3.24.2022

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




We forget how bad Iraq was. This was a string of simultaneous car bombings that "left at least 45 people dead and 216 wounded, officials said."


  •  We could save everybody a lot of time and taxpayer money if we could eliminate the confirmation hearings and instead have each Senator just go record their sound bites for campaign videos in private. We then wouldn't have to go through this dog and pony show.


  • We strangely haven't heard an update on the health of Justice Clarence Thomas. 

  • A weird vertical light in the sky was seen in Houston last night. What was it? No one knows. 

  • Here's the original story of the school shooting. He was serving a 40 year sentence. 

  • Turned on right wing radio yesterday and learned the sky was falling over this training page found at Home Depot in Canada.  Based upon the callers, lots of people were never shopping at any Home Depot ever again (but don't call it "cancel culture.")

  • That was pretty bold of her.  The big money behind the CRT Strawmen from Southlake and Colleyville will be gunning for her at the next election. 


  • I want to watch this trial out of Temple. Here's the video which led to the criminal charges. She might want to reconsider rejecting the deal.  

  • I don't know anything about this case which just concluded in Fort Worth, but it is a huge government loss. You don't hear about many acquittals in federal criminal cases, and this guy, who lives in Keller, was facing 80 years in prison. The defense lawyers were out of Houston. 


  • This is the driver of the red pickup which got spun around like a top by a tornado and then who just drove off. He's sixteen. "I didn't feel it. I didn't saw it." 


  • This is just the run of the mill story out of Wichita Falls. But its always a bad sign when the cops have you sit on a curb in front of their car. That's one beaten down guy.


  • Previous bullet point updates from reader input. 
    • Those things with the marijuana leafs, I'm told, are just hermetic sealed baggies for your weed to cover the odor. Another guy told me they were just the professional packaging for over the counter edibles from Colorado. As for the packages in the back, one person believes it's ephedrine (used in the old school cooking of meth.)

    • A longtime reader was quick to point out to me yesterday that she has had the Calvary Crosses license plate on her vehicle for years, and she sent me proof.  

  • "Price, who was making about $100,000 a year in the DA’s office, will start out making $38,380 in the clerk’s office" as a deputy clerk. He campaigned for the DA's opponent in the primary election.  Setting aside he might have a lawsuit available to him, I'm guessing he got a job within county government in order to let his retirement account to vest.

  • Notable death. And, yes, he pronounced it "jif". (Just like "giraffe" is pronounced "jiraffe"). Also, we aren't talking about an "animated gif" but instead one of the very first digital formats for the internet. 


  • I missed this. That's just weird. And so was the wording of the statement from the University of Arizona: "While he does not recall any contact, he has attempted to reach out to the TCU student through their Athletic Department to apologize." Video.
  • Russia might be being beaten back from Kyiv, but that war is going poorly for both sides. No one is "winning." 

3.23.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




That license was briefly controversial 10 years ago as being a potential violation of the Establishment Clause. But it was approved, and then we never heard anything else about it. And I'm not sure I've ever seen one in the wild.


  • It looks like 60 to 80 homes were damaged in Jacksboro. 
    • Bridgeport PD has loaned two officers and two police cars to Jacksboro PD to get through the recovery phase. 
    • Abbott made the obligatory photo-op yesterday.  And, yes, I would have dogged him if he didn't show up. 

    • The standings.

    • And it's a crazy tornado season. New Orleans got hit pretty hard last night. The DallasTexasTV twitter account posted a handful of insane videos of it yesterday evening. 

  • Overnight, a car went off of highway 287 in Mansfield and slammed into a natural gas pipeline causing quite the commotion. Homes a mile around were evacuated until they could get the fire out. 

  • The family of the Paradise man who fell off the rooftop bar in Dallas has sued the restaurant. And we've got a father/daughter lawyer team out of Bridgeport involved. 

  • Horrible.


     

  • In reading this tweet about the tornado damage in Montague County, my brain heard an abrupt record scratch sound effect after the first sentence. 

  • We shouldn't let the public complain to the governing body which provides almost all of the funding to the courts and the district attorney's office? They should be silenced? That's ridiculous. 

  • The confirmation hearing of Judge Jackson became predictably stupid yesterday:
    • Lindsey Graham had to get the "Christian qualification" box checked.

    • Ted Cruz will always embarrass us. 

    • It's the 1960s

    • The QAnon fascination with child porn and pedophilia made an appearance through the man who encouraged the January 6th Trump Insurrectionists. 

  • You know what it means if there is a $25 billion surplus? It means you were overtaxed. And $25 billion is almost the annual property tax bill on all single family homes combined -- a tax bill which is already ridiculously high. 

  • Messenger: Above the Fold

3.22.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Random news blurb I ran across.


  • There's nothing that gets your adrenalin running like hearing or reading the words, "If you live in [insert town/city/county] take cover immediately."


  • Jacksboro photos. (Edit after posting: Fox 4's helicopter was/is flying over the town this morning doing a live stream online, and the damage is far, far worse than just to the school. It's not just the schools. Multiple homes are destroyed. I was stunned by how bad it is.):
  • Some Decatur damage:

  • That is pretty wild footage from Bowie.

  • Southlake house fire after the storms went through the metroplex.

  • This is Amarillo this morning. It officially clocked in at 4.6 inches. Schools are closed

  • Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's first day of hearings went off without a hitch. She didn't cry, nor did she profess how much she loved beer. 


  • I don't think it has been reported, but I was told that the father of the victim, 24 year old Curtis Stevenson, is a deputy in the Denton County Sheriff's Office. 

  • Kid Rock told Fox's Tucker Carlson that Trump once turned to him for help crafting a tweet about ISIS before also seeking his guidance about North Korea. “I’m like, ‘What? I don’t think I’m qualified to answer this,’”  In addition to seeking advice on what “we should do about North Korea,” he said Trump also let him look at “maps” during the visit. “I’m like, you know, like, ‘Am I supposed to be in on this sh--?’ Like I make dirty records sometimes. I do.” 

  • Former Dallas Mayor Pro-Tem has been released from federal prison -- news which became apparent after the Dallas Morning News' Robert Wilonsky spotted him at a convenience store. 

  • Arlington PD released your typical drug seizure picture yesterday, but does someone know what those (metal?) marijuana leaves are? And what prescription drugs are in those boxes? Let me hear from you. 

  • The videos of the stunt are in this thread. 

  • You have to zoom in a lot, but this Dallas Cowboys Scandals Bracket will bring back a lot of memories.

  • Wondering how long the Russia takeover of Ukraine remains on the front page.