Random Friday Morning Thoughts

I looked up what happened with that case.  The prosecutor accepted the case, a jury actually convicted the man, but the Michigan Supreme Court overturned it. The whole ordeal took five years. 

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• Say what? As usual, the story doesn't have any more facts than the headline.  
  
  
  
• It was 6-3.  Everyone should have seen this coming. 
  
  
  
  
• Since when has the federal FOIA applied to state entities?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A big Business Second™ this morning. Who would have ever thought a company that mailed DVDs would become this media behemoth. (But Trump might kill this deal, using antitrust grounds to do it, at the urging of his buddy who will be upset with this deal.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure why it took the controversy over the Second Strike to call attention to the bombings in general.   I think all of the 21 first strikes, and the 87 people who are dead because of them, is the problem.  But the U.S. did it again yesterday. 
   
• And you think the Administration is worried? Nope.  The Secretary of Defense was doing a tap dance yesterday afternoon.
  
• In a news conference regarding the arrest in the the D.C. Pipe Bombs case yesterday, it was very short on facts but big on irony.  I can't believe Kash Patel led with this: 
  
  
  
  
• This happened yesterday. They truly are the gang that can't indict straight.
  
  
  
• Are you telling me he didn't think this through?
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Dallas D.A. news. 
  
• Weekend read. (Gift link)   The man who caused school vouchers to be ramrodded through Texas. 
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Sports: The biggest game in UNT's history will be on ABC tonight. 
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 155 days.