Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I reposted this 10 years ago, and I see why. It's great. Now I just hope its legit.

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• A reserve Decatur Police officer and fulltime Irving Fire Department member was killed in a motorcycle crash in Springtown yesterday. Messenger story. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I think these Iran strikes are odd. It basically gives a warning that the missiles are coming and realize that hardly any of them will get through the Israeli defense system.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Moments before the strike, this happened:
  
  
  
• The Vice Presidential debate was last night and it was uneventful:
• Vance's soundbite:
  
  
  
• Walz's soundbite was use of the great word "knucklehead": 
  
  
  
• But never forget that the only reason Vance was standing there last night instead of Mike Pence is because Pence wouldn't take part in a coup. Vance will.  Nothing else really matters. 
  
  
  
• And Trump, posting this while the debate was still going on, was kind of funny to me. He had checked out of the debate and then learned for the first time that Pete Rose had died. From there, he just had to share his hot sports opinion.  
  
  
  
• That really was an execution. Video.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'd be more inclined to believe the 120 people if they weren't plaintiffs looking for money and weren't represented by Tony Buzbee of all people. 
  
  
  
  
• I'm all for understanding history, but there seems to be a ton of modern day injustices going on right now that need to be investigated. 
  
  
  
  
• The actor from Good Times, John Amos, has died, and I don't know what's weirder: (1) The he actually died 45 days ago and we are just now finding out about it, or (2) I just learned he was in the Kansas City Chiefs' training camp. 
  
  
  
• I stumbled upon, and have become a fan of, HBO's Industry.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

This was about a a vice-chairman of the local Republican Party being appointed as interim elections commissioner after Lannie Noble resigned. But  it looks like nothing happened with the lawsuit, and it was dismissed a year later (probably after everything became moot -- I don't remember.) Anyway, the full Petition is here.  Edit: A faithful reader pointed out another reason the case probably didn't go forward.

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• We now have a trial date for the Tanner Horner capital murder trial: March 17, 2025. I think there's a pretty good chance that it happens then. But, as a reminder, it will happen in Tarrant County on a change of venue. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There's another "regular" murder trial in Wise County, State v. McKinley Mantrell Bradford involving an alleged killing near Chico, which is scheduled for trial on October 14, 2024 -- although a Motion for Continuance was filed yesterday. I don't know it that will be granted. Edit: It was granted. Look at this subpoena list:
  
  
  
• A guy attempted to fight several officers on top of an awning at a 7th Street bar in Fort Worth last night. Video.
  
  
  
• After taking over Gaza, now Israel is moving north. Isn't there a word to describe when one country sends troops over a border to occupy another country? And I can't believe Iran hasn't gotten involved in this yet. It's all a powder keg. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Pete Rose has died at age 83. In my twenties, when he was banned from baseball for betting on it, I first heard him interviewed at length and quickly came to the conclusion that he was not a smart man. And by that I mean no offense. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It happened.
  
   
  
  
  
• Trump:
• Yesterday, he lied about President Biden not calling the governor of Georgia when the Governor talked about the call at a news conference an hour earlier. Then again, when does he not lie? He campaigns on an a imaginary bad economy, on imaginary runaway crime and now on an imaginary failure of Biden and Harris to respond to a natural disaster.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And why in the world did he think it was a good idea to speak behind a makeshift stack of bricks retrieved from a damaged building? 
  
  
  
• And while all this is going on, he still takes time to scam and grift. 
  
  
  
• Jimmy!
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: The "Young Thug" trial in Atlanta - which to me is one of the greatest prosecution disasters of all time - is still going on with no end in site. Yesterday, the judge chewed out the prosecutor for a over a minute while threatening to do grant a mistrial for hiding evidence. She then walked away to think about it. Video. Amazingly, she didn't have the guts to actually do it and the trial will continue.
  
  
  
• The Mets and Braves should have just agreed to forfeit one game each yesterday like I suggested. They played but the same result happened: They split and now both will go to the playoffs. The Mets dramatically won in Game One with a homer in the ninth inning, but then the Braves won Game Two as the Mets, with nothing to play for, slept walked though it. 
  

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

My first thought was, "This was Nina Pham." Nope, this was Thomas Eric Duncan who would die from the disease. Nina Pham was a nurse at the hospital who ended up with Ebola after treating him. 

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• From Friday:
  
  
  
• Over the last couple of years a relatively mild hurricane will make landfall with little damage, but then cause much more destruction hundreds of miles inland because of the rain they produce. That use not to happen. In this case, Tennessee and North Carolina suffered far worse than Florida. 
  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• Israel continues to be very aggressive and had a major success on Saturday:
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley interviewed that guy 20 years ago:
  
  
  
• Stuff in the air and not: 
• This was an overly excitable headline on Friday.  There was only one package of medical waste which had its outer cardboard exterior damaged but it's inside safety packaging was intact. 
  
  
  
• Now that's a legitimate headline from yesterday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A Fort Worth officer has a hot opinion about the Tarrant County D.A.'s office: "All you’re doing is telling the citizens of Fort Worth: kill an eyewitness and you’ll get away with something. Fifteen years is a joke for the murder itself,", Detective Thomas O’Brien said.
  
• This happened and Friday, and all we know is what's in the headline.
  
  
  
• DPS originally referred to the person who struck him as an intoxicated driver, but there is no reference to that in the press release announcing this sad news. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• NEW YORK (AP) — A paralegal at a New York City district attorney’s office has been arrested after he attempted to make an explosive to bomb a migrant shelter located across from his apartment, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday.
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™: There is a major strike beginning tomorrow which could be a major headache -- especially for Christmas. 
  
  
  
• The AP voters fell out of love with the Evil Empire over the weekend.
  
  
  
• The baseball season is over except for the Mets (88-72) and Braves (88-72) who will play a doubleheader today because of two previously rained out games. If they split, they both end up in the playoffs, and the Diamondbacks, who will be watching intently,  are out. If either wins both, that winner will obviously be in but the Diamondbacks would get in over today's two game loser. But since the only way the Diamondbacks get in is if the Mets win both or the Braves win both, the Mets and Braves could each guarantee themselves a spot in the playoffs right now by not playing and each agreeing to forfeit one game each today. I'd do it.