1.06.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The civility of ten years ago seems impossible now. 

  • The weather outside reminds me of the famous words of Michael Irvin. 

  • The new Wise County Sheriff's Office top staff: Chief Deputy is Eric Debus.  Former Decatur Chief of Police Rex Hoskins will oversee the Support Services Division. Captain Todd Taylor will oversee the Patrol and Criminal Investigation’s Divisions. And I think everyone is sporting new uniform colors. 

  • This story is about Rhome.  Apparently they aren't posting city announcements on Facebook any longer but instead using something called GoGov.

    • But this part of the story contained a very confusing quote from a city official. 

  • Now make it Day 14. 

  • Trump is not happy about the flags still being half-staff by the time the inauguration rolls away. 

  • Those are some pretty nice homes to have a body just appear in the lake behind them.  No one knows who the deceased is. 

  • Happy January 6th to all the "patriots." If you would have told me on this day four years ago that Trump would be re-elected after that carnage, I would have thought you were crazy. Instead, it was the country who went crazy by putting him back in office. And I'll never understand it until the day I die. But let's get those egg prices down, right?


  • No, she's not "forced." She's willing doing her constitutional duty without being an election denier. 

  • "Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper." (Explained: Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman (ChatGPT) giving Trump's alter money, The LA Times owner (who blocked the paper's Kamala Harris endorsement) putting on lipstick, and a defeated or dead ABC/Disney which settled the Trump defamation lawsuit.)


  • Kudos to the New York Times for tracking down the history of the subway burn victim. Gift link.


  • Random post. I saw this on Twitter from a guy bragging that he was able to very cheaply create a replacement part with a 3D printer. That's great, but its black appearance would remind me daily that I was too cheap to spend $34 to get a matching knob. 

  • Legal stuff: This was a crazy story on the front page of the Dallas Morning News yesterday about the U.S. Attorney's office in Fort Worth.  A federal prosecutor, Nicole Hammond, was slow to turn over evidence in a criminal case and had to take the stand to explain herself. She said (1) that “I feel very unwell . . . . And it’s apparent that my perception is not great" (2) that she "felt misled" by and agent in connection with the cases' evidence, and (3) that she thought her work computer had been "tampered" with. Judge Reed O’Connor didn't believe her and banished her from practicing in the Northern District for a year. She has since left the U.S. Attorney's Office.

  • Sports photos from the weekend:
    • Ouch.

    • Kim Mulkey's wild (and unflattering) outfit.

    • Cowboys defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, 68, got engaged to Katarina Miketin, 42.

  • Ticket radio news: After 30+ years, the Musers morning show is cutting back from 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. to a new length of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. 

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1.03.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




It didn't take much to get us excited.

  • Wise County roads are already not cooperating for the new year. Moments ago:

  • The Las Vegas Cybertruck bombing update:
    • He shot himself before the vehicle blew. 


    • The amount of nutty conspiracy theories that people come up is mind-numbing. The Chairman of the Republic Party of Tarrant County asserts that someone else killed the guy and then had auto-pilot drive the vehicle to the Trump hotel: 

    • Sometimes the answer is the most obvious one:. A suicide after he was caught cheating. 
  • There are lots of horrific videos from the Bourbon Street Massacre out there if, for some reason, you want to look for them, but this one of everyone escaping the speeding truck contains no gore. And that girl with the red hair has to be thinking she's blessed. She barely made it to the sidewalk in time.

  • North Richland Hills make the news again: "A 47-year-old man died Wednesday morning, after he was booked into the in the North Richland Hills detention facility the previous day. The man, identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner as Michael Gene Knight, was arrested by Watauga police and booked into the facility at about 3:45 p.m. on New Year’s Eve."

  • What a wild image from yesterday afternoon.


  • Congress gavels in today with a vote on the House Speaker occurring at 11:00 a.m. CST when we will learn if Mike Johnson can retain his leadership role.  And CSPAN will be allowed to have additional cameras in the chamber which is great for capturing some wheels off moments (like two years ago.)



  • Oh, no! We are losing Osmonds now!


  • Fish crime! Game wardens in Travis County "located two suspects—one actively spearing black bass with a pneumatic speargun while snorkeling (a violation of state fishing regulations), and the other stationed onshore with a cooler and bag" at Lady Bird Lake in Austin. 


  • Is there any chance we are all living in some big computer simulation and are all being punked? I mean, there's no way that this is coming from the richest man in the history of the world, right?:

  • The Business Second™. Who would have thought that acting like a nut would scare off people from buying his cars?

  • Wise County's newly elected state rep is already doing stupid things. And who could this possibly benefit anyway?


  • Quite the headline. 

  • Fun upcoming Cotton Bowl fact: The first game of the year for both Texas and Ohio State next year will be against each other. 
  • Since we have a change in administrations of the Wise County Sheriff's Office, I need to reword my weekly Lauren Whitener bullet point. Until then, it has been: 5 years and 183 days.

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1.02.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



Fun little fact.

  • New Orleans updates from yesterday . . .  

    • The killer:
      • He was a 42 year old, ten-year military veteran,

         
      • He was a licensed real estate agent from 2019 to 2023.  He even had a video on YouTube where he sounds as normal as a person could be.

      • It looks like he had a misdemeanor theft over 20 years ago in Houston.  He also had a DWI at Fort Bragg Military Reservation in North Carolina in 2015 per the Washington Post.

    • He turned off of Canal Street, jumped a curb, and went around police. Video.  Normal permanent barricades had been removed for an ongoing upgrade.

       

    • Reports that there were "others involved" appear to have been overstated.  
    • The truck, rented via an auto-sharing app, was a Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck.
    • Fox News, anxious to blame illegal immigration, jumped the gun with a false report that the killer had "crossed the border" two days ago.  It then quickly retracted it. But, of course, those who care little about the truth were quick to run with that narrative:



    • The governor of Louisiana thought it would be a good idea to yuk it up and go out to a fancy dinner last night. Tone deaf. 

  • And then later in the day we had an intentional explosion of a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Vegas. The initial blast was caught on video.



    • It was full of "gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters and large firework mortars."

    • The dead suspect has been identified. What's up with the vets?




    • And there is at least some connection between the Vegas and New Orleans' events. 

  • But wait! There's more this morning as 10 teens were hit by gunfire. (But no deaths and not considered a terrorist incident.)

  • The Evil Empire flirted with disaster yesterday but survived. There was a great moment when two gals walked in front of the Longhorn kicker as he was warming up before eventually missing a last second field goal in regulation.  Video.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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