Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Wikipedia entry. 

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• My Liberally Lean Weather Team has issued a report: They believe snow will begin in Wise County around 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and end around midnight.  This is not to be confused with the metroplex which they think is becoming very unpredictable and where a wintery mix will start much later in the day. That snow line moves slowly:

  

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• I feel sorry for those making a decision about schools. Tomorrow morning will look absolutely fine, but we know it will snow/wintery mix during the day. So do you risk opening the schools and then getting everyone home safely? And as tough as it is to predict snow/wintery mix, the conditions of the roads are a complete wildcard with the temperatures hovering around freezing. 
• A former Wise County deputy who made headlines for taking inappropriate pictures of people registering as sex offenders, is back in the Wise County Jail on a parole violation. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• With the way these fires have spread in Los Angeles overnight in areas of many, many homes, by the end of the day we are going to see a catastrophic disaster. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Wikipedia has a list of all the times that high school has appeared in movies and TV.
  
  
  
• He has left the Death Star:
  
  
  
• The Laken Riley Act was passed by the new House yesterday which will give ICE new authority. It has begun. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I don't know how to handle Trump over the next four years. His press conference yesterday was an insane rant where he claimed he's renaming the Gulf of Mexico, threatened to invade Greenland and Panama, suggested Hezbollah was at the Jan. 6 riot, claimed Jack Smith had "executed people" and ranted about windmills
  
  
  
• He's a cartoon. Video.
  
  
  
• But of all his idiocy, let's remember this part of the press conference for future reference: Grocery prices will come down "very fast."
  
  
  
• She's nuts.  
  
  
  
• Trump has gone (PDF) to the United States Supreme Court this morning to try to stop his criminal sentencing set for Friday in Manhattan -- where he will get time served. Let's see if they get involved once again. 
  
  
  
• I can't take it. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I'm sorry. She's getting paid what to do what?!
  
  
  
• I'm surprised at this. He was originally charged with Intoxication Manslaughter because his blood-alcohol concentration was 0.147.  He pled guilty to the lesser charge of Manslaughter, received 10 years deferred probation, with 150 days in jail as a condition -- but he gets to choose when he serves it.  The victim's family was not in favor of the deal. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Mike McCarthy's contract officially ends today.  He is no longer receiving a paycheck. Today, he is as much the coach of the Dallas Cowboys as I am. (There is a 7 day "exclusive" period for the Cowboys to negotiate with him if they want to.)

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Wait a second! I came up with the idea to renovate the Wise County Courthouse? The same courthouse that is currently being renovated? And to think I've been praising County Judge J.D. Clark all this time. They'll probably name it after me once they read this. 

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• I've got the highly compensated Liberally Lean Weather Team in the lab going over computer models.  I told them to get me a snow estimate and that they better not screw this up.  Developing . . . . 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The peaceful transfer of power has once again been restored.  It really isn't that hard to do if you're not a nut. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• A plane crashed into a backyard in California yesterday with remarkably little damage.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "JetBlue said the plane had most recently flown to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from New York JFK Airport with the flight number 1801."
  
  
  
• Meta/Facebook is cozying up to Trump like nobody's business.
  
  
  
• But wait, there's more. Facebook announced this morning that it is going to be like X with no "fact checkers."   X is already like InfoWars with its avalanche of conspiracy posts. Great. Just great. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• They specifically sucked up to Trump during the announcement. They even made the announcement on Fox News.  The change was made, they said, because of Trump's "commitment to free expression" Huh?! He literally wants to shutdown TV networks that criticize him. 
  
  
  
• An example of Trump's "commitment to free expression" yesterday:
  
  
  
• This is actually surprisingly funny when you see it. Video.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I wonder if we are going to have the American version of The Diary of Anne Frank? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump might actually just be crazy.  What's next? Rolling tanks into Poland?
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Junior will also become an "equity owner." I don't know if I can handle four more years of stuff like this.
  
  
  
• Unethical prosecutor news. Gift link.   
  
  
  
• When the new DA in Houston took office on January 1, 2015, he didn't know his law license was suspended because he had failed to pay a late fee to the State Bar.  He has since fixed it.   

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The civility of ten years ago seems impossible now. 

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• The weather outside reminds me of the famous words of Michael Irvin. 
  
  
  
• The new Wise County Sheriff's Office top staff: Chief Deputy is Eric Debus.  Former Decatur Chief of Police Rex Hoskins will oversee the Support Services Division. Captain Todd Taylor will oversee the Patrol and Criminal Investigation’s Divisions. And I think everyone is sporting new uniform colors. 
  
  
  
• This story is about Rhome.  Apparently they aren't posting city announcements on Facebook any longer but instead using something called GoGov.
  
  
  
• But this part of the story contained a very confusing quote from a city official. 
  
  
  
• Now make it Day 14. 
  
  
  
• Trump is not happy about the flags still being half-staff by the time the inauguration rolls away. 
  
  
  
• Those are some pretty nice homes to have a body just appear in the lake behind them.  No one knows who the deceased is. 
  
  
  
• Happy January 6th to all the "patriots." If you would have told me on this day four years ago that Trump would be re-elected after that carnage, I would have thought you were crazy. Instead, it was the country who went crazy by putting him back in office. And I'll never understand it until the day I die. But let's get those egg prices down, right?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• No, she's not "forced." She's willing doing her constitutional duty without being an election denier. 
  
  
  
• "Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper." (Explained: Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman (ChatGPT) giving Trump's alter money, The LA Times owner (who blocked the paper's Kamala Harris endorsement) putting on lipstick, and a defeated or dead ABC/Disney which settled the Trump defamation lawsuit.)
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Kudos to the New York Times for tracking down the history of the subway burn victim. Gift link.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Random post. I saw this on Twitter from a guy bragging that he was able to very cheaply create a replacement part with a 3D printer. That's great, but its black appearance would remind me daily that I was too cheap to spend $34 to get a matching knob. 
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: This was a crazy story on the front page of the Dallas Morning News yesterday about the U.S. Attorney's office in Fort Worth.  A federal prosecutor, Nicole Hammond, was slow to turn over evidence in a criminal case and had to take the stand to explain herself. She said (1) that “I feel very unwell . . . . And it’s apparent that my perception is not great" (2) that she "felt misled" by and agent in connection with the cases' evidence, and (3) that she thought her work computer had been "tampered" with. Judge Reed O’Connor didn't believe her and banished her from practicing in the Northern District for a year. She has since left the U.S. Attorney's Office.
  
  
  
• Sports photos from the weekend:
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• Kim Mulkey's wild (and unflattering) outfit.
  
  
  
• Cowboys defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, 68, got engaged to Katarina Miketin, 42.
  
  
  
• Ticket radio news: After 30+ years, the Musers morning show is cutting back from 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. to a new length of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.