9.14.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




What an understatement on my part.

  • After an (ultimately false) active shooter call yesterday at a school in Houston, SWAT teams entered classrooms in Houston with guns drawn and telling students to get their hands up. Video.  This is what we have become.  But let's get all bent out of shape about kids being traumatized by CRT and books about gays in the library instead, right? 

    • Waco freaked out shortly after that. 

  • Who would have thought that a guy which shows up at the Oval Office with "martial law" written on a yellow pad as part of a plan to overthrow the election and the United States would get his phone seized? Bonus: The FBI approached him in a Hardee's parking lot where he was eating.

  • A man who was school president during Baylor's sexual assault scandal, and turned a land investigation into a crusade against a President over extra-marital sex, certainly led a consequential life. He's now deceased after "surgery complications" in Houston.

    • The Rolling Stone headline is a little harsh. 

  • It may be behind a paywall, but the Star-Telegram obtained the video of the moments before a Navy jet crashed into a Lake Worth residential area in September of 2021. The cause of the crash? A "4.5-pound black vulture was ingested into the jet’s single engine."


     
  • For swing states across the nation, Lindsey Graham absent-mindedly filmed a commercial for the Democrats yesterday as he proclaimed Republicans will outlaw abortion at the federal level if given the chance. “If we take back the House and the Senate, I can assure you we’ll have a vote on our bill.”


  • That accident occurred within the Brock ISD. Every story like this should included a link to the actual lawsuit. This one does not. 
     
  • The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll is probably accurate.

  • Keep an eye on the potential railroad strike. That's big business around here. 

  • Dak injury update:

  • Brittney Griner is still in a Russian prison.
  • Messenger: Above the Fold

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9.13.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




This was the origin of "Benghazi", occurring on 9/11/12.

  • Breaking inflation news: Not as good as the Biden Administration had hoped.  The decline in gas prices alone raised expectation that it would be less than 8.3%

    • Stock market reaction as of 8:28 a.m.:

  • Better map that I had yesterday regarding Ukraine's gains against Russia.

  • As 40 new Justice Department subpoenas were flying yesterday, there was a lot of online buzz about Trump having a meeting on his golf course with lots of people who weren't playing golf. The equivalent of a mafia mob meeting away from cameras and recording devices? Naaa. The guy in red is the golf course superintendent.  

  • This wasn't already the case?

    • Let's check out the reaction of Wise County's (very unstable) congressional rep. 

    • He really is a certifiable nut job. Yesterday, for example:

  • This sounds like a murder-suicide, but that's about the only information available. 

  • When Susan Smith killed her two kids in a lake in 1994, it was a national shockwave. The killing of three children over the weekend in New York, however, hardly makes anyone's radar. (But I guess the difference is that Smith seemed to be sane and calculating, while this woman might be very mentally unstable.)

  • "Roe v. Wade should be overturned so the states can decide the issue" didn't last long. 

  • I'm no sure how Dr. Oz expects to win Pennsylvania by turning his back on the far right like this. 

  • Courting the nutcases in plain sight: "[Last night] Trump shared a picture of himself wearing a Q lapel pin, overlaid with the QAnon phrases 'The Storm is Coming' and 'WWG1WGA,' on his Truth Social account . . . .. The post had been originally shared on Truth Social by an account called 'Patriots in Control,' before Trump re-shared it." 


  • There was a new Law & Order commercial during the Cowboys' game where the fictional DA was seen saying, "I want you to get a conviction, and I don't care how you do it."  Sheesh. We celebrate that?  Then I noticed that John Oliver was already planning to take the show to task on HBO. (Available on YouTube.)



  • TV quick hits: 
    • Succession won the Emmy for Best Drama last night. I'm a big fan. 

    • Better Call Saul has been nominated for 46 Emmys since 2015. It has never won any of them. 
    • I finally started Only Murderers in the Building and What We Do in The Shadows. Both have not disappointed so far. 
  • Those are significant line movements demonstrating that the early bettors were putting their money on Oklahoma and Miami in overwhelming numbers.

  • Remember on Friday when I told you to bet the Under on Cowboy total wins? How's that looking now?

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9.12.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Random old 9/11 tidbits I had forgotten.

  • "I think I may need to refer you to a big city doctor." He's out 4 to 6 weeks. 

  • The Jerry Walk with the Jones clan to the locker room after a loss looks tense. Video.

  • The superintendent for Northwest ISD passed away suddenly on Friday. All reports just refer to it the result of a "medical emergency."

  • Another serious high school football injury.

  • The big brother of the second grader from Paradise who was killed in the birthday party accident in Rhome caught a touchdown pass last Thursday (on a deflection.) Video.

  • There are lots of headlines this morning about Ukraine making tremendous advances over the last seven days against the Russians. The best I can tell, it's this small area which the Russians have abandoned:


  • A little more pressure to resign from the USA Today.

  • Tailgate fire in Miami Dolphins parking lot yesterday. 


  • Don Jr.'s girlfriend, Kim Guilfoyle, performed a dancing entrance at some spare rally yesterday in Kentucky on 9/11. Video. It's like she was channeling Gloria on Modern Family.

  • My Utah trip to watch a Baylor game quick hits:
    • BYU stadium experience: Incredible. With the mountains all around, the might be the most picturesque setting I've ever seen. And it's the loudest sober crowd you ever seen. 

    • Arches National Park: Huge thumbs up. Worth the trip in an of itself.  (And there is the dark note in that it was at the entrance to that park where Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie were stopped by police and the encounter caught on bodycam.)
    • Canyonlands National Park: Another big thumbs up as well. It is right beside Arches National Park but a completely different experience. 
    • Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City: Underwhelming. It is significantly smaller than what you would expect. And it doesn't help that it is surrounded by a 10' wall. 
    • A restaurant in Moab was doing some bits.  

    • Salt Lake City Airport has the longest walk between terminals I've ever seen. Seriously. It makes Miami or LaGuardia a small stroll in comparison. 
    • Am I "upset" at going to Utah to end up seeing Baylor lose in a double overtime? Just the opposite. Life is about experiences, and that one was a tremendous one. 
  • Oh, my. Now that the Aggies have lost to Appalachian State (and had only 186 yards in total offense), the video has surfaced from Yell Practice where the Aggies referred to them as a  "hillbilly college."

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9.09.2022

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

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