Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Ten year anniversary to the day.

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• RIP to any and all concepts of Sweetie Pie's.  
  
  
  
• Last evening, we had the 600th execution by Texas since the reinstatement of death penalty in 1976. "Edward Busby kidnapped Laura Crane, 77, from the parking lot of a Fort Worth grocery store in January 2004. She suffocated in a car trunk." Man, this crime was a bad, bad case.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• An update from yesterday, but there's something odd about this.  They are not saying the remains are of the missing child, and they aren't saying exactly what they found. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "On Tuesday evening, an Air Evac Lifeteam helicopter made a hard landing on the helipad atop Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas."  They had to bring in a crane to take it off the rooftop. 
  
• Yesterday Abbott said that he will "champion creating a statewide prosecutor and the ability to impeach what he characterized as rogue district attorneys."  So much for local control. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's over.  At least it certainly is if he goes through with this.  He'll just line-up the January 6th Insurrectionists, and hand out a big bag of your money to everyone of them. And the masses will just shrug. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Say what?
  

  

  
  
• Of course.
  
  
  
• Russia launched a massive and deadly attack on Ukraine yesterday. 
  
  
  
• Didn't the vice-president give a big speech on his anti-fraud commission yesterday?
  
  
  
• Report from the Wall Street Journal: 
  
  
  
• CHI-na update. 
• Good grief. 
  
  
  
  
• New this  morning: Trump's first post about his trip while on his way back to the U.S. has been made. It was about his ballroom.  
  
  
  
• China strong-armed him on Taiwan, and Trump offered no resistance. Reporter's asked him about it on the plane. 
  
  
  
  
• This golfer was late to his tee time yesterday morning at the PGA Championship and was assessed a two shot penalty. After the round, he gave us a couple of great quotes.
  

  

  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 316 days.

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.