Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The trial of Enrique Arochi began for the kidnapping of Christina Morris after a night out around  the Shops at Legacy in  Plano. Arochi was convicted, but Morris' remains would be not be found until two years after the trial. 

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• The price of diesel in Wise County appears to be around to $6.30 a gallon.
• Something definitely happened. 
  
  
  
• Several years of investigation and they came up with just seven people to charge?
  
  
  
• Newly appointed Texas Comptroller Don Huffines has put a kid in charge of the department. And Huffines has been throwing money at him since 2022.   Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper is in the mix, too.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Speaking of Hopper, he has a fundraiser planned where you have to spend a ton of money just to get him to stop by your table. 
  
  
  
• Pete Delkus is now being quoted in the Washington Post. 
  
  
  
  
• This happened late yesterday evening. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Isn't the guy with rifle the one to blame? 
  
  

  

  
  
• What are we doing here?
  
  
  
• Trump ranted like a madman yesterday. 
• A president accusing the opposing political party of trying to murder him would be quite the scandal a few years back. Now it is just a Tuesday. 
  
  
  
  
• Ditto. 
  
  
  
• “We don’t have an FBI Director, we have a lackey. He’s not even a good lackey, he’s an incompetent lackey. He's like an 18-year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands & chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment." Oh, my. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. A Trader' Joes is coming to Alliance. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• The Nielsen Second™. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It is 100 days until Christmas. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Trump went on Jimmy Fallon and allowed him to mess up his hair. 

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• Wise County has another murder case. 
• A guy posing as an underage child online tricked a former Bridgeport High School trainer a couple of years ago and that led to a 12 year prison sentence yesterday.  According to the Messenger story, no other offenses were presented by the State during the sentencing hearing.  (Some allegations had been made, but the government had dismissed those.)

  

  Video that started it all.

  
  
• I'm sure you've seen the Fort Worth video. It happened at Harmon Road and Heritage Trace.
  
  
  
  
• "A Plano murder suspect has died after a police chase ended in gunfire and a fiery crash along I-35 near Valley View on Monday morning, officials say."
  
  
  
• Dateline Wichita Falls.  Even the press release reads like a thriller. 
  
  
  
• If you thought Bo French would apologize for being a racist, you don't know Bo French. 
  
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper doubled down on his support for French. 
  
  
  
• Now he'll just blame mail-in ballots for losing the mid-terms and declare them invalid. 
  
  
  
  
• Don Jr.'s new wife defended a Russian oligarch paying for her wedding by saying he only paid for the two day after-party.  Silly us.
  
• Everyone feel better that the dumbest man in America is the only one protecting us from AI? 
  
  
  
  
• We will need our own Nuremburg Trials before all is said and done.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth volunteered this guy to go on 60 Minutes.  I don't know if Hegseth made the "military debriefers" lie like this. 
  
  
  
• "Life Oak Cliff has caught a lot of heat on social media for Friday’s 105-14 win over Bonham. Especially since quarterback Camren Phillips threw 10 touchdown passes, including one late in the football game that put the Class 3A public charter school over 100 points." Dallas Morning News gift link. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Three people were rethinking their life's choices after that one. 

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• Multiple people were injured, one fatally, after a head-on crash on FM 51 near Greenwood on Saturday. (Facebook story.)
  
  
  
• Former Tarrant County Republican Chair and current GOP nominee for Railroad Commissioner, Bo French, was widely condemned yesterday after posting a crowd shot from UT's game on Saturday night and complaining that there weren't enough white people in it.    Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper, on the other hand, supported him. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Don't look at the gas pump prices this morning.
  
• What are we even doing here?  And the amount is rising. 
  
  
  
• It's chaos everywhere and for everything. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There is a lot more going on out there . . . . 
  
  
  
• This is real. This official White House account is thanking Trump for a slow hurricane season. 
  
• But tell me more about Hunter Biden's laptop.   Story from the great ProPublica.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Former Messenger reporter. 
  
• Trump slept through the 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon on Friday before flying off to Ireland.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Random Trump quote from Ireland. 
  
  
  
• Somehow the Evil Empire came back and beat Ohio State on Saturday despite ESPN's Game Day letting Ted Cruz have 10 minutes live from Austin that morning. (He was booed relentlessly for those 10 minutes.)
  
  
  
  
  
• Somehow massive underdog Oklahoma State beat Oregon this weekend, but if you were following it live you would have to have changed the channel from ESPN to ESPN2 to ESPN News during the course of the game.