Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Way before George Floyd, two police shootings in one week (Terence Crutcher and Keith Scott) dominated headlines for a week. 

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• Decatur city hall seems to be hell-bent on inserting themselves into controversies they could easily avoid.  First, the ICE 287(g) controversy, and now this:
  
  
  
• Alternative headline: Decatur City Council is Anti-Trump; Goes Against MAGA! 
  
  
  
• I still think this "hazing" incident is going to turn out to be a big bag of nothing. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• All we know is what is in the police press releases, and that is nothing more than what's in the headlines.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Overnight: A court ruling that was expected came down.
  
• But so far this morning, all three networks have been denied access to the White House. We don't know yet whether this is just incompetence or defiance. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The President of China got the red-carpet treatment at Andrews Air Force Base last evening. 
• But a planned overhead fly-by scared Trump. Video.
  
  
  
• But look what Trump posted this morning. (And even little Natalie is in the background.)
  
  
  
• Every school needs an oligarch. 
  
  
  
• Delivered by whom? (It's available online.) 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Fun fact: I had always heard of the Nixon/Kennedy debate in 1960., and the impact it had on the election.  But I didn't know that there would not be another televised debate until 1976. The Ford/Carter debate was 50 years ago yesterday.
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

On September 25, 2016, Fernández died in a pre-dawn boating crash when the 32-foot boat, named ꓘaught Looking, that he was piloting was speeding at 65 mph and struck a north rock jetty off Miami Beach, Florida. The U.S. Coast Guard found the boat at about 3:00 a.m.

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• Is nothing just considered an accident anymore? 
  
  
  
• The search warrant affidavit is 47 pages long (PDF) and, frankly, I've never seen one so detailed in my life. 
  
  
  
• In other DPS news . . . 
  
  
  
• Driving 380 into Denton will not be pleasant for a few years. "Local drivers who don’t use the interstate may notice changes on U.S. Highway 380 . . . with work expected to finish in the summer of 2029."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, my.
  
  

  

  
  
• There will never be a day he does not embarrass us in front of the world. 
  
  
  
• Other images from his U.N. speech
  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• And another.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Pacific hurricanes act like their drunk.  Look at its path coming up from the bottom. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Real Estate Second™. "The mansion is owned by Rashid Salem, a real estate developer who founded Petra Development, according to the Tarrant Appraisal District."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™.  This seems like a horrible idea. 
  
  
  
• I've never heard of this, and I think I'm interested.
  
  
  
• "In an unusual gesture, President Trump will be on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews to greet China's leader Xi Jinping when his plane touches down around 6:00 this evening."

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

I'm not sure that I do know "several people" with self-driving car automation. 

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• Roanoke PD released the identity of officer hurt in motorcycle crash on 114 over the weekend. He remains in critical condition.  
  

  

  
  
• The Dallas Morning News ran this story the other day which included a Decatur reference. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The most predictable thing ever. 
  
  
  
• When I saw this headline, I figured the past criminal case was a 30 year old shoplifting probation or something like that.  Nope, she spent five years in federal prison.  The district includes "parts of north Tarrant County, including north Fort Worth, Haslet, Saginaw, and Blue Mound."
  
• What could go wrong?
  
  
  
• I was prepared to call this State TV, but it was just showing a replay of the July 4th "celebration" on the mall in D.C. last night and no one was (understandably) watching. 
  
  
  
• Stuff like this provides ammunition for the immigration debate. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Then again, people go from concentration camps to literally "disappearing."
  
  
  
• The government can cause a historical website hosted by a college to be removed just because the subject matter does not meet with its approval. 
  
  
   
• The New York Times has taken note of drones filling the skies over Richardson. Story 
  
  
  
• Prosecutor news .
  
  
  
• I'm still not sure what exactly happened in Austin: