9.06.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




It was the latter.

  • Georgia shooting developments:
    • We've got a photo of the 14 year old shooter. 

    • In our world of let's find criminal responsibility for everyone, his dad was arrested last night.   You want to charge the juvenile as an adult because he was mature enough to make his own decisions, but you also want to charge the dad for providing a gun because the kid wasn't mature enough to make his own decisions?

  • Hunter Biden, much to the shock of prosecutors, tried to enter a "No contest" plea at the last second yesterday in his tax case. But once the judge indicated he wouldn't accept that, Hunter entered a full guilty plea instead -- and without the benefit of a plea bargain. The best guess is that he will receive just under two years in the federal pen when sentencing occurs in December. 

    • President Biden, who still believes in the rule of law, has said he won't issue a pardon for his son.  
  • I've been meaning to mention this story where an off-duty Fort Worth officer was the victim of a hit and run, and ended up chasing the guy down and shooting him. Now . . . 

    • . . . local media has figured out the same officer was involved in a viral video in 2016 when he manhandled this group of people by their home for littering.  


  • Grand Prairie quick hits (?):
    • This guy has been the superintendent for only three months and is now suspended? I want to know what's going on, too, and I don't even care about Grand Prairie ISD.

    • We've got to see the mayor of Grand Prairie over the last couple of days due to a water issue, and my first impression was that he was very wheels off. But the man has grown on me.

  • Look at who wrote this article for D Magazine.


  • The MAGA and West Texas Oilmen PAC fanboys in the Texas legislature are after the House Speaker for trying to impeach Ken Paxton, so Phelan has done this:
  • News media development: I like this, but why start with Waco?
  • Trump quick hits:
    • Trump gave the most I'm-Winging-This-Like-A-Fake-Book-Report answer ever yesterday to a question about affordable child care. Here's the video. Here's the text: 

    • Oh, good lord:
    • Melanie has come out of hiding to hawk a new book in weird black and white video where she narrated it in her heavy accent.
  • The Kansas City Chiefs won their season opener last night (wild finish video here), but look what happened earlier in the day:
  • The new Dallas Observer cover story may interest those of you who are Ticket fans and/or followed the demise of The Freak:


  • 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 63 days.
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9.05.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




I might have a limited audience here, but I had come across four photos of 30 pee-wee football cheerleaders from 1971 in Bridgeport. 

  •  The way you know that school is back in session in America:


    • Who:

    • The dead:


    • The weapon:

    • Irrelevant to the shooting but predictable: The congressman for the school's congressional district in Georgia is an election denying gun nut. 

  • There's nothing worse than a prosecutor accused of hiding evidence -- especially one who won't fall on the sword.

  • Only in Texas would trying to encourage voting be considered by a governmental official to be a bad thing, and we just consider that to be perfectly normal.

     
  • Scatter-shooting all over the political map:
    • Although entirely predicable, good for her. “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”


    • Trump continues to go full racist.

      • At 9:00 p.m. last night, the richest man in the world made his 82nd post for the day. 

      • "Biden's weaponized Justice Department" continues?:

      • Barron Trump has become a college student in Manhattan.

      • The Georgia DA prosecuting Trump, who has caused the case to go on hold while questions arose whether she appointed a special prosecutor because he is her squeeze, is not helping her cause:

    • Random Texas criminal justice nugget:
    • Green Day had to bold off stage last night because of a drone threat in Detroit. Video.
    • Messenger - Above the Fold

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9.04.2024

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




This wreck shut down southbound 287 in Decatur and traffic had to be routed down 730 to Boyd then back up 114 to Rhome. And, as a result, 730 turned into bumper to bumper traffic for hours (screenshot). 

  • This is weird. It was at 12:30 p.m. at an intersection, and the deputy was in his personal vehicle and not in uniform.


    • And the suspect's escape plan was not well thought out. 

  • This event from 2022 was weird and, after this story, doesn't get any clearer. 


  • It's not major news, but the local network affiliates have been running this story of a party being broken up in Dallas.  "A neighbor recorded the home on Ivanhoe Lane after police arrived near 10:40 p.m. The video shows a seemingly endless stream of people leaving."  And 
    endless stream" is exactly the way to describe it. That was a ton of kids!

  • Remember this about the swing states: The easiest way for Trump to win is Pennsylvania + Georgia + North Carolina (NC not shown but leans heavily to Trump). The easiest way for Harris to win is Pennsylvania + Wisconsin + Michigan. Those combos would guarantee a win for either regardless of what happens in Nevada and Arizona -- assuming we don't have some unexpected safe state for either flip. 

  • I know this Texas Monthly writer is (unsurprisingly) not a a Liberally Lean reader because otherwise he would have reworked that headline. 


    • And you, dear readers, were definitely aware of this:

  • Should have put this in my wrecks bullet point list from a day or so ago.

  • Is there  somewhere I can bet money on the failure of this thing?


  • Legal (and fashion) stuff: Yesterday, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht helped swear in new clerks for this term while wearing ill-fitting and cheap pants.  He makes $204,600 a year, so you'd think he would invest in a couple of suits. 

  • Extremely legal nerdy stuff: A car's search based upon an "inventory search" was invalidated yesterday by a court of appeals. And I think the same could be said of almost every inventory search I see -- although normally the search can be justified by some alternative theory. 



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