Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

That was s a very random bullet point, but I noticed the guy has his own Wikipedia page, yet there's still no explanation as to why he lasted only 74 days.

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• Railroad strike averted.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Both Paradise (4:00 p.m.) and Bridgeport (7:30 p.m.) are playing at Jerry World today. 
  
  
  
• The Wise County Sheriff's Office database site has gone wonky again. This dashboard link isn't working. And the PDF of jail inmates is showing a roster from 2019. Fix this, boys!
• There was a new twist on the immigration busing stunts yesterday evening. Using children as pawns. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cold blooded. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A Royal guard collapsed face first. That's a hard fall. Close up video. Further away angle. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I hadn't really thought about this, but there's one less royalty to care for.
  
  
  
• Yesterday in the punishment trial of the Parkland mass shooter in Florida, the judge got all bent out of shape.  At the beginning of the day, the defense announced it would rest after having called 25 witnesses. However, earlier in the trial they had told the judge, as a courtesy, that they anticipated 80 witnesses.  Now with the defense resting, the State was caught off guard because they weren't ready with rebuttal. The judge would have to send the jury home.  As a result, the judge got real pissy at the defense and was completely out of line. Video. The defense has the right to change their minds on the number of witnesses, if any, they wish to call, and they don't have to give anyone a heads up about their decision.  The judge looked bad. 
  
  
  
• Remember that Serial podcast?
  
  
  
• He probably should campaign on this more. There's a lot of votes out there to get if he did.
  
  
  
• Let's check on how our Lt. Governor is honoring the separation between church and state with his official state Twitter account. 
  
  
  
• I'm not sure I knew a Texas Ranger was included as part of the Uvalde suspensions.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Texas judge news.
  
  
  
• A Washington state rookie police officer was suspended a whole 10 hours for this rant. I kind of wanted to hear what else she had to say. Keep going, girl. 
  
  
  
• Not a word in the Green Bay paper about the growing Brett Favre scandal . . . 

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

What an understatement on my part.

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• After an (ultimately false) active shooter call yesterday at a school in Houston, SWAT teams entered classrooms in Houston with guns drawn and telling students to get their hands up. Video.  This is what we have become.  But let's get all bent out of shape about kids being traumatized by CRT and books about gays in the library instead, right? 
  
  
  
• Waco freaked out shortly after that. 
  
  
  
• Who would have thought that a guy which shows up at the Oval Office with "martial law" written on a yellow pad as part of a plan to overthrow the election and the United States would get his phone seized? Bonus: The FBI approached him in a Hardee's parking lot where he was eating.
  

  

  
  
• A man who was school president during Baylor's sexual assault scandal, and turned a land investigation into a crusade against a President over extra-marital sex, certainly led a consequential life. He's now deceased after "surgery complications" in Houston.
  
  
  
• The Rolling Stone headline is a little harsh. 
  
  
  
• It may be behind a paywall, but the Star-Telegram obtained the video of the moments before a Navy jet crashed into a Lake Worth residential area in September of 2021. The cause of the crash? A "4.5-pound black vulture was ingested into the jet’s single engine."
  
  
  
  
  
   
• For swing states across the nation, Lindsey Graham absent-mindedly filmed a commercial for the Democrats yesterday as he proclaimed Republicans will outlaw abortion at the federal level if given the chance. “If we take back the House and the Senate, I can assure you we’ll have a vote on our bill.”
  

  

  
  
  
  
• That accident occurred within the Brock ISD. Every story like this should included a link to the actual lawsuit. This one does not. 
  
   
• The latest University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll is probably accurate.
  
  
  
• Keep an eye on the potential railroad strike. That's big business around here. 
  
  
  
• Dak injury update:
  
  
  
• Brittney Griner is still in a Russian prison.
• Messenger: Above the Fold

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

This was the origin of "Benghazi", occurring on 9/11/12.

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• Breaking inflation news: Not as good as the Biden Administration had hoped.  The decline in gas prices alone raised expectation that it would be less than 8.3%
  
  
  
• Stock market reaction as of 8:28 a.m.:
  
  
  
• Better map that I had yesterday regarding Ukraine's gains against Russia.
  
  
  
• As 40 new Justice Department subpoenas were flying yesterday, there was a lot of online buzz about Trump having a meeting on his golf course with lots of people who weren't playing golf. The equivalent of a mafia mob meeting away from cameras and recording devices? Naaa. The guy in red is the golf course superintendent.  
  
  
  
• This wasn't already the case?
  
  
  
• Let's check out the reaction of Wise County's (very unstable) congressional rep. 
  
  
  
• He really is a certifiable nut job. Yesterday, for example:
  
  
  
• This sounds like a murder-suicide, but that's about the only information available. 
  
  
  
• When Susan Smith killed her two kids in a lake in 1994, it was a national shockwave. The killing of three children over the weekend in New York, however, hardly makes anyone's radar. (But I guess the difference is that Smith seemed to be sane and calculating, while this woman might be very mentally unstable.)
  
  
  
• "Roe v. Wade should be overturned so the states can decide the issue" didn't last long. 
  
  
  
• I'm no sure how Dr. Oz expects to win Pennsylvania by turning his back on the far right like this. 
  
  
  
• Courting the nutcases in plain sight: "[Last night] Trump shared a picture of himself wearing a Q lapel pin, overlaid with the QAnon phrases 'The Storm is Coming' and 'WWG1WGA,' on his Truth Social account . . . .. The post had been originally shared on Truth Social by an account called 'Patriots in Control,' before Trump re-shared it." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There was a new Law & Order commercial during the Cowboys' game where the fictional DA was seen saying, "I want you to get a conviction, and I don't care how you do it."  Sheesh. We celebrate that?  Then I noticed that John Oliver was already planning to take the show to task on HBO. (Available on YouTube.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• TV quick hits: 
• Succession won the Emmy for Best Drama last night. I'm a big fan. 
  
  
  
• Better Call Saul has been nominated for 46 Emmys since 2015. It has never won any of them. 
• I finally started Only Murderers in the Building and What We Do in The Shadows. Both have not disappointed so far. 
• Those are significant line movements demonstrating that the early bettors were putting their money on Oklahoma and Miami in overwhelming numbers.
  
  
  
• Remember on Friday when I told you to bet the Under on Cowboy total wins? How's that looking now?