6.09.2022

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Little personal Random Thoughts were fun. I don't do that much anymore. 

  •  Well, this sounds like a legitimate case: (1) The man called cops and said he was thinking about killing a Supreme Court justice, (2) He traveled from California to Washington D.C., (3) He took a cab to Kavanaugh's home, (3) when he got out of the cab he was spotted by two U.S. deputy marshals "where he looked at them before turning to walk down the street", and (4) He wore black clothing and carried a suitcase and backpack with weapons and other supplies, including a Glock 17 with two magazines and ammunition, a tactical knife, pepper spray, a hammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, zip ties and duct tape, along with other gear." Oh, my.

    • And the Fox News group is having a field day replaying Chuck Schumer's comments from March where he stood in front of the Supreme Court and ranted that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh "have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions." And you know what? They should. That was grossly irresponsible. 

  • Video.

  • I was curious if there were any peculiar facts about this case which got the man a life sentence other than a death being involved.


    • The answer was "yep." That's wild. 

    • And if that wasn't enough, this made it a no-brainer life sentence from the jury. 

  • Let me tell you something: As the wealth gap continues to grow in this country with the rich getting richer and the masses looking at stagnant wages, an ill-wind wind will grow stronger and stronger. There's a reason Bernie Sanders followers are young. When a country is populated by youth who feel like they are being taken advantage of by their Rich Capitalistic Overlords -- with good reason -- pretty things don't happen in that country. Yesterday's examples which will anger the common man:
    • Rent skyrockets

       
    • Gas at $5.00 a gallon with while Exxon is experiencing record profits (and with their stock reaching an all time high yesterday.)

    • Stories like this where big money is now taking advantage of those in trailer parks. 

    • And didn't I just post the story about over 50% of all homes sold last year in Tarrant County were bought by investors?
  • That story on mobile home parks also had a graph of the cost of manufactured housing.  Thought you might find it interesting: 

  • Hey, at $5.00 a gallon, how does Uber, Door Dash, and Domino's find people to work for them using their own cars and paying for their own gas? 
  • The January 6th Committee public hearings will start tonight. I expect they will focus on how this was not an insurrection, but an orchestrated attempted coup leading up to the insurrection. 

  • My favorite overnight photographer, @Fox4Terry, was working last night and posted this pic of investigators at the scene of "shot fired."   As a guy who has worn suits all his life, I can't imagine wearing one outdoors in heat and humidity.  And that's a very old school look for Dallas PD. 

  • Speaking of. 103? (This is Fox 4, not Delkus, so it's probably correct.)

  • Maybe all men are not created equal -- this couple is better than me. 

  • The first event of Saudi Arabia's LIV Golf association just teed off.  This credible guy says the PGA is about to drop the hammer to keep any more defections:

      
  • I have now tried cases in front of a jury in five different decades. I'm officially old. But the weird part is that Wise County juries really haven't changed that much. 

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6.08.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




That was Carlos Correa. This spring he became the highest paid infielder in Major League Baseball earning $35.1 million a year. 

  • This will just be quick hits. My schedule is pushing me around today. 
  • The New York Times did a deep dive into Deshaun Watson. I don't know what to think about it all, other than 66 massage therapists over a 17 month period seems to be a red flag. (You think the Cleveland Browns, who just agreed to pay him  $230,000,000 over five years -- all guaranteed -- are sweating?)

  • There's not a kid of the 70s that doesn't have a special attachment to "Summer Breeze."

  • These headlines were everywhere yesterday. It sounds kind like a brilliant ply by Target to advertise a big summer sale disguised as "business news."



  • The San Francisco DA lost a recall election last night.  I understand being innovative and "smart on crime" instead of just wanting to put people in cages, but you can't be an ultra-liberal DA. No one wants that.

  • Matthew McConaughey choking up in the White House briefing room yesterday as he pointed out the green shoes worn by 10 year old Uvalde victim Maite Rodrigue . It's worth 40 seconds of your time. "These are the same green Converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting."

  • I can see a day where every future school bit has a wing for the local police substation. It would require some kind of weird city/school district arrangement, but it could be done. 
  • Someone needs to explain governmental immunity to me because none of these stories ever make sense to me. 

  • "An abortion rights activist stripped down to her underwear and yelled, "My body, my ----ing choice" in Joel Osteen's church during his sermon. Video.

  • Messenger: Above the Fold



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6.07.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




I honestly didn't think my tree was in danger from my project. Four years later, it died. 

