Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

But Mark Cuban has never owned that yacht (named Fountainhead) nor any other yacht.

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• Breaking. 
  
  
  
• You would have had to have seen it to believe it. She's unhinged. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Her reference to the stock market when asked about protecting Epstein and his cohorts was bizarre. Video.
  
  
  
• And this might have been my favorite part.  Video
  
  
  
• The closing of the El Paso airport was indeed a cluster. 
  
  
  
• I wouldn't get too excited about this. "Detectives found the clothing item, which resembles the pair worn by the armed perpetrator caught on video, about one and a half miles from the home of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie’s mother."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• With the death of James Van Der Beek yesterday, he gets added to the list.
  
  
  
• Story.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dateline Florida. Story.
  
  
  
  
• We live in wild times. 
  
  
  
• Make no mistake about it, buried in the avalanche of news are these two stories which provide the biggest proof yet that we now live in an autocracy.  It's over. 
• The attempt to indict and throw in prison elected representatives because of what they said. 
  
  
  
• The seizing of ballot boxes. Gift link. 
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

After the New Hampshire primary, it seemed real for the first time. 

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• What?! 10 days?!! Edit:  And then 15 minutes ago, after issuing the shutdown notice at 11:30 p.m. CST last night, the FAA said "never mind."  What a cluster. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The Nancy Guthrie missing persons case took a couple of dramatic turns yesterday,
• First, the pictures and videos.
  
  
  
• And then some poor guy was "detained" for hours last night, and then released.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This is incredible. "Federal prosecutors in Washington [from the office led by Jeanine Pirro]  sought and failed on Tuesday to secure an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video this fall that enraged President Trump by reminding active-duty members of the military and intelligence community that they were obligated to refuse illegal orders," 
  
  
  
• For all of my career, grand juries seemed (and were) just a formality in this country.  Now, at least in response to the federal government's actions, they are actually protecting citizens from overzealous (and crooked) prosecutors. And that was their purpose from the very beginning. 
• Terror to the north: A mass shooting yesterday afternoon in a remote Canadian town of 2,400. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This guy. Sheesh.  Let's just swing by an island with the family unit, including "nannies", for a quick lunch.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• We are the dumbest country. 
  
  
  
• Come on, take him back. 
  
  
  
• This is real. 
  
  
  
• Worth reading: "Something Big is Happening" on what is occurring with AI and how its coming for us all. I think it is 100% spot on.  

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The lawsuit would be settled three years later for $650,000. But I can't find how much the City of Dallas spent on their own attorney's fees.

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• Dateline Gainesville, Georgia. Video.
  
   
  
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• "Quincccccccyyyyyyy!"
  
  
  
• The case is still on a appeal after Bannon's conviction, and now the Justice Department wants to vacate the conviction and make it all go away. The only person to sign the DOJ's motion was Jeanine Pirro.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I don't know why a Republican controlled committee does something like this which only keeps the Epstein files in the news 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Hardly a news blip.
  
  

  

  
  
• It begins.
  
  
  
  
• In a lawsuit which was filed in 2007, and which already had one trial that was reversed on appeal, is set for jury trial again today in Wise County: CV12-07-438 Joseph Palazzolo vs Fort Worth Independent School District.