5.08.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Let me tell you, one of the craziest criminal cases of all time seems to have already been forgotten. 


  •  The American carnage continues -- this time close to home in Allen, Texas.





    Of course, it is an AR-15. It's always an AR-15.


    • Extreme warning. Here's a collection of graphic photos and videos if you are so inclined:
      • This gruesome 10 second video of the bodies of a victims outside the mall is pretty much being a deleted, but here's a still shot taken from it. 
      • A private dashcam video clearly shows the shooter exiting his vehicle and opening fire on those people.  This was a planned attack.
      • Screenshot of deceased shooter with the gun by his side. He's wearing a tactical vest and has a high capacity magazine. 
    •  The red circle is where the shooter opened fire. The green circle is where he was killed. I don't know how he didn't murder more than he did.  Source. Kudos to the lone cop. He did what an army of DPS troopers and police didn't do at Uvalde. 

    • The press conferences that officials in Allen waited hours to have was despicable. No information was provided and no questions were taken. Instead, elected officials jockeyed to get in front of the cameras to introduce themselves and offer their "thoughts and prayers." And none of them was more pathetic than state rep. Jeff Leach. I've despised this man for years. But the way, he was dogpiled in 4,800+ replies on Twitter for his shallow response was wonderful.


    • Gov. Abbott ran to Fox News on Sunday morning and blamed it all on "mental health." He treats guns like they are his god.  He won't dare utter a blasphemous thing about them. Oh, and this from 10/28/2015:

    • The shooter turned out to be an Army veteran. Wise County's troubled Representative Ronny Jackson embarrassed us again as he went on Fox and Friends yesterday morning and blamed the mass murder on illegal immigration. It was the first thing out of his mouth.  Video.

    • Oh, the Washington Post reports that a patch on the gunman’s chest at the time of the shooting, said “RWDS,” an acronym that stands for Right Wing Death Squad. It's popular among the Nazi crowd out there. I don't care what his political beliefs were. It's easy access to an AR-15 which is the problem. This isn't hard.  

      The Proud Boy who was just convicted 
      of Seditious Conspiracy.

  • In possibly related news, eight people were killed in Brownsville outside a migrant shelter yesterday morning when a driver ran over them. Was it intentional? We don't know. But when you dehumanize them like Ronny Jackson does, you turn them into the Jews of Germany. Here is the graphic video which I watched once and wished I hadn't.

  • Who would have thought that Wise County elections wouldn't be mentioned until now?
    • Bond packages got killed in Decatur and Bridgeport.  It's always going to be a close vote on any school bonds these days, but the kiss of death is having shockingly high tax property appraisals going out days before the vote. 


    • Interestingly, Northwest ISD's gigantic $2 billion bond packaged, including a new "6A size" football stadium, passed.
    • The "woke" controversy didn't hurt the Decatur candidates since both of them ended up victorious. One of them cruised to victory while the other unseated an incumbent after trailing by two votes after early returns. The voters have spoken.

  • A conservative Texas legislature got a 19 year old intern liquored up, slept with her, and then she went to obtain the morning after pill the next day. This weekend, a committee recommended he be expelled.

    • Here he is sitting at his desk as he waits to hear the news. I'm not sure adultery will get you ostracized down there, but that abortion pill fact sure will among that crowd. 

    • Here's the full detailed report with all the seedy details. Discreet, he was not. 
    • Jacksboro's David Spiller was on the committee.

  • Seven dead horses.

  • Oakland Athletics announcer Glen Kuiper has been suspended indefinitely after using a racial slur during a pre-game show. Video. Oh, my.
  • There was a wild single clap of thunder last night in Wise County that I swear rumbled loudly for 30 seconds.

5.05.2023

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






Random Friday Morning Thoughts




This was a bullet point from 5/3/2013. A rate of 7.5% was fantastic back then. Here's how it all eventually played out:




  • And that unemployment old bullet point is relevant this morning because it was just announced that the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, the lowest since 1969. 

    • Here's your long-term historical chart updated seconds ago. I think we can all ignore the COVID Pandemic spike to be fair:

  • A great day for America yesterday as four Proud Boys were found guilty of of attempting to overthrow the United States.  The prosecutors told the jury on during closing arguments that they viewed themselves as “Trump’s army.” 

