Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Never was something going to end up so wrong. 

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• Technical Issue Update: The URL of liberallylean.com is still in a hostage situation.  But you can get here by going through WiseCounty.com or, use its original URL of skattershooting.blogspot.com .  I'm going to get this fixed.
• After a couple of months of use, it appears that the acoustics in the district courtroom in the newly renovated Wise County Courthouse are a major problem. And it's a weird one.  You can hear a pin drop from across the room, but when anyone speaks they are muffled to such an extent that it is almost impossible to discern the words being spoken. 
  
  
  
• There might be a new judge, but the chances of winning the Motion for New Trial are less than 1%. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "Shortly before 6 a.m. . . . "
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And another bike incident. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• He's warming up that book burning bonfire. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump was showing off the "improvements" around the White House yesterday.  And he engaged in some crazy talk, as usual.
  
  
  
• So this skin cancer cure might note be a fluke?
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The case was settled three months later. Terms were not disclosed. 

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• We've got a little technical snafu with Liberally Lean. You can still get here by going through WiseCounty.com .   But if  you try to get here directly via LiberallyLean.com, you can't.  This will be fixed in a couple of days at most.  Thank you for your attention to this matter. 
• Update on the fire I mentioned yesterday morning.
  
  
   
• The city manager abruptly resigned in Wichita Falls. He was paid $278,000 a year. 
  
  
  
• These "law and order" Republicans are hard to figure out sometime. Story
  
  
  
• Tarrant County's crazy county judge congratulates himself in the third person.  And he's full of it. All it takes to get admitted to the "bar" in the Supreme Court is filling out paperwork and paying $200.
  
  
  
• We're not gonna make it!
  
  
  
• "LUFKIN, Texas (KLTV) - An Angelina County judge abused his position of power by requiring an employee to complete mandated justice of the peace training in his place, according to court records."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The New York Times is focused on Texas this morning: 
• On our weird fear of Islam in Texas politics: 
  
  
  
• On Texas Tech: 
  
  
  
• He's crazy.
  
  
  
• There seems to be a lot of stories this morning on the real possibility of  a "cure" for skin cancer. 
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy personal injury story that will interest some of you. 
  
  
  
• Something about this incident makes me think there might be a lot going on here.  There was even an Aggravated Assault "report" that was "filed."
  
  
  
• Police getting raises in Denton . . . 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

One of my all time great predictions because two days later he admitted that he made it up. 

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• "Three people were killed and two others were hospitalized after a wrong-way driver caused a series of crashes early Tuesday on State Highway 121 in Fort Worth, according to police. Fort Worth officers responded around 1:20 a.m. to a crash reported near Airport Freeway and North Riverside Drive."
  

  

  
  
• Three people were killed in a house fire in South Parker County last night, but there is barely any news coverage about it. 
• I'm not real sure how Keller can tell Westlake what to do about anything. But a judge issued this order (PDF) yesterday afternoon. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Judge Kimberly Fitzpatrick

  
  
• This happened a week ago in Plano, but the New York Post has better coverage of what happened that any DFW news stations. 
  
  
  
• Big Ten news.
  
  
  
  
• We are having a rough time on the open seas.
  
  
  
• I'd be running like a school girl. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump is going to steal the mid-terms. It's over.  
  
  
  
• He's crazy.
  
  
  
• Trump and his official White House account were not happy with CNN yesterday. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. We are about to reach a milestone. 
  
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff.  This story is really incredible and it includes the prompts the expert used in preparing his report. And, as a bonus, it has a link to the trial transcript where the Plaintiff's lawyer called the expert as an adverse witness.  It's pretty great. (Warning: I think you'll only get one free click to read the article.)
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The Secretary of Defense, during war time, was campaigning in Iowa yesterday.