12.08.2023

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Ten years ago we had a ridiculously warm day (just like today), but it was followed by temps in the 30s for the next six days.


  • Breaking job news, and it is all good. 

  • Yesterday a Texas district judge granted a woman the right to terminate a pregnancy where, in an awful situation, the fetus is not viable and her doctors say the continued pregnancy "posed a risk to her health and future fertility."  It's amazing that a woman in Texas has to go to a judge to beg for this.

    • Shockingly, Texas AG Ken Paxton responded by threatening any doctor who acts under the lawful court order. And he even sent out letters directly to her doctors and hospitals. This is wrong, full of lies, fascist, and downright ghoulish.  Texas is the The Handmaid's Tale.

  • What going on here?


  • So you're 10 days into a 30 day jail sentence, have high blood pressure, get transported to the hospital, and then you get released to get to go home? There might be two justice systems after all. 


  • "My family are huge fan of the Dallas Maverick" (without the "s") - New Dallas Mavericks owner Miriam Adelson speaking yesterday in Austin

  • Hunter Biden's presidential aspirations are in trouble again as there is another indictment, this time for tax fraud.  Although I'm not sure it was necessary to spell out what he actually spent his money on in the body of indictment, the boy definitively was a player. 


    • Fox News is giddy this morning.

  • There are absolutely no details about this case of the missing woman who was "found" but, let me tell you, there is something very fishy going on. "She’d last been seen after DeSoto police briefly took her into custody Dec. 1 for a misdemeanor, then released her later that same day." 


  • Texas Oilman PAC News:
    • Shelley Luther, who was hospitalized due to an aneurysm earlier this year, has fully recovered apparently as she announced that she is running for the Texas Legislature.  During her last attempt to run for the Texas Senate, she received $210,500 from the West Texas Oilman PAC. 

    • Regarding the Oilman PAC's most recent controversy, the frontman for its spending is trying to rebrand after being caught meeting with a white supremacist. 

    • Source for the Texas Oilman PAC donations.

  • This report from ESPN's Adam Schefter about how Bills coach Sean McDermott tried to inspire his team yesterday:

  • Fun sports fact: Dallas has made 38 straight field goals - with the last miss dating back to last Thanksgiving. But during that same time period they have missed nine extra points. 
  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 4 years and 165 days.