Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

It seems that this was one of the first  of a string of murder cases that began to filter through the Wise County judicial system.

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• I lead today with the greatest corruption in the history of the American presidency. A five person committee, selected by Trump's former defense lawyer, will have complete discretion on how to spend an obscene amount of your tax money.  And nothing prevents them from giving the majority of it to Trump himself.  It's over.  
  

  

  

  Congrats. You are writing checks to these people. 

  
  
• At least Blanche has to answer questions today. 
  
  
  
• Look what happens when the 17 and 18 year old shooters are exposed to Islamophobia by our "leaders."
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Local: Here's a nugget I saw in a Star-Telegram story
  
  
  
• Cyber Truck down! Cyber Truck down!
  
  
  
• He became the most famous cop in America.
  
  
  
  
• This is going in the wrong direction. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump surprised no one by backing off a threatened attack of Iran  yesterday (the sixth time he has done so), but he actually said in a tweet that one was "scheduled" for today.  
  
  
  
• One word in the headline explains everything about his reasoning: 
  
  
  
• Our government just established a religion right before our eyes over the last 18 months.  (Yep, it's real.) 
  
• John Cornyn pulled out Rick Perry and former senator Phil Gramm (!) to campaign for him yesterday.
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: I was trying to figure out how a brawl in a state courtroom could lead to federal charges, but I guess once he grabbed the gun he became subject to a federal firearm law based upon interstate commerce. 
  
  
  
• I read ten stories about this verdict, and I still have no idea what question the jury was asked. And throughout the weeklong trial, I don't remember the issue of limitations ever so much as being mentioned.   EDIT: A faithful reader sent me a PDF of the actual filled out jury verdict. 
  
  
  
  
• Tech's gambling quarterback has sued the NCAA and has hired the Speaker of the Texas House as his lawyer. Judge Phillip Hays, a Lubbock native and twice a graduate of Texas Tech, was assigned the case.
  
  
  
• Here's the text of the full settlement agreement establishing the $1.8 billion slush fund. It's amazing. (Look at Paragraph IV(E) which indicates that the public won't even know who or how much someone gets paid from the fund.)