Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

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•  They actually did it last night.
  
  
  
• Jury verdict out of Collin County.  The defense lawyer was a guy named Ryan Kreck. The lead prosecutor was Ashleigh Woodall.
  
  
  
• A guy in Anna was arrested for stealing from newly constructed homes. In his vehicle was 288 electrical breakers.
  
  
  
• There was a big train derailment in Palo Pinto County yesterday afternoon. 
  
  
  
• Does everyone realize just how crazy this is?  It's over. 
  
  
  
  
• We have a few more details of the shooting in Austin at Target. One of the victim's was a 4 year old.  The shooter is, literally, crazy.  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Here's a detailed post of what's going on in this Tarrant County case described below.
  
  
  
• I went nuts over this DA at the time when filed murder charges back when none of the statutes even arguably allowed it.  He dismissed the case once he figured it all out. But, man, is he ever in the news again (h/t @dejonredd) 

• That little girl was pretty funny on that show back in the day.
  
  
  
• The OU Quarterback faces questions about betting on college football when his Venmo payment messages were found.
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
• August weather is weird. DFW airport went into a ground stop at 8:05 this morning due to thunderstorms. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Side note: "As officers were handling the scene, another man, also 52, jumped in the river several times in the presence of the officers. That man was arrested on a public intoxication charge."

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• Trump has taken over the  D.C. police.  It's like a soft opening for martial law.  And it's only the beginning. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The press conference announcing it was straight out of Bizarro World. “They love to spit in the face of the police as the police are standing up there in uniform… and then they start spitting in their face,” Trump said. “You tell them [now], ‘You spit, and we hit.’ Now they [the police] are allowed to do whatever the hell they want.”
  
  
  
• And we've got more news this morning. Plans are to have 600 troops on stand-by at any time to be deployed to any U.S. city in as little as an hour.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We have a much needed challenger to local state Rep. Andy Hopper, as a lady from Krum announced her candidacy yesterday.  I thought she would campaign on being capable of passing a simple water district bill, but instead she went full MAGA.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Jack County may be washing away.   A thunderstorm has been sitting on it for hours this morning. 
  
  
  
• Truck goes into a home in Mesquite. And there is a video from inside the home capturing the vehicular intrusion.
  
  
  
• Big news out of Austin yesterday but, as so typically is the case these days, there are few details. No names. No motives.  
  
  
  
• Trump has announced a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he fired the old one because he didn't like the numbers. Not surprisingly, the new guy is a yes man, would appear on  Steve Bannon's show, and is an author of Project 2025.  Trump will never have to deal with bad job numbers ever again.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This photo was in the New York Times on Sunday, and it's so good that I thought is was fake.
  
  
  
• Midland Lee, named after Robert E. Lee, became Midland Legacy five years ago.  But now, with "wokeness" dead, the school board feels safe to possibly bring the Lee name back.  
  
  
  
• The AP pre-season poll was released yesterday. Texas opens the season at Ohio State and is a -2.5 underdog. 
  
  
  
• Overused phrases: I think "At the end of the day" has been replaced by "Two things can be true at the same time."

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

I'm not sure who #13 was for Decatur, but the linebacker from Kennedale is now in the NFL with the Arizona Cardinals.  He never went to Baylor because the school's scandal would erupt in 2016, and he moved his commitment to Ohio State. 

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• Wreck in Wise County on Saturday.
  
  
  
• Sheesh.
  
  
  
• A homeless guy was shot, and his shooter waited for police to arrive. As with almost all local stories these days, we don't have any details. 
  
  
  
• A gunman in Georgia on Friday tried to enter the CDC with a weapon because he thought that the COVID vaccine had made him sick. One policeman is dead. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Perfect.
  
  
  
• "Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey granted Paxton’s request for a temporary injunction, barring O’Rourke and Powered by People from fundraising for the Democrats or spending money to cover their expenses. The order came less than four hours after Paxton’s office filed the petition."  This is clearly a First Amendment violation by the judge, and I fear she is simply scared to rule against Paxton. He has a history of going after such judges in the next election. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• You see those things on the highway all the time, but I had never seen one stuck on an entrance ramp.
  
  
  
• A right wing group got a hold of a video.of Arlington May Jim Voss berating a "preacher" at a  LGBTQ event in New Orleans in 2018. That was definitely some salty language.
  
  
  
• Astronaut Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 fame has died. I had no idea he had a cameo in the movie of the by the same name. 
  
  
  
• Video of the aftermath. The news organization has been critical of Israel's mass killing of civilians in Gaza.
  
  
  
• Trump's enemies are going to end up locked up.  It's over. 
• First we have an investigation over "mortgage fraud."  And the special prosecutor in the cases is Ed Martin, an election denier.
  
  
  
• And James seems to also be the target of Trump's Justice Department in a separate grand jury investigation. She sued the Trump Organization in a civil lawsuit as AG in New York.  Mark my word, Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith are next. 
  
  
  
• Trump showed off a "Trump 2028" hat to the Azerbaijan dictator on Friday.
  
  
  
• Trump is normalizing putting troops in the streets of the U.S.   First Los Angeles, now this. 
  
• The IRS chief was fired after he refused to turn over the records of illegal immigrants. 
  
  
  
• Here's an example of just how nutty everything had become.  A guy running for AG in Texas is promising to go after a particular individual.  In this case, it's the Harris County Judge.
  
  
  
• No one can figure this post out from Saturday.
  
  
  
• The (Weird) Business Second™. "Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices are expected to pay the United States 15 percent of the money they take in from selling artificial intelligence chips to China, as part of a highly unusual financial agreement with the Trump administration."
  
  
  
• If you want to see a Facebook video of a drone showing the traffic backed up on FM 51 in Decatur for the first day of school, here ya go.