10.31.2023

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




A bullet point about my Halloween costume I came up with. 

  • Someone tipped me off last week that the court system database had gone down in Dallas. They said it was now a mess. Now we know why. (This is different that the ransomware attack on the city of of Dallas computers a few months back.)

  • The Messenger reports that the mailbox outside of the Decatur post office has been closed due to theft incidents. 
  • Rainfall totals. That was a lot. 

  • This sounded like a scene.
     

  • It was a couple of days ago when news broke that a former NHL playing hockey in England had died after having his "throat slashed" by another's players skate.  I assumed it was a freak accident, and I blew off some reports of it being an intentional act. Then I saw the video. Now I'm not so sure. 

  • I really haven't followed the Sam Bankman-Fried trial, but I perked up when I saw this courtroom sketch of him pop up online yesterday to everyone's glee. Turns out, it wasn't real and just something AI generated. 


  • I've been harping on this for quite a while now.

  • When a paywall really frustrates me: 

  • The Texas Oilman's PAC doesn't know whether to overtly publicize their political intentions towards Wise County or not ever since being caught in the white supremacy scandal. 

  • Hurtful.

  • The famous Ponder steakhouse has shut down. 

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10.30.2023

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




It was only 10 years ago that the name of an officer would be readily released without the need for an open records request.

  • On Saturday morning, the official Wise County Republican Party issued a statement denouncing the West Texas Oil Man PAC for meeting with a known white supremist and antisemite, and announced that it was donating to a third party the $2,000 it had recently received from the PAC.
    • No word yet whether a Wise County Texas House candidate will do a similar act with the $55,000 he has received. 

  • Israel enters Gaza. (Sidenote: It's Ok to be pro-Israel and not want to see innocent Palestinians die.) Various news headlines:



     

  • On September 24th, DFW hit 101 degrees breaking an all time record. Now we have a freeze warning:

    • Oh, come on. 

  • And now another mass shooting in the United States is already old news.
     

  • Who would have thought that a guy who one-third of the Republican Party wanted to hang couldn't gain traction?

  • Let's check in on Fox News. Oh, no! We've lost David Spiller (R-Jacksboro)!

  • Who knows how he died, but his recent autobiography revealed he was pretty full throttle in the area of self-medication for years.


  • Let me tell you, Junior, it ain't the dirty libs who are complaining about Halloween. 

  • He really did. The Senator he was dogging lost three fingers at age 9 on his left hand "when grinding meat in his family’s butcher shop."  Ronny Jackson, whether drunk or not, embarrasses Wise County every week. 

  • College football screenshot. Yep, that really happened:

  • Very random discovery: Brigham Young had 55 wives, and here is a list of every one of them. And don't forget the 57 children. 

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10.27.2023

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




He was one of the first to jump on the anti-federal government bandwagon which is the current mainstay of Texas Republican politics. (From the cover of the Star-Telegram on 10/23/23.)

  • A Wise County high profile aggravated assault on a peace officer conviction was affirmed on appeal yesterday. It involved Royce Wood and involved the shooting of officer Rex Richie in the New Fairview area. There's quite a bit of interesting non-related law stuff in there. 
  • Still on the run this morning.
     

  • Nine individuals have been booked into the Wise County Jail within the last two days with only immigration holds on them. I presume it is related to the raid at the Indian food restaurant in Alvord mentioned in the Update yesterday.
  • The Liberally Lean Weather Team™ tells me that winds shift to out of north around 3:00 p.m. but with storms developing this evening -- although they won't become heavy until around 10:00 p.m. They will then continue throughout the night.  High tomorrow afternoon is only 59.
    • Exclusive Warning: There is a weird quirk for a quick downpour at noon today. 
  • All Texas Tech parents freaked out last night:

  • I wonder what the common denominator is? Oh, . . . 

  • "The church shared the news in an email to its [5.000 member] congregation Thursday, saying that the beloved pastor 'passed away in his sleep due to natural causes.'”  Say what?

  • It is unfathomable to me that a man this unhinged will get the Republic nomination. I sometimes think I'm living in some virtual reality game because all this crap going on around me can't possibly be real. 

  • Cooking oil incident on 407 in Denton County. 

  • Follow-up from last week. At least that gunman on the run in the Northeast was found.

  • I can't find it anywhere but in the Messenger, but our state representative, Dr. Lynn Stucky, has demanded his opponent say something about the $55,000 he has taken from the West Texas Oil Man PAC:  “I am repulsed by the antisemitic propaganda coming from people like Nick Fuentes and call on my opponent Andy Hopper to publicly denounce the actions of Defend Texas Liberty and Jonathan Stickland.”  Hopper hasn't done so, nor has he distanced himself from the PAC or Stickland's Pale Horse Strategies whose offices is where the meeting between the White Supremacist and Stickland took place.
  • Yeah, this is a bit, but who out there thought it was actually a good bit?
     

  • My gut reaction was, "Hey! Don't we have new law to stop someone from competing in a sport 'that is designated for the biological sex opposite to the student ’s biological sex'?" Yep, we do. But it's only for college sports, so this Mansfield kicker doesn't get inadvertently caught up in it.

  • Random sports thoughts: Would the Rangers be in the World Series if they had had to play home games outdoors in last summer's crazy heat? I don't think so. 

  • A very Halloween-ish photo from the Mavericks-Spurs opening game. 

  • 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: 4 years and 113 days.

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