Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Top: A funny picture of  Trump voting which I had forgotten about. Bottom: That's the Wise County numbers for straight ticket voting in 2016 (back when there was straight ticket voting by filling in just one circle at the top of the ballot.)

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• We have a mystery around Decatur. I've seen this photo in two places around the square. Both were located in very weird places (at the bottom of a poll about an inch off the ground and the other on a water drain about 15 feet above the ground), and I bet there ares several more of them. I have no idea why. 
  
  
  
• This morning: 
  
  
  
• And we don't even know the name of the bar. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dallas notable accidents yesterday:
• There is video of a car going off the High Five in Dallas.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Motorcycle death.
  
  
  
• Incredible. 
  
  
  
  
• Update from yesterday: The guy was in fact unarmed. "A physical confrontation occurred, and two officers – a field training officer and a recruit officer – fired shots." The field training officer was shot in the hand. 
  
  
  
• And he had to hear it come from this guy. 
  
  
  
  
• A ransomware attack at Vanderbilt. 
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth gave a press conference this morning to try and save his job from impeachment.
  
  
   
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Election News Updates:
• The race was finally called yesterday. I will miss her craziness. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Rep. Josh Hawley says you need to fast with him for a whole hour to cope with the mid-term results. (And here's a photo to remind you who he is.)
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Texas results by county proportional to number of votes in each county. This looks like Wise County was the second largest deep red county (only behind Parker.).  
  
  
  
• Give it up, hoss. 
  
  
  
• The four new Democrat justices for the Texas Supreme Court. 
  
  
  
• Very odd. Trump called into CSPAN yesterday and there was a weird female giggling sound in the background when the call began. Video.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

That photo will get you.  Danny White's funeral is tomorrow. Allen Williamson died in 2022.

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• If you think we will see a kinder and gentler Trump because of the mid-terms, think again. Never underestimate the rage of a rejected wannabe autocrat. Stephen Miller is now the most dangerous man in America:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There are many folks which will remember this story (worthy of a TV movie back in the day), but it was something. 
  
  
  
  
• A mass shooter in Poland this weekend led to some wild videos on the Internet. This one of the the end of it was wild.  
  
  
  
• Some Ole Miss gals decided to make monkey noises and gestures in front of a closed door apartment of a black student, but a Ring camera caught it all.  This will not go well for them. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "First responders conducting a welfare check forced entry into their downtown apartment, discovering Maria Teresa Spurger dead and Jimmy Spurger Jr. covered in blood." That isn't exactly a who-done-it like you would expect from a criminal investigator.  
  
  
  
• This happened overnight, but none of the reports say the 19 year old had a gun. 
  
  
  
• Trumpisms:
• Stocks? 
  
• Trump obviously was deep in thought about the mid-term losses this weekend. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  

  

  
  
• The video is old. It's already out there. You and the coach aren't together any longer. I think I'd let this go. 
  
  
  
• It's UIL football playoff times, and I've found my favorite matchup in 4A.
  
  
  
• The Messenger has a fantastic tribute to former jack-of-all-trades employee Mack Thweatt who, along with his wife, was killed in a horrible wreck on FM 1810 last week.  

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

And the brutal marathon began. 

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• We have an arrest and a confession in Wise County's newest murder case. Gift link. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• There was a head-on wreck on FM 1810 just east of Chico last night. Two elderly people were transported by Air Evac while one child was transported by ground ambulance. 
  
  
  
• We almost had a school drowning yesterday morning. 
  
  
  
• Wise County needs an active and local Democratic Party with leadership.  It could be be called on to make suggestions for various appointments over the next four years by the governor's office. 
• It's not much of a consolation prize for him, but there were at least three not guilty verdicts in there: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Well, this is odd. Trump's Justice Department is snooping around in the internal workings of the Supreme Court about something that probably isn't even a crime. 
  
  
  
• Election Quick Hits: 
• The only person in this picture not kicked out of office was Dustin Burrows. 
  

  
  
  
•  Gina Hinojosa had her first press conference yesterday. 
  
  
  
• That's a really good question.  
  
  
  
• The borders will be fine, but state troopers will no longer see the overtime pay gravy train that was Operation Lone Star. 
  
  
  
• Incredibly surprising fun fact. 
  
  
  
• Crazy Ronny Jackson won re-election as expected, but the margin of victory was slashed by 16 points from 2024. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Ted Cruz was on Hannity and said that "I went to Best Buy this afternoon, I walked in and three people there were almost in tears expressing shock."
  
  
  
• Let's check on Trump yesterday and his messaging for damage control for the election disaster. 
  
  
  
• Pete Hegeth put out an embarrassing five minute video yesterday to try and save his job. It was al done for an audience of one. 
  
• The Business Second™. The ugliest vehicle on the road is no more. 
  
  
  
• He rejected a plea bargain of eight years in the pen. I can see why.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: The lone federal judge in the Amarillo Division went off on a lawyer this week for AI usage and for just being a bad lawyer. And he even mentioned her by name. (Full PDF.)
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 126 days.