Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Jerry Jones was hit in the head with a helmet being lowered for his autograph. 

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• I think this is incredibly goulish, but also I think that the public will cringe once they see how guresome it is for the state to kill someone.  
  
  
  
• Side note: Nidal Hasan is a paraplegic so is he going to be in a wheelchair during the execution?
• Final note: I'm surprised Trump wouldn't want to make the execution a pay-per-view. 
  
  
  
• Wild story (gift link).  It looks like the murder happened at an apartment complex along 287 as you are getting close to I-35. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Why not just sue the guy who filmed you? You know the answer ($$$). Story. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'll give this lady the benefit of the doubt in this story, but there is also a GoFundMe page for it. "Around $1,500 was inside Price's purse when it was stolen, alongside Devin's expensive medication, which she says costs around $2,000 to replace." 
  
  
  
• Talarico not being seen for almost two weeks is incredibly weird. 
  
  
  
• ICE shot another person last night, but this time in New York. I don't know if this was justified or not. 
  
• Faithful readers will remember me mentioning the Flowers case before when the Supreme Court got involved. 
  
  
  
  
• This is what living under an Authoritarian State is like. We are here. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This is truly and literally Orwellian.  Government is controlling the language. 
  
  
  
• Trump is calling for violence. There's no other way to interpret this. 
  
  
  
• Talk about Orwellian!  But at least it is only in sports. 
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 98 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

The "grab 'em by" story was the top news everywhere as speculation grew that Trump would quit the race. 

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• Planes always seem to crash near Hicks Airfield and this one got pretty close to some houses. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• So what happened? We'll probably never know. 
  
  
  
• We've got new details from the Star-Telegram on the stabbing spree by the wife and mother in Northlake. This got my attention: 
  
• Here's a book-in photo of the lady accused of getting liquored up and "doing donuts" on a courthouse lawn.  That's a hard 67.
  
  
  
• Incredible. All they do is grift.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm always skeptical of the FBI baiting some goofball online in these cases.  Here they started interacting with him when he was 16.  After he turned 18, the FBI sold him a fake AR-15 because apparently the kid wouldn't go buy one in real life.
  
  
  
• Trump's got a good point here on the lack of Talarico appearances, but I bet Ken Paxton doesn't appreciate being offered up for a debate. (Side note: I laughed at the "information and belief" language.)
  
  
  
• More crazy Trump:
• "Talarico is Vegan. My wife told me, ‘Sir, do me a favor, you have to do me just a little bit of a favor, it’s not Vaygan. It’s vegan. Please pronounce it properly.’" Video.
  
  
  
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• Slowly but surely, Trump has created his own ICE army which has now extended into local police departments via the 287(g) agreements. Get ready. Their actions aren't going to be limited to immigration at all.   It's over. 
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

On October 7, 2016, less than one month before the election, the Access Hollywood "grab 'em by" video of Trump and Billy Bush was released.  I was 100% certain it was over. I still don't understand how it wasn't. 

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• Fort Worth Police released this last night. Someone needs to rewrite it. 
  
  
  
• Dateline southern Denton County. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• All we know is what is in the headline. 
  
  
  
• "Granbury leaders put a proposed recall election on hold when an attorney announced he was suing the city [to stop the election] at Tuesday's city council meeting." Oddly, the Houston lawyer wouldn't say a single word to a reporter as he headed to his pickup truck. (Get some PR training, buddy).  And, strangely, he wouldn't tell anyone who he represents -- for some unexplained reason, the lawsuit paperwork wasn't readily available. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Wacky story.
  
  
  
• Dateline Indiana: Make that an alleged boozed-up woman. Video. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Man, there's a lot of this type of stuff going on out there.  Side note: Rod Stewart is not involved. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Even the New York Post thinks we need to know about this.  If the Pentagon would ever hold a press conference, we might actually find out what is going on. 
  
  
  
• He did it again! Another investigation announced yesterday!
  
  
  
• Since when does the Texas Comptroller issue executive orders? Since when does the Texas Comptroller have the authority to repeal taxes?
  
  
  
• Nugget buried in story about the criminal investigation going on by DPS regarding the Camp Mystic flooding. 
  
• The more I read, the more I'm convinced no one is getting convicted of anything in the Cornell frat house scandal.