Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Harambe!

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• If you hire a principal who happens to be Muslim, MAGA will come for you. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• It was testing by Bell Helicopter related. 
  
  
  
• This is a bold move.  If the judge picks a prison number, he'll have to serve one half of it before becoming eligible for parole.  But one loophole, not mentioned in any story about this, is that the judge could grant him deferred adjudication and place him on probation. (Side note: Notice how it now takes almost three weeks for a story like this to make the local news.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Here's an idea: Flip-flops.
  
  
  
• You can bet on what people will be searching for on Google?
  
  
  
• He had his own little Fort Knox going on. 
  
  
  
  
• The cease fire/peace plan for Trump's war against Iran isn't going well. Over the last 18 hours: 
  

  

  

  
  
  
  
  
• More examples that we are living in an autocracy:
• Yet another instance of using the Justice Department like a mob boss.  
  
  
  
  
• New this morning.  Gift link.
  
  
  
  
• A month ago Trump said to “go out and buy a Dell computer.”  In the February before that, he had purchased shares of Dell in the "$1 million to $5 million band" according to financial disclosure forms. Now this: 
  
  
  
  
• There was another South Korea-like cabinet meeting yesterday. Here are a couple of Trump quotes: 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The Texas D.A. who once indicted Netflix on pornography charges, and who was once a small time movie star himself,  will not seek re-election.
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

And it all came crashing down. 

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• I wouldn't call it an upset, but it was a butt-kicking. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Three years ago to the day: 
  
  
  
• How Wise County voted. You boys never disappoint. :
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump weighed in on the Paxton win this morning.  I appreciate a good Alfred E Neuman reference although I'm not sure how many people know who that is.  And that's either a very funny or very bizarre reference to Davy Crockett as well.
  
  
  
  
• "But the identity of the judge is being kept private by the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Council of the United States in its decision issued Friday."
  
  
  
• But this website identifies the federal judge as sitting in Atlanta and, interestingly, also a former Tarrant County assistant district attorney.
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• This happened very early yesterday morning.  That's not the way you honor Memorial Day. 
  
  
  
• Oh, come on. 
  
  
  
• New image of the UFC stadium and the ballroom under construction at the White House. 
  
  
  
  
• The NCAA is not cooperating.. Sorsby had already filed a preemptive lawsuit, and there is a hearing in that case on June 1st in Lubbock. 
  
  
  
  
• There will be a presidential cabinet meeting today for the cameras. It was supposed to be at Camp David but was moved because of weather. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

An email "scandal" seems almost quaint now.

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• The headline is all we know. 
  
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• Ditto.
  
  
  
• It's Run-Off Election Day.  We'll miss all of the commercials between these two.
  
• If you believe in prediction markets: 
  
  
  
• Cornyn's campaign says that a Paxton victory will set the stage for a Democratic victory in the Senate race this fall.   But, if this commercial (video) is what the GOP already has in the chamber, that's not happening. 
  
  
  
• He tried to make a joke at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. Video.
  
  
  
• Those "details" to be worked out regarding the Iran peace deal seem to be pretty big ones. From last night: 
  
  
  
• The construction for the UFC fight on the White House lawn is ongoing. Idiocracy. 
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• It's hospital visit day. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This guy, who appeared on Fox Business this morning on behalf of the Trump Administration, is a financial Bagdad Bob.
  
  
  
• A big repaving project on 380 between Bridgeport and Runaway Bay begins today.