Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Trump went on Jimmy Fallon and allowed him to mess up his hair. 

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• Wise County has another murder case. 
• A guy posing as an underage child online tricked a former Bridgeport High School trainer a couple of years ago and that led to a 12 year prison sentence yesterday.  According to the Messenger story, no other offenses were presented by the State during the sentencing hearing.  (Some allegations had been made, but the government had dismissed those.)

  

  Video that started it all.

  
  
• I'm sure you've seen the Fort Worth video. It happened at Harmon Road and Heritage Trace.
  
  
  
  
• "A Plano murder suspect has died after a police chase ended in gunfire and a fiery crash along I-35 near Valley View on Monday morning, officials say."
  
  
  
• Dateline Wichita Falls.  Even the press release reads like a thriller. 
  
  
  
• If you thought Bo French would apologize for being a racist, you don't know Bo French. 
  
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper doubled down on his support for French. 
  
  
  
• Now he'll just blame mail-in ballots for losing the mid-terms and declare them invalid. 
  
  
  
  
• Don Jr.'s new wife defended a Russian oligarch paying for her wedding by saying he only paid for the two day after-party.  Silly us.
  
• Everyone feel better that the dumbest man in America is the only one protecting us from AI? 
  
  
  
  
• We will need our own Nuremburg Trials before all is said and done.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth volunteered this guy to go on 60 Minutes.  I don't know if Hegseth made the "military debriefers" lie like this. 
  
  
  
• "Life Oak Cliff has caught a lot of heat on social media for Friday’s 105-14 win over Bonham. Especially since quarterback Camren Phillips threw 10 touchdown passes, including one late in the football game that put the Class 3A public charter school over 100 points." Dallas Morning News gift link. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Three people were rethinking their life's choices after that one. 

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• Multiple people were injured, one fatally, after a head-on crash on FM 51 near Greenwood on Saturday. (Facebook story.)
  
  
  
• Former Tarrant County Republican Chair and current GOP nominee for Railroad Commissioner, Bo French, was widely condemned yesterday after posting a crowd shot from UT's game on Saturday night and complaining that there weren't enough white people in it.    Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper, on the other hand, supported him. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Don't look at the gas pump prices this morning.
  
• What are we even doing here?  And the amount is rising. 
  
  
  
• It's chaos everywhere and for everything. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There is a lot more going on out there . . . . 
  
  
  
• This is real. This official White House account is thanking Trump for a slow hurricane season. 
  
• But tell me more about Hunter Biden's laptop.   Story from the great ProPublica.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Former Messenger reporter. 
  
• Trump slept through the 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon on Friday before flying off to Ireland.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Random Trump quote from Ireland. 
  
  
  
• Somehow the Evil Empire came back and beat Ohio State on Saturday despite ESPN's Game Day letting Ted Cruz have 10 minutes live from Austin that morning. (He was booed relentlessly for those 10 minutes.)
  
  
  
  
  
• Somehow massive underdog Oklahoma State beat Oregon this weekend, but if you were following it live you would have to have changed the channel from ESPN to ESPN2 to ESPN News during the course of the game. 

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Jerryism.

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• Wichita Falls Memorial's QB threw 8 touchdown passes against Decatur last night -- and lost.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• A crazy number of wrecks happened in Wise County yesterday. They are documented here (Facebook link.)
• There might be a different strait problem brewing.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I suppose these things are actually going to be commonplace in the near future. 
  
• This guy has been doing damage to Christianity for years. And yesterday he went full throttle at Trumpapalooza. 
  
  
• A headline that would have sent shockwaves a decade ago now barely even registers. 
  
  
  
  
• Trumpisms from last night in Dallas:
• He lies right to their faces and they continue to worship him. 
  
  
  
• And pledge allegiance to him. 
  
  
  
• They made a strategic decision to put a bunch of adoring women in the background for two nights in a row. 
  
  
  
• In the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can't Happen Here, Sen. Windrip offers every American $5,000 if he's elected president. He's elected; Americans get a dictator but no paychecks.
  

  

  
  
• This is the Star-Telegram owner, and there is some indication that newspaper was impacted. 
  
  

  
• The Law and Money:
• Dershowitz is 80 years old. And look how much he is charging.    
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• On the other end of the financial spectrum, rightly or wrongly.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 70 days.