9.24.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The father of  County Judge J.D. Clark died in an accident. He was only 52 at the time. 

  • "MONTAGUE COUNTY (KFDX/KJTL) — A man faces five felony charges after officials with the Montague County Sheriff’s Office said he ran over multiple vehicles with a 'monster truck' at Rednecks with Paychecks in Saint Jo, causing two victims to be hospitalized."

  • According to one of his childhood friends, former Decatur, TCU, and Chicago Bear football player James Maness has passed away at the age of 61. He was inducted into the TCU Hall of Fame in 2007. 

  • I understand Israel's state of rage over the past year, but they will be subject to attacks for decades to come for the way they've handled all of this. 


  • Dueling other headlines. Only one of the six defendants was found civilly liable and ordered to pay $40,000. 


  • Random historical tidbit: An actual poll tax receipt from Wise County from 1946. Source.

  • Trump from last night's rally:
    • He is really worried about how much women hate him. Video.

    • He's just going to round up people who are legally here because they look different. And the crowd eats it up. Video.

  • Legal stuff re the current status of the January 6th prosecution of Trump in D.C. federal court:  Because of the Supreme Court immunity ruling, they are trying to sort through which of Trump's acts were "official." To do so, prosecutor Jack Smith wants to file a 180 page brief to detail Trump's actions -- where the public would learn things we don't yet know. That's 4x the legal limit so he has to ask for permission (PDF).  Trump opposed that yesterday (PDF). 

  • The Business Second™. The last K-Mart store, located in Bridgehampton, New York, will close next month. That chain was the Walmart of the country when I was a kid. 


  • Obviously this is fake news from last night because I read on the Internet that Hamlin died because of the COVID vaccine on the football field last year and was replaced with a body double. 

  • I occasionally glance at the New York Post to see what propaganda they are spewing, and they didn't disappoint this morning with "Democrat talking points" . . . . 


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9.23.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




This was pretty big news at the time because it happened while it was at a college party. He said it was consensual and testified on his own behalf.  In googling his name, I found out that someone with his exact same name was licensed as a lawyer five years later. I don't know if it is him.
  • News in the capital murder case against Tanner Horner: Venue will be changed from Wise County to Tarrant County.  I think they have to. move the defendant to the Tarrant County jail "before" the "next term of court" which should be 1/1/25. But no trial date has been set yet. 

  • Speaking of not guilty verdict by a jury in a sexual assault charge, Wise County had one on Friday.  (CR23253 if you want to look it up in the county records.)
  • Ages 14, 24, and 49 in three separate incidences:

  • All we know is that a private group rented out a portion of the school and that the problem was caused by the air-conditioning was automatically shut off at 4:00 p.m. 

  • Story.

  • Israel.
    • Overnight. After destroying Gaza over the last few months, Israel is really focusing on Lebanon. The pagers were last week, and now this:



    • But they aren't down with Gaza as they bombed a school on Saturday.

  • If you wanted to know how Georgia voted on election night, you will have to wait for a very long time. The Trump majority on the five member state election board voted 3-2 to go back to the stone age.


  • She allegedly left her mom there for 24 hours to boot. 

  • This is interesting because he alleged that he was fired for signing an affidavit in support of a defense motion for transfer of venue saying he didn't think a defendant could receive a fair trial. This is the lawyer's profile. 


  • Trump
    • He say America is in shambles and we can't afford groceries, but he wants his groupies to fork over money on this grift of "Trump Coins"? Incredible. 


    • Making friends again.

    • Dear "depressed" women, he promises to fix you:

  • Two within 17 days fifty years ago.

  • Sports:
    • I'd be sad, not because of the score, because of my life decision of wearing that hat in front of my family. 

    • In a bizarre turn of events in the TCU/SMU game, the Frogs head coach was given two back to back unsportsmanlike conduct penalites and kicked out of the game. Then to make it weirder, offensive coordinator Kendal Briles, Art Briles son, suddenly became the acting coach of TCU.

  • I forgot to mention last week that the Messenger had a story of Wise County residents inundating the Sheriff's Office with questions about "Venezuelan gangs." So just in case you were wondering if OAN and News Max were inundating the viewing habits of our residents, we have our answer. 

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9.20.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Fox 4 anchor Max Morgan passed away 10 years ago this week.

  • The man shot and killed by Wise County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday night suffered from mental issues.  He was last in the news after carrying a gun near Paradise High School and then hiding in a gym wall for hours. 


  • Dateline Kentucky: Sheriff Mickey Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins in his chambers at the Letcher County Courthouse yesterday afternoon. Oh, my. 



  • Remember that huge pipeline fire earlier this week near Houston? It is now out, but they found the car below at the base of it  I knew the fire was started by a car striking the pipeline, but I had no idea that it, and its driver, were still there. 

  • Guns at the State Fair are banned - for now. Paxton has already appealed the case to the 15th Court of Appeals, the newly created court which now has exclusive jurisdiction of appeals for certain business disputes and disputes involving the constitutionality of a state statute.  That court is currently filled with every single judge having been appointed by Gov. Abbott in the last few months.

  • It's Scandal Day: 
    • This Republican nominee fired off some shocking comments on a porn site which CNN discovered. One of the uncensored one is here (don't look).  I don't think this scandal matters at all because morality, character, and hypocrisy no longer matters. 


    • RFK Jr. sure gets involved in all sorts of stuff.


    • There's always been rumors about this guy but a court filing last night might be the closest thing to actual proof so far. But, again, it won't matter. 

  • What could go wrong? Gift link.


  • The Business Second™.  Double non-trouble.

  • Funny yet accurate bit: Every college football rivalry in graphic form. And each school is geographically laid out 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: 5 years and 77 days.

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