4.18.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The video of the actual explosion at the West, Texas fertilizer plant is still out there. (Side note: The ATF's proclamation that it was "intentionally set" was always nothing but speculation and PR. They still can't even tell us how exactly it was set and never had a suspect. They are just guessing about the cause.)

  • The Wise County Sheriff's Office courts and jail database went down in the middle of the night and still is not up.  Edit: Sounds like an Internet company switch over that may take over a day.
  • Never forget this guy had a huge press conference and created a web site to deny any wrongdoing, calling it all a "sham."  He is still in office in Collin County as the District Attorney. 

  • That's a horrible story. 


  • Mineral Wells story.


    • The only comment about the matter on the Star-Telegram page: 

  • And so it begins. The new MAGA County Judge Tim O'Hare takes the first steps to control the counting of the ballot box. This comes on the heals of forming a strange three headed club called the "Election Integrity Task Force" along with the MAGA Sheriff and and the new MAGA DA. They've yet to say exactly what they are doing. 

    • Flashback:

  • He's bought all those guns so he might as well come up with some unjustified reason to use it. 

  • Detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appeared in a Moscow courtroom this morning for the first time.

  • Look at this little 16 year old who pulled herself up by her own bootstraps and was able to open a business in one of the most expensive commercial real estate areas in America!  Actual quote:  “Honestly, it’s a dream,” her mother said. “It’s uncommon for a 16-year-old girl to open a bakery with her mom. I think it goes to show you that if you have a dream, it can happen.”

  • Still think Abbott's announcement of a desire to pardon a convicted murdered -- before he was sentenced no less, and only because the victim was a Black Lives Matter marcher -- should be the legal story of the decade. 
  • Video link to an NBA player being stomped in the chest last night which led to an ejection.

     
  • Video link to a hit on a Dallas Stars player last night which seems to be a topic of conversation.

  • For you Succession fans only: My hot opinion is that Logan Roy is not dead, it's all an elaborate ruse, and that Tom and Logan's new girlfriend/assistant are in on it. 

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4.17.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts






It was a Monday ten years ago of the Boston bombing. Wise County Attorney Thomas Aaberg ran in the race that year.  

  • Train derailment in Chico yesterday. More pics here. 




  • From late Friday. Messenger link. 

  • Another day in America. Four dead. Twenty-eight hurt. 

  • If you want to see the actual complaint of the sexual escapade of the "family values" embattled legislator Bryan Slaton, here it is. And all the insiders down there keep saying that "It's much worse that that."


  • We have a one day delay in this big defamation trial over The Big Lie.  Please don't settle. Please don't settle. Please don't settle. 

  • Here's a wild quote from Crow considering the subject matter at at hand: “Every single relationship — a baby’s relationship to his mom — has some kind of reciprocity.” 

  • Last night, the Governor of Oklahoma actually called for the resignation of a county sheriff and county commissioner for saying some shocking things.   Here's a link to a transcript and actual audio recordings of what they were caught saying. Oh, my. 


  • Abbott really is losing it. On the heels of wanting to immediately pardon a racist killer before sentencing has occurred, he starts talking like Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

  • Good lord. 

  • If you want to see a raucous President Biden entrance in Ireland to the sounds of Dropkick Murphys, watch this. It is really cool. (You might recognize the song primarily from the movie Departed.)

    • Meanwhile on Fox News:

  • Legal stuff: President Biden finally got around to making a nomination to fill a Fifth Circuit vacancy. Unfortunately, the person is 59 years old. Let's go younger. 

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4.14.2023

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts



A year before, a small riot happened when all the bluebonnets had been mowed down at Oaklawn Cemetery in Decatur. Their return prompted this headline. 

  • We had a long sentence handed down on Wednesday in Wise County of 42 years in prison for Evading with a Vehicle.  From what I can tell, Randy Gordon had an extensive criminal history which created the potential for the enhanced sentence.  He also still has a ton of cases still pending: 

  • The murderer, who Gov. Abbott said he wanted to pardon within 24 hours after a jury's verdict, authored text messages that showed he had a desire to kill, was a blatant racist, and chatted with underaged girls. 

  • There were multiple hoax "active shooter" 911 calls yesterday morning. So dumb. Schools included Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Baylor University, Texas A&M University in College Station, Del Mar College Heritage Campus in Corpus Christi, Galen College of Nursing in San Antonio and Tyler Junior College in Tyler.  On Friday night, OU was hit by one which caused a small panic. 

  • Justice Clarence Thomas is in more potential trouble. Just watch how the following ramps up.
    • Thomas is supposed to report any real estate transaction, other than his own home, where the value is over $1,000. Despite this requirement, he sold property he owned on a Georgia street for $133,363 nine years ago yet he didn't report it. (The deed.)
    • But it gets stranger: His mother actually lived in the property that was sold. The new owner then began to make "tens of thousands of dollars" of improvements to the home. But get this: His mom continued to live in the home and still does. 
    • Now the kicker? The guy who bought the home was Harlan Crow -- the same guy who has been funding his extravagant vacations and private jet trips for years.
       

  • An arrest was made in the military document scandal. The guy was a 21 year old member of Massachusetts Air National Guard who had access to the documents as part of his job. Sheesh. How many spies are out their who simply apply for and get routine jobs just to get similar access and more. It's like The Americans but simpler. 





    • And somehow, the QAnon Jewish Space Laser representative found a strange way to make this political. 

  • We had another sentence yesterday from the Trump Insurrection. Robert Wayne Dennis, 63, of Garland was given three years for attacking a cop during the riot.  That's not enough. 


  • Look, they already have an image problem with the town name so why in the world do they want to make it look worse? "Police Chief Christopher Cook authorized all police officers to wear western-style hats while on duty to 'capture the western history of the town.'"


  • I saw this headline three days ago and thought it was fake or a gross exaggeration. 

  • Man, I found this wildly entertaining. Here is audio of the Republicans in Tennessee in a private meeting who are royally pissed that they didn't all stick together causing them to look racist in expelling two black lawmakers. They call one of their own in the room on the carpet. Big time.  (Audio includes transcript). 


     
  • A Bridgeport kid is fast. But that only gets you second at the district meet?  

  • 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, 283 days.

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