Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The first Republican presidential debate would be this week with the top 10, according to the polls, being invited to attend. 

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• Democrats on the run to stop Trump's order for Texas to redraw its congressional map in order to gain five Republican seats.
  
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• Leaving town to avoid a quorum has been a tactic forever.  Twelve Senators did it in 2019 and were nicknamed The Killer Bees. 
  
  
  
• "He got weed!"
  
  
  
• Amazingly, a brief thunderstorm that rolled through the metroplex included a burst of wind at DFW airport that set a record.
  
  
  
• We are the dumbest country.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's over. For the "it can't happen here" crowd, it’s happening here. Right now, To us. And this is just the beginning.  And this is just the beginning. 
  
   
  
  
  
• When Trump said the he was going to bring down prescription drug prices by "1,500%" a couple of weeks ago, I thought it was bad.  But we've now learned there is no one around him which will correct him because he said the same thing again last weekend in two different interviews. 
  
  
  
• The New York tabloid opens up shop in California.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If anyone takes offense to the appearance of Sydney Sweeney in a jeans ad, let me introduce you to Anna Nicole Smith.
  
  
  
• Pencil in the Evil Empire as the National Champions.  They are ranked #1 in the Coaches' Poll released yesterday.
  
  
  
• Extremely nerdy criminal law legal stuff: Last week, a Texas appellate court was faced with these questions when presented with the case of a bicyclist who was detained for driving on the wrong side of the road, and then an open container of alcohol in the bicycle's drink holder was observed: Does Texas' open container law include bicycles under the statute's broad definition of "motor vehicle"? And, if so, did the officer then have probable cause to search the rest of the bicycle for other open containers under the "automobile exception"? And, if so, does the right to that search extend to the backpack the cyclist was wearing where drugs were ultimately found? I love it.