8.27.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




This was about the peak of the Lake Bridgeport drought.

  •  Not sure what all is going on here:
    • Greg Swindell is a former Longhorn and MLB pitcher. From last weekend:

    • From this morning:

  • That's one serious water main break.



  • The pitchfork crowd is out for this guy, but let's remember he's legally entitled to a bond. And let's also remember we don't even know the blood alcohol concentration yet, and the DA doesn't even have enough evidence to go to a grand jury. And all these bond conditions aren't cheap. 


    • To start with, $750,000 bond itself probably will cost him $75,000 to a bonding company.
    • The SCRAM ankle monitor device which monitors for alcohol runs over $300 a month.
    • The interlock device is probably around $80 a month. 
    • And the reporting requirement to probation as a condition of bond is probably $60 a month or more. 
  • DPS has entered into a $5.3 million contract to a private firm which collects your location data from your cell phone. So how did the firm get the data? You've agreed to provide to the data to certain apps and the maker of those apps sold it to them. That firm took that data and created its own geo-fencing data which DPS wants. No warrant required. 

  • Trump began to waffle on Sunday on whether he would do the ABC debate at all and continued o do so yesterday.  I think he has to. It's simply too late to back out now of the 9/10 event.  In the meantime, the Harris camp says they want the mics live at all times (they think Trump can't control himself) while Trump's people want them off during not designated speaking times. 
  • A giant head of Elon Musk has been spotted in South Texas. 


  • A beer bash at home in McAllen where there was a cover charge was implemented leads to three arrests after a high school football player decided to jump from a roof to a pool but ended up dying in the process.


  • I must be guilty of living in my own online bubble, because I had never even seen a single word about these girls. Yet they somehow warranted a New Times Times story.


  • The school is UT-San Antonio. Here's its link to the program. 

  • Jerry finally signed CeeDee Lamb yesterday. Overall, it's a $136 million deal with $100 million guaranteed including $38 million up front.


  • This will be the first weekend of Texas high school football and that means there will be 750 games - the most ever. Source.



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8.26.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I was posting lots of old Bridgeport Index front pages back then. Those are total enrollment figures.

  • Our long state nightmare is over: The the $350,000 Man is calling it quits (after collecting a few more months of checks.)  


    • He deserves no accolades because he will only be remembered for DPS's role in Uvalde:

  • Something to think about as high school football season begins. 


  • Crazy RFJ Jr. "suspended" his presential race on Friday much to the chagrin of his crazy anti-vax supporters. Oddly, he said that he will keep his name on the ballot in non-battleground states because that way he can still win: "In fact, today our polling shows them tying at 269 to 269. And I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election." Moments later Trump said of the endorsement:  “It's big. He’s a great guy, respected by everybody.”


    • They were on stage later that evening where RFK got the mic and primarily praised Trump because, “I want to make America healthy again and so does President Trump.” I'm very confused.


    • But the best part of that Nevada rally was Kari Lake appearing on stage and getting messages on the teleprompter telling her to get off. Ol' Colton didn't get any action after the first one so he had to invoke Trump's name.

       

  • Members of the San Diego Charges got stuck in an elevator in the The Westin hotel in Dallas on Friday. "Fire department personnel were dispatched about 7:45 p.m., around when a 911 call was placed for an emergency where 15 people were trapped in an elevator at the hotel."  Fifteen?! Isn't their a weight limit on those things, 

  • When you struggle to pay for tuition at a public school this year, take some comfort in knowing that a dorm at SMU is a showplace.




  • She has to be tired of pretending to be giddy whenever the cameras turn on. Especially after she got this news. Remember that this trip, which began June 5th, was only supposed to last a week.


  • Insurrection update. The Granbury lawyer will be sentenced in January.  Here's a video she posted while the riot was going on. 

  • Trump turned into pro-choice on Friday? Yes, this is real.  

  • Those South Walton commercials are good

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8.23.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I can't believe I wrote 14 more bullet points back then on changing a tire, but I reread it and it's pretty funny. (Humble brag.) The unnamed man in the story was Allen Williamson, now deceased.

  • This happened east of Boyd last evening.


  • The Fort Worth Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed a burglary conviction out of Wise County with one of the issues being whether the following structure in Rhome constituted a "habitation": A "manufactured double-wide home [which] did not have electricity, had been used to store property, and had not had a full-time occupant since 2018 . . . ." The court said it did. The female defendant got 10 years in prison. 
  • This has to be one of those weird cases where someone looks way worse on video than you would expect for such a low alcohol test.  But normally that means it's a case where medication is also involved -  a fact which would normally work for the prosecution. But without getting a search warrant for blood in this case-- a process which is easy and commonplace these days -- the prosecution should lose this. 

  • Ann Coulter stepped in it yesterday. She quickly took it down once someone told her about the kid's issues. And, by the way, mocking anyone about crying with pride about your father is, uh, weird.

  • GOP VP candidate JD Vance had an awkward experience trying to buy some donuts yesterday, but his hairdo quickly grabbed headlines. 

  • Trump was looking a little haggard himself as he ran to the border.

  • DNC quick hits:
    • Great photo from last night. 

    • A Republican showed up to scorch Trump and how the Republican party has completely changed.  "The Republican party is no longer conservative. It has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself."

    • Victims of gun violence, including this Uvalde mom, spoke.

    • Pink (and daughter) as well as the Chicks were there, but rumors about a Beyonce appearance failed to materialize. 


    • Two incredibly cute kids (nieces of Kamala Harris) taught everyone how to say "Kamala." Video.  The girl in pink was in the first photo, above. 

  • Random photo I saw this week out of Springfield, Mass.

  • Deion is trying to get Saudi money.  Hey it worked for the LIV tour and Jared Kushner, so why not?

  • 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: 5 years and 49 days.


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