Random Monday Morning Thoughts

He probably wasn't joking. 

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• Fort Worth carnage over the weekend.
• Six shot, one killed (with "multiple wounds to upper torso) inside a 7th Street bar. (It's the same location where a TCU student was shot dead outside of one year ago.)
  
  
  
• A robbery of a convenience store at Eastchase Parkway and I-30 left a worker, who was also a UNT student, dead. It occurred around 8:30 p.m. on Friday.
  
  
  
• This started out as a fender bender at 4:00 in the afternoon.
  
  
  
• A guy walked inside a restaurant in Victory Plaza in Dallas, and shot his estranged girlfriend in front of diners yesterday around noon. She is in critical condition.
  
  
  
• The federal judge handed down the sentence is Puff Daddy's case on Friday which upset both him and  his critics.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• ICE continued an unnecessary show of force in Chicago.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And now the Texas Guard is headed there. . 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Kristi Noem giving a pep talk to the ICE officers was cringe-worthy. (Video). And the dystopian video produced by the Department of Homeland Security was even worse. And even with all that, Noem had time to bad mouth the NFL for scheduling Bad Bunny perform at the Super Bowl:
  

  

  
  
  
  
• And in Portland, ICE showed up to guard its offices when there was absolutely no threat to it. This is all an attempt to provoke a fight where there is none.   Trump said the city was "burning down." yesterday.
  

  
  

  

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• And when Trump tried to call in National Guard troops from within Oregon, he was stopped by a federal judge. He then tried to circumvent the order by calling in National Guard troops from California, but the same judge struck that down in an emergency hearing last night. None of this is normal. 
  
  
  
• Kash Patel is keeping us safe, I see. 
  
  
  
• I'm going to assume that this fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who blocked the federal government's demand for state voter records is unrelated to Stephen Miller's rants against state judges this weekend.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Homecoming mums were on display in Southlake on Friday night. Yes, this bit is out of hand. 
  
  
  
• RG3 was involved in a wreck on I-35 in Fort Worth on Friday.
  
  
  
• I haven't heard anything about the Bridgeport woman who went missing in August.