Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• There was a "lock down" at Byron Nelson High yesterday because of a bomb threat? I'm no security expert, but a lock down doesn't sound like the best way to handle a bomb threat.
• Trump fired the Attorney General last night for not enforcing his Muslim Ban Executive Order that she found to be illegal. Putting aside whether or not she has that discretion (she 100% does - an AG is not the President's private lawyer), did Trump have to go off half-cocked and fire her? Isn't the new AG going to be confirmed today or tomorrow at the latest? 
• Two horses have died during the saddle bronc events during the Fort Worth Stock Show this year. That's disturbing, isn't it? 
  
• With college football signing day upon us, the Washington Post went back ten years and tells us what happened to the top 100 from 2007. Hint: There are as many in prison or dead as there are who made the Pro Bowl. And Texas fans looking at the list will see how the Mack Brown era had entered the beginning of the end. 
• "And another":
  
• Iran has tested a ballistic missile in defiance of U.N. Resolution. Now all of us can be nervous as we await the White House's reaction. 
• By the way, let's check in on Trump this morning:
  
• (Note to Melania: I don't think your anti-cyber bullying campaign is working too well.)
• Greg Abbott gives us the "State of the State" address this weekend. The latest Texas Monthly cover story says Dan Patrick, not Abbott, is now in charge. It will be interesting to see if Abbott goes Full Trump to try and regain that perception. 

Best Moment Of Miss Universe Was Off Camera

The girl should have won Best Talent (do they even still have that?) just for that performance alone.

You Know Who This Is?

The Ticket just sent this pic out from Radio Row at the Super Bowl in Houston.

That's "Rudy" as in Notre Dame's Rudy.

And you wonder why when we go to class reunions we somehow expect people to look exactly like they did years and years ago.

(Yes, I know that's the actor and not
the real Rudy from back in the day.)

In The Pro Bowl Yesterday

@EzekielElliott @DezBryant got the man running on the field !! pic.twitter.com/1pgKQUKpV9

— cøle (@coIenerad) January 30, 2017

Zeke comes off the bench.

(He didn't hurt him and handled him gingerly, but I bet the NFL has a serious edict of "Do not touch any nutcase that runs out onto the field.")

This Guy Is A Master Of Deception

By far the greatest thing I saw yesterday. pic.twitter.com/WXDjRs9ZN1

— Harold Varner III (@HV3_Golf) January 28, 2017

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Oh, I've got my Trump rants coming, but let me first make an admission. For the first time ever I watched The Big Lebowoski. It's already in my Top Ten and will probably move up higher after I watch it a few times more. I had no idea it would be that smart of a comedy.
• It started on Friday on Holocaust Memorial Day when we remembered the millions of Jews who were exterminated because of their religion. Trump used that day to announce a plan to discriminate against Muslims based upon their religion with a travel ban. And, man, on Saturday did an explosion of protests take place at airports across the country where people where being illegally detained (especially DFW).
  
• People with legal green cards and Visas were detained for hours and hours by the U.S. Government solely because they were from a predominately Muslim country. And the courts had to intervene on Saturday night to set those illegally detained people free. Just like in the 1960s, we had to turn to the courts to overturn those in power trying to enforce their ignorant and bigoted policies that discriminate against innocent people. This is history, folks. Choose your side wisely.
• Number of terrorist acts committed on American soil by refugees from the seven countries named in the ban: Zero.
• And, man, Trump loves Executive Orders. He's signing them left and right.

  

  This made my head explode. 

