Random Wednesday Morning thoughts

A newspaper's next morning reaction after Trump's first presidential debate. 

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• The Wise County Courthouse restoration project continues, and yesterday they were working on the clock faces while suspended by ropes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Abbott attempted to invoke the Texas Supreme Court's original jurisdiction last night in order to have the leader of the absent democrats thrown out of office. (Five of the nine judges on the court were appointed by Abbott.) A response i is now due by Friday at 5:00 p.m. 
  
  
  
• AG Ken Paxton, never to miss a chance to make a headline, entered the fray with a "Hey, only I can do that!" type of letter. 
  
  
  
• And Sen. John Cornyn, who has lost his mind of late in suddenly trying to become MAGA, wants the FBI to arrest the Democrats even though they have no authority to do so.  
  
  
  
  
• I'm a little confused about what the event described in this story.is supposed to be.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• DOGE's "Bill Balls" allegedly got beat up so Trump wants to take over the D.C. local government. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Of course. 
  
  
  
• The New York Times published new pictures of Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion.  (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• They should just decide to bring in a crisis manager because they don't know what they are doing. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Translated: Blacks won't work in the fields, but those Hispanics will because it's just part of their nature. Good gawd. Video.
  
  
  
• The NFL now owns a part of ESPN. If you thought ESPN was already a propaganda arm of the league, just wait. 
  
  
  
• Job Opportunity: Are you a senior citizen looking for work? Kristi Noem announced this morning on Fox News that ICE was repealing its age limits. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The first Republican presidential debate would be this week with the top 10, according to the polls, being invited to attend. 

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• Democrats on the run to stop Trump's order for Texas to redraw its congressional map in order to gain five Republican seats.
  
• Kind of important. 
  
  
  
• Leaving town to avoid a quorum has been a tactic forever.  Twelve Senators did it in 2019 and were nicknamed The Killer Bees. 
  
  
  
• "He got weed!"
  
  
  
• Amazingly, a brief thunderstorm that rolled through the metroplex included a burst of wind at DFW airport that set a record.
  
  
  
• We are the dumbest country.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's over. For the "it can't happen here" crowd, it’s happening here. Right now, To us. And this is just the beginning.  And this is just the beginning. 
  
   
  
  
  
• When Trump said the he was going to bring down prescription drug prices by "1,500%" a couple of weeks ago, I thought it was bad.  But we've now learned there is no one around him which will correct him because he said the same thing again last weekend in two different interviews. 
  
  
  
• The New York tabloid opens up shop in California.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If anyone takes offense to the appearance of Sydney Sweeney in a jeans ad, let me introduce you to Anna Nicole Smith.
  
  
  
• Pencil in the Evil Empire as the National Champions.  They are ranked #1 in the Coaches' Poll released yesterday.
  
  
  
• Extremely nerdy criminal law legal stuff: Last week, a Texas appellate court was faced with these questions when presented with the case of a bicyclist who was detained for driving on the wrong side of the road, and then an open container of alcohol in the bicycle's drink holder was observed: Does Texas' open container law include bicycles under the statute's broad definition of "motor vehicle"? And, if so, did the officer then have probable cause to search the rest of the bicycle for other open containers under the "automobile exception"? And, if so, does the right to that search extend to the backpack the cyclist was wearing where drugs were ultimately found? I love it. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

On the 30th anniversary of the plane crash at DFW that killed 137 people, I posted this graphic. One victim, William Mayberry, 28,  died as he was driving his car on 114. 

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• Yesterday morning. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Saturday:
  
  
  
• Spotted in Bridgeport: A man committed to his bit.  That license plate is QAnon related where he has a shortened the slogan of "Where we go one, we go all." 
  
  
  
• A house in Colleyville caught fire due to a lightning strike yesterday.
  
  
  
• Four people were killed in a Montana bar at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, and the suspect is still on the run.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Texas House is poised to changed the congressional map to award five seats to Republicans, the Democrats fled the state yesterday in order to prevent a vote from happening today, and Abbott threatened to kick them out of office for doing so. 
  
  
  
• If Trump wanted the Epstein Files out of the news, he's doing a horrible job of it. Why in the world did they do this?
  
  
  
• But she may find a friend at her new home.
  
  
  
• This should be at the top of headlines for weeks. If government officials don't tell Trump what he wants to hear, he will fire them.  It's more Orwellian than 1984, it's straight out of the Soviet Union, and it is an earthquake for democracy.  "I believe the numbers were phony," Trump said. It's over. 
  
  
  
• This is just a test balloon.  Political arrests are coming. It's over.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• One the main persons responsible for Fox News having to pay $787 million for lying about the election results and Dominion voting machines is now a U.S. Attorney.
  
  
  
• The stage is being set for election results which Trump doesn't like to be declared invalid in the future. 
  
  
  
  
• The way he says it is even creepier than it reads. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The topless Texas D.A. went hard this weekend as she smoked a joint live on a TikTok video to protest Texas' marijuana laws, both existing and proposed. 
  
  
  
• That Northwest High School runner broke the Under 18 world record yesterday in the 800 meters with a time of  1:42.27.  Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cowboys' Micah Parsons demanded a trade. First, this will never happen. Secondly, he will be on the field for the first game of the season for the simple reason that he is set to be paid this year - his option year - more than he has in his first four years combined. :
  
  
  
• A new saying which is being overused: "Two things can be true at the same time."