8.06.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The accident somehow gave rise to a civil suit filed in Decatur.  The criminal case was 
disposed of this way:


  • Breaking: We have a running mate decision from Kamala Harris. I'm a little surprised. 

  • The stock market going down was much ado about nothing.  After it, the S&P is still up 9.46% year-to-date and up 14.79% over the last 12 months.

  • Trump and the stock market:
    • When it is up (from January):

    • Yesterday: 

  • The $345,250 Man has reinstated the one Texas Ranger who has been suspended since Uvalde -- suspended with pay by the way. DPS refuses to take any responsibility for that cluster.

  • Carroll ISD, which has been taken over by Patriot Mobile school board members, has named its new superintendent. 

    • Where have we heard of him before? Oh, yeah. He's from the crazy Granbury ISD:

  • No deaths, however.

  • Kind of legal nerdy stuff: They would have made this one a DWI case if it was just a regular Joe. But losing your job for a PI is probably an equivalent punishment. 


  • Insurrection news: 
    • One of these days, all of these people will pay for the Insurrection. I hope.  

    • This nutcase will get his toys back.  Specifically, his helmet and spear. And, legally, he should have them returned to him since the government didn't make forfeiting the property as part of his plea deal. 

      • Sidenote: He pled guilty and was sentenced to a 41 month sentence to the charge "of obstruction of an official proceeding, a charge which has since been largely invalidated by the Supreme Court in the cases of Capitol riot defendants."
  • The Business Second™. UTA has purchased 51 acres in Parker County (barely) to open up a satellite campus. Artist rendering:



  • Sports: It took an a while yesterday, but the silver medalist of the women's 5000 meters was disqualified -- and then reinstated -- in Paris. Here's slow motion video of the disputed contact. The eventual silver winner (Faith Kipyegon of Kenya on the inside) had been disqualified for obstructing Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay (on the left and facing Kipyegon in this photo). 

  • Tim Walz is the first person on a Democratic presidential ticket not to have attended law school since Jimmy Carter in 1980. Good. 



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8.05.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Jerry sure has dodged a bunch of scandals. 

  • What's weirder?: (1) RFK, Jr. picking up a dead bear cub in rural New York with intent to eat it but then dumping it hours later in Central Park?, or (2) Him creating a video with Roseanne Barr -- of all people -- and releasing it yesterday in order to admit the story before the New Yorker could publish it this week?


    • Holy cow, the New Yorker moments ago released the story, and they have a photo of RFK, Jr. posing with the dead cub at the time. 
    • The story of dead bear cub in Central Park was big news 10 years ago and CNN even covered it along with the New York Times. And you want to know something suspicious? The author of the NYT story at the time is RFK's first cousin: 
  • The false claim that the Algerian boxer, who was born a woman, was actual a trans person was embarrassing for all those making that assertion..  You just knew that two representatives from Wise County would look like bumpkins as they were the first to jump on the dog pile. 




  • Sheesh.

  • Trump had another stellar weekend:
    • He praised Putin. “By the way, I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for having made yet another great deal. Did you see the deal we made?”
    • Decided it would be a good idea to trash the very popular Republican Governor of Georgia while in a rally in Atlanta. That's one way to lose a swing state.

    • And he officially backed out of the debate with Kamala Harris on ABC.

  • Remember the plea deal for the 9/11 guys who have been held at Guantanamo Bay for decades without a trial? Well, never mind all of that. 

  • Remember Kyle Rittenhouse not supporting Trump? Never mind that, too.

  • Tarrant County legal stuff regarding a shooting in a parking lot after a Dallas Cowboys game years ago: The guy's first case ended up in a murder conviction but was reversed on appeal due to jury instruction errors. Upon retrial last week, the jury convicted him of the lesser included offense of manslaughter (reckless killing.)  The punishment phase has started and continues today. Prosecutors: Matt Rivers and Peter Gieseking. Defense lawyers: Pam Fernandez and Abe Factor.  The defendant testified in his own defense (smart move).


  • Sports quick hits: 
    • Cool time lapsed photo of the 100 meter final yesterday.

    • That was quick. 


    • Why is Troy Aikman wearing red glass while inside and doing an ESPN interview?

    • Simone Biles spoiler alert for the balance beam this morning. 
  • The Business Second™. If you think Kamala Harris has anything to do with the stock marker pulling back Friday and this morning  - which is long overdue, you're delusional. 


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8.02.2024

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

I'm sorry that there is an "automatically play next video" feature now on Twitter. Blame Elon.
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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I'm not finding that any criminal case was ever filed in court against the guy. His bond was "released" on 12/17/15 which would happen if a decision was made to decline the case for prosecution or if no-billed by the grand jury. 

  • Gold.





  • Oh, my! Simone Biles from the top rope!

  • Bad lawyer. "The Texas attorney who was arrested on charges of attempting to buy the unborn children of Tarrant County inmates led an adoption agency whose accreditation for international services was canceled in 2019. Jody Hall, 68 — a Texas-based family and immigration attorney — was booked into" jail on a Tarrant County warrant.

  • Legally, this is pretty wild. The trial judge who just finished presiding over the case decided (PDF) that he shouldn't have let an expert witness on damages testify and decided that the jury's award was calculated because they relied soley on his testimony.  (Here's a great thread explaining it.)

  • This story dropped a few moments ago by the Washington Post. It's pretty wild.

  • MAGA darling Kyle Rittenhouse announces his presidential choice and it is not Trump.


  • My love of newspaper front pages takes another body blow.


  • The Business Second™. This confused because I figured Austin was booming. But it looks like Southwest is cutting into their business.


  • Flashback: 30 years ago this week.

  • 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 28 days.



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