8.26.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I was posting lots of old Bridgeport Index front pages back then. Those are total enrollment figures.

  • Our long state nightmare is over: The the $350,000 Man is calling it quits (after collecting a few more months of checks.)  


    • He deserves no accolades because he will only be remembered for DPS's role in Uvalde:

  • Something to think about as high school football season begins. 


  • Crazy RFJ Jr. "suspended" his presential race on Friday much to the chagrin of his crazy anti-vax supporters. Oddly, he said that he will keep his name on the ballot in non-battleground states because that way he can still win: "In fact, today our polling shows them tying at 269 to 269. And I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election." Moments later Trump said of the endorsement:  “It's big. He’s a great guy, respected by everybody.”


    • They were on stage later that evening where RFK got the mic and primarily praised Trump because, “I want to make America healthy again and so does President Trump.” I'm very confused.


    • But the best part of that Nevada rally was Kari Lake appearing on stage and getting messages on the teleprompter telling her to get off. Ol' Colton didn't get any action after the first one so he had to invoke Trump's name.

       

  • Members of the San Diego Charges got stuck in an elevator in the The Westin hotel in Dallas on Friday. "Fire department personnel were dispatched about 7:45 p.m., around when a 911 call was placed for an emergency where 15 people were trapped in an elevator at the hotel."  Fifteen?! Isn't their a weight limit on those things, 

  • When you struggle to pay for tuition at a public school this year, take some comfort in knowing that a dorm at SMU is a showplace.




  • She has to be tired of pretending to be giddy whenever the cameras turn on. Especially after she got this news. Remember that this trip, which began June 5th, was only supposed to last a week.


  • Insurrection update. The Granbury lawyer will be sentenced in January.  Here's a video she posted while the riot was going on. 

  • Trump turned into pro-choice on Friday? Yes, this is real.  

  • Those South Walton commercials are good

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8.23.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I can't believe I wrote 14 more bullet points back then on changing a tire, but I reread it and it's pretty funny. (Humble brag.) The unnamed man in the story was Allen Williamson, now deceased.

  • This happened east of Boyd last evening.


  • The Fort Worth Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed a burglary conviction out of Wise County with one of the issues being whether the following structure in Rhome constituted a "habitation": A "manufactured double-wide home [which] did not have electricity, had been used to store property, and had not had a full-time occupant since 2018 . . . ." The court said it did. The female defendant got 10 years in prison. 
  • This has to be one of those weird cases where someone looks way worse on video than you would expect for such a low alcohol test.  But normally that means it's a case where medication is also involved -  a fact which would normally work for the prosecution. But without getting a search warrant for blood in this case-- a process which is easy and commonplace these days -- the prosecution should lose this. 

  • Ann Coulter stepped in it yesterday. She quickly took it down once someone told her about the kid's issues. And, by the way, mocking anyone about crying with pride about your father is, uh, weird.

  • GOP VP candidate JD Vance had an awkward experience trying to buy some donuts yesterday, but his hairdo quickly grabbed headlines. 

  • Trump was looking a little haggard himself as he ran to the border.

  • DNC quick hits:
    • Great photo from last night. 

    • A Republican showed up to scorch Trump and how the Republican party has completely changed.  "The Republican party is no longer conservative. It has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself."

    • Victims of gun violence, including this Uvalde mom, spoke.

    • Pink (and daughter) as well as the Chicks were there, but rumors about a Beyonce appearance failed to materialize. 


    • Two incredibly cute kids (nieces of Kamala Harris) taught everyone how to say "Kamala." Video.  The girl in pink was in the first photo, above. 

  • Random photo I saw this week out of Springfield, Mass.

  • Deion is trying to get Saudi money.  Hey it worked for the LIV tour and Jared Kushner, so why not?

  • 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 49 days.


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8.22.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




This Abilene Christian graduate was the first person ever to be returned to the United States to be treated for Ebola. He had entered the hospital in Georgia being escorted by "three people in white biohazard suits."

  • Yesterday afternoon around 6:00 p.m. is Wise County:

  • Earlier this year, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals found that Crystal Mason should be acquitted of illegal voting. Yesterday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals decided to review the case.  It used to be that it took an unsettled important legal issue to get a higher court to take up a case. Now you just need a far-right political hot button issue.

  • Gateway might want to hold its breath that the whole church doesn't collapse. They didn't say what the "moral issue" was in this new case. 

  • And the biggest nutcase in the presidential race (which is really say something) is expected to endorse Trump. That makes perfect sense.


  • I just like there is a recent photo of them together. And this guy's initial clemency got attention. He's a drug smuggler with the interesting side business of being a predatory lender.  Now he's got more problems. 


  • Ken Paxton is such a clown. When even the West Texas Oilmen PAC admits these "recent reports" off illegal registering are false, Paxton's political stunts are growing tiresome. 


    • Here's the PAC's funded newsletter reporting that the recent claims are false -- even going so far as to point out that the source was "Fox News personality Maria Bartiromo [who] set off a firestorm, posting to X that immigrants were being registered to vote in Parker County, Texas":

  • DNC highlights:
    • Oprah in the house.

    • SNL's Kenan Thompson had a very funny bit of how Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation plot for another Trump presidency, would upend the country.

    • The Trump inspired January 6th Insurrection took the spotlight last night as a 5 minute film was played with speakers following. I'd keep that film playing on a loop in the arena if I were them.

    • But the GOP has a secret weapon at the DNC as the My Pillow Guy tries to cling to his delusional belief of relevancy by shaving off his mustache, going undercover, and investigating a gender neutral bathroom at the arena. 

  • The richest man in the world actually thinks an online internet poll has value. Look up "random sampling and weighting," hoss. 

  • Along those same lines, a charlatan with the worst toupee in America is claiming special insight on a different subject matter.

  • A sports joke that made me giggle:

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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