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2.27.2026

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

at 2:30 PM

5.30.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




A death sentence of a female I had forgotten about. Kimberly Cargill is her name
 if you want to Google her. 

  • It's a holiday. Everything is shut down. The is no Update. But, nonetheless, I'm here for you once again. 

  • I was just going to make this some Uvalde quick hits but it turned into . . .
  • Once those 911 calls of those little kids begging for the cops to come save them are released, people are going to lose their minds. I can't get over she said, "Please."
  • 19 police officers in the hallway. 19 dead kids. 
  • Can we stop saying the gunman was "barricaded" in the classroom, and that officers eventually "breached" the door? He was behind a "locked" door which officers finally entered by using a "key" obtained from a custodian. 
  • The press conference by DPS Director Steve McCraw on Friday was bizarre.  The guy stumbled through it, getting confused, and appeared to be such in the middle of a health/mental crisis that one reporter actually asked him if he was OK. But no one is talking about that because of the shocking information he provided. Nevertheless, if I had to guess, I bet he "retires" in the next six months.  (I encourage you to watch the raw footage of the entire press conference today.)

  • And the moment that made the biggest headline is when McCraw specifically said it was the "wrong decision" not to go in.  But that was not in his prepared remarks. He just blurted that out in response to a question. I'm not sure that was his plan, but he was so rattled it just came out. (Video of that moment.)




  • He specifically called out the "commander" of the crime scene for waiting over an hour before allowing officers to go in and kill the gunman. And then, in response to another question, said that commander was "The chief of police of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District."That police chief is Pete Arredondo who hasn't been seen in a couple of days. He was standing in the background at some point based on this New York Times photo, but I'm not sure when this was taken.


  • Arredondo was elected to the Uvalde City Council on May 7th.
  • The Consolidated ISD PD hosted an "Active Shooter" training in March.

    • And this from the training: 


  • I almost felt sorry for the other police chief who is the head of the Uvalde Police Department which is different than the police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated ISD Police Department. But any sympathy went away when he released a statement saying he's thankful that his officers who did respond weren't killed. Tone deaf.

  • This is the only time I've heard that DPS troopers were part of the 19 officers. But legislators screw up facts pretty often. 

  • The 18 year old shooter had purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition and no one batted an eye.
  • The problem in this case is the AR-15. It can fire so fast and is so powerful that a single kid can hold off an army of cops.  If they are so scared of it, maybe it shouldn't be publically available. But, admittedly, there are so many out there it's a lost cause.  Your children will continue to be sacrificed on the altar of the Second Amendment, the NRA, and the Almighty AR-15. 
  • Random photo from over the weekend.

  • Texas is a killing field.
    • Sutherland Springs church: 26 dead.
    • Santa Fe High School 10 dead.
    • El Paso Walmart: 23 dead.
    • Odessa/Midland: 7 dead.
  • Yep.

  • One suggestion has been to "arm teachers." Sheesh. We had 19 armed and trained officers who wouldn't engage the shooter - the most basic function of their job -- but we think arming teachers so they can perform that same task they never wanted to do in the first place is the answer?
  • Here are two cowards. 


  • The guy went to two Ivy league schools, his wife is a partner at Goldman Sachs, he lives in one of the richest neighborhood in Houston, and he goes to Cancun at the drop of the hat when the masses are freezing. Yet he complains about the "elite" at an NRA convention held two days after the slaughter of children.

  • Trump did a little dance at the NRA convention.

  • The Justice Department won't do anything, but at least we will learn even more about how bad it was. 

  • So what about the lies we were told in the beginning? Gov. Abbott says he was "misled" and the facts and that he was "livid" about it. I don't know if he is telling the truth, but either scenario is not pretty: (1) Abbott is lying to us now, or (2) police thought they could lie to Abbott and get away with it in the most important investigation in decades. 

  • If Sandy Hook didn't change anything . . . . 





at 8:29 AM

10.22.2021

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Rick Perry was going hard after Mitt Romney as we were a year out from the election. It would be a couple of weeks later when Perry will have his infamous "oops" debate moment.   

  • That's simply awful: Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of Rust in New Mexico and it killed a film crew member, Halyna Hutchins, 42. The only other time I remember this happening was with Brandon Lee in 1993.

    • Thank God we don't have a certain president with a Twitter account who almost certainly would say something cringe-worthy offensive this morning. 
  • The cause of death of a UT linebacker was released yesterday.

    • A Texas lawmaker was able to somehow blame brown people. 

    • And to be clear, the quoted portion was from the Ehlinger family attorney. To call it "prescription anti-anxiety medication" is a little misleading.  That simply means that Xanax -- the unlaced kind -- can be obtained via a prescription. 
  • So the official cause of death of these three people found dead after hiking was revealed yesterday to be "hyperthermia and probable dehydration." And we are supposed to believe that's what killed all three of them and their dog? I suppose that's possible, but it is weird. They were found last August on the Hite Cove Trail in California. 
    Picture from an earlier date. 

    • But I will admit the most dehydrated I ever got -- to the point of being very concerned -- was a simple five mile flat hike in Palo Duro Canyon about 10 years ago. It caught me me completely off guard. And this was in the middle of my half marathon days when I was in very good shape. I still don't know what happened, but when your body needs water it really needs water. 
  • The Supreme Court denied a stay of execution last night in a case where, get this, the guy missed the deadline of choosing how he wanted to die. The State wanted to kill him in an alternative way. Good lord. 

