9.20.2024

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Fox 4 anchor Max Morgan passed away 10 years ago this week.


  • The man shot and killed by Wise County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday night suffered from mental issues.  He was last in the news after carrying a gun near Paradise High School and then hiding in a gym wall for hours. 


  • Dateline Kentucky: Sheriff Mickey Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins in his chambers at the Letcher County Courthouse yesterday afternoon. Oh, my. 



  • Remember that huge pipeline fire earlier this week near Houston? It is now out, but they found the car below at the base of it  I knew the fire was started by a car striking the pipeline, but I had no idea that it, and its driver, were still there. 

  • Guns at the State Fair are banned - for now. Paxton has already appealed the case to the 15th Court of Appeals, the newly created court which now has exclusive jurisdiction of appeals for certain business disputes and disputes involving the constitutionality of a state statute.  That court is currently filled with every single judge having been appointed by Gov. Abbott in the last few months.

  • It's Scandal Day: 
    • This Republican nominee fired off some shocking comments on a porn site which CNN discovered. One of the uncensored one is here (don't look).  I don't think this scandal matters at all because morality, character, and hypocrisy no longer matters. 


    • RFK Jr. sure gets involved in all sorts of stuff.


    • There's always been rumors about this guy but a court filing last night might be the closest thing to actual proof so far. But, again, it won't matter. 

  • What could go wrong? Gift link.


  • The Business Second™.  Double non-trouble.

  • Funny yet accurate bit: Every college football rivalry in graphic form. And each school is geographically laid out pretty well.

  • 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 77 days.