4.02.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




A soldier killed four at troubled Ft. Hood, and David Letterman retired. 

  • Big hail in Rhome last night.  And the fact that this guy has that high tech measuring device makes me want to believe anything he says. 

  • New this morning. I'll say it again, Israel will pay for years for all the innocent people they have killed in Gaza. 



    • And they are poking Iran at the same time.  As well as proving they can hit what they want to hit with pinpoint accuracy.  

  • Some people really latch on to that "submission" thing. 

  • The mayor of Uvalde has resigned. He wasn't the mayor during the shooting, having only taken office last November, but during his term "the city released a report from an independent investigator commissioned by the city attorney that defended the actions of local police officers on the day a gunman . . . ."  The blowback probably got him. 

    • The lone Texas Ranger recommended to be fired for the Uvalde debacle is still being paid although he hasn't had to work in over a year.

  • Trump:
    • He avoids the Sheriff's sale by posting a bond yesterday. 

    • That was around the time that Trump had a revised gag order placed upon him after verbally attacking the judge's daughter. I'm not sure what the point is since he's never held accountable. 

    • Someone explain this Truth Social public offering scam to me.  Its stock seemed to have the same questions yesterday after financials were released.



  • The Florida Supreme Court yesterday greenlighted abortion bans being on the November ballot. Some people think that now puts Florida "in play" because Republican candidates have bombed in every election where abortion is on the ballot because of the increased turnout.

    • I'm skeptical, but the Biden/Trump race was closer in Florida than I thought in 2020.

  • I watched Reality the other day. The entire film is the re-enactment of a single interview of Reality Winner while the FBI raided her home in 2017 for providing classified documents to The Intercept.  Maybe I've listened to and watched too many police interviews in my career, but I thought it was great. It stars Sydney Sweeney.

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4.01.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The Rangers issued an apology for all of the beer cans on the statue. By the way, it was (only) the ballpark's 20th anniversary.

  • Someone fell 150 feet into the spillway at Lake Bridgeport yesterday. He was care-flighted and is in serious condition. How do you survive that? That's a long way down. 

  • Cameras are everywhere. Kansas City Chiefs WR Rashee Rice was in a multi-car wreck and allegedly left the scene.  Someone's dash cam caught the wreck while others filmed and photographed him walking away. He might want to try and handle this. 

  • On Friday, this thing fell off an overpass and onto a highway in Dallas. Fox4Terry was all over it.

  • I mentioned several months ago that I kept seeing news reports of shootings in and outside of hookah lounges. I've noticed two more in the last month. 



  • If you haven't seen the video of the car going through the fitness center in Dallas on Friday, here you go.  And keep your eye on the center where a couple of people are sitting on a couch. 

  • Trump: 
    • By noon on Easter morning, Trump had made 71 posts on Truth Social, including this one: 

    • Nothing says resurrection celebration like this:

    • And he started off on Good Friday by posting a video depicting President Biden hogtied in a truck.  

  • I'm not even going to mention the Trans Day of Visibility "controversy." How can people be so ill-informed? It's painful.
  • That's a three foot tall buzzsaw blade embedded into the front of a convenience store. Here's a crazy video showing how it ended up there. And one guy is very lucky.

  • Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway, had a little trouble this weekend. 

  • Good. That D.A. was a moron. 

  • The Washington Post article on Kim Mulkey came out on Saturday. I read all of it. Why was she so bent out of shape before it was released? It was fine. (Although that women will never speak to you again once you wrong her.) 

  • Wasn't Microsoft's "Clippy" a little bit of AI back in the day?

  • Who is SMU's press person? Not only did they have a glossy fawning piece in the New York Times this weekend, that ACC commercial on ESPN for them might be one of the best I've ever seen. 

  • We've got quite the barn-burner in the Liberally Lean Pick 'Em Tourney. (Standings.)

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3.29.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




ESPN sure was overly excited about Johnny Manziel's pro day. But even George W. Bush and Ricky Perry showed up for it. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold. (I forgot to post this yesterday.)
  • Last Friday, a school bus crash in Bastrop County killed two. The Austin-American Statesman knew the bus would have a dash cam so the paper made an open records request. They got it. 

  • The Rangers had months to figure out how to hang the World Series banner and managed to do it in a way that it has a crimp in it. 


  • That's just a harsh sentence. 

  • True this.

  • Of course.


  • Presidents Obama, Biden and Clinton got together last night in Manhattan. 

  • I didn't believe this was real, but it was.  And if you think he was joking, he wasn't. He doubled down on it before he was exposed. 


  • After bouncing around in appellate orbit for six years, the outrageous conviction in Fort Worth of Crystal Mason was overturned last night and an acquittal entered. Opinion.

    • These are the Tarrant County DA's lawyers responsible for the prosecution and trying to hang on to a the now declared wrongful conviction. 

  • This story about CPS is on the front page of the Star-Telegram today, and it got my attention because it sounds exactly like the documentary called Take Care of Maya on Netflix -- which is really good.


  • A new book to be released about Southlake ISD which has implications close to home. I love the title.  

  • Nothing says Jesus like an Alaskan cruise sponsored by a pastor and advertised during Easter week. 

  • Just announced: Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Oscar for his drill sergeant role in An Officer and a Gentleman, has died.
  • 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 277 days.



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