6.18.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




I think this was the first inkling that DPS troopers would eventually become mainstays on the border. And do they mind? Nope. Just two years ago, they were making an average of $41,000 more a year in "overtime pay".

  • The Star-Telegram has the story on the wreck that killed a Paradise High student. We learned that the driver was 16 years old, also from Paradise, and the other two passengers were a 16 year old boy and 14 year old girl "from the Bridgeport area."

  • When she went missing, police said that she was "known to suffer from several medical conditions that necessitate regular medication and ongoing medical treatments." We don't know much about the case other than the headline (which is basically the state of local news these days.)


  • I really don't know anything about this case, but the defendant showing up on the front row of  a press conference where the prosecutor announces your indictment is a power move.


  • "This year is the first that the police department has introduced its own set of legislative priorities to the city council." They chose two horrible propositions: One is the laziest of police work and the other is a violation of innocent people to be left alone from unwarranted intrusion.

  • Wise County is still unrepresented in January 6th Insurrection prosecutions. I never believed we would go 0-fer in this category.

  • Oh, my. "[O]fficers noticed the white BMW had a 'hole in the front passenger windshield' and 'an entire arm on the front passenger seat' along with blood."

  • Wise County doesn't have its own juvenile detention facility and has to contract it out. They use Denton all the time. Is this the same one? 



  • Random photo I came across.


  • That's some next level taunting. 

  • Breaking entertainment news: Justin Timberlake was arrested for driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons last night.



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6.17.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




That was some foreshadowing. 

  • I presume these are related. A GoFundMe has been set up.


  • I think this story buries the lede.



  • I don't know why all the headlines about this say "accused." Heck, he admitted it. 



    • In his statement, says he has "walked in purity" since the event.  But he had a weird "confession" in a sermon to something else a few years back which no one has mentioned yet. 
  • The accessory-of-choice of the shooter of the greatest mass murderer in U.S. history is now perfectly legal based upon a Friday ruling. 


    • Legal nerdy stuff: I love how Sotomayor's dissent called out every single justice in the majority in one paragraph.

  • The white supremist leaning True Texas Project will have their party in the Botanical Gardens after all once the City of Fort Worth overruled their objections. (I was talking with someone at the courthouse before that announcement. Unless the Botanical Gardens was privately owned -- they aren't -- they couldn't cancel an event based upon content spewed by the group.)

    • In the meantime, crazy Louis Gohmert has backed out.  He'll speak at QAnon events , but not at this.

    • A faithful reader pointed out that Wise County's state rep-elect Andy Hopper promotes being endorsed by the True Texas Project on his website. 

  • Cops creating crime and catching some poor sap in a trap. He has already resigned.


  • No one is more upset about this than Ronny Jackson whose sole purpose for existence is being accepted by Trump. Video.


  • But Texas will still put you in a cage for possessing it. 

  • George Strait at Kyle Field in Aggieland is quite the sight.
  • Try to wrap you ahead around your twenty-something year old daughter stopping by to introduce you to the guy she's dating and it is Bill Belichick.

  • Watched Hit Man on Netflex. Thumbs up. 



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6.14.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Hey, Charlie, I need your press agent's name from back in the day.

  • A Fort Worth man was arrested last night for this threat.  And if you want to see the shocking (and I do mean shocking) details of exactly what he said, here you go. And if you think he was mad that Hunter Biden was prosecuted on the gun charge, you would be very wrong. 

  • "About 10:15 a.m. Monday, Flower Mound police officers and firefighters responded to a lawnmower rolled over into a pond near the intersection of Flower Mound Road and Clearpoint Drive, according to a police statement."


    • Side note: I noted that local news coverage has deteriorated in the last few years, and this is a good example. This event happened on Monday and we didn't hear about it until Thursday. And every news report just quotes from a police press release with no independent reporting.
  • Using a child as a prop sure won't help him in court.  But why does the FBI block out the kid's face? The child is blameless, of course, and his/her image might help identify the guy as much as anything else. 


  • He's being bribed in plain sight, and then he tries to hide it from you. 




  • Trump decided to disparage the city of Milwaukee yesterday, the home of the Republican National Convention. They city's newspaper took note today on the front page:



    • He made the remarks about the city yesterday in his return to D.C. where he was surrounded by worshipping lawmakers who once ran for their lives during the Insurrection.  This is all so mind-blowing to me.  He has a stranglehold on a party unlike almost anything we've ever seen. 


  • This court appearance didn't go well.  He even hijacked a car outside of the courthouse but crashed it after a few feet and then fled on foot. They caught him hours later in the middle of the night. 


  • Even crazy Don Huffines backed out of the True Texas Project convention yesterday. 

    • Did I mention that Wise County's state rep.-elect appeared on the True Texas Project's podcast?

  • A Congressman was doing some bits on the House floor yesterday.


  • The Big 12 is exploring some wild money-making ideas:
    • Selling a 20% interest in the whole conference to an equity firm.

    • Selling a sponsorship of the Big 12 name.  We could now have "The Dr. Pepper Big Allstate Conference Championship at AT&T Stadium." Seriously. 

  • Got my attention: R.E.M. surprisingly reunited last night for the first time since 2007 and performed an acoustic version of Losing My Religion. Video.

  • 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: 4 years and 346 days.

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