2.21.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts



Tim Tebow distanced himself from Robert Jeffress, and Jeffress somehow turned it into a permanent guest gig on Fox News. 

  • I don't know anything else about this, but a man was care-flighted to Fort Worth after a welding accident yesterday evening. 

  • Decatur ISD appears to have been understandably rocked by this. Born in Bridgeport in 1967,  Valedictorian of Alvord High in 1987, and Decatur teacher since 2000.  Obituary. 

  • This is a mess. From what I can figure out, Dallas PD has about 52,000 files of bodycam and dashcam videos sitting on a server with no way of knowing which case they belonged to. They aren't labeled or tagged in any meaningful way, and I don't even think the meta-data helps.  So now the DA's office has pled and tried hundreds or thousands of cases where there was a notation of "no video" written in the file which not only wasn't true but which was was required to be turned over to the defense. 

  • The QAnon Rep wants to secede from the United States. Someone might want to tell her that (1) she is urging civil war -- assuming she doesn't know that, (2) it didn't work out to well for Atlanta the last time, and (3) Georgia isn't even considered a "red state."

  • This home burned yesterday morning in Dalworthington Gardens.  Here's video of it which might be about as intense of a fire as you'll ever see. Zillow had it valued at $836,100.


     
  • Keep an eye on Israel. Its on-again/off-again leader has managed to successfully take the first steps towards preventing the Israeli Supreme Court from declaring any law unconstitutional. That effectively means there will no longer be a constitution at all.  It's a very Trumpian move. And there have been protests. Story.

  • With filings closed, this Dallas mayor is the first one since 1967 to not field an opponent when he sought re-election. That's kind of odd since he is certainly beatable. 

  • It's Criminal Law 101 that you can't be charged with a crime when it wasn't a crime when you committed it. That is, you can't do x and then have the legislature pass a law making x illegal and then be charged with committing x. But that's exactly what the prosecutor did in Alex Baldwin's case. But look how the DA's office takes no responsibility: 


  • A right-wing darling of heavily edited and often misleading "gotcha videos" has been booted from the organization he founded because of misusing funds. 


  • I think the Dairy Queen has been closed now for weeks in Bridgeport. 

  • New: Someone took a hard fall getting off Air Force One in Poland but, despite a current social media lies, it wasn't the President. He is safe and sound and working.  

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2.20.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Olympian Gabby Douglass stopped by the Mavericks. 

  • President Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine this morning.  Can you imagine the logistics in pulling that off? But it seems that Russia was advised of the trip shortly before it occurred.  Moments ago, he took off to head to Poland. Edit: He might be on a train there. Not sure. 

  • A 16" water main broke this morning on I-30 heading out of Fort Worth which caused the entire eastbound lanes to be shutdown. 

  • The grift and fraud will ultimately be much greater than the actual damage caused. At least six potential class actions have been filed so far.  

  • Austin got a lot of attention yesterday after a crowd took over an intersection with some insane driving stunts (video) and then the crowd backed up a single cop car that had shown up (video).


  • President Carter enters hospice care at home. There has probably never been a better overall good person to serve as president. 

    • Regarding how much the country has changed, look at how his electoral map looked for the 1976 election. The Democratic Carter won Texas, Florida and the South. Gerald Ford won California and the west coast.  

  • Violence is so common you probably didn't even hear about the event below which happened Friday. The killings occurred in three different locations.  




  • Sheesh. I just saw this one that happened on Saturday a little closer to home: 

  • A decorative helicopter fell at a water park inside a New Jersey mall, hurting four. And that's one big mall waterpark. 



  • A political watchdog issues a warning that what happened to Southlake and Colleyville ISDs could be happening in Northwest. Schatzline is a state rep and unabashed Christian Nationalist. 

  • Not that I understand it, but the price of natural gas has plummeted in the last few months. 

  • Something doesn't sound right.
  • This story, from the Wichita Falls paper, makes no sense.  I understand having a great computer system which notifies a potential juror member that their service isn't needed and that they don't have to appear, but this article talks about eliminating the need for a large area of gathering to first ensure that all the potential jurors have the basic qualifications to serve (county resident, age, etc.)

  • It's President's Day but, as always, I'm the HWMISB™.

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2.17.2023

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Just a photo of a Wise County contingent visiting the legislature. A lot has changed in 10 years.

  • It's beginning to look like the U.S. used a $400,000 missile to take down a $100 hobby balloon over Lake Huron.  I've seen both Fox News and MSNBC mention this story. 

  • An expected step in the process has occurred. There was a deadline to indict him by the end of the month or there would have been bond implications.  (If you are wondering why they aren't showing up in the Wise County online records at this moment, it normally takes until the next morning after the grand jury meets before the update occurs.)

  • There's not many details other than "police say Richard Laird had been communicating with the girl just before she disappeared from her home on Sunday."

    • The girl was found, and this was the headline three days ago:

  • A wild chase early yesterday morning in Lake Worth left a bunch of folks injured. The ages were three men (28, 18 and 16) and one teenage girl (13) who is in the worst shape.  They allegedly had a pretty good stash of cocaine and heroine in the car.  I saw the dashcam footage on Fox 4 last night, but I can't find it online. 

  • Yesterday an appeals court rebuffed Kari Lake's efforts to steal the Arizona election like a fascist, so she immediately tried to make money off of it. What a nutcase. What a grifter. 

  • Oh, my (Out of Wisconsin.)

  • Oh, my again. (Out of D.C.)

  • Good for him.  There once was a time when a vice-presidential candidate had to withdraw from the ticket simply because he had been treated for depression years earlier. 

  • Greg Abbott gave his State of the State speech last night behind closed doors at some corporation's headquarters in San Antonio where the press wasn't invited and cell phones were banned. I actually found it on some spare channel and got to see them break down the stage afterwards. Very wheels off. 


  • "According to the lawsuit, Diggs was leasing a home in the 3400 block of Hollow Pine Drive in Frisco with a one-year lease term and a monthly payment of $5,500."  Here's the neighborhood on Streetview. It's nice, but I don't think that's $5,500 a month. Maybe I'm wrong. 

  • A man on Texas Death Row, scheduled to executed in September, died yesterday. That's just weird to type.
  • 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, 227 days.

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