10.11.2016

Let's Check In On A Texas Representative


It's over. Just stop. Republicans: Save yourself from Trump. 


Edit: And then he panics . . .

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Man Survives Running Across Highway And Getting Tased While Doing It


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Former Rhome Police Chief Arrested On Wise County Warrants?





Parker County records search.

That looks like a local district court cause number on the warrant.  And the name matches. Other than that, I'm trying to confirm it.
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Referee vs. Aggie Cannon. Who Ya Got?

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Trump Unchained!

Get ready.

Edit: He's really mad.



Edit: Hey, I made a Silence of the Lambs reference this morning and then I see this:

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Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts


  • It's October 2016 and we still haven't seen a single resolution in any of the Waco Biker Twin Peaks cases. But there is one less defendant: One of them was killed while allegedly running from police on a stolen Harley in Gatesville.
  • Gatesville trivia: It has four prison facilities and one state jail facility -- all of them house women only.
  • Anyone watched the new Vice nightly news show? I forgot that it debuted this week. 
  • College Sports: (1) Aggie tried to choke that game away against Tennessee but it was fantastic to watch. (2) No one saw Tech almost have an insane last second comeback if their QB could have got that last throw off. (3) TCU better wake up. That was Kansas. A Kansas team that turned the ball over four times.  (4) That will go down as one of the least remembered OU/Texas games ever, and I hate that being the case. (5) Charlie Strong managed to accidentally get under the skin of two upcoming opponents when he said yesterday regarding the hurry up offense/spread: "When people saw what Baylor and TCU was doing with lesser athletes, everybody jumped on board." (6) I missed Kirk Herbstreit going off on UT ("who would want that job?" and it is a "cesspool") on ESPN's College Game Day. That's weird coming from ESPN. 
  • I get depressed when I think about how ALL CAPS guy's vote in the upcoming election counts the same as mine. Then I cheer up when I realize I can at least do my part to cancel out his attempt to participate.
  • I'm on record saying that virtual reality technology will change our lives in dramatic ways and it is coming soon. They talked about it on The Ticket this morning and brought up health consequences: Can you imagine kids coming home from school and putting on a headset with a visor and sitting there for three hours as they travel the globe and  time?
  • Blue Bell announced more recalls this morning. You know, I think they'll bounce back from this again. We've now reached the point that we believe anything on the grocery store shelf won't kill us from a contaminant. And who doesn't believe that?
  • Radio talk show host Mark Davis, who apparently would support Jame Gume so long as Hillary was on the other side, has for months been yelling at Republicans: "All hands on deck!" to support Trump. He now has changed it to, "If you aren't on board, get out so we can know who you are."  (This Republican stuff is like a kid seeing mommy and daddy fighting.)
    Jame Gume
  • Speaking of, he's at it again this morning: 
  • Paula Jones' incredibly odd appearance with Trump before the debate on Sunday made me recall James Carville's statement about her from a few years back: "Drag a hundred dollars through a trailer park and there's no telling what you'll find."  I don't know about that, but her voice could destroy a trailer park. 
    Not Jame Gume
  • And you guys yell at me for typos: 
  • A guy yelled bad words during Pete Delkus' forecast and that made Pete angry. They said it was just some drunk guy outside but Delkus' years of bad forecasting might have created the seed of what will soon be an angry mob outside the wall of windows of WFAA. 
 
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10.10.2016

Fort Worth Guy Hates or Loves Old Governor?




The object of his daring caper in the middle of the night?: Gov. Fletcher Stockdale. I was just talking about him over breakfast.


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Professor Arrested For Yelling At Arkansas Coach




Once you get past the "he's a professor?" story line, you might want to be a little scared that they will arrest you in  Arkansas for saying something which, although offensive, is constitutionally protected.
Story.
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Above The Fold



Full readable page.
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Random Monday Morning Thoughts

"You buy me zee furniture?"

