1.25.2023

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Here is what eventually happened to him. 

  • Brandt Hawkins of Bridgeport, and of Hawkins Funeral Home, died suddenly yesterday. I'm sick about this. He was a really, really good guy.

  • This is "Cruz" from Decatur per this post. Fox 4 retweeted it.

  • The Messenger is going from twice a week publication to just once a week. The print edition will be a Thursday edition. Currently they are on a Wednesday and Friday schedule. 

  • I give up.


  • I don't understand the this photo, or at least the cropping of it, on the front page of the Star-Telegram.

  • I had no idea that there anti-vaxxers think that Buffalo Bills player not only is dead because of a vaccine (not because he was involved in the car wreck type of collision on the field), but that there is now a body double being paraded around in his place. I'll say it again: These people are all around us. Example . . .  

  • Speaking of. Wise County's scandalous representative, who believes COVID is a hoax, is very excited about his new role. What a nut case.

     

  • It was a bad day for drivers yesterday.
  • Good lord.

  • While Gov. Abbott is supporting school vouchers and the gutting of public schools, a Democratic lawmaker has a different idea.

    • Related: From the front page of the Dallas Morning News today.

  • NewsMax has been dropped by DirecTV after a carriage fees fight.

  • Messenger:  Above the Fold

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1.24.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Tensions were on edge after Sandy Hook. Carson Elementary in Decatur actually went into lockdown mode as a precaution. 

  • My Liberally Lean Weather Team is very skeptical of it snowing while it is above freezing and the roads remaining fine.  When I asked them for scientific support for their dismissiveness, they just told me, "Just don't sound right."   

    • Meanwhile out west . . . 

  • There was another mass shooting in California. This time the shooter was a 67 year old Asian man. What's going on?

  • We found out what was behind the Whataburger shooting in Fort Worth on Friday.  Social media will kill us all. 


  • Insurrection news:
    • More convictions for trying to overthrow the government, including a guy from Proper.


    • This guy got convicted as well (but they weren't sedition charges). I would have been worried when my lawyer showed up in that hat.  


  • This was a news tidbit out of Granbury ISD last night. I think the lede should be that people were actually brave enough to get into a plane that was purchased for just $42,000.


  • Gov. Abbott is leaning more and more into school vouchers. But make no mistake, vouchers are nothing more than just an attempt to move your tax dollars from public schools to private, unregulated Christian schools. It's anti-teacher and anti-public education. 

  • A Look-At-Me Sound Bite Warning has been issued for today in Washington. 

  • Best Picture nominees were announced moments ago. I've seen Top Gun (overrated) and All Quiet on the Western Front (very good.)

  • This is from the official Dallas Cowboys twitter account. That's pretty harsh coming from the team. 

  • Jacksboro's David Spiller wants to protect monuments.  Sheesh. Under the bill, for example, a statue honoring and praising those who took up arms against the United States in the Civil War will remain on state property unless two-thirds of the Texas legislature agrees to remove it. Otherwise, the Confederacy may in fact never die.  (That's at least better than a previous bill that said a statue over 40 years old could never be removed.)

    • Legal question: Say in the future there was a 51% Democratic majority in the legislature which didn't like this 2/3rds law. Couldn't they just vote to repeal the law since they are then in the majority? Then the 2/3rds requirement would be gone without ever having a 2/3rds majority. 
  • Legal nerdy entertaining stuff: Here's the beginning of a random federal court opinion released yesterday.

  • I keep telling you about ChatGPT. 

  • The Star-Telegram might be a little too excited about the weather today . . .

at 8:30 AM

1.23.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Before there was the CRT hysteria, there was CSCOPE. According to the Texas Tribune, it was in the "crosshairs of conservative grassroots activists" who believed believe the plan promoted a "progressive pro-Islamic curriculum." The legislature would kill it later in 2013 led by Dan Patrick who was then only a state rep. 

  • Another mass shooting in America. Although this one happened in a "dance hall", it was actually a place frequented by the age 50 and up crowd. Asian square dancing is apparently popular in that community.  The gunman, who later killed himself, was 72.



    • And I betcha didn't even hear about this one which happened a couple of hours later. But no deaths there.

  • I'm stunned they didn't release the names. "Among those arrested were a volunteer firefighter, youth pastor, a high school teacher and football coach, and the director of operations for a large hospital network in North Texas."

  • Just teens opening fire on one another at a Whataburger near a high school on a Friday afternoon in Fort Worth. A 17 year old Paschal High School junior is dead. 

  • The state charges on the guy who drove from the metroplex to El Paso, in order to engage in the mass killing of  Hispanics, are in disarray because the DA out there quit her job, but the Feds are pressing ahead. They now have a guilty plea coming according to a Saturday court filing. No details yet on what exact charge he is pleading to or what the range of punishment is. 

  • This seems very wrong in Clay County. 

  • I saw this headline, and didn't think much of it. Then I looked the pics of the actual work-sheets, and even I'm stunned. 

  • Now say or do something about Uvalde. Texas legislators sometimes are a little tone-deaf. 

     

  • It was a big anniversary yesterday. LBJ and abortion. (One of the oddest pieces a memorabilia I have is a pecan taken from LBJ's ranch on the day of his funeral there. One of my dad's employees picked it up  and brought it back for me when I was a boy.)

  • Random fun fact: You can call 719-266-2837 and hear a Hall and Oates song. I can't remember where I learned that.
  • There was a time about a handful of years ago when this seemed unthinkable: Betting at an NFL stadium on the game. It's at the Washington Commander's home. 

  • Very random Cowboy notes:
    • Dak is a slightly above average quarterback who will have below average games. And that's worth $40 million a year in the NFL. That's just the going rate. 
    • Oh, my.

    • Dalton Shultz seems a little dumb and/or lazy.

    • Underrated play.

    • I'm not sure what was more embarrassing, the last play (video) or the decision to punt with two minutes left. Other options didn't have a lot of hope, but at least you could say you tried.
    • A reminder that Brock Purdy once threw the worst interception in Big 12 history. Video.
    • Here's a link to the perspective of the cameraman getting the stiff arm in the photo below.
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at 8:31 AM

1.20.2023

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

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