7.19.2022

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts





Here is the Update blurb about the motorcycle case. And that is an actual pic from the Messenger that accompanied the story. Yep, trooper dragging a dead goat.  

  • Mineral Wells coming in hottest of all.

  • It looks like DFW might be in competition with 1980 and 2011.  Here are the side by side stats through July 18th for each year:

  • Within the last two hours, England has set an all time high temperature reading. Home air-conditioning is basically non-existent there. 


     
  • Fires abound. And it may be worse today. 
    • Parts around Possum Kingdom lake, including houses, are burning. If you are familiar with it, here's a map showing the general area:

    • Near Glen Rose yesterday afternoon.   It has "tripled in size" overnight according to WFAA.

    • We even had a fire in Wise County yesterday.

  • I missed this in the Uvalde report: Here's the breakdown of the officers at the the school by agency:

    • DPS is taking heat: “You got 91 troopers on the scene. You got all the equipment you could possibly want, and you’re listening to the local school cop?” said state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a Democrat whose district includes Uvalde and who has accused DPS of seeking to minimize its role in the response.
    • And DPS responded.

  • A Bridgeport rancher was featured in an KXAS/Channel 5 story.

  • I'm not sure why Steven Bannon's lawyer, shown below as he arrived for court yesterday, is bringing a shopping bag with him. (Those are bad screengrabs, but they were the best I could pull off.)


  • A new Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth is always reason to celebrate. In the just released issue, he takes on a recently famous Fort Worth cold case of Carla Walker which was solved by DNA and family tree research. 

  • Paparazzi stalking Elon Musk on a yacht proved Elon Musk might be as white as he is rich. (More pictures here.)

  • Sports news.  College football is wild right now.
  • I'm about four episodes into Apple TV's Severance. I'm a little iffy on it. So far it's been a 30 minute Black Mirror stretched into four hours.

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7.18.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, James Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed and 70 others were injured, 58 of them from gunfire. In August of that year, the jury deadlocked on whether to impose the death penalty and he was given a life sentence.

  • Yesterday the Texas House released its report on the Uvalde shooting. It was as critical as you expected. But the Texas Tribune might have had the perfect line in summarizing it:

    • There was also new Uvalde video released late yesterday.  Here's an edited version which will suck you in. 

    • Someone tell him he's not the victim. Video.

  • You've already seen it, but . . . 

    • . . . I did notice this when I looked up at the TV last night. Ugh. 

  • Wise County authorities were involved in some kind of car chase/standoff yesterday morning on 287.

  • So how can you determine it to be an accident by simply looking at injuries on a body? Wouldn't the injuries be exactly the same if she had been pushed? (I'm not saying she was. I'm saying no one can make that determination by looking at a body.)

  • Wise County's Congressional representative is a certifiable nutcase. And in the 15 second video, he even managed to screw up the "come and take it" line.

  • I’m fine with this. If you style yourself a combatant in a war to destroy democracy and if your movement is an ongoing mortal threat, then yeah, 15 years . . . that’s fine.  He's from Wylie, Texas.




  • Say what?

  • Say what again.  Actually this one makes a little sense.  Johnson lost in the Republican primary. Now he is hiring the Democrat who will be facing off against the guy who beat him.  

  • Fox Sports graphics department: "Hey, since the Yankees/Red Sox game is being played in New York City, let's create a graphic superimposing the teams' logos on the 9/11 reflecting pools at Ground Zero!"

  • Talk about a late Friday news dump. And how did all the women settle so quickly with the Houston Texans unless they were all hit over the head with a big bag of money?

  • It was one of the last great deals in streaming, but now ESPN+ will go up to $9.99 a month beginning in time for football season. 

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7.15.2022

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




This is a "nerdy legal stuff" flashback, but that law review article still holds up. 
  • Is no one going to call out the NTSB for originally being the source of the wild allegation about the 13 year old driving who they quickly reported as fact? They are the ones who started the whole false story to begin with.




    • And also buried in that news story yesterday was that the NTSB also retracted another huge fact they initially reported: There is no evidence that a blowout tire caused the wreck. 

  • The Republicans went from "Abortion is a state rights issue" to "let's have the federal government outlaw abortion nationwide" in record time. 

  • There is something not right about the Secret Service's over-the-top loyalty to Trump. The Inspector General "accused the U.S. Secret Service of erasing texts from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after his office requested them as part of an inquiry into the U.S. Capitol attack . . . .indicating that the text messages have vanished and that efforts to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack were being hindered."

  • Who wrote this for him?

  • An outfit protesting gun violence in schools is sending a ton of school buses to Ted Cruz's home.  And to promote it, they are sending out the photo below.  It's creative. 


  • Oh, man! Source.

  • You would think this is The Onion instead of The Wall Street Journal. (I continue to think crypto is the 2020s version of Beanie Babies if Beanie Babies had cost $10,000 a piece back then.) 

  • Random Texas COVID look. This is the hospitalizations chart. It's still low but currently trending up at a rate which looks familiar to past surges. I have no idea what happens this time, but it's worth watching. 

     
  • The NFL continues to print money.

  • And another.

  • 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: 1,106 ,days.
  • Messenger: Above the Fold

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