9.09.2020

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

 

  • Wise County active cases: 8. (Huh? We dropped to 8?)
  • Texas hospitalizations: (+164. My "it's leveling off" theory stays alive.)

  • Baylor/La. Tech, which was Fox's national noon kickoff game on Saturday, has been postponed due to 38 Tech players getting the COVID. They'll never get this college football season in, right? And this news will probably have them tap the brakes even harder: 

  • According to the Update, the Alvord High School football team has been hit with Friday's game now in jeopardy. This is about to happen all over the state, right? I'm stunned we haven't seen a tidal wave of games being postponed or cancelled. 
  • With the resignation of ReneĆ© Hall, the cities of Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington and Decatur are all looking for future police chiefs. I turned on Hall after she came back from her unexplained medical leave and had her own cameraman waiting for her in the parking garage when she returned to work. She pretended to be surprised by the camera as she gave a prepared remarks. It also bugged me that she had a driver and sat in the back of the SUV. (Yes, weird things bug me.)

  • When I saw this headline, I didn't believe it. I have never heard of an assistant DA in Texas having a side gig as a judicial clerk for the judge who hears cases that he prosecutes. But get this: Midland County Assistant District Attorney Ralph Petty was not only the judge's clerk, he earned $1,700 for advising the judge how to rule on matters directly related to this death penalty case he was prosecuting!

  • Last night Trump told the most gullible people in the world, his hard core base, that Mexico was actually paying for the (non-existent new) wall with tollbooths. (Spoiler alert: There are no tollbooths.)

  • This is about as relevant as the past naked pics of the First Lady.

  • Remember my bullet point yesterday about the fake story going around about a sex-trafficking ring? I've got an addendum. Here it is: Oh, for [expletive deleted] sake: 

  • Hey, I take everything Michael Cohen says with a grain of salt but Trump did choose him as his personal lawyer and fixer. He was on Rachel Maddow last night for this:

  • Luby's is dead. Fuddruckers is dead. Fun fact: The last time I ate at Fuddrucker's I made a dramatic life altering decision. I would attend its funeral if it had one. We go way back. 

  • Moments ago, Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. I'll let it go with no snark. The man could use some good news. 
  • Messenger: Above the Fold



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9.08.2020

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

 

  • Wise County active cases: No idea. We haven't had an update since Thursday.
  • Texas hospitalizations: -178 (My "it's going to flatten out" theory isn't looking very good.)

  • Oh, my! Alvord ISD is closed today. I remember asking about a month ago as to what the procedure will be if a random  student tests positive. Thus far, I have my answer: The reaction is wildly different depending on the school district. 

  • The TEA is collecting COVID data on all school districts in Texas beginning this month, but I can't find the results anywhere.
  • The vehicles damaged at Boyd ISD property that I mentioned yesterday was due to the "keying" of automobiles. 
  • So our military leaders (not the politicians) want to see their young men die in wars for profit? (Video)

  • You ever wonder what happens when a whole generation is humiliated by not achieving the "American dream"? 

  • I don't know how the NCAA makes it through football season. After TCU/SMU was cancelled on Friday because of a COVID outbreak, yesterday officials had to postpone "for a week" the game of Oklahoma State and Tulsa due to cases in Tulsa. 
  • Snowflake?

  • Saw this lie being spread around everywhere over the last couple of weeks. It was all started by a sensational headline from a government press release. The devil was in the details. 

  • Trump has sent out over 60 tweets before 9:00 a.m. EST this morning. Every single one of you which lives from paycheck to paycheck has too many responsibilities to engage in that much of a time waste. 
  • I saw Karen Carpenter was trending (the masses are debating great voices), and I was/am a huge fan. She died at 32 of an eating disorder. Which made me think that we don't hear about anorexia as much as we used to. And with the cesspool that is social media beating everyone down, you would think it would worse.

  • I took out my protractor, compass, and maps yesterday, and I feel pretty good about this little Liberally Lean Weather Take It To The Bank Forecast: It will be cooler when you wake up tomorrow (around 70°) but around 2:55 p.m., as it hits a high of only 74°, it'll start heading down to an overnight low of around 63°. It's no bone chilling cold front, but it'll be nice for a day or so. 


