Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

This story out of Frisco was wild. The medical examiner would later "rule" that her death was a result of suicide by overdose. 

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• It looks like the Tanner Horner trial is still on track to begin on April 7th.  But this gift link story from the Star-Telegram contained this  nugget: The parents' civil case against Fed Ex has settled.  It was originally filed in Wise County but later was voluntarily dismissed and refiled in Dallas. 
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• "WHITNEY, Texas (KWTX) — A vehicle fire spread to Fort Graham Baptist Church on FM 2604 north of Whitney, destroying the sanctuary, according to the Hill County Sheriff’s Office."
  
  
  
• U.S. astronauts will begin a mission this afternoon to go around the moon. I have no idea why.  The launch is set for at 5:24 p.m. CDT with a two hour window to get it done.  
  
  
  
  
• I told you yesterday nothing would happen. "No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, Patriots," he said.  
  
  
  
• I had a little trouble comprehending this story yesterday. I still do.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Nancy Mace: Too dumb for Congress. Too dumb for governor. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• New this morning: Trump renewed his attacks on NATO, suggesting he could withdraw the U.S. from the alliance over its lack of support for his war on Iran.  “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” he said. Side note: That would take an act of Congress but things like that do not matter any longer. 
  
  
  
  
• Put this on the list of Things That Never Happened.  Video.  Hegseth is just so weird. 
  
  
  
• It's over. 
  
  
  
• Place your bets on which way the Justice Department will decide to go. It seems obvious: They'll send him a blank check. 
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: The judge out of Houston who berated the IT worker has been found to have acted like a jackass in another video.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Very nerdy legal stuff: So what happens if the jury finds a defendant guilty of only a lesser included offense , the jury is polled to confirm that is their verdict, the case moves on to the punishment phase, and then the jury sends a note during the a brief break that they had actually agreed to convict him on the greater charge? An appellate court said yesterday they can no longer change the verdict.   

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Still have them. 

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• Dateline Comal County.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The hope of pleading guilty and asking for mercy from the jury did not work out. 
  
  
  
• New this morning . . . . 
  
  
  
• An update from Friday: "Under the pretense that he was going to give them money, John Mbuyi 'lured the victims to the location ... where he carried out an ambush he had carefully planned in advance,' police said." 
  
  
  
• That was quite the Houdini move she pulled off. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The War
• This won't help gas prices. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Well, if this is the way it ends, it turned out to be a cluster
  
  
  
  
• And this morning, that story seems to be correct. 
  
  
  
• Uh . . . . 
  
  
  
  
• I was kind of curious why this happened, too. But there is a 100% chance no one will be disciplined.  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump unveiled his plans for his presidential library.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Now we know why Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper supports over-the-top Bo French: The West Texas Oilman PAC is behind both of them.
  
  
  
• TV belated review: I held off watching Amazon's Jury Duty because I thought I'd hate. I was 100% wrong. Funny, funny stuff. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Released this week, 2016.

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• A domestic incident involving a shooting at a school parking lot on Friday afternoon left a man, woman, and child dead. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A wreck last night near Alliance Airport killed one woman. Two children in the car were injured. 
  
  
  
• One 11 year old shot another 11 year old in the leg last night.  
  
  
  
• Tiger Woods was arrested Friday afternoon after a wreck on Jupiter Island in Florida. I'm not sure how they can prove DUI since they didn't go to the trouble of getting a search warrant for his blood.  But Florida does have a separate offense for the mere refusal to provide a sample of urine after a DUI arrest if that arrest was based on probable cause. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• A faithful reader wrote me and said that the billion dollar verdict out of Dallas last week in the case of a physically abused child had a Decatur connection: The child's grandfather graduated from Decatur High in 1993.
• Dateline South Carolina. A school resource officer whacked a baseball player in the head with a stun gun.  Video.
  
  
  
• I guess we didn't have a Cuban Missile Crisis after all. 
  
  
  
• Oops.
  
  
  
• The war:
• Not great.
  
  
  
• A U.S. AWACS plane was demolished by an Iranian ballistic missile and/or drone attack at the same air base.
  
  
  
• The Houthis have now entered the conversation. 
  
  
  
• There's no way Trump sends in the troops, right? Right?
  
  
  
• The FBI director's email got hacked by the Iranians.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Good grief, I'm agreeing with Ann Coulter now.
  
  
  
• This would have been a headline in The Onion a few years back. No longer. And Trump was dancing on the balcony during it.
  
  
  
• The quote was strange enough even before I read the chyron. Video.
  
  
  
• The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Birthright Citizenship this week.  In the meantime, Pam Bondi appeared on the talk shows to clear it all up: Video. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. "Dallas-based Patel Family Office is part of a $1 billion deal to develop 50 hotels in Saudi Arabia by 2029, the firm said Thursday."
  
  
  
• We found a candidate for the worst judge in the world based upon how this one treated an IT guy in Houston.  Video.
  
  
  
• Liberally Lean March Madness Pick 'Em Standings.