1.06.2021

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

 
  • Texas Hospitalizations: We continue to rocket further into already dangerous territory.  (Concerning "active cases", the Wise County dashboard was updated yesterday to show 392 cases which I think would be a record.)

  • And Georgia sends control of the Senate to the Democrats!

    • Please note: The Official Liberally Lean Election Prognostication Booth has not officially called the race for Ossoff, but my political scientists on staff tell me they feel pretty good about it. 
    • To put last night into perspective:

    • Trump's strategy of saying elections are fake and that Republicans leaders in Georgia are corrupt really paid off.  Fine job. 
    • "I'm not going to lie to you. This is bad. This is terrible." - Mark Davis on 660AM this morning. 
    • Trump's official statement this morning on Georgia:

    • The official statement of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's replacement:

  • And now we move on for some Light Treason in Washington D.C. today. 
    • First we've got the disturbing Dog and Pony show in Congress this afternoon where a group of Trump Republicans commit and act of sedition as they object to the acceptance of electoral votes cast by the states of the United States.  How does noted dirty lib George Will feel about this?: 


    • Even John Cornyn is not a treasonous nut:

    • Nor is Liz Cheney:

    • But we've got a ton of Proud Boys and the like in D.C. making one last stand for their Leader.   Every cult eventually dies. 

      Who pays for that set up? 

    • I think every Republican needs to announce if they are a "Trump Republican" or not. Are they Ted Cruz or John Cornyn? Pick a side. Everyone deserves to know. 
      (Just a little mob violence being encouraged)

    • Who would have thought that the civil war the Trump Republicans really wanted was one within the Republican Party. But I need to remind you again, Lindsey Graham predicted all of this. 

    • And moments ago, Trump offered up one last delusional gasp of full fledged Treason. But it will be somewhat entertaining to see exactly how lap dog Mike Pence handles all of this. 

  • Moment of Silence: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are headed for divorce. Flashback: 

  • The Texas Highways magazine just released an article on six Texas daytrips and one of them starts in Decatur. 

  • World record?

  • Messenger: Above the Fold



at 8:31 AM

1.05.2021

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

 



  • Texas Hospitalizations: +398. That's a big jump from an already record high.  Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, and Collin Counties also set record highs yesterday. I presume the same thing is happening in Wise County. 

  • Rumors of her death were greatly exaggerated.


  • I'm hearing some long time employees are being let go at the Wise County Sheriff's Office without the dignity of being given an explanation. 
  • Ok, this is funny. 


  • But even as I laugh, it is mind-boggling to think that in the history of the United States we have a president who won't graciously concede and instead is fighting to hold onto power.  It has never happened before.

  • We've got the final list of candidates for legislative special election for the state rep seat that surrounds Wise County. Spiller is from Jacksboro, Brinkley is from Cooke County, Carter ran for SD30 and got only 5% of the vote, and I don't know about John Berry (other than I don't think it's the same guy I saw in concert at Billy Bob's back in the day.) I see there's a Charles Gregory running as a Democrat, but I don't know who that is. There was someone by that same name who ran as a Republican in a special election for SD 18 in 2014 (he got 2% of the vote), but I don't know if that is the same guy. 

  • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is in Washington D.C. to rally on behalf of Trump (and probably beg for a pardon), won't tell Texas taxpayers how much of our money he has spent on his silly lawsuits challenging the election -- lawsuits which were summarily dismissed. The only thing we know so far is that the Texas taxpayer has spent $12,000 on printing costs. 

  • I don't even know where the 46th Judicial District is, but could you make the effort to put on a tie? (I'm seeing this more and more and it drives me nuts.)

  • I'm beginning to think Trump is not going to show us the Republican health care bill he's told us for years was being unveiled "in a couple of weeks." 
  • I was going through the Texas Monthly Bum Steer Awards and saw the one below. You know, the teacher probably shouldn't have been so blunt, but what she was trying to teach is valuable. That simple knowledge of a freshman in high school would have prevented the big embarrassment in Wise County criminal justice history. No one in authority understood that the lack of a match at any genetic location on a DNA report eliminates a person as the contributor. 




  • And it has happened elsewhere.  In the very same issue of Texas Monthly there was a story on the wrongful conviction of Lydell Grant.  What lead to his wrongful imprisonment? No one knew how to read a DNA report. (An "allele" is simply a genetic "location" and, once again, not having a match at every single location, much less 26 of them, eliminates the person as a suspect.) 
    (And she's being nice. She really didn't need an Excel spreadsheet to see
    that it "was pretty straightforward.")

