9.10.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




This remains one one of the weirdest cases out of the Wise County Sheriff's Office.

  • A police chase of a stolen daycare van isn't something you see every day. Video.


  • Nice pay check for being forced out of your government job in Wichita Falls.


  • I had a huge question form over my head yesterday when I kept seeing various right wing posts about cats being eaten by immigrants in Ohio.  It didn't take long to track down.   It's another Internet hoax that took on a life of it's own. Most of it appears to have originated from a story last month which had nothing to do with immigrants. 




    • It's painful how they either just knowingly spread lies or are just the most gullible people in the world. But, either way, a claim of immigrants eating cats has a nice racist ring to it that they simply refused to pass up. 


  • Video here.  There is no situation which leads to unnecessary police-citizen escalations than not complying within micro-seconds of a demand from an officer to get out of your car. It was the origin of the Sandra Bland story a few years back.   

  • At 8:00 p.m. tonight. 


  • One of the most sensational cases in America will have to wait a little longer. 

  • It's been a long time coming, but the police raid based upon lies that lead to the death of an innocent couple in Houston is finally going to trail. 


  • A work of art is on the cover of The Atlantic. 

  • Free gift link from the Washington Post about a kid out of Stephenville. You cannot let your kid drop out of school and let him lock himself into his room with unfettered Internet access. It is a recipe for disaster. But they just slapped an 80 year prison sentence on a 15 year old. 


  • I don't really follow Texas high school football that closely, but I like looking at "How The Top 10 Fared" on Saturday morning which lists the results of the games involving the current top ten ranked teams from all the divisions. It looks like the normally pretty accurate writers have misjudged some of the teams in one of the lowest division in Texas:

  • My Longhorn friends have asked me if I have paid attention to the "The Evil Empire" through the first two games. Why, yes, yes I have. If they don't win the National Championship and walk away with the Heisman Trophy then I hereby proclaim the season to be a complete failure. High Orangeblood expectations on the Forty Acres makes for the best college football season. 

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9.09.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Ten years ago, Tony Romo threw three interceptions in an opening day loss.

  • This was the driver who crashed into a home in White Settlement killing a high school girl.  His blood alcohol concentration was barely over the legal limit (0.085) so his criminal case, while challenging, was certainly not a lost cause.


  • Story.


  • We had an escape and capture with barely any news coverage of it. 


  • When you are too big of a fascist for Dick Cheney, then you have gone full fascist.

     

  • Neo-Nazis were on the Granbury town square this weekend. 

  • The party of "small government" continues to confuse me.

  • Random weird story.


  • Trump craziness over the weekend:
    • On Friday, he decided to oddly rant about, and call attention to,  the E. Jean Carroll verdict where he was found liable for sexually assaulting her. I don't know which was my favorite part: (1) being flanked by his lawyers while he said he was “disappointed in my legal talent to he honest with you” (video), or (2) him telling a story of unnamed woman who said he had sexually assaulted her on a plane -- saying he didn't do it because "she was not the chosen one." (video.)

    • On preparing for concentration camps and rounding up illegal immigrants: "Getting them out will be a bloody story." Video.
    • Weird post.

    • Weird NFL post (and proof he hasn't watched an NFL game in years.) 

    • He spent multiple posts claiming the upcoming election will be stolen and threatening to jail "donors" to Kamala Harris.


    • He made reference to Hannibal Lector again. Video.
  • Ted Cruz showed up to watch the final of the U.S. Open and the American lost. The Ted Cruz Curse continues. 

  • Let her out.  It was a 10 year sentence and she is "eligible" for parole after serving 1/2 of that sentence.

  • Barely makes headlines: A guy open fires from "three different perches" alongside a Kentucky highway on Saturday night and seriously injured five. He's on the run.



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9.06.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




It was the latter.

  • Georgia shooting developments:
    • We've got a photo of the 14 year old shooter. 

    • In our world of let's find criminal responsibility for everyone, his dad was arrested last night.   You want to charge the juvenile as an adult because he was mature enough to make his own decisions, but you also want to charge the dad for providing a gun because the kid wasn't mature enough to make his own decisions?

  • Hunter Biden, much to the shock of prosecutors, tried to enter a "No contest" plea at the last second yesterday in his tax case. But once the judge indicated he wouldn't accept that, Hunter entered a full guilty plea instead -- and without the benefit of a plea bargain. The best guess is that he will receive just under two years in the federal pen when sentencing occurs in December. 

    • President Biden, who still believes in the rule of law, has said he won't issue a pardon for his son.  
  • I've been meaning to mention this story where an off-duty Fort Worth officer was the victim of a hit and run, and ended up chasing the guy down and shooting him. Now . . . 

    • . . . local media has figured out the same officer was involved in a viral video in 2016 when he manhandled this group of people by their home for littering.  


  • Grand Prairie quick hits (?):
    • This guy has been the superintendent for only three months and is now suspended? I want to know what's going on, too, and I don't even care about Grand Prairie ISD.

    • We've got to see the mayor of Grand Prairie over the last couple of days due to a water issue, and my first impression was that he was very wheels off. But the man has grown on me.

  • Look at who wrote this article for D Magazine.


  • The MAGA and West Texas Oilmen PAC fanboys in the Texas legislature are after the House Speaker for trying to impeach Ken Paxton, so Phelan has done this:
  • News media development: I like this, but why start with Waco?
  • Trump quick hits:
    • Trump gave the most I'm-Winging-This-Like-A-Fake-Book-Report answer ever yesterday to a question about affordable child care. Here's the video. Here's the text: 

    • Oh, good lord:
    • Melanie has come out of hiding to hawk a new book in weird black and white video where she narrated it in her heavy accent.
  • The Kansas City Chiefs won their season opener last night (wild finish video here), but look what happened earlier in the day:
  • The new Dallas Observer cover story may interest those of you who are Ticket fans and/or followed the demise of The Freak:


  • 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 63 days.
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