1.03.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




It didn't take much to get us excited.

  • Wise County roads are already not cooperating for the new year. Moments ago:

  • The Las Vegas Cybertruck bombing update:
    • He shot himself before the vehicle blew. 


    • The amount of nutty conspiracy theories that people come up is mind-numbing. The Chairman of the Republic Party of Tarrant County asserts that someone else killed the guy and then had auto-pilot drive the vehicle to the Trump hotel: 

    • Sometimes the answer is the most obvious one:. A suicide after he was caught cheating. 
  • There are lots of horrific videos from the Bourbon Street Massacre out there if, for some reason, you want to look for them, but this one of everyone escaping the speeding truck contains no gore. And that girl with the red hair has to be thinking she's blessed. She barely made it to the sidewalk in time.

  • North Richland Hills make the news again: "A 47-year-old man died Wednesday morning, after he was booked into the in the North Richland Hills detention facility the previous day. The man, identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner as Michael Gene Knight, was arrested by Watauga police and booked into the facility at about 3:45 p.m. on New Year’s Eve."

  • What a wild image from yesterday afternoon.


  • Congress gavels in today with a vote on the House Speaker occurring at 11:00 a.m. CST when we will learn if Mike Johnson can retain his leadership role.  And CSPAN will be allowed to have additional cameras in the chamber which is great for capturing some wheels off moments (like two years ago.)



  • Oh, no! We are losing Osmonds now!


  • Fish crime! Game wardens in Travis County "located two suspects—one actively spearing black bass with a pneumatic speargun while snorkeling (a violation of state fishing regulations), and the other stationed onshore with a cooler and bag" at Lady Bird Lake in Austin. 


  • Is there any chance we are all living in some big computer simulation and are all being punked? I mean, there's no way that this is coming from the richest man in the history of the world, right?:

  • The Business Second™. Who would have thought that acting like a nut would scare off people from buying his cars?

  • Wise County's newly elected state rep is already doing stupid things. And who could this possibly benefit anyway?


  • Quite the headline. 

  • Fun upcoming Cotton Bowl fact: The first game of the year for both Texas and Ohio State next year will be against each other. 
  • Since we have a change in administrations of the Wise County Sheriff's Office, I need to reword my weekly Lauren Whitener bullet point. Until then, it has been: 5 years and 183 days.

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1.02.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



Fun little fact.

  • New Orleans updates from yesterday . . .  

    • The killer:
      • He was a 42 year old, ten-year military veteran,

         
      • He was a licensed real estate agent from 2019 to 2023.  He even had a video on YouTube where he sounds as normal as a person could be.

      • It looks like he had a misdemeanor theft over 20 years ago in Houston.  He also had a DWI at Fort Bragg Military Reservation in North Carolina in 2015 per the Washington Post.

    • He turned off of Canal Street, jumped a curb, and went around police. Video.  Normal permanent barricades had been removed for an ongoing upgrade.

       

    • Reports that there were "others involved" appear to have been overstated.  
    • The truck, rented via an auto-sharing app, was a Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck.
    • Fox News, anxious to blame illegal immigration, jumped the gun with a false report that the killer had "crossed the border" two days ago.  It then quickly retracted it. But, of course, those who care little about the truth were quick to run with that narrative:



    • The governor of Louisiana thought it would be a good idea to yuk it up and go out to a fancy dinner last night. Tone deaf. 

  • And then later in the day we had an intentional explosion of a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Vegas. The initial blast was caught on video.



    • It was full of "gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters and large firework mortars."

    • The dead suspect has been identified. What's up with the vets?




    • And there is at least some connection between the Vegas and New Orleans' events. 

  • But wait! There's more this morning as 10 teens were hit by gunfire. (But no deaths and not considered a terrorist incident.)

  • The Evil Empire flirted with disaster yesterday but survived. There was a great moment when two gals walked in front of the Longhorn kicker as he was warming up before eventually missing a last second field goal in regulation.  Video.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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1.01.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts



It was notable not only for the comeback, but the fact that Baylor's kicker almost got killed after a blocked field goal. (Video)

  • Breaking. He also opened fire on police after driving through the crowd. It happened around 3:15 a.m.  The mayor specifically called it a "terrorist attack" at the first press conference at 6:30 a.m. The police chief then said is was "intentional" and "not a DUI situation."


    • Texas plates in that photo. There seems to be some type of flag connected to the trailer hitch.
    • First video of the aftermath shows a bad and graphic scene.  On this other video, you can see people react to the gunfire which can be heard. 
    • Of course, it's normally crowded there even in the wee hours, but the Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame is set to play there tonight.
  • Four person fatality DWI crash last night as people were changing a tire in Mesquite on I-20.  Fox4Terry was on the scene. 

  • Dallas ended the year in a less than ideal fashion.  

  • I'm not sure why they went to the trouble of even doing this. 

    • If this is the reason, Zeke and Jerry must have both been drunk on NYE by noon.

  • KLTY is no more as Salem Radio wants to focus on conservative talk (like they have on 660 - The Answer) instead of Christian music. Of course, nothing says Christian-like more than angry right wing talk shows. 

  • When I first started practicing law, the entire bar was scared to death of filing frivolous pleadings -- much less those that contained outright lies.  But, once again, nothing seems to matter anymore.  Story.

  • Ken Paxton is going on a self-described "tour" because he thinks he's some kind of political rock star. (This is all about the weird issue of letting a few Texas House committees be chaired by Democrats -- something which seems to be a life or death issue to ultra-MAGA.  Below, I think he means "of incumbents" instead of "with incumbents".)

  • Legal stuff: 
    • If we could only pinpoint something that, or someone who, changed everything in America.


    • Collin County DWI stats.

    • A very detailed story about this guy. It doesn't make a lot of sense. 

  • If this is true, he'd be a fool not to take it.  When it's all said and done, it might be more than he ever makes in his NFL career (which I predict to be very, very short.) 

  • THWMISB™.

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