Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I don't think this Facebook feature in the print edition of the Messenger lasted very long. 

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• The Messenger has a good article recapping the Decatur City Council meeting on Monday regarding joining forces with ICE along with some great pictures. Here's one:
  
• From what I heard yesterday, the ICE proposal is dead and won't come up again. 
• But I refuse to believe the Chief of Police was behind all of this. He's too good of a guy, and too smart of a guy, for that.  But someone at City Hall thought it would be a good idea to try and steamroll this thing through by placing it on the agenda when anyone with half a brain would have known it would turn into a political cluster and a legal disaster. 
• And when the public input and open City Council discussion at the meeting began to turn south, it was a more than a little curious that the new mayor suddenly decided the council needed to go into executive session. 
• I really don't know what the defense strategy was in this case.  They had three choices (all which were amazingly submitted to the jury by the judge as options without any evidence to support them): Self defense, which would result in an acquittal, and two options which would have at least capped the possible sentence at 20 years: Manslaughter and "sudden passion" (submitted in the punishment charge). But the lawyers never really road any of those three horses. You have to pick one. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• News alert: We are not, in fact, "close to a deal with Iran." It turns out that the Apache helicopter was taken down by an Iranian drone. In response, the U.S. struck Iran.  And then Iran retaliated against the region.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Uh, oh. We just got a numbers release on inflation. 
  
  
  
• She went crazy along the way and left Congress to run for governor in South Carolina. Last night she came in fifth.  
  
  
  
  
• He just wanted to live peacefully in retirement. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Good lord. They are going to do the UFC press conference and the weigh in at the Lincoln Memorial? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's good that the Star-Telegram is still doing deep dives into stories like this. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• New York takes its basketball very seriously. (And still manages to take a jab at the D.A.)
  
• Former Dallas Cowboys receive Lance Rentzel has died. He was forever tied to his arrest in 1970,