7.22.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts



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  • Even when the drum beats told you this was going to happen, it was shocking when it happened. 






    • I don't think we realize what we've seen in the last  month: A debate which will be revisited for ages, an assassination attempt, and the first president to not seek re-election since 1968. Before that, throw in Trump's criminal convictions, Supreme Court immunity ruling, and the Florida district judge dismissing the federal documents case, and it's all off the charts.
    • At 11:47 CST yesterday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer was enjoying his weekend.

      • Later that afternoon after the Biden news broke:

    • Everything has changed.  But I'm not real sure how much.  I don't think anyone was particularly fired up about Biden even in 2020, but they did show up in droves to vote against Trump.  That will happen again, but with even greater numbers regardless of who the Democrat nominee is.  But the far, far right will get a boost because, just like they turned out to vote against Hillary, they will come out of the woodwork to vote against a woman, especially a black one. 

    • Harris will be a million times more effective on messaging on abortion and insurrection than Biden was. Both are big issues. 
    • Hey, let's go full throttle and select George Clooney as her VP. He's actually on the betting odds chart but way, way down there:

    • Trump is already waffling on debating Harris. He is also still crazy.

    • Flashback from Trump's biggest competitor during the primaries:

  • Ear Update. I'm now completely skeptical of the extent of Trump's ear injury.  He showed up at a rally on Saturday with a smaller bandage:

    • And the only medical report we have gotten on Trump came from crazy Ronny Jackson on Saturday who is no longer a doctor and basically admitted to practicing medicine without a license. 

    • But there was definitive proof that Jackson was involved in the treatment as the bandage gave way on Saturday: 

  • The big news today was going to be, before the Biden announcement derailed it, that the head of the Secret Service is going to get beaten up in front a Congressional Committee because of the Trump assassination attempt.

    • And we got news on Saturday that the gunman had used a drone to survey the landscape before the rally.

  • On Friday evening, the old sanctuary of the First Baptist Church of Dallas was gutted in a dramatic fire in downtown Dallas. 

    • The devil started the fire?

  • Four Dallas firefighters were hurt yesterday morning when their firetruck went off an overpass and onto a DART track. 


  • Legal nerdy stuff: Most lawyers don't even know how to create a PDF and now they have to learn how to bookmark them.  

  • The SEC preseason poll came out with Texas ranked much higher than OU. But look who Oklahoma plays (left) versus who Texas plays (right).
  • My head is still spinning . . . 


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7.19.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




That actually happened on 7/17/14. It's hard to believe. 

  • Online chaos earlier this morning as the world suffered a tech outage.  It's not a cyber-attack but instead a screwup of a security update for a legitimate firm called Crowdstrike which apparently has crippled Windows machines that use it. Our online world, which we now all depend on for the tiniest of things, seems like a ticking timebomb. 

    Excerpt from the story: 



    • DPS driver's license offices just shut down for the day because of it. Of course. 
    • Crowdstrike's CEO even had to go on The Today Show this morning to do damage control:

    • To add to the issue, there is/was another problem, perhaps related, with Microsoft's OneDrive which went down late yesterday. Editor's note: I store everything in OneDrive which is basically a remote hard drive that Windows rolled out a few years ago. 

  • Trump's Speech:
    • He went full Elvis.

    • In light of the assassination attempt, he had the opportunity for a fantastic introduction. Instead, they wheeled out the same old tired Lee Greenwood to whip us with "God Bless The USA." For a born showman, Trump desperately needs new material.
    • Before that, we had full Idiocracy. This makes my head hurt. 

    • Trump started out OK by talking about the assassination attempt. But, to the surprise of no one, he said he was saved because "I had God on my side."

    • There, of course, was a man who died at the rally -- apparently God wasn't on his side -- and Trump had his firefighter's uniform on stage. Oddly, the man's name was misspelled on the back of it, but this doesn't appear to be a Trump campaign mistake. 

    • The shooting is slowly morphing into a "shot to the head." 

    • But after talking about his near death experience, he resorted back to his normal rambling campaign speech of election denialism and demonizing illegal immigrants. Regarding the latter, he promised a "mass deportation" because they are "killing hundreds of thousands of people a year." That's a flat out lie. But I guess that lie is just a prelude for a justification for the upcoming concentration camps.

    • And he used to say that just "some" of those crossing the border were "bad people." Now they all are and worse. And speaking of insane, we had this weird moment: 

    • He seemed very beaten down last night.
    • The New York Times not only doesn't agree but also has apparently jumped the shark:

  • I'm beginning to waffle on my believe that President Biden will not drop out of the race. If it weren't for the Trump's RNC speech last night, it would be the lead story.


  • D Magazine lost a writer I really liked. "Zac Crain was 50 years old when he died Tuesday night. He’d had some kind of illness that kept him away from work, holed up at home, trying to ride it out. Coworkers had taken him food. He said Tuesday morning that he was feeling better. His ex-wife, Nikki, was the one who called police Wednesday for the welfare check. That an ex-wife would be so worried about him says something about the kind of man Zac became. "

  • Lou Dobbs, who was fired from Fox as part of the Dominion $787 million fiasco, has died. He lost his ever-loving mind in his later years on the air. 

  • The Business Second™. "Plans call for roughly 6,000 single-family homes at the development’s completion. [It] will also hold more than 5 million square feet of commercial, mixed-use space and roughly 3,000 multifamily units fronting more than five miles near I-35W."



  • 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: 5 years and 14 days.
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7.18.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Technically, it's still around under the name of "Dust" but it can definitely be classified as failed. 

  • A Liberally Lean Exclusive™: A Petition has been filed to remove the DA in Montague County from office due to her recent theft indictment. Interestingly, it's filed by a former Montague County DA and former Wise County assistant DA, Tim Cole.  The Petition (PDF) also alleged details: It claims the DA deposited two checks issued by the state, both in the amounts of $9,166.67, into her personal account instead of using it to pay her investigator's salary. 

  • Look, I don't think President Biden will drop out of the race, but this is getting weird. And I really don't understand the orchestrated attack by Democratic leadership if it doesn't cause him to back out. But the big wigs are definitely involved now:

    • This is basically a veiled admission by Schumer that it happened. 

    • More drumbeats this morning: 


  • The last thing he needed. 

  • At least a man who puts some effort into his chosen line of work. 

  • Let's at least see the ear!


  • RNC quick hits: 
    • Something happened to Matt Gaetz's face.  The funniest line I saw about this was: "Matt Gaetz is two white tigers and a life partner from having a Vegas act."

    • Junior attempted to wow daddy again  It didn't work. . 

    • Full video here. For the first 2:30 she tries to listen while they yell at her for the benefit of the cameras, and then they chase after her for another two minutes. So embarrassing. 


    • Good grief, there's more of them. 

    • More ear patches from delegates. 

    • You're kidding me.


  • Questionable money continues to flow into Abbot's anti-public school voucher war chest.  He is bought and paid for on this issue which will be a focal point in next year's legislative session. Rural voters should be prepared to revolt. 

  • He kind of has a point,

  • A very weird crime and justice story out of Hays County, Texas: In a child sexual assault case, a judge rejected a plea bargain on the morning of trial and then livestreamed jury selection without either the DA or the defense even knowing the court had installed cameras. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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