Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

It took a long time for me to realize Trump wouldn't be rejected as a joke by the Republican Party. 

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• A former 5th grade teacher has been arrested in the murder of the couple who was hiking with their young children in Arkansas.
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
• I think I've found my new favorite crime filed in Wise County's Justice of the Peace #4 yesterday: "POSSESSION OF UNDERSIZED CRAPPIE."
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• New York shooting update: 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• A new defense to DWI may have just been revealed: 
  
  
  
• Russia's invasion of Ukraine is still going on.  Fifty-two more were injured:  
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Traffic observation:  It seems like every day in the last a week a major highway in the metroplex has been completely shutdown due to a wreck.  This morning it was I-35 southbound at the Decatur exit.
  
  
  
• I've never understood this proposal (which is supported by Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper.)  State lawmakers continuously attack local governments (from city councils to school boards to county commissioners) and then strip them of their power and put it in their own hands of Austin.  So it is in the best interest of local governments to fight back. And if that requires hiring a lobbyist, so be it. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. This story was on the front page story of the Wall Street Journal.  I don't think we have any idea how the job market is about to be blown up due to A.I. 
  
  
  
• In the midst of her own social media frenzy regarding legalizing marijuana, the topless Texas DA actually reposted her topless campaign video yesterday and sparred with everyone about it. 
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Lots of details and photos here.

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• Everyone freaked out last night after a major, major earthquake off the coast of Russia.  When one of these things happens off the West Coast, and it will, it will be catastrophic. 
  
  
   
  
  
  
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• Thanks to a 50-49 Senate vote last night, a Trump sycophant, who is completely unfit and and ethical trainwreck, now has a lifetime appointment on a federal appellate court.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump is uncharacteristically making PR snafus -- and damning admissions -- left and right. He thinks he can talk himself out of anything, but that no longer seems to be true.  Audio.
  
  
  
• And if you don't recall Virginia Giuffre, she was one of Epstein's outspoken victims who committed suicide earlier this year.  She "was 16 when she was recruited to Mr. Epstein’s sex ring while working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, and said that she was groomed and abused by Mr. Epstein and his associates [including Prince Andrew] until she broke contact with him in 2002." 
  
  
  
• Good grief, I finally agree with Marjorie on something. 
  
  
  
• The topless DA in far West Texas is a pistol.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I try to avoid posting mugshots, but this one out of Corpus Christi from last week is, uh, something. 
  
  
  
• Did anyone have Katy Perry and the former Canadian Prime Minister on their Bingo card?
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second - Flashback™: A short YouTube video clip from WFAA in 1976 ponders why Coppell can't attract development on its vast open land.  The lone bit of construction, the reporter says, was in one area where homes from $50,000 to $100,000 were being constructed. One was pictured. 
  
  
  
• The hunt for the killer of the couple in the Arkansas state park continues.  But they still haven't even ID'd him. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Of course, someone grabbed a screenshot of the original school post. 

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• "Three of the four people killed were shot in the building’s lobby as the gunman sprayed the area with bullets, Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, said at a news conference. The fourth was killed on an upper floor after the gunman took the elevator there, Ms. Tisch said. He then shot himself in the chest, she said."
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• New this morning is the connection to the NFL.  
  

  

  
  

  
  
  
• I'd be doing that, too.  
  
  
  
• Earlier in the day, there was another mass shooting in Reno which couldn't even stay at the top of the headlines for 12 hours. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Finally.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The man is old enough to understand this is not proper courting.  
  
  
  
• Trump keeps stepping in it.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Just the official White House account being an advertisement platform for Trump's hotel.
  
  
  
• For the life of me, I don't understand this controversy. Gift link.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• "They need to read the Constitution!!!!"
  
  
  
• Forgetting to spell check your campaign rollout for Senate. 
  
  
  
• Deion Sanders had a cancerous gall bladder removed. He also appears to have taken up farming.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Some notable Cowboy news. 
  
  
  
• I'm most of the way through Adolescence. Big thumbs up.