Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Right before the Iowa caucuses, Trump skipped the debate on Fox News because the network wouldn't remove Megyn Kelly from the panel. 

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• Ten shots fired by masked and secret federal police has left a U.S. citizen dead in the streets.  I never really understood the phrase "The storm is coming," but I do now.
  

  

  
  
  
• You've probably seen all the videos but, if not, here are the three critical ones:   Initial one to hit the Internet (from across the street). Second one from the middle of the street. Third one (the best video taken from the sidewalk)   And the New York Times breakdown of all of them is great.
  
  
  
• It is 100% clear that the (legally carried) gun on the deceased was removed from his holster by ICE before any of the 10 shots were fired. The guy in the gray jacket (visible in all of the videos, above) comes into the pile clearly without anything in his hands, reaches in, and then pulls a gun out matching the gun that ICE claims the dead man had. The Washington Post analysis of all of this is fantastic. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• As disturbing as it is for the government to execute someone in the streets, a close second is how the federal government lies to us about what we saw with out own eyes.  And rushing to microphones to do it.  This give ICE a green light to kill in the future. 
  
  
  
• The Border Patrol chief was in front of the microphone within two hours with an insane conclusion that the deceased was there to "massacre law enforcement."  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Kristi Noem, within five hours to process it, said that the dead man was "brandishing" a weapon and called him a domestic terrorist.  It's Orwellian.
  
• The Second Amendment crowd has told us for years that the right to bear arms is to protect the citizenry from the "tyranny" of the federal government.  Well, the FBI Director and Treasury secretary both said (here and here) on the Sunday talk shows, that you can't bring a gun to a protest.   And apparently the penalty for doing so is an extra-judicial execution. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's an op-ed piece, but it is not wrong: 
  
  
  
• Winter storm related news: 
• Last night, a plane carrying eight people crashed on takeoff in Bangor, Maine. It was registered to the Houston law firm of Arnold & Itkin, but no identities of the victims have been confirmed. I mentioned one of the named partners ten days ago when he purchased a massive ranch near Weatherford.

• I never knew there was a live TxDot camera in Bridgeport. All cameras can be found here. But you have to toggle them on.
  
  
  
• That track of land is surrounded by massive homes. It has the appearance of being owned by someone who has refused to sell to developers over the year. Google satellite view. 
  
  
  
   
• "Preliminary investigation indicates a 16-year-old male was operating a Jeep Wrangler while pulling the two females on a sled. Witnesses reported the sled struck a curb and collided with a tree near the intersection of Majestic Gardens Drive and Killian Court at approximately 2:26 p.m..  This incident remains under active investigation, with support from the Denton County District Attorney’s Office."
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Google Streetview from five years ago

  
  
• He pulled a Ted Cruz. 
  

  

  
  
• Speaking of, he doesn't realize he should never joke about is Cancun trip. 
  
• You don't see this very often. 
  
• Defense attorneys say Tarrant County lawyer’s removal from Juvenile Board list is ‘deeply troubling’ (Gift link)