12.06.2018

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



  • "And another" update. A wife of a football coach in Tennessee who was sentenced to three years is now being sued by the student/player. He's also sued her husband and the school.
  • We had a car chase in Fort Worth yesterday which ended with a guy just casually sitting in his car for about an hour while the military local police and DPS made preparations. 
  • Got to have assault weapons and gear
    You need two assault vehicles and a drone
    while everyone looks on
    And you had to start it with at least 20 police cars and a helicopter
  • Has Fox News declared a war on Christmas?
  • Trump can't go to a funeral without being Trump.
    No hand over his heart.
    The only couple not to recite the Apostles' Creed
  • Decatur plays Hereford in the Texas high school football playoffs tonight. Fun facts: Hereford is the county seat of Deaf Smith County (technically pronounced "deef" but most people use "def"), has a city population of 15,370 (as of 2010), is named after the breed of cattle, and, because of the town's high content of fluoride in its water supply, has earned the title of  "The Town Without a Toothache"
    The courthouse in Hereford.
  • "Keep doin' what ya doin', playboy, and keep chasin' that money."
  • DPS and others have been sued in federal court over the insane "surcharge" program which has currently lead to an astonishing  1.4 million Texas driver's having lost their drivers license for failure to pay. I love the way it starts out . . . 
  • Not only is this not true, it wouldn't be anything to brag about if it was.
  • Golden Globe nominations were just announced (and I always find that awards show far more entertaining than watching the Academy Awards.) But Vice, that great looking movie about W and Chaney, led with six nominations. But how does it fall in the category of "Musical or Comedy"? 
  • Nice touch by UT last night.
  • The Dow just opened up with a 400 point loss and falling. 

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12.05.2018

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts


  • Several people have confirmed that the Decatur Sixth Grade pee-wee team did in fact play against a team from Argyle a few years back coached by the Saints' Sean Peyton a few years back. (I'm getting conflicting reports regarding his general attitude.)
  • The comic book character "Tariff Man" truly has not a clue how tariffs work (and it is really, really simple to understand.)
  • Bridgeport has a banner hanging over its main street proclaiming it is the "Christmas Capital of Wise County." The rest of you towns going to put up with that?
  • A clip of Joel Osteen from 2017 has gained new life where he said, after noting he would be ridiculed if his kids wore raggedy clothes, that "When you look good, dress good, live in a nice place, excel in your career, generous with others, that bring's a smile to God's face."  With the exception of "generous with others", that whole statement is about as Biblically ignorant as you can get.
  • The boys on my radio station switched shifts this morning. Because of that, four guys were watching Fox 4 News in the background and had never seen a certain early morning anchor before. Let's just say their reviews, at least with the audio down, were strong to quite strong. 
  • Wise County probation took in almost a million dollars last fiscal year from fees alone.
  • I hope this breaking news means as little to you as it does to me:
  • Rain forecast. Important disclaimer: This is from Pete Delkus and not the Liberally Lean First Warn Weather Team.
  • I've got yet another UT Breckyn Hager update. That goofball didn't smash his hand into an inanimate object after the OU game in anger did he? (I know which side I'd bet on.)
  • Rudy Guiliani posted a tweet last week and accidentally created a hyperlink to a domain name ("G-20.In") that didn't exist. Someone immediately bought the domain, www.g-20.in, and uploaded one page saying Trump was a traitor. Last night, Guiliani, oblivious to this trickster who had widely promoted what he had done, blamed Twitter for allowing someone to "invade my text." The man doesn't understand how the Internet works. The man was named by Trump in 2017 as "an informal adviser on cybersecurity" for Trump's transition team. 
  • Remember the number of times I've talked about retiring to the "jungle in Costa Rica"? Well, about that . . . . 
  • The Bridgeport man who "set himself on fire and jumped from a bridge last Friday" has been identified as Lance Coe, 20, in the Update. There has to be some horrible back story to all of this. From 2014:
  • I'm sure you've seen it, but it you haven't, take a moment to watch Bob Dole visit George H.W. Bush in the rotunda yesterday.
  • Messenger: Above The Fold.
  • The U.S. Postal Service taking a day off today in the middle of the Christmas holidays will not serve them well. It's probably a good thing, however, that the stock market is shut down today.

