Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

11.01.2023

Matt Lauer dressed as Pamela Anderson on The Today Show. It would be four more years until the scandal dropped.

"A barrage of Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings in Gaza's largest refugee camp near Gaza City on Tuesday." With images of more dead children hitting the airwaves, Israel is doing itself no favors.
Oh, my. There's a car sticking out of that hole.
I'm hearing that the "trafficking bust" at the Indian restaurant in Alvord will have some pretty shocking facts. There might have been a reason there was so much truck traffic.
Trooper crash near Houston last night.
Ranger quick hits:

Best moment from last night's game.
The Star-Telegram isn't afraid of jinxes. (As expected, the article behind it was written by Mac Engel who has turned into a kind of funny shock jock.)

Greg Abbott announced a "deal" yesterday on school vouchers, but I think it might still be dead -- as it should be. He's trying to bribe the House with teacher salary increases in exchange for his plan to send your tax money to unregulated religious private schools as subsidies.
She represented a portion of Wise County until recent gerrymandering.
Political fun fact: The new Speaker of the House was once the dean of a Southern Baptist law school in Louisiana which never opened. (I didn't now whether to post this story or the other ones this morning that (1) he claims to not have a bank account and even says so on required financial disclosure forms, or (2) he gave legal advice and partnered with Exodus International - a now defunct gay conversion group.)
Wise County Courthouse ornaments are now on sale for $25. Proceeds go towards the ongoing restoration fund. The date makes them attractive since 2023 will always be the real year of the transformation.
As shown in this exclusively obtained photo, the Wise County D.A.'s office all dressed up in the same outfit for Halloween -- an outfit which apparently mimics what that the elected D.A. wears to work all the time. Except for yesterday.
If this was from a past Halloween, I don't care. The "dog" in the background was a very nice touch.

My business show, It's Warehouses, People!™, is back on the air. The "185,569-square-foot cold storage facility at 5225 Investment Drive in Dallas . . . along with others in Florida and Missouri, were acquired for almost $50 million." They are just taunting us with that street name.
The Las Vegas Raiders, who not too long ago fired Jon Gruden mid-contract and had to pay him a record $60 million, last night fired coach Josh McDaniels who has four full years left on his deal. He is now owed $40 million. (May I remind you that the NFL has a self-imposed "salary cap" for players.)

A bullet point about my Halloween costume I came up with.

Someone tipped me off last week that the court system database had gone down in Dallas. They said it was now a mess. Now we know why. (This is different that the ransomware attack on the city of of Dallas computers a few months back.)
The Messenger reports that the mailbox outside of the Decatur post office has been closed due to theft incidents.
Rainfall totals. That was a lot.
This sounded like a scene.
It was a couple of days ago when news broke that a former NHL playing hockey in England had died after having his "throat slashed" by another's players skate. I assumed it was a freak accident, and I blew off some reports of it being an intentional act. Then I saw the video. Now I'm not so sure.
I really haven't followed the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, but I perked up when I saw this courtroom sketch of him pop up online yesterday to everyone's glee. Turns out, it wasn't real and just something AI generated.
I've been harping on this for quite a while now.
When a paywall really frustrates me:
The Texas Oilman's PAC doesn't know whether to overtly publicize their political intentions towards Wise County or not ever since being caught in the white supremacy scandal.
Hurtful.
The famous Ponder steakhouse has shut down.

It was only 10 years ago that the name of an officer would be readily released without the need for an open records request.

On Saturday morning, the official Wise County Republican Party issued a statement denouncing the West Texas Oil Man PAC for meeting with a known white supremist and antisemite, and announced that it was donating to a third party the $2,000 it had recently received from the PAC.

No word yet whether a Wise County Texas House candidate will do a similar act with the $55,000 he has received.

Israel enters Gaza. (Sidenote: It's Ok to be pro-Israel and not want to see innocent Palestinians die.) Various news headlines:
On September 24th, DFW hit 101 degrees breaking an all time record. Now we have a freeze warning:

And now another mass shooting in the United States is already old news.
Who would have thought that a guy who one-third of the Republican Party wanted to hang couldn't gain traction?
Let's check in on Fox News. Oh, no! We've lost David Spiller (R-Jacksboro)!
Who knows how he died, but his recent autobiography revealed he was pretty full throttle in the area of self-medication for years.
Let me tell you, Junior, it ain't the dirty libs who are complaining about Halloween.
He really did. The Senator he was dogging lost three fingers at age 9 on his left hand "when grinding meat in his family’s butcher shop." Ronny Jackson, whether drunk or not, embarrasses Wise County every week.
College football screenshot. Yep, that really happened:
Very random discovery: Brigham Young had 55 wives, and here is a list of every one of them. And don't forget the 57 children.