12.28.2022

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




WBAP made a big mistake, and Liberally Lean got mentioned in the Dallas Observer.

  • The lying newly elected Congressman from New York appeared on Tucker Carlson last night expecting to be in a friendly forum. He didn't get it.  Tulsi Gabbard was filling in and let him have it. The last 29 seconds was just a brutal scolding: 

  • As stores were about to close on Christmas Eve, this alert went out.

    • What actually happened, which was only learned a couple of days later, was maybe even wilder.

  • So a Tarot card reader posted a series of videos on TikTok where she said that a professor at Idaho University "had been involved with one of the students and ordered the killings to conceal the relationship." The professor says she didn't even know any of the students, never had them in a class, and was on vacation with her husband at the time the killings. After her lawyer sent the Tarot card read a cease and desist letter, she posted 20 more videos continuing to make the claim. So she got sued. (At first I thought this would be a slam dunk lawsuit. But the more I think about it, the more it seems that it would be a pretty good defense of, "I didn't say it as fact. I'm just saying the Tarot cards said it.")

  • Speaking of paying up:

  • Tesla stock fell 11% yesterday and ended up at $109 a share. It's been a bad year:


    • And Elon Musk was up in the middle of the night last night doing the following. Yes, this is real. 

  • A warehouse fire in Dallas yesterday gave rise to a heck of a photo

  • Things that I didn't think I would be interested in, but was. Video here. 

  • I don't know anything about high school basketball, but it would seem to be noteworthy that on the first day of a tournament in Bridgeport yesterday,  little Paradise beat two bigger schools.

  • Legal nerdy stuff: I didn't know the State has collected all of the completed jury charges and verdict forms in every capital murder case in Texas since 2007. 
  • New holiday reading from the great ProPublica. “I know what a guilty father, mother or boyfriend sounds like.” - A self-proclaimed expert on 911 call analysis. 

  • It's bowl season. After an Oklahoma State loss last night to Wisconsin, Mike Gundy got mad at another reporter. It's nowhere near "I'm a man! I'm 40!" but he was pretty snarky. 


  • With two weeks left in the regular season, the Cowboys (the Dallas version) have no home games left and there's no realistic way they will have a home playoff game either. 
  • Messenger: Above the Fold

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12.27.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Movie thoughts as 2012 came to a close.

  • If  you've got a friend or co-worker flying on Southwest yesterday, they probably aren't where they planned to be right now. This is truly fiasco:  Around 70% of all of its flights were canceled on Monday and it won't stop today or this week.   This has to be the result of some type of internal labor issue. 



  • It was an epic storm in the Buffalo area. The blizzard lasted 37 hours. 

     

  • There are some strange new charges appearing on the Tanner Horner entry on the Wise County Sheriff's Office jail roster. We knew about three new "Sexual Assault Child" charges out of Tarrant County, but there are now three new specifically worded charges of statutory rape of a child under 17. This tells me the alleged victim was between the of ages 14 through 16, inclusive. If they were younger than 14, the charge would be called Aggravated Sexual Assault so these charges aren't related to the Wise County abduction and murder.  (Oddly, one of the those three "Sexual Assault Child" charges out of Tarrant County has disappeared.  )

  • The Wise County official government website, at least the portion for court and jail data, was wonky over the last three days. I think a security certificate has expired (below). Depending on your browser, you won't be able to get to it without tweaking the settings.

  • Sad news out of Aggieland. And these lines just hurt: "Hoang's family said they were on their way to College Station to attend his graduation the weekend he went missing . . . .  They were supposed to meet him for lunch, but never did. Texas A&M University said Hoang was not qualified to graduate, Fox 26 reported." It would have been Ok. It would have been Ok. 
     

  • As everyone expected, the judge threw out crazy Kari Lake's election challenge. She responded as you would expect. These election-denying people are lunatics. 


  • A Christmas presentation in four acts.
    • Act I:

    • Act II:

    • Act III:

    • Act IV:

  • Let's check in presidential Christmas messages. 



  • Good lord.

  • Random photo from Texas Monthly's photos of the year. Boats converge at "party cove" on Lady Bird Lake on May 7, 2022. I'd be so worried about my boat once the slightest of wakes came along.

  • Nothing says Christmas like your pastor celebrating the Lord's birth by being on Fox and Friends on Sunday and Christmas morn before dawn. 
  • That is a great photo. The way the guy just looks into the camera. The two women beside him who are about to realize there might be something unusual about their row mate. Here is his Wikipedia entry.

  • The George Santos story of lies is really is amazing. The recently elected New York Congressman didn't work for Goldman-Sachs, didn't graduate from college and also lied about his religion.  And we now have this great all-time line: “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.'”

at 8:32 AM

12.23.2022

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

That last one is old, but it make me laugh every single time.
at 2:30 PM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts



I guess it was a little different 10 years ago. 

  • Which got me to thinking about just last year in DFW. Remember this?: 

  • But don't let 2021 get lost in the shuffle. I love this photo so much. 

  • Here's a neat up-to-date nationwide wind map. Current wind chill map as of 8:00 a.m.: 

  • A budget bill of $1.7 trillion passed the Senate last night which got the far, far right worked up for some reason. Texas:

  • I'm sticking by my "not the busiest" day at airports position, but cancellations can certainly make it look that way. This pretty amazing 30 second scan of the line at Love Field right now looks like a beating. And that's one incredibly long line. 

  • That's a big bond to make for someone who is accused of stealing billions. And I don't think the federal system utilizes bail bondmen. 

  • Light reading: The complete 814 page January 6th Report was released last night. 


  • With the trial of Aaron Dean going on, another one in Tarrant County didn't get much attention. No conviction there. Michael Campbell and Andrew Wilkerson were listed as the defense lawyers. Prosecutors were Bill Vassar and Matthew Jackson.

  • The strike at the Star-Telegram is over, but I'm not sure what they got. The best I can tell there was "some movement" off the $45,000 salary floor that their corporate overlord had imposed.

  • The NFL continues to print money. But, remember, the owners have a self-imposed "salary cap." 

  • Air Force 30, Baylor 15. And it wasn't that close. Merry Christmas to me!

  • I won't be here Monday. I've already received the Heisman for THWMISB™ 2022.
  • 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, 171 days.
  • Messenger: Above the Fold


at 8:30 AM
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