3.22.2023

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts






I had forgotten about the great cat rescue from 2013.

  • It's been a crazy news week in Wise County. We've had the Heritage Museum burn down, the alleged road rage death in Rhome and now the ensuing arrest, and a juvenile and a 17 year old arrested in an alleged murder case.  All just allegations, of course -- except the fire.
  • And yes, I've been aware of the "hazing" allegations with the Bridgeport High School soccer team, but the wild rumors you might have heard about are simply not true. 
  • This is a picture of the 16 year old Arlington Lamar student who died from gunfire.

    • Those elected in Texas to make laws, and who are actually in session right now to make those laws, instead offered their thoughts and prayers yesterday.

    • And there was another shooting yesterday.

  • Last night I actually watched online the Book Banning Committee Public Education Committee as they held a hearing on House Bill 900 which is about banning books. It was painful to watch. We are so doomed. Scott Braddock of the Quorum Report was watching it, too: 



  • Latest polling data for Republicans:

  • Re: License plate readers:
    • The City of Wichita Falls is getting in on the action. 

       
    •  A faithful reader saw this nugget in a story where the trooper doubted the driver's story as to her path of travel because "a license plate report showed the SUV northbound on 287 in Wise County around 2:30 p.m. on March 17, and southbound in Childress County around 7:20 a.m." Troopers can instantaneously pull the data from LP readers.

      • Side note: When an officer asks you "where you are headed?" feel free to decline to  answer. It really has nothing to do with any traffic stop and, regardless, you don't have to do anything other than hand over your DL and insurance. 
  • That's actually not the city banning the flags, that's a private entity banning the flags within its own private parade. There's a difference.




  • Legal nerdy stuff: Last Friday Trump received an adverse ruling in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, but late yesterday the federal appellate court in D.C. stayed the ruling. I'm not smart enough to understand the nuances of what is going on, but look at these crazy deadlines that were put on the lawyers around 6:00 p.m. yesterday! (Here's a pretty good explainer thread.)

  • Gwyneth Paltrow is actually in a courtroom this week where she is being sued by a guy who claims she negligently ran him over while both of them were skiing. He's allegeding injuries of broken ribs and "brain damage."   Color me skeptical. 


  • Long time local TV news personality Jane McGarry posted a very honest photo this morning. 

  • The Fed should raise interest rates by .25% today.

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3.21.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts





This is a follow-up to yesterday's 10 year post. This was the press conference associated with it. It had to be held at the convention center due to the media crush. Man, that's a lot of cameras.

  • Some aftermath photos of Wise County Heritage Museum.
    Tony Corso image
  • You know, this wasn't even the lead story on WFAA at 6:00 p.m. last night. There's a dead student for crying out loud.  We don't know much other than the shooter is younger than 17 years of age since he's being held at the Tarrant County Juvenile Center. 


  • The Dairy Queen era in Bridgeport is officially over as the sign was removed and replaced yesterday.


  • I think the new four minute compilation video of the Uvalde shooting that the Texas Tribune has put together is really flying under radar. There is some incredible footage in it. And it shows what we all knew: The cops were scared to go in because that kid had a weapon they didn't think they could couldn't compete with. And, honestly, you can kind of see why when three of them were almost gunned down in the hallway.  Story. 


  • Is it indictment and arrest day for Trump as he promised? Most people seem to say no despite what Trump is screaming about into the void. But there are signs of at least something . . . 

    • Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis finally took a shot a Trump yesterday: “Look, I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just can’t speak to that.”

    • Trump did not take kindly, and fired back: 


    • In a new video yesterday, Trump continues to act crazier and crazier. Fittingly, he will hold a rally in Waco of all places on Saturday. Side note: Newsmax had a very enthusiastic supporter on yesterday who dropped a major F bomb.
  • They just keep coming. Three of the four were women. I would consider all of them to the batch of "not normal" Republicans.  

    William Isaacs, Laura Steele, Sandra Parker and Connie Meggs.

  • A 22% proposed increase would boost the starting salary to $170,800.
  • Sheesh, just divorce her. 
  • I use to rail about the secrecy around police license plate readers, but now they are openly placed in agendas. North Richland Hills is spending well over a $1 million on them. 
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3.20.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




You might have to do a double take on this one. That is a picture of the aftermath of a gunfight that took place on highway 380 outside right outside the Wise County Sheriff's Office. And, yes, that is the Denver Post. We went national. Here's our Sheriff's press release on the incident.  It appears that the gunman had killed a pizza guy in Colorado, took his stuff to impersonate him, and then went to the home door of the Colorado Director of Prisons and killed him when he opened the door. He then drove to Texas, shot a Montague County deputy after a traffic stop, and then it all came to a head in Decatur. Wild. 




    • Credit to Messenger Editor Austin Jackson for getting up in the middle of the night and snapping some fantastic photos. 
  • Some kind of shooting happened outside of Arlington Lamar this morning which caused the school to go into lockdown. Update: The district says the shooting occurred outside of the school facility where two students were injured and are receiving medical care

  • Trump, out of nowhere, said he would be arrested on Tuesday because the Stormy Daniels payoff case,  and he immediately tried to rile up his crazy base for another insurrection. 
    (From Saturday morning)
    (Not real but an impressive fake)

    • All of this hubbud fires up his nutty base, but he continues to be a major problem for the normal Republicans.  Time and time again they have the chance to get rid of him but they have refused to do so: The "grab em by" moment, the first impeachment over Ukraine, after getting beat by Biden, January 6th and all that preceded it including the tampering in Georgia and the fake electors plot, the second impeachment, the "termination" of the Constitution post, the taking and hiding of documents at Mar-a-largo, and many more.)
    • But remember kids, you too can become a victim if you have sex with a porn star while your third wife is pregnant and then buy her silence with $130,000 during a presidential campaign with campaign funds. None of us are safe. 

    • Wise County's rep is a really, really strange guy. He is not a normal Republican in any sense of the word. 

  • A candlelight vigil on Saturday night in Dallas, in front of a store where a 19 year old was murdered the day before, erupted into its own violent scene. "Police said a white Chrysler was passing by the vigil and someone inside opened fire. People at the vigil returned fire at the car before it drove off. [OH, MY!] Four people were shot and taken to hospitals. Police said they were in stable condition. One of the victims is the mother of the teenager who was shot and killed Friday." 

  • Another sentence last week from the Trump Insurrection. Not enough.


  • Putin visited Mariupol. one of his crime scenes, over the weekend.

  • The Liberally Lean leaderboard.

  • TCU lost last night as did as Baylor. But pretend you are gambler and have bet for or against TCU who was -4.5  underdog. TCU trailed by 6 with 7/10ths of a second left and were throwing the ball in at the other end of the floor. There's no time for anything to happen assuming that they were even going to make an effort, right? Video.

  • This Tarrant County DA investigator gets a full page photo as he complains about the lack of laws for the crime of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. The best I can tell from the story, the D.A.'s office in 11 out of 11 for the prosecution of those very unusual crimes. 

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3.17.2023

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

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