10.10.2022

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





10/9/2012 - An 18 wheeler veered off of 287 in Decatur, down an embankment, across a service road, and ended up almost taking out Panda Express.

  • Ukraine blew up the only bridge linking Russia to Crimea on Saturday, and Russia rained bombs down on Ukraine's capital city last night.


     
  • A play in Four Acts starring Kanye West:
    • Act I: Hang out with right winger Candace Owens at a Paris fashion show, and wear a T-shirt to get everyone worked up.

    • Act II: Be welcomed with open arms by Fox News and Tucker Carlson because you wore the shirt supporting white people.

    • Act III: Get all fired up after going on Fox News and go all Nazi on the Jews. 

    • Act IV:

  • This is like a violent movie. Four dead from shooting inside of a vehicle.  


  • "Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd were reunited today in New York City at Comic Con" over the weekend. This video is equally hard to watch and glorious. 

  • What a mess in the El Paso mass shooting case. Her office allegedly impersonated victims via email in order to get around a gag order in order to communicate to the press, and she's overall in turmoil. 


  • On Friday afternoon, the New York Times confirmed, and added to, the developing Herschel Walker lie(s).  He now admits he at least "knows" the woman. 

  • Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake personally vacuumed the carpet before Trump's arrival in Arizona on Saturday night. Totally not a cult. 

  • OK.

  • The video is here. And the comments below it are something. 

  • College football thoughts: (1) Ok, go ahead and start Quinn Ewers, but can I please watch him in one game where he has to run for his life? He has had all day so far, (2) I ended up watching the Aggie/Alabama game until the end and can't believe the Aggies had a chance to win it only to call the worst play in the history of ever, (3) Watch Deion Sanders almost get into a fight with another coach after a game, and (4) Dicker the Kicker got to kick in his first NFL game and won the thing, (5) never bet on sports (-9???!!!):

  • About the only thing I've heard about the baseball playoffs which I'm told are ongoing:

  • Legal nerdy stuff: Who is this long haired judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals? That first shot is from oral arguments last week. Compare it to the official photo on the court's web site: 


  • Word to the wise: Tap the brakes on the Cowboys.

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10.07.2022

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I presume the juror was replaced by an alternate. His appeal mentioned nothing about a sleeping juror.

  • President Biden pardons all those with federal marijuana possession convictions, urges states to do the same and consider abolishing the criminalization of weed. This is a watershed moment. 



  • Less that 24 hours after CNN revealed that a trooper who was at the Uvalde shooting had been hired as a police officer by the Uvalde School District Police Department, she was fired. 



  • Two are dead and six were injured after a stabbing spree in front of The Wynn on the Vegas strip. It sounds like it was attack of street "showgirls."   A guy was arrested in front of the Venetian. 

  • These headlines are everywhere this morning. Everyone needs to calm down a bit. The exact quote was. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”   He didn't say "until now"  or "this current prospect". Even after reading the comment in  in context, I don't see why everyone is all bent out of shape. (Even the AP buries this sentence: "It was not immediately clear whether Biden was referring to any new assessment of Russian intentions.")


  • Elon Musk wants the litigation by Twitter against him to be indefinitely suspended so he could buy Twitter as he "promises."  Twitter wanted the October trial date to start on time to force the sale before then. For some reason, the judge moved the trial to November and gave a deadline of October 28th to get the deal done. Twitter's pleadings yesterday showed they aren't screwing around:

  • Cops arresting cops. I would think this was part of a sting operation, but none of the stories actually say that. 

  • The trial of Oath Keepers' leader Stewart Rhodes, for his part in the Trump Insurrection, continues. Remember that the Secret Service has destroyed all text messages about that day? And remember Vice President Pence refusing to get in a car driven by the Secret Service to evacuate the capitol? Well yesterday there was testimony that Rhodes has may have had a contact within the Secret Service. Keep an eye on this. 

  • The name has gone up at the construction site in Bridgeport. 

  • This is a funny photo. The happy guy talking to the president has "Cracker" on his shirt, Biden has his arm around the lady, and DeSantis looks dejected in the foreground.

  • There was another concussion in the NFL last night. The frightening video is here.

  • We are watching a modern day Babe Ruth and no one seems to understand that. Shohei Ohtani finished in the Top 5 this season in home runs hit and strikes out as a pitcher. Below are those who have done that. He ended with a batting average or .275 and an ERA of 2.33.  We've never seen anything like this. 

  • Texas is heavily favored to beat OU, but I wouldn't start Quinn Ewers. It would be only his third start, he's only played five quarters so far, and he's coming off an injury. Hey, he may end up being great, but people sure are putting a lot of stock into one quarter against Alabama. If Texas were to lose this game, the orange bloods would go berserk. 
  • 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: 3 years, 94 days.
  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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10.06.2022

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




The great Lari Barager, then of Fox 4 News, dropped by my office 10 years ago this week. It had to do with the fire being intentionally set in a courthouse bathroom. She always kept an eye on Wise County for crazy stories. 
  • CNN has obtained a Uvalde video showing the first DPS trooper who arrived at the school.  She's one of the handful of troopers who are now under investigation by the agency. But get this: She resigned from DPS over the summer but now works for -- oh, my -- the Uvalde ISD Police Department.

    • The last sentence of the article is a shocker:

  • Senate candidate Hershel Walker told Fox and Friends yesterday morning that he didn't even know who the woman was that was making the claim he paid for her abortion (despite her having a cancelled check and a get-well card from him). Well, last night the same lady gave permission to reveal she is also the mother of one of Walker's children. 


  • World news this morning: When we say we want the rest of the world to be "more like America", we don't mean this part. 

  • That's quite the opening sentence.

     

  • Texas executed a man last night over objections from the D.A.'s office. Background:

    • But this line, from another story, is a little haunting. Out. Of. Habit.  

  • "The man accused of intentionally driving his SUV through a crowd of Christmas parade attendees in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last year, killing six people and wounding dozens more, is set to represent himself at his homicide trial Thursday amid concerns over his mental health." This does not appear to be going well.

  • Remember Gov. Abbott's stunt to have you voluntarily donate money to Build The Wall? Well, it has raised $54 million. How much of that came from one guy? $53.1 million.

  • Did the crazy Texas DA who filed obscenity charges against Netflix for the show Cuties dismiss that case? That's what was buried in this legal nerdy article yesterday about a different case being argued before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

  • What is that exactly? A Nazi? 

  • Business news this morning: It's on its last legs. And I was just reminded of their Christmas commercial from a couple of years back which seems timely.


  • Final American League standings (the first time I've looked at them in a while). Is this bad?:

  • The metroplex media has yet to pick up that Runaway Bay is dumping raw sewage into Lake Bridgeport. Lari Barager would be up here by now. 


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