Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

"The Love Ranch owner, Dennis Hof, has said Odom arrived on October 10th for a four-day stay and spent $75,000"

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• The victims in the fiery plane crash north of Saginaw on Sunday have been identified as John Daly, 75, of Fort Worth and Michael Daly, 46, of Argyle
• This death of this young girl from Rockwall happened in Terrell a couple of months ago but, as typical these days, the news is just now hitting the metroplex. Isn't 12 a little young for scuba diving? 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Brian Wilks, 40, and Sara Wilks, 37, of Houston were arrested after "witnesses confirmed the 6-month-old baby had been left alone for nearly an hour beneath a tent while the parents walked down the beach with three other children."  The beach was just east of Destin. 
  
  
  
  
• Also in Florida.
  
  
  
• How this moment yesterday barely makes the news is mind-blowing.  The President of the United States telling the AG who to prosecute live on TV while the FBI director looks on. We've never been here before.  It's over.
  
  
  
  
• So in addition to blowing up boats thousands of miles away, we've got the CIA in Venezuela and we are considering bombing the country outright -- both which Trump confirmed yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
• From the Wall Street Journal today:
  
  
  
• But don't worry about little things like this because there are no guardrails:
  
  
  
• How many times have we've seen Kristi Noem in these propaganda pro-Trump "public service announcements" on TV? A bunch. And it has cost you $51 million. 
  
  
  
• Business Second™. There's a lot more going on out there than what we know about. 
  
  
  
• Random Cowboy history note: Old-timers remember when you would keep your fingers crossed during the week hoping for a last minute Cowboys sell-out so the game wouldn't be blacked out locally. (Wise County folks had the option of "turning" their antennas towards Wichita Falls in hopes of picking up the CBS signal from up there.)  And the Cowboys were 4-0 going into this game against Green Bay: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Since I'm not sure I understand the Texas Tech "pocket knife" controversy, I'll just go with this random image I saw while reviewing a Rhome Police dashcam video yesterday. I think the brief appearance by the truck was related to last year's Liberty Bowl appearance:
  
  
  
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