Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

9.14.2026

Three people were rethinking their life's choices after that one.

Multiple people were injured, one fatally, after a head-on crash on FM 51 near Greenwood on Saturday. (Facebook story.)
Former Tarrant County Republican Chair and current GOP nominee for Railroad Commissioner, Bo French, was widely condemned yesterday after posting a crowd shot from UT's game on Saturday night and complaining that there weren't enough white people in it. Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper, on the other hand, supported him.
Don't look at the gas pump prices this morning.
What are we even doing here? And the amount is rising.
It's chaos everywhere and for everything.
There is a lot more going on out there . . . .
This is real. This official White House account is thanking Trump for a slow hurricane season.
But tell me more about Hunter Biden's laptop. Story from the great ProPublica.
Former Messenger reporter.
Trump slept through the 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon on Friday before flying off to Ireland.

Somehow the Evil Empire came back and beat Ohio State on Saturday despite ESPN's Game Day letting Ted Cruz have 10 minutes live from Austin that morning. (He was booed relentlessly for those 10 minutes.)
Somehow massive underdog Oklahoma State beat Oregon this weekend, but if you were following it live you would have to have changed the channel from ESPN to ESPN2 to ESPN News during the course of the game.

Jerryism.

Wichita Falls Memorial's QB threw 8 touchdown passes against Decatur last night -- and lost.
A crazy number of wrecks happened in Wise County yesterday. They are documented here (Facebook link.)
There might be a different strait problem brewing.
I suppose these things are actually going to be commonplace in the near future.
This guy has been doing damage to Christianity for years. And yesterday he went full throttle at Trumpapalooza.
A headline that would have sent shockwaves a decade ago now barely even registers.
Trumpisms from last night in Dallas:

He lies right to their faces and they continue to worship him.
And pledge allegiance to him.
They made a strategic decision to put a bunch of adoring women in the background for two nights in a row.

In the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can't Happen Here, Sen. Windrip offers every American $5,000 if he's elected president. He's elected; Americans get a dictator but no paychecks.
This is the Star-Telegram owner, and there is some indication that newspaper was impacted.
The Law and Money:

Whoever was in charge of the sign in Decatur for the season opener in 2016 might have made it a little too stout,

You can walk into a store and legally buy weed in 24 states. Well, it's technically illegal under federal law even in those states but the federal government just ignores it. But the feds don't ignore it in those states which still haven't legalized it. Confused? You should be.
Oh, my.
There's a lot more going on out there than what we know about.
Trumpapalooza in Dallas:

It got off to a rough start in D.C.
Let's bribe everyone in broad daylight.
The man remains tone-deaf.
Ken Paxton spoke and reminded us that he has the charisma of a rock.
On the big scoreboard in the center of American Airlines Center. (I'm not sure why.)
Incredible.

The Business Second™. It's cool, but I don't know if it is two grand cool.
I was kind of hoping that Tony Buzbee would get tagged in this case, but he won't.
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