10.08.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts






I had forgotten how we went all Ebola crazy around here. 

  • This video was released yesterday. Quick hits: (1) I think there's some medication involved instead of "just alcohol" - he's really out of it, (2) he was treated much better than your average Joe during the traffic stop especially when the arresting officer quickly tells him, "We'll get through this", and  (3) The arrest on video was just for Public Intoxication and not DWI. I'm guessing that the higher ups later said, "There's no way we can get away with just that."

  • That little blurb I had yesterday about the rapid increase of Hurricane Milton turned out to be exactly right. That thing got big in a hurry. But it actually has decreased this morning to a Category 4 while the "eye re-forms." 

    • Not mincing words here:
  • "Aircraft registration documents indicate the plane is a 59-year-old Champion 7EC."



  • He was at his own birthday celebration.  Story. 

  • A  "safety team member" of a church to our north made up a story about a potential threat from a man "wearing a full turban", fired his gun, and then called police so he could be considered a hero. 


  • This happened a week ago but only today made its way to the front page of the Wichita Falls paper. But get this: Not only was the trooper off-duty, but he just happened to collide with "an off-duty investigator for the Wichita County District Attorney's Office."



  • Politics: 
    • She gets crazier and crazier. 

    • Trump smiling while posing yesterday as he held a photo of a kidnapped victim during a remembrance ceremony regarding October 7th in Israel.  


    • Kamala Harris did a 60 Minutes interview last night but the show's opening explained that Trump had accepted their invitation but then backed out. And they kept the receipts. Today, Harris  is in New York and will be on ABC’s “The View,” SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” and CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

  • Not to get all morbid on you, but a better quality of the  video of the judge shooting in Kentucky was released over the weekend. 

  • The Business Second™. The return of warehouses as a big one built just last year in western Fort Worth off 820 just got snatched up by Google. 

  • Criminal Law exam from Harvard in 1871.  Questions 6 and 7 are wild. 

  • They still haven't caught Seth Altman -- the guy who was the subject of the the 5:00 a.m. Blue Alert last week.



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10.07.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I was complaining about the heat 10 years ago, too.
  • He didn't need this. 


    • Flashback: He's had so much trouble before that he was even a redemption story on HBO's Real Sports as he was coming back from a prison stint. 

  • Here we go again.  It hit a Category 4 moments ago. 



    • This got my attention this morning, but I honestly have no idea if is is true.

  • It is the one year anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel -- which doesn't excuse everything that Israel has done in response. 

  • The Dallas Morning News says Wise County is screwed with Andy Hopper set to represent us. 


  • Trump went back to Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday and in between lying about the election, the federal response to Helene, and saying that any member of the audience would get hurt if they admit to voting for Kamala Harris, we were provided with some great images of Elon Musk.




  • Man, there is so much of it that even the local paper ran a front page story trying to fight it.

  • I think these domestic abuse campaigns are nothing more than an excuse for one elected official  to promote another elected official. Here it's the Republican DA promoting the Republican County Judge. That former Tarrant County DA use to do it with "Not In My County" signs. 

  • Look out, it's the First Monday in October so they are back in session.

  • The second most amazing thing about Vanderbilt's upset win over Alabama is that seconds after the gun sounded, they played Nick Saban's comments of “The only place that’s not hard to play in the SEC is Vanderbilt.” Video.

  • It is the last day to register to vote in Texas. 

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10.04.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Might have missed on that one. 

  • Like the DFW media, I completely missed this fatality yesterday morning. The Messenger had it, but I didn't see it. I failed you as the most trusted newsman in the southwest proper. But what an awful week for local law enforcement. 

     



    • And it's a little bizarre he was responding to a wreck on heavily traveled 287 which involved a wreck involving a person from Bridgeport and a person from Decatur. The Messenger has that story which also involved a fatality.
  • Toilet paper crisis avoided. That's about the shortest strike that I can recall. 

  • Did all of you get out of bed at 4:55 a.m. to go look for Seth Altman? 


  • Good. She's an Insurrectionist nutcase working at the state level and admittedly would do it all again. And her sentencing hearing was wild as she argued with the judge. He finally had enough: “You are no hero . . . . You are a charlatan who used your prior position to pedal a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again” 


    • Two years after this interview, they are now both in the hoosegow. 

       
  • Everyone needs to just calm down these days. Story.

  • Every time there's a Netflix documentary released about a high profile case, some D.A. always overreacts. This happened in the Bernie case out of of East Texas as well. 


  • The guy's always been weird, but I'm not sure he's that weird. 

  • Just when I was told to worry about Haitians because they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the pets of the people that live there . . .  

  • Two high profile Kamala Harris endorsements yesterday based upon the fact that Trump is simply not an option.
    • "Donald Trump is the most dangerous presidential candidate in my lifetime. His disdain for the sanctity of our Constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him for office." - Bruce Springsteen


    • “Yes, Trump is divisive and animated solely by his own grievances but that is not why Harris must defeat him. Trump wants to destroy the system that reins him in. He is a threat to our democracy. This is the only reason any voter needs to vote for Harris.” - Liz Cheney


  • So what exactly are you trying to say?


  • 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 91 days. 



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