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9.07.2020

Random Monday Morning Thoughts


  • The hardest working man in show businesses even on Labor Day.
  • Wise County active cases: 24 (last updated on Friday)
  • Texas hospitalizations: -360 since Friday

  • You think a cool front and a temperature drop is coming from mid-week? Just look at Boulder, Colorado and other parts of that state and the change from yesterday to tomorrow. This is crazy:

  • That's a heck of a picture from the Trump boat parade that sunk five vessels on Lake Travis on Saturday. 


  • Worst press release ever. "Sure I abused my ex-girlfriend but not that bad and, by the way, we were all liquored up in the hot tub and she's no angel."

  • Trump really got rocked by The Atlantic article revealing how he thinks those which died for our country are "losers." After it even got confirmed by Fox News (Trump called for that reporter to be fired), they had to roll out Melania to try and defend him. And it's perfectly normal, of course, to ask his base to attack a widow because of it.

  • I'll always have respect for the conservatives who saw Trump for who he was from the very beginning. You know, Bill Kristol, George Will, Max Boot, etc.  Matt Drudge is on that list and he is relentless.

  • And Kristol reminded us what Junior thinks about when he sees the graves of veterans. This was from Junior's own book. He put it in writing. 

  • And speaking of Micheal Cohen's book, this is insane. And he has pictures.

  • Not sure exactly what happened in Boyd. 

  • The what? (Yep, it's real. And it's in Texas.)

  • When I heard about the top seed at the U.S. Open being ejected for hitting a line judge with a ball, I thought it had to have been some kind of borderline assault-like situation. Uh, it wasn't that bad. Watch it. 

  • This case went to the Supreme Court a couple of years ago and it is jaw-dropping amazing. The very same Mississippi prosecutor tried this man six times and all six were overturned. Two for prosecutorial misconduct and the other four because he kept excluding blacks from the jury. 

  • Following up on that case, I loved Justice Alito in oral arguments when he basically asked the State why they couldn't have just thrown the racist prosecutor off the case at some point and let someone else take over?

  • A weird Jack County case was affirmed on appeal late last week. 




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9.04.2020

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts

 


  • Wise County active cases: 25 (-1)
  • Texas hospitalizations: -74 

  • The Star-Telegram has a story about a doctor who is back in the news. She had a Wise County connection. I had completely forgotten that Judge Cude sentenced her to the hoosegow for a year back in 2004. 


  • Those who live in the Sigma Chi frat house at SMU are under quarantine after a COVID outbreak. Live look:  
    These really are SMU boys.

  • The Atlantic rocked the wires last night with a story on Trump  being Trump again. Now, to no one's surprise, it's being reported that he's made a series of comments demonstrating what he really thinks about those who give their life for their country. Here are the highlights:

    • Remember when he cancelled at the last minute a visit to the cemetery in Belleau, France and blamed it on the weather?: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” 
    • "In a 2018 White House planning meeting for [a parade], Trump asked his staff not to include wounded veterans, on grounds that spectators would feel uncomfortable in the presence of amputees. 'Nobody wants to see that,' he said."
    • On John McCain's funeral" “'We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral,' and he became furious, according to witnesses, when he saw flags lowered to half-staff. 'What the f--- are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking l----,” the president told aides.
  • Trump's defended himself as soon as he got off Air Force One last night:


  • Trump also immediately tweeted saying it was all fake news that he called John McCain a "loser" because he never called him a loser. Uh, here's a video where Trump literally called McCain a loser. 

  • UNT's quarterbacks coach has been arrested on an "Improper Relationship" between teacher and student for two incidences which occurred last year when he was a high school coach in Argyle. It sounds like the other party was 17 or 18. You guys can get married if you want, but you can't be doing that -- at least in Texas. 
  • Most of the headlines about this story point out that hours earlier he had given a recorded interview to Vice. What  got my attention was that it was the feds who killed him while trying to arrest him.  


  • The Messenger's great history column in today's Messenger is prompted by the question below from Decatur lawyer Paul Belew. Looks like he noticed one of the historical markers on our courthouse lawn pays tribute to a "respected negro." (Side note: And if case you wonder if we "give him the business" for his eye catching billboards, the answer is a resounding "Yes!!" But he's a good lawyer and a good guy who takes it all in stride.) 

  • We had college football last night. This made me laugh.

  • Also funny.

  • Messenger: Above the Fold


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