Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I'm not sure the Messenger has gone after some that hard since then. 

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• Palo Pinto County has a solar farm? 
  

  

  
  
• This is really, really weird decision by TCU. Gift article. 
  
  
  
• 2028? Does the government need a little more time to prepare after having 23 years to do so? 
  
  
  
  
• Assuming the "new rules" are implemented, it will take about 30 minutes for kids to figure out a way around it. 
  
  
  
  
• Dan Patrick finally left Austin and campaigned in Vernon and Wichita Falls yesterday.  I'm sure he really "loves campaigning."  Doesn't that look fun? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm saying the obvious when I tell you the videos of the wall of water coming down that river are unbelievable.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I first learned in Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary that the story behind this photo is not as feel good as you might think. Now the photographer has left us. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump thinks it is a good idea to simply declare "Mission Accomplished" in Iran. Does he not know that Bush is still not ridiculed for doing this?  
  
  
  
• It took him less than 24 hours to bring it back to him, but you knew it was coming. 
  
  
  
• Is that scores of other games or just other junk? 
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: There's an uncomfortable clash of AI generated images in your own home and criminal laws and the First Amendment coming.  What if you think of something illegal? What if you draw that image on a piece of paper. What if you use your computer to draw it with AI? One federal court dealt with it this week: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Fun fact: Boston's debut album was released 50 years ago yesterday. 

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• They still don't have a handle on this thing, and I think people in Bryson are getting a little nervous.
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure I expected the news channels to go 24/7 Dolly Parton coverage after she died yesterday, but they did. 
• Coincidence: Then next hurricane this season will be named . . . 
  
  
  
• Ronald Reagan's diary entry for 2/14/82: 
  
  
  
• This happened over the weekend, but we now know the suspect, who is dead, was a 44 year old family member whose parents had recently kicked him out of the house. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
• Overnight international news that won't make your day any better. 
  
• They're coming. And they are the largest police force in the United States. 
  
  
  
• "Make American Healthy Again"
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth might be the most incompetent person in the Trump Administration after Trump himself. 
  
  
  
• And Another out of Colorado yesterday morning:
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Folks in Waco are switching to Tyler Technologies which pretty much has a monopoly on Texas county government databases. That doesn't mean the software system is good. 
  
  
  
• Breaking Business News: Meta just settled in the middle of a trial brought by 29 states on the addictive nature of social media and the harm it can causes.  The amount of the settlement is $16.7 billion which doesn't seem like that much to Facebook's parent company.  

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

It was a simpler time when this would constitute a "controversy."

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• A very big fire in Palo Pinto County has really grown overnight leading to evacuations in southern Jack County.
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• A good size fire along FM51 north of Decatur kept crews busy yesterday afternoon. 
  
  
  
• Yesterday we had a couple of court sentencing cases come to a head in Decatur after two defendants had earlier pled guilty in district court.   The first one ended up with a 10 year probation.  It's my understanding that is what a pre-sentence investigation recommended. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The other one involved a guy with a criminal history who pled guilty to Intoxication Manslaughter.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Flashback to when that wreck happened. I guess I was correct: 
  
  
  
• There was a police chase down I-35 that ended up in Burleson last night.  The suspect ended up dead and an officer was shot in the leg. 
  
  
  
  
•  Video has appeared of Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper being obsessed with Muslims instead of focusing on issues important to us. Maybe he will recommend that all Muslims wear an arm band -- you know, just for starters.
  
  
  
• The owner of the San Francisco 49ers had a bad, and very odd, weekend: He got caught up in one of those prostitution stings by cops. 
  
   
  
  
  
• Kind of funny. Video.
  

  

  
  
• I'm barely following the Lindsay Clancy trial, but I must say I've never seen a judge instruct a jury to disregard evidence by standing up and being this animated.  
  
  
  
  
• He's trying too hard. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Target's PR department was busy. 
  

  

  
  
• Update from yesterday: She is no longer on the run. 
  
  
  
• He has to be one of the dumbest men in America, right? 
  
  
  
  
• LSU signed two football players yesterday who were just in NFL training camps for the Browns and the Saints. I'm as confused as you are.