7.25.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The month long mystery of who killed 6 year old Alanna Gallagher in Saginaw was solved with an arrest, and then we learned of a Decatur connection.

  • That sentence is probably fair.  He'll have to serve at least half of the 12 years before becoming eligible for parole. (Side note: The prosecutor actually asking for the maximum of life in prison from the jury was dumb. No one died. They lost all credibility when they did that.)


  • Israel moves very close to a Netanyahu headed autocracy as it throws aside the concept of having a judiciary being a check and balance.  Pay attention. We could be headed that way here.



    • The leading Israeli newspapers went with a dark front page to represent "democracy going dark."

  • The Justice Department followed through on its warning that it would sue Texas over the floating buoys.  There sure is a lot of time and expense going to be wasted on 1,000 feet of ineffective floating balls that cost at least $1 million in taxpayer money.


  • "Band camp" this time of year in Wise County seems like it would be a beating. You even use pretend instruments in the heat on the pavement to get started.  

  • Not enough.


  • Eight second YouTube video here. 


  • Oh, my.  



  • This is a weird story.  From what I can gather from it, the guy is arrested for DWI and a sample of his blood was taken.  Within 24 hours, the officer had left the blood in a breakroom refrigerator where other officers saw it.  Because of that, a supervisor made the decision to immediately kill the case, and have the defendant released from jail.  Trust me, cops don't work that quickly to kill a case just because evidence has been handled questionably.
    The headline is wrong. He was arrested. 

    Memorable photo from the second DWI.



  • I could have sworn that within the last year I've seen another video of a Texas Sheriff starring in, and producing and uploading, his own movie as he berates someone as he fires them -- someone who he hired at basically minimum wage. Story.


  • The Dallas Morning News has compiled a list of its most profitable companies in DFW. All those profit numbers are staggeringly high, but Exxon's is eye-popping. You guys remember those high gas prices caused by "inflation"? 

  • Whatever happened to the silly Michael Irvin defamation lawsuit against the Marriott worker?

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7.24.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





Still one of the most shocking local celebrity deaths ever. 

  • But we had a death closer to home. Former Wise County deputy David Bosecker was shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance as a deputy in Eastland County. Awful. 


  • Probably not many of you are following the trial of the Mansfield kid who was just convicted for Attempted Capital Murder in Tarrant County, but here's an under-reportd tidbit.  Self-defense (which the judge didn't allow the jury to consider) was the the defense's trial strategy because of a fight the defendant and the victim got into before the shooting. But look at this: 

  • Texas will lose this. It will be a fitting end to a dumb idea. 


  • The bird symbol has suddenly disappeared from Twitter and replaced with an "X."  The main value of Twitter was it name and symbol recognition. And now Elon Musk as destroyed that, too. 




    • He's had a weird obsession with X. He wanted to rebrand PayPal to "X" before they kicked him out.  

  • Trouble in Aggieland.

  • This went down late Friday. The Supreme Court told Alabama legislature in a big ruling on June 7th that they had to redraw their gerrymandered lines. In response, Alabama just said no.  It's 1960s George Wallace all over again. 

  • Here's a video of a dog released on an unarmed black guy in Ohio with his hands up while a fellow trooper is yelling "Don't release the dog." 


  • I almost find it bizarre that every single person who went to see either movie just raved about how great it was. Not even the slightest bit of criticism by anyone.

    • Well, the above doesn't apply to the Ultra-MAGA Extremists who complain about it being "woke" (ugh.) These people are not well. (Yes, this is real.)

  • Weird stuff falling out of the sky this weekend:
  • The restoration of the Wise County Courthouse has it's own Facebook page with video updates that are pretty cool.  restoration 

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7.21.2023

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




A lady died while riding the Texas Giant at Six Flags in Arlington. 

  • That's really a funny headline. "I can't make it to my ethics violation hearing because I'm being impeached."

  • This would seem to be the equivalent of Saudi Arabia once discovering it was sitting on oil.

  • Notable death overnight: Tony Bennett

    • Less noticeable death: The mother from Sixteen Candles.

  • Sheesh.


  • Non-Ticket fans probably don't understand this, but the earthquake of Cumulus and a mid-day show failing to come to a contract agreement is sending shock waves throughout its listener base. And I'm right there with them. I love these guys. They released a video yesterday which is hard to watch for those like me. (Dan has been with the station for 24 years. Jake started as an intern -- and now has a couple of tiny kids at home.)

  • Interesting out-of-county sponsor.

  • These are not serious people. I'll never understand how the "party of small government" lost its way. 

  • Random recent population and other great data from Census Bureau about Wise County here. 

  • Jerry has to be a giddy. A franchise which hasn't been able to fill its stadium for years sells for over $6 billion. 

  • Legal nerdy stuff: If you care about a Wise County case concerning divorce and separate property (real estate and acquired before the marriage but improvements made after the marriage),  there was an appellate opinion released out of Fort Worth yesterday about it. 
  • Two headlines I've seen in the last 24 hours with related topics.
    • #1


    • #2 


  • 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: 4 years and 17 days.


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