11.29.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Bridgeport Index, 1954.  Crime stories back then were action packed. 

  •  I presume there was more to it last night than just "smoke showing from the chimney."

  • Thanksgiving gone awry: 
    • On Wednesday evening:

    • "Two people are dead, another critically wounded in a shooting along Broadmoor Drive in Fort Worth" last night. Fox4Terry was there.

    • Also last night.  This was an argument between two guys "who knew each other" with the shooting happening in a residential neighborhood.


  • Legal stuff with a local flavor: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out the confession of a juvenile on Wednesday due to the investigative techniques of a former Texas Ranger who used to be assigned to Wise County.
  • I found the best paragraph for you. 


     
  • At the Hilton Garden Inn in Houston on Wednesday.

  • He's now officially gone.  Alternative headline: Man Ends Cushy Job, Panics Over Loss of Outrageous Salary:

  • Elon Musk sitting by Trump at Thanksgiving while "YMCA" is blasting.  Painful video.

  • I first became aware of her because of this video showing her typing up Trump's tweets as he dictated them.  But I didn't know she also funneled what was going on in social media to him unabated, Gift link. 



  • The Business Second™. Not far from Wise County.



  • Legal stuff: Actual notice under the glass at the counsel table at the Nebraska Supreme Court.  Incredible. 

  • Oh, my.

  • Micah Parsons double dipping his turkey leg after taking a bite out of it is a crime against humanity.

  • 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 147 days.

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11.28.2024

Random Thanksgiving Day Post

 


Always a crowd pleaser. 

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11.27.2024

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Bridgeport Index flashback.

  • We officially have yet another murder in Wise County as the surviving man in the weird knife attack in Newark last week has now been arrested for the deaths of his father and brother.

  • So she says she was "switched" at the Grapevine hospital in 1975.  So what are here damages? She claims she was molested as a child as part of the "wrong" family.  This is like a law school problem which I'd rather not think about.  

    • Here's a link to her Fort Worth lawyer.  This is appropriately on his home page:

  • Get ready. 

    • Is there a law that says you have to put on a cowboy hat when you know the national cameras are going to be on you?

    • And the $350,000 Man was there being a campaign prop on his very last days before retirement. Maybe he's hoping for one last Christmas bonus. 

  • According to the Messenger, the Runaway Bay Country Club and golf course is now closed as its proposed donation to Weatherford College was rejected by the administration. 
  • Rudy was back in court trying to explain why he isn't turning over his property to pay a $148 million defamation judgment because of one of his particularly vicious election denial lies.  


  • Speaking of Giuliana, I was curious if AG pick, Pam Bondi, who drove with Giuliani to Philadelphia to contest the 2020 election, was at the crazy Four Seasons Landscaping press conference. She was, although she wasn't in the photos or on camera. 

    • And she was at the Philadelphia Convention Center a couple of days before claiming the election was stolen. That's a dangerous sign for the future. (I thought that might be Todd Blanche, Trump's future criminal defense lawyer and current deputy AG pick, in the red mask by her side but probably not.)

  • Although I'm surprised by this, it's far from a "cease fire."  It's actually a 60 day pause which lines up with the Jewish holidays and Trump taking office.

  • Criminal law interesting stuff: This is too involved to summarize in one sentence so here's the link

     
    Same guy. 2017 and 2024.

  • Fun stuff: Time has released its "100 Photos of the Year" which also serves as a great review of the year since each has a detailed caption. 

  • Very legal nerdy stuff: As of December 1st, all petitions and briefs filed in appeals must contain bookmarks in the PDF. At lease in civil cases only. We criminal boys have just figured out how to create a PDF so it doesn't apply to us. 
  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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11.26.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The riots in Ferguson erupted after the D.A. thought it would be a good idea to hold an 8:00 p.m. press conference to announce his grand jury's decision not to indict. 

  • As we knew was coming, the federal prosecution of Trump came to an end yesterday.  Jack Smith had no choice. He could either do it now, or wait for Trump to fire him and have his replacement dismiss the cases then.   So it is done.  Trump got away with it.  And all because the American people decided to effectively pardon him for his crimes in the election.  I will never understand how this happened until the day I die. 


  • New this morning: 

  • Proving once again that he doesn't understand how tariffs work, last night Trump said that he will, on his first day via executive order, impose a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada and a 10% tariff on China for all goods until illegal immigration and or drug importation is fixed. Good luck buying anything at Walmart if he does that. (But in reality, he'll probably do nothing but immediately declare victory. And MAGA will believe him.)


  • Got this Wise County tip about the appraisal district from a reliable source: "They sent out 118 (their number) notices to tax exempt organizations (many churches) of WCAD’s intent to deny tax exempt status unless they produce a portfolio of documents by April. IRS tax numbers for are not acceptable docs."
  • Gov. Abbott is already cozying up to Trump's new border czar who sounds like someone who'll put everyone, even resistant mayors, in a concentration camp.  

  • I don't know if someone shooting at coyotes should be labeled as a "vigilante", but if a bullet went through a window, I would call him a horribly reckless shot. 

  • I saw the news yesterday of the DHL cargo plane crashing while trying to land at an airport in Lithuania, but I hadn't seen the wild footage of it.  What's even wilder is that three of the four people in the plane survived.

    • And look at this headline from the New York Times from back on November 5th. 

  • Say what? Every article I see on this refers to a "proposed bill" in the Texas legislature but none of them give the bill number or the author. Andy Hopper, maybe?

  • In other drone news, the war in Ukraine ramped up overnight and got more high-tech.

  • Quite the exchange on Fox News last night. Video.

  • The Local Business Second™: A new Sonic in Bridgeport, out on highway 380, was built and opened in record time.   It's at the site of a David's Feed Store which was shut down and torn down -- also in record time.

  • Want to know your team's chances of getting into the Big 12 title game?  Here's a great and bizarre flowchart which helps you figure it based upon the order of the games being played over the extended weekend. Oklahoma State vs. Colorado start it all off on Friday. 

  • Elon Musk thinks that Lockheed's  F-35 is a waste of money, and it might be the only thing I agree with him about. 

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