Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

This was quite the Internet sensation for a couple of days. 

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• In a Fort Worth federal court, the jury is deliberating the fate of nine people in the Alvarado shooting at the ICE facility. There may very well be some of them found not guilty, but I don't know if I would have gone with this argument:
  

  
  
  
• "In another Facebook post, [the victim's] daughter confirmed her last contact with her mother was Saturday morning, when she set out on a trail hike. McTernen was blind, her daughter said, adding she requested a critical Silver Alert when reporting her missing." Say what?
  
  
  
• Cops are on the lookout for these two who allegedly stole well over $10,000 of GPS devices from Best Buys across Fort Worth. 
  
  
  
• War Updates (or is it an "Excursion?")
• Things are not going well at the Strait of Hormuz.
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, wait. I'm being told . . . 
  
  
  
• The video of the drone hitting it is pretty wild.
  
   
  
  
  
• Rough day in Israel yesterday.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• It's official. Even the military is finally concluding that the United States killed over 160 schoolgirls. What a screw-up. 
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump was asked about this new report.
  
  
  
• And the White House posted this silly video later in the afternoon with the caption "Strike."
  
  
  
• Story.  Good grief. 
  
  
  
• Cyber attack.
  
   
  
  
  
• Seems important.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• A Wise County criminal case involving a conviction and 20 year sentence for Injury to A Child was affirmed yesterday on appeal. 
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The first week of March has historically had crazy weather. 

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• Paradise is going to the state finals after this last second shot. (Video from the Messenger which has been doing a bang up job covering the high school playoffs.)
  
  
  
• While a big crash shut down 287 northbound yesterday afternoon by Catfish O'Harlies, another wreck shut down I-35 northbound around Alliance. That van isn't supposed to be there. 
  
  
  
• Story.
  
  
  
• War updates:
• Prepare for higher oil this morning. 
  
  
  
• Support, of lack thereof, for the war during its beginning days. 
  
  
  
• Someone loves bits in D.C. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Election tidbit from Aggieland. 
  
  
  
• Say what?
  
  
  
• Gossip #1: We haven't heard much from ever since she got booted by the courts as the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
  
  
  
• Gossip #2:
  
  
  
• Who?
  
  
  
• Didn't Trump say he was going to endorse either Paxton or Cornyn in the U.S. Senate run-off? What happened to that. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Follow-up: The lawyer sued but somehow ended up with a $250,000 verdict again himself (actual verdict form here). But that verdict was later thrown out. 

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•  Bridgeport has a permanent high school principal.
  
  
  
• Weights in dead fish.  It occurred at Lake Fork, but the man is from Willow Park.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Drugs in fake crows. The women, from Joshua and Hurst, reportedly were paid $40,000 for their efforts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Hitchock is a 3A school near Galveston. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Hair fondler?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The President of Ohio State University is in trouble.  That was a $1.5 million a year gig. 
  
   
  
  
  
• Crazy stuff Trump said yesterday about the war: 
  
  
  
  
• He's just making it up as he goes along. Video.
  
  
  
• Just admit it. Video.
  
  
  
• If the war is "very complete", someone needs to tell this guy. Moments ago Video from moments ago.\.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It' over.  He's just laying the groundwork. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: Amicus briefs filed in the Supreme Court. Gift link.
  
  
  
  
• The Liberally Lean Weather Team tells me that Wise County residents need to not be outside at 6:50 p.m. Rain. Big rain.