9.02.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




    And as I said then, that's a heck of a picture which was floating around that day. 

  • It's Labor Day, everything is closed, there is no Messenger Update, but here I am because: THWMISB™
  • The death toll from last Wednesday's wreck near Alvord has risen to five after another person passed away at the hospital on Saturday. 

    • And there was a very bad wreck in Anna on Friday killing four.

    • The rest of the country was doing much better. And this bus was headed to Dallas.

  • This is a wonky story that went down at 4:00 a.m. yesterday morning.  "Officers were called to Greenbriar Drive around 4 a.m. on Sunday for a man who was knocking on random doors and trespassing through front and back yards. Neighbors told FOX 4 they were worried because the man was holding a child and the two women he was with were holding large backpacks and appeared to be in a frantic state." But there is no real explanation or description of the movie-like moment where the guy was shot with a child in his arms.
     


  • Six hostages were found dead during another raid in Gaza.


    • Afterwards, protests in Israel erupted, not over Hamas, but over Netanyahu's obsession with killing everyone in Gaza instead of trying to bring the hostages home. 


  • I can't say I was familiar with her fine work, but isn't she interviewing Randolph Duke from Trading Places in this photo they ran with the news of her death?

  • Abilene Christian took the Texas Tech Red Raiders to overtime on Saturday and were rewarded by having their bus hit by a pickup driven by a teenager 


  • Trump:
    • He had a normal Labor Day weekend with his family I see. 

    • Trump attacked the press in his speech on Friday so a guy immediately tried to literally attack the press corp at the event.  Video.


    • And after coming out as pro-life last week, he posted that he was in favor of marijuana legalization this weekend.  He does realize he is a Republican, right?
  • College football lines for this weekend. 

  • Funny video of Ted Cruz on sideline at Aggie game. (And the Cruz curse continues.)
  • DirecTV and Disney (which includes ESPN and ABC) are in a fight causing a blackout. With how easy it is to switch immediately over to a different carrier (i.e. YouTube TV), I don't know how companies like DirecTV win these wars. 

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8.30.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




That elevator is now being permanently removed in the renovation since it wasn't originally there (obviously). It occurs to me that there will quickly come a day when no one will remember that old elevator at all.

  • Overnight: "[R]esponding officers found an officer who’d been shot in his marked patrol vehicle. Officers exchanged gunfire with a suspect, and two other officers were shot." The chase ended up on I-35 which led to the suspect being shot on that highway in Lewisville and the freeway being shut down.


  • They were all of Haitian descent, but that's all we know.

  • The old-school me will never get used to small schools football playing, much less opening the season, on a Thursday night.

  • For a pro-life guy, Trump says that he thinks a six-week ban is "too short."  So why was he hellbent on overturning Roe v. Wade?


  • Decatur news from the Messenger provided without comment.

  • We have the dumbest state attorney general.

  • New religious diversity map based upon the census. Hey, at least we are more diverse than Parker County, but I think that's because the category of "Hispanic Catholic" help us with our score. 

  • Trump yesterday: He started this math challenged rant by once again saying immigrants are taking jobs from blacks (but at least he avoided the phrase "black jobs.") Video.

  • New this morning. Where is the outrage?

  • Legal nerdy stuff: A Wise County felony assault case was affirmed last night by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals. The opinion hasn't been released yet, but local lawyers -- and maybe others -- will find the first point of error in the defendant's brief very interesting. 
  • 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 56 days.

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8.29.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




And by audit, I didn't mean the money was stolen but was implying they never actually collected the amazing amount that was pledged over the phone. I bet it was under 50%, if that. 

  • What a horrible wreck yesterday in Wise County which became national news.   At the risk of going into dangerous speculation, is there any chance this was a group of immigrants? Not having any names by now is just weird. But there is a report in the Messenger that the van "came from Florida."



  • Who are these gullible victims with all that money?
     

  • I asked the Liberally Lean Weather Team™ about this forecast from the National Weather Service, and my boys told me those temps might actually be a little high for Wise County. They went with 85 degrees on Sunday and 80 degrees on Monday. As far rain chances, they like Monday better than Saturday or Sunday. Book it. 

  • Trump has had another stellar couple of days. First he used the Arlington National Cemetery in TikTok videos despite being warned do so - a warning which prompted his team to have a physical altercation with a female cemetery official about it. The campaign said the next day that the worker must have been "suffering from a mental health episode" at the time.


  • Then he went absolutely psycho on Truth Social yesterday by reposting some of the craziest crap you've ever seen.  I'll say it again: For the life of me, I cannot believe that this man is the Republican nominee for President.
    • First he went full Hitler. 



    • Then he posted this which would have automatically disqualified him in a normal America.


    • Then he went literally full QAnon over and over again.  How is this even possible in a sane world?  


  • It's working out great for him. Here's Fox News' new poll about the swing states and how things are changing. 

  • This is an actual shot from Chicago yesterday during the first game of the double header with the Rangers. (But you might want to take a look at an amazing catch from later in the day.)

  • Messenger - Above the Fold



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