  • This is really amazing. The three wins are against Seattle in 2018,  Detroit in 2015 and Philadelphia in 2010. History is here.

  • Ticket Fans: All morning long, the Ticket Ticker guy has been saying "Baylor is #1 in the latest AP poll." No they are not.  But he is right about Texas jumping to #4. 
  • I don't believe the headline below about "high hopes for marijuana" (although it's clever.) On September 28, 2018, Gov. Greg Abbott looked you right in the eye during a debate and said, “What I would be open to talking to the legislature about would be reducing the penalty for possession of two ounces or less from a class B misdemeanor to a class C misdemeanor.” He lied. 


at 8:34 AM

1.04.2021

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

 


  • Texas hospitalizations: A new record was set yesterday. (For local vaccine news, see my post from Friday.)

  • This week in Sedition and Treason:
    • Trump went full Mob Boss. "So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes,” Trump said. "There's nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you've recalculated," he said.  


    • What would have happened if Georgia was not being led by honest and decent people who stood up to Trump's attempted theft of an election? We are hanging onto democracy by a thread. Seriously. There's no way we survive another 50 years. 
      "The call sounded OK to me."

    • On the other hand, we had the Jim Crow Caucus form over the weekend as the Republican Party began to split apart. It's the Regular Republicans vs. The Trump Is My Führer Republicans and, honestly, I don't know which side is larger. 

    • Ted Cruz is the worst Trump sycophant of all. Here's a flashback tweet of the man he worships. He knows from experience this is all a big con, but he still wants to be in on it:

    • The fact that all 10 living Defense Secretaries feel the need to sign a joint letter should scare us all. 

    • Even conservative Texas lawmaker Chip Roy knows his colleagues are crazy. He asks: How can the same election be full of fraud if at the same time we are willing to accept all the Congressional Republican wins? 
  • There was a wild shooting at a church in East Texas yesterday, but it all started Saturday night. Sheriff's deputies and DPS Troopers got into a high speed chase with a guy who eventually wrecked out. He even got away despite a "manhunt."  The next morning, a preacher and his wife found the suspect hiding in a church bathroom and had him lay on the ground at gun point. Then "the pastor got distracted . . .  talking to his wife and the suspect lunged at him and was able to take the firearm out of his hand."


  • The Fifth Circuit quickly shot down Louis Gohmert's goofy lawsuit on Saturday. But my favorite part was hours before Gohmert's lawyers missed a deadline because they were surprised to find out that when you convert a Google Doc to Microsoft Word that you have some formatting issues. All of the litigation has been led by a Confederacy of Dunces. 


  • Speaking of, did you see where lawyer and Trump supporter Lin Wood called for VP Pence to be executed by firing squad?  He's so crazy that even Trump's "Elite Strike Force" legal team had to distance from him. (And Wood went even crazier in the middle of last night. And, trust me, it's crazier.)


  • A Dallas lawyer on the Decatur legal team trying to recover a $97 million verdict that was vacated on appeal has authored a Motion for Rehearing with the court. I'm no expert appellate lawyer, but I don't know if I'd start my Motion out with a veiled insult at the court. 

  • Random sports observations:
    • How about them Cowboys? Why do you guys gets sucked in year after year? But I think I'm in the tiny, tiny minority of people who isn't convinced replay would have overturned the call that it was a reception by Dante Pettis. (Yes, I know it really doesn't matter since the Eagles mailed it in during the 4th quarter last night.)
      "Oh, they would have overturned that catch.
      It was fake news." 

    • Why is Notre Dame so highly regarded year after year? And this graphic doesn't even include Saturday's shellacking by Alabama.

    • The Evil Empire shocked me this weekend by firing Tom Herman. In Memoriam, I link to the 2017 Sledgehammer clip.

    • The box score in the Texas 5A game between Sharyland Pioneer and Liberty Hill got my attention. Liberty Hill won 56-53.

    • Earlier in the year I posted a clip of a Denton Ryan receiver making a one handed end zone catch. He did it again on Saturday. Clips here and here of it. It made #3 on ESPN's Top 10. He has committed to Texas. 

at 8:31 AM

1.01.2021

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

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