Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I'm not a Star Wars fan so I didn't remember the hubbub surrounding the release of The Force Awakens, a sequel to 1983's  Return of the Jedi.

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• Australian police may (or may not) have just stopped another attack at Bondi Beach. It just happened so I don't know if this is legit or not. 
  
  
  
  
  
• In the search for the Brown University shooting, police released a photo of a witness in effort to identify him.  "All we know is that this person was in the vicinity of the person of interest, and we want to speak with him." That seem kind of reckless and dangerous to plaster that guy's picture everywhere. 

• I would run, not walk, away. 

• Just a few years ago, you couldn't conceive of this headline ever being written. 

• Trump quick hits.
• He decided to yell at us for 18 minute last night. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He's a child.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• "President Trump on Tuesday received and discussed a draft copy of a book by lawyer Alan Dershowitz that studies whether Trump could constitutionally serve a third term as commander in chief . . . . "
  
  
  
• The Real Estate Second™. This is a routine feature of the New York Times which is normally focuses on property hunting in and around New York. But today the wrote about a Dallas family deciding between three different homes. You get to vote on what you would chose and what they actually chose.  Gift link. 

• Sports quick hits:
• Quality comedy from last night on Twitter: 
  
  
  
• It's Quinn Ewers time, baby!!!
  
  
  
• Messenger: Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Cruz was leading in the Iowa polls - which will turn out to be correct. 

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• The shooter from Brown University is still on the run.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Gift link.  That guy still has lots of charges waiting for him.
  
  
  
• The man went missing Monday at 10:00 a.m.  And that lake, right off 820, isn't very large.  
  
  
  
• This seems to be big news in the South as it appears to be a murder-suicide at the couple's home. The daughter was found unharmed. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "Classified."
  
• Hot opinion: I don't think any Susie Wiles said in the Vanity Fair interview (all 11 of them), was particularly controversial. 
  
  
• Trump quotes and Trump news:
• Last night he proved, once again, that he thinks a "stealth" jet is literally invisible. 
  
  
  
  
• Fore more years from the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.
  
  
  
  
  
• I want college athletes to be paid, but I also hate the transfer portal.
  
  
  
• I follow a random Twitter account which gives daily news from 50 years ago. This one popped up yesterday.
  
  
  

Trump will "address the nation" tonight for some reason.  

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

And then the Decatur QuikTrip was born. 

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• He is a vile and disgusting man. 
  
  
  
  

• How can a guy commit a shooting on an Ivy League campus and then just vanish?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If you want to feel a little bit of the fear of what it is like to go through a school shooting, watch this. 
  
  
  
• A faithful reader sent in this pic of various cameras being added/installed/tweaked on the Decatur courthouse square. 
  
  
  
• Those rocks came in handy.
  
   
  
  
  
• "The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command." That brings the total to 95 dead.
  
  
  
• Place your bets.
  
  
  
  
  
• Breaking Business Second™ News.
  
• The Business Second™.
  
  
  
• Arch Manning is returning to Texas next season.