8.21.2026

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts



I've been after Tim O'Hare, now Tarrant County Judge, for a long time. 

  • It is Day Three of the LiberallyLean.com URL Crisis.  Tell your friends and tell your enemies, you can still get here by going to WiseCounty.com or skattershooting.blogspot.com .   EDIT: Our long national nightmare is over. Everything is now back to normal. 
  • The Motion for New Trial hearing continues in the track meet stabbing case.  But, for what it's worth, I don't think an agreement to keep out likely inadmissible evidence damaging to both sides is unusual at all.   I've done it a few times before by just a verbal agreement with a prosecutor -- but you have to trust the prosecutor. 

    • An interesting side note was the Collin County's PR Director testifying that he got chewed out by a prosecutor and the judge in private meetings and then being fired. 
  • Despite legal victories, I'm still interested in whether Gateway Church survives this scandal.  And I'm beginning to believe that it just might. 

    • Side note: That's a lot of lawyers. 

  • Meanwhile, in Wichita Falls . . .

  • This happened a couple of days ago, but now a video of it has been released.  It was not what I was expecting.




  • It's the first time they've lost a defamation lawsuit in more than 50 years. But this was also the verdict of an "Alabama jury" so it's far from over. 

  • "An American tourist fell to her death from the 18th floor of a five-star Cancun hotel as her inconsolable husband told staffers afterward that his wife had done something 'outrageous.' The woman, who has not been identified, plunged 150 feet in the fall that happened at the adults-only, all-inclusive Breathless Cancun Soul Resort & Spa late Thursday night, Mexican outlet Sipse reported."


  • Late yesterday:


  • Blame it on the Heat Dome. 


  • Someone will definitely try to drive with that thing attached. 


  • There is something really weird about Trump's social media gal.




  • Trump is probably making all this up this morning but, if true, I don't think he understands what "help our ranchers" means. 

  • Man, that guy buys a lot of property.  He has homes in on 1,400 acres in Hawaii and on Lake Tahoe and many more. 

  • Seems excessive.


  • Rightly or wrongly, the Sooners believe in him. 


  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 47 days.


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8.20.2026

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Never was something going to end up so wrong. 

  • Technical Issue Update: The URL of liberallylean.com is still in a hostage situation.  But you can get here by going through WiseCounty.com or, use its original URL of skattershooting.blogspot.com .  I'm going to get this fixed.
  • After a couple of months of use, it appears that the acoustics in the district courtroom in the newly renovated Wise County Courthouse are a major problem. And it's a weird one.  You can hear a pin drop from across the room, but when anyone speaks they are muffled to such an extent that it is almost impossible to discern the words being spoken. 

  • There might be a new judge, but the chances of winning the Motion for New Trial are less than 1%. 


  • "Shortly before 6 a.m. . . . "


  • And another bike incident. 


  • He's warming up that book burning bonfire. 



  • Trump was showing off the "improvements" around the White House yesterday.  And he engaged in some crazy talk, as usual.

  • So this skin cancer cure might note be a fluke?

  • The Business Second™. 


  • Messenger - Above the Fold



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8.19.2026

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




The case was settled three months later. Terms were not disclosed. 

  • We've got a little technical snafu with Liberally Lean. You can still get here by going through WiseCounty.com .   But if  you try to get here directly via LiberallyLean.com, you can't.  This will be fixed in a couple of days at most.  Thank you for your attention to this matter. 
  • Update on the fire I mentioned yesterday morning.

     
  • The city manager abruptly resigned in Wichita Falls. He was paid $278,000 a year. 

  • These "law and order" Republicans are hard to figure out sometime. Story

  • Tarrant County's crazy county judge congratulates himself in the third person.  And he's full of it. All it takes to get admitted to the "bar" in the Supreme Court is filling out paperwork and paying $200.

  • We're not gonna make it!

  • "LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) - An Angelina County judge abused his position of power by requiring an employee to complete mandated justice of the peace training in his place, according to court records."


  • The New York Times is focused on Texas this morning: 
  • He's crazy.

  • There seems to be a lot of stories this morning on the real possibility of  a "cure" for skin cancer. 

  • Legal nerdy personal injury story that will interest some of you. 

  • Something about this incident makes me think there might be a lot going on here.  There was even an Aggravated Assault "report" that was "filed."

  • Police getting raises in Denton . . . 


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