Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I said Michael Cohen was the worst lawyer in America. I retract that. It is Rudy Giuliani who is ignorantly throwing his client. Donald Trump, under the bus every time he appears on TV. Here is a tip: Stay off TV.
• For those who missed it, Giuliani said he couldn't rule out other women being paid off other than Stormy Daniels.
• Speaking of shooting yourself in the leg: 
  
• Ouch:
  
• That volcano eruption on the Big Island in Hawaii is crazy: 
  
• This is beyond impressive. (And I even know who David Clyde is):
  
• I'm at a municipal judge seminar (I hate seminars), but this has been fantastic so far. Highlights
• We had a speaker talk about how to deal with unstable people. Treat them with respect. 
• We had someone talk about how to spot autistic people and whether it is legal to deal with them differently. He has an autistic son.
• One line: "Have you read the DSM-5? The only thing more boring is Tolstoy." I was the only one in the room who laughed. 
• Something said: "Bodycams reward good officers."
• One speaker went on a tangent about how people spend too much time on their phones. "Go to a restaurant and look at a table. No one is talking. They are all looking at their phones." The judge beside me was texting and didn't hear a word he said at that moment. 
• Sheesh:
  
• Here are the results for Saturday's municipal election in Wise County. The turnout is shockingly embarrassing. But look at tiny Runaway Bay. Comparatively, the turnout was huge. At least they care out there. 
• And why in the world do we have a different date for the run-off election for county/precinct positions on a different date (May 22nd). Why not do last Saturday when all the voting locations were staffed? 
• This Irish Travellers case, which led to a civil case verdict last week in Tarrant County, needs to be read by everyone. The last I heard they were in White Settlement, but I don't know if they are still there. 

Above The Fold

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

Our cat in the house

Tax dollars at work?

Is this real?

I'm having flashbacks to the old Six Flags "Sombrero Ride"

and whatever that ride that would spin, push you up against the side of the wall 

and the floor would drop out. 

Get me this dog!

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• The Jason Witten retirement press conference was fantastic. But someone needs to explain this to me: "Jason Witten to Jerry Jones:  'From you I learned to never circumcise a mosquito.'"
• Now we learn that the Russians were behind Jade Helm and our Texas governor bought into it. 
• They stole another sign! 
  
• The outgoing DA in Waco has dismissed 15 more Twin Peaks Biker cases. His decision to indict everyone and not understand that he couldn't prove the cases will forever make him a laughingstock. The morale in the DA's office has to be at an all time low. 
• My guess is that he's finally dismissing these cases, yet slowly, because he knows the new DA will do it in his first month in office and hold a press conference about what a travesty of justice occurred. That would crush the outgoing DA's reputation even more -- assuming that is possible. 
• From a couple of days ago: 
  
• The College Sophomore Not In The House came home from school last night and immediately told me she was a College Junior. I used to joke with Mrs. LL that "they grow up so fast." I had no idea how true that statement was. 
• Funny moment at the courthouse yesterday when an employee (and friend) said something I vehemently disagreed with when I was in a different room and, when she saw me walk around the corner, look up at me and said, "I better shut up." 
• Wow: Peter King, the sportswriter who has made a living out of writing jibberish, is moving to NBC from Sports Illustrated. 
• There was a hung jury in Wise County this week on the lowest level of felony drug possession. I'm told the jury was split 8-4, but I don't know if that is 8 for guilty or 8 for not guilty. David Pearson was the defense lawyer with a little assistance from Paul Belew. I know nothing about the facts of the case. 
• Trump is going to speak at the NRA Convention in Dallas today. There is no question he will go "off script" because he's under so much pressure. I bet he says something insane because he'll get riled up by a crowd that loves him. 

Sorry For The "S Bomb" In This Person's Tweet But . . .

This shit happened in my my own front yard last night !! I don’t care what this dude did, there is no justifiable reason for what the cop did. They had him restrained and the cop deadass kicks him in the head. pic.twitter.com/hK2FpwYqrg

— Steel (@j_tennyson_) May 2, 2018

. . . a man needs to be fired. And the word needs to be spread.

The local news organizations in Columbus, Ohio are all over it. The national news will soon follow if the word gets out.

Oh, My!

