11.15.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




From the 11/14/14 cover of the Star-Telegram. It occurred to me that the regular season of high school football is over for this year, we didn't even sniff the cold. 

  • It seems not too long ago I used to joke about America turning into Idiocracy.  We are there.  An anti-vaccine nutcase is the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Re: The Attorney General pick. If you think anyone cares about this in MAGA world, you are kidding yourself. 

  • I've seen some people say, "There's no way these people will be confirmed by the Senate."  Those people are delusional. Do you not understand how this is going to work? It will either be (1) the Senate confirms them because they fear Trump's wrath, (2) they can't confirm them in good faith but take the easy way out by allowing recess appointments, or (3) if all that fails, Trump will declare a National Emergency because of the border "crisis" and name them acting department heads anyway.  It's over. You wanted to "blow it all up"? Congratulations. It has happened. 
  • No way!  The dirty Libs decided to rig only these two elections!

  • This meeting was on Monday. What in the world is going on?


  • It looks like Bridgeport's own, Lake Worth Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian, had to deal with his first ugly in-house incident. And he quickly fired the guy back in July. 

  • This fight tomorrow night is all such a scripted, made-up bit.  Tyson slapped Paul at the weigh-in yesterday. That was as predictable as the sun rising. And I love how the ring girls in the background had been warned all of this was coming so as to not even break from their smiling pose.

  • The Texas high school championship games, for years on Bally's, will now be on the same "channel" which is now named after a gambling company. Seems weird. 

  • Look at C.D. Lamb just quietly helping a family and hoping no one would find out about it! Wait, I'm being told that "As her family arrived at Tom Thumb in Deep Ellum, so did someone else. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dallas and Tom Thumb to surprise Gonzales’ family with a pre-Thanksgiving shopping spree." Oh, and let's alert the media as well. 

  • I don't follow local volleyball, but I do know this is a heck of boxscore for the Decatur Lady Eagles to advance to the state tourney last night: 25-11, 23-25, 25-19, 24-26, 15-13. Here's video of the final point. 
  • The Wise County Sheriff's Office still hasn't fixed there jail database report. 

  • 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 133 days.

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11.14.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




The 2014 bi-district game between Decatur and Stephenville was a wild one. Stephenville tied the game on the very last play of regulation. Then, in the fourth overtime, Stephenville won by converting a 4th and 22 for a TD, and then winning it outright on the mandated 2-point conversion by a halfback pass. 

  • This is a five alarm fire for democracy unlike we have ever seen in our history.  I was waiting for the the Attorney General appointment -- without question the most important one Trump would make - and I feared it would be a dangerous one, but I didn't think it was going to be this stunningly dangerous.  
     


    • Someone called me "hysterical" for writing last week that I would be very concerned if I were Jack Smith or Letitia James or any of the other Trump prosecutors.   Well, I'm already at the "I told you so phase." 

    • Under Gaetz, who has no legal experience as either a prosecutor or a defense attorney and basically none as a practicing lawyer, he would serve as Trump's attack dog in the Justice Department which would no longer have its historical independence.  Instead, it would be lead by someone serving as Trump's personal lawyer following insane edicts from the füher without questioning them, and having all the power of the federal government behind him. 
    • I cannot stress enough how insane this is. 
    • Get ready for political round-ups.  
  • Heck, that pick over-shadowed what would otherwise be a shocking pick in the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard, a Russian sympathizer, who will be the director of national intelligence. And her qualifications are just the same as others: Loyalty to Trump. 



  • Surreal moment yesterday.

    • Afterwards, Trump met with Republicans in the House.  Uh, he wasn't joking. I'm serious. He's not joking:

  • Told ya. 

    • Cornyn is up for election again in two years. I bet AG Ken Paxton runs against him. Flashback: 

  • Out of place random thought: A lot of "Say What?" in the news this week. Add this one.  

  • This, which was announced moments ago, is glorious. 

  • Oh, my.  This is a pretty wild story.  


  • Thank God for new incoming Wise County rep Andy Hopper. I was so tired of getting pulled over going to work and having a vaccine injected into me by a deputy.  Oh, and welcome back polio and measles to your schools. 

  • Random flashback to July, 2022.

  • The Business Second™.

  • Don't do that. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold
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11.13.2024

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts






Found this from an old post. It was from the first ever Bridgeport Index published in 1910. Don't worry about that bank, they said, if they rounded up every cent they had there would be $187,000

  • I saw some pundits last night and this morning saying that the Senate might not confirm this talk show host for one of the most complicated jobs in the world. Are you kidding me? They will rubber stamp anything Trump wants. Plus, Trump's already told the Senate that he wants recess appointments so that he doesn't need their approval at all. 


  • That story overshadowed a bigger story that broke in the afternoon.  Now Trump wants to make sure the military is only full of yes-men. Like wanting to bypass the Senate, it's all about consolidation of  complete and absolute power in one branch.  


  • Also announced last night: A made-up department which requires two chiefs and is named the "Department of Government Efficiency" has a very Monty Python feel to it.

  • This guy's influence is getting weird. 

  • Get ready. It's the beginning of modern day concentration camps. And private prisons will make money off of it (of course.) 

      

  • No. He's not the right kind of American. 

    • Ted Cruz even turned on him (again) this morning. 

  • Predictable breaking news from the Times this morning. 



  • A Baptist minister will be ambassador to Israel.  You think he'll care about the carnage that Israel is doing to Gaza or its incursions into the West Bank? He has said, "There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.”


  • With "little Marco" Rubio nominated to be Secretary of State, there are strong rumors floating around that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will appoint Laura Trump in his place as a Florida senator. And look who weighed in on it: 

  • A bullet of point about sports seems quant. But I'll do it anyway: This was a wild experiment in the 1980s. Notre Dame chose a high school coach with no college experience to lead the Fighting Irish.  I knew it didn't work out well, but he actually had a winning record (barely) over four years. 


  • Didn't I just say that Democracy dies gradually, then suddenly? 

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