3.19.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Ten years to the day.

  • The Texas Republican Party is in the process of finding a new chairman, but the leading candidate has hit a bit of a speedbump. (Police report here.)


  • Sounds reasonable. (And this two minutes of the Don Lemon interview of Musk on a different topic is something to behold.)

  • Why does he do this? He always ends up losing and paying the other side's attorney's fees. (Earlier this year he was ordered to pay the New York Times $400,000 on a different failed lawsuit.) And this one is another 100% loser.  

  • Ken Paxton's partner in crime, Nate Paul, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for contempt of court, but he appealed. Last Friday, the Texas Supreme court upheld the order.  Four judge were scared of Paxton's potential wrath and dissented so it was a 5-4 decision. Paul is to report to jail on April 1st.


  • We've got an interesting new January 6th Insurrection arrest.


     

  • Trump is having trouble getting a bond in order to prevent New York from taking his property while he appeals the $464 million civil fraud judgment. Maybe publicly berating the judge and his clerk during trial, and using an incompetent lawyer, wasn't the best strategy after all. 

    • Flashback: 

    • Ok, this is funny.

  • Trump legal nerdy stuff: If the Trump friendly federal judge in the Classified Documents case in Florida  is seriously considering giving the jury these instructions, she might as well just acquit Trump right now and send him home with flowers and a kiss.



  • We've got a new Banksy mural in London. He painted it on the building behind this tree.

  • This seems to be movie material. He was found in his vehicle in the hotel parking lot with an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound.


  • Sign up for the Liberally Lean 2024 Pick-Em Tourney.



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3.18.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Seven years later, the money would amazingly be found by a plumber working on a toilet. The public would only learn about it because he called into a radio show and casually spoke about it. 

  • The Liberally Lean March Madness tournament is up. Join it here. As we've done the last couple of years, the scoring system is very tricked up which rewards upset picks.


  • I said that I needed to compile a list of Wise County murder indictments over the last handful of years so I did. We will probably have one more added to it based upon an arrest last week. 

  • They better get control over that area.

  • The death of an Alvord man is getting coverage on WFAA and in the Star-Telegram.

     

  • Republicans are all free market capitalists and limited government until the are not. 

  • Trump is going full Hitler and he's not even disguising it. I cannot believe what I am seeing. 
    • He ramped up his defense and support of those engaged in Insurrection on January 6th calling them hostages and saluting them as the Convict Choir sang in the background. The recorded voice going over the loudspeaker even boomed, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6th hostages!"  Video. This is full fledged insanity.

    • He then delivered a doozy of speech in Ohio. A bloodbath if he's not elected*, and immigrants are "not people" but "animals."  Yep, full Hitler. (*Yes, I know his campaign now claims he was just talking about the auto industry but this is coming from the same guy who told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by.")

    • And this is not the first first time he used the animals comment. At least a few years ago he would try to walk in back by saying he was just referring to specific gang members.  He's abandoned that. They are all animals now. And if all of this sounds very familiar. . .

      • . . .it should. 

  • Mike Pence joined this list over the weekend of former Trump confidents who are not endorsing him. Those who knew him best and saw him behind the scenes in the Oval Office want nothing to do with him. 

  • The Business Second™. I'm not sure I understand this after a big lawsuit settlement on Friday, but it sounds big. 

  • NCAA Basketball notes from yesterday.
    • Teams who didn't make the NCAA Tourney also declining an NIT invitation.

    • The confetti went off while a tournament championship game was still being played. Video.

    • Love this. 

  • Once again, sign up for the Liberally Lean tourney or you will have a bad week.


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3.15.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




The missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (which, I guess, is still missing) gave rise to wild speculation in the days after it happened. None quite as bold as the theory that the pilots were pirates who had been paid off and delivered the plane to third parties. 

  • Wise County avoid bad weather last night, but some places didn't. These photos are from Lantana which is just west of Argyle.  Later in the night, massive storms moved through at 2:00 a.m. but developed just south of Wise County hitting Weatherford and then traveling through the metroplex. 


  • Ken Paxton has killed Pornhub in Texas. I've said it before, for a man who has a lot of vices, he sure sues to eliminate a lot of vices.
    • Details: "Pornhub, one of the most visited websites in the world, sued Attorney General Ken Paxton last year to block enforcement of a 2023 state law that requires websites that host pornography to institute age-verification measures and display health warnings on its pages.Pornhub disabled its website in Texas after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the age-verification requirement in a ruling last week . . . ."


    • When they tell you it's about the children, it's never about the children. None of them cared to do anything after Uvalde.  


  • Whether you testify in your own defense or not (he didn't but his wife dead), you're probably going to be convicted when the State goes after you. 
  • Lo and behold, after years of complaining by me, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner finally issues a finding that makes sense to me. They are doctors. The only thing they can tell you is why a body stopped functioning from a physiological standpoint (a bullet hit the heart). They have no business of giving an opinion as to what happened before that (how the bullet came to be fired from a gun.)


  • Trump trial news:
    • I don't think the judge will force her off the case, but the damage is done. She should get out and save face after one of the greatest unforced errors of all time. 
    • And other prosecutors are having to pay for screw-ups as well. Yesterday the DA in New York agreed to Trump's continuance request in the Stormy Daniels "business records" case because the federal prosecutors, who had previously investigated the case, finally dumped "tens of thousands of pages" of documents on both the D.A. and Trump after Trump's lawyers requested them. 

  • Yesterday, Aaron Rodgers denied he ever said that Sandy Hook did not happen. But noticeably absent is him denying that he said Sandy Hook was an "inside job."  He did not refute the part of the report which  said he "thought it was off that there were men in black in the woods by the school, falsely claiming those men were actually government operatives."


  • Eight million people now live in the metroplex.  That's the equivalent of the population of New York City (not just Manhattan, but all five burroughs.)

  • Flashback.  This really did happen. (Also, the MyPillow guy has been in the news this week by saying that he had explosive new evidence that the election was stolen and he would hand deliver it on "Friday on the steps of the Supreme Court, 3 p.m." He such a nutcase.)

  • 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 263 days.


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