4.27.2020

Random Monday Morning Thoughts



  • The Board:
    Total cases: 965,214

    Total deaths: 49,465
  • Texas:
  • Tarrant (That's a little wild): 
  • Wise County: 15 total cases with 1.51% of population tested.  (The Update's opening paragraph doesn't give you much confidence in Wise County's numbers.)
  • A lot of restaurants in Colleyville defied the Tarrant County order and opened up their patios to big crowds. The response of Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley? "Well, it's a free country." (I told you from the beginning no one is getting in trouble for ignoring any of these "orders".)
  • Amazingly, the only major defiance out of Dallas County was a hair salon named Salon A la Mode (ugh). Now the owner of it, Shelley Luther, did get a ticket. She tore it up at an Open Texas rally on Sunday.
  • Failed congressional candidate and Empower Texans darling Chris Putnam  was supporting the Colleyville uprising on Twitter this weekend. WBAP said this morning he was leading a "bar crawl" in the stockyards this Saturday, but I can't find anything about it online.  By the way, he wants you to know he owns several homes. 
  • And another:
  • My Rural Uprising™ theory has become more of an Urban Uprising. But I bet that changes unless Gov. Abbott doesn't cave to far right pressure today and allow massive reopening in low population counties.
  • Drudge continued to dog Trump over the weekend. 
  • It's "Nobel", not "Noble." And they won Pulitzer Prizes, not Nobel Prizes. Other than that, you're doing fine. (He deleted the and then tried to defend himself by saying he was just being sarcastic.) 
  • The Montague County Sheriff's Office is taking this coronavirus very seriously when it comes to Ms. Struve. (Source: The Bowie News.)
  • I would like to report a record number of boats on Lake Bridgeport for an April weekend.
  • I made reference to this worst-person-in-the-world last week and, lo and behold, she showed up on Fox News Saturday. (She wants to keep people in jail if they can't afford to get out.) 
  • A Wise County evading arrest case was affirmed on appeal late last week. There's nothing particularly noteworthy about it. 
  • After Jalen Hurts was drafted by Philadelphia:
  • Bet you didn't know you needed to keep your head on swivel for flying bullets at Buc-ees, did ya?
  • One thing I've noticed about all the crime documentaries on Netflix is that the prosecutor, even when faced with overwhelming evidence that he has/is prosecuting the wrong guy, digs his heels in. Now that's how you become infamous. This guy, Forest Allgood,  a former Mississippi prosecutor, has earned his place in the Hall of Shame. You you can learn about in the first two episodes of The Innocence Files.
  • Messenger: Above the Fold

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4.24.2020

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here






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Random Friday Morning Thoughts



  • The Board:
    Total cases: 886,442

    Total deaths: 50,236
  • Texas:
  • Tarrant County has had 1,559 total cases and 45 deaths. They had a new daily record yesterday but their daily reporting is so sporadic you don't know if someone finally got around to doing past paperwork. Also, dispersed in the chart are 132 cases which have occurred at the federal prison. 
  • Wise County: Holding at 14.
  • If you find far right wingers in depression this morning, it's because Trump went Full Crazy yesterday when he suggested we need to inject Lysol into our bodies to cure the cornavirus: "The disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. It gets in the lungs." I was in the car when I heard it, and I now wish I had a photo of my face at that moment.
  • Even the Drudge Report couldn't handle it. 
  • The makers of Lysol actually had to issue a statement in the Year of our Lord 2020 to not follow Trump's advice. 
  • Poor Dr. Birx.  (You can the Sound of Silence version or the Curb Your Enthusiasm version as well.)
  • Tucker Carlson is now talking about the "rural" threat making my Rural Uprising™ prediction even more prophetic. (Once again, I'm not saying the basis of the Rural Uprising™ was correct, I just said it would happen.) 
  • The governor of Georgia might want to open up the state, but the followers of Insane Clown Posse don't feel safe having their annual gathering in Ohio.  "The bottom line is simply that we REFUSE to risk even ONE Juggalo life by hosting a Gathering during these troubling times." Yes, America, that's where we are now. 
  • The Cowboys drafted CeeDee Lamb last night in the first round. During last year's OU/Texas game, Mrs. LL was actually watching it and remarked, "That guy is good."  As a reminder, he somehow scored on this play: 
  • Coach Bro drafting from his home in Phoenix was a power move. 
  • Jerry Jones drafting from his yacht was a bigger power move. 

