12.27.2024

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





They blew up Aggieland to begin renovations. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold (I forgot yesterday.)
  • That drone company based in Fort Worth is having a bad week. 

  • Musk and Ultra-MAGA got into some kind of online fight yesterday that gave me Tired Head. You can read about it here if you wish. 


  • A brief tornado targeted this postal worker near Houston yesterday. 

  • Total cases: 279.

  • A nineteen year old shot themselves in the store's bathroom last night. (Christmas always has a dark side for many, many people.)

  • You just know there's more to the story than this. 

  • Fox News love or something. 

  • That's at the Miami property they purchased for $24 million in 2021 and then gutted it for a two year renovation project. 

  • Speaking of the Aggies, they play in Vegas for their bowl game tonight (at 9:30 p.m.!)  That transition from Christmas at home to a Vegas weekend would be a beat down, but I bet they faithful show up in force. 

  • 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 176 days.

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12.26.2024

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Random collection of three.

  •  A jet crash on Christmas Day in Kazakhstan killed 398 but amazingly 29 passengers survived. Video.


  • Fox4Terry was hard at it this morning.


  • Christmas Eve was a little nutty.
    • At 3:00 in the afternoon in a residential section, a robbery left a 17 year old dead in far north Fort Worth. "Police said detectives are working this case as an attempted robbery in which both victims and suspects were shot." 



    • This is awful. Her body has still not been located.


    • House fire in Denton on Christmas Eve. Video.

  • I don't know if I can handle the next four years of this insanity.

  • The drone show that went wonky in Florida and injured a boy was put on by a company out of Fort Worth who gained a great deal of fame over the summer when they were featured on America's Got Talent. 

  • A little talked about aspect of the case is that no one knows who the subway burning victim was. 

  • Ticket fans only. Weekend host Mark Elfenbein posted that he had found a home for his new puppy in Boyd. 

  • It would have created 66 new federal judgeships to be filled "over the next three presidential terms."

  • It's the 20th anniversary of the tsunami that killed 230,000 -- still an astonishing number.

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12.24.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




♪" He's making a list . . . ." ♪

  • Breaking Travel News: For at least an hour this morning, American Airlines grounded all flights nationwide. Oh, my!


    • At around 7:00 a.m., the ground stop was lifted.

  • What's up with the matching outfits?


    • The lawyer got to go on a little bit of a mini-rant in court which I don't understand. The purpose of the hearing was to simply enter a not guilty plea, and that's it. You don't get to do performance art in Texas courts. 
  • I wonder if there is more to this.

  • The ethics report on Matt Gaetz was pretty bad, but I don't think it necessarily means his political career is over. Why? Nothing seems to matter anymore.  There is an open Senate seat in Georgia that has to be filled. Maybe he'll run.

    • But it should be disqualifying that he made his "dates" fly via Spirit Airlines.

  • The second hardest working man in show business was hard at it last night.  Side note: I still love detectives wearing white shirts and ties. 


  • Is it just me, or does North Richland Hills sure make the crime blotter quite a bit these days? Although I'm not sure that a bunch of teenagers trespassing in a rent house being renovated deserves a segment on Fox 4. 

  • The crime occurred way back in 2002.

  • This was pretty funny, and I don't think it was staged. Video.

  • Random pop culture flashbacks.
    • From Montgomery Ward catalog. That was a pretty penny back in 1968.  And you can get a heck of a TV for that price today.

    • Matlock represented Walter White of Breaking Bad (Bryan Cranston) in 1987 in a Christmas episode.

  • It's Christmas Eve. The courts are shut down. There is no Messenger Update. But here I am. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business™.

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