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.
  

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.
  
• Oh, my. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.