Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Fourteen were killed in San Bernadino. Then-candidate Trump said afterwards, for the first time, that he was calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."

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• This is a little wild. Casey Hall, the Montague County DA who was convicted in May in Denton County for theft related claims occurring while she was in office, was back in jail on Monday.  She had received a sentence of one year "to do" in a State Jail but had appealed the case and was out on bond. But after not paying the court reporter for the transcript (!), the Fort Worth Court of Appeals dismissed the case. The dismissal became final late last month, so now it looks like she is back in jail to begin her sentence. (h/t to my big sky country correspondent for the heads up.)
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth continues to change the facts regarding his involvement with the Second Strike and now blames the "fog of war" for him ever saying anything to the contrary
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, come on.  SS? 
  
  
  
  
• And to think Trump used the nickname "Sleepy Joe Biden."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 71 million views. Here's the video she was referring to. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm no PR expert, but I don't think it's smart to attack one of the most popular singers in the world. 
  
  
  
• One of the biggest stories under the radar right now is how the Justice Department is agressively collecting voter data from blue states.  Mark my word, they are going to use it to later falsely claim the elections in those states aren't valid. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm no Adam Smith, but I don't think giving away money is a way to teach kids about capitalism. 
  
  
  
• That ballroom just keeps getting bigger. 
  
  
  
• Random Wichita Falls paper front page headline and photo.  The kids really dressed up for the playoff game. 
  
  
• The college football playoffs are just about set. Tech will get a bye with a win this week, and they will certainly be in the playoffs even with a highly unlikely loss to BYU.  But a BYU win, making them the a conference champion, would guarantee the Cougars a spot in the playoffs and Notre Dame would get squeezed out altogether.  The other thing to watch is this week's conference game of Tulane vs. North Texas. The winner will get the 12th spot.  The ACC champion will get the 11th spot. 
  
  
  
  
  
• It's college football national signing day which means the name Max Emfinger pops into my head. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

I posted that on 12/3/15.  Then six years later this happened: "Sep 29, 2021 — Texas oil-and-gas mogul Christopher A. Faulkner has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of millions of dollar."

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•  You don't see this every day. 
  
  
  
• This wreck occurred in Uptown where the driver's Tesla went airborne and landed on top of a Porsche driven by a 29 year old lawyer who worked at Jackson and Walker. Side note: The arrested man, who grew up in Highland Park, had his mother in the car with him. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We have a brewing story regarding this death in Austin which occurred after the Aggie/UT game on Friday. 
  
  
  
• Yay! 287 will probably be an Interstate! Boo! This last sentence: "The projected construction timeframe is 10 years, with work potentially beginning in 2041 and ending around 2050."
  
  
  
• And you know one of the ways she was identified? "The defendant's probation officer observed the video, and immediately recognized Trevino,." Oof. And another odd fact?: She's just 17.  Second side note: The video of her rambling will make you fear the future.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• She's gone national. She will be an anchor with ABC's overnight news show, World News Now. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The White House refined their story yesterday.
  
  
  
• And that was followed up with Hegseth throwing an Admiral under the bus. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump has made approximately 400 posts (!) already this morning on Truth Social. 
• I'll admit I just learned of Chesterton's Fence for the first time, and I love it. 
• The AP photos.of the year are here.  (You'll realize the charmed life you live after scrolling through them.)

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

I normally wouldn't post about weather, but receiving 10 inches in November, with almost all of it falling over two days, was something. 

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• This is awful. Messenger story (free).   
  
  
  
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• At 2:38 a.m. Sunday morning, Fort Worth Police and Fire/EMS responded to a shooting at Flips Patio Grill in north Fort Worth near Western Center and I-35.
  
  
  
• A mass shooting you probably missed: "At least four people, including three children, were killed and 11 others wounded in a mass shooting that erupted on Saturday evening at a child's birthday party at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, authorities said."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• You'll often hear about a car crashing into a business, but this one by a 90 year old in California had quite the photo associated with it. The business was closed at the time.
  
  
  
•  Hegseth ordered a second strike in order to kill two survivors.  Gift link. So maybe there was a reason for those four Senators to do a PSA telling the military they didn't have to follow illegal orders. 
  
  
  
• Hegseth mocked the controversy last night with a cartoon.       
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, since the continued killing of unknown people in boats is justified by the Administration by citing the War on Drugs, we had this pardon news below. “He paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States, protected by machine guns,” prosecutors said in their closing arguments ahead of his conviction.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Speaking of laws not longer applying. 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
• What are we doing?  She had been in the U.S. since she was seven. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Welcome to the Autocracy.   Rule #1 is to discredit the media, one of Trump's ploys from the very beginning. And now the White House web site makes it official policy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Random Trump. Video.
  
  
  
• The Business Second™.  Five buildings. Thirty-seven full time jobs.  
  
  
  
• No one has had wilder departures from their jobs than Lane Kiffin.  As he leaves playoff bound Ole Miss for LSU, all of his exist are ranked below.  There are links under the tweet to stories for all of them. 
  
  
  
• Due to weather delays, the Southlake v. Prosper football playoff game didn't kickoff until 11:14 p.m. on Friday night and didn't finish until 1:42 a.m. on Saturday morning.