10.04.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The Rangers were forced into a one-game playoff with the Orioles -- which they lost -- only because of a season ending collapse that culminated in a bizarre final regular season game against the A's. In that game, they also blew a 5-1 lead because Josh Hamilton dogged it and dropped a fly ball in the fifth inning. Video of it here. (Below, Manager Ron Washington confronted Hamilton in the dugout after the drop.) Here was Hamilton's Biblically-based quote after the season ending playoff loss to the Orioles: “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you in your hometown, leave that town and shake the dust off your feet.''




  • A Bridgeport High School student was killed over the weekend in a one car wreck on CR 1308. That's a narrow paved road running north of 380 from Bridgeport proper.


  • Gov. Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who has campaigned on a no-exception pro-life platform, got busted last night when a former girlfriend came forward who had the actual receipts of when he paid for her abortion. Herschel immediately denied it which no one believes. (Even his emergency appearance on Hannity was laughable.)

    • Then his son went scorched earth. Oh, my: 

  • A protestor ran onto the field last night during Monday Night Football and then got crushed by a player.  That got real close to a helmet to skull hit -- something which is probably not the best idea. Videos here and here. 


  • The smartest thing to do would be simply to deny you fell asleep. Has Trump taught politicians nothing?  


  • Gov. DeSantis nice, clean, and white rubber boots got some attention yesterday as he inspected Hurricane Ian damage.

  • They go to Tennessee (!!!) to recruit troopers?

  • Legal nerd stuff: The Supreme Court granted a cert petition yesterday to decide the scope of section 230 which protects Internet companies from lawsuits for what is published on their sites by others.  And it was still granted despite having a huge typo in the very first sentence. 

  • Legal nerdy stuff #2: Does Brady, the requirement that exculpatory evidence be turned over to the defense, apply to cases resolved by a plea bargain? I always thought it did, but apparently that isn't a settled question. The Supreme Court is being asked to decide it, and the petition doing so puts Williamson County, Texas once again in the cross-hairs:

  • This ad keeps showing up on my Twitter timeline. What the heck is that supposed to be? 

     

  • Double header today in Arlington. I'm beginning to think he's not going to do it. 

  • Ticket fans only:  The Dallas Morning News had an article/opinion piece last night about The Ticket's new competitor, the horribly named "The Freak", which features former Ticket exes taking on the station. There were two quotes which raised eyebrows.
    • From Mike Rhyner on why he joined the new competitor:

    • The reaction of Corby Davidson, Rhyner's old partner:

  • That photos on the front page below, taken by the woman's son, really confused me so I went exploring. The story (free) was originally in the Washington Post. He went a long way to retrieve his stranded mother from her home but decided to record it all in a look-at-me GoPro video.  At one point in that video, published with the story, he has her laid out on a table behind him as he does his own-self interview.


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10.03.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Remember that game next time someone says he should be in the Cowboys' Ring of Honor. And the single playoff win. (I don't hate the guy -- just think he was average.)

  • Saturday: Police in Indonesia fire tear gas to stop the storming of the field. A stampede broke out and as a result we've got more people killed than in Hurricane Ian.

  • Remember that sailor accused of the billion dollar arson of the ship in San Diego? He was found not guilty. So either he didn't do it and/or I continue to believe that proving a fire was intentionally set is next too impossible.  Heck, I think even determining that a fire was intentionally set is basically impossible.

  • Just a message that Democracy is Dead. Totally normal. (From Saturday's rally, And the fact he's even doing those rallies is very, very weird.) 

  • A recent Wise County case that was in the Messenger made it to the big city paper. And I was told it was the "Hollywood Knowledge" questions on KCSC this morning (although I don't know what that means.)  


  • Ted Cruz filming himself buying beer and talking to the camera is the most cringe-inducing thing you'll see all day.


  • Follow-up from last week: (1) So a Florida sheriff can just go on Good Morning America and falsely proclaim "hundreds" are "definitely" dead from the hurricane and we just give him a pass? (2) Here's the probable cause affidavit of the warden of an ICE facility shooting immigrants. 

  • I've never so wanted to go near a boat in my life. 

  • It's pronounced fen-tuh-nil and not fent-ah-null.  It's the new nuclear. 
  • I'm not sure why the AP decided to drop a bombshell article about Ken Paxton on a bury-the-news Friday afternoon. 


  • This was in Ohio, and it may be about as mad as I've ever seen people. Video - Extreme language warning. And those weights being popped out of the fish is quite the sight.

  • The Price is Right on Friday:

  • This photo was on the cover of the Dallas Morning News on Sunday. It's a curious choice, but there's a lot subtly going on there. 

  • If you've got 42 seconds, listen to play-by-play man Tim Brando try to guess this puzzle during the UT game. 

