Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

He spent 35 years incarcerated. 

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• I don't remember anything like this happening in the past. 
  
  
  
• Partied in Keller. Stopped in Lewisville. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I haven't followed this story very closely but, generally speaking, a lawyer in a three piece suit is a bad look.  But a lawyer wearing only the vest of the three piece suit is a horrible look. 
  
  
  
• John Cornyn finally grew a backbone, but I fully expect him to eventual cave on this. 
  
  
  
• War Update - bombs are still flying: 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• ICE update:
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We now live in a world where TMZ serves as the voice of reason in the wilderness.
  
  
  
• Man, he must be worried about his campaign. 
  
  
  
• Texas Monthly responding to ex-comedian Rob Schneider's social media post. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Please don't have a baby. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Twenty-five years ago, the Andrea Yates trial happened in Houston. A new version of it is going on in Massachusetts right now where Lindsay Clancy admittedly killed her three children.  Here's a photo of her defense lawyer holding her hand in court yesterday. Good on him. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm no country and western music expert, but Ella Langley seems to have no stage presence whatsoever. 

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The stage was set. Clinton vs. Trump. 

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• Fox 4 has picked up on the activity of ICE in Wise County.
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The one hour and seven minute police video of Tony Romo's arrest and field sobriety tests were released.  This case, which is the equivalent of a traffic ticket in Wisconsin, isn't going anywhere. 
  
  
  
• Happening now: Dr. Fauci is invoking the Fifth Amendment at a Senate hearing this morning. This will be played on a loop on Fox News for a week. They even have show host Laura Ingraham in the audience. 
  
  
  
• Edit: Fauci's lawyer just got thrown out of the hearing. Oh, my.
• Let's check in on how the Memo of Understanding was holding up last night: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This is a crazy (and entertaining) story. Gift link.
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
• China seems to be a problem on lots of fronts:
• War:
  
  
  
• Robots: 
  
  
  
  
• AI:
  
  
  
• I don't know how this guy got this puff piece written about him. Side note: He's not a "litigator" and even says so in the article.  Gift link.
  
  
   
  

  

  
  
• "Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who won a 2008 Oscar for the song 'Falling Slowly' from the film 'Once, died Wednesday morning." It was a motorcycle accident in Ireland. He was 56.
  

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Dak Prescott had just been drafted. 

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• The Wise County Sheriff appeared before the Commissioner's Court yesterday and attempted to defend the recent presence of ICE in the county and his office's cooperation with that federal agency because of his 287(g) agreement. Video (Begins at around 14:00.)
  
  
  
• He attacked the Messenger's reporting (a very Trumpian thing to do -- attacking the free press, that is.) 
• But the sheriff didn't dispute this sentence which appeared in the Messenger's story about the arrest of of a decades long Decatur resident: "Lira left to get gas for a machine he was using when he was stopped less than three minutes from home by a WCSO deputy for crossing a yellow line."  ICE was called in and Lira was whisked away.
  
  
  
• Commissioner Question: "What would you say [based upon an email I have received] to the hundreds of families who say they are living in fear?" Sheriff's Answer:  "If you are here legally, they shouldn't be in fear.  I'm sorry they feel they can't leave their house."  
• If this guy and Texas Scorecard (funded by the West Texas Oilmen PAC) is for you, you're probably on the wrong side of history. 
  
  
  
• Wise County First Responders were coming back from training in Fort Worth yesterday when they sprung into action after coming upon a wreck at 287 and I-35.  Fox 4 had a very brief story about it last night. Edit: Here's the original video on Facebook.
  
  
  
• I was watching a story about this wreck near Terrell on WFAA last night, and was very surprised to see the deceased's family had already hired a lawyer -- less than 24 hours later. (That's a strangely big firm.). 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• That's not exactly how the system is supposed to work. Story.
  
  
  
• I can't take it. 
  
  
  
  
• There was a pretty big earthquake in Japan just hours ago. 
  
  
  
• We've got a shocking update to the Michigan fire on Friday. Oh, my.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Not a chance, buddy. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He's crazy.
  
  
  
• Watch this story.  This is the example of the "shadow docket" and how a big Supreme Court decision could happen with the issuance of a simple order -- an order which would go a long way in Trump's effort to steal the mid-terms. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Uh, who else was the government supposed to buy them from? (Side note: In this era of war-by-drone, the F-35 is a racket.)
  
  
  
• Gift link.   
  
• Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump meet in D.C. today.