Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

This occurred after reports that the Waco Twin Peaks Shootout had its origins in an assault that occurred at the Toy Run the year before. 

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• The local capital murder case looks like it will get lots of media coverage once the trial starts up in April.  This was from yesterday: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Lots of 17 year olds mentioned here: "A 17-year-old male was killed and another 17-year-old was injured; one 17-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with capital murder." The story actually used the phrase "drug deal gone bad."
  
  
  
  

•  Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Mary Rebecca "Becky" Hill pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, perjury and misconduct in office. She was sentenced to three years probation. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We are never going to see the footage of the second strike, are we? 
  
  
  
• Didn't President Biden get roasted for trying to influence social media companies? 
  
  
  
• Tariff's are costing the U.S. taxpayer in more ways than one: 
  
  
  
• The Secretary of Agriculture went full Orwellian yesterday afternoon. 
  
• David Ellison's Paramount launched a hostile takeover of Warner in an effort to out deal Netflix's bid. Oh, and this little nugget seems big: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said. Trump has told people close to him that he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes to CNN programming."
  
  
  
• As is this nugget: "Three Middle East sovereign-wealth funds and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are among the financial backers of Paramount’s bid." 
  
  
  
• We are going full North Korean with a little racism thrown in.  Story. 
  
  
  
• Texas has a weird "resign to run law" which can get an officeholder kicked out of office if he announces that he is running for a different office with more than 1 year and 1 month left on his current term. But this is a bold move by the Lubbock County Judge to unilaterally decide a commissioner violated that law, and seems to be a stretch of whether the commissioner ran afoul of it at all.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
•  Legal nerdy stuff. If a Supreme Court justice asked you to name, off the top of your head, a case which got overruled after it had been on the books for 95 years or more, could you do it? Transcript from yesterday:
  
  
  
• Jasmine Crockett won't win, but that was a baller of an ad she fired off yesterday.