• Look, I understand trying to keep America safe. What I have a problem with is trying to ban people of a certain religion. Oh, it's not really a "Muslim Ban" you say? 
• Rudy Giuliani on Fox News yesterday: 
  
• Donald Trump's campaign site: 
  
• What an absolute week of chaos. And Trump set a record according to Gallop:
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• In other news . . . 
• A Young County deputy (formerly of Graham PD) and his son were found dead on Friday from gunshot wounds. The fact that you haven't heard about it gives you a pretty good idea of what is suspected. 
• That wreck involving the Decatur cop last week and the fact he was relatively uninjured is amazing. And Fox 4 said he has seven kids. Even another reason to be thankful it didn't turn out worse. 
• I've always been told lawyers were liars. Then a lawyer files a lawsuit on Friday against Baylor with no supporting proof and every media outlet treats it like the allegations in it were the result of a 60 Minutes investigation. 
• "Six people are dead after a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City."
• Oh, I forgot, what was Ivanka doing on Saturday night during the American airport chaos where families were being illegally separated from one another? Tweeting out a photo: 
  
• That new Doritos bag is weird.You blow into it and it will "detect" any alcohol. It doesn't detect alcohol concentration. That's just dumb. Who doesn't know they've been drinking? And the bags aren't for sale to the public? What a cheesy marketing gimmick (that I just fell victim to.)
• In Austin on Tuesday, it will be "Texas Muslim Capitol Day." Perfect. 

Above The Fold

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

 "I've calculated all of this out and it will work perfectly."

 "So have I."

 And then the professional shows the amateurs the way it is done.

 Worst streamer placement ever. 

 "Hey, shorty, it's your birfday. Gonna party like . . . a closed head injury!"

That Guy Just Defamed A Horse

just Look at how the Horse Stood by and did Nothing. pic.twitter.com/xnUDzF6y5c

— Pete (@Peterbelieves) January 25, 2017

He that would jump in there to stop a snake murderer throw the first stone.

Let's Check In On "Fox and Friends" and Trump

This is too funny... the @FoxandFriends team said on air:

Hey @realDonaldTrump, if you're watching, turn some lights on and off!

Well.. pic.twitter.com/Rdiu5N7tfX

— Harlan Hill (@Harlan) January 27, 2017

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• I don't want to talk about Trump, but this Administration has had such a bizarre first week that it is impossible not to. And yesterday bordered on insanity.
• Yesterday, his press secretary (who won't have that job for long) came out and casually told reporters that Trump would build the wall with a 20% tariff on any imports from Mexico. You know what that means? You would pay a tax on anything from Mexico so you, and not Mexico, would pay for the wall. And, if Congress funds it first, you get to pay for it twice. (Even the Trump Administration knew it was such a massive screw-up they had the Chief of Staff "walk the comments back" within a couple of hours.)  Incredible. Do they not talk? Do they not think? 
• And Texas leaders Abbott and Patrick said nothing yesterday as they sat back in horror. 
• It seems like tons of people I know were sick this week. And now Willie Nelson cancels some shows in Vegas due to a "cold."
• Mexico's President's cancelled a meeting with Trump because of all of this recklessness. What's next? Putin calling Mexico and asking if they need some help with their economy in exchange for placing some nuclear missiles there? You laugh? You don't know October of 1962?
• And then Stephen Bannon, Trump’s chief White House strategist, said the media is the "opposition party" and told them "it should keep its mouth shut." That should send chills down your collective spins.  Has that guy not grown up in a free society?
  
   
• That Fort Worth cop's 10 day suspension is beginning to look like a slip slap on the wrist. The Fort Worth Chief of Police may now be in trouble as the story gets national traction. (It was on NBC, CNN and more last night. ) 
• And it is very odd that the Chief was the one to say all charges would be dropped against everyone involved (except the very odd Class C against the guy who allegedly choked the kid). That's normally the DA's call. And it should be a crime it took that long to announce that all three women who were forced on the ground and cuffed would not be officially charged.
• And why don't good cops go on camera and condemn the guy for the way he handled the situation on the street? Lawyers will call out lawyers. Doctors will call out doctors.  
• Bill O'Reilly last night: "I have to be respectful. I can't interview President Trump like I did candidate Trump." God help us. Fox News is doing the rope-a-dope because they don't know how to defend him. 
• Whenever DFW lawyer Pete Shulte appears on local media to provide criminal law commentary, I normally agree with almost everything he says. (I actually say him at a routine driver's license hearing in Denton on Monday and he was far more brash than I expected. He wasn't rude, just a little loud for the most boring of hearings there are.) 
• If you submit a comment from infowars or gatewaypundit, I'm not posting it. We're already full up on crazy here. 
• There's a Ted Cruz vs. Deadspin fight that I have to get caught up on. 
• Texas executed a man last night after it was delayed for four hours before the Supreme Court said it was OK to kill him.  There has to be a better way.

