Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

A lady suffering a mental episode, with her baby daughter in the car, was killed outside of the White House. An autopsy by the DC medical examiner was released in April 2014 and indicated that Carey was shot five times in the back, including one shot which hit the left side of the back of her head
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• A faithful reader sends along this pic of a motorcycle cop on 287 in the New Fairview area. It's a Boyd officer contracted out to the City of New Fairview. 
  
  
  
• Fox 4 rain totals last night shows a pretty good bit in Wise County.
  
  
  
• My high tech tip to avoid the ear-splitting emergency test coming from my phone didn't work for me.  And now I'm very worried about the implications for me . . . 
  
  
  
• Wall building?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Hillwood is developing lots of housing along I-35 north of the Speedway/114 but this newest one is on 407 -- getting closer and closer to Wise County.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• People are getting prosecuted for pure "accidents" now? 
  
  
  
• The Wise County Sheriff's Office public jail and court database is down again. 
• One bite too far, Commander.
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
• sThe Rangers won the wild card series over Tampa Bay despite this hostile environment.
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I had never heard of Silk Road when this news broke. I then went on to read 

this really good book about it. He had Texas ties. 

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• The Republicans control one branch of government, and they drove it into a ditch yesterday.   
  
  
  
• So how did this happen? Back in January, it took 15 votes before McCarthy was finally elected Speaker. And he was only elected because he appeased a handful of extremists Republican holdouts - not normal Republicans - by changing the rules so they could cause a re-vote on his speakership by the full House at any time. They took him up on it yesterday.  That's what happens when you sell your soul. 
  
  
  
• Just a reminder that the "main stream media" is the best media. The Washington Post told us that all of this was coming a week ago.
  
  
  
• Trump continues to spiral out of control. Yesterday he attacked a court clerk in the civil suit brought by the state of New York.  A court clerk! He's going to get her killed. The judge then imposed a gag order.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This is what he posted: Her photo and a link to her Instagram account.
  
  
  
• I woke up the Liberally Lean First Alert Weather Team™ and they said it will begin raining today in Wise County around 5:30 p.m. 
• People lining up at the new H-E-B in Allen this morning. This is dumb. 
  
  
  
• There is a missing person case out of Dallas involving a teacher. But something doesn't seem right to me because of the text messages mentioned below.  Either we've got a coincidence, a flat out abduction, or someone is faking one. And that was a weird thing for the police to say about the messages:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This is out of Eaton High School, but the allegations do not involve students. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I don't understand this. The House Managers responsible for the impeachment proceedings against Ken Paxton, and who are now being targeted by the MAGA extremists, released "new evidence" yesterday which not presented during the senate trial.  Why double down now? This isn't going to change anyone's mind about Paxton. Not to mention it's a moot point. I don't get it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Just three?
  
  
  
• Your iPhone will alert today at 1:20 p.m. even if it is on silent mode during the national test. You can stop that by going to Settings => Notifications => Scroll to very bottom to section called "Government Alerts."  You can turn "Emergency Alerts" to off or click on it and just turn off "Always Play Sound" to prevent the sound from overriding silent mode. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Oh, my. That's a blog post from 10/3/13,There was a brief period of time when the Messenger was under different ownership. Ten years ago was part of that time frame. (Side note: I couldn't find out what happened to the lady in Midland County.)

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• Trump acted crazy outside the courtroom yesterday. In addition to saying the judge should be disbarred and arrested, he said, "you ought to go after this attorney general.” Yes, another threat. Things are getting really, really weird. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I asked a couple of weeks ago why there would be no jury in this civil case. I got my answer yesterday. 
  
  
  
• After the trial day was over, Trump shared this post. 
  
  
  
• But late last night, he was up and railing against late night talk show hosts.
  
  
  
• That chain link fence should be credited with an assist.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• County Judge J.D. Clark updates us on the courthouse renovation. The elevator is gone and now you can stand in the basement and see all the way up to the top. More.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A car-jacking last night by "three armed assailants." The car was stolen but there were no injuries.
  
  
  
• Republican Infighting: The crazy and attention seeking Rep. Matt Gaetz followed through on his threat to try to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. There must now be a vote either today or tomorrow. Unless the Democrats decide to save McCarthy and vote to keep him in (or vote to table Gaetz's motion), there will be no Speaker of the House and chaos resumes. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• And then the two acted like Fourth Graders on Twitter: 
  
  
  
• Major League Baseball is not a serious sport when they put playoff games on during a weekday. 
• It looks like Texas is a 4.5 favorite over OU on Saturday.  Whatever you think, do not trust that game. Ever.