Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Whoever was in charge of the sign in Decatur for the season opener in 2016 might have made it a little too stout,

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• You can walk into a store and legally buy weed in 24 states. Well, it's technically illegal under federal law even in those states but the federal government just ignores it. But the feds don't ignore it in those states which still haven't legalized it. Confused? You should be.
  
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• There's a lot more going on out there than what we know about. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trumpapalooza in Dallas:
• It got off to a rough start in D.C.
  
  
  
• Let's bribe everyone in broad daylight. 
  
  
  
• The man remains tone-deaf.
  
  
  
  
• Ken Paxton spoke and reminded us that he has the charisma of a rock. 
  
  
  
• On the big scoreboard in the center of American Airlines Center. (I'm not sure why.) 
  
  
  
• Incredible.  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. It's cool, but I don't know if it is two grand cool. 
  
  
  
  
• I was kind of hoping that Tony Buzbee would get tagged in this case, but he won't. 
  
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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

There would be a movie about it, Bombshell, three years later. 

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• Dateline Edgewood, Texas in Van Zandt county. Population l,530.  Yuck. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A Fort Worth private school got hit with a jury verdict. (Legal nerdy stuff: The story includes a PDF of the jury charge and verdict.)
  
  
  
• It just keeps going on. 
  
  
  
• It just keeps going up. 
  
  
  
• I continue to be confused about how this fire is still going. 
  
  
  
  
• Dateline Ohio. The safety on the gun was still on. Video. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• That's a good gig if you can get it. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• There is no bottom. From being jealous of the "man in the red bandana" to saying he had to be recused by firefighters.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I haven't watched any of the U.S. Open, but I could have in the middle of the night. 
  
  
  
  
• Three of the Lindsay Clancy jurors are now talking and confirm that it was 11-1 for not guilty. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

We've put up with him for so long. 

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• Bad wreck in Wise County: 
  
• This is probably a lost cause. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• One day after Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff left following the "negotiations": 
  
  
  
• Uh, it's a state prosecution so it doesn't work that way. (He said this today on Good Morning America.)
  
  
  
• It's Trumpapalooza time in Dallas. It will compete with NFL games on Wednesday and Thursday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• From the "Let Them Eat Cake" department: 
• Ivanka posts a video of her riding horseback on the beach. 
  
  
  
• She shows off her luxury apartment in Miami.
  
  
  
• But the rest of us just need to trust him. 
  
  
  
• Rep. Ronny Jackson posted this yesterday.  Did Americans take a 60 day holiday after July 4, 1776?
  
• The SMU-Florida State game was delayed last night for almost two hours because they couldn't get the power turned on in Tallahassee. 
  
  
  
• Regarding the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, have we not heard from any of the jurors yet? That's surprising.