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. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

That would be Kyler Murray.

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• That widow is the former Superintendent of Boyd ISD.  Gift link.
  

  
  
  
• Good grief.  And it looks like Reiner's son might be the suspect.  (And TMZ has been the lead news organization on this story from the beginning.)
  

  

  
  
  
  
• A mass shooting yesterday committed by a father and son at a gathering of Jews in Australia left  15 dead yesterday. Crazy video footage of all of it is everywhere. Video of full 10 minutes. Video of the heroic disarming. Video (graphic) of victims. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• It turns out that a "person of interest" was not of interest at all.  The manhunt resumes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This was big news 48 hours ago. 
  
  
  
• Dateline: Lavon, Texas. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Story. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gift link.
  
• Seems significant.
  
• Twenty-five years ago, Bush v. Gore was decided.  And Gore's great concession speech makes it feel even longer ago than that. How far we have fallen. 
  

  
• A real photo from the Oval Office on Friday, 
  
  
  
• Denton Braswell High School's AD and head football coach has been placed on official leave, but we don't know much more than that. Students complained about him to the school board last summer.
• The best sporting event on TV yesterday may have been the Lady Aggies upsetting #1 and undefeated Nebraska in volleyball,  Just look at that fourth set. 
  
  
  
  
• Southlake Carroll is out of the playoffs after failing to convert on a fourth and goal despite the side judge, who was just feet away from the tackle, signaled touchdown on the play.   After a gathering of officials, the call was overturned.  Video of it all.