Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

This really was amazing. A Southwest jet with 124 passengers landed at the wrong airport when it was headed for Branson, Missouri. It almost skidded off the runway since it was unexpectedly short. 

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• Iowa Caucuses:
• Trump won with 51%. No real surprise.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Fun fact: Trump won every one of the 99 counties with the exception of one. And in that county (Johnson County - where the University of Iowa is located), he lost by one single vote.
  
  
  
• Only 110,000 people voted which is only 14% of registered Republicans in Iowa. So Trump gets a major victory with 7% of Iowa Republicans who are MAGA enough to turn out in freezing temperature. And I mean extreme MAGA based upon exit polling:
  
  
  
• Hey, I'm not fooling myself. Trump will most certainly be the ultimate nominee. But if it were "normal times", yesterday wouldn't have told us much. 
  
  
  
• Look who was there yesterday running around with the nuttiest of Trump worshipers. 
  
  
  
• I think it's really strange that all the major schools in the metroplex are closed simply because of cold weather. 
• This headline does not make me comfortable about the quality control standards of this crime lab. They can't even keep the water running. 
  
  
  
• KXAS (Channel 5) caught a lot of grief for cutting away from the last minute of the close Chargers/Lions game on Sunday night to report on snow flurries. Here's the moment. 
  
  
  
• The Feds are clamping down on bits:
  
  
  
• Bad timing: I saw a Tom Thumb  TV commercial yesterday where it shows CeeDee Lamb running out for passes, but the ball keeps landing all around him. He then says, "I don't think this quarterback is working." The camera then pans to a Tom Thumb mascot character. 
• The Emmys were last night. I didn't watch them, but saw this note:
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: To say that the ultra right Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is full of liberal judges might be the dumbest thing Ken Paxton has ever said. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Over the top nerdy stuff: I just had a power down moment when I saw what the first day of UT Law's Federal Courts class entailed.
• I think bringing in 71 year old Bill Belichick to run the Cowboys is a dumb idea. But it would be entertaining.