11.21.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




There was an abrupt end to this case a couple of days later which I'll post tomorrow.

  • This is what happens when you marginalize and dehumanize people. We've had a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh (Jews), a newsroom (journalists), an El Paso Walmart (immigrants), a Buffalo grocery store and a Charleston church (African-Americans) and we already had a gay club shooting in Orlando in 2016. Now add another LGBTQ nightclub to the list.

    • You just knew the shooter would be the grandson of someone like this.

    • An AR-15 (surprise!) was used, but one lone guy hanging out in a gay club on a Saturday night single-handedly stopped it. Compare and contrast the army of cops standing around at Uvalde. 

  • Speaking of Uvalde, the San Antonio Express News justifiably kept the heat on DPS this weekend:

  • Lots of car chase carnage lately with two more added to the count this weekend.
  •  This is a wild story. "Heims, who was in the backseat, pointed a pistol at the head of the other officer, who was in the front passenger seat, according to the affidavit. The Uber driver told police the officers began to struggle over the pistol, which 'discharged into the roof of the vehicle, damaging the sunroof,' the affidavit says."

  • The Idaho mystery of the stabbed four students remains a mystery. Over the weekend, I kept seeing this headline about "frantic" phone calls.

    • But this is what actually happened with special attention to the last paragraph.

  • If I had to bet, I'd bet he's indicted this time.



    • But I've learned a new defense for all my clients which I heretofore was not aware of: We simply "won't partake" in the criminal prosecution. 

  • Elon Musk reinstated Trump on Twitter, but Trump says he won't post. There's no way he'll keep that vow. But Musk is begging him in a shocking way.

  • Cold and wet coupled with bad teams led to some low attendance this weekend. Both of these photos are taken at kickoff.
  • As a Baylor fan, losing to TCU on a last second field goal was gut-wrenching. But I'm surprisingly consoled because I like the TCU storyline remaining alive. Otherwise, it's just the usual suspects trying to get in the Final Four. 
  • The U.S. Men's team plays its first World Cup game in eight years today at 1:00 p.m.  They play Wales, with a population of 3.1 million,  at 1:00 p.m. Size wise, this should be like Plano East vs. Jacksboro.  It won't be. 


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11.18.2022

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Texas Monthly featured the crime blotter one time, and it is still there.  

  • The death of the teenager in the ATV accident in Chico is awful. We already knew it, but the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office has identified her at thirteen year old Maycie South. 

  • TxDOT actually treated Highway 287 in Wise County last night. 

  • Elon Musk is gonna whiz away $48 billion isn't he?

    • From the Washington Post:
  • This Idaho murder of four college students has me very, very confused. All four were stabbed to death in the middle of the night in their home. There were two other people in another room who aren't suspects but didn't call 911 until noon. And two of the victims were last seen around 1:30 a.m. at a sidewalk food stand in no distress and with no one else with them. 


  • Denton County:

  • Didn't I tell you yesterday the man needs a PR person? One day after a press conference calling unwanted attention to the allegations, it is backfiring. He played an 11 second audio clip of one of his accusers, but the Morning News discovered that full interview "with then-prosecutor Fallon LaFleur shows she told Willis in spring 2021 she was sexually harassed during the nearly three years she worked for him." (And if for some reason you want to listen to the 20 minute exit interview between the two, here ya go.) Edit: I actually listened to it. It helps him for than hurts him. 

  • I think I'm prepared to say that Taylor Swift is the most popular singer I've ever seen in my lifetime. I can't remember any act who could sell so many tickets to so many people at any price.  The Beatles, U2, The Rolling Stones, Madonna, and Garth didn't do what she is doing. (Although Garth at his peak in the 1990s comes the closest.)

  • I'm not real sure why it's a 4:00 p.m. kickoff.

  • Historical review of how many seats are normally lost in the mid-terms by the governing party during the president's first term in office.

  • The new House majority held their first press conference yesterday and they locked onto the only issue that they think is critical to every American family: Hunter Biden's laptop.    (They are hell-bent on walking off the cliff even after last week's results. Knock yourself out.)

  • Of course she did. Please, please let them team up. 
     


  • Larry Brock, 55, from Grapevine has been found guilty in the Trump Insurrection. He will be sentenced on February 14th. He is subject of up to 20 years in prison. But he should face extra time for simply being a grown man playing dress-up. 

  • The Tarrant County Sheriff has killed another one. That's the 11th person this year. 


  • The NFL has deprived us of great joy. 

  • TCU being only a 2.5 favorite over Baylor seems to be wildly out of whack. But, remember kids, never bet on sports. 

  • 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, 136 days.
  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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11.17.2022

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts





Four were killed and 16 injured in Midland when a train struck a parade float carrying 12 veterans and their spouses.  After its investigation, the NHTSB created an animation of the reconstruction of the accident which is on YouTube.


  • An earthquake hit West Texas yesterday at 3:30 p.m.  The boys on my afternoon radio station in downtown Dallas swore they all felt it, and that it lasted for almost 20 seconds.

  • It turned out to be a false alarm, but a potential active shooter caused quite the commotion in Fort Worth yesterday.

    • This is what started it.


    • The view from someone inside the building during the confusion. 

  • Until yesterday, most people probably didn't realize the Collin County DA had been sued for sexual harassment. He needs a PR guy. 

  • Same sex marriage will be federally protected by statute before the end of the year.

    • Neither of the Texas senators stepped up.

    • The action was taken because of Justice Thomas concurrence in Dobbs where he threatened to come after other constitutional protections next.  

  • Current abortion ban states after the last election. It's kind of hard to keep up with. 

  • Fun race in Pilot Point. If I understand it, there will now be a required "run-off" even though there were only two candidates to begin with. In the (unlikely) event they are tied again after the second vote, they will "draw lots" to decide the race.


  • Whenever you support the "government should be run as a business" mantra, you get a government with "profits" of $27 billion.   Most reasonable people would call that being unnecessarily overtaxed by $27 billion. 

  • I think Fox News might really be done with Trump.

  • I can't believe this is possible. (The Supreme Court refused to hear a different "judicial override" death penalty case out of Alabama in 2020.)

  • (1) How is this possible when you have a budget of $742.3 billion?  (2) That Lockheed-Martin project is a boondoggle so far, anyway. 

  • And another.

  • The Cleveland Browns at Buffalo at noon on Sunday has quite the potential. 

  • Former Governor Rick Perry has been hired to help in the legalization of mobile sports betting in Texas. 



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