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The government shutdown was over funding for Obamacare, but the GOP finally gave up. But look at that young and thin Ted Cruz.
- Highway 287, south of Decatur and all the way to the Wise County line, is a disaster these days. There's a wreck seemingly every day.
- Early this morning, southbound traffic before and after Rhome was shut down due to a wreck(s) with a traffic backed up for miles as it was diverted off the highway.
- Last night around 9:00 p.m. a motorcycle accident south of Decatur on 287 required an emergency airlift.
- The cartoon continues. They will vote again today at 9:00 a.m. CST for a House Speaker. There's no way Jordan wins, and I don't even know why they are going through the motions. They might want to try nominating someone who didn't try to overthrow the government.
- Here's all you need to know.
- Jordan called an early morning press conference this morning. At the end of it, Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade said, "Well, I don't know what the point was."
- In the Georgia Election Stealing Attempt case against Trump and 17 of his co-conspirators, one of the biggest (and craziest) fish of all pled guilty yesterday.
- The last remaining case against Baylor because of the scandal has gone to trial in Waco. It's a Title IX case, and I'm not sure it is going very well for the Plaintiff. Interestingly, she's now a Justice of the Peace in Harris County where she was elected as a Democrat.
Yep, that's Briles. - Judge shot to death last night at his home in Maryland. Reports this morning are that police are looking for a 49 year old man who had a custody hearing before him yesterday.
- It was one of the running bits in the movie Idiocracy that all public signs were misspelled.
- Buried in the news was a legislative hearing in Austin yesterday which heard from, based upon the far-right's insistence, witnesses regarding a community called Colony Ridge near Houston. The propaganda was that it was an illegal immigration haven where crime runs wild. It all turned out not to be true.
- Wannabe stormtroopers for Trump cost taxpayers a bag of cash.
- Oh, no! My award wining business investing show on CNBC, It's All About Warehouses, People™, might be in trouble.
- Random high school score from last night: Mansfield Timberview 90, Dallas Sunset 0. Sunset had minus 24 in total yards.
- Random fact from the Rangers game last night: Astro's pitcher Ryne Stanek threw only one pitch. And he was credited with the official win.
- 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 106 days.
