6.25.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts





This photo should have become more iconic. The lady in the car certainly was the clincher.

  • This is an interesting investigative technique by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office: "Hey, public, we saw blood on a guy's truck after a traffic accident. Anyone know anything?"


  • Ronny Jackson is is in the news and, once again, not in a good way.
     


  • Lauren Boebert is up for election today for the first time since the Beetlejuice play scandal and switching districts. 


  • More Hooter's carnage.

  • I still don't know what I think about the Fort Worth Fire Department sending out a professional photographer every time there's a dramatic fire, but the guy can certainly take some good photos. (Facebook link.) 



  • I saw this photo along with this story.  That's a portable breath test in the photo, and the results of it are not admissible in court. So why do the police do it? I think that's a great question. Generally, I suspect police use it when they aren't sure of intoxication after performing the field sobriety tests. 


  • That's one heck of a way to pull off a Medicare scam in Houston.


  • The Evil Empire reacted to the Aggies making the World Series final.

  • Very nerdy legal stuff relevant to stuff in the news: 
    • Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a federal law was constitutional when it prohibited a person from possessing a firearm if a person is subjected to a Texas domestic violence protective order ("PO").  
    • But the only reason that case got to the Supreme Court is that the federal law was triggered when a state PO was issued because there was a finding that there was a future “credible threat to the physical safety of an intimate partner or child.” See 922(g)(8)(C)(i).
    • The Texas PO triggered that federal law because Texas law required that the judge can only issue the PO if he finds that domestic violence is "likely to occur in the future."  
    • But, get this, that is no longer the the law in Texas. The requirement that judge make a finding that domestic violence "is likely to occur" was deleted effective 9/1/23.  

    • So now a domestic violence protective order in Texas shouldn't trigger the federal gun ban at all. 
  • .I told you that ransomware attack of the software that most car dealers use was a big problem. And it's not going away . . . 

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6.24.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




And the opinion was shockingly simple: "Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to arrest is simple - get a warrant/"

  • I'm not sure what Brookshires did to someone, but there were also bomb threats over the last three days in stores in Brownwood, Tyler, and Arkadelphia (AK), and Bossier Parish (LA). There were also initial reports of the same thing happening in Azle and Alvarado.

  • We've got some evidence that the elders at Gateway knew about Morris' past several years ago.

  • I bet the full story is a little more murky that just a hate crime.  "Witnesses told police that 42-year-old Elizabeth Wolf was drunk and got into a fight with a woman before taking one of her young children and pulling her underwater."


  • We had another mass shooting on Friday. Another person died at the hospital yesterday:



  • I'm telling you, there is something strange going on with the self-proclaimed smartest guy in the room. Story.


  • I haven't seen anything on the news about this incident at Eagle Mountain Lake on Saturday.

  • These announcements from statewide CLEAT always precede any news coverage. Sounds like a wild police chase in Fort Worth this morning.

  • Parts of Iowa are under water. Big water.

  • Pour one out for Hooter's in Wichita Falls.


  • Video. 


  • Most final championship games can be classified as "must wins." I'm pretty sure the same holds true for Tennessee.

  • Back on  May 14th, there was a horrible accident in Wise County on 1810 which killed a young woman and three of her young children.  I noticed that the funeral happened earlier this month in Denton.



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6.21.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Just a flashback to the day.

  • It's been a bad week for pastors.

  • Southlake has a new police chief after promoting from within.


  • Mark Cuban had to have known who he he was selling to, right?

  • We've got a presidential debate next week and there will be TV coverage unlike what we've seen in a while.

  • I think she needs to be worried about his desire to steal the spotlight.


  • The pandering is so bad that it's painful.

  • The biggest threat to Texas schools in your lifetime:



  • This is quite the con. "Matthew Brown, owner of Fort Worth-based Matthew Brown Companies LLC, even made appearances on CNBC to falsely tout that he was an 'experienced venture capitalist' with “investments in over 13 different space companies” and sent a fake screenshot of his company’s bank account to Virgin Orbit executives."


  • KRLD is joining the right wing talk show market, and one employee says he's gone because of it.

  • This may be an under-reported story despite, well, being covered pretty well.  


  • 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 352 days.

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