Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

7.20.2023

Johnny Football mania ratcheted up as he was going into his final year at Aggieland.

Further south and a couple of hours later, a fire got near the sea of homes on Bonds Ranch Road off of 287 going into Fort Worth. It was accidentally started by a crew laying fiberoptic lines (surprise!).
I'm not sure what was worse in this case being tried in Tarrant County: (1) The defense relying upon self-defense throughout the trial only to learn yesterday the jury won't be able to consider it, or (2) the judge showing absolute disregard and lack of respect for the jury by making them come in and sit in the jury room all day while he and the lawyers worked on the jury charge. He sent them home at 5:00 p.m. after they did nothing all day. Incredible. That would never happen in Wise County.
And it is probably very, very good at it.
Objections are heating up over the proposed power line in south Wise County -- there's an article today about it in the Star-Telegram. Here's a color map of it below. For reference, I put an arrow on the far right of the intersection of 287/114 in Rhome. The red circle is the Speedway. The yellow are the different proposed routes they will chose from. Click to enlarge.
In a hearing yesterday about Hunter Biden's laptop (sheesh), the Jewish Space Laser QAnon Congresswoman decided to show nude photos of Hunter. There is no bottom.

This is real. Ted Cruz is now just a cartoon.
In his third show replacing Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters went after his target demographic last night by bring in . . . Pat Boone.
I want to know more before I pass judgment, but I'm not interested enough to read the whole article.
He gets no sympathy from me. He's not on a rookie deal and voluntarily signed his contact. He has two years left on his six-year, $84 million contract extension.
Messenger: Above the Fold

Rolling Stone magazine caught heat for putting the Boston Bomber on the cover.

The target letter sent by the Justice Department to Trump because of January 6th, and due to all of his actions leading up to it, was long overdue. Now they need to promptly indict and try the man responsible for trying to overturn an election, destroy democracy, and overthrown the United States of America.

Fox News and MSNBC screenshots when the news came down yesterday morning.
Let's get a reaction from the Ultra MAGA Extremist crowd. They are sounding as sane as always:

And speaking of a long time coming, those various "fake electors" schemes needed to be crushed and punished months ago. And finally we are seeing some of those people held responsible. They even tried to crash the state certification on December 14, 2020 which was caught on video. From late yesterday afternoon:
Keep and eye on this. The PAC which is funded by the West Texas Oil Men, who do not want Ken Paxton impeached, are throwing money at the guy who controls the impeachment process.
Social media tells me something happened to Giant Burger in Rhome.
Three juvenile crime headlines in the DFW news right now.

Regarding that Timberview case which involves a defendant and a victim who were both high school students, here are two quick videos the jury saw yesterday: One of the beating the shooter took from his victim in the classroom before the shooting. And one of the shooter chasing the guy out of classroom and shooting him in the hallway. That's a messy case.

This is really a crazy story where Crime Stoppers won't pay a couple because they called 911 instead of the Crime Stoppers hotline. I've been suspicions of Crime Stoppers for years.
My eyes!
Having grown up in the stereotypical Texas small town, being depicted as a place where we resort to violence because we disagree with someone isn't exactly an image I want to glorify in in horrible country song.
From the attorney crime blotter: "WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Marcus Daniel Beaudin, a Waco-area attorney who was once the target of a murder-for-hire plot allegedly orchestrated by his ex-wife, was charged with driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest on July 14 after he threatened and harassed a clerk at a CEFCO store who refused to sell him 'booze,' an arrest affidavit states."
For political junkies only: If you haven't seen how the Biden campaign took Marjorie Taylor Greene's speech from last weekend and cut it into a Biden ad, it's a thing of beauty.

I've got this occurring on the afternoon of 7/16/13, and that's about all I said about it back then.

This headline is everywhere, but I'm a little hesitant to run with it. The story is from the Houston Chronicle which is behind a paywall, and I can't get to it. But everyone quoting the body of the story and the emails have yet to post any excerpts about "order" or "ordering" -- which seems to be a big deal and the crux of the story. I guess it is in there, but I would think people would pull that quote out right away. This bugs me.

But the Houston Chronicle, the publisher of the story, pulls no punches in its headline whatsoever.
But when the paper does give us details on Twitter, they don't mention "ordering" or "being told." Now, make no mistake, what follows is bad, but it's not lining up with the headline. Being pushed back by Texas National Guard soldiers is not the same as DPS being ordered to do that. Am I obsessing to much about this?
Note how the Dallas Morning News headline writer softens it up a tad by not using the word "order" or "told" at all. And it cites the Houston Chronicle as its source for their story. It uses "ordered" in the first sentence but that is the only time, and the subject doesn't come up again. Weird.
Edit: Someone was kind enough to send me the Chronicle story. This is as close as the story gets to matching the headline: "In another instance, on June 25, troopers came across a group of 120 people camped out along a fence set up along the river. The group included several small children and babies who were nursing, the trooper wrote. The entire group was exhausted, hungry and tired, the trooper wrote. The shift officer in command ordered the troopers to 'push the people back into the water to go to Mexico,' the email says."

This is dumb and probably a free speech violation. This isn't a criminal trial, it is a political process of impeachment where the public has an inherent interest.
Weather.
As of a couple of weeks ago, it finally looks like dust is serious flying with the Wise County courthouse restoration project. I'm a huge fan of this.
Trump news:

Edit and breaking: He just received "a target letter" from Jack Smith for the January 6th Insurrection. That's huge. (But it's only Trump confirming it so far.)
There was a setback for him in trying to avoid being indicted in the "I just want to find 11,780 votes" case by the state prosecutor in Georgia.
Not enough people are paying attention to the Imperial Presidency / Authoritarian government that Trump would bring. It's Mussolini like. (Free link.)
DeSantis has an ad using AI to recreate Trump's voice. Our world is about to get very, very weird.

Meanwhile in Chicago . . .
Let's check in on Fox News' first show with Jesse Watters official replacing Tucker Carlson:
The Hollywood writers and actors strike in a nutshell:
Does this mean he'll have more?
Ticket fans only: The Dan and Jake situation sounds very bad. (Ticket subreddit is here although there's lot of unusual moderation going on.) Edit: They are gone.