Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

"An earthquake struck northern Oklahoma early Saturday morning, rattling houses and waking residents in the region around Pawnee . . . .  Preliminary measurements show the quake had a magnitude of 5.6 — believed to be one of the strongest in state history."

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• She died last week in our jail, but the Sheriff's Office didn't says anything until "a request for information from the Wise County Messenger" this week?  That's unheard of. Side note:  She was in jail for Public Intoxication, an offense punishable by fine only.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If you read the headline and then the excerpt below, you'll understand they really have no idea at all as to how the fire started. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• As is so typical of the news these days, we don't know much more than the headline.
  
   
  
  
  
• He's not kidding. They are great.  Gift link. 
  
  
  
• We've gone from bombing a school to bombing a wedding.
  
   
  

  

  
  
• Here's a dystopian headline for you: 
  
  
  
• GardaWorld is a worldwide security company which is now making millions from the federal government by converting warehouses into concentration camps in Texas and also paid for transporting those who ICE snatches up from across the state.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He won't stop saying this. 
  
  
  
• Random crazy tweet: 
  
  
  
• So tell me why Trump refuses to even so much as utter a negative word about Russia?
  
  
  
• He really did it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He did this too.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Weekend reading. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Texas Monthly's unfortunate timing on a cover story that was released a few days after Romo's career ending injury in a preseason game. 

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• Some Wise County folks were scammed in this deal. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• The three Republican majority knows what's coming for Tarrant County, and they are trying to avoid it. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• David Thomas Gilchrist, 70, of Grand Prairie. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• DWI news : 
• Yesterday:
  
• This morning: 
  
  
  
  
• Victim of the knife attack in Times Square has been identified. 
  
  
  
• If you take a look at this video of her taken after the child went "missing" but before her arrest, you knew something was up. And you could tell she was high. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. 
  
  
  
• No one needs a PR firm more than that Flock company. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We are the dumbest country. 
  
  
  
• More proof that Trump is going to steal the mid-terms. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Yes, that's the Secretary of Transportation. And, yes, this is real. 
  
  
  
• Dateline: Hidalgo County Courthouse.   That's an engine in the lunch room. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Ken Paxton gives the worst answer in the world in trying to explain why he has so many homes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It looks like the  Lindsay Clancy jury will not be able to reach a verdict unless something weird happens today. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

We were introduced to Trump's doctor. 

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• As the Texas State Board of Education heads to a vote on pushing Christianity in schools, we can pretty much tell from this photo from a news conference yesterday how the vote it going to go down.  
  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure how that thing keeps burning but remains "contained" at the exact same percentage as four days ago. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This is turning into quite the mess for TCU. Gift link (which includes arrest warrant affidavit)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Right out of a movie and/or the wild west: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump has a message for all of you data center haters. 
  
  
  
• There are about a thousand videos online of this shooting from yesterday evening.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Pete Hegseth continues to destroy the military. 
  
  
  
• There's is nothing that five members of the Supreme Court will not let Trump do. 
  
  
  
• And they even started out their decision with a lie. It wasn't the "federal government", it was Trump. 
  
  
  
  
• I'm keep being told socialism is bad.   But if it makes you feel any better, your tax dollars will go to the private sector because Jon Voight is so persuasive in person.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• There was a bus wreck in New Jersey yesterday with a relevant advertisement on the side of it. 
  
  
  
  
• Kind of legal nerdy stuff.  Everything the federal government does runs through the Fort Worth Division of the Northern District of Texas.  New York Times story.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• What happened to the screwworm problem?