Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

From the front page of the Dallas Morning News on 11/6/15. Relevant today.

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• New this morning. 
  
  
  
• “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” - Dick Cheney (August, 2022)
• A former Bridgeport native is involved, and quoted, in this case and story.
  
  
  
  
• The trial of the century started yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "The Pentagon unveiled a new press corps last month, consisting largely of far-right media publications, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, and LindellTV — MyPillow founder Mike Lindell’s streaming service — along with independent journalists and online influencers." Now they've added crazy Laura Loomer.  Not credentialed: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
  

  
  
  
• This guy will forever be the face of the currently deceased Congress. .
  
  
  
  
• Trump's America:   Video
  
  
   
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  
  
• The Second Business Second™: I'm beginning to believe those who think there is an AI financial bubble based upon a handful of companies just buying and selling to and from each other. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And being liquored up out of your mind didn't help matters. Video.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Texas Tech fan will trade Goldendoodle puppy for four tickets to the BYU game.
  
  
  
• Based upon attendance snapshot numbers just released, Decatur High School might very well be moving to 5A.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

I barely remember this, but I'll take more days like it. 

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• Wise County firefighters had a busy Halloween afternoon.
  
  
  
• Alcohol is getting some teachers in trouble.
• And Celina has had enough issues lately without this. 
  
  
  
• Story.
  
  
  
• In the last 12 hours, three major freeways have been shut down in the metroplex
• A wrong way driver shut down I-30 south of downtown Fort Worth yesterday evening. 
  
  
  
• I-35 east of downtown Fort Worth was shut down overnight..
  
  
  
• And now Dallas has a big problem this morning due to a SWAT standoff. Both sides of I-20 are shut down.
  
  
  
• FBI Director Kash Patel got caught using an FBI private jet to go see his girlfriend at a wrestling match and then lashed out, in weird ways, because of it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dateline Mar-a-Lago:
  

  

  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump weekend crazy tweets which hardly became a blip on the radar:
• A comedian's jokes are "probably illegal."
  
  
  
• We are going to invade Nigeria
  
  
  
• Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's son, who had recently been an appointed U.S. Attorney and then a partner in a big Houston law firm, is leaving to join one of the biggest conservative lobbying groups in Austin.
  
  
  
• Let's check in on Fox News. A reporter got duped by an AI video (with a "welfare queen" theme) and then, once the mistake is discovered, just changed the very same article's headline and rewrote the story.
• Original:
  
  
  
  
• The re-write with the same date and time:
  
• The Business Second™.
  
  
  
• Quick hit sports images:
• This quiz at SMU, on that scoreboard, is something. (Plus, this isn't going to help the mistaken belief that Ford Stadium was named after the President Gerald Ford. It wasn't)
  
  
  
  
• Who wears short shorts?
  
  
  
  
• I don't pay much attention to the NFL any longer, but this was wild.
  
  
  
• Sports quick hit: Luka Doncic joins Wilt Chamberlain as the only players in NBA history to start a season with 3 straight 40+ point games.