  • I have seen two things in presidential politics I never dreamed I'd see: (1) The Supreme Court decided, on a 5-4 vote no less, who would win, and (2) a political campaign explode in one single hour of one single day. And make no mistake about it, it's over. 
  • I said over one year ago, time and time again, that we were watching the implosion of the Republican Party on the national level because of Trump. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. "Implosion" no longer accurately describes it. 
  • It was amazing to see Republicans distance from Trump over the weekend including Wise County's own house rep Kay Granger who says Trump should quit. 
  • As for the tape, I didn't know a playa's "go to" move was to take a gal furniture shopping. (The most overlooked comedic aspect of his remarks.) 
  • Billy Bush's little "How about a little hug for the Donald" after he had just heard what Trump said makes him worse than Trump. NBC has suspended him from the Today Show, and he may never work on that network again. 
  • That belated and begrudging endorsement by Ted Cruz could not have come at a more inopportune time.  And, lord, doesn't he want this photo op back:
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  • Down ticket elections will be interesting. For some reason I'm interested in a Houston district court judgeship held by Ryan Patrick who is the son of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.   It's basically a Democratic county to start with and now he has to deal with his dad, who can act crazy any way, being Trump's campaign chair in Texas.
  • And I wonder if the "aww shucks", Twitter loving Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett will someday have an opponent say, "And even Donald Trump had this man on his short list for the U.S. Supreme Court! Donald Trump!"
  • Defenses that don't work: (1) It's "locker room talk". It's not.  At least I haven't heard guys bragging about sexual assault.  And that's what kills him. He was referring to past acts. (2) "But what about Bill???!!!" (3) He was just a young man of 59.
  • Trump has now offended every single demographic of our great country with the exception of the older, uneducated white man.
  • This guy became an Internet celebrity after the debate last night: 
  • As did this combo:
  • I wonder if Trump's fundraising stop for tomorrow in Dallas is still on? And how comfortable do those attendees feel writing out that check now. 
  • Changing gears now.
  • The Tarrant County DA's office lost what had been at one time its DWI guru when prosecutor Richard Alpert announced he was resigning. He had been with the office for around 25 years and was making $178,458. 
  • The bang-to-hype ratio of Hurricane Matthew was way out of whack.
  • If you want to see a crazy millionaire, watch Showtime's documentary Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee. 
  • I predicted the Rangers wouldn't make the playoffs. I was three games off. Not bad once you put pen to paper. 
  • The Voice of The Longhorns, Craig Way, missed Saturday's game against OU because he spent it with his wife who died of cancer that evening.  I remember way back when he was on local DFW radio but I can't remember what station. KRLD?




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10.07.2016

With No Polls Closed, I Would Like To Officially Project The Winner Of This Election

"It's over, Billy. Not just for you but especially for the other guy."

Edit:
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It's Friday. Let's Get Out Of Here.






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Sometimes We Are All That Guy

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts


  • Those dividing line reflectors on the pavement are a great invention when driving in the dark in the rain with no street lights. How do they get those to stick anyway? 
  • "The Clown Lives Matter" march by the professional clown association was very underappreciated. It truly, in every since of the word, was a clown move.
  • Hurricane coverage: 96% what could happen. 4% what did happen. 
  • A raised truck with a raised bed touched power lines near Houston yesterday and . . . 
  • A new Texas court opinion finally eviscerates the many silly reasons cops use to justify a search or a detention based upon their "training and experience" and the slowly becoming meaningless phrase of "totality of the circumstances."  (For criminal law practitioners: In light of Rodriguez, the new battleground will be what is and what is not a reasonable suspicion during a traffic stop in order to prolong it. Print and use that opinion.)
  • I'm not going to watch it but I saw a link for a video of  "Larry the Cable guy snapped a dude's arm arm-wrestling" which both TMZ and Deadspin are jumping on. 
  • The new Selena makeup line seems to be profiting off of the dead. 
  • Hey, WBAP boys, you might want to re-listen to the over-the-top sexual lyrics of the joke song "Clowntown" (to the theme of "Downtown") that you played this morning. I don't think you guys understand what went out over the air. 
  • I've got a ton of legal questions for a case yesterday out of Tarrant County where a man was charged with aggravated kidnapping of a Watauga girl walking home from school, was found guilty of the lesser charge of attempted kidnapping, and then sentenced to two years for the offense. And to further muddy things, there apparently was no witness to ID him, race was injected, and the jury learned (how!!!!!???) of the man being no-billed by a grand jury for kidnapping a few years back. 
  • "Hunker down" is an underrated and rarely used phrase.
  • No, it's not . . . 

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10.06.2016

Hurricane Talk

Live Radar

(c) Liberally Lean Graphics Department. 2016

I'm an expert in weather predicting* as all of you know. It's just another one of my talents that I like to share from time to time. So I thought I'd check into expanding into hurricane forecasting since I might be of help to the good folks from Florida to South Carolina.

