Random Friday Morning Thoughts

I forget how much carnage was routinely put on the front page of the Messenger for a couple of years back then. They briefly had.a different owner than long-term Decatur media mogul Roy Eaton. 

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• I guessed that the Medical Examiner was the source of the headline below, but I was wrong. That's the police with a hot opinion even before the ME got to see the body. That's all we know right now.
  
  
• They didn't boot her because she's a QAnon crazy but instead because, in part, she was mean to Lauren Boebert.
  
  
  
• This kind of treatment of the Official Liberally Lean Girl is unacceptable. 
  
  
  
• Elon vs. Zuckenberg. Twitter vs. Threads. Full letter.  Is it ok to hope that both lose?
  
  
  
• Look out! There's been a big jump in mortgage interest rates in the last seven days. We've even got conflicting headlines as to just how how they hit yesterday afternoon. The 6.81% comes from Freddie Mac. The 7.22% number comes from a private monitoring firm.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump's co-defendant in the Mar-a-Lago documents case was finally arraigned in federal court yesterday once he found a lawyer to represent him at the hearing. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Uh, here is some of the new lawyer's past advertising.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Here's the door dash tipping video that everyone was talking about yesterday. Language warning. Story about it is here. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Texas is back!
  
  
  
• NFL Training camps start later this month and no one yet wants Zeke Elliott. 
• Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 4 years and 3 days.