Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

On October 7, 2016, less than one month before the election, the Access Hollywood "grab 'em by" video of Trump and Billy Bush was released.  I was 100% certain it was over. I still don't understand how it wasn't. 

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• Fort Worth Police released this last night. Someone needs to rewrite it. 
  
  
  
• Dateline southern Denton County. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• All we know is what is in the headline. 
  
  
  
• "Granbury leaders put a proposed recall election on hold when an attorney announced he was suing the city [to stop the election] at Tuesday's city council meeting." Oddly, the Houston lawyer wouldn't say a single word to a reporter as he headed to his pickup truck. (Get some PR training, buddy).  And, strangely, he wouldn't tell anyone who he represents -- for some unexplained reason, the lawsuit paperwork wasn't readily available. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Wacky story.
  
  
  
• Dateline Indiana: Make that an alleged boozed-up woman. Video. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Man, there's a lot of this type of stuff going on out there.  Side note: Rod Stewart is not involved. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Even the New York Post thinks we need to know about this.  If the Pentagon would ever hold a press conference, we might actually find out what is going on. 
  
  
  
• He did it again! Another investigation announced yesterday!
  
  
  
• Since when does the Texas Comptroller issue executive orders? Since when does the Texas Comptroller have the authority to repeal taxes?
  
  
  
• Nugget buried in story about the criminal investigation going on by DPS regarding the Camp Mystic flooding. 
  
• The more I read, the more I'm convinced no one is getting convicted of anything in the Cornell frat house scandal. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The great clown scare of 2016.

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• Breaking: It is not Big Tex. Repeat. It is not Big Tex. 
  
  
  
• Honestly, I'd rather have a firing squad than a botched lethal injection like we saw in Tennessee last week. Side note: It would be the first military firing squad since 1945.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Notable death.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We seem to be seeing more and more of these.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Not a chance in the world that he's telling the truth.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• What would get you impeached 20 years ago now won't make the news cycle through noon of the following day.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He's launched about 100 meaningless (and possibly non-existent) "investigations" in the last 60 days in an effort to get a headline. 
  
  
  
• Abbott avoiding Trump: 
  
  
  
• She almost bit it.  Video.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Nerdy legal stuff: It's just coming from one federal district judge (PDF), but it could have some legs. Side note: Most of the opinion deals with a Rodriguez prolonged detention issue which is favorable to defendants. 
  
• On the first day of the Supreme Court's term yesterday, they declined to hear 745 cases which have been filed asking for the court to review it by the losing party on appeal.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The ten year anniversary to the day when Ted Cruz sold his soul.

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• Dateline Houston. Oh, my. 
  
• Photos from the weekend: 
• The ACL music festival in Austin was a muddy mess, and this is a great photo for a lot of reasons. 
  
  
  
  
• Former special prosecutor Jack Smith went to a Bruce Springsteen shown. 
  
  
  
• Gov. Hochul is listed at 5'8".  AG James' height is hard to pin down. 
  
  
  
• The GOP thought it would be a good idea to roll out ads featuring Angela Paxton urging you to vote straight Republican ticket. First, all you think about when you see it is that Ken Paxton cheated on her.  Secondly, the line that a general election is not about “the individual players” is one crazy take.
  
  
  
• Trump continues to go crazy.
• Tell me again that the United States will never be a socialist country.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• If you voted for him, you deserve him. 
  
  
  
  
• Drugs? They were manufacturing drugs in the nuclear plants? 
  
  
  
• Not only is this a bizarre rant, but he posted a congressman's phone number. 
  
  
  
  
• Another bizarre rant -- this time about Fox News not covering his Alabama rally on Saturday night.
  
  
  
• That could stop its use by guys who care more about their hair than their bellies. And that's pretty much all of them.  
  
  
  
  
• Very legal nerdy stuff: The Texas Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a Wise County case that should make every lawyer scared to practice civil law. (Court of appeals opinion here.) 
• No one is listing the cause of death which is normally a bad tell-tale sign.
  
  
  
• Weekend Sports:
• "During"? 
  
  
  
• A replay review turned into Inception on your TV screen. 
  
  
  
• Anyone else irritated about  the three hour scroll for a flash flood warning for the strange place of "Henderson and Henderson" during the Tech/Colorado game?
  
  
  
• Of course, Wise County rep. Andy Hopper was a speaker at the Anti-Muslim rally referenced below: