Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

And here is one of the dumbest things I've ever done.  Ten years ago, when I left the comments here open, there was a guy who always posted in all caps who was my online nemeses. Fortunately, he never took me up on this bet. (To this day, I don't know who he was.)

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• News was a little slow to trickle out about this but 10 people were sent to the hospital after a multi-vehicle crash on 380 on Saturday night. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Video here.  And that was a lot of people standing right by it.
  
   
  
  
  
• The fireworks guy at the Seahawks' stadium almost shot down a military helicopter last night. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• At the New York Marathon on Sunday. Life is short. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's election day, and I think the prediction market at Kalshi is way off base here.  My bold prediction is that Paxton will win. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump's Justice Department just announced the locations where they will be sending "election monitors" today.  In Texas, it just happens to be counties which vote Democratic.  This is not normal. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There are local elections as well. Be sure to vote for someone who is able to read a weather forecast for the next day. 
  
  
  
• Then again, the FBI can't even get the date correct. (This is real.) 
  
  
  
• The identities of the those involved in the Learjet crash have been released. Side note: That 20 year old female co-pilot did a brave and heroic job in relaying the flight conditions to the tower during the emergency. She was professional even when she knew it was all over. 
  

  

  
  
• Update on the Deep Ellum shootings: For some reason the U.S. Attorney is running towards the cameras at every opportunity even though these are clearly state crimes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Quite the contrast from above. 
  
  
  
• And Trump's support of Russia keeps getting weirder and weirder. Overnight: 
  
  

  

  
  
• With less than 24 hours before the polls open, Trump gave one of the weirdest speeches he's ever given yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trumpism:
  
  
  
• Trump went to the Supreme Court yesterday to try and interfere with the elections in California.
  
  
  
  
• And look it the wiggle words in the Petition to the court: 
  
  
  
  
• In watching the election returns tonight, there is a 100% chance that Talarico will jump ahead of Paxton by 7:30 p.m. because the first thing that is released is the early voting in the largest and most Democratic counties.  Then the rural vote will start to come in more slowly. 8:30 pm. will look much different than 7:30 p.m. (This is exactly what happened in Beto vs. Cruz.)