Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

The Summer Olympics were wrapping up in Rio de Janeiro.

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• Local news channels flocked to Chico yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The rescue by Wise County Sheriff deputies has made it to CNN:
  
  
  
• The carrier has been deployed for more than eight months -- a modern day record -- with 5,000 servicemen on board. Story.
  
  
  
• And another. This time with tragic results. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cursing while speaking at the public forum part of a Commissioner's meeting is not illegal, and it's not even a close issue.  
• So what did he say?:"You said you're all about cooling the temperature and yet you vote for this extremist bullshit. All of you are bullshit.” 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Someone might have been shot and killed while driving to work this morning in Fort Worth.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Make it stop. And with high winds today, there is a serious fire danger. 
  
  
  
• I bet they don't convict her.  Side note: He attorney has a very grump style, but it is very effective. 
  
  
  
• In her very first press briefing, she said, "I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day."  That was her first lie, and they never stopped.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

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.