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12.04.2018

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts



  • Breaking college football news: Ohio State coach Urban Meyer will step down after the bowl game. (At least he gave his bosses the heads up about something.)
  • Isn't it time that the Southlake football team stop dying their collective hair blond? I know they have been doing it for years and years, but in this day and time it has kind of an Aryan Brotherhood feel to it. 
  • Fort Worth PD will place, with a homeowner's permission, "bait" Amazon-like packages on doorsteps to catch thieves. Question: What level of crime would the thief be charged with? A theft charge is based upon value (regardless of whether the person actually knows the value of what he is stealing): For example, under $100 in value is like a traffic ticket, over $2,500 is a felony.  So what's in the packages which will determine its value? The PD Press Release doesn't say. (It also says the homeowner, who must have a video recording mechanism, won't be involved as a witness. That's a promise they can't legally keep.)
  • Once Eric Trump said this, you just knew he was going to get killed in the comments. He must have forgot that daddy (aka "Individual 1") used to frolic with Stormy while married (among many others).
  • "All state agencies, offices and departments will be closed on Wednesday for a day of mourning to honor former President George Herbert Walker Bush, Gov. Greg Abbott said in an executive order Monday."  Around here, I have no idea who is shutting down, but that could include DPS, all District Attorneys and the District Judges. (All are technically "state agencies.") Schools and universities were specifically excluded.
  • Here's a shocking thread on President Bush. As President, he wanted to ratchet up the War on Drugs and to do so he wanted to address the nation holding up crack cocaine and say it was purchased in front of the White House. Since there wasn't any drug dealing going on in front of the White House, the DEA lured in a 19 year old high school kid to sell to an undercover agent. Bush got to hold up the crack. (Note: The 19 year old was tried twice and both trials resulted in hung juries. The feds tried him a third time, got a conviction, and he received ten years in prison serving over seven of it.)
  • I've dogged UT's long haired Brecklyn Hager over the last couple of weeks and perhaps deservedly so. He got mauled in the OU game (quick video with three examples here), received a critical 15 yard penalty, and then deleted his Twitter account after the game. 
  • Recommended: A fairly short podcast by Slate on Ruby Ridge. 
  • Also recommended: Showtime's ongoing series Enemies: The President, Justice & The FBI. The more things change . . . . 
  • A member of the "Texas Seven" (prison escapees who killed a cop outside of an Oshman's in Irving) is scheduled for execution tonight. Two years after  four of them were caught in a small town in Colorado, I actually went through there on the way to a tiny casino town. There were places selling "The Texas Seven Were Captured Here" t-shirts. 
  • This front page from Galveston makes the cut below because of the crazy lead story: "A scammer posing as a county contractor in May tricked an employee in the county's purchasing department into changing how and where a $525,282 payment for road work would be made. The scammer has not been caught . . . . " Good, lord. 

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12.03.2018

Random Monday Morning Thoughts


  • That Bridgeport school bus wreck could have been much worse than it was. 
  • Somehow a sheriff's deputy with Broward County in Florida just casually had a crazy "Q" emblem showing a support for the crazy conspiracy theory group.
  • The Southlake Police Department goes after a Christmas classic:
  • I love the look of Tech's new offensive coordinator (yep, that's really him):
  • This was pretty big news on Friday. Obviously those trying to figure out what happened have never seen the old Twilight Zone episode starring William Shatner.
  • George H.W. Bush has died. The White House issued a prepared statement incorrectly stating he went to Yale and then into WWII. 
  • Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger at Camp David in 1991.
  • Trump went to the G-20 Summit in Argentina and (1) Appeared in the background as the Saudi Crown Prince and Putin high fived each other, (2) Walked off stage confused not once but twice, and (3) Proved he doesn't have any friends: 
  • Yes, she says some dumb things but it is good to have someone in Congress who will pull back the curtain.
  • Faithful readers sent me this expressing their concern:
  • The Decatur Eagles continue on in the football playoffs. When the season was halfway over they were one of the worst teams in the state at "1-4 and on the heels of a brutal 70-28 loss to Glen Rose." What happened? 
  • Trump, out of the blue and moments ago, just did a complete 180 on military spending. He says it is "crazy" how much his administration has spent. 
  • Mule looks like it would be good if it wasn't directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. After Million Dollar Baby and Grand Torino, we know that it's full of campy dialogue and over the top angst. Oh, and lots of grunting.
  • Messenger: Above The Fold

