8.09.2024

It's Friday, Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




This Messenger item got my attention back then. 

  • A guy standing on an overpass caused I-35 and 287 in North Fort Worth to be shut down yesterday evening for "several hours."  He apparently live streamed it on Facebook and "more than 7,000 people were watching as of 9:30 p.m. when the video stopped, and there were more than 4,800 comments . . . . ."



    • That's the third major stand-off in a week that has shut down major highways.  The others were the crazy guy in Dallas on 635 and the other was on 820 near Northeast Mall (it still there?) on Sunday.
  • This is the split second screenshot from the cop's bodycam when he peaked up over the roof to see what would turn out to be Trump's would-be assassin. But I'm not real sure where the shooter is in it. 

  • Quick hits from Trump's crazy, rambling, and weird press conference yesterday:

    • He thought it would be a good idea to compare his crowd on January 6th (!!!) to that of Martin Luther King's march (and, to boot, confuse the "Million Man March" in 1995 with King's "March on Washington" event in 1963.)

    • Lied about almost being in a helicopter crash with Willie Brown. (Gift link.)
      Willie Brown and Jerry Brown


    • Went back to the Is-She-Black-Or-Indian attack on Kamala.
    • Now says that it was his ear lobe that was hit by a bullet but has no signs of injury because he is a "fast healer."
      Image from yesterday.

  • I noticed two Not Guilty verdicts in Tarrant County on felony cases this week.  The top one arose out of a drag show protest but involved a protestor against the protestors who had some type of interaction with a police officer.  (Little bit of background about the protest in general is  here.) 

  • Legal photo of the year. I know that Matthew McConaughey's character in A Time To Kill was sweating a lot, but this guy takes it to a whole knew level. 

  • Not exactly what you want to see from a DA investigator. 

  • The Business Second™.  $47 million?!?

  • The Second Business Second™. Observation: For us old-timers, from 1973 to 1993 a 6.47% rate would be considered an absolute steal. 

  • The Third Business Second™. I don't understand this article about natural gas prices at all. 

  • Micah Parson reposting CeeDee Lamb's reaction to a Jerry Jones' comment about Lamb's hold-out:

  • I think Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who won the gold medal in the 400 meters, is the absolute prototype for the perfect female track star. She's the most effortless runner I've ever seen. 


  • Love this photo. 

  • 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 35 days.

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8.08.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




From 8/7/14. Didn't think RFK, Jr. would be back in the news 10 years later. Barely remember the Family Unit experimented with having a pot-bellied pig. 

  • This news is going to cause a lot of Austrian teenagers to cry a great deal.  And cancelling three shows at a venue which holds 65,000 is a really big deal.


  • A hearing started up on Monday in Montague County to remove the DA after she was indicted on theft allegations, but it was delayed when a question arose as to whether the "State" needs to be represented in the matter. The removal petition was filed by former DA Tim Cole as a private resident.


    • Hey, her lawyer is my old buddy!

  • Hot hitting weather forecast for today:

  • Politics.
    • I think that headline undersells what happened. That was a crazy rally at an airport yesterday. 


    • I think he's a little nervous about falling out of the news. 

    • Audio.
  • Once again, the military crashes lots of aircraft.

  • I think this is an example of how the death of local media hurts us all. Obviously, something is going on with this resignation, but WFAA's reporting simply regurgitates the city's press release thanking him for his past service.

  • Random book-in photo which is reprinted in the Messenger this week in a story concerning theft allegations near Boyd. 

  • According to the story "rapper Nelly" was arrested early Wednesday at a St. Louis-area casino at 4:45 a.m. for an outstanding traffic ticket and an officer then found four illegal ecstasy pills on him. (Hey, buddy, you've got a ton of handlers. Keep it out of your pockets.)

  • Olympic quick hit: I don't think I've ever seen a runner look so wild arse and yet still be able to pull off a an impossible comeback in the 400 Meter final.  Regardless, you simply shouldn't be able to win when you are in this position entering the final 100 meters.  Full race video here.. 


  • College football quick hit: Bad for that guy, but the Longhorns probably won't miss a beat. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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8.07.2024

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




A former Tarrant County judge was beaten to death in Lubbock and there was basically no media coverage of it (that's what I thought was bizarre.)  Here's an update on what happened published a few years later.

  • Northwest ISD became the newest district to ban cell phones. If you want to know the impetus behind this, I suspect its been this New York Times bestseller. It's an insightful look at how kids have moved from Play-based to a Phone-based childhood and the resulting consequences. Folks, we've got a problem. 

  • Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota may be a good VP good pick after all. And he may be the most common-man politician I've ever seen. He and Harris filled out an arena last night in Philadelphia.  


    • A lady on Twitter might be Nostradamus.

  • There was a lot going on in this wacky story and hard to explain.  There is a video of him jumping in a car and striking a lady near the end of all of it. 

  • "The Coast Guard was notified around 7 p.m. Saturday that a 28-foot aluminum vessel with eight people onboard was taking on water near Homer, Alaska." They were there for a wedding, and are from Troy, Texas near Temple.  I can't find why they were on the boat. 

  • This might be the dumbest lawsuit ever. So Elon Musk is mad at advertisers who don't want to buy space on what's becoming a Nazi website? Welcome to capitalism, pal. And notice he forum shopped to make 100% sure it ends up in the court of radical federal judge Reed O'Conner. 


    • And why in the world would advertisers leave him? Oh, yeah. Flashback: 

  • The Democratic DA in Houston endorsed Ted Cruz. How much will that help? She was the incumbent DA in the Democratic primary last spring and got crushed by getting only 25% of the vote. That's hard to do. 

  • Insurrection update. Baby steps.

  • Power move.


  • Former Dallas Cowboy Duane Thomas has died. I was going to post this yesterday because I saw what looked like to be his daughter's post on Modnay. But I swear yesterday morning, after a search on my part, that there wasn't one media outlet reporting it so I questioned whether it was true. His passing is making the mainstream news this morning. 

    • And if you want to understand how crazy the Duane Thomas situation was back in the day, watch this Verne Lundquist segment on WFAA when Verne was anchor. (Pick it up at the 53 second mark.)
  • I just casually keep the Olympics on in the background in the evening, but even I yelled at the screen during the ending of the 1500 meters final. Video. 

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