Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

A short collection of bullet points from 2016 (with a little foreshadowing 

about the remake of Top Gun.) 

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• Wise County made the CBS Evening News last night on a rescue of a person from a burning car after a crash. It was a 14 second segment, but looked pretty dramatic. (h/t BagOfNothing)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Elections:
• The MyPillow Guy went down despite His Leader trying to boost him up yesterday.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• A Democratic Socialist came very close to winning the nomination for Wisconsin Governor. (That was the "cancel Thanksgiving" candidate.)
  
  
  
• Former NFL sideline reporter for NBC but she's worked for every major network.
  
  
  
• I wonder if the "general aviation aircraft" was just some guy in his Cessna. 
  
  
  
  
• Every appellate opinion I ever see about governmental immunity, the government wins. But I still see massive settlements, like Fort Worth is going to do, all the time. 
  
  
  
  
• All 17 years old. 
  
  
  
  
• A president should never ask the Justice Department to prosecute anyone, Now we just collectively shrug our shoulders when Trump does so even when there are no facts to support it.
  
  
  
• Good question. 
  
  
  
• What are we doing here?
  
  
  
  

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

As the presidential race gear up for the home stretch, a fan climbed Trump Tower using suction cups. 

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• The videos of this are incredible.  And it was a long, long lasting earthquake. 
  
• An amazing story of Trump being hidden away in a catering truck:  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• After being confirmed by the Senate on 4:30 a.m. last Saturday, Todd Blanche, on of Trump's former lawyers, was sworn in by a new federal judge, also one of Trump's former lawyers. It's over. No one will stop him.
  
  
  
• Fun fact:
  
  
  
• It's primary day in Minnesota and that means we learn the fate of the My Pillow Guy.
  

  

  
  
• Gift link.
  
  
  
• We have become the dumbest country. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Not to mention he fell asleep again. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™  This is getting out hand. 
  
  
  
• If you like weird baseball rules, it took MLB umpires 16 minutes to figure this one out last night. And I've never seen a runner at third leave to early on a fly ball, and the score count. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

In game photo on an August afternoon in the "old" ballpark.  

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• Wise County State Rep. sent a strange warning to city managers (who are unelected.) I assume he's talking about city council elections, but his ire is directed towards the city manager position. Only Decatur, Bridgeport and Boyd have one.
  
  
  
• Foot pursuit by Boyd PD in Aurora on Friday.
  
  
  
• Last week's "Meet The Prosecutors and Judges" event held by the Wise County Conservatives appears to have had modest attendance. 
  
• Some very unusual jury activity in this story.  Gift link.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• A big rig appears to have run of 287 onto the troubled Bonds Ranch Road on Friday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Seems like more people would be concerned about this. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Video was released in the shooting at the In-n-Out Burger in Idaho last week.  Workers scrambled after a co-worker was shot as she stood at the drive-through window. 
  
  
  
• You, too, could go see the Statue of Liberty on a 21 footer with fourteen people onboard.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• So much winning.  This is becoming a Jimmy Carter level of embarrassment. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This ruling comes a little late. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• But to show you where Trump's priorities are, this was his response. 
  
  
  
• As an indication of the crazy new world we are entering, a PAC releases an anti-Talarico ad using AI and depicting him acting on a surgeon on a young girl performing a sex change surgery. It's wild. 
  
  
  
• Flock camera news 
• Gift link of today's New York Times article focusing on Texas. . 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• An interstate highway in Wisconsin was shut down over this:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™: Ridgmar Mall will become warehouses.
  
  
  
• I saw a first for me at a driver's license hearing the other day: A guy was arrested for DWI on an electric bike.