8.14.2024

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Doesn't seem that long ago. 

  • The State Fair of Texas banned guns this year but minutes ago Texas AG Ken Paxton entered the fray.  Sheesh. 
  • Breaking: inflation numbers. 

  • Breaking wreck news.

  • We had an abduction attempt in Far North Dallas-- the video is just weird -- but I'm a little surprised the police decided to distribute this LP photo. Shouldn't that be enough for them to track down the lead themselves? That is unless it came back stolen with no leads whatsoever.



    • In case you were wondering, the LP photo didn't come from the grainy video, but from the cell phone camera of the lady wearing the fashionable tennis dress. 

  • A faithful reader tells me that a bowling alley is under construction across from Catfish O'Harlies just north of Decatur.

  • I asked my Liberally Lean Highly Compensated Weather Team about this Fox 4 Forecast, and they told me it's spot on. They also said the trend will continue with 106 on Monday and 107 on Tuesday before backing down to 104 next Wednesday!

  • The guy who posted this is Bo French, the Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican party.  Tarrant is the last red county with a metropolitan population in Texas, and guys like French and County Judge Tim O'Hare are guaranteed to screw that up. 

  • The official Trump campaign Twitter account is going full Willie Horton.

  • Who?

  • Judge shopping didn't work for Elon Musk's silly lawsuit against advertisers since the Fort Worth judge recused himself yesterday (but didn't say why.)

  • The Business Second™.  It's also the combination of  M&M's and Cheez-It. 

  • Let's check in on Fox News. Bo Loudon is 17 years old whose claim to fame is being a friend of Barron Trump. He was brought in as an expert.

  • Dropping like flies at the Evil Empire. 

  • Look at that photo below. The defendant's image is being reproduced in the lawyer's glasses.

at 8:30 AM

8.13.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




The Ferguson immediate aftermath, and the police response, was ongoing. 

  • Boyd High School got a segment on a metroplex newscast. You can watch it here if you can get pat the commercials and pop-up ads. (Local news channel websites are the absolute worst.)

  • A Fort Worth police officer was killed yesterday in a traffic incident and, as a byproduct, it will cause everyone in the criminal justice system to cringe.  A person was arrested for Intoxication Manslaughter but she was already on felony probation for aggravated assault of a romantic partner.
    •  "Fort Worth police said she drove the wrong way on an off ramp on southbound I-35W at Sycamore School Road and hit Sgt. Billy Randolph with her vehicle. Investigators believe Evans was drunk when she hit Randolph. Evans attempted to flee the scene, with some officers pursuing her while others got Randolph into a police Tahoe and took him to JPS Hospital, where he died, police said. Evans got about a quarter-mile away before she got out of her car and tried to flee on foot. She was arrested shortly after."  

  • Missed this over the weekend: The Montague County DA, who is under indictment for theft, agreed to a "temporary suspension" last Friday in lieu of a having a removal hearing. The judge then appointed the DA-elect to fill the vacancy. I guess that's the way you handle it -- but I would have thought that even a temporary appointment for a DA would require an appointment by the governor.


  • Missed this as an intended bullet point yesterday: The City of Uvalde finally released a ton of video and text messages from the Uvalde massacre after fighting open record requests. One notable item was that Sen. John Cornyn made a phone call indicating he was not pleased with how DPS's $345,250 Man, Steve McCraw, was handling the fallout and local police saying that McCraw had "screwed them all." 


  • Trump did an interview with Elon Musk on Twitter last night, and it went about as well as you would expect due to a technical meltdown.

    • I blame Jewish space lasers for the technical meltdown while MAGA darlings, of course, blamed "the deep state".  Elon blamed "denial of service" attack which is a boldface lie. 

    • Remember when Elon Musk cozied up to Ron DeSantis by hosting his announcement for presidency on an X broadcast which was also crippled by a technical meltdown? Flashback (which the Kamala Harris campaign was "ReTruthing" last night): 

    • The only news-worthy thing Trump said was that he would disband the Department of Education. That's right out of the playbook of Project 2025.

    • Most bizarre moment: Saying Kamala Harris's depiction on the new cover of Time magazine made her look beautiful and like Melania.
  • Insurrection News:
    • From Friday. Now we are getting somewhere. (Remember that Trump has referred to the January 6th rioters as warriors, "unbelievable patriots," political prisoners and "hostages" and has said he will pardon them.)


    • From yesterday.  "Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was convicted on Monday of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald J. Trump."

  • A moment of silence, please.

  • Legal stuff: In a shocking ruling last night, the Fifth Circuit said that police need a search warrant for Google geo-fence data (wow) but, more importantly, there will never be enough probable cause to get that warrant (triple wow.) However, I think that this might be moot in the future since Google said last year it was no longer keeping geo-fence data, but for pending cases, holy cow.

    • From the opinion:

  • Legal nerdy stuff: The Texas Supreme Court has enacted rules that allow any civil litigation documents filed with a district clerk or county clerk in Texas to be searchable and downloadable in a statewide database. The district clerk of Tarrant County is seeking an Attorney General opinion in an apparent attempt to opt out of this requirement. 

  • Don't see the joint trial of a sheriff and prosecutor everyday: "WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas — Jury selection has wrapped up in the felony trial of a former Williamson County Sheriff and county attorney accused of destroying video evidence related to the 2019 in-custody death of Javier Ambler."

at 8:30 AM

8.12.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





  • In Tarrant County, there was a sentence in a case involving Munchausen syndrome by proxy (but for some reason the Fox 4 story never calls it that.)


    • Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office Det. Michael Weber sure had some hot opinions about the Tarrant County DA's office.


  • This happened on Saturday, and I don't think any local newscast had the story until last night.




  • We've got yet another "standoff" after a police chase this morning. There's an epidemic of that happening within the last week. 

  • Hamas hit an Israeli soccer field in July and everyone lost their minds.  But Israel kills 100 in a school and it's barely a blurb on the news. 



  • Trump, upset by Kamala's crowd size, went to Truth Social to falsely claim the pictures of one crowd was by A.I.  If your elderly parent wrote something like this, you would call an emergency family meeting. 


  • Eagle Mountain High School off of Bonds Ranch Road has its $270 million grand opening and it looks like a small college. The classrooms have a very lecture hall feel to them. And they got their own football stadium (not sharing) and indoor practice facility. In its inaugural season, football will open with Jacksboro (8/30) and later play other home games against Paradise (9/13) and Bridgeport (10/25).


    The weight room is impressive.

  • I think I said this four years ago, too: How come we don't have a scoring system for the overall standings where you get three points for gold, two for silver, and one for bronze? The U.S. comes out on top either way, but still. 

  • Cancer doesn't discriminate.

  • Matt Kuchar was the only player in this weekend's PGA event to come back this morning and complete his round after the  tournament was called for darkness yesterday. He's now done. It took him six minutes. He made par. Here's why he tried:
    Yesterday evening
    This morning


  • Why would you have Trey Lance over Cooper Rush as your backup?


at 8:30 AM

8.09.2024

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

at 2:30 PM
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