  • College football: (1) I'm not convinced TCU is for real, (2) OU's defense is shockingly bad, (3) Jimbo Fisher's Aggies have the name record as the fired Kevin Sumlin, 37-16 (4)  Baylor's all yellow uniforms should be burned, (5) Never bet college football, (6) Opening Big 12 lines:

  • Aaron Judge's last chance to break the American League and Yankee home run record in Arlington. Four games beginning tonight. 

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9.30.2022

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Just a random female prosecutor biting the manager of an adult themed store -- with the arrest and her rantings on video. She eventually agreed to a 30 day law license suspension. But a judge, not a jury, would find her not guilty of "all charges" after a pretty strange bench trial.

  • This caught everyone off guard last night:

  • Remember that scene in Schindler's List where the Nazi would just shoot Jews for sport from his balcony? An arguably related Texas story here.  It is sickening. Killed "when they stopped at a water tank." This is what happens when you normalize treating certain humans as second class, call their existence an "invasion", and don't think twice about putting them on buses and dumping them in far away places. To give this killing even more of a Nazi-feel, these guys were even driving a vehicle from ICE's privately run West Texas Detention Center vehicle when this happened.


  • The Fifth Circuit continues to lose its collective minds. There's a crazy JP in Texas who forces anyone in his courtroom to stand for a Christian prayer at the start of his day. Sure, you can walk outside if you don't want to take part, but do so at the risk of peril for your own case.  Anyway, a panel from the 5th Circuit held yesterday that such a practice is fine. The dissent starts off perfectly in its retort: 

  • A Trump judge on the Fifth Circuit won't hire clerks from Yale Law School anymore because apparently the school is too woke. Sheesh.

  • As covered into today's Messenger, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made an appearance in Decatur.  Nothing to see here. Just probably the most powerful politician in the state endorsing a particular religion and calling elections a choice between the biblical "darkness and light."

  • We live in strange and scary days. 
  • With Commissioner Roger Goodell in attendance, one of the NFL's star QBs had his hands involuntary contract and tense up after having his brain slammed into the artificial turf. This comes four days after he collapsed on the field in Miami from a concussion that his team and NFL refused to acknowledge. Video.

  • Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, testified yesterday in front of the Januar 6th Commission. Anyone believe her?

  • Those arms. (From last night's BYU-Utah St. game)

  • Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 3 years, 87 days.
  • Messenger: Above the Fold

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9.29.2022

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




After a police chase, a man committed suicide, and it was all broadcast live on Fox News. Anchor Shephard Smith, who could see it unfolding, yelled,  "Get off it, get off it, get off it" at producers to no avail.

  • The Sheriff of Florida's Lee County was on Good Morning America this morning and just blurted out that deaths would "definitely" be in the "hundreds" due to Hurricane Ian. Video. (Odd: GMA posted the clip on its own Twitter account and then took it down. I wonder if the Sheriff got a little ahead of himself on this one.)

  • In about a 30 minute span last night, we learned that . . . 
    • Coolio died, 

    • Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband finally decided to divorce her,

    • and Aaron Judge finally hit #61.

  • I've got the weirdest brain connection of Coolio to convicted capital murderer Darlie Routier because of this event which happened in 1996 which has stuck with me. I'm not dogging the decision, I just have never forgotten it.

    • Side note: Darlie Routier has been on death road forever. But it looks like further DNA tests have been ordered, and I bet that case still gets wild before everything is said and done. 
  • Hurricane fake alerts:
  • What was Lara Trump thinking?

  • The sentences are getting longer, but still not enough:

  • The Senate Rules Committee voted 14-1 in favor of of the legislation. Ted Cruz, who would overthrow democracy in a New York minute if given the chance, as the lone vote. He's simply a bad human being. 

  • Tarrant County juvenile judge Alex Kim has been under fire lately, but I had never seen the inside of his courtroom before. What's up with the size of that lettering? Let's dial that back a little, shall we? 

  • A swing and a miss by me on this one. They only deliberated 30 minutes.

    • In my defense, I was not aware of the following change when I predicted the not guilty verdict.  I've always said, unless you've got a bad history of convictions, your chances of being found guilty increase dramatically if you don't testify no matter how much the jury panel tells you they won't hold it against you. Nevertheless, I was still wrong on my shoot-from-the-hip prediction on this case. 

  • President Biden forgot someone was dead yesterday -- the Congresswoman who was killed along with two of her staffers on August 3, 2022.  No way around this one. That's bad.  Video.


  • Update: There's still not a single news story about the Trooper-Fentanyl-Bexar County "incident" other than those which rely solely on DPS's suspicious tweet. This really bugs me. Throw in the Uvalde lies, and DPS's credibility is at an all time low. 


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