Random Monday Morning Thoughts

That's Dallas Cowboy's Josh Brent. The jury opted for a sentence of probation, but the judge ordered 180 days in the Dallas County Jail as a condition of the probation. The probation was for 10 years so that means it should end this week.

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• A lost cause.
  
  
  
• We should of known it was over the moment he showed up with this footwear.
  
  
  
• If Kenneth Paxton thought that he would avoid a deposition in his Whistleblower Cases simply by filing a pleading admitting liability, a judge told him on Monday afternoon he was mistaken.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I don't know who the prosecutors are, but they might be as dumb as I've ever seen. This makes no sense. 
  
  
  
• Trump had a stellar weekend:
• He wants full immunity and, if a president goes "rogue", there's nothing you can do about it.  Video
  
  
  
• He resurrected his "very fine people" line as he referred to the worst dictators in the world. Video.
  
  
  
• Trump then confused Nancy Pelosi with Nikki Haley and said that Haley was responsible for January 6th.  He's getting worse. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™ from Friday afternoon.
  
  
   
• NFL Update.
  
  
  
• Sports Illustrated is all but dead after every employee was laid off on Friday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A 20 year old amateur golfer won a PGA event this weekend. But because of his amateur status, he can't collect the winnings of  $1.5 million. (The last person to do it was Phil Mickelson in 1991.)