Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The Charleston Church shooting by Dylann Roof that left nine dead. 

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• Lot's of Israel/Iran news:
• This is quite the 180.
  
  
  
• And what's this "we" stuff that he fired off yesterday? This is all nuts.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Iran responded this morning. 
  
  
  
• But with Israel and Iran launching missiles at each other for the sixth straight days, rest assured that Trump was closely monitoring the situation last night. 
  
  
  
• Sidenote: This headline from last Friday. Jenner got out last night. Jennings is still there.
  
• He's gone from threatening deputies at a rodeo in Amarillo to threatening Iraq in the third person.
  
  
  
• Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz got heated at each other. This is pretty good: Video.

• His radio tag line as a traffic reporter used to be "We'll see ya on down the road."

• A lot going on there. 
  
  
  
• Wise County's Andy Hopper scored high on the "most conservative" scale.  But I think he would be at the bottom of the still yet-to-be released "Most likely to get passed a routine water district bill."

• The Fannin County courthouse renovation project led to the County judge, two commissioners, the project manager, and an accountant being indicted for theft and related charges.  The case was then assigned to the Dallas DA as special prosecutor.  He then dismissed all the cases for insufficient evidence. 

• Meant to post this the other day. He testified in his own defense, and the jury couldn't reach a verdict. 

• WFAA had a pretty good package last night on the awful wreck in Wise County involving the Christensen kids on Monday.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

If you think it's been rainy this Spring, it just kept coming in 2015.

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• Well, this is horrible. 
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Just Trump leaving the G7 Summit in Canada yesterday evening and casually telling 10 million people to run for their lives. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• That came after this fine moment. Video. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This Israel/Iran conflict really has MAGA split on whether Trump should be an isolationist and keep the U.S. out of it, or whether he should help Israel "finish the job". Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is firmly in the "stay out" camp.
  
  
  
• And to think this was only four months ago.
  
  
  
• On Saturday, an alert was sent out by DPS about a "credible threat" to lawmakers at the Capitol.
• Yesterday, Gov. Abbott said there had actually been a man "on the Capitol grounds with a gun."
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• DPS, at about the same time, issued a press release which says something far different. 
  
  
  
  
• It's hard to keep up, isn't it?
  
  
  
• Yesterday, Trump said that Russia, which was ejected from the G7 for invading Ukraine, should never have been kicked out. And then overnight . . . 
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• When he was mayor of Farmers Branch, Tim O'Hare cost the city $6.6 million in legal fees when he had it adopt and unconstitutional ordinance concerning immigration.  Now the costs begin for Tarrant County as O'Hare, now county judge, leads the charge of the redrawing of precinct lines on the commissioners court.
  
  
  
• "BEVERLY HILLS, Texas (KWTX) - A Beverly Hills man received an unexpected surprise when he returned home Friday to find a Bath & Body Works gift package on his porch that also contained a photo of his ex-girlfriend holding a marriage license certifying their nuptials in a ceremony he did not attend, Beverly Hills Police Chief Kory Martin said."
  
  
  
• There is no way 200 significant others could collectively keep it secret and pull this off without their husbands not knowing exactly what was going on and deciding to play along . . .
  

  

  
  
  
• Fox Business had a segment where they featured a social media post by Trump which was actually fake.
  
  
  
• Another deadline for the killing of TikTok in America , as mandated by Congress, comes in two days.  Trump, unilaterally, keeps delaying it. He plans to do so again. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Ten years ago to the day, Trump came down the golden escalator to announce his candidacy.  This was my reaction along with a caption that said the Republican race would be "over the top entertainment."

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• In one of the most disturbing assassinations in recent memory, two Minnesota state politicians were targeted in their homes in the middle of the night by a guy posing as a cop. One, and her spouse, was killed. The other, and his spouse, were injured. 
  
  
  
• And that mask the shooter wore, as captured by a doorcam, was about as creepy as you could get:
  
  
  
• And last night, after about 48 hours, he was captured in a field.
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
• And Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is a ghoul. (He's trying to make "fun" of the Minnesota governor.) 
  
  
  
• Iran and Israel bombed each other all weekend, with Israel actually suffering some hits. But make no mistake, Iran can't win this. At least by themselves.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The "No Kings" rallies (a very catchy name, by the way) appeared to have been a huge success across the nation.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Handmaid's Tale group in Fort Worth was pretty impressive. 
  
  
  
• The Denton County Sheriff went Full Bubba before the weekend: 
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, Trump's birthday parade included a slow pace, squeaky tanks, troops casually walking instead of marching, and one guy carrying a drone.   Trump had to have been displeased. If it's one thing he knows, it's what plays well on TV. This did not. 
  

  

  

  
  

  
  
  
• This involved two guys working on an underground water storage tank, and I'm not real sure what that is. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Good grief. I whiffed on my prediction on this trial.
  
  
  
• And I might have been wrong about this. But they are still trying to piece together what happened. 
  
  
  
• "All 3,820 residents from 764 apartments were safely evacuated." Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I saw this post on Saturday and started reading the comments. It took me a while to figure out that the homeowner thinks the government is starting wildfires, but that there is a secret plan to spare all homes painted blue. And the number of people on her side is jaw-dropping.
  
  
  
  
• So we have all learned over the last few years that a great percentage of our population is gullible or downright crazy. So what happens when they go on deep binges on AI where the machine confirms and encourages some oddball belief they have?  The New York Times has an incredible and frightening article about how it has already happened. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
  
• Eric Trump just announced "Trump Mobile" on the Fox Business Channel. It seems to be a grift similar to the business model of Patriot Mobile except the excess money will be pocketed instead of being spent on school board elections. 
• Texas Tech buying softball players right now through the transfer portal is something to behold.