  • Observed this morning in Decatur: 

  • This teacher's interview from Uvalde (he was in room 111) about the shooting is gut-wrenching. "After Reyes told the children to get under the table, he turned around and saw the gunman standing there. Ramos then almost immediately opened fire on the classroom, Reyes said." And it gets worse.

  • Ken Paxton is going to solve the problem of Uvalde type shootings. Wait. I got that wrong.

  • Paxton is, of course, just show-boating in light of this news which broke yesterday morning. (By the way, I told you there was no way that deal was going through.)

  • All your shopping in Walmart has finally paid off . . . for someone else.  (Side note: Forbes values the Cowboys at $6.5 billion.)

  • This story was first in the Star-Telegram last week, and I meant to get to it. I find those percentages amazing. 

  • I don't know what this means. They were only transporting prisoners when absolutely necessary so now they are just going to leave everyone in place?

  • Man, this ad is brutal.

  • We've got an update on the Kyle Rittenhouse to aTm story: Tap the brakes. 

  • This twitter thread even had me entertained. The masses are trying to solve this woman's problem. 



  • NCAA Softball > NCAA baseball.  (The women's Longhorn team having to win a double header yesterday to get into the finals against Oklahoma was big time entertainment. They were down 0-5 in the second game against Oklahoma State.)


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6.06.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The Texas Republican Convention was going on and the Tea Party from Watuaga was warning about the new "smart meters" for electric usage readings.  Early signs of QAnon. 

  •  I'll swear between Friday's Random Thoughts and noon on Friday, gas jumped 30 cents. I saw $4.79 later in the day, and it might have gotten higher.
  • This crime is just hauntingly horrible.

  • A state judge in Wisconsin was killed and found zipped tied to chair. He was on a "hit list" of the suspected killer, a man who had been sentenced by the judge to prison for six years in 2005. 

  • Man, this woman's account of ignoring cops and going into the Uvalde school to retrieve her kids is amazing.  I believe every word. Video. (NBC and other networks have even been playing this CBS interview.)

  • Now the Texas House Speaker has figured out how to stop mass shootings in Texas: Committees!

  • A man died after being hit by the wheels of an 18 wheeler while it was turning in Midlothian, and the brief story about it is wild.

  • A guy who tried to overthrow the government was very upset that the government put him handcuffs because he ignored a subpoena to talk about the overthrow. Video.

  • In a sane country, news that the Chief of Staff to the Vice President went personally, for the first time ever, to the Secret Service agent in charge to tell him the President is about to get the VP killed, would be a pretty big story. Especially when the next day Trump almost had Pence killed. 


  • If you haven't seen the winner's performance in the first ever "spell off lightening round" in the National Spelling Bee, it's worth a minute. It's mind boggling. 

  • Kyle Rittenhouse says he going to be an Aggie, he says. The school then announced he isn't scheduled to be enrolled.

  • I didn't tune in to see any of the celebration of the Queen's 70th anniversary celebration, but I kind of wished I'd seen her in hologram form waving to the crowd in an historic carriage. Video.

  • There are plans for TxDOT to put in an overpass on 287 where National Roper Supply is located, but the money could be far better spent putting an overpass on 287 further south, just past Rhome, where it's a literal death trap as cars going into and out of the heavily traveled 4838 have to dodge cars going 70 mph. 

  • I monitor Wise County records all the time, but this might be the first time I've seen someone booked into jail officially listed as a transient. You would think that would happen at least a few times a year.

  • Kenny Chesney played Cowboys Stadium on Saturday night. A few years back the guy decided to try and get rich by ripping of Jimmy Buffett's persona with a country twist, and he basically got away with it. He even threw in a little Dallas Cowboy pandering at the show. 

  • Buried in a long story yesterday in the Washington Post about former golfer Greg Norman, who is now the commissioner for the newly formed and controversial golf tour funded by Saudi Arabia, was this paragraph asserting the Tiger Woods turned the Saudis down for the same job despite being offered close to $1 billion. 

  • A mysterious raft showed up on a Texas beach.  "It’s made from humble materials, old metal drums apparently held together with lengths of rebar. The mast is a broken tree branch. On the right side — starboard — clothing is tied to the front, likely used to catch the wind and function as a make-shift sail."

  • Matthew McConaughey gets a front page op-ed piece in the Austin American-Statesman.

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6.03.2022

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

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