Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

3.09.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I guess the answer to that was "no."

I'm not sure why providing some war support (javelins) is OK while other support (funneling planes) is going too far, but I guess you've got to draw the line somewhere.
The Russkies have released a photo of Brittney Griner.
January 6th Quick Hits:

"Lock him up! Lock him up!"
Ditto.
"Take her bar card! Take her bar card!"

The screenshot and the headline don't quite go together.
It's all beginning to make sense now.
You demonize schools, promote CRT witch hunts, want to divert tax dollars to fund unregulated religious schools (if they are of the right religion), and now there's a teacher shortage? Check. And your solution is to create a "task force"? Double check.
A faithful reader sent me this long read that I missed about a subject I was all over from its inception. And someone sent me a related podcast about the article.
Mentioned on The Ticket this morning: This oddly named street in Runaway Bay. He's a former Cowboy lineman.
Ticket fans only: On the weekend golf show, The Tee Box, they mentioned a hidden gem of a course near Lake Texoma. A listener went exploring online to check it out, and guess who he found as members? "Norm and Mary."
Messenger: Above the Fold

3.08.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

That second bullet point might have been my worst political take ever.

War video of the day. Sound up.
Shell tries to get some good PR while at the same time having an excuse to excessively jack up their prices. (We get about 3% of oil from Russia.)

And, based upon this Bloomberg report this morning, they are just getting ahead of what they are about to be forced to do. Edit: An announcement from the White House is now expected at 9:45 a.m.:
I just noticed Drudge getting all excited:

I screwed up my graphic and part of my bullet point yesterday in the election fight in a JP race in Clay County. It was Candidate C, not Candidate B, who had previously been disqualified. But there is still a legal dispute as to whether Candidate A won outright or needs a runoff.
Yesterday in Wise County, the following cases were all filed in JP #1. The same agency, DPS, just happened to file speeding tickets against ten different people who just all happen to be going exactly 80 in a 70.
I've been curious as to what ever happened to the silly criminal prosecution of Netflix in Tyler County over the broadcast of Cuties. Well, the Netflix lawyers have now gone to federal court to try and stop (the very handsome) D.A. Lucas Babin, calling him crazy. They didn't exactly use that term "crazy", but that was the gist of it. They are, of course, right on that point as well as that pesky Free Speech defense they've got, but I'm not sure they can get a federal court to stop the state prosecution.
The QAnon Congress person never disappoints

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This little-reported Dallas story from the weekend rang a bell.

Yep, that was it from late last month:

For those, like me, who have an interest in the metroplex murder story involving Candice Montgomery coming to Hulu:

Jessica Biel was spotted in Georgia filming the mini-series. She'll play Montgomery.
CBS Channel 11 has a good feature a couple of days ago on an eyewitness to the bloody murder aftermath who is still in the area.
A faithful reader sent me this Above the Fold shot of the defunct Dallas Times Herald from back in the day:

I might put this on a throw pillow.
Legal nerd stuff from yesterday: Justice Kavanaugh tried to argue a point and cited himself as authority on why he is correct.
An building's management company in Toronto welcomed workers back to the office with these posters. They took them down. Quickly. That would have made me want to quit on the spot.
I saw someone refer to the anti-CRT crowd as "the CRT Straw Men" yesterday, and I might just steal it.

3.07.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Remember Kony 2012?

Those prices at the pump are about to get worse based upon futures prices this morning:
How in the world did Brittney Griner get arrested in Russia in February and we just now hear about it?

Baylor game on Saturday
This is from the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States during his appearance in New Orleans over the weekend:
My uneducated random Ukraine/Russia thoughts -- which make more sense than Trump's:

The Russian attacks are more brutal than I expected (or maybe it is just that we actually get to see videos/images of what war in real time which makes it seem that way.)
You can kind of understand the whole Franz Ferdinand thing now -- how small wars can get out of hand in a hurry and escalate.
We might want to rethink those "red areas" on the maps showing the locations of the Russians and exactly what the red means. As America knows, it is easy to invade a county, but it is quite another to occupy those areas after that invasion. So you just can't easily map out what areas Russia "has conquered" or "occupies" or "controls."

The story of the February cold water rescue, of the couple who were in a car that went over a bridge and into the Trinity River at County Road 4757 near Newark, got my attention when it happened. Fox 4 had a follow-up story on Friday of trying to find a mystery man who was the first one there (although it is very murky on the details of exactly what he did.) But the Boyd Fire Department got some good press, too.
Our DA was appointed as a special prosecutor in a road rage case against a Wichita Falls man, Bubba McDaniel. The case was a little unique because McDaniel just happened to be the father of a two year old child who was a murder victim, allegedly at the hands of another man, in a current high profile case up there. The road rage case was worked out last week.
$300,000? Don't be dumb people: "A scammer is calling older men and accusing them of committing a crime by contacting massage- or sex-related websites. The scammer demands the men pay a fine through a bitcoin machine or designated kiosk. If they do not pay the fine, they are told they will be prosecuted."
The Little Ball of Insurrection, who says she would invade the Capitol again, is also trying to use a different name.
We've got a great election results fight in Clay County. They had three candidates for Justice of the Peace, candidates A, B, and C. Candidate B was officially disqualified and ruled ineligible before the election but stayed on the ballot because it was too late to take him off. The results were Candidate A with 43%, Ineligible Candidate B still got 38%, and Candidate C got 19%. So the question: Did Candidate A win outright? Or does there need to be a runoff between A and C because A didn't get more than 50%? They are trying to figure it out.
Great topic for you and your co-workers: Are there more wheels or doors in the world? (Things like cabinet doors are included in the definition of "doors", and "wheels" can include small wheels so long as they are attached to the item the are used to move it.) The answer appears to be evenly split:
If you can get it to work (or the horrible Star-Telegram's website to ever work these days), here is a database which lists the salary of every Tarrant County or City of Fort Worth employee. That includes assistant district attorneys and law enforcement.