6.20.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts






Yep, there were Ken-styled Aggie yell-leaders released in 2013.

  • We've got a missing submarine which took a voyage to the Titanic with five people on board. Contact was lost with it after almost two hours into the journey and at that time they had 96 hours of oxygen. Sorry, this will not end well.


    • And you will believe it won't end well if you watch this very brief clip from CBS Sunday Morning with reporter David Pogue which featured the sub a couple of years ago. I couldn't believe how wheels off that operation is. This will stick with you. 

    • One person on board is billionaire "British aviation tycoon Hamish Harding." The submarine trip costs $250,000 by the way. 

  • Trump gave the most wheels off interview of his life to Fox News' Brett Baier. Quick hits: (1)  The network no longer provides him a love-fest when he shows up.  (2) He's making so many admissions about the document case that I'm beginning to believe he's going to prison.  (3) And this question about "hiring the best people" might have been the greatest question of all time.  Video

  • Breaking: Trump just got a preliminary trial date in Miami.

  • Well, kind of. It was a sub-courthouse in Kemp which housed a Justice of the Peace. No "major" damage, either. 

  • Paxton impeachment update: 
    • Grifters gonna grift.

    • His wife announced she won't recuse herself from the Texas Senate vote on her husband's guilt or innocence. She has a community property interest in the salary which depends on the vote.  The corruption in these people is deep.

       
  • This morning, the Texas Tribune ranked all 150 House members of the Texas legislature from far right to far left. 
  • Sen. John Cornyn showed up very briefly yesterday to walk with Opal Lee in a Juneteenth celebration. The ultra-MAGA extremists will not be pleased with that. And was that umbrella for him or her? 
  • I don't know who she is, but she definitely got plunked by that phone. Video.
  • It's bizarre to look at the National League pitching leaders and see the name of a guy who graduated from Decatur just a few short years ago. 
  • Never heard of Gustavo Garcia. 

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6.19.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I didn't watch The Sopranos until a couple of years ago. It lived up to the hype.

  • THWMISB™.
  • That's all I know about this from last night. 

  • Abbott went nuts this weekend with his veto stamp. This is really, really strange.  Here's the list. He even vetoed part of the budget last night.  

  • I don't mind politicians going to weather damaged areas for a photo op. Heck, it's kind of expected and required. But don't put on gloves and act like you are working when you aren't.  Ted Cruz played pretend this weekend in Perryton:

  • What a mess. The truck was stolen and driven by a kid who just turned 17. His passenger, who died, was a 15 year old girl.

  • Flashback. More proof that Pete Delkus is all about the hype. This was his 10 day forecast from a week ago. He missed the 100+ predictions for the last four days. And although it will be hot and miserable today, it's not going to be 102.   

  • Highland Park ISD superintendent perk. Click to enlarge (as always)

  • That didn't work out. Here's an appellate opinion out of Fort Worth in the case if you want to take a deep dive into it.

  • From the campaign trail. (This was actually in early June in Iowa.) I don't think I posted it.  

  • This might indeed be the worst home run TV call of all time. And it was on ESPN. It was the first game of the college world series on Friday, and TCU was ahead by two in the top of the ninth and pitching. The ORU batter pulled off a shocking three run homer. The announcer first calls it a "walk off home run!" -- which is impossible at the top of an inning -- and then he gets further confused and says it is TCU who has won it:  "Oral Roberts wins it and rallies  . . . TCU I should say . . . in a walk off." What a train wreck.  Video.


  • Random college football recruiting news that made me cock an eyebrow.

  • Uh . . . 

  • A very, very random Twitter post and replies that I stumbled across which I shouldn't have read right before bedtime. 

  • Legal nerdy observations: 
    • I know nothing about Texas civil law, but the Texas Supreme Court on Friday may have begun to curtail the right to recover large damages for past and future mental anguish and loss of companionship (summary here) because the Plaintiff's lawyer argument:

    • The U.S. Supreme Court did not have a Fourth Amendment case on the docket in 2021 and 2022. Thus far, they have not agreed to hear one for the 2023 fall term.

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6.16.2023

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts



Still true. And that would not be good for me over the next decade. 

  • Perryton got crushed last night by a tornado.  That town seems to have a weird connection to Wise County becomes it seems like a local school is always playing them or playing there during the high school football playoff season. 


  • This image from a bank in Lavon in Collin County throws you off at first when you think a whole building collapse but it was just the drive-thru. Still bad, but not as bad. 

  • Fox 4 had better shot of the house where the dead woman and child were found.


    • And we got the first image of one of the deceased. 

  • I love Norm and have been listening to him since his morning KLIF show. I couldn't believe back then there was a whole radio show at 7:00 a.m. dedicated to sports.  And, no, he really didn't have time for bits back then. 


  • Travel crime news: 
    • Fear the hotel which is adjacent to big pool pump house.


    • Fear the guy you meet on a hiking trail near a German castle who wants to hang out. Story 


  • It's getting a little crowded.



  • Random sports notes:
    • Here's a quick loading video of Ranger Marcus Semien, the pitching coach, and the manager all being thrown out out of the game last night within seconds. 

    • Fun fact from yesterday.

    • Fun U.S. Open fact.


  • Legal bickering news. It's funnier if you read the story with the Texas Hammer screaming, "I want my money!" after every paragraph.

  • Legal nerdy stuff that is outside of my bailiwick but involves in Wise County: The Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed a property ruling in a divorce case yesterday handed down by retired judge Stephen Wren. 
  • 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, 346 days.

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