At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, according to one person with direct knowledge. https://t.co/Uhm1pAi4UH

— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 3, 2018

If a Republican led Justice Department did this, things are going to get bad for Trump.

Edit: NBC,  has clarified the story saying they should have called it a "pen register". The Justice Department monitored who he called, who called him, and when. The Justice Department did it for a reason. 

Firing It Up!

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

HOLY COW: Rudy Giuliani, another new Donald Trump lawyer, admits that Trump reimbursed former lawyer Michael Cohen for the payoff to Stormy Daniels. Trump had previously denied that -- on camera. And the fact that it happened on Sean Hannity's TV show makes it even better.  

 Breaking: Rudy was just on Fox and Friends and admitted the payment was campaign related. Trump hires the best people. 

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders must have her head in her hands as she awaits the next press conference.  On March 7, she denied Trump had any knowledge about the Daniels payments: “I’ve had conversations with the President about this…There was no knowledge of any payments from the president.”

D Magazine reports that the parent company of the Star-Telegram has gutted its staff.

There was yet another accidental military aircraft crash -- this time in Georgia. Nine are believed dead. And there is even a video of it. 

• That wind yesterday would knock you down -- even someone as big and strong as me.
• I've got a small side gig as a municipal judge. I take it seriously, but dealing with people on Class Cs is pretty fun. Yesterday a lady entered into a plea bargain with the prosecutor, but I apologized to her that the docket took longer to dispose of than we all anticipated and that she had to wait for so long. "That's OK," she said. Then she paused and said, "I've never had a judge apologize to me before." That line could have been written by a sitcom writer.
• Another Southwest Airlines window broke. That company didn't need that news.
• Trump has changed lawyers again. He has now obtained Bill Clinton's impeachment lawyer.
• Foreclosures on property are held on the first Tuesday of each month on the southeast courthouse door in Wise County. This week, and I'm not sure what was going on, but I've never seen such a large crowd. Either a lot of properties were being foreclosed on or there were lots of buyers after one particular property.
• There is a Plano teen arrested for allegedly wanting to shoot-up Stonebriar Mall. He talked to Fox 4 News at the jail. Note: Shut up. But he seemed doped up. 
  
• The Fox 4 News morning show went on the air 30 minutes early today (4:00 a.m.) in anticipation for the storms. That didn't work out well.
• Redskins news:
  
  

Above The Fold

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Edit: Wait a second! That's from the weekend. The new one isn't online as of noon.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

• It was a tremendous service for W.B. Woodruff yesterday. A friend came up to me afterwards and told me after learning about W.B.'s history that he had never felt more inadequate in his life. I couldn't agree more. 
• And I learned that one of W.B.'s sons is a tremendous guitar player (he didn't play cords, he can pick), and the other one could be a motivational speaker and/or stand up comedian. 
• Trump's wheels off doctor said yesterday that (1) Trump dictated the letter about his health during the campaign, and (2) that his office was "raided" and Trump's records were seized. 
  
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood in front of the the press corp yesterday and said that none of the questions the Special Council want to ask Trump (which are now public) concerned Russian collusion. That is a bold face lie.  
  
• I'm going to say it for the millionth time: Watergate was a third rate burglary that got Nixon impeached. Tell you children to watch the news because history is coming.
• Speaking of Crooks and Liars, the "Stay Woke" commentor always says I wrote that Trump would nuke North Korea. No I did not. I said that "I fear" he will launch a nuclear war. Words have meaning. 
• Lisa Blue Baron lost the election for State Bar president in Texas. My faith in my colleagues has been restored. 
• Stories like this are stunning. A prosecutor either was incompetent by (1) not knowing how to try a case or (2) indicting an innocent man. 
  
• Wow. Just wow: 
  
• Kanye West, Trump's new BFF, called slavery a choice on TMZ. (By the way, to the one Dennis Prager fan out there, he referred to him yesterday as "conYEE".)
• Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke wants to debate Ted Cruz in Spanish. That's a genius challenge since Cruz would never do it.

Random Wednesday Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• Word broke late yesterday that Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly called him and "idiot." Kelly denies it. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him a "moron" and was fired. Watch this. 
• It was a touching ceremony for Judge Fostel yesterday in the Wise County Courthouse as the courtroom was dedicated to him. 
• But I did learn that we now have a Wise County Women's Bar Association.  How did I not know this?
• What?
  
