4.26.2023

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Bob Gill out of Fort Worth was eventually appointed as special prosecutor.

  • I was tipped off to this last night in connection with the Decatur School Board elections.  I'll present it without comment, but it's obvious what's going on. 

    • Early voting numbers by the way:

  • The Wise County Courts/Jail database website continues to be down for the third day. 
     
  • The Liberally Lean Wise County First Alert Weather Team™ tells me that the best window for storms today is from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. 

  • After four months, the trial of the Proud Boys for their major role in January 6th has ended and has now gone to the jury. Yesterday in closing arguments, they blamed the Trump Insurrection on Trump.

     

  • Oddly worded Fox News headline. Twice.
  • Uhhhhh.

  • At the United Nations yesterday, the Russian Foreign Minister commented on Tucker Carlson being fired.  "It'd be useful to consider how things are with freedom of speech in the U.S. I've heard Tucker Carlson has left Fox News. It's curious news." Now isn't that odd? Video. 

  • Headlines like this are artfully worded to be attention grabbing. Prices are actually still going up, just not as fast.  

  • Turning to something unartfully worded, this very random post, and especially its first reply, that I saw on Twitter last night made me laugh. 


  • Nerdy legal thought: The civil "crane trial" is still going on in Dallas, and Fox 4 keeps putting this guy on as an expert commentator. One thing he says every single time is that "Juries normally get it right." So, I thought, what does that mean exactly? The answer is that a jury gets it "right" when it does what is to be expected. But what's to be expected? Well, we expect juries to act like previous juries. So a jury "gets it right" when it acts like a typical jury. Ergo, with that being the standard, aren't they guaranteed to "almost always get it right." It's like saying, "Juries almost always act like juries."

  • So the new ultra-MAGA County Judge in Tarrant County runs off the Elections Administrator and won't rule out replacing him with an election denier? . . . 

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4.25.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The George W. Bush Library opened 10 years ago, and we had a 
reunion of current and former presidents. 

  • Wise County Tax Appraisal notices have arrived, and the screams can be heard across the land.  Property taxes were already a problem and now it's been ramped up. (Prepare yourself if you have not received yours yet.)  And as far as the timing is concerned, how about the notices being mailed out right before big school bond elections? 

  • Speaking of bond elections (and school boards), here are the first day turnouts around the county:

  • Wise County Sheriff's Office court and jail database is down again. Ugh. 
  • At 5:00 a.m. this morning, President Biden released a three minute video announcing his re-election bid. It's really good.  The theme is "Normal vs. Crazy" and that's probably all he needs to run on. 


  • The host of the most highly rated show on Fox News was fired yesterday.  


    • He was an Insurrectionist apologist and an election liar. 

    • Flashback: Just days ago, upset that someone could be convicted in this country for murdering a BLM supporter, he strong armed Greg Abbott into saying he would pardon the killer. 

    • Checking in on Fox News last night three minutes before Tucker's old show was to air. 

  • I don't think they should have the right to block anyone.

  • I keep hearing about a weird True Texas Project meeting over the weekend in Farmer's Branch that had Kari Lake speak and an odd appearance by Kyle Rittenhouse.

  • Random local history: I was speaking to someone who shall remain nameless (my dad) who I showed a couple of pictures to which I had seen of 1930s Bridgeport.   He told me that, as a young boy, he had known the people in these photos. Amazing. One of the men at the gas station was the local men's softball umpire (softball was a big pastime back in the day), and "Crack Jack" at the bottom would take a wheel barrel around town selling tamales in the winter and homemade ice cream in the summer. I figured Crack Jack was quite the character, but apparently he didn't care for chit-chat and was "all business."


  • I'm telling you, this will not work at Colorado.

  • I never thought CNN's Don Lemon was objectionable, I just thought he was bad at his job . . . 

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4.24.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




That was quite the turnout, including the President, for the victims of the West, Texas explosion. The service was held at Baylor's basketball facility. 

  • It was a false alarm in Mansfield yesterday afternoon, but if you want to see the sheer panic via cellphone video of kids and parents running when they thought there was an active shooter in their midst, here ya go. You can feel the terror. 

  • Fort Worth murder at a high tone apartment complex in the Fort Worth Cultural District: "A resident who was being evicted is accused of killing Carlos Aybar, a maintenance worker at" or near the leasing office.


  • In Jasper, Texas on Saturday night.

  • But let's worry about drag shows instead, right? 

  • The embattled Oklahoma Sheriff who was already caught talking about killing journalists and blacks has now has been recorded saying he wants to "whoop the ass" of the District Attorney.  Now this gets my attention. Let's settle it in the octagon on pay-per-view.


  • We obviously have some Deviltry going on in Madison County (down near the Aggies in College Station.)

  • I'm kind of surprised the paper ran this picture with the story.

     

  • In case you missed it late Friday, the abortion drug will stay legal while the battle continues for now in the 5th Circuit. Oral arguments are already scheduled for May 17th. 

  • Good. I thought that sentence, and even the conviction, was too harsh for an accident. 


  • Gateway Megachurch based in Southlake endorsed school board candidates again this weekend with a slideshow presentation while never saying the word "endorse" to avoid a tax problem. All of the candidates recommended have been funded by Patriot Mobile -- the far right wing company trying to take over local school boards. (The church made recommendations for Northwest ISD, too.) Video.

  • That's a big lead but not insurmountable because it's still early. Oh, and the fact that Trump is in the lead is mind-blowing. Not just for philosophical reasons but for practical ones. No one else will inspire millions to crawl over broken glass just to vote against him in the general election. 
     


  • Random sports flashback: Maybe the worst call in college football occurred in 1988 against North Texas when they played UT in Austin. Video. I was in the stands.  And the game winner in the exact same location on the field was just as bad. Video. There was no review by replay at that time. 

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4.21.2023

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




By the end of the week 10 years ago, one of the Boston bombers was dead and the other captured. As they media instigated their backgrounds, one of them was found to have been just a regular high school wrestler. 

  • I told you time and time again this prosecution was stupid and would never go anywhere. The prosecutors never had any idea what they were doing.

  • I get a sense that there is a growing war brewing in Decatur over the upcoming school bond election. 
  • Elon Musk had a fabulous day yesterday: (1) His rocket blew up, but he spun it as a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly', (2) Twitter got rid of blue check marks which now means you don't know who is real, and (3) Tesla released its earnings and the stock plummeted 10%.



  • I alerted you to this bill when it was filed, but I didn't think it would get any traction. Well, the crazy Texas Senate just passed it. I don't think the House will be that dumb, but they just might be. 

  • This story is so glorious. 

  • Nothing says "free and fair" elections more than a bunch of guys in matching uniforms with guns watching over you. 

  • No way! A Trump Insurrectionist is also the kind of guy who would open fire on Texas deputies.

     
  • Preach on. Cut to its core, a fine only punishes those who cannot afford it.

  • I still hate that Dominion let Fox News off the hook by letting them just write a check, albeit for a staggering amount, yet I still get satisfaction by all the names with "pending" beside them.

  • Nothing legally significant about it, but an "open plea" before the judge in Wise County which resulted in a 40 year sentence last year was affirmed yesterday by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals. 
  • 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, 290 days.

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