Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Before there was George Floyd, there was Freddy Gray. Six officers would be indicted but none would ever be convicted. 

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• Lake Bridgeport is now over capacity, and Pete Delkus says we are in new "Flood Watch."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Chaos in Southlake. Both officers will be all right, and the motorcycle cop is really lucky.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• A Justin Police Department officer shot and killed someone who was evading.
  
  
  
• A River Oaks policeman made a traffic stop ,and the driver then shot himself as the officer was at the driver's window.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There has to be something going on between those two. Both guys were armed (the guy in red is now dead), but the man in the vehicle had an AR-15 style weapon. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A US official said initial reports from the scene indicated the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier made a "hard turn" to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard.  Aircraft carriers can make hard turns?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• What's this mean?
  
  
  
• He's a child.
  
  
  
• It's the 50th anniversary of this photo and of the United States officially leaving Vietnam. 
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: Do you think a law firm can get away with filing documents in federal court with this watermark on each page?: The answer is "no" with the federal judge writing: "Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and impertinent. The Court is not a cartoon."
  
  
  
• At the first press briefing yesterday, the Fox News White House correspondent wanted to know if Trump influenced the NFL draft. But that question wasn't as bad as the very first question from the "new" type of press which sounded like it was right out of North Korea. 
  
  
  
• Breaking: Amazon will start listing the "tariff tax" at checkout. At a just concluded briefing this morning, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon." Huh? It's just listing a tax that you refuse to call a tax. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

At the time, I couldn't believe he'd be dumb enough to fall for an Internet conspiracy theory. 

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• Yesterday in Wise County:
  
  
  
• Decatur made the cover of the Sunday edition of the Star-Telegram along with an inside photo-spread. (Both links are paywalled.)
  
  
  
• Everyone was abuzz on Friday night as ESPN/ABC showed UT quarterback Quinn Ewers awaiting NFL draft results from, of all places, Chico, Texas. 
  
  
  
• Wise County Judge J.D. Clark posted some updated courthouse restoration photos
  
  
  
• This was in Saginaw this weekend? In Texas? Yes, that Saginaw. Link with a bunch of photos (also paywalled.).
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• I can't say enough about the insane arrest by the FBI on Friday of the Wisconsin state misdemeanor judge.   The complaint giving rise to the arrest is here, and you'll notice that she obstructed justice so severely that an ICE agent road down with the immigrant in a public elevator to the ground floor before they decided to effectuate the arrest. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Judges don’t get arrested in a functioning democracy. It's over.  
• The most Nazi thing about the arrest was the AG excitedly running to Fox News to announce that, as to judges like Dugan, ". . . we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
  
  
  
  
• Or maybe it was the FBI Director posting a picture of the judge's arrest. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump and the Pope's funeral:
• The dress code was dark suit and black tie.  Not a blue suit. 
  
  
  
  
• There were all sorts of photos from the funeral, but I had never seen this old one of the Pope.
  
  
  
• Trump took time for a photo-and meeting with the Ukrainian president and, apparently, managed not to yell at him for not saying thank you. 
  
  
  
  
• After the meeting and after learning of continued Russian air strikes, Trump wrote that he was beginning to think that maybe Putin "doesn't want to stop the war" at all. Really? You're just now coming to that realization?
  
  
  
• Putin didn't prove him wrong: "Ukraine reported 149 Russian drones launched into the country overnight into the early hours of Sunday, the barrage coming hours after President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Pope Francis' funeral in Vatican City."
  
  
  
• Immigrant round-up news:  
• One was Colorado Springs. Video. According to AG Pam Bondi, it was a place "frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists." That's going to be a recurring theme over the next few months -- even when someone is arrested at Walmart. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• And Florida.
  
  
  
• And in a very bizarre move this morning, the White House has put up hundreds of posters on its lawn of those arrested. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
• Lake Bridgeport official hit 100% full this morning. And it continues to rise from last week's rains with more predicted this week. And the spillway gates are oddly closed.  
• At the beginning of last week, the Secretary of Navy hired Kristina Wong from Breitbart News as his Communications Director. Over the weekend, he posted what's below. And there was another one that soon followed which also had the wrong date.
  
  
  
  
• "Landman" will be filming a funeral scene in Jacksboro today.  The casting call for extras had asked for people 75 and older. The pay was $200.