Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Random collection of three.

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•  A jet crash on Christmas Day in Kazakhstan killed 398 but amazingly 29 passengers survived. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Fox4Terry was hard at it this morning.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Christmas Eve was a little nutty.
• At 3:00 in the afternoon in a residential section, a robbery left a 17 year old dead in far north Fort Worth. "Police said detectives are working this case as an attempted robbery in which both victims and suspects were shot." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This is awful. Her body has still not been located.
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• House fire in Denton on Christmas Eve. Video.
  
  
  
• I don't know if I can handle the next four years of this insanity.
  
  
  
• The drone show that went wonky in Florida and injured a boy was put on by a company out of Fort Worth who gained a great deal of fame over the summer when they were featured on America's Got Talent. 
  
  
  
• A little talked about aspect of the case is that no one knows who the subway burning victim was. 
  
  
  
• Ticket fans only. Weekend host Mark Elfenbein posted that he had found a home for his new puppy in Boyd. 
  
  
  
• It would have created 66 new federal judgeships to be filled "over the next three presidential terms."
  
  
  
• It's the 20th anniversary of the tsunami that killed 230,000 -- still an astonishing number.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

♪" He's making a list . . . ." ♪

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• Breaking Travel News: For at least an hour this morning, American Airlines grounded all flights nationwide. Oh, my!
  

  

  
  
  
  
• At around 7:00 a.m., the ground stop was lifted.
  
  
  
• What's up with the matching outfits?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The lawyer got to go on a little bit of a mini-rant in court which I don't understand. The purpose of the hearing was to simply enter a not guilty plea, and that's it. You don't get to do performance art in Texas courts. 
• I wonder if there is more to this.
  
  
  
• The ethics report on Matt Gaetz was pretty bad, but I don't think it necessarily means his political career is over. Why? Nothing seems to matter anymore.  There is an open Senate seat in Georgia that has to be filled. Maybe he'll run.
  
  
  
• But it should be disqualifying that he made his "dates" fly via Spirit Airlines.
  
  
  
• The second hardest working man in show business was hard at it last night.  Side note: I still love detectives wearing white shirts and ties. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Is it just me, or does North Richland Hills sure make the crime blotter quite a bit these days? Although I'm not sure that a bunch of teenagers trespassing in a rent house being renovated deserves a segment on Fox 4. 
  
  
  
• The crime occurred way back in 2002.
  
  
  
• This was pretty funny, and I don't think it was staged. Video.
  
  
  
• Random pop culture flashbacks.
• From Montgomery Ward catalog. That was a pretty penny back in 1968.  And you can get a heck of a TV for that price today.
  
  
  
• Matlock represented Walter White of Breaking Bad (Bryan Cranston) in 1987 in a Christmas episode.
  
  
  
• It's Christmas Eve. The courts are shut down. There is no Messenger Update. But here I am. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business™.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Ghosts from Christmas past.

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• Texas Christmas mall chaos:
• Killeen on Saturday:
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Northeast mall last night with a scare yesterday afternoon as two men pulled guns out at the food court:
  
  
  
• There is a video of this, but it's obviously disturbing. 
  
  
  
• Drone attack!  Here's video of it, and that last one was coming down like a rocket.
  
  
  
• .President Biden was busy overnight.
  
  
  
  
• Only three people, all involved in high profile cases, did not have their death sentences commuted.
  
  
  
• Trump went a little nutty over the weekend, and threaten to take back the Panama Canal by force.
  
  
  
• When the President of Panama objected, Trump responded and proved we are now all just living in a cartoon. 
  
  
  
• In the continuing saga of the U.S. military losing their own aircraft due to their own mistakes . . . 
• We got creative by shooting down one of our own jets. 
  
  
  
• But did the more traditional thing by crashing a helicopter in California.
  
  
  
• On Friday, the House was able to pass an emergency spending bill after the Speaker consulted with both of our President-Elects. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There was a ton of misinformation about Fort Worth Congresswoman Kay Granger this weekend. (Her term ends in a few days and she did not run for re-election.)
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  

  

  

  
  
• The twelve team college football playoffs got underway this weekend which proved only that there are not close to twelve teams worthy of contending for a national title.  As a side note, it sounds like a bunch of private planes were not able to land at the tiny airport at State College, Pennsylvania including these high tone folks from SMU:

  

  But at least they got to miss seeing SMU throw two pick-sixes.

  
  
• Very legal nerdy stuff: The Fort Worth Court of Appeals has reinstated the prosecution of a Denton murder case after the trial judge dismissed the case due to the State not disclosing evidence timely. 
• The House Ethics report on Trump's first attempt at AG, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, was just unofficially released as Gaetz files a lawsuit this morning to stop it.