1.02.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




A Dallas judge was arrested but would be no-billed two months later. But he would be back in the news a couple of months after that.

  • Japan is having a heck of a start to the new year. A landing commercial jet carrying 379 collided on the ground with a Japanese Coast Guard plane. Amazingly, only five are reported to be dead so far. Video of it happening. 
     





  • By the way, the death count in the earthquake in Japan is up to 48.
  • Not that it matters, but those were some little motorcycles involved in this. Video of the incident.


  • Texas vs. Washington quick hits.
    • The Texas Longhorns failed to make it to the National Championship game, and I have diagnosed the two reasons why: 


      • But it did come down to a final play. 


    • In other broadcast highlights: 

  • This Twitter account can have some wild videos, and they posted a gruesome one last night. (You've been warned.)

  • Train derailment in Roanoke this morning. And that's not how you spell locomotive.

  • Fun fact: National Championship game bound Michigan, who has opened as a 3.5 point favorite over Washington, will play both Texas and Washington next year:

  • When a game ends at midnight, it's hard to have coverage of it on the front page . . . 

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1.01.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




A real photo out of Colleyville.

  • THWMISB™
  • Overnight a massive 7.5 earthquake hit of the shore of Japan. Just do  a Twitter search for it and you'll see some amazing videos, but the damage seems minimal so far.  But this video of a river rocking back and forth is pretty amazing. A tsunami watch is up.

  • No word yet on the number of civilians killed in this strike yesterday. I presume it was most of them.  


    • This comes on the heels of a video released over the weekend showing Israeli forces detaining at least two children stripped to their underwear.


  • These headlines on the home page of the Dallas Morning News shows the continuing trend of teens being involved in violence. 

  • The Dallas Morning News has selected its Texans of the Year.


  • I think that's a weird headline. 
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  • Abbott recommended three pardons at the end of the year and this guy wasn't one of them. Abbott shockingly promised he would do so in an announcement less that 24 hours after the guilty verdict.


  • A good guy.

  • This is apparantly so common in Houston that they put this article on the front page this morning. 

  • The Business Second™: The books are closed on 2023, and the S&P 500 was up 24% for the year.

  • Rare Cowboys quick hits:
    • The Cowboys have stumbled around of late but all they have to do to win the division and ensure a home playoff game is beat Washington on Sunday? Yep.
    • Seconds before JimmyJohnson walked onto the field on Saturday to be inducted in the Cowboys' Ring of Honor, we were treated to this weird image.

    • CeeDee Lamb's 92 yard TD reception on Saturday became the second longest in Cowboys history. It replaced Tony Dorsett's 91 yard reception (video of it). I loved Dorsett. 
    • Lamb was promptly drug tested. Why the players union agreed to things like this is incomprehensible.
       

  • The Evil Empire fighs for a chance to get to the National Championship game tonight. I'd bet on Texas, but I don't feel real good about it.  Anyway, that's a pretty late kick-off at 7:45 p.m. 
  • I don't think we realize yet how it is now 2024 and Trump's collision course course with his legal problems are about to come to a head. This is going to be wild. 


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12.29.2023

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




This Texas case became even more noteworthy when two months later a grand jury declined to indict the man for the shooting. Years later, the New York Times covered the whole thing extensively here.


  • For a second there last night we thought we had another mass shooting as cops swarmed to the mall in Arlington. A spokesman "said shots rang about 7:30 p.m. The gunfire followed a fight between two groups of people on an escalator between Dick’s Sporting Goods and the skating rink."
     

  • Yesterday evening, Trump was barred from Maine's ballot and, unlike Colorado, this one actually goes into effect. (In other news yesterday, Michigan and California decided Trump was not barred by the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment.)

    • I'm really torn by Maine's decision. It just gives so much ammo to the MAGA Extremists. Then again, you read the ending of the opinion and it makes sense.  I'm just not real hip on a Secretary of State getting to make this call.

    • I wondered if there was an actual hearing before the ruling and there was. All eight hours of it are even online here.

  • This is weird. A woman was evicted in a Justice of the Peace court after a hearing -- a hearing she later said she didn't get notice of. She got a lawyer to ask the court for a copy of the notice letter, and he was provided one. But now a clerk has been indicted for creating it after the fact in Microsoft Word. Kind of makes you wonder how many other people were evicted without notice? If it were a one time thing, why not just admit you screwed up?


  • Bold move.


  • Insurrection social media banter yesterday:
    • Her:


    • Also her:


  • Now that's a headline that will get your attention.

  • The great Twitter account Traces of Texas posted this undated photo from Jacksboro. It's a store owned by H.H. McConnell who opened it after writing "Five Years a Cavalryman" in 1888. (Although I question his claim in that book that " I have seen the mercury 13° below zero more than once" in Jacksboro.) 

  • The Business Second in Warehouses™:

  • The greatness of the Pop Tarts Bowl was on full display last night when the mascot came out of a toaster to open the game.  At the end of the game, he went back into it and an edible version then appeared which, was in fact, eaten by the winners. Video.

  • Legal nerdy stuff: A big law firm was sued by another law firm because it claimed it created a copyright violation by copying verbatim its Motion to Dismiss. That's a thing? Apparently yes. There's even demand letter responses in this great thread. 

  • 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 186 days.

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