• I've continued to watch Green Acres, and it is quality comedy. 
  
• The clown car continues. The Vice President's doctor is behind the VA Director's embattled nomination. 
  
• Failed Alabama Senate candidate and alleged pedophile Roy Moore has sued his accusers. This will not end well. 
  
• And suing "Fictitious Defendants" might be an Alabama thing, but that's one of the weirdest thing I've ever seen. I would understand "Unnamed Defendants" (until their identity is obtained) but to call the "Fictitious" makes no sense. 
  
• What's the term? Uh, Snowflakes?
  
• The New York Times has obtained almost 50 questions that the Special Counsel wants to ask Trump. Oh, my! And it has freaked Trump out this morning. 
  
• The Rangers lost again last night, and the game took four hours. That sport is going to die. 

Texas Christian University

JUST IN: Beer to start flowing at TCU's Lupton Stadium this week; Is Amon G. Carter Stadium next? More from @StevensonFWST https://t.co/lgq7EaBqKn@JDonati_TCU @TCU_Baseball

— William Wilkerson (@Wilkerson_FWST) April 30, 2018

I Need Your Opinions On This

If any of you need a laugh, the coach told my cousin to run home as fast as he can and he delivered pic.twitter.com/VpBBzIEtzf

— ratby (@TabbyRodriguez) April 29, 2018

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• Trump is coming to Dallas to speak at the NRA convention. He knows his base. (By the way, weapons will not be allowed. Seriously.)
• I, sadly,  didn't get a picture with Stormy Daniels but Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Morning News did. It sounds like there wasn't much of a crowd. 
  
• I need to correct the story about my dad using the Bridgeport Chief of Police's car with permission to go remove a dead dog for $1. When he came back he didn't pull behind two parked DPS trooper cars. There were only two DPS troopers assigned to the county but they only had one car. 
• Dallas traded Ryan Switzer to the Raiders in exchange for defensive lineman. He was nothing more than an attitudinal teen. 
• You kidding me?
  
• He holds those rallies as therapy for him. He just wants to be loved. Nothing else is important. 
• He was too much of a coward to show up at the Correspondent's Dinner and he got crushed in a monologue (that even I have to admit was a bit over the top.) 
• That monologue included an attack on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I love the hypocrisy from her father. The day before compared to the day after: 
  
• A White Settlement man is charged with Intoxication Manslaughter after a six month old was killed in Fort Worth. He was driving a "large pickup."
• The tree is gone?  The French President wasn't kind to Trump in their last press conference. Coincidence?
  
• If you like baseball or softball, you'll love this: OU scores and unconventional run against the Evil Empire.
• Or this where a MLB player hits a home run into a garbage can. I had a buddy once tell me that when he was playing baseball in college that a home run happened and it hit the top of back fence. A player looked at him and said, "What are the odds of that happening?" His reply was, "The same odds of it landing on every single inch in this place." I've never forgotten it. 

I Told You From Day One

With one biker tried in the almost three years since Waco shootout that left nine dead, Texas prosecutor plans to recommend dismissing around 100 remaining biker cases. https://t.co/K7CEy6XT1q

— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) April 28, 2018

The dumbest DA in the history of Texas has finally realized that he is actually dumb. 

A Note To Everyone: Life Is Short No Matter How Long It Is

He came up to me at Judge Fostel's funeral, and he might be the only person in this world that makes me stand "at attention" with the exception of my father. He asked me, "Did your grandfather have a shop in Chico?" I told him I knew that "he had one in Decatur and Paradise and obviously one in Bridgeport but I'm  not sure about Chico." He smiled and said, "Yes he did, son. I bought a package of tobacco for a nickle from him."

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

Analogy:  When a person commits a crime these days. 

 "Puppy! Get the ball! Get the ball!"

 Future American Ninja Warrior competitor

 You get what you deserve, buddy. 

Millennial? 

Cosby Show Clip Has Not Aged Well

this cosby show clip did not age well pic.twitter.com/dMy0J25fAA

— Teridax (@0Teridax) April 26, 2018