Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

This guy was always a tortured soul.  (Side note: Oddly, the Class C misdemeanor offense that landed him in jail to start with was actually filed in JP court two weeks after his death and then immediately dismissed. Case No. CR-16-02382-2)

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• Woah. And the freezer was still functioning which is somewhat surprising. 
  
• This news must be big in this long running mystery, right?: "New evidence was discovered Wednesday at the Everman home where 6‑year‑old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez was last seen more than three years ago, Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells confirmed. "
  
  
  
• Well, let's see learn what the evidence is and why it merited the D.A. going to the dig site to get in front of the camera!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I guess this case needed some more documentaries about it. 
  
  
  
• The conviction was reversed because the court clerk was communicating to the jury about the case while the trial was ongoing. She later wrote a book about it all, but it was taken off the shelves once plagiarism allegations surfaced. 
  
  
  
• But I'm not sure why the juror referenced below was singled out in the opinion reversing the case. She truly had nothing to do with decision. 
  
  
  
• I've seen one video of this guy and that was enough for a lifetime. What a meathead.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "Lock him up! Lock him up!"
  
• China:
• Trump was met with pomp and circumstance including a group of children cheering wildly on cue.  Video. It was a little creepy.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump brought piles of money with him:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• CBS is having a rough time covering the trip.  Video.
  
• And back home, they have no shame. VP Vance had a news conference yesterday about his commission on fraud.  
  
• The D.A. out in far, far West Texas had a rather honest post yesterday. 
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: But she couldn't have properly requested an instruction on misdemeanor assault as a lesser included offense because it legally does not qualify as a lesser offense. 

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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Little did we know that "stymied" would be better than what was coming. 

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• That would be the sheriff who was the subject the the sexual harassment claim. So this is a bold move.  
  
• The case wasn't settled, it is just headed to private arbitration. "Morris, the North Texas megachurch’s former senior pastor, was seeking a $1 million one-time payment, and annual payments of $600,000 to $800,000 for the rest of his and his wife, Debbie’s, lives."
  
  
  
  
• It probably was suicide, but there's no way that the coroner to know that by simply doing an autopsy.   The man was also identified as Michael Mott, 41.
  

  
  
  
  
• Lawsuits against the government for constitutional violations are almost impossible to win, but sometimes governmental entities just seem to right a check because they want to. 
  
  
• Other notable Austin settlements: 
  
  
  
• This is weird. Last month the guy was indicted by a grand jury and then just three days later a prosecutor dismissed it "in the interest of justice." No one has an answer yet as to what is going on here. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Random thought: Sometimes the make up of a new city council leads to needed changes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced legislation Monday to designate US Highway 287 as a future interstate highway named in honor of President Donald Trump."  Sheesh.  
  
  
  
  
• So Iraq's military wasn't "decimated" after all? 
  
  
  
  
• The price of this paint job keeps going up faster than the cost of gas.
  
• The military crashes a lot of jets with unforced errors. 
  
• That would have been a disaster. Some guy are not made for a roast, and McCartney is definitely one of those guys.
  
  
  
• Trump just landed in CHI-na. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

This announcement was made by the ATF two years after the huge explosion in the town of West.  But they couldn't even tell us how the initial fire started nor did they have any suspects.  Pure baloney. 

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• Gift link. 
  
  
  
• Get used to high gas prices. 
  
  
• And we had inflation numbers released moments ago: 
  
  
  
• Also new this morning. (Told ya.)
  
  
  
• And he keeps calling it a "reflective pond" instead of its actual name of "reflecting pool."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump is about to leave on a trip to China.  He is spending his time preparing by posting this a few moments ago.  (He also posted 55 times in three hours last night with most of them being the ramblings of a madman.)
  
  
  
• The Supreme Court is hosting a redistricting orgy right now. 
  
  
  
• Jamaica? That woman gets Jamaica?
  

  
  
  
• I wasn't concerned about the hantavirus until I heard this yesterday.
  
  
  
• The grift never ends. 
  
  
  
• I saw this post on my timeline yesterday. A young lady in her 20s from Bridgeport was driving on the highway on that day in 1976.  She died three years later after having spent the remainder of her short life on oxygen and in a wheelchair.  It wasn't just "ammonia" that was released by the tanker -- it was anhydrous ammonia. 
  
  
  
• Former Dallas quarterback Craig Morton has passed away. in 1971, when Tom Landry was struggling on deciding on whether Morton or Roger Staubach should be the full time starter, there was one game where he alternated them on every single play.