10.07.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I was complaining about the heat 10 years ago, too.
  • He didn't need this. 


    • Flashback: He's had so much trouble before that he was even a redemption story on HBO's Real Sports as he was coming back from a prison stint. 

  • Here we go again.  It hit a Category 4 moments ago. 



    • This got my attention this morning, but I honestly have no idea if is is true.

  • It is the one year anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel -- which doesn't excuse everything that Israel has done in response. 

  • The Dallas Morning News says Wise County is screwed with Andy Hopper set to represent us. 


  • Trump went back to Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday and in between lying about the election, the federal response to Helene, and saying that any member of the audience would get hurt if they admit to voting for Kamala Harris, we were provided with some great images of Elon Musk.




  • Man, there is so much of it that even the local paper ran a front page story trying to fight it.

  • I think these domestic abuse campaigns are nothing more than an excuse for one elected official  to promote another elected official. Here it's the Republican DA promoting the Republican County Judge. That former Tarrant County DA use to do it with "Not In My County" signs. 

  • Look out, it's the First Monday in October so they are back in session.

  • The second most amazing thing about Vanderbilt's upset win over Alabama is that seconds after the gun sounded, they played Nick Saban's comments of “The only place that’s not hard to play in the SEC is Vanderbilt.” Video.

  • It is the last day to register to vote in Texas. 

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10.04.2024

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Might have missed on that one. 

  • Like the DFW media, I completely missed this fatality yesterday morning. The Messenger had it, but I didn't see it. I failed you as the most trusted newsman in the southwest proper. But what an awful week for local law enforcement. 

     



    • And it's a little bizarre he was responding to a wreck on heavily traveled 287 which involved a wreck involving a person from Bridgeport and a person from Decatur. The Messenger has that story which also involved a fatality.
  • Toilet paper crisis avoided. That's about the shortest strike that I can recall. 

  • Did all of you get out of bed at 4:55 a.m. to go look for Seth Altman? 


  • Good. She's an Insurrectionist nutcase working at the state level and admittedly would do it all again. And her sentencing hearing was wild as she argued with the judge. He finally had enough: “You are no hero . . . . You are a charlatan who used your prior position to pedal a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again” 


    • Two years after this interview, they are now both in the hoosegow. 

       
  • Everyone needs to just calm down these days. Story.

  • Every time there's a Netflix documentary released about a high profile case, some D.A. always overreacts. This happened in the Bernie case out of of East Texas as well. 


  • The guy's always been weird, but I'm not sure he's that weird. 

  • Just when I was told to worry about Haitians because they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the pets of the people that live there . . .  

  • Two high profile Kamala Harris endorsements yesterday based upon the fact that Trump is simply not an option.
    • "Donald Trump is the most dangerous presidential candidate in my lifetime. His disdain for the sanctity of our Constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him for office." - Bruce Springsteen


    • “Yes, Trump is divisive and animated solely by his own grievances but that is not why Harris must defeat him. Trump wants to destroy the system that reins him in. He is a threat to our democracy. This is the only reason any voter needs to vote for Harris.” - Liz Cheney


  • So what exactly are you trying to say?


  • 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: 5 years and 91 days. 



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10.03.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts





Somewhere, he's 10 years older.

  • We always have self-fulfilling shortages.

  • How this presidential election is even a close will always be a mystery to me.   




    • And, of course, there's a ton of old stuff in yesterday's filing that the public, unfortunately, has grown numb to. Full PDF is here.

    • And how Trump has embraced the Insurrection during his campaign should be front page news every day. 

    • Trump's response last night to the new filing is below.  He will ride that lie to the bitter end. 

  • When I saw that some guy got hurt last night while roaming around an abandoned silo, I figured it was those which are in Saginaw. Nope. There are some south of downtown Fort Worth on Main Street.   Fox4Terry calls him an "urban explorer."  Videos.




  • "GREAT FALLS, Mont. — An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota." Say what?

  • So, according from an excerpt of her new book, Melania is pro-choice? 

  • We already new about this, but the story is front and center of the Star-Telegram's home page this morning. 

  • ProPublica and the New York Times have teamed up for a long article on the West Texas Oilman PACs and how they have bought their way into power.  I was surprised to see no mention of Wise County's Andy Hopper who has received at least $280,000 of oilman money to unseat incumbent Dr. Lynn Stuckey. 


  • Things are crazy in the Republican politicas when the absolute nutcase Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, Bo French, has to fact check another Republican Nazi, Lara Logan.

  • Random lawsuit out of the River Walk in San Antonio.

  • The Business Second™. "OpenAI said on Wednesday that it had completed a $6.6 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just nine months ago."

  • Jurors are really raking it in now (this actually went into effect late last year but people are always curious about it):


  • The Dallas Morning News has a piece this morning about how Jerry Jones arrives at the Cowboys practice facility in Frisco.   Video.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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