5.28.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Runoff election flashback.

  • Crazy weather this morning.

     

    • The metroplex seems to be having a tough time.

  • One of the deceased is 29-year-old Kathryn Elizabeth Lain of Boyd.

  • Have I missed it, or has there not been a funeral announcement for the woman and three children who were killed on 1810 a couple of weeks ago?
  • Courthouse restoration update: Wise County Judge J.D. Clark sends along the discovery of an original painting buried under tons of paint on the metal doors protecting what had been become the district attorney's office. 


  • Trump:
    • He provided this heartwarming Memorial Day message to honor all fallen soldiers.

    • He has now learned for the very first time that the State has a tremendous advantage in closing arguments. (He better be glad he's not in Texas where the State gets to go first and last with the defendant sandwiched in the middle.)

    • Those closing arguments are scheduled today. I heard something crazy on NBC this weekend: In New York, the jury does not have a copy of the (complicated) jury instructions in the jury room. They just have to rely upon their memory of them from when the judge read them in open court. I'm having a hard time believing that is true. 
  • And you wonder why there are protests on college campuses. Over 40 innocent people dead.

  • Election day is today with Wise County voters finding out who the new sheriff and the state rep will be. 
    • I noticed that Andy Hopper filed a recent "one day" financial report where the only contribution was from the West Texas Oilman PAC.

    • He also thought it was a good idea to go on Steve Bannon's show on a fringe right wing network.

  • Random home of in Southlake for sale for $7.85 million.

  • I'm mildly interested in the Mike Tyson/Jake Paul upcoming fight, but I did see where Tyson had a "medical scare" on a cross country flight on Sunday.

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5.27.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





This is pretty much when everything started to go downhill. And if you want to see an example of why I thought Dewhurst was a horrible campaigner, watch this campaign video that is still up.

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  • Tornados in North Texas early Sunday morning left seven dead..  Here's a video from inside the  Shell station (below) on I-35 in Valley View as the tornado went through. 

  • I'm not sure what the back story is on this, but it appears to have occurred near a voting site in Wise County.  Maybe just an innocent conversation. 

  • I noticed that late last week we had a 50 year sentence in Wise County in cause number CR24487. It looks like a guilty plea with judge sentencing, and I'm pretty sure it's the same guy who stole an ambulance in Tarrant County one time. 

  • PGA golfer Grayson Murray, 30, played the Colonial on Thursday and Friday only to withdraw on the 16th hole on that Friday.  He killed himself later that night.  His parents released a statement yesterday revealing it was a suicide -- a statement which was pretty much forced because all of the anti-vaccine nutcases on social media were spreading rumors it was a Covid vaccine death. 

  • Trump was booed at the Libertarian Convention.
    •  I'm not sure why the most unLibertarian person ever thought that this would be a good idea. But it was pretty funny when he got mad and told them to "Keep getting your three percent every four years." Video.

    • For some reason, he vowed to free Ross Ulbricht, a guy who put out five murder for hire contracts on the deep web after creating a website, Silk Road, for drug traffickers. He was the subject of a really good book. 

    • Flashback to my visit the now closed Newseum in D.C. a couple of years ago:

  • I don't think there was any chance they were going to lock him up, but that was a heart-warming reunion with his kids. 




  • Spotted in Dallas: A DPS trooper vehicle with a III Percenter decal.


  • I'm a big fan of college softball, and the Super Regionals this weekend were fantastic.  And probably the most exciting games were the three game series between Texas and aTm -- despite Game 2 being delayed for over 10 minutes after beer bottles and cans had to be removed from behind the outfield protective covering because the panel was sticking out. 

  • The law firm for American Airlines which blamed the 9 year old for not realizing she was being filmed in a bathroom has been sacked.  There are some lawyers sweating bullets in that firm right now because of that screw-up.

  • Shout-out to the Good Samaritan who found my credit card in the parking lot of the Wise County Annex Building in Bridgeport on Friday after I carelessly dropped it. And thanks to the fine ladies in the auto registration office for giving me a call that it had been found. 

 
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5.24.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




The publication date of this Texas Monthly quote was 5/21/14. What is old is new again.

  • Second anniversary:

  • Fox 4 had a pretty wild story last night of a high speed chase which began in Euless and ended up going through a residential neighborhood.




    • But this came from the Facebook page of a lady having the same name as above who lists Bedford as her residence.

  • Those back to back arrests will get you. His latest one occurred after a traffic stop at 3:17 a.m. 


  • I had guessed the sheriff had just changed his mind, but instead he had to reinstate them because he didn't follow Tarrant County's civil service rules.

  • A video, which was revealed yesterday in a confusing Louisville press conference, shows at least part of Scottie Scheffler's interaction with a peace officer which alleged to assault charges.  Most news reports says it did not capture the critical part of the interaction where the officer claims he was dragged by the vehicle.  I bet you it does, and that's all there is to it. 


  • Trump had a rally in the Bronx last night, as he floated a new conspiracy theory about immigration:  "Almost everyone is a male and they look like fighting age. I think they're building an army . . . . They want to get us from within."


  • A new Biden ad, narrated by Robert De Niro, pulls no punches.
  • Legal nerdy stuff: I found the actual pleading (PDF) filed by the American Airlines lawyers which got them thrown under the bus by AA for blaming a 9 year old for being secretly filmed in a flight's bathroom.  The lead lawyer's law firm is a big one. 

  • Very, very legal nerdy stuff: The Fort Worth Court of Appeals sided with the government yesterday and ruled that a traffic stop is justified when a covering over a license plate alters the color of the plate even though every part, letter, and number of the plate is still plainly visible and not obscured in any way. The trial court had granted a Motion to Suppress.

  • Somehow every college football conference agreed yesterday to sign onto a proposed settlement regarding the paying of players, but I'm not sure anyone knows what is going to happen now.  The best explanation may be here.

  • Ed Werder is out at ESPN.
  • 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 325 days.

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