Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Heck, this is mild compared to talk radio these days.

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• A shooting in Kansas City at the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade. Here's what we know from the New York Times:
  
  
  
• Three people have been "detained" but not arrested. Names have not been released. There's some speculation they might be juveniles. But the lack of information is weird. 
• One person is dead. A DJ fpr radio station KKFI-FM out of Kansas City.
  
  
  
• "Children’s Mercy Hospital said it was treating 11 children, ages 6 to 15, and one mother who would not leave her child during the shooting. Nine of the children suffered gunshot wounds."
• "Twelve people were taken to University Health . . . . Eight of them were being treated for gunshot wounds, including two in critical condition.
• Big crowds are a recipe for disaster. I was really worried something like this would happen at the Rangers "parade" last fall. But look at that scene yesterday:
  
  
  
• Tanner Horner, alleged to have killed Athena Strand, is in district court in Decatur this morning. We should be getting a trial date soon. 
• You never want a divorce to go to a full-blown public trial. That's what is going on this week with the Dallas mayor.
  
  
  
• A hearing will be broadcast live today about the Georgia DA who is sleeping with Trump's Special Prosecutor, and the DA might be forced to testify.  This is already a disaster.  I think YouTube will have it here beginning right now. 
  
  
  
• For years whenever I was in public I thought that I was surrounded by normal people who were conscientious, thoughtful and rationale.  Over the last eight years, however, I've decided that I'm surrounded by nutcases. 
  
• Exhibit A: 
  
  
  
• Exhibit B: One guy pummels another guy on a Southwest Airlines flight.  We've turned into a bunch of Barbarians.  Video.
  
• Exhibit C: Remember that dumb 2000 Mules movie which the MAGA extremists fell in love with claiming Georgia voter fraud? It was even shown in Wise County and promoted by the "Wise County Conservatives." Anyway, information for the film came from the the "conservative group" referenced below.  And this is shockingly being covered by Newsmax of all places! I wondered if this is part of some lawsuit settlement.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Fox 4 got an interview of the woman who was allegedly abducted by the homeless person and forced to drive to the border. I still have some serious, serious questions. Excerpts from the story below. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This might have seriously been burying the lede. She already had a Wikipedia page for making national news a few years back. You might remember her. 
  
  
  
• Ronny Jackson embarrassed us again last night. Video. 
  
  
  
  
• Good. I've thought it was boondoggle for years.
  
  
  
  
• Kind of makes you do a doubletake: 
  
  
  
• Messenger: Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

It's the 10 year anniversary of Dale Hansen's Unplugged edition on gay NFL player Michael Sams. It landed him on Oprah, but also gave rise to the greatest remix of all time. 

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• A car rammed through an ER room in Austin last night injuring five and killing the driver. Here's a video of the immediate aftermath which is quite the scene. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Republican George Santos is gone from the House and was replaced by a Democrat in a special election last night. He won by 8 points. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• That's quite the headline. "Kami Ludwig, 34, was booked on Monday in the killing of William Shane Nolen, who was a former associate judge in the 323rd District Court [in Tarrant County]. Nolen was in November 2019 fired from the court, which handles juvenile matters . . . ."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Fancy homes in California about to slid down a cliff due to rainstorms makes me nervous.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Republican House voted to impeach the Director of Homeland Security by a single vote. It stands absolutely no chance of passing in the Senate. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Someone tell Ronny there actually is a Senate. 
  
  
  
• Republican-on-Republican crime.  Ken Paxton took a shot at Sen. Cornyn for voting for the Ukrainian aid package, and Cornyn returned fire. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The fact the conviction happened on Valentine's Day eve makes this borderline romantic. (But I'm trying to wrap my head around how verdicts for Insurrectionists are still coming in while the Führer of the Insurrection is going to be the Republican candidate for President.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The grift will be large. Video.
  
  
  
• Let me tell you, this is wild. Mistaking an acorn falling on a car as a gunshot, the deputy unloaded his weapon into a patrol vehicle with a handcuffed guy inside.  Video. Amazingly, no one was hurt.  Here's the full press release of the Sheriff's Office on the incident which still hasn't been picked up by the national media.   Here's a local news report.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Legal news. It's unrelated, but the judge has quite the Wikipedia page: "Devine was an anti-abortion activist in the 1980s.At a June 2012 rally, Devine said he had been arrested 37 times for protesting at abortion clinics. . . . In 2004, Devine was sued for his refusal to take down a painting of The Ten Commandments on display in his Harris County courtroom."
  

  

  
  
• The Business Second: A typo in an earnings report caused the stock of Lyft to skyrocket almost 70% in after hours trading yesterday until everyone figured it out.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• That's a weird resignation of the Denton PD chief . . . . 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Decatur's football coach abruptly left. He would stay eight years in Frisco going 42-44 at Independence High School before "retiring" at age 56. But eight months ago he was hired as athletic director at Fort Worth Christian. 

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• At about 5:00 a.m. this morning, the Senate finally approved a $50 billion aid package to Ukraine on a 70-29 vote. The MAGA controlled House, in typical isolationist form, is expected to reject. it.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Here's what it really says. This is interesting. The vast majority of the money just goes to the Pentagon.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cornyn voted for it. Cruz did not. 
• The Decatur Varsity girls basketball team had a playoff game last night against Wichita Falls. That is, if you can call it a game. Good lord: 
  
  
  
• "Dash-cam footage released of the Bombardier Challenger 600 jet crash on Interstate 75 in Naples, Florida" from last Friday. 
  
  
  
• Fox4Terry was on the job last night. "Irving police say two people injured, both expected to recover in this overnight fiery crash. This occurred along SB Loop 12 at the Trinity River and is expected to take hours to clean up."
  
  
  
• Trump met his deadline to appeal to the Supreme Court yesterday about his "absolute immunity" claim. Here's the status: The D.C. Insurrection case is still on hold. The Supreme Court, in addition to deciding whether to hear the immunity claim, will more pressingly decide whether that stay is dissolved or remains in place. Expect a decision on that probably within 10 days. 
  
  
  
• Sheesh.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We've got a photo of the shooter at Joel Osteen's church.  And some more details: "While working security, two off-duty officers confronted Moreno, who fired several rounds [with an AR-15] and indicated that she had a bomb. The officers returned fire, killing her and injuring a 56-year-old man in the hip and the 5-year-old boy who was with Moreno."
  
  
  
• Fox News hates transgendered people so much that it jumped a gun on a headline yesterday before retracting it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This will officially turn the Republican Party into the Trump Party. He will run it all.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• I hate Paxton, but I agree with him on this. This isn't the Whistleblowers suit but the securities case from Collin County where the special prosecutors have been whining about not being paid for over nine years. 
  
  
  
• An old tweet by Troy Aikman came back to haunt him yesterday.  I bet that guy is insufferable. 
  
  
  
• Inflation numbers were just released for January at 3.1% compared to prices from a year before. It's slowing but not quite as much as expected (I think.)  The Fed wants that number at 2%.