    • I feel this in my bones:

  • This is really a screwed up process with this Steven Bannon subpoena situation.
    • With a normal subpoena issued in a court case, someone like Bannon files a Motion to Quash the subpoena. The court then holds a hearing to determine if there is any basis for the subpoena to be declared invalid (here, the Executive Privilege claim), and the whole matter is summarily dealt with. Simple and sweet. 
    • But here, the process is (1) Have the full House vote to pursue criminal contempt, (2) The Attorney General then decides if he wants to file a criminal case, (3) he gets an indictment if he does, (4) Bannon gets to argue the actual defense of a "good faith basis" (his Executive Privilege argument) to the criminal charge, and (5) he's either convicted or not. That will take forever.  And even then whether there actually is an Executive Privilege in this situation has not been decided -- just whether he had a good faith basis to believe it. 

    • As to the merits, I despise Steve Bannon but he probably has a "good faith basis" when he's hired a lawyer who tells him he has a good faith basis. And the lawyer's argument of Executive Privilege is far-fetched, but doesn't fall in the category of ridiculous. 
  • This is so legally nerdy that you have to be in the business to appreciate just how bizarre it is: The Dallas Court of Appeals just had to reverse a case because at trial the defense lawyer, prosecutor, and the judge all believed someone who is convicted of a basic State Jail Felony is not eligible for probation. Incredible. 
  • I ignored the first video I saw of this teacher doing an "Indian dance" in class because I figured there had to be an explanation. Now there's another one. She's a mess. Story.

  • Here's a random silly felony criminal case I saw out of Houston yesterday. Yep, a prosecutor managed to get an indictment from a grand jury for assault by bananas. It was later dismissed because the prosecutor magically decided he couldn't prove that being hit with bananas caused pain -- a necessary element. That's probably something he needed to think about beforehand. Put it on my tombstone: "Too many cops. Too many prosecutors." 

  • And another. My continuing bullet point of people-getting-rich-in-the-warehouse-industry.

  • What you saw in the Mavericks game last night is exactly what you are about to get. That was no fluke. 
  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 842 days.
  • Messenger: Above the Fold



at 8:29 AM

10.10.2018

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts



  • Pretty wild story out of Fort Worth (although I'm not sure what the definition of "rich" is these days.)
  • Kanye is having lunch with Trump tomorrow at the White House. As Jimmy Kimmel said last night, I wish that was on pay-per-view. I'd pay.
  • Do we have to treat every hurricane like a pending Armageddon? 
    "She was not treating it like Armageddon."
  • You've seen the "Stop Forced Annexation" signs in Wise County. To do so, would you vote for or against this proposal as it appears on the ballot?: "Changing Wise County from Tier 1 county status to Tier 2 county status for purposes of municipal annexation as described by Chapter 43 of the Texas Local Government Code." Confusing? A bit. You have to vote "for" to be "against" forced annexation. That's why the ad campaign tries to clear it up:
  • There have been 114 Supreme Court Justices. All but three have been white. All but four have been male.
  • We know. We know. We know. 
  • At least the "Proud Boy" Texas lawyer (who made an appearance in Wise County a year or so ago) is honest about Trump being his fascist leader. But he sure doesn't like people saying mean things about him:
  • In four weeks, a Texas high school football record will be set: Allen (the largest school in Texas at 6,664 students) plays Plano West (the second-largest school in Texas at 5,654 students). With a combined 12,318 students, there's never been a larger face off. In other news, Boyd will play Paradise this Friday.
  • Pulp Fiction's dance scene set to Devo's Whip It
  • Of all the elected District Attorneys in Texas, only four will face an opponent in November.
  • What's the cost of that treatment? (I might have to chair a Death Panel in my home -- with the Chair yielding unlimited power -- if this happens. Uh, too dark?)
  • UN Ambassador Nikki Haley shockingly announced she will be leaving at the end of the year. Her and Trump promise everything is great between them, but there's a tweet for everything: Flashback to 2016 when Haley was a "Never Trumper". 
  • "I'll take an extra R, Pat." 
  • What would you do if you are a Plaintiff's lawyer, won a million dollar verdict for your client against an apartment complex, and lost on appeal in Dallas where two of the three judge panel who ruled against you had received political donations of "$2,000 from the Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC and the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas PAC" a month before they were assigned the case? Answer: Criticizing the judges didn't work out. (Warning: The link goes to the Dallas Observer so your web browser will slow down to a snail's pace due to all the crap they have on there.)
  • It's becoming clear that the Saudi government murdered a Washington Post contributor in Turkey. And, of course, we won't do anything. Saudi Arabia always gets a pass.
  • This government search warrant affidavit, linked to by a USA Today reporter yesterday, is almost a primer on buying illegal stuff on the darknet (i.e. Silk Road.) You learn about Tor, Bitcoin, a list of sites that sell drugs, and pitfalls to avoid. The feds are after a U.S. citizen who spends an inordinate amount of time in Costa Rica.
  • Messenger: Above The Fold.
  • What? People decided to go to the State Fair yesterday?:




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