Your Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, July 23, 2024

  • If I were into making up conspiracy theories, here’s one regarding Biden dropping out of the race. It’s a bit like House of Cards. The DNC forces that be, who forced/encouraged Biden out, arranged things so that there would be an open convention in August for their preferred candidate, which is why Biden’s first announcement didn’t include his endorsement of Harris. However, Biden was never comfortable with that because of his loyalty to Harris. So, he played along with the announcement of dropping out of the race, but on his own accord, and to the surprise of everyone, he followed up with that tweet several hours later announcing his full endorsement of Harris.
    • Again, making up conspiracy theories, I believe  California Rep. Adam Schiff’s announcement that he wanted Biden to leave the race was orchestrated by fellow Californian Rep. Speaker Pelosi. She was orchestrating the change but knew it was too strong of a message coming from herself. But, having Schiff make the announcement was a good way to test the waters and get better polling data.
  • I would be astonished if VP Harris’ running mate is not a white male. I know the party is progressive, but it’s all about balancing the ticket, and sadly, America isn’t ready for a non-white male not to appear on a ticket.
  • Nikki Haley Voters PAC Announces Support for Kamala Harris
    • Back in January of this year she said, “If Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee, we will get a President Kamala Harris. You mark my words. He cannot win a general election…He can’t get independents. He can’t get suburban women.”
  • I don’t think I’ve ever heard exscripts from a Baseball Hall of Fame Speech, but I listened to some of Adrian Beltre’s. He made sure to drop Emily Jones’ name, and that must have been a really cool moment for her.
  • LBJ daughters call Biden ‘a patriot without peer’ for dropping out. I had to look up “without peer” because I haven’t heard it used before. AI gave me a pretty good explanation.That was nice of them considering Biden postponed his planned visit to the L.B.J. Presidential Library in Austin to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act earlier this month.
  • Matthew McConaughey is talking about running for office again
  • I’ve never been a fan of WFAA’s Cynthia Izaguirre for various reasons. On the evening news last night she said, “the meltdown in the Democratic Party.” That caused one retired local anchor to tweet several interesting things:
    • “Meltdown” is a pundit’s choice – and unless Comanche Peak just scrammed, not that of a journalist. My jaw hit the floor. Wanna pick a phrase? Try “recent developments”. That was as egregiously slanted and unprofessional as anything I’ve recently heard, and maybe ever.
    • I started in TV in 1973. We had (paper) teleprompters even then. There’s always copy or a script. Anchors have always “read” the news. What changed is that very few now seem to know how to read their copy beforehand or apply any standards editing or delivering it.
    • Unless it’s a story we enterprise ourselves, we all read what other people write. I pre-read and double-checked every piece of copy I ever had in a newscast, and usually re-wrote them to put them in my voice and eliminate mistakes. So did they.
  • There’s nothing particularly revealing in this article, but a buddy and I were talking about this recently, and it’s one reason, despite its low range, I keep my 2014 Nissan Leaf – It’s becoming harder to get — and keep — a car
  • My brother attended Kansas Wesleyan on a football scholarship for a year. I haven’t thought about the college in forever so I decided to see what Wikipedia said about it. Under notable alumni, I saw this: Dennis Rader — infamous “BTK” serial killer, attended 1965-66.
  • There’s a new dance craze in case you didn’t know – Why Is Every Celeb Doing the ‘Apple’ Dance — and Why Can’t We Stop Watching Them? (And in case you didn’t know what Brat is popular)

  • I cannot adequately express my profound disappointment in the leadership of Pastors Tony and Teter of Hackberry Creek Church. I stand by certain standards and simply will not budge.
  • I can never get this right so I’m thankful for this short video:


    And here’s some related news: One in six Tory voters likely to die before the next election

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