Random Monday Morning Thoughts

A couple of days after her body was found near Lake Grapevine, an arrest was made and this video made its first appearance. 

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• Another jail death. 
  
  
  
• "Officers were conducting traffic enforcement along SH 114 in response to numerous complaints involving motorcycles traveling at high speeds in the area while attending an event at Texas Motor Speedway. The officer, who was operating a police motorcycle, attempted to stop a motorcycle when the rider fled from the officer. During the incident, both the officer and the fleeing motorcyclist were involved in a collision with another vehicle on SH 114, just west of I-35W."
  
  
  
• Saturday afternoon: "Fire (Parker County) 14500 block White Settlement Road - Multiple RV's on fire." I have no idea what's going on here. 
  
  
  
• Paxton quickly took the tweet down yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
  
• Welcome to the autocracy.  It is here. 
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Middle East war is expanding with Saudi Arabia taking direct hits. 
  
  
  
  
• And with the war spreading, the Secretary of Defense was down in Aggieland quoting the Bible and running bleachers. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• D-Day doesn't seem that long ago, but now . . . 
  
  
  
  
• He's a moron.
  
  
  
• There's always a tweet. 
  
  
  
• Celebrity news. 
  
  
  
• Two examples of ad campaigns gone wrong. (Where have all the Don Draper's of the the world gone?)
• First, Converse:
  
  
  
  
• Also, Wise County's Brandon Gill did not think through his anti-James Talarico video ad. Always be fearful of the out-of-context screenshot.  
  
  
  
• And what's up Greg Abbott thinking its a good idea to run an ad blaming local communities for high taxes, and then uttering the very odd sentence of "There should be a vote that requires a two-third vote before any property tax increase."  

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Eventually we learned that "she lured her husband, 47-year-old Bob Poynter, to a rural Hunt County road where her lover, Michael Glen Garza, shot him in the head. The Poynters, who had married in 2009, were in the midst of a divorce at the time Chacey Poynter started planning the slaying with Michael Glen Garza, whom she was seeing during her marriage."

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• WFAA reports that it obtained the arrest affidavit in the alleged hazing case in Boyd.  Everyone might want to tap the brakes on this one. (I can't find a PDF of the affidavtit yet.) 
  
  

  

  
  
  
• The Wise County DA won a major award from the Texas District and County Attorneys Association this week in its annual conference.
  
  
  
• Side note: The young lady on the left who is getting ignored in that post is Michelle Deuell, an assistant DA in Stainton's office. 
• I presume that the money being used to become a "sponsor" was from the sheriff's own pocket and not taxpayer money. 
  
  
  
• Nope, not a murder. She was living in the storage unit and "police said there is no evidence of foul play, and the death appears to be medical in nature."
  
  
  
• State Rep. Jeff Leach, who is the attorney for this woman, seems to have a strange infatuation with his client. 
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
• And another.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Video has emerged of the Los Angeles news helicopter crashing. The pilot kept it amazingly level, but it just came in way too fast in the emergency landing.
  
  
  
• What did they do down there to deserve this? He will attend the Aggie/Kentucky game.
  

  

  
  
• Probably be a good idea to limit headlines like this from the 40 Acres. 
  
  
• Those prosthetic toes on the right belong to Deion Sanders.
  
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 77 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

And so began the murder case against Charles Bryant who would be seen on surveillance video at the Walmart in Haslet buying a shovel at 4:00 a.m. in the morning after meeting Vandagriff at a bar in Denton. 

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• The story in the Messenger is free.  The alleged hazing better be really, really bad if you are going to arrest high school students. 
  
  
  
• RIP to Sunny, originally from Boyd, Texas. 
  
  
  
• "Ohio sheriff's deputies attacked by a man trying to escape after sentencing" Video.
  
   
  
• She actually got the government to wire her the money.  (And if you were ever interested in how guilty plea goes down in federal court, her transcript is here.)
  
  
  
• Get ready. 
  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure why China would want it considering it's all going to be drone warfare in the future.
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
• He's going to tear down the Kennedy Center isn't he?
• Last night: "Trump looks at a placard that reads 'Kennedy Center DEMOLITION' as he lands at Joint Base Andrews (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Earlier in the day: 
  
  
  
• The President of the the United States: 
  
• Sports: Everything good and just is slipping away from us. 
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: The level of "cutesy writing" by appellate court judges just keeps increasing, and an absolute cringe opinion from federal First Circuit from yesterday is a perfect example . 
• Messenger - Above the Fold