11.18.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Back in the day.

  • For almost two weeks, the PDF of the jail list from the Wise County Sheriff's Office has been down. Now the entire county courts, jail, and bond information website is inoperable because of an expired security certificate.  Anyone still working out there?  Edit: Website back up. Jail roster finally working as well.  

  • Carnage on the Wise County roads over the weekend.


  • It won't matter.

  • I said the other day that if the Senate won't confirm Matt Gaetz or any of the other nutty nominees, that Trump will just declare a national emergency and do it anyway.  Now we've learned that he won't even have to go that far. He'll invoke a never used part of the Constitution: 

    • And in order to get a "disagreement", one will be manufactured with the help of the House and Speaker Mike Johnson:

  • Oh, but don't rule out that National Emergency declaration either. Trump reposted this at 4:03 a.m.:

  • And now we'll have an FCC chief who believes the government should control what private companies publish. Get ready.


  • We are the dumbest country and its about to get dumber.

  • And in true Idiocracy fashion, Trump went to UFC on Saturday and brought along some of his cabinet nominees along with his BFF Elon Musk. And he threw in the House Speaker -- which is another clear signal that he will use recess appointments if these people aren't confirmed. 

    • And on the plane eating McDonald's with RFK Jr. who will "Make America Healthy Again." 

  • As if we didn't have enough to worry about with near-collisions, we've got a new one.

  • Legal stuff: The Fifth Circuit has ruled that the proceedings where bonds are set by a magistrate after an arrest must be made public. I think this is a big deal. These are almost always done behind closed doors. 

  • Kinda legal nerdy stuff. The Texas Supreme Court issued its decision on Friday on the case where a legislative committee recently stopped the execution of Robert Roberson.  The gist of it is that if they issue another subpoena to stop the next execution at the last minute, the execution will go forward. Before that, however, they are free to try again so long as it doesn't delay the next execution date.

    • But look how Rep. Leach and others on the committee lied about two things in their statement after the opinion. First, they said they didn't issue the subpoena for the purpose of delaying the execution. That's a laughable lie. 

    • The second lie (in blue) is that the Texas Supreme Court expressly ruled that the subpoena was valid. No they didn't. Leach, a lawyer, knows this. From the opinion:

  • I told you that the Tyson-Paul fight would be a farce. But at least the curtains were closed at JerryWorld. At night. 

  • For those who turn into Morning Joe, you had to be surprised and disappointed that Joe and Mika, some of the most vocal Trump critics, went to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend - especially after all that Trump has done to them.  The battle is truly lost. 

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11.15.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




From the 11/14/14 cover of the Star-Telegram. It occurred to me that the regular season of high school football is over for this year, we didn't even sniff the cold. 

  • It seems not too long ago I used to joke about America turning into Idiocracy.  We are there.  An anti-vaccine nutcase is the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Re: The Attorney General pick. If you think anyone cares about this in MAGA world, you are kidding yourself. 

  • I've seen some people say, "There's no way these people will be confirmed by the Senate."  Those people are delusional. Do you not understand how this is going to work? It will either be (1) the Senate confirms them because they fear Trump's wrath, (2) they can't confirm them in good faith but take the easy way out by allowing recess appointments, or (3) if all that fails, Trump will declare a National Emergency because of the border "crisis" and name them acting department heads anyway.  It's over. You wanted to "blow it all up"? Congratulations. It has happened. 
  • No way!  The dirty Libs decided to rig only these two elections!

  • This meeting was on Monday. What in the world is going on?


  • It looks like Bridgeport's own, Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian, had to deal with his first ugly in-house incident. And he quickly fired the guy back in July. 

  • This fight tomorrow night is all such a scripted, made-up bit.  Tyson slapped Paul at the weigh-in yesterday. That was as predictable as the sun rising. And I love how the ring girls in the background had been warned all of this was coming so as to not even break from their smiling pose.

  • The Texas high school championship games, for years on Bally's, will now be on the same "channel" which is now named after a gambling company. Seems weird. 

  • Look at C.D. Lamb just quietly helping a family and hoping no one would find out about it! Wait, I'm being told that "As her family arrived at Tom Thumb in Deep Ellum, so did someone else. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dallas and Tom Thumb to surprise Gonzales’ family with a pre-Thanksgiving shopping spree." Oh, and let's alert the media as well. 

  • I don't follow local volleyball, but I do know this is a heck of boxscore for the Decatur Lady Eagles to advance to the state tourney last night: 25-11, 23-25, 25-19, 24-26, 15-13. Here's video of the final point. 
  • The Wise County Sheriff's Office still hasn't fixed there jail database report. 

  • 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 133 days.

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11.14.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




The 2014 bi-district game between Decatur and Stephenville was a wild one. Stephenville tied the game on the very last play of regulation. Then, in the fourth overtime, Stephenville won by converting a 4th and 22 for a TD, and then winning it outright on the mandated 2-point conversion by a halfback pass. 

  • This is a five alarm fire for democracy unlike we have ever seen in our history.  I was waiting for the the Attorney General appointment -- without question the most important one Trump would make - and I feared it would be a dangerous one, but I didn't think it was going to be this stunningly dangerous.  
     


    • Someone called me "hysterical" for writing last week that I would be very concerned if I were Jack Smith or Letitia James or any of the other Trump prosecutors.   Well, I'm already at the "I told you so phase." 

    • Under Gaetz, who has no legal experience as either a prosecutor or a defense attorney and basically none as a practicing lawyer, he would serve as Trump's attack dog in the Justice Department which would no longer have its historical independence.  Instead, it would be lead by someone serving as Trump's personal lawyer following insane edicts from the füher without questioning them, and having all the power of the federal government behind him. 
    • I cannot stress enough how insane this is. 
    • Get ready for political round-ups.  
  • Heck, that pick over-shadowed what would otherwise be a shocking pick in the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard, a Russian sympathizer, who will be the director of national intelligence. And her qualifications are just the same as others: Loyalty to Trump. 



  • Surreal moment yesterday.

    • Afterwards, Trump met with Republicans in the House.  Uh, he wasn't joking. I'm serious. He's not joking:

  • Told ya. 

    • Cornyn is up for election again in two years. I bet AG Ken Paxton runs against him. Flashback: 

  • Out of place random thought: A lot of "Say What?" in the news this week. Add this one.  

  • This, which was announced moments ago, is glorious. 

  • Oh, my.  This is a pretty wild story.  


  • Thank God for new incoming Wise County rep Andy Hopper. I was so tired of getting pulled over going to work and having a vaccine injected into me by a deputy.  Oh, and welcome back polio and measles to your schools. 

  • Random flashback to July, 2022.

  • The Business Second™.

  • Don't do that. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold
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