10.19.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




The closest I ever got to be on Fox News

  • Overnight.

  • This ESPN story is making headlines but . . . 

    • . . . this is what got my attention.

  • Update on the raid of the (possibly legal) poker club in Watauga: 
    • Cell phone video shows cops in masks arresting an elderly individual outside. 

    • I completely overlooked that Mayor Arthur L. Miner was there for the grand opening in March.

  • Fun fact: Because of a new Texas law, this year you won't have an opportunity to vote on any candidate who does not have an opponent in the general election.  They have already been declared "elected" -- and that includes local races. There names will appear at the end of the ballot like this: 

  • The beginning of the end for Dak:

  • Everyone got bent out of shape, justifiably so, when a child was seen on video in the audience at drag show in Plano over the weekend. 

    • But it should be noted that it was marketed for 18 and up. What we have is a parenting failure. 

  • Even Oklahoma. 

  • Texas voting projections per Gov. Abbott yesterday. We'll have over twice as many people vote as in the 2014 mid-terms.

  • That Durham Investigation ("We Are Going To Investigate The Investigators") that Fox News promoted over and over again turned out to be a disaster as the only two spare prosecutions -- where the FBI was the alleged victim, not the crook -- ended 0 for 2 after yesterday. 

  • Messenger: Above the Fold


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10.18.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Was this the beginning of the downfall of society?

  • The Dallas Morning News has a story today on the beginning of home construction on the massive Rolling V Ranch near Rhome which was sold a couple of years ago.


  • Update from yesterday: It did happen. What a time waste.



  • A different story update: The guys were shot and dismembered. Their bodies were also dumped not far from a salvage yard whose owner, after talking to police on Friday, has now gone missing and "considered suicidal."

  • We probably need to retire the phrase "officer involved shooting" and be more blunt about it. Side note: Four officers open fired.  It may all be justified, but you don't see that very often. 



  • What's going on here? "He has held discussions on gun issues . . . , sought to persuade the City Council to issue a proclamation for June to be Diversity Pride Month that he said went beyond the LGBTQ+ communities and made an unsuccessful run for the District 3 seat on the City Council in 2020." First they came for the books and then they came for . . . ?

  • For the life of me I can't find it, but I know I made a bullet point shortly after Trump was elected which said that no one on federal business would be able to stay at his D.C. hotel because he couldn't profit from it while president. How naïve was I? It was back at a time when I thought laws for presidents mattered.

  • Speaking of, the scale of the grift, and the gullibility of people, is incredible. 

  • These nominations happened last week, but I think it's amazing that we can go two years before a President gets around to making his picks for U.S. Attorneys.  And Texas has four of them, so one is still officially unfilled. And the one for the Northern District of Texas isn't some earth-shaking move -- it's  Leigha Simonton who apparently has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney in that office since 2005. That couldn't have been done before now?

  • Fox News dedicated an hour last night and turned Hannity into a one hour infomercial for the Herschel Walker campaign.  Amazing. If that guy gets elected, we might as well shut it down. We're all doomed. 

  • And maybe it's already too late. Sometimes when I sit down for a moment and reflect, I absolutely cannot believe this is where we are. Maybe Honey Boo-Boos really did lead us to this. 

  • If you haven't see the hiker fight of the bear, here you go.  I'd be certain that I was dead. 

  • The lady getting a flu shot below reminds me of journalist Cokie Roberts (who I just realized died in 2019) . . . 

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10.17.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Big Tex up in flames on 10/19/12. And Fox 4 actually did this later that day: 




  • That was a wild pop-up thunderstorm at around 4:30 on Saturday afternoon.

  • Double motorcycle accident on FM 2123 near Cottondale on Saturday.

  • The portal to apply for student loan forgiveness is now open. It's easy. I mean very easy.
  • Here's the highlight of the Herschel Walker/Raphael Warnock debate over the weekend: Herschel flashing a fake badge, saying it is real, and being told to put it away by the moderator.

  • What's going on here? From Friday:


  • Russia was hitting Kyiv with drones this morning, and this photo was taken. Amazing. It sounds like these things were manufactured in Iran. And there's video.

  • When did Texas sheriffs get so nutty? But I like how Montague District Judge Jack McGaughey wouldn't issue an arrest warrant for the Clay County Judge (!) simply because this sheriff wanted it, and then McGaughey went one step further and handed over what the paperwork that the sheriff had presented to him once the media asked for it. The sheriff had said there wasn't a copy when the same media had made an Open Records request. Story.

  • Did you know this guy escaped from a jail work crew in Coryell County west of Waco on September 27, and is still on the run? Never fear, the Sheriff has said, they were "going to hunt you like a dog." 

  • This headline was all over the place on Friday. None mentioned that the body of the story revealed that the painting was behind protective glass and wasn't damaged. 

  • I question whether this story out of Watagua is true because (1) I haven't seen it anywhere other than at pokernews.com, (2) I don't know how players could be "fined" on the spot, (3) poker is legal in Texas so long as the house doesn't take a cut. Put the photo looks authentic. Edit: I've already got one faithful reader confirming this story to me. Edit: Now two. 

  • He's gone full Hitler by now threatening Jews to "get their act together" and worship him.  

  • A few years back, "Frack-Master" Chris Faulkner sponsored Mark Davis' podcast. Faulkner was a con man and is now in prison. Now we learn Davis was paid to sponsor the guy on the right who was running a  Ponzi scheme and who now sits in a Texas prison. Davis also starts every radio show off with a prayer. 

  • Radio ads have more con games than any other medium.
  • Somehow a grass fire broke out and destroyed 70 cars parked at a "pumpkin patch" in Temple, Texas over the weekend.


  • From Humble, Texas and caught in Nebraska. Good lord. 

  • Wichita Falls thinks they were robbed against Decatur on Friday. They kind of were. Video of the play.

  • The Big 12 Championship game will feature two of this group: Texas, TCU, Oklahoma State, and Kansas State. But I have no idea which two. 
  • My faith in medical examiners, which wasn't great to begin with, isn't helped by this long cover story:

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10.14.2022

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

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