A 10 Day Suspension

Here it is: official bodycam footage Fort Worth officer William Martin, from viral video arresting Jacqueline Craig https://t.co/tpIbPMHzUc

— Jared Christopher (@JaredLChris) January 26, 2017

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Some kid allegedly brought edible weed to Seven Hills Elementary in Wise County.
  
• I loved the Dick Van Dyke show with Mary Tyler Moore. I couldn't get enough of the re-runs as a kid. And it was a very smart comedy which still holds up. 
• But I never really watched the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Side note: Does Fox 4's Steve Eagar have a little Ted Baxter in him? 
• Any of my email addresses that end with wisecounty.com have been down for about a week. They got the website back up but not the email. Verio is a horrible hosting company.
• Did you see the Fed Ex truck get hit by a train. It seems like Fed Ex trucks are always in wrecks -- especially in icy weather. 
• If you think Trump is going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it "one way or another", I feel very sorry for your naivety. (Heck, the government can't ever complete construction of I-35.)
• I thought Republicans hated edicts via Executive Orders
• A guy beat up his lawyer for losing a child custody case. And the lawyer seemed more concerned about his coffee. 
• Radio talk show host and Trump apologist Mark Davis yesterday: "This should also be settled: waterboarding is not torture."  I've heard of people supporting torture in some situations but I've never heard anyone say waterboarding isn't torture. 
• "The release of a Fort Worth police dash cam video of an officer-involved shooting was 'fully within the letter of the law,' Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson wrote Wednesday in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Wilson was responding to a complaint filed with Paxton’s office Tuesday by the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas . . . . " She's right. And it's amazing anyone would complain -- especially law enforcement. 
• An aspiring actor from Fort Worth committed suicide on Facebook Live earlier this week?

Who Is This Girl In The Oval Office?

Above The Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• Funny:
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• George Dunham of The Ticket said this morning, with a voice sounding like mine did yesterday, that he was on his "third go round" with sinuses this Winter.  As many sick people as I've seen, I think we are experiencing Mountain Cedar's Revenge. 
• This is a flashback to the great Wise County Courthouse Crab Scandal of 2007: 
  
• Why does every "visiting judge" who comes to Wise County seem to be so pissed off?
• When I was a kid and confused by the Watergate scandal my dad said to me, "If Nixon went on the air tonight and said 'The Russians are coming', no one would believe him." And you guys wonder why I am all over Trump's lies. (And I'm pretty sure he said that to me at the catfish restaurant at Wise County Park on Lake Bridgeport back in the day --- a great restaurant. El Chico Lodge was the name?)
• Speaking of Wise County Park, when I was DA, for some unknown reason I went by the entrance to it with then Sheriff Phil Ryan. There was a sign that read, "No Alcohol By Order Of The Wise County Sheriff." I looked at him and asked, "Can you do that?" He laughed out loud and said, "I don't know. You tell me."
• What a crazy "And Another out of Dallas." The kid extorted $28,000 out of her before she was busted. 
  
• I've had the weirdest wake up tone for years: Fergie singing, "I hope you know, I hope you know, that this has nothing to do with you." I keep waiting for Mrs. LL to ask me, "Uh, you trying to tell me something?" But the Family Pups sure do like it. 
• Good lord: 
  
• And I take great comfort in the fact that the President's spelling is worse than mine.
  
• (And no wall will be built.)

Well, After A Day, We Now Know Trump Isn't Concerned About The Crowd Reports

A photo delivered yesterday that will be displayed in the upper/lower press hall. Thank you Abbas! pic.twitter.com/Uzp0ivvRp0

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2017

Oops. My bad.

And the date is even wrong.

(He is a gift that keeps on giving.)

Breaking: Ex-NFL Player Applying For Bridgeport AD Job

Just a rumor but I trust my sources.

Developing . . .