Random Friday Morning Thoughts

With Hillary vs. Trump a month away, USA Today absolutely nailed the stakes at hand 

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• Ages 21 and 15. It happened yesterday.  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• Good. Seven years passes for most of us in the blink of an eye. But it would feel very diffierent if you lived it in a cage.  
  
  
  
• The great Fox4Terry is throwing me off by using the word "iconic" for a strip club. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cornell controversy: The DA is out, and the AG is in.   This could end up being a disaster for everyone. 
  
  
  
• Note to Tarrant County DA: Based upon that second sentence, this case is not something to brag about.  At all.
  
  
  
• Our Orwellian revision of history continues. 
  
  
  
  
• We live in the oddest of political times. 
  
  
  
• This is real.  The corruption knows no bottom. Edit: The text and the dinner and the corruption is real. The photo is very fake. 
   
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  
  
• The Second Business Second™. How many homes can they keep adding in that area between 287 and Eagle Mountain Lake?  And there's no easy ingress and egress. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dateline Waco. Pretty wacky facts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• North Texas beat Tulsa in overtime very late last night, but they might have been lucky there was no camera positioned right on the goal line on that instant replay.  Video.
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 91 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

It's kind of hard to see them when there's a downpour going on (or when there's not a cloud in the sky which has been the case for most of September.)

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• Get that man an umbrella. 
  
  
  
• Thoughts and prayers if you tried to go to Fort Worth on 287 yesterday. This was the problem:
  
  
  
• The execution of a woman in Tennessee scheduled for yesterday, for a crime she committed while 18, was halted in the afternoon by a federal appeals court, then the Supreme Court gave it the go ahead a few hours later, and then Tennessee botched the attempted execution and she's now in the hospital.  Barbaric.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  

  
  
  
  
• Overnight news. Good lord.
  
   
  
  
  
• DPS says it received “credible information about an individual planning a violent attack” What happened was that one friend of the guy told them that he had made threats.  
  
  
  
• This story took a shocking turn in paragraph #5 (below).
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth tried to act like Patton yesterday. After hearing things like this, any chance those in the Middle East might just think the U.S. is leading a crazed radical Christian holy war -- especially after bombing a girl's school and killing over 150?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Forgot to mention this yesterday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trumpism from yesterday:
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: The Texas AG's office was brought in to prosecute this case and, as I've said for years, they have no idea what they are doing when it comes to criminal prosecution.  I bet the defense lawyers just throttled them.  Side note: The assistant AG gave his closing argument while wearing a black shirt and dark jacket. 
  
  
  
  

  

  

  

  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

They had to have renamed themselves to the current day "Wise County Conservatives", right? 

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• Drudge got excited about this this morning, and it is a big deal.  But the plane safely landed. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• So a parent shows up with a gun at school and somehow it's just a "mental health" crisis? That didn't stop the police from arresting them. (The story provides no information other than the headline.)
  
• He gets shot in the back and charged with a crime. 
  
  
  
• If you haven't seen this, you need to.  A senator thinks that a text message referring to particular seat at a basketball game must mean that Jack Smith was in Atlanta at the Hawks basketball game that night. In fact, the text referred to Smith going to a University of Maryland women's basketball game. 
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Welcome to the new D.C. show, "The Oligarchy and the Mob Boss." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• When things go to hell in a hand-basket in a country, whoever controls the military controls the country. 
  
  
  
  
• College girls suddenly have developed superhero powers. 
• Kansas State: 
  
  
  
  
• Georgia: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We finally found out which government account is paying for the new Trump propaganda ads. "And a total of $20 million has been allocated for the effort" so there's more coming. 
  
  
  
• I still think this Cornell Sex Scandal is criminally iffy, but the student newspaper decided to publish the names of the men allegedly involved which kicked off the current news coverage.
  
  
  
• It's not like that was a 60 Minutes investigation, though. It's right there in a public civil lawsuit filing. 
  
  
  
• In a story in the New York Times examining the student newspaper's decision, I'm not sure what drives me crazier: The editor's use of "like" or the lawyer's legal advice. 
  
  
  
  
• A player goes into the crowd at a WNBA playoff game last night. 
  
  
  
• The official Aggie twitter account thought it was a good idea to tease a new end zone design this way. The avalanche of submitted altered photos in the comments should have come as no surprise. 
  
  
  
• Our long summer heat nightmare is over. It ends for good today.