Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

1.12.2023

The number of suicides seems to always be increasing, but they have always been with us. You never know what someone is dealing with.

Bridgeport ISD recently announced it is moving forward with a $185 million bond package, and Decatur ISD is going with a $313 million proposal, but neither can compare with Denton's announcement:
Oh, my. I think I see a red-headed Wise County lawyer in there. Better pic in the link.
So the new theme park in Frisco will be (1) a 1/4 of the size of other Universal theme parks, (2) not at all like those other Universal Parks, (3) caters to younger children, and (4) will basically be a commercial for films like Shrek and Despicable Me.
Inflation news this morning: Down again.
Yet another example of a car accident being transformed into a crime by law enforcement.
The Fort Worth Fire Department sure has a good photographer while it is fighting fires.
I still can't believe he said it out loud. (The trial judge is a Trump appointee, by the way.)
Grab bag. Let's check in on some of my favorite people and organizations:

It really doesn't mean anything, but cops went out to the Idaho apartment a few weeks before the murders on a noise complaint and spoke to one of the soon-to-be victims.
New issue of Texas Highways magazine features the Grasslands.
Lockheed-Martin is printing money by making a plane that seems to have nothing but problems.
Still a wild process to me: Texas Senators drew straws yesterday to determine which one of them will have to run for re-election in 2 years and who gets to wait 4 years. Wise County's senator (who 80% of us can't name) will have to run for re-election in 2 years. (Each senator's seat either ended up with future terms of 2-4-4 or 4-4-2, and then the senators will draw straws again in 2033. Confusing.)

Should have been taken out when he was clearly injured in that playoff game. He was never the same.

For two hours this morning, we had all airports across the nation shut down domestic takeoffs. "A Federal Aviation Administration [computer] system that provides pilots with notices they need to read before flying is experiencing an outage, affecting flights in the United States." It wasn't a flight scheduling software, but another system which transmits safety information to pilots. Flights resumed as to 8:00 a.m. CST. But this was the earlier announcement:

I took this screenshot at 8:03 a.m. from this great flight tracker site. Nothing was yet departing at DFW or Love Field.

The Star-Telegram has a front page story about the new Tarrant County DA. But the first thing he needs to do is hire a PR person to handle his sound-bites and refine his quotes because stuff like this ain't gonna cut it. Good grief:
It looks like we've got a modern day Junction Boys. "A Tuesday letter sent by Rockwall-Heath principal Todd Bradford said several students 'needed medical attention, and in some cases, hospitalization,' "
Last Thursday, two people were killed in Fort Worth in separate incidents when they were hit by a train. It happened again last night. And they were all people standing on the tracks. I would suspect suicide because this is one very common, albeit odd, ways to do it.
Re: That shooting death of the man at Alliance Town Center near Dick's Sporting Goods after the auto accident. I don't think we ever learned the identity of the deceased.

I tried to find out who it was on the Tarrant County ME's Office website was without success. But I was shocked to learn they had 49 bodies checked onto 1/1/23, the day of the Dick's shooting. How do the ME's keep up?

I think the guy in Houston will escape any criminal charges. But he sure did seem to enjoy unloading his gun into the guy -- even when he was probably dead. (Video - very graphic version.)
The rains in California are torrential. Here's an aerial shot of a sink hole:
This is kind of a weird story. The lawyer was going to attend a city council meeting as the city's lawyer when the wreck occurred. There is no allegation of drugs or alcohol being involved. This may be just another example of the trend of accidents becoming crimes when they never would have been in the past.
Can we ask her to define it first?
Lets check in on a network which is no stranger to CRT propaganda, Newsmax. We are turning into the dumbest nation.
Fun with charts. The Tarrant Count DA's office has a dashboard of facts, and one of them is assistant district attorneys sorted by law school.
Fun with charts. Why does Mark Cuban get such a pass in Dallas-Fort Worth
Messenger: Above the Fold

That is from Random Thoughts from 1/8/12. Hold that thought for a second. The topic will come up again.

Oh, TCU. What a beat down. If you turned it off, it ended up 65-7. The Star-Telegram is admirably trying to spin it the best they can . . .

It was easy to guess afterwards that it was the worst defeat every in any previous National Championship game . . .
. . . but it was also the largest margin of victory in any bowl game ever -- and there have been a ton of bowl games. (Although the record had been set just a few days ago.)
It's easily the greatest TCU season in history, but now they have to walk away from it with two losses and not even a Big 12 Championship to show for it.
Quality comedy.
Prices from the Championship Game last night.

"Diamond" of Diamond & Silk has died. We hadn't seen much of her since Fox News kicked them off the network because of their COVID misinformation.

I thought the following smelled like a grift so I clicked on the link . . .
. . . Yep. All the money just goes to her sister's pocket. No conditions. Incredible.

There's a lot of feel-good lying go around regarding Damar Hamlin's recovery.
Some headlines make you do a double-take. It is referring to Paula White.
No deaths, only injuries, but a road rage shooting shut down Central Expressway in the middle of the afternoon in Dallas yesterday. People are crazy.
Today's record high at DFW airport is 79. Here is Delkus' predictions:
I told you to hold that thought. This is insane, but apparently I'm just screaming into the void. The comptroller had previously projected a $27 billion surplus.
All that lawyer advertising must be paying off. Or maybe it's not.
The Proud Boys are finally in the Justice Department's cross-hairs this week.

This is really amazing: Without an opinion even being issued, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed Texas' highest criminal court yesterday. Get this: Even though the prosecutors and the defense agree that flawed DNA evidence led to the conviction, Texas highest criminal court had ignored them and said the man should die anyway. Thus, the appeal to the Supreme Court.

The D.A.'s office even officially told the Supreme Court, "Hey! We agree with the Defendant!"

Kliff Kingsbury was fired yesterday. Below was my hot take from 4/25/19. I was close. Murray will hang around, but he should be out as well.
Final AP College Football poll. TCU is #2 due to an unwritten rule. The Evil Empire made the list, too.