Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

7.11.2016

Death and Politics

Highway traffic in Dallas comes to a halt as police escort the body of slain DART officer Brent Thompsonhttps://t.co/bNIgHWr6mg
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 10, 2016

Reese Witherspoon Cloned Herself

Or has a daughter.

The 10,000 Hour Rule?*

Edit: From the same game . . .

Tragedy strikes lunch, beer https://t.co/MOxiAI7IB1 pic.twitter.com/uFFwuHXFsS
— Deadspin (@Deadspin) July 11, 2016

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*The "10,000 Hour Rule" principle holds that 10,000 hours of "deliberate practice" are needed to become world-class in any field.

From The Official Twitter Account of the Texas Prosecutors Association

Someone explain this to me.

Open carry = Legal. Argue with police = Legal. Yet no matter what the police do, "no jury" will disapprove?

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Dan Patrick wasted no time in embarrassing us all on Friday by calling the Black Lives Matter protesters in Dallas "hypocrites". (Patrick's son is a judge in Houston and faces re-election from some guy named Robert Johnson. I don't know if the son is a good or bad judge, but I'd be concerned that he grew up with Dan Patrick as a role model.)
Radio talk show host Mark Davis continues his disturbing trend to the very, very far right. His contempt for the Black Lives Matter movement is over the top even going so far as to tweet, "'Peaceful' rallies spewing hatred of blacks, Jews, Muslims would be condemned for their content. Yet #BLM rallies are coddled, encouraged."
At Northpark Mall yesterday, some anti-Black Lives Matters protesters showed up. They looked like the "Git-Er-Done" movement.
I don't exactly know what Pokeman Go is but it sounds like that strange game of geocache that Mrs. LL has been playing for years.
The Baton Rouge police might want to throttle back a bit.
Lost in the Dallas tragedy: They still haven't found the SMU officer who reportedly drowned in Turtle Creek.
"Chewbacca mom sings Michael Jackson’s ‘Heal the World’ in wake of shootings." There have been a lot of tributes to the fallen Dallas officers but many are getting perilously close to "look at me".
This is pretty amazing - Parker County inmates "break" out of their cell to help a jailer who looked as if he was suffering a heart attack. Video.
Read somewhere on Friday: "I don't want black men killed by cops. I don't want cops killed by black men. I don't want kids killed in schools."

7.10.2016

Sunday Morning

7.09.2016

The Skies Opened Up Saturday Afternoon

Minutes later . . .

Above The Fold

Readable front page.

7.08.2016

This Week Has Beaten All Of Us Down. Let's Get Out Of Here.

More Audio Than Visual -- But Disturbing

I am so scared. pic.twitter.com/jw88QnKGXG
— Allison (@allisongriz) July 8, 2016

We Have An ID

#Breaking: Dallas gunman is ID'ed as Micah X. Johnson, 25. No known criminal history or ties to terror groups. https://t.co/svut88i3A7
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 8, 2016

Side note: How does an LA paper find this out before anyone else?

Edit: May or may not be him depending on the source:

Edit:

A Wise County Case That Will Never End

If I remember correctly, it settled right before trial but then the settlement fell though.

Then this happened:

Yesterday this happened:

It has more lives than the Terminator.