  • Legal stuff. This probably won't interest most of you, but the DA's office in Houston is at war with a misdemeanor judge. If you want to see an online hearing where the judge basically chews out the DA's office for the last half of it, it's here. Background on the case (including a subsequent Motion to Recuse) is here. One of the assistant DAs hardly said a word in the hearing, and I only got a glimpse of him for a brief second. I grabbed a screenshot. It is mind-boggling to me that he was wearing a cap - much less a backwards cap. I don't care if it is a Zoom conference and you're at home, show a little respect.
  • I saw a random pic of Crovie, North East Scotland, and it made me realize I need to get out more. 
  • There's something about the phrase "the Hot Pocket heiress" that makes her incredibly attractive to me. 
  • The Wichita Falls Police continue to pick on the downtrodden by writing Stay at Home tickets. "Police said Joshua Johnson, also known as 'Klepto' Johnson, went into Stripes on Broad Tuesday and told a clerk he wanted to go to jail, then took a beer and went outside and sat on a curb drinking it waiting for police to arrive." 
  • I didn't know that the Wichita County Sheriff was named David Duke. (He's been there forever.)

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4.23.2020

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts


  • Let me start off by sending condolences to the family of James Wood who passed away yesterday. There may be no better obituary for any man other than to be referred to as a really good guy. And Mr. Wood was a really, really good guy. 
  • The Board:
    Total cases: 848,717

    Total deaths: 47,659
  • Texas:
  • Tarrant (I'm using the same source as I always do, but this chart looks to have been significantly revised from yesterday.):
  • Wise: Another new one that gets us to 14 cases (with 1.15% of our population tested.) 
  • For the first time since 1956, Miami has gone six weeks without a homicide.  There's a lot to be said for not being forced to hang out with people. 
  • I'm no government financial planner, but this seems like a huge waste of money for a financially strapped Treasury. 
  • The mayor of Las Vegas wants to open everything up, and wouldn't mind the city being a "control group" for the impact of coronavirus on the population. This is an actual screenshot of Anderson Cooper's reaction: 
  • Let's check in on Hood County. (Credit.)
     
  • She ain't wrong. (But that was a heck of an attempted recovery). 
  • It was announced this morning that 4.4 million people applied for unemployment last week. That brings the pandemic five week total to 26 million. I don't think we are even close to comprehending how bad this is all going to get in the coming months (years?). Just look at that chart:
  • 50,000 dead and 26 million out of work is one heck of a way to start 2020. 
  • I don't know anything about Ohio's handling of the coronavirus, but I appreciate this attitude:
  • Trump had a bad day at his press conference yesterday. First, we got this concerning his CDC director's Robert Redfield's  comments to The Washington Post where he said: “There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through." Trump, right off the bat, complained that: "He was misquoted. He was entirely misquoted." So he brought Redfield up to the podium who was then confronted by a reporter who, after reading him his quote, asked if it was accurate. His response: “I’m accurately quoted in The Washington Post.” Ooof.
  • So Trump then pivoted to say the coronavirus "might not come back at all this Fall" because "I've spoken to ten different people." So Dr. Fauci takes the spotlight and says: "There will be corona virus in the Fall." Double ooof. 
  • I don't know why we take advice from a guy who has managed to turn $3 billion into $3 billion over a period of 20 years. (I wish I had the audio of him saying that Google would never buy Youtube because they "would be sued into oblivion" because of copyright issues or that video over the Internet would never become commonplace because of limited bandwith.) And this is a medical question anyway. 
  • I'll watch the NFL draft for technological meltdown. (Fun fact: I got blocked in the early days of Twitter by Gil Brandt because I reminded him he drafted Rod Hill and Billy Cannon, Jr. Edit: He was bragging about what a draft genius he is.) 
  • In response to my post yesterday regarding the fancy stadium of six-man school Hermleigh ISD, I had a couple of faithful readers explain why: Taxes from wind farms. The school was dirt poor before they came in. 

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