7.20.2021

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




It's already been 10 years since Amy Winehouse's death.   She was only 27?

  • Moments ago, Jeff Bezos completed his 10 minute flight into "space" -- around 65 miles up. For comparison, the moon is 238,900 miles away. Color me unimpressed. I'm more amazed that an underwear purchase from Amazon can arrive at my doorstep in less than 24 hours.



  • But that booster being able to land upright will always be amazing. 

  • Meanwhile on Earth, just a house blowing up in Plano. I assume it was natural gas related. 

  • This didn't get much press. The story says it was at West 4th and Houston around 1:30 a.m.  
    Looking north from that intersection towards Worthington Hotel.

  • Texas governor candidate suggests shooting door to door advocates of getting the COVID vaccine. 

  • Joe Barton had to resign from Congress because of texting inappropriate pictures of himself at age 67, and now he endorses the opponent of the widow of the guy who replaced him. Got all that?


  • That a former Bridgeport gal on the right. I've always said that I want her press agent. Story. 

  • It kind of looks like the beginning of the last June/July surge. 

  • We've got us a vaccine passport requirement for college. And that's coming from a Trump judge.

  • I've got a lot of questions about this pastor from First Baptist of Corsicana supposedly "live tweeting" his alleged life threatening battle with COVID.


  • Yep.

  • Rangers last three games: 0-5, 0-10, 0-14


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7.19.2021

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




One of the drivers, a 17 year old kid, received two years in the State Jail after a jury trial in 2013 for criminally negligent homicide. The case was appealed, but it was voluntarily abandoned. There's more to the story, but I'll have to research it further.  But I definitely remember this Messenger photo:


  • Today the bearded guy below will be the first Trump Insurrectionist to be sentenced by a federal judge. Prosecutors want 18 months. 

  • A Decatur attorney was rubbing elbows with Trump, Jr. and his girlfriend this weekend in Parker County. 

  • Five members of the Texas-Democrat-In-D.C. delegation have tested positive for COVID. If I'm reading this right, they were all vaccinated. I'm a little surprised by that, but they should quickly recover. 
  • The Cullen Davis mansion in Fort Worth will be demolished this year. If you are not familiar with it, the Davis criminal saga is worth all the time you want to invest in it. (And I bet there are now a lot of people who aren't aware of it. Heck, witness Priscilla Davis passed away over 20 years ago.)


  • The winning sentence from the story: "Someone at an Applebee’s restaurant in Mesquite called police to report that a man wearing handcuffs was sitting at a table."  Edit: He's from Bridgeport!

  • I told you that the paying of players was going to get wild. 

  • The weird part about this story is that the Texas Senate just voted to repeal the law which they just passed in the regular session but hadn't taken effect yet. 

  • Can they indict a ham sandwich? Sure they can. In a case involving a man shooting of a BLM protestor in Austin, a detective in Austin says prosecutors crafted his testimony against his wishes to downplay self-defense in order to get an indictment. Prediction: They'll never get a conviction in this case.

  • Hey, I think the weird couple of  Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are  absolute nutcases, but a City expressing any opinion about the content of their message in an effort to suppress their crazy message is a true First Amendment violation. The couple ended up having a brief rally on a street. 


  • Nice Monday pic. 

  • I didn't see it live, but I appreciate the photo of the final dunk in Game Five. I love sports photos which capture the crowd. This one includes LeBron as well as a lady who saw it coming and couldn't bear to watch. And others need to put down their phone -- you'll have video evidence of the moment elsewhere. 

  • The fanbase at The Evil Empire doesn't want to hear excuses. 

  • I told Mrs. LL that I thought Mike and the Mechanics were playing in Bridgeport last Saturday as part of some festival. Turns out it was Micky and the Motorcars.




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7.16.2021

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





I did an evening post at 7:30 p.m. ten years ago because of the the above conditions from the weather station in Paradise  It was 106 degrees at the moment after a day's high of 108. Today's forecast, by the way, is 93. 

  •  All of this sounds very familiar.  But this time it is all preventable. 




  • "On Thursday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy made a historic announcement, declaring for the first time that misinformation is a public health hazard." He's right. A poll from The Economist this week found that 20% of Americans believe the COVID vaccine contains a computer chip implanted by the government. That's 1 in 5 Americans. That's 41 million adults. And just talk to the people around you. It becomes clear that figure is correct. 

  • Here's an important Democrats-In-D.C. update:


  • A double suicide and not a murder-suicide?

  • The Mavericks press conference yesterday demonstrated what a train wreck Mark Cuban's team now is.   But my favorite quote came from new coach Jason Kidd who, when he was asked if he had spoken with Luka Doncic, said that he had by phone but oddly added, “But there’s also a new way to conversate, and that’s by text."

  • Yesterday, in response to the new book which detailed just how concerned senior Defense Department officials had become that Trump would attempt to stage a coup after his election defeat, Trump released a statement where he actually began a sentence with, "If I was going to do a coup . . . ."  Comparisons online happened immediately.

  • Number of days Wise County has gone without Chick-fil-A?

  • A Texas defense lawyer discovered there had been an internal investigation regarding an officer admitting to other officers that he pulled over cars for no reason with the intent of looking for other crime. He turned the report over to the D.A.'s office who knew nothing about it. (The police department had taken no action and hadn't revealed that the investigation had even taken place.) The D.A.'s office stepped up and said they didn't trust the officer enough to use him as a witness. So far they have dismissed over 30 cases. 

  • I'm not a gambler, but when I went up to Winstar a couple of years ago, I was surprised at how  comparable it was to a Las Vegas casino. Now there is this addition over at Choctaw in Durant. But Texas won't legalize gambling because we are too good for that. 

  • There is absolutely no legitimate reason. 

  • Sounds like a judge was not very happy with a prosecutor in the Decatur courthouse yesterday. 
  • Random flyer found on Greenville Avenue in Dallas.  Why is the Texas Theater, where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, looking for a stolen pig -- who just happens to answer to "Pig" -- and who loves truffles and mushroom tarts? Edit: Wait a second. Is this just a bit for the new Nicolas Gage movie?

  • Random Sports eye-opening graphic:

  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 742 days.
  • The Messenger has a front page story today about Lauren's murder on the second anniversary of her death. They used a headline which is also the title of the book I've compared this case to. 


  • Messenger: Above the Fold (Special Lauren Whitener front page edition)


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