Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

My reaction to Trump's first debate.

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• Man, this vehicle with the Wise County Sheriff's marking on it sure did make the rounds on social media yesterday.
  
  
  
• But the WCSO didn't buy it. It's just on loan from the guy in the 3%er shirt.
  
  
  
• And we have a spelling error. 
  
  
  
• Bad day for the military. 
• Fort Stewart:
  
  
  
• Fort Bliss:
  
  
  
• He still hasn't figured out how to handle the Epstein situation. Video.
  
  
  
• They aren't even trying to hide it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We just accept this as normal now.  Rounding up dayworkers in a Home Depot parking lot and justifying it by calling them MS-13. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, no.
  
  
  
• Who could have predicted that appointing a crazy anti-vaxxer would have lead to the death of COVID vaccine? "After reviewing the science and consulting top experts at NIH and FDA, HHS has determined that mRNA technology poses more risk than benefits against these respiratory viruses."  - Robert Kennedy.
  
  
  
• Trump used to so proud of Operation Warp Speed.
  
  
  
• They just accidentally deleted that provision of the Constitution that protects the use of  habeas corpus. 
  
  
  
• This would be dumb even by Trump's standards.
  
  
  
• Nancy Mace has decided to run for Governor of South Carolina. That's a heck of a platform.
  
  
  
• The federal PACER system was compromised. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
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Random Wednesday Morning thoughts

A newspaper's next morning reaction after Trump's first presidential debate. 

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• The Wise County Courthouse restoration project continues, and yesterday they were working on the clock faces while suspended by ropes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Abbott attempted to invoke the Texas Supreme Court's original jurisdiction last night in order to have the leader of the absent democrats thrown out of office. (Five of the nine judges on the court were appointed by Abbott.) A response i is now due by Friday at 5:00 p.m. 
  
  
  
• AG Ken Paxton, never to miss a chance to make a headline, entered the fray with a "Hey, only I can do that!" type of letter. 
  
  
  
• And Sen. John Cornyn, who has lost his mind of late in suddenly trying to become MAGA, wants the FBI to arrest the Democrats even though they have no authority to do so.  
  
  
  
  
• I'm a little confused about what the event described in this story.is supposed to be.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• DOGE's "Bill Balls" allegedly got beat up so Trump wants to take over the D.C. local government. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Of course. 
  
  
  
• The New York Times published new pictures of Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion.  (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• They should just decide to bring in a crisis manager because they don't know what they are doing. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Translated: Blacks won't work in the fields, but those Hispanics will because it's just part of their nature. Good gawd. Video.
  
  
  
• The NFL now owns a part of ESPN. If you thought ESPN was already a propaganda arm of the league, just wait. 
  
  
  
• Job Opportunity: Are you a senior citizen looking for work? Kristi Noem announced this morning on Fox News that ICE was repealing its age limits. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The first Republican presidential debate would be this week with the top 10, according to the polls, being invited to attend. 

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• Democrats on the run to stop Trump's order for Texas to redraw its congressional map in order to gain five Republican seats.
  
• Kind of important. 
  
  
  
• Leaving town to avoid a quorum has been a tactic forever.  Twelve Senators did it in 2019 and were nicknamed The Killer Bees. 
  
  
  
• "He got weed!"
  
  
  
• Amazingly, a brief thunderstorm that rolled through the metroplex included a burst of wind at DFW airport that set a record.
  
  
  
• We are the dumbest country.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's over. For the "it can't happen here" crowd, it’s happening here. Right now, To us. And this is just the beginning.  And this is just the beginning. 
  
   
  
  
  
• When Trump said the he was going to bring down prescription drug prices by "1,500%" a couple of weeks ago, I thought it was bad.  But we've now learned there is no one around him which will correct him because he said the same thing again last weekend in two different interviews. 
  
  
  
• The New York tabloid opens up shop in California.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If anyone takes offense to the appearance of Sydney Sweeney in a jeans ad, let me introduce you to Anna Nicole Smith.
  
  
  
• Pencil in the Evil Empire as the National Champions.  They are ranked #1 in the Coaches' Poll released yesterday.
  
  
  
• Extremely nerdy criminal law legal stuff: Last week, a Texas appellate court was faced with these questions when presented with the case of a bicyclist who was detained for driving on the wrong side of the road, and then an open container of alcohol in the bicycle's drink holder was observed: Does Texas' open container law include bicycles under the statute's broad definition of "motor vehicle"? And, if so, did the officer then have probable cause to search the rest of the bicycle for other open containers under the "automobile exception"? And, if so, does the right to that search extend to the backpack the cyclist was wearing where drugs were ultimately found? I love it.