaron Miller who was convicted and placed on five years probation with 60 days in jail as a condition of that probation. As far as my proclamation that the ME's office is nuts (something that turned out to be exactly right), I can't find a single reference to the barstool story, and the link is dead.   (http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/07/3058479/tarrant-authorities-eyeing-new.html)


  • I don't know why this isn't front and center of every newscast and newspaper this morning. A ransomware attack by a Russian group has shutdown a pipeline which carries gasoline and other fuel from Texas to the Northeast. It delivers roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast.

  • Weekend Gunfire News:
    • A gunman killed six members of an extended family Sunday at a birthday party at a mobile home in Colorado Springs
    • One man was killed and seven other people were wounded in a shooting inside a downtown Phoenix hotel after an argument early Sunday, police said.
    • Three people, including a child, were shot in Times Square on Saturday afternoon.
  • The great Portuguese water dog, Bo Obama from Boyd, Texas, died late last week

  • Over the weekend, Donald Trump actually called the winner of the Kentucky Derby a "junky." 

  • The insanity continues. "The median single-family sales price set a record at $325,000, 18% higher than in April 2020." How are young people supposed to afford a house? Interest rates certainly help out, but that's offset by property taxes which kill you. 

  • Faith healer Ernest Angley has died at the age of 99.  I watched way too much of this man on TV when I was a teenager. I struggled with being told on Sunday mornings that if I had faith the size of a mustard tree that I could move a mountain, yet knowing this man was obviously a fraud. 

  • Seeing this question online this morning and it's a great one: Is Tucker Carlson vaccinated?

  • It took me almost a decade, but I finally drove through the toll road on LBJ 635 in Dallas from I-35 to past Central.  It's incredible. 

  • I was on my way to Arkansas and had to go through Hooks, Texas. You can see the high school stadium from the highway, and I wondered to myself how many people think, "That's where Billy Sims played" when they go by. I always do.

  • Another arrest has been made in a Texas cold case using Familial DNA Searching. That is, using commercial sites like  GEDmatch, 23andme, and Ancestry.com to at least locate the family tree of a killer and then go from there. 

  • Alvord High School's baseball team is in the playoffs and will play in the Holy Land starting on Thursday: John Paul II's field in Plano. Here's an actual satellite shot: 

  • I'm 100 pages into Lonesome Dove.  My verdict is being formed and thus far withheld.