Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I might have a limited audience here, but I had come across four photos of 30 pee-wee football cheerleaders from 1971 in Bridgeport. 

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•  The way you know that school is back in session in America:
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Who:
  
  
  
• The dead:
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The weapon:
  
  
  
• Irrelevant to the shooting but predictable: The congressman for the school's congressional district in Georgia is an election denying gun nut. 
  
  
  
• There's nothing worse than a prosecutor accused of hiding evidence -- especially one who won't fall on the sword.
  
  
  
• Only in Texas would trying to encourage voting be considered by a governmental official to be a bad thing, and we just consider that to be perfectly normal.
  
  
   
• Scatter-shooting all over the political map:
• Although entirely predicable, good for her. “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump continues to go full racist.
  
  
  
• At 9:00 p.m. last night, the richest man in the world made his 82nd post for the day. 
  
  
  
• "Biden's weaponized Justice Department" continues?:
  
  
  
• Barron Trump has become a college student in Manhattan.
  
  
  
  
• The Georgia DA prosecuting Trump, who has caused the case to go on hold while questions arose whether she appointed a special prosecutor because he is her squeeze, is not helping her cause:
  
  
  
  
• Random Texas criminal justice nugget:
  
• Green Day had to bold off stage last night because of a drone threat in Detroit. Video.
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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

This wreck shut down southbound 287 in Decatur and traffic had to be routed down 730 to Boyd then back up 114 to Rhome. And, as a result, 730 turned into bumper to bumper traffic for hours (screenshot). 

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• This is weird. It was at 12:30 p.m. at an intersection, and the deputy was in his personal vehicle and not in uniform.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And the suspect's escape plan was not well thought out. 
  
  
  
• This event from 2022 was weird and, after this story, doesn't get any clearer. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
• It's not major news, but the local network affiliates have been running this story of a party being broken up in Dallas.  "A neighbor recorded the home on Ivanhoe Lane after police arrived near 10:40 p.m. The video shows a seemingly endless stream of people leaving."  And 
  endless stream" is exactly the way to describe it. That was a ton of kids!
  
  
  
• Remember this about the swing states: The easiest way for Trump to win is Pennsylvania + Georgia + North Carolina (NC not shown but leans heavily to Trump). The easiest way for Harris to win is Pennsylvania + Wisconsin + Michigan. Those combos would guarantee a win for either regardless of what happens in Nevada and Arizona -- assuming we don't have some unexpected safe state for either flip. 
  
  
  
• I know this Texas Monthly writer is (unsurprisingly) not a a Liberally Lean reader because otherwise he would have reworked that headline. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And you, dear readers, were definitely aware of this:
  
  
  
• Should have put this in my wrecks bullet point list from a day or so ago.
  
  
  
• Is there  somewhere I can bet money on the failure of this thing?
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal (and fashion) stuff: Yesterday, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht helped swear in new clerks for this term while wearing ill-fitting and cheap pants.  He makes $204,600 a year, so you'd think he would invest in a couple of suits. 
  
  
  
• Extremely legal nerdy stuff: A car's search based upon an "inventory search" was invalidated yesterday by a court of appeals. And I think the same could be said of almost every inventory search I see -- although normally the search can be justified by some alternative theory. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Washington's written statement said the resignation was not baseball related and added, “I deeply regret that I’ve let down the Rangers organization and our great fans. Two weeks later he would say it was because of an extra-martial affair.

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• I'm not sure why Dallas PD blurs out the body during the gun fire. Just release two versions so the media will have one for their general broadcast. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The bad wrecks in DFW just kept coming yesterday. No fatalities in these, however.
• The officer was "responding" to a call, and it looks like he got T-boned. That's about all the details we have. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Out of Everman:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The predictions for a big hurricane season have petered out. 
  
  
  
• Today in "Elon Musk Is A Nutcase":
• He actually did this yesterday. 
  
  
  
• He's mad at Brazil, but I'm not exactly sure who he thinks will be seizing government assets for him. 
  
  
  
• He's doing great. Here's an article published yesterday.
  
  
  
• Let's tap the brakes here a little bit. 
  
  
  
• Every year there is a crazy story about Burning Man. 
  
  
  
  
• Random article I read yesterday. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• The Wise County Messenger reports that Tanner Horner has filed a motion for Change of Venue in his capital murder case of Athena Strand. The next hearing date in court is set for September 16th. There is no trial date.