7.16.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




I'm telling you, keep an eye on the University of Colorado.

  • I'm not sure why he showed up last night at the Republican National Convention . . .     

    • You know what I would have done?: Keep him completely out of sight until the night he is to speak.  At his introduction, roll the footage of the assassination attempt with dramatic music and then freeze it at the moment he raises his fist. Cut the lights, start the fog machine, and roll him out. The crowd would go wild.  Remember the 2016 intro?:

    • But there is now a chance of serious infection of the ear because of who his doctor is: 

  • You don't have to post every thought you have.
     

  • Looks like he pled guilty on May 29th with the sentencing hearing occurring yesterday.  He had a long history including previous penitentiary trips.  (Cause no. CR23812)

  • The federal documents case against Trump is now dead because the most Trump friendly federal judge ever making the most Trump friendly ruling ever. 




    • Make no mistake about it: She got the idea from a throw-away, non-binding comment made by Justice Thomas in the Immunity case -- a case he should have recused himself from. 

  • Apparently we had a pretty bad rendition of the national anthem at the Home Run Derby last night in Arlington. Video. 

  • Isn't' the purpose of a book-in photo is to see the guy's face?

  • The widow of the guy killed at the Trump rally refused to take a call from the President. How weird is that?

  • A guy who used to hate Trump is now not only a sycophant but also Trump's new running mate. 


    • I'll say it again: The reason that Trump has to pick a new VP is because his old one refused to be part of a coup to overthrow the government of the United States. That problem has now been fixed.

  • "A 23-year-old woman and her 52-year-old father, both of Green Bay, Wisconsin, were found dead at Canyonlands National Park on the afternoon of Friday, July 12, the National Park Service said in a news release."  That's a 10 mile loop and it looks easy to get lost.



  • Legal stuff: This ruling is complicated, but what got my attention was the comment by the civil defense lawyer who got the case reversed.




  • The Business Second™:  Mr. Gatti's? Big thumbs up. But the last time I went to one was decades ago in Denton.

  • After posting every thought I have every day, I just realized an above bullet point says, "You don't have to post every thought you have."

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7.15.2024

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Remember Russia shooting down a commercial airliner over part of the Ukraine they had gained control over?

  • Well, that was a heck of a Saturday.


    • A great series of photos of the bullet flying by which nicked Trump. And the last photo actually shows the bullet piercing the air. Here's the New York Times article about it.


    • They mystery of a 20 year old kid. 



    • I agree with everyone else: How in the world did he get in such a good position to shoot? Two good images:


    • Probably the most talked about video is this one which appears to show a Secret Service sniper looking in the direct of the shooter seconds before the shooting. Trump is the foreground to the right. 

    • The guy in the crowd who died, and his final social media post. 


    • Trump's been pretty lowkey since shooting which is understandable because that would certainly rock you.  But I'm really surprised he has tweeted out a picture of his ear. If it was hit --- he says it was and the photos taken seconds after the incident seem to show it -- I would think he'd be promoting it. 

    • The New York Times had already prepared its big opinion piece on Saturday to reject Trump's bid to become president.  It ran as planned. And there's really no reason why the shooting should have changed that.

    • Lot's of odd God posts in the wake of the shooting -- most of which make no theological sense. 
      • So what about the guy in the audience who was killed?

      • What about Uvalde? Were those kids condemned? 

  • In other news, it's been quite the death spree over the last few days. Following on the heels of Shelley Duvall on Thursday, this weekend we lost Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Richard Simmons, and Shannon Doherty.

  • The Alec Baldwin trial got buried in the news after Saturday's news. On Friday, we had the  shockingly abrupt end to the trial as the the judge dismissed the case with prejudice because the State withheld evidence. Once it became clear this was going to happen, one special prosecutor  - the one who gave the opening statement --  up and quit right after the lunch break! The other decided to took the stand to try to explain her actions (and implicitly throw the cops under the bus.) What a disastrous end to a a case which was never going to be won anyway.

  • I'll say this, Trump being able to stop and play to the crowd just moments after seeing his life pass before his eyes is really something. I think 99.9% of us would been shell-shocked and let the Secret Service rush us to wherever they wanted to take us.  

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7.12.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




The bridge by the spillway by Lake Bridgeport is the tallest one in the county.

  • "AT&T said the compromised data includes the telephone numbers of 'nearly all' of its cellular customers and the customers of wireless providers that use its network between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022." Prepare for more spam calls. 

  • A baggage scanner being down yesterday caused a massive backlog at Love Field. Nothing showed it better than this photo from a helicopter showing people lined up outside in the heat. 


  • The humanitarian floating pier in Gaza, which cost us $240 million and never worked, will be gone.  I could have told them it's next to impossible to attach something that floats to the shore and it expect it to be stationary. (I'm an expert because I had a floating lake dock once and it was a disaster.)
     

  • Let me tell you something, there are a lot of sight-seeing helicopter crashes in Hawaii. Story.

  • The President did fine in his press conference yesterday despite a flub or two.  I still think he won't drop out of the race. And I still think all this mess and hubbub about it won't matter.

    • But Drudge, who has been anti-Trump for years, is really going hard against President Biden these days.

    • There are 17 Democrats in Congress who are now calling for Biden to drop out.  There are 260 Democrats in Congress. 
  • Shelley Duval has died. That got me thinking that this is probably one of the most iconic screenshots from a movie there is. 

  • This case is so weird. Once again, the only claim left is Jerry's counter-claim so the only reason the case is still pending is because he hasn't dismissed it. He really wants a trial?

  • Southlake ISD went to one of two federal judges in Texas who are always predictably right wing. And, in a footnote, he even cited as legal authority the right-wing Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell.

  • Gov. Abbott is still on the other side of the planet, and is now in Tokyo. What's the etiquette for being photographed with someone in a wheelchair? Are you supposed to stoop down? 

  • Extremely legal nerdy criminal practitioner stuff based on a new case yesterday out of Corpus Christi: 
    • Say an Information alleges an assault by a theoretical impossible way (i.e. x caused bodily injury to y by x spraying himself in the face with mace). And say the trial court sees the error after the jury is empaneled and sworn but before any evidence has been presented. He then tells the defense lawyer to make a motion (nice judge) and then dismisses the case calling it a directed verdict. 
    • Now the questions are: (1) can the State appeal the dismissal since it occurred during trial, and (2) did the trial court properly dismiss the case before the State even put on any evidence? 
    • The answer is yes and no, respectively. Now the State can fix the Information and retry the guy. 
    • The smart thing to do would have been to move for a directed verdict after the State put on the evidence. The State, if they had figured out their error, couldn't have amended the Information after trial started, and the State couldn't have appealed a directed verdict entered after the evidence is presented. 
  • 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: 5 years and 7 days.

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