Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

And it wasn't. 

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• "A federal judge in Fort Worth declared a mistrial in the case of nine [Alvarado] ICE detention center shooting defendants Tuesday in response to an attorney's shirt emblazoned with a 'politically charged message.' The shirt — worn by Maricela Rueda's defense attorney MarQuetta Clayton — bore black and white images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm and other people and scenes from the civil rights movement."  Story (which has some more gold in it.)
  

  

  She had turned the shirt inside out at this point.

  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. (Not that anything matters anymore.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm not real sure they should have been all excited about a random glove found two miles away anyway. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This seems significant. Tarrant County after the first day of early voting: 
  
  
  
• If case you missed the weird video of Robert F. Kennedy and Kid Rock working out together, here you go. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This occurred on the 1974 anniversary of someone stealing a military helicopter and landing it on the White House lawn, being shot at 300 times, and surviving. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I don't thing the Kalshi prediction market will take odds on which way she will vote.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I spoke too soon yesterday. 
  
  
  
• Imagine doing this in 2020 and, when you finally decide to run for Congress, have Trump endorse your opponent this week. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Warehouses are still hot.
  
  
  
• The head of MLB's player's union is out of a job for allegedly  having an affair with a union employee who just happened to be his sister-in-law.
  
  
  
• My always shaky retirement "plans" in Costa Rica aren't helped by an American getting murdered close to one of my favorite places there. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Back then, I thought scores like this were an anomaly.  Now look at the first bullet point below. 

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• Last night Wise County girls bi-district results:
• Paradise score.
  
  
  
• Decatur beat Carter Riverside, 109-13.
• Bridgeport beat Dunbar, 90-23.
• Fear is tool of censorship.
  
  
  
• Dateline Pawtucket, Rhode Island.  A trans guy with a Nazi "SS" tattoo (insert question mark over our heads) killed his wife and one of his kids during a high school hockey game. ( Video from inside at the time shots were fired.  More direct angle video here.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Monday started off with a bang.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This whole case has always been weird.  And if I'm reading the story correctly, the federal government is trying all nine of them at the same time. The trial starts today.
  
  
  
• Story. The defense lawyer's website is WeNotGuilty.com
  
  
  
• That's quite the headline. 
  
  
  
• Wait until he finds out about eminent domain.
  
  
  
• A victory which will probably be short-lived.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The U.S. blew up another boat in the Caribbean last weekend, and no one hardly noticed. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

"Even after Justice Antonin Scalia did not respond to a knock at the door of his suite at the Cibolo Creek Ranch at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, John B. Poindexter, the property’s owner, thought little of it."

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• Tanner Horner jury selection progress (from the Star-Telegram): 
• "About 57 individuals out of a pool of 300 were omitted Jan. 29 after indicating they’d already made up their minds about Horner’s innocence or guilt. The 243 who made the cut filled out an 18-page questionnaire, which attorneys used [last week] as the basis for their examination."
• "This phase of the selection process is expected to take several days. Presiding Judge George Gallagher said they will narrow down the jury pool to around 55 people, who will return March 31 for the final selection."
• After a man allegedly stabbed his mother to death in Decatur last week, the same thing happened in north Fort Worth over the weekend. And in a nice neighborhood identified as 4800 Cargill Circle.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Dateline: Collin County.  Story.  (PDF of jury verdict form here.) I'm not sure I understand this whole thing. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "As officers tried to execute the warrants, the suspect opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon, sheriff officials say. One Wood County deputy was shot multiple times, and a DPS trooper was also struck, officials said."  Side note: It's odd for a trooper to be serving warrants. 
  
  
  
• I see it all the time where someone receieves a pretty fair sentence but they appeal the verdict anyway seeking a new trial. This guy received 23 years in prison in his first trial.  Upon retrial, which happened last week, a jury gave him 40 years. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Nancy Guthrie "updates":
• They searched a home and towed a car on Friday night, and it all led to nothing.
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• And Savannah Guthrie is understandably looking beaten down in a new message last night.'
  
  
  
• Big Brother on steroids. "Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests, the government officials said." (Gift link.)
  
  
  
  
• Election warnings are over the place: 
• After claiming she has the authority to identify “vulnerabilities” in the election system and implement “mitigation measures” to make sure local and state elections are “run correctly", Kristi Noem said this on Friday: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This doesn't even get a headline.
  
  
  
• This one included one of the dumbest and confusing statements ever. Trump says he's searching out "the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated."
  
  
  
• Probably would have thought twice before buying that. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• More details are emerging about the planned concentration camps. 
  
  
  
• What could go wrong? Story.
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: First they came for Roundup, then they came for Pam.
  
  
  
• Sports oddities from over the weekend:
• I didn't think this was possible. Just having the opportunity to pull is off (bases loaded three times and coming up to bat) seems astronomical. 
  
  
  
• This is a softball score.  (And it ended on the run rule after five innings.)
  
  
  
• Heck of a photo of a foul that led to a brawl and a suspension.
  
  
  
•  Maybe we should rethink Presidents Day.