    • A timeline:
      • September 29, 2020: Trump tells Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” to a national TV audience during a debate when asked to condemn them. 

         
      • December 19, 2020: Trump tweets that there will “big protest” at the upcoming joint session of Congress on January 6th telling his supporters to “Be there, will be wild!”  

      • January 6, 2021: Proud Boys help to lead the Insurrection. 

      • March 25, 2023: In Waco, Trump defends the January 6th Insurrection at a rally telling the crowd that pardons will be coming.

      • May 4, 2023: Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy.

      • The future: There is one obvious man who needs to be in prison for Insurrection. 
        Not this guy. His daddy. 
  • I mentioned yesterday that the wife of the shooter in the Cleveland, Texas massacre was arrested, but I just saw the image of her being arraigned two days ago. Man, those are all new inmates in one Texas County jail on just a routine day. 
  • Another day, another Clarence Thomas scandal
    • In case you didn't know who Leonard Leo was, you've already seen him lately. He's in the painting: 

  • On the second day of the campaign, Ted Cruz's challenger is already utilizing the greatest photo of all time. 
  • We've got a wild college baseball betting scandal it seems. Last weekend, a massive unusual bet was placed on LSU right before its game with Alabama. Then it got suspicious: After the bet, but right before the game, it was announced that Alabama's starting pitcher would be scratched because of a last minute injury. The size of the bet and the last second scratch triggered a warning in Ohio where the bet was placed. It had all the tale-tell signs of a bet being placed because of inside information. It was so bad that the crazy step of suspending all betting on Alabama games in Ohio was taken.
  • There are still no campaign filing reports showing up yet for the Decatur ISD Parents Unite PAC. Once again, you can search for yourself here using Filer ID no. 00087681.
  • 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: 3 years, 303 days.

5.04.2023

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Now that's a fun fact I threw out there in 2013.


  • Kudos to today's Messenger covering in detail the drama of the Decatur ISD elections. I won't released the details because they worked hard at it but, as a teaser, it does contain . . .

    • The names of contributors to the various PACs involved (with some names worthy of eyebrow raising). 
    • It also put the spotlight on the fringe group called Wise County Conservatives (which meets in a church and whose next meeting has an "expert" speaking on Texas seceding from the Union.) 

    • And the talk of the town, the controversial PAC called Decatur ISD Parents Unite is examined. It has yet to have its financial disclosure information appear on the State's web site. You can search for yourself here using Filer ID no. 00087681
  • And another. But I'll be dang if he wasn't caught this way: "Atlanta police said they received an alert that the vehicle's license plate was spotted on license plate-reading cameras near a facility close to the Atlanta Braves' ballpark."

  • ProPublica keeps releasing haymaker after haymaker about Justice Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow and they just unloaded another one this morning: 


  • A guy who was "screaming in an aggressive manner" on the subway in New York was choked to death by a passenger and it was caught on video.  I don't know what I think about this. You don't need to die just for acting like a nut on a New York subway but, before I pass judgment, I would want to know every little fact about what led up to their physical interaction. There were a couple of guys helping and they sure seemed to be in full support of the restraining. Story with some of the video.


  • There has yet to be a verdict in the Proud Boys trial for their role in the Trump Insurrection but the jury seems to be a stickler for detail

  • The Insurrection arrests keep coming. This time for a guy who threw an explosive device.  And to think the presumptive Republican presidential nominee continues to support these people and the attempted overthrow of the U.S. Government on January 6th.  It's absolutely as bonkers as the lead up to 1933 Hitler-led Germany. 

  • We've got a great new Tucker Carlson video of his comments after his show had ended about how his deposition with Dominion that day went. 

  • Epstein Islands have been sold for $60 million.


  • A pioneer in weight loss is going away

  • Jenna Ryan, The Little Ball of Insurrection™ and DFW realtor who took a private jet to the Trump Insurrection and ended up in federal prison for a few days because of it, made a desperate plea yesterday to raise money because, for some silly reason, she is suing PayPal. 

  • Here's more proof of my long-time investment tip of "there's money in warehouses."  In this case, we are going to the next step with a group who already took that advice and now is flipping three-fully leased warehouses which totals 485,000 square feet. No price was released. 

  • Sports: The numbers for those who have used the transfer portal to leave a college football program.

  • Messenger: Above the Fold