This really was amazing. A Southwest jet with 124 passengers landed at the wrong airport when it was headed for Branson, Missouri. It almost skidded off the runway since it was unexpectedly short.
- Iowa Caucuses:
- Trump won with 51%. No real surprise.
- Fun fact: Trump won every one of the 99 counties with the exception of one. And in that county (Johnson County - where the University of Iowa is located), he lost by one single vote.
- Only 110,000 people voted which is only 14% of registered Republicans in Iowa. So Trump gets a major victory with 7% of Iowa Republicans who are MAGA enough to turn out in freezing temperature. And I mean extreme MAGA based upon exit polling:
- Hey, I'm not fooling myself. Trump will most certainly be the ultimate nominee. But if it were "normal times", yesterday wouldn't have told us much.
- Look who was there yesterday running around with the nuttiest of Trump worshipers.
- I think it's really strange that all the major schools in the metroplex are closed simply because of cold weather.
- This headline does not make me comfortable about the quality control standards of this crime lab. They can't even keep the water running.
- KXAS (Channel 5) caught a lot of grief for cutting away from the last minute of the close Chargers/Lions game on Sunday night to report on snow flurries. Here's the moment.
- The Feds are clamping down on bits:
- Bad timing: I saw a Tom Thumb TV commercial yesterday where it shows CeeDee Lamb running out for passes, but the ball keeps landing all around him. He then says, "I don't think this quarterback is working." The camera then pans to a Tom Thumb mascot character.
- The Emmys were last night. I didn't watch them, but saw this note:
- Legal nerdy stuff: To say that the ultra right Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is full of liberal judges might be the dumbest thing Ken Paxton has ever said.
- Over the top nerdy stuff: I just had a power down moment when I saw what the first day of UT Law's Federal Courts class entailed.
- I think bringing in 71 year old Bill Belichick to run the Cowboys is a dumb idea. But it would be entertaining.
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Another story I had forgotten.
- Big and tragic news involving Paradise and Wise County. School board member Dr. Heath Smith was piloting a small plane carrying his two of his children, ages 6 and 8, when it went down near Poolville yesterday afternoon, killing all three. It took off from Dimmit near the border and was scheduled to land at the Bridgeport airport around 1:00 p.m. He was also a surgeon for Bariatric Solutions. The story is in the New York Post this morning.
- We are in the middle of an ERCOT conservation warning which ends at 10:00 a.m., but I haven't heard on any wide ranging blackouts.
- A wild image just posted by the Fort Worth Fire Department from a fire around midnight.
- This is such a cluster. The case goes "unsolved" for 6 years, and then the D.A. abruptly indicted someone for the murder. Now, just as quickly, the indictment has been dismissed.
- The more I think about it, the more I hate the unforced error of the Atlanta D.A. (allegedly) hiring a boyfriend who isn't even close to qualified. She finally addressed the issue yesterday in, of all places, a church.
- There's a battle brewing on the border where there is now a section of land where Texas, in an effort to take over border patrol, is preventing federal border patrol agents from entering. That's nuts. And if you think it's great, what would you think if California did the same thing but for the purpose of opening of the gates?
- The Business Second. I saw this graphic about the number of homes posted for foreclosure during the last several years. And last year, 24 homes in Wise County were posted.
- Notable death.
- Cowboys
- Summed up.
- Possible explanation
- Images from the playoff game in Kansas City on Saturday night where it was was -4 degrees at kickoff. Patrick Maholmes helmet literally shattered when he got hit.
- More fun that legally nerdy: Watch 48 seconds of Rudy's lawyer arguing double jeopardy in an Atlanta courtroom. You don't have to know anything about double jeopardy to realize how funny this is.
- There was one Texa Ranger who was suspended, and is still suspended, because of the Uvalde debacle. But after 15 months, he is still getting paid and even received a $9,000 raise. He is now making just shy of $100,000 plus benefits.
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A guy rides his bicycle over the arches on the bridges of the Fort Worth's 7th Street Bridge. Video.
- After countering drone attacks of ships in the Red Sea for the last two months, the U.S. went on the offensive last night against the Houthis - and that's all I know about the Houthis.
- So I've asked The Highly Compensated Liberally Lean Weather Team™ to issue me a report and this is what they said:
- The temperature will dip below freezing at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday and will not get above freezing again until 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
- Well get as low as 10 degrees during that span and that will actually be on Tuesday morning.
- The greatest chance of snow is during the early morning hours of Monday, but my guys say it's not very likely.
- So why exactly is Allen PD saying anything at all if they are also not going to release any other info whatsoever? And why is the Dallas Morning News running the "story"? It's behind a paywall but, trust me, it says absolutely nothing more than the headline.
- Good, lord. The way things are going it's just a matter of time before Hispanics are shot in the Rio Grande. At the very least it dehumanize them to such an extent that a nutcase takes it on himself to kill them. Remember the El Paso massacre where the guy drove 10 hours to do that?
- "The law suit says Medearis was working in a building near the Sandman Hotel when he heard and felt the explosion. While trying to run away from the blast he 'tripped, fell, and as a result suffered personal bodily injury,' the suit says." Oh, good grief. Man up, dude.
- This story had a twist. A guy gets his Lamborghini stolen in Houston and hires a private investigator to track it down. Somehow they think they have it located in a garage in Hopkins County but aren't absolutely sure (maybe they can't get close enough - the story isn't clear). To find out for certain, the car owner then goes to the location and sets off the the cars lights and horn with his key fob. Then, and only then, he calls the cops.
- Oh, my.
- Back in the day, baseball teams and players would routinely go to arbitration when a salary agreement couldn't be reached. The way it works is that the team submits a proposed salary to the arbitrator and the player submits his. The arbitrator then just decides which of the two numbers is the most fair - that's is only option. These days, most teams and players avoid arbitration by working things out, but yesterday was the deadline. Below are those that couldn't along with the arbitration figures which will be submitted. I'm stunned how close most of them are to each other. You couldn't work that out? (But the big headline is that one surprising fan-favorite Ranger name is on the list.)
- Random CFB note: Hey Longhorn fans, you remember when QB Casey Thomspon who was with the team for four seasons (2018-2021) and started a few games? And do you remember he then somehow had enough eligibility to play one season with Nebraska and then another one with Florida Atlantic? Well, he just signed with the Sooners to play yet another year.
- Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 4 years and 200 days.
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