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.