3.28.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




This rocked everyone. A couple of months earlier an assistant district attorney in the same county was gunned down. We would only later learn it was the same shooter: A former Justice of the Peace. 

  • Edit: Sorry, I forgot to hit "publish" on time.  
  • We once again prove the the United States values guns more than children.  Three nine-year-olds are dead  -- killed as they attended school.  

    • When you drop your kids off for school today, you have no assurances you will see them again. No where in the world do you face so much risk. This should not be normal.  

    • One of the victims is Hallie Scruggs. Here she is with her father in 2019 when they lived in Dallas while he was an associate pastor at Preston Avenue Presbyterian Church. He now works for the church where she died. 

    • Here's the chilling surveillance video of the shooter arriving at the school, shooting out the glass doors, and then going into the hallways. 

    • Here are the guns. 

    • This is last year's Christmas card from Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles. The school sits within his district.

    • This front page really says it all about priorities in Texas. 

  • A car was left running in the garage last night. 


  • What's this lady's deal? Claiming she is Jones' daughter from an affair, she filed that weird lawsuit last year to be released from a non-disclosure agreement her mother made. "Jones’ attorneys asked the 2022 lawsuit, which was filed in Dallas County, to be dismissed and described the suit as an extortion attempt. Davis’ lawyers repeatedly denied extortion allegations and had argued that she was not legally bound to the settlement." So the lady who denies she is an extortionist now files a new lawsuit to get, uh, money? (Side note: She works for Wise County's crazy and troubled Rep. Ronny Jackson.)

  • So an assistant DA decided to charge and try a man for the most heinous offense imaginable based upon the word of one other person when a guilty verdict would have meant a minimum of 25 years in prison without parole.  But when a jury, which looked at the very same evidence as the prosecutor, couldn't reach a verdict, the prosecutor just walked away onto the next case. Probably didn't even say, "Sorry about all that." 

  • Good grief. This happened last night. 

  • Still can't stop thinking about this moment. 

  • The Rangers beat me down every year at this time by announcing some ridiculous food option. It's a stunt for free advertising that every media outlet falls for. I'm not linking. I'm not posting a pic. 
  • Oh, yeah. We've got three dead children . . . 

at 8:56 AM

3.27.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





I had forgotten how large the crowds were outside of the Supreme Court on those two days. And the signs were fantastic. Collection here. 

  • We've now entered the Theater of the Bizarre. I've been sounding the alarm to keep a lookout for Trump and his supporters making a martyr out of those jailed in his first coup attempt at the January 6th Insurrection. On Saturday night in Waco, they openly did so.  It's gone even further. They are all openly embracing the Trump Insurrection. This moment was a terrifying sight. (Video from the crowd.)

    • We've now entered early 1930s Germany. They are coming.


    • Hitler, who had his own failed coup 10 years earlier, ran only once for President and got about a third of the vote. But the German political system, along with German apathy for tossing democracy aside, made it ripe for the taking. Our strange system which will allow Trump to win the Republican primaries with probably only the hard-core support of no more than a third of the entire voting population is eerily similar. 

    • They always unashamedly place at least one token African America in the background behind Trump for the cameras.  No surprise there. However, I didn't expect him to be in Baylor gear.

    • I'll never understand how the FBC of Dallas tolerates Rev. Robert Jeffress. He was in Waco to address the crowd. 

  • By the way, Trump deleted the social media post where he threatened the Manhattan D.A.  The Murdock owned New York Post thinks he's gone crazy.

  • I think the South has become the new "tornado alley." The one on Friday night in Rolling Fork, Mississippi was incredibly powerful and killed a total 26 across two states. The fact that a water tower was toppled and the bark was peeled from trees gives you a pretty good indication.


  • Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand in her civil skiing accident trial on Friday and, until now, I don't think I've ever described a witness as adorable. The moment came when she admitted using an F bomb after the collision. Video

  • I don't know if I'm more troubled by the 27 number or the 6 figure.

  • No arrests have been made for the double murder in a car at a Denton apartment complex. I saw Fox4Terry got a picture from late last week. 

  • Some bank called First Citizens just bought the failed Silicon Valley Bank.

  • The plan of Israel's wanna-be authoritarian president to dismantle the courts so they can't touch him is not going well. And it sounds like he is finally backing down from the plan this morning. 

  • Hey, I know I do Trump all the time, but if you want to see something he did that was funny, watch these 47 seconds of the end of a video where he ad-libs that some people might not want to leave their children any inheritance -- "and deservedly so." 

  • I'll admit that as an old guy, I didn't know what it meant either. Video.

  • Former Baylor and current LSU coach Kim Mulkey wore the greatest jacket in the history of jackets on Friday. Her team is headed to the Final Four.

  • Liberally Lean Leaderboard.  Amazingly, our leader -- who is now guaranteed to win -- picked two of the find four teams (Connecticut and Miami) in this wacky tourney.  He, bizarrely, even correctly picked #16 Fairleigh Dickinson seed to beat #1 seed Purdue.

at 8:31 AM

3.24.2023

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

at 2:30 PM

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Shaq visited Gov. Chris Christie on March 21, 2013.

  • This seems a little concerning from overnight:

    • And if that gets your attention, wait until you learned we've already responded with airstrikes. 

  • My highly paid and trained weather team was spot on with its prediction this morning.

     

  • Two people were found shot to death in a car at an apartment complex in Denton not far from the mall early this morning. 

  • The leader of the Republican Party went full Hitler on his social media platform all day yesterday and into the middle of the night:
    •  He posted a picture of him holding a baseball bat next to the Manhattan DA.

    • He called the black D.A. an "animal" (good lord!) and also said he was "Soros backed" (read "Jew backed.")

    • And he promises "death and destruction."  I cannot believe what I'm seeing. It's all out in plain sight.  It's a call to arms to the Stormtroopers. 

    • And he even posted this computer generated picture yesterday.  

  • Meanwhile, we still are having the fallout from his last Insurrection.  One of his groupies received three years in prison yesterday. Not enough. 


  • But the alternative candidate was making headlines yesterday on Fox News as well:

  • Since the district judge in Montague County is stepping down, Gov. Abbott will get to appoint a successor. Applications are currently being submitted.

  • This is nuts and should be on the front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Last week, the wife of the Tarrant County D.A. stood up in front of a crowd with a microphone, introduced herself as such, and told them the way to get school librarians arrested for having objectionable books in the library is to bypass the D.A. and go directly to the grand jury. And, disturbingly, she added that the strategy would work because grand jurors "look a lot like us." Video (with captions).

  • Dak Prescott got a new full leg tattoo. That's dumb, but knock yourself out.

  • There is no way Zeke Elliott has offers from these three teams. I'm still not convinced anyone will want him.  

  • Liberally Lean Leaderboard.
  • 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, 263 days.

at 8:30 AM
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