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11.30.2018

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











at 2:00 PM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts



  • Breaking news from a trusted source: Some guy just lit himself on fire and jumped off the Bridgeport viaduct bridge. Developing . . . . 
  • Re: Saints vs. Cowboys. The NFL is ridiculous. No team can go from horrible to very good in college football in four games. There, you are what you are. Alabama is beyond great. Kansas is horrible. Baylor is barely average. TCU is average. Tech is below average. Clemson is great. Texas is good. Aggie is good. And it's been that way all season. But if you think the Cowboys can't turn around and go right back to being bad over the next month, you're crazy.
  • Stay with me here: In 2012, Sean Peyton was suspended as coach of the New Orleans Saints and, to find something to do, coached his son's Texas sixth grade team Pop Warner team, the Argyle Liberty Christian Warriors. (Peyton lives in Westlake, I think.) But we've got a Wise County connection! Liberty couldn't beat the Springtown that season which, oddly, eventually resulted in an article in Grantland. That article linked to Springtown's 2012 Football Facebook page and it turns out that same team played Boyd and Decatur. (Tons of photos in that Facebook link.) If Sean Peyton's Liberty played Springtown, they probably played Boyd and Decatur.  So the question: Do any of you Wise County parents remember NFL head coach Sean Peyton coaching against your sixth grade son when they played Liberty in 2012? 
Decatur vs. Springtown in 2012
(Those are sixth graders, right?)
  • Don't look now, but Michael Cohen's plea yesterday is one step closer to the Steele Dossier (yep, the one about that tape) being absolutely correct.  It's not simply about a hotel in Moscow (where Trump was going to give Putin a $50 million penthouse), it's about Cohen and Manafort having a pipeline to Russia, Russian hacking to help Trump, and Trump accepting it with open arms. Tweet your way through it in the middle of the night if you want, big man, but there's more coming: 
  • And this makes the Arrested Development "light treason" meme pure gold. 

  • I really don't know what to expect out of the Amber Guyer grand jury. The D.A. wants a murder charge, but Dallas grand juries are notorious for being independent -- as they all should be.
  • The Texas lawyer who just became head of the Proud Boys is no longer head of the Proud Boys. Oh, my.
  • As assistant superintendent abruptly resigned yesterday from Decatur ISD. On Monday, parents showed up at a school board meeting complaining about security. Something is weird.
  • Texas, are you next for this? (The database is really amazing. It will even auto-fill in an officer's name. Heck, type in the city of Trenton as an example.)
  • If you put together a baby/wedding shower registry on Amazon, you'll find three or more items in it that you didn't list (with a tiny "sponsored" text next to them.)  Amazon gets paid the product manufacturers to infiltrate your registry with items you didn't want. And your friends buy them and you end up getting them. 
  • It's hard to keep up with what appears to be a potential boondoggle of Fort Worth's Panther Island but you have no faith in the project once you learn that the son of Fort Worth Congressman Kay Granger is the executive director of of something called the Trinity River Vision Authority and makes $213,000 a year in public money. Shut it down. Let's go home. 
  • I don't know anything about girls high school basketball, but little Bridgeport beating 6A Keller Fossil Ridge 58-34 yesterday seems like a big deal. (And I still support "Sissies" as the greatest mascot name in the history of ever.)
  • Kid Rock making Fox and Friends very uncomfortable this morning. 

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