10.04.2024

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





Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Might have missed on that one. 


  • Like the DFW media, I completely missed this fatality yesterday morning. The Messenger had it, but I didn't see it. I failed you as the most trusted newsman in the southwest proper. But what an awful week for local law enforcement. 

     



    • And it's a little bizarre he was responding to a wreck on heavily traveled 287 which involved a wreck involving a person from Bridgeport and a person from Decatur. The Messenger has that story which also involved a fatality.
  • Toilet paper crisis avoided. That's about the shortest strike that I can recall. 

  • Did all of you get out of bed at 4:55 a.m. to go look for Seth Altman? 


  • Good. She's an Insurrectionist nutcase working at the state level and admittedly would do it all again. And her sentencing hearing was wild as she argued with the judge. He finally had enough: “You are no hero . . . . You are a charlatan who used your prior position to pedal a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again” 


    • Two years after this interview, they are now both in the hoosegow. 

       
  • Everyone needs to just calm down these days. Story.

  • Every time there's a Netflix documentary released about a high profile case, some D.A. always overreacts. This happened in the Bernie case out of of East Texas as well. 


  • The guy's always been weird, but I'm not sure he's that weird. 

  • Just when I was told to worry about Haitians because they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the pets of the people that live there . . .  

  • Two high profile Kamala Harris endorsements yesterday based upon the fact that Trump is simply not an option.
    • "Donald Trump is the most dangerous presidential candidate in my lifetime. His disdain for the sanctity of our Constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him for office." - Bruce Springsteen


    • “Yes, Trump is divisive and animated solely by his own grievances but that is not why Harris must defeat him. Trump wants to destroy the system that reins him in. He is a threat to our democracy. This is the only reason any voter needs to vote for Harris.” - Liz Cheney


  • So what exactly are you trying to say?


  • 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 91 days



10.03.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts





Somewhere, he's 10 years older.


  • We always have self-fulfilling shortages.

  • How this presidential election is even a close will always be a mystery to me.   




    • And, of course, there's a ton of old stuff in yesterday's filing that the public, unfortunately, has grown numb to. Full PDF is here.

    • And how Trump has embraced the Insurrection during his campaign should be front page news every day. 

    • Trump's response last night to the new filing is below.  He will ride that lie to the bitter end. 

  • When I saw that some guy got hurt last night while roaming around an abandoned silo, I figured it was those which are in Saginaw. Nope. There are some south of downtown Fort Worth on Main Street.   Fox4Terry calls him an "urban explorer."  Videos.




  • "GREAT FALLS, Mont. — An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota." Say what?

  • So, according from an excerpt of her new book, Melania is pro-choice? 

  • We already new about this, but the story is front and center of the Star-Telegram's home page this morning. 

  • ProPublica and the New York Times have teamed up for a long article on the West Texas Oilman PACs and how they have bought their way into power.  I was surprised to see no mention of Wise County's Andy Hopper who has received at least $280,000 of oilman money to unseat incumbent Dr. Lynn Stuckey. 


  • Things are crazy in the Republican politicas when the absolute nutcase Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, Bo French, has to fact check another Republican Nazi, Lara Logan.

  • Random lawsuit out of the River Walk in San Antonio.

  • The Business Second™. "OpenAI said on Wednesday that it had completed a $6.6 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just nine months ago."

  • Jurors are really raking it in now (this actually went into effect late last year but people are always curious about it):


  • The Dallas Morning News has a piece this morning about how Jerry Jones arrives at the Cowboys practice facility in Frisco.   Video.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold