Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Somewhere, he's 10 years older.

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• We always have self-fulfilling shortages.
  
  
  
• How this presidential election is even a close will always be a mystery to me.   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And, of course, there's a ton of old stuff in yesterday's filing that the public, unfortunately, has grown numb to. Full PDF is here.
  
  
  
• And how Trump has embraced the Insurrection during his campaign should be front page news every day. 
  
  
  
• Trump's response last night to the new filing is below.  He will ride that lie to the bitter end. 
  
  
  
• When I saw that some guy got hurt last night while roaming around an abandoned silo, I figured it was those which are in Saginaw. Nope. There are some south of downtown Fort Worth on Main Street.   Fox4Terry calls him an "urban explorer."  Videos.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "GREAT FALLS, Mont. — An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota." Say what?
  
  
  
• So, according from an excerpt of her new book, Melania is pro-choice? 
  
  
  
• We already new about this, but the story is front and center of the Star-Telegram's home page this morning. 
  
  
  
• ProPublica and the New York Times have teamed up for a long article on the West Texas Oilman PACs and how they have bought their way into power.  I was surprised to see no mention of Wise County's Andy Hopper who has received at least $280,000 of oilman money to unseat incumbent Dr. Lynn Stuckey. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Things are crazy in the Republican politicas when the absolute nutcase Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, Bo French, has to fact check another Republican Nazi, Lara Logan.
  
  
  
• Random lawsuit out of the River Walk in San Antonio.
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. "OpenAI said on Wednesday that it had completed a $6.6 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just nine months ago."
  
  
  
• Jurors are really raking it in now (this actually went into effect late last year but people are always curious about it):
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Dallas Morning News has a piece this morning about how Jerry Jones arrives at the Cowboys practice facility in Frisco.   Video.
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I reposted this 10 years ago, and I see why. It's great. Now I just hope its legit.

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• A reserve Decatur Police officer and fulltime Irving Fire Department member was killed in a motorcycle crash in Springtown yesterday. Messenger story. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I think these Iran strikes are odd. It basically gives a warning that the missiles are coming and realize that hardly any of them will get through the Israeli defense system.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Moments before the strike, this happened:
  
  
  
• The Vice Presidential debate was last night and it was uneventful:
• Vance's soundbite:
  
  
  
• Walz's soundbite was use of the great word "knucklehead": 
  
  
  
• But never forget that the only reason Vance was standing there last night instead of Mike Pence is because Pence wouldn't take part in a coup. Vance will.  Nothing else really matters. 
  
  
  
• And Trump, posting this while the debate was still going on, was kind of funny to me. He had checked out of the debate and then learned for the first time that Pete Rose had died. From there, he just had to share his hot sports opinion.  
  
  
  
• That really was an execution. Video.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'd be more inclined to believe the 120 people if they weren't plaintiffs looking for money and weren't represented by Tony Buzbee of all people. 
  
  
  
  
• I'm all for understanding history, but there seems to be a ton of modern day injustices going on right now that need to be investigated. 
  
  
  
  
• The actor from Good Times, John Amos, has died, and I don't know what's weirder: (1) The he actually died 45 days ago and we are just now finding out about it, or (2) I just learned he was in the Kansas City Chiefs' training camp. 
  
  
  
• I stumbled upon, and have become a fan of, HBO's Industry.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

This was about a a vice-chairman of the local Republican Party being appointed as interim elections commissioner after Lannie Noble resigned. But  it looks like nothing happened with the lawsuit, and it was dismissed a year later (probably after everything became moot -- I don't remember.) Anyway, the full Petition is here.  Edit: A faithful reader pointed out another reason the case probably didn't go forward.

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• We now have a trial date for the Tanner Horner capital murder trial: March 17, 2025. I think there's a pretty good chance that it happens then. But, as a reminder, it will happen in Tarrant County on a change of venue. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There's another "regular" murder trial in Wise County, State v. McKinley Mantrell Bradford involving an alleged killing near Chico, which is scheduled for trial on October 14, 2024 -- although a Motion for Continuance was filed yesterday. I don't know it that will be granted. Edit: It was granted. Look at this subpoena list:
  
  
  
• A guy attempted to fight several officers on top of an awning at a 7th Street bar in Fort Worth last night. Video.
  
  
  
• After taking over Gaza, now Israel is moving north. Isn't there a word to describe when one country sends troops over a border to occupy another country? And I can't believe Iran hasn't gotten involved in this yet. It's all a powder keg. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Pete Rose has died at age 83. In my twenties, when he was banned from baseball for betting on it, I first heard him interviewed at length and quickly came to the conclusion that he was not a smart man. And by that I mean no offense. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It happened.
  
   
  
  
  
• Trump:
• Yesterday, he lied about President Biden not calling the governor of Georgia when the Governor talked about the call at a news conference an hour earlier. Then again, when does he not lie? He campaigns on an a imaginary bad economy, on imaginary runaway crime and now on an imaginary failure of Biden and Harris to respond to a natural disaster.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And why in the world did he think it was a good idea to speak behind a makeshift stack of bricks retrieved from a damaged building? 
  
  
  
• And while all this is going on, he still takes time to scam and grift. 
  
  
  
• Jimmy!
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: The "Young Thug" trial in Atlanta - which to me is one of the greatest prosecution disasters of all time - is still going on with no end in site. Yesterday, the judge chewed out the prosecutor for a over a minute while threatening to do grant a mistrial for hiding evidence. She then walked away to think about it. Video. Amazingly, she didn't have the guts to actually do it and the trial will continue.
  
  
  
• The Mets and Braves should have just agreed to forfeit one game each yesterday like I suggested. They played but the same result happened: They split and now both will go to the playoffs. The Mets dramatically won in Game One with a homer in the ninth inning, but then the Braves won Game Two as the Mets, with nothing to play for, slept walked though it.