8.30.2024

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




That elevator is now being permanently removed in the renovation since it wasn't originally there (obviously). It occurs to me that there will quickly come a day when no one will remember that old elevator at all.


  • Overnight: "[R]esponding officers found an officer who’d been shot in his marked patrol vehicle. Officers exchanged gunfire with a suspect, and two other officers were shot." The chase ended up on I-35 which led to the suspect being shot on that highway in Lewisville and the freeway being shut down.


  • They were all of Haitian descent, but that's all we know.

  • The old-school me will never get used to small schools football playing, much less opening the season, on a Thursday night.

  • For a pro-life guy, Trump says that he thinks a six-week ban is "too short."  So why was he hellbent on overturning Roe v. Wade?


  • Decatur news from the Messenger provided without comment.

  • We have the dumbest state attorney general.

  • New religious diversity map based upon the census. Hey, at least we are more diverse than Parker County, but I think that's because the category of "Hispanic Catholic" help us with our score. 

  • Trump yesterday: He started this math challenged rant by once again saying immigrants are taking jobs from blacks (but at least he avoided the phrase "black jobs.") Video.

  • New this morning. Where is the outrage?

  • Legal nerdy stuff: A Wise County felony assault case was affirmed last night by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals. The opinion hasn't been released yet, but local lawyers -- and maybe others -- will find the first point of error in the defendant's brief very interesting. 
  • 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 56 days.