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Latest Dallas update: Twelve officers shot. Five dead. Two civilians hit. One suspect dead after a bomb carried by a police robot detonated.
I had a similar feeling after 9/11: I can't believe it was orchestrated and pulled off.
Dallas Police Chief this morning: "We don't feel public support on most days."
More: "Gunman was upset about police shootings, wanted to kill white people, especially white officers."
Fox 4's Shaun Rabb was the first one to come out and say, without saying it, there would be multiple fatalities. This was shortly before 10:00 p.m. He kept citing "my sources". I later learned he is married to a Dallas police officer.
The national Fox News inadvertently was the first one to report the shootings by showing footage of officers down in the street via split screen without knowing what they were broadcasting. (Video.)
Fox News also had the bombastic "Sheriff Clarke" on this morning who blamed the President for the shootings. Incredible.
Texas AG Ken Paxton tried to capitalize on the tragedy by immediately issuing a press release saying his office would provide all needed support. At that moment, officers were crouched behind police cars in downtown Dallas. And this morning he is at it again by showing up in Dallas and appearing on Fox and Friends. Buddy, there is nothing your office of spare lawyers in Austin has to offer. Not now. And not in the future.
Paxton, for some reason, pointed out that "I wasn't here when the Kennedy assassination happened in the sixties." He was 11 months old.
The most graphic video shows a shooter on the street and not elevated as many reports said. (The time stamp on the video was from around 11:50 last night and had a "courtesy of" banner. Was that live streamed by a private citizen and simultaneously broadcast by the local Fox 4 affiliate and others? If it was, we had the media broadcast a murder live.)
Fox 4, for almost an hour, had a tip line phone number on its screen. Unfortunately, the number was preceded by the words "For Information:" The number was to receive information - not get it.
The Fan was out of its league this morning. I flipped over during a Ticket commercial break and heard their soft piano return music. They said they weren't talking sports and opened up the phone lines. The first two callers said the Dallas shootings were in response to Baton Rouge, Minnesota, and many other police shootings. The host (who is black) basically remained silent. The other host (white) jumped in and said, "We are opening up the phones but his is not a day for platforms!" The black host said he was "torn" on the issue. A reporter from KRLD was invited on who basically said how can you talk about the shootings without bring race and retaliation into this.
Dallas Police were irresponsible identifying someone as a "suspect" last night. (He was quickly cleared.) They didn't even utilize the useless "person of interest" term:
If the media ended up paying Richard Jewell for misidentifying him as the person responsible for the Atlanta Olympic bombing, this guy is going to be paid. (The tricky part is that the media should be able to rely upon the Dallas PD to have its facts correct before releasing a photo of a suspect.)
He wasn't defamed? The Ticket's Corby Davidson called him a "killer" and a "murderer" on Twitter based upon the Dallas PD's information. (He later took the Tweet down).
A former Congressman handled the whole situation maturely and with a measured response:
The slain DART officer was the brother of the Navarro County DA.
In other news, the U.S. Capitol was just placed on lock down.
I still remember when a Dallas officer was shot and killed in downtown Dallas by a McDonalds in the late 1980s when racial strife was beginning to rise. If I remember that, I'll remember last night forever. And you will to.

Good, lord. On the heels of a fatal police shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge, we've got a new one in Minnesota. This video doesn't show the shooting but has the bizarre narration by the female driver with the image of her boyfriend dying as he sits in the passenger seat. She says the stop was for a traffic violation and that the soon-to-be dead man had a concealed carry permit.
This is not hard: Deadly force is a last resort. Police are supposed to be experts in defusing a situation -- not lighting the fuse.
Kudos to the attorney who challenged the red light camera "ticket" in Richardson, won, and received over $25,000 in attorneys fees. Those things are beyond illegal. To just label something as a "civil" case instead of a "criminal" case doesn't magically make all due process go away.
They still haven't found the body of the SMU police officer who presumably drowned in Turtle Creek.
Who knows what the back story is of the home invasion in Pleasant Grove but a woman sure got beat up:
Of Fox 4's "Trending Topics", two are ads and I'm not sure about #5:
A game warden killed the blind 30 year old alligator in Lake Worth because it was a "nuisance"? Oh, the irony.
"Bill O'Reilly reveals unseen photos of Barack Obama in traditional Muslim dress claiming they were taken at half-brother's wedding where he served as best man." So?
Misspelling in an email to courthouse employee which I want back: "I caught five strippers before sunset yesterday."
It was finally announced yesterday that the death of the president of the aTm-Commerce was a suicide.
The local DA in Baton Rouge immediately jumped to the defense of the police. That's one of the reason the Feds are on the way. (Broadcasting that you're part of a good-old-boy system will do that.)