Random Monday Morning Thoughts

A five shot lead headed into the back nine fell apart in 2016.

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• Horner trial updates: 
• It's certainly national news now.  Not always accurate, but it is a national story.
  
  
  
• Friday witness: A G-Man was in charge of the search of the Fed Ex vehicle. 
  
  
  
• Screenshot of the interior cameras from the abduction van which will record the audio of the killing. 
  
  
  
• The actual abduction van. 
  
  
  
• Former Wise County Sheriff’s Office crime scene investigator Alise Amey testified.
  
  
  
• An unnecessarily combative Sgt. Brett Yaro of the sheriff's office was the last witness on Friday to testify. 
  
  
  
• DFW quick hits:
• The headline is all that we know. 
  
  
  
• "According to a police report, the victims are two women and three men ranging from 20 to 24 years old."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "One worker has died and a second worker has been critically injured in an electrocution incident while working on a pole at a gas station in the 5800 block of E. Berry Street, FWFD confirms."
  
  
• She was fired on a vote to 4-3 by the city council.  I wouldn't want to be a city manager. 
  
• Trump continues to deteriorate into madness: 
• "Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy." He picked a fight with the Pope? The Pope??!!
  
  

  

  
  
• Then he posted this image depicting himself as Jesus last night. Let the anti-Christ discussion begin -- with good reason.  (The changes he made from the "original" image are also weird.) 
  
  
• The War: 
• As "peace" talks with Iran fell apart on Saturday night, Trump was at a UFC fight.
  

  

  
  
• Sunday morning: Trump oddly announced that the entire Strait of Hormuz would be blockaded by the U.S.   So it was going to be a blockade of Iran's blockade? 
  
• Then he walked that back later and said the blockade referred only to Iranian ports and not the Strait. It still doesn't make any sense. 
  
• The Trump of Hungary was defeated by a landslide in an election despite the real Trump's full support. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
• Trump has tricked up his proposed arch again.  It now stands 250 feet tall. No one asked for this. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Official Liberally Lean Girl is in rehab.

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Happy opening day Rangers fans pic.twitter.com/XNLyPJHTDy

— Dallas Texas TV (@DallasTexasTV) April 3, 2026

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NEW: Driver rams school bus while kids are actively crossing the street then flees in Mississippi

Yesterday, just before 8:00 a.m. on Campbell Drive in Hattiesburg, Mississippi a silver sedan rammed into the front of a stopped school bus while children were actively crossing… pic.twitter.com/XxsvTCa7NW

— The Facts Dude 🤙🏽 (@Thefactsdude) April 8, 2026

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Sprinters have a crash landing at the finish line, a breakdown pic.twitter.com/wUiBr7W2DD

— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) April 1, 2026

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts

STAAR testing snafu. 

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• The Tanner Horner case continued along yesterday just as if he hadn't pled guilty at all. That is, the State is providing all the evidence that they were prepared to give just as if Horner had not pled guilty.  The reason is to be able to argue later: "Don't give him credit for pleading guilty. With the mountain of evidence we had against him, he didn't have a choice."
• Horner had a lawyer by the time a week after the arrest he decided he wanted to talk to law enforcement on his own. Yep, that is his right. 
  
  
  
• FBI Special Agent Taylor Page testified about cellular data tracking. 
  
  
  
• Bruce Sherman with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
  
  
  
• FBI Special Agent Kurt Duross testified about Athena's clothing being found by the defendant's home. 
  
  
  
  

  

  Wise County Prosecutor Michelle Deuell.

  
  
• Horner was living in the shed to the left.  Athena's clothing would be found in a junk pile in located in the middle of the photo.  
  
  
  
• His living quarters were a mess, mess, mess. 
  
  
  
• The WFAA reporter Tanya Eiserer, who provides analysis during court breaks,  is not even attempting to be objective in her coverage : "If by some miracle the jury doesn't give him the death penalty . . . . " is just one of the things she said yesterday.  She might be right, but normally they try to stay in the middle. 
  
• When lawsuits like this are filed, they make big headlines.  Not so much when they get dismissed. Story.
  
  
  
• Crazy story. Over 100 cops showed up. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Melania held a surprise statement in front of the cameras yesterday where, of all things, she decided it was a good time to distance herself from Epstein. What prompted this?  And Trump didn't even know it was going down. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Schools and hospitals destroyed in Iran. Gift link.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump weird rantings yesterday: 
• Even he is admitting the Strait is not open. 
  
  
• They better not be!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  
  
• Who cares what he's rambling about here.  The man is not well. 
  
  
  
• Dateline Weslaco, Texas.  They might want to tap the brakes on that. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™.  Inflation numbers released this morning. Uh, oh. 
  
  
  
• Bridgeport!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 281 days.