11.23.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Story. I was curious what the lawyer was doing these days, and I saw one article where he was still at it.

  • While you were sleeping: America reaffirmed you cannot even go to Walmart during the holidays without fear of being gunned down. 

  • Star-Telegram reporters are becoming more and more vocal about low wages. They are now protesting during their lunch hour as they threaten to strike.

  • I honestly haven't been able to keep up with what's going on with the D.A. in charge of the El Paso Walmart shooting, but it seems to be an absolutely chaotic situation.

  • He's been promising to turn over his tax returns for years, but the Supreme Court is finally making him do it. He threw a tantrum in response. (They are going to drive that Hunter Biden bus and Big Lie bus right off the cliff into an abyss of oblivion. They'll never learn.)

  • Meanwhile, they've got other battles to fight, too.

  • Random fun (?) facts: Cowboy's Thanksgiving game halftime performers over the years:

  • Business news: It really is a weird economy. I saw both headlines this morning.


  • Very random price of silver discussion. When I was a senior in high school (1980), I remember the strange occurrence of more than one outfit coming to Bridgeport and setting up shop at a local motel for the sole reason of buying your silver. And townspeople flocked there -- most in possession of real silver half-dollars that were still fairly common back then. They were rewarded with a handful of cash for their efforts.  Why? There was a silver rush at that moment brought on the the Hunt Brother "trying to corner the market" in silver.  It turns out, those simple townsfolk were the brilliant ones. The price was never higher than for a few days in February of 1980. I think $49/oz (or $177/oz in today's dollars) was the peak price. It currently sells for around $20 an ounce. Look at the price of silver over the years and that crazy peak:

  • Kanye, fresh off his anti-Semitic controversy, is hanging out with Trump before the holidays.

  • Monday Night Football in Mexico City fallout. Oh, my. 

  • Random college football nugget:

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

at 8:31 AM

11.22.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Continuation from yesterday.

  • For some reason a constable was chasing a guy through heavy traffic at a 100 mph through Dallas yesterday. But the ending was interesting when a police dog actually found the guy after he bailed out of his car and was hiding in between some houses. He fled and then jumped up on a car to avoid the dog at the end. And the dog, who was the very good boy, immediately backed off on command of his handler. Video of final moments.

  • Update in the LGBTQ club shooting in Colorado Springs.
    • The Victims:

    • This is the guy who disarmed the shooter. He's a 15 year Army vet and quite the character.

    • This isn't a real New York Times front page, but it should have been.

  • Oh, my.

  • An SUV went through the front of an Apple store in Massachusetts.

  • We might have a railroad strike after all beginning on or about December 9th. The tentative deal reached in September has now been rejected by four of the twelve unions voting on it, and one of the four has a quarter of the total workers. More importantly, all the unions would join in on a strike. That solidarity thing has a lot of power. 

  • I'm sorry, how much? 

  • I mentioned that former Gov. Perry has been enlisted to persuade the legislature to approve mobile sports gambling. There are 31 states which have legalized it.  I "bet" there are a ton of guys losing a ton of money across the country.

  • This morning 59 years ago.


  • The Supreme Court yesterday agreed yesterday to hear a case as to whether the dog toy on the right violates the trademark held by the company on the left or whether it is "parody" protected by the First Amendment. 


  • A TCU fan's overlaying the theme song to Titanic to the final 22 seconds of the Baylor/TCU game is a funny bit. Link. As is this video of the game winning kick taken from the end zone berm by a group of TCU kids.

  • I know absolutely nothing about soccer, but a penalty kick seems to be an over-the-top draconian type of sanction. In football, it would be like spotting the ball at the six inch line and making the defense play with nine guys. 
  • Nothing new on the Idaho quadruple murder case. So weird. 

at 8:31 AM

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. 


at 8:30 AM

11.18.2022

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

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