Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Little did we know that it was a lawsuit funded by billionaire Peter Theil whose sole desire was to bankrupt Gawker. It worked. Side note: A best selling book about it was written by Ryan Holiday - the same Ryan Holiday who has been preaching Stoicism full-tine over the last few years. 

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• What's going on with this?  Watch them here. 
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• The headline is all we know.  Edit: A faithful reader tells me it involved a father and daughter: Kevin Reese, 45, and Mckaylee Reese, 23, of Wichita Falls.
  
  
  
• DFW Airport has somehow been immune from the long lines seen across the nation.  In Houston, however, things are so bad that even former AG Bill Barr had to wait in a line. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We are paying these people now? Michael Flynn, who is an absolute nutcase, pled guilty twice to making false statements to FBI agents about his interactions with Russian officials. And they just wrote him a check with taxpayer dollars. 
  
  
  
• Line up, boys. 
  
  
  
  
• We've got a Missiles of October 2.0 scene quietly brewing. 
  
  
• Trump railed at our allies early this morning. NATO isn't helping us, but we don't need their help!
  
  
  
• "Sicken me." Trump was big mad at Justices Gorsuch and Barrett last night. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This lady has no shame. This from yesterday:  
  
  
  
• So long as it's a new Fox News Poll . . . 
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. It would take me about a second to take the money.
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal stuff.  And the judge saying she was hacked doesn't help her defense. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This morning: Dash Crofts, best known for creating 1972’s double-platinum single “Summer Breeze,” has died at 85.
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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Ted Cruz went to the border in an attempt to boost his presidential campaign against Trump with a photo-op.

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• A faithful reader pointed me to the official FAA final report (and exhibits) being released last month on the January 2024 plane crash that claimed the life of Dr. Heath Smith and his two young sons from Paradise. 
  

  

  
  
• A Star-Telegram feature today on a recent Paradise tragedy. Gift link.
  
  
  
• I would not hold my breath on this. 
  
  
  
• A mid-term Republican convention in Dallas?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Big verdict out of New Mexico involving social media, but this will have some big appellate hurdles. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump's state house representative for the district where Mar-a-Lago is located will be a Democrat.. (Side note: Trump voted by mail)
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The indictment in this case actually reveals what is mixed with fentanyl as a cutting agent to make it life threateningly dangerous in some cases: The animal tranquilizer medetomidine  It also allows the production to get ramped up. From the indictment: "For example, one kilogram of medetomidine effectively transforms a single kilogram of fentanyl and inert cut into dozens of kilograms of fentanyl mixture bound for street-level sales in this country."
  
  
  
• War news:
• We have some very confusing messaging going on.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• The weirdest statement Trump made yesterday was about a "prize" form Iran. What's he talking about?. (Some think it might just be a tanker of oil.)
  
  
  
• I'd feel much better if the head of the Department of Defense didn't act like a Frat Boy.
  
  
  
• The snowfall for New Mexico and Southern Colorado was way down this season. 
  
• Sports:  I'm being told that #2 Texas was up 7-0 over Houston in this game last night? 
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff.  If you want to see how victims will bad mouth prosecutors to the press even when a 50 years sentence is secured, see this story out of San Antonio.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Happy anniversary to this banger. 

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• This shooting happened this weekend, and this is all that we know: 
  
  
  
• Decatur High School had a s a misfire on Twitter yesterday but finally replaced it after it was up for a few hours.
  
  
  
• I'm not sure what is going on here. The 18 year old wasn't charged with Intoxication Manslaughter but only Criminally Negligent Homicide so there probably wasn't any signs of impairment, The accident occurred at 3:30 a.m. in the morning. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• Dateline Parker County.  "That’s divine intervention. That’s the man upstairs knowing that you don’t need to be out there running loose. That’s what that is."- Sgt. Shane Cartwright with the Parker County Sheriff's Office
  
  
  
• That's a lot of miles.  And what's the cost of just one of those things? 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• And if you want to see him load a pistol and fire it, there's a video of it. 
  
  
  
• We get what we deserve. 
  
  
  
• We do more for the good puppy dog that we do for humans. Video. 
  
  
  
• ICE Agents at airports:
• A Trump quote that's too good to pass up. 
  
  
  
  
• Hang it in the Louvre.  (Atlanta airport yesterday)
  
  
  
• These props for the cameras are getting out of hand. (At Memphis yesterday.)
  
• We went we went from “America First” to “Americans be careful everywhere on Earth” in about three weeks,
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Fire yesterday at the Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, Georgia.
  
  
  
• I'm sure you've seen the crazy footage from the video of the bizarre crash at LaGuardia Airport.