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:

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."