6.07.2023

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




There was a time when a car crash photo was guaranteed to make the front page of the Messenger. 

  • That was shocking and shockingly fast. Within a year of entering the golf game, the Saudis bought out the PGA. What else could they buy?

  • Here's an odd tidbit in connection with the "ghost plane" over D.C. that lead to the sonic bomb on Sunday:


  • Eccentric plaintiff's lawyer Tony Buzbee might represent Ken Paxton in the impeachment trial after all. We will find out today at 2:00 p.m. He prematurely announced this over the weekend before deleting the social media post -- not exactly a great start. Regardless, we might get us a circus if he enters the fray. 

  • The skies above New York were smoky last evening due to Canadian wildfires.

     

  • Let's check in late next week to see if Delkus is just looking for attention with this far away forecast.

  • It didn't seem like a bad weather day yesterday, but a lightning strike did quite the number of the home close to Mira Vista in southeast Fort Worth.

  • Chris Christie entered the presidential race yesterday and took straight aim at Trump. Let's check on Trump Jr. this morning for a reaction.  Have I told you how much I hate Junior?

  • Legal stuff. Man, there continues to be fallout from the Supreme Court's decision last year expanding the Second Amendment. Yesterday, the Third Circuit gutted, at least in part, a federal "felon in possession" law.

  • Media breaking news: The guy trying to revamp CNN, and who thought it would be a good idea to give Trump a town hall meeting in a roomful of worshipers, is out.


  • The Washington Post coverage on the Ranger's signing debacle: 

  • What happened to that strange Michael Irvin I-Didn't-Harass-Her lawsuit?

at 8:30 AM

6.06.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Original story here.  After wondering "where are they now?", I tracked someone down who has the same name as the prosecutor in the story. If it is her, she's now a divorce lawyer at Cordell & Cordell in San Antonio.

  • Apple has unveiled its virtual reality headset at a hefty price, but I bet this thing is actually great. I've said for years that people will eventually all use these things as we turn into big globs of goo. Here's the 90 second commercial for it which makes it look pretty neat. 


  • An ultra-MAGA candidate has announced for the seat of Rep. Lynn Stucky who represents Wise County in the Texas legislature.  That's the last thing we need. Stucky isn't my cup of tea, but he's at least a normal Republican. 
  • There was a pretty interesting genetic DNA case in the news yesterday after a New Jersey lawyer was arraigned on four sexual assault cases that occurred 15 years ago. Detectives used genetic databases to identify him as a possible match, but they needed his actual DNA to make it relatively conclusive. That problem was solved by obtaining "a glass and utensils" he used at a "corporate event" so the test could be done.  

  • Follow-up from the D.C. sonic boom story from Sunday as jets scrambled to track down a wayward private plane. People in D.C. freaked out over the sound but, when I was a kid roaming the mean streets of Bridgeport, I heard sonic booms all the time. No one batted an eye. They were banned in 1973. 
    • You can hear the boom here as it disturbed a dog who has a really nice life. 

  • I did a double-take this morning when I heard an advertisement on The Ticket for this:  

  • Keller ISD's superintendent has announced he will retire, but he looks pretty young. (I couldn't find his age anywhere.) Anyway, I wondered if he was just sick of the harassment from MAGA extremists of him and school board.  He's walking away from a good gig: "Westfall’s most recent contract, with a salary of $285,340.10, began on Feb. 28, 2022, and was scheduled to last through Jan. 31, 2027."

  • They are not serious people down there. 

  • Campaign trail news.
    • Fox News is now calling Trump a liar and clearly taking sides.

    • A Republican I would vote for, Chris Sununu, announced he would not enter the race.  He thinks too many candidates in the primary will only help Trump get the nomination, and he wants no part of that. 

  • To get in and out of  the sea of housing divisions on Bonds Ranch Road has to be the biggest beating . . . 

at 8:31 AM

6.05.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I had forgotten that Troy Aikman once didn't now how to use direct messaging on Twitter.

  • Wise County news: You might remember the drug raid on this home of Jake and Brooke Melton off Washburn street in Decatur in April in 2021.  According to court records (Cause no. CR24262), the drug case against Brooke was dropped but last week she was sentenced to one year in the State Jail for "Abandon Endanger Child Criminal Negligence." She'll serve day for day with no parole.  His case, CR24298, is still pending. Flashback:


  • A private jet invaded Washington D.C. air space yesterday causing fighter jets to scramble and cause a sonic boom that could be heard throughout the area.  The story behind the plane is the real news: The pilot was unresponsive and probably unconscious (like the Payne Stewart plane back in the day), and it eventually crashed in Virginia. Killed on board were the pilot as well as the daughter, granddaughter, and their nanny of the owner of the private jet, John Rumpel (pictured below.)



  • It was already weird that he Texas House had hired two high priced lawyers to prosecute the Ken Paxton impeachment case in the Senate, but things got really weird when mega-rich Plaintiff's lawyer Tony Buzbee of Houston announced on Instagram on Friday night that he would be defending Paxton.  Then Buzbee deleted the post without explanation. 


  • Kind of weird: There was big metroplex news story earlier this year when a popular pawn shop owner in Lewisville was shot and killed. I noticed that one of the guys arrested in the alleged murder was actually picked up this weekend in Wise County on the same charge and is currently in the local jail.  I know he had made bond when originally arrested in March, but I'm not sure what prompted the arrest on the same charge -- it would normally be to an added charge or some problem with the bond. The arrest was made by a deputy with the Wise County Sheriff's Office. 


  • Skeleton news crews on weekends make it almost impossible to learn about anything that happens. In Sunnyvale, a couple in a car followed a family of five into a townhomes parking lot in broad daylight and opened fire, killing a woman and injuring three children. That's all we know.


  • The governor was blabbing over the weekend about eliminating property taxes. Just what would he replace it with? He doesn't know because he's not serious. 

  • Financial advice guru Dave Ramsey (whose advice is to save more and spend less) has been sued for $80 million for endorsing a scam a company was running promising to get you out of that dumb time share that you bought.  But look at how much he was paid to do so!



  • Crazy Congresswoman Lauren Boebert released a video saying she didn't "miss" the vote on raising the debt ceiling last week, but that it was an intentional protest of not voting. But . . . 

    • . . . there's is literally a video of her running up the capitol steps late that night as someone tells her, and she acknowledges, that the voting is already over. 

  • News from the campaign trail.
    • He's gone nuts. 

    • Mick Pence must have joined a biker gang. 

    • Ron DeSantis says that the federal government that he will lead will punish those he doesn't agree with. Totally normal.  Video.

    • His wife joined in by wearing this jacket.

       

  • DNA story from below (probably paywalled.) 



at 8:29 AM

6.02.2023

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

at 2:30 PM
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