Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

"The Love Ranch owner, Dennis Hof, has said Odom arrived on October 10th for a four-day stay and spent $75,000"

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• The victims in the fiery plane crash north of Saginaw on Sunday have been identified as John Daly, 75, of Fort Worth and Michael Daly, 46, of Argyle
• This death of this young girl from Rockwall happened in Terrell a couple of months ago but, as typical these days, the news is just now hitting the metroplex. Isn't 12 a little young for scuba diving? 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Brian Wilks, 40, and Sara Wilks, 37, of Houston were arrested after "witnesses confirmed the 6-month-old baby had been left alone for nearly an hour beneath a tent while the parents walked down the beach with three other children."  The beach was just east of Destin. 
  
  
  
  
• Also in Florida.
  
  
  
• How this moment yesterday barely makes the news is mind-blowing.  The President of the United States telling the AG who to prosecute live on TV while the FBI director looks on. We've never been here before.  It's over.
  
  
  
  
• So in addition to blowing up boats thousands of miles away, we've got the CIA in Venezuela and we are considering bombing the country outright -- both which Trump confirmed yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
• From the Wall Street Journal today:
  
  
  
• But don't worry about little things like this because there are no guardrails:
  
  
  
• How many times have we've seen Kristi Noem in these propaganda pro-Trump "public service announcements" on TV? A bunch. And it has cost you $51 million. 
  
  
  
• Business Second™. There's a lot more going on out there than what we know about. 
  
  
  
• Random Cowboy history note: Old-timers remember when you would keep your fingers crossed during the week hoping for a last minute Cowboys sell-out so the game wouldn't be blacked out locally. (Wise County folks had the option of "turning" their antennas towards Wichita Falls in hopes of picking up the CBS signal from up there.)  And the Cowboys were 4-0 going into this game against Green Bay: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Since I'm not sure I understand the Texas Tech "pocket knife" controversy, I'll just go with this random image I saw while reviewing a Rhome Police dashcam video yesterday. I think the brief appearance by the truck was related to last year's Liberty Bowl appearance:
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

This is from the front page of the Star-Telegram, and I was surprised Taylor Swift was referred to as "the world's biggest pop star" even back then. Swift had one show the following Saturday at AT&T Stadium with the attendance announced at 62,630. 

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• Oh, my. 
  
  
  
• That's a heck of a photo even before you notice the helicopter rescuing people off the roof.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bridgeport's own puts out an APB for a dog owner.  (And kudos for referencing a very obscure Health and Safety Code provision for the alleged crime.)
  
  
  
• Another day, another press release by Paxton. Probably the only thing the developers are guilty of is being Muslim in Texas. 
  
  
  
• Update: After contacting police yesterday afternoon, she was identified as a 35 year old woman who lived in the area. She told them she was uninjured and that the incident involved her and her 22 year old boyfriend. He was promptly arrested.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We're doomed. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Disturbing new footage has been released of Cody Balmer — the man who broke into Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s home and set it ablaze. He was sentenced to prison yesterday.  There he is trying to kick in an interior door in to get to the sleeping family.
  
  
  
• Insanity. "The U.S. military killed six alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said, raising further questions about his legal authority to use lethal force against vessels suspected of transporting illicit narcotics."
  
  
  
• Four bodies were returned by Hamas, but there is a problem. And with Hamas carrying out executions of rival gang members in broad daylight, its just a matter of time before Israel resumes its attacks.  
  
  
  
• A "movement" built around America First and Anti-Big Government is a little difficult to understand sometimes. Let's give away $20 billion and block reporters from finding out how the Department of Defense spends all of its billions?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The grift never ends. 
  
  
  
• There was a memorial in the Rose Garden yesterday for Charlie Kirk. And Trump thought it was a good idea to say that he he dodged his sniper's bullet better than Kirk? 
  
  
  
• Legal stuff (kinda): Two sentences from this story in the Dallas Morning News today.
  
  
  
• "Nationally prominent Texas plaintiff’s trial lawyer Mikal Watts, who has successfully sued some of the biggest companies in the world for wrongful death and personal injuries, is taking on his first defense client: Camp Mystic and its owners. Watts said Monday that he is officially representing pro bono the Eastland family and the Christian girls summer camp that they have operated for decades in any potential litigation resulting from the July flooding tragedy"
• "Watts said that no lawsuits have been filed so far naming Camp Mystic or the Eastlands as defendants."
• The average price for a new car is now over $50,000.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Before she was a State Senator and before she filed for divorce, Angela Paxton would sing "I'm a pistol packin' momma, and my husband sues Obama" in front of groups like the "Golden Corridor Republican Women's Club."

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• Trump took a lot of time to praise her yesterday as she sat in the audience.  And he actually said, “She’s got $60 billion in the bank.” 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• That's DFW airport.  And the guy seemed to be in no hurry to shut it off. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dateline Wichita, Kansas. This is weird. Apparently the video comes from a house that was unrelated to either person who are sought. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Age 55.  I don't think a lot of people on ATVs understand they can actually flip. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• With the Constitution seemingly helpless to send them home, being fat did. 
  
  
  
• A middle of the night rant because he didn't like the photograph. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The is a heck of a lot better headline that what Alec Baldwin normally finds himself in.
  
  
  
• Sports reporter Pablo Torre, who is really good at his job, teased his interview with Mark Cuban that comes out today . . . .
  
  
  
  
• I think it only caused "chaos" because the play-by-play guy and cameramen didn't know the rule that it's not a catch if it bounces off the wall. And cutting away from the catcher running to third base for the second forced out at third really messed it up. Video.  Note: The umpires knew what was going on the whole time. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• With all the joy of the release of the twenty Israeli hostages yesterday, we still need to remember that approximately 60,000 civilians have been killed in Gaza. And those who survived are looking at a decimated landscape.