Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Random used car prices from June 2016.

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• He "was attempting to stop a vehicle on U.S. Highway 287 near Childress at approximately 4 p.m. when a truck-tractor semi-trailer pulled out in front of his patrol unit.
  
  
  
• On page 5A of today's Messenger, I learned that Elizabeth Smart was in Decatur yesterday.
  
  
  
• She was back in the news just last month:
  
  
  
• Well this is horrible. A video exists when the horse first got spooked and took off. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It had been quiet on this front for most of the year: 
  
  
  
  
• I'm sure you've seen the video of the aftermath of the private jet crash on the highway in Laredo. That rescue scene was wild, and I'm not sure anyone really knew what to do. 
  
  
  
• Barack Hussein Obama will open up his presidential library in Chicago today with a heck of a musical line-up: 
  
  
  
  
• Trump signed the bizarre agreement with Iran yesterday in, of all places, the Palace of Versailles.
  
  
  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• One of the most shocking aspect of the agreement is all the money that Iran is getting. Fox News put up a graphic and committed three of nine bullet points to it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He's mad.
  
  
  
• But don't worry, Trump stayed up on Air Force One while returning to the U.S. by posting about golf balls. 
  
  
  
• Defaming our democracy in front of the world in his final press conference at the G7 meeting.
  
  
  
• It's the month for big Supreme Court opinions and one or more will be released at 9:00 a.m. CST today. 
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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Trump campaigned in Dallas at . . . Gilley's. 

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• Here's the video of kids scattering last night:
  
• There's no reason to run. Just walk out and be cool. Video.
  
  
  
  
• I can't find exactly what he lied about, but I'd like to know.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• (1) MLB rules prohibit any player from writing anything on his uniform, and (2) Ask a Muslim about that last sentence by Greg Abbott.. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Sheesh. This constitutes "losing the war." And it cost the lives of 13 American service members and 160+ school girls. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Not only is this a weird thing to do this morning at 5:00 a.m. on the day of the confirmation hearing, but Trump can just cancel Senate hearings on his own? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Random crazy stuff Trump just said. 
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  
  
• Texas documentary note: 
  
  
  
• Flashback: I wrote this about that case last November when the court opinion on appeal came out: 
  
  
  
• More random movie news. I'm in. 
  
  
  
• What's going on out there? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Legal news: "George was convicted of stealing about $45,000 of campaign donations. Money prosecutors said he used to buy a home, pay property taxes, and make retail purchases . . . ."
  
  
  
• When you've lost the New York Post . . .
  
  
   
  

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

When an alligator attacked a two year old boy at a resort within Disney World. 

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•  I'm waiting on the details on this one. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This "and another" had serious consequences yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Watch this case. It involves Bridgeport's own Maryssa Simpson, who is representing the plaintiffs, while the case is defended by Terri Moore (a former Tarrant County felony prosecutor from back in the day) and Levi McCathern, who recently had an "interesting" representation of Michael Irvin.  Gift link. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Missed this one from late last week. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Dateline Senatobia, Mississippi:
  

  

  
  
• The Art of the Deal (or at least what little we know of the "deal.")
  

  

  
  
  
  
• It's not safe to rent jet skis in the Bahamas, and that news was delivered by Ambassador Herschel Walker.  Although he certainly through me off when he warned of not only accidents and deaths, but also sexual assault. 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• Trump's going to be so mad that he might send in the National Guard down to the reflecting pool to either clean it or shoot it. 
  
  
   
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. (Video.)
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal stuff. Georgia lets felonies be decided by six person juries.  The Supreme Court will now finally review that practice. (Good explainer here.)
  
  
  
• It was a wild day for Tech and its embattled transfer quarterback yesterday. After the AG of Kansas and Oklahoma threatened the school, the Big 12 filed suit in federal court seeking declaratory judgement and a preliminary injunction to stop him from playing. Then the news broke last night that the QB is heading to the NFL. Tech's money man, Cody Campbell, said the player had been "stripped of his opportunity to continue."
  
  
  
• I don't hate the World Cup, but I don't exactly like it either.