I got side tracked right off the bat with this crazy Saffir-Simpson scale. What is the deal with that? My staff has gone to great lengths to calculate the range of miles per hour for each category and they've discovered a serious flaw which has heretofore gone unnoticed by the masses. (See high tech graphic above). Why are all the ranges different instead of uniform?  And why start at 74? Why cap it at > 155? Lots of problems here. Lots of problems.

Well, Mr. Saffir and Mr. Simpson, there's a new sheriff in town. I have modified it utilizing a highly technical standardized 19 mph range with some extra tweaking which will certainly be approved by the National Hurricane Center before the weekend:
  • 60-79 (Lowers threshold of official hurricane to 60 so we can have more hurricanes to track.)
  • 80-99 (Under 100 and we're still safe. We aren't getting worked up over a Cat 2.)
  • 100-119 (Crack 100 and we're in the big time. All media would lock onto a 100 mph threshold.)
  • 120-139 (That's a good range for Cat 4. That's all I got.)
  • > 140 (Lower threshold for Cat 5 so it can be occasionally achieved)
With that problem solved, I'm now back to the lab. 
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*The cold front that's coming will hit Decatur at 4:45 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Edit: Who is trying to be funny?  "And your kids die, too."

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Ted Cruz In Fort Worth Yesterday




He makes a PR appearance at the Tarrant County GOP to "man the phone bank" with Trump signs in the background, and then he never mentions to vote for Trump in the call.

That is one conflicted man.

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Politics Is Getting Way Too Hip


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Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




  • Trump sure is focused on raising money. With a month left, instead of campaigning in the swing states, he'll be in Dallas for a fundraiser next Tuesday.
  • Something having nothing to do with rehab is going on behind the scenes in the story of eleven people being arrested for holding "rehab patients" against their will in Irving. 
  • There might not be much on the line for this year's Texas/OU game but it does have some huge long term consequences. Everyone knows Charlie Strong's seat gets hotter with a loss, but there would be a heck of a storm in Norman if the Sooners lose again as Stoop's would have three losses in early October and is becoming Texas' whipping boy. 
  • Confirmed sighting of Decatur Motorcycle Cop making a stop on 380 this morning. 
  • Speaking of 380, I was coming out of Denton to Decatur on Monday and saw four motorcycle cops. It was odd because the were in the median together, all facing the same way, and in the "ready" position of both feet on the ground and both handlebar controls. But no one was running handheld radar.
  • A guy climbed high up on the outside of the Speedway Club last night.
  • Worth a watch. A "Curves Connect" dating site ad that aired during last night's wildcard came for those who have DirecTV.  It is affiliated with -- and I am not making this up -- FarmersOnly.com.
  • "School shooting assignment puts Keller drama student under fire." I'm not that bothered by the assignment (it is drama, by the way) and that shouldn't be the lead of the story. The real - and almost funny - story line is that her husband caused a massive police response when he called 911. He had received texts (and a photo per one report) from the wife/teacher where she "joked" about there being an active shooter situation ongoing -- texts which he misinterpreted. (Someone suggested yesterday that he would bet the wife/teacher had explained the entire assignment to the husband the night before as he stared at the TV replying with, "Uh huh. Yeah. Uh huh.")
  • I finally read Twelve Mighty Orphans about the high school football teams of the Masonic Home in Fort Worth during the 1930s and 1940s. It turned out to be a heck of a history lesson. (My dad says that Bridgeport used to play Masonic Home but didn't know when it stopped.)
  • The ALL CAPS guy might be a genius because he knows I don't have the heart to ban someone who might have more challenges in life than the rest of us. 
  • Pence looks like he should be a Democrat (kind of the Lloyd Bentson type) and Kaine looks like a Republican (the new style aggressive Ted Cruz type.)
  • Whatever happened to Phil Gramm?
  • "The City of Aurora will debut its Aurora Alien Abduction Haunted House and Twisted Oaks Pumpkin Patch, located at the old Trail’s End abandoned restaurant on Texas 114." Kudos for using the alien theme. Keep it up. (They should also go with a theme of a haunted restaurant where the tour takes you by tables of creepy people eating creepy things and then lead you into the who-knows-what-to-expect kitchen. The tour would end with a flash of light to simulate an alien ship crashing outside nearby. All the creepy people would then stand up and utter, "He's here.")
  • I put too much effort into that last bullet point. 
  • Kids in many colleges across the nation received a text around 10:00 p.m. last night stating there was a campus emergency and were to evacuate. It happened at Baylor, UNT, Ole Miss and Colorado to name a few. It was an error which started, oddly, when a community college in Houston tried to send a text to its students about a gas leak. Everyone is still trying to figure out what happened.


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