Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

The most unstable box scores the Messenger ever produced.

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• If this is a "staged photo" . . .
  
  
  
• . . . so are these.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And especially this (which should have been a crime against Christianity) . . .
  
  
  
• Trump may have finally guaranteed his indictment yesterday. When complaining that the picture being staged, he admitted that he knew the documents were there and where they were kept.  This is bad. And wasn't it just the other day that he said all the documents were "planted"?
  
  
  
• And while Trump was sealing his fate on social media, one his lawyers was on Fox News randomly saying that lots of people had access to his office where the documents were kept. They are both so bent out shape about the FBI creating a photograph with the documents, that they are making admissions left and right. 
  
  
  
• Sarah Palin lost last night to a Democrat in her bid to become Alaska's only House representative. (But this is only to finish an unexpired term that ends December 31st.  There is a completely different election between the same candidates in November for the full two year term.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And I still feel like I'm missing one. There have been a bunch lately. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• When Abbott does a PR stunt of going "door to door", how many doors do you think he actually knocks on? I'm guessing less than five, and I might be overshooting it.
  
  
  
• Her sin in Oklahoma? She posted a QR code to the Brooklyn Public Library, which gives students online access to banned books. A library. Yell at me for Hitler comparisons all you want, but we just keep getting closer. It's almost, what would you call it, "semi-fascist" behavior?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, and he's proud of it . . . 
  
  
  
• Some stories just don't make sense. There were a ton of reports over the weekend about a BYU fan shouting the N-word at a Duke volleyball player.  At BYU? That seemed odd. Now it appears the story may not have been true at all. 
  
  
  
• Texas will still put you in a cage for it, but a new Gallup poll shows . . .   
  
  
  
• Texas AG Ken Paxton, who is still under indictment, will be hanging out with Trump in New Jersey today.
  
  
  
• This made me laugh. The audience member was as sincere as the day is long.   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• That story looks juicy.
  
  
  
• After I posted this yesterday . . . 
  
  
  
• . . . a faithful reader told me it looked familiar and attached this . . . 
  
  
  
•  Number of days that the Wise County Sheriff's Office has failed to fix and update the PDF of the jail roster: 2.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The marriage between Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison officially lasted from May 20, 2011 until March 2020 -- although they separated in 2017. 

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• The Department of Justice filed its response to Trump's request for a "special master" to inspect the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago. Not only does this get worse for Trump, we've now got a photo of some of the items recovered -- all of which are clearly marked. 

  

  There are people in prison for far less

  
  

  

  He was trying to hide them

  
  

  

  They lied about previously turning them all over

  
  
• Flashback.
  
  
  
• The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died.  A whole lot has changed.
  
  
  
• There was a crazy police chase with bullets flying which ended up at crash at 377 and Loop 820 in Haltom City. But I did notice how it all got started because I've been talking about this for years: "Police said they received an alert from their Flock license plate cameras that they detected the stolen car."
  
  
  
• Fort Worth ISD decided on a new superintendent last night. I find it a little strange that she just started at Midland ISD in February of 2021 and 30 days ago signed a new three year contract with them which was to pay her $310,000 annually. (Midland ISD posted the contract online.)
  
  
  
• Compare and contrast:
• President Biden was spot on yesterday.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, Trump was on an unhinged social media storm and riling up the nutty Q-Anon crowd by reposting them. Yep, he's now expressly recruiting the QAnon crowd in plain sight. He does everything in plain sight. 
  
  
  
• And the Q-Anon crowd took notice.   
  
  
  
• Hey, WCSO Information Services: Your publicly available PDF of the jail roster hasn't been updated in 24 hours. 
• Hide your children!
  
  
  
• Bridgeport has installed wind guards at its stadium which looks really nice. But I think "Bridgeport Sissies" in big lettering directly behind the home bench might cause some confusion for the uninitiated visitor crowd. (I'm on record of being a big fan of the girls' nickname by the way.)
  
  
  
• If you work for Travis County, you'll get at least $20 an hour. 
  
  
  
• This is really old news but it's showing up again. One of the former prosecutors says that the outgoing DA has a personal beef with her. I think she might be right. It is very un-Sharen Wilson like to go against a prosecutor and side with a man who will forever be convicted of capital murder. 
  
  
  
• I've got friends in Abilene and this case is the talk of the town. A murder of a real estate agent occurred in 2016. The arrest of his brother-in-law wasn't made until 2020. It's all circumstantial. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
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Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Yet another case lost to our poor memories  -- at least mine. Kevin Safford received 4 years probation and $5,000 fine.  I don't think he ever appealed. 

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• I don't want to call myself a legal genius, but what should I wear to the inevitable Hall of Fame call I'm going to get?
• Last week:
  
  
  
• Yesterday:
  
  
  
• The Rhome mayor walked out of a council meeting late last week and then the cops had to escort out audience members. "Josh wants to be mayor real bad, so I'm gonna let him." The video is cued up here. 
  
  
  
• Side note: That's officer Rex Richie who can be seen acting calmly in the video. I incorrectly referred to him last week as "former Rhome police officer" when mentioning the Royce Wood criminal case where Richie was shot in the leg. I was thinking of Brody Brown who was with Richie at the time of the shooting. My bad. 
• An arrest of a lawyer in Archer County led to a mistrial in Montague County:
  
  
  
  
  
• Side note: Did the DA up there change her name from Casey Polhemus to Casey Hall? I missed that. Marriage? Divorce? 
• Last night, the Southlake Carroll ISD board (brought to you by Patriot Mobile) clearly violated state law when they rejected donated signs. The statute says the school "must display" them.
  

  

  
  
   
  
  
  
• We had some fun couples at the U.S. Open last night to watch Serena Williams farewell tour.
• Bill Clinton and Dr. Ruth:
  
  
  
  
• Mike Tyson and Martina Navratilova:
  
  
  
• A new poll of past Trump voters. Nuts. And I bet an equal number of Trump voters now support the January 6th Insurrection:
  
  
  
• Speaking of, we finally had a decent prison sentence of a Trump Insurrectionists yesterday.
  
  
  
• You can't complain when people you don't like also exercise their Texas right to open carry scary looking weapons. 
  
  
  
• I meant to post this yesterday. Why does Ted Cruz have to be such a miserable human being? Video. 
  
  
  
• A new Gallup poll shows support of labor unions has risen to 71%. That's up 23 points since 2010. That's amazing. And a big deal.