Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

This was a horrible crime where an estranged husband murdered his wife in her real estate office off of Heritage Trace in North Fort Worth.  A six-hour stand off followed. He was eventually convicted and give a life sentence from a jury. The opinion on appeal is here (with lots of factual details.)

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• "Just before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sheriff Gleason confirmed to KVUE the victims have been identified as former Williamson County district judge Alfred 'Burt' Carnes, 74,  and his wife, Susan H. Carnes, 74. Gleason said the couple’s son, 45-year-old Seth B. Carnes, is in custody over their deaths. He has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bond."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Wise County's criminal justice software package was updated over the holidays,  but workers have since been burdened by major bugs preventing them from automatically creating even the most  basic of criminal plea paperwork.  Tyler Technologies basically runs all of Texas in this area, but any update or initial install is always a nightmare. 
• With bitter cold moving in early next week  we shouldn't have to worry about these announcements:
  
  
  
• Side note: My Liberally Lean Weather Team preliminarily reports that we will stay below freezing from Sunday morning into Wednesday.
• That's one way to say, "Trump's lawyer claims in court that Trump could order Team Seal 6 to assassinate his political opponents and still couldn't be criminally prosecuted unless first impeached by the House and convicted in the Senate." Really. Audio from the appellate argument in the D.C. Circuit yesterday.  This immunity defense stands absolutely no chance. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This seems more than just pie in the sky hopes. Walmart expects to implement these deliveries by the end of the year. The announcement was made "in a keynote speech Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show, an annual event in Las Vegas" - a place where big news is disclosed.
  
  
  
• Shot:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Chaser: Wise County's own Ronny Jackson is definitely "like Marjorie Taylor Greene."
  
  
  
• From the Have-They-Gone-Nuts Department:
•  From Fox News last night
  
  
  
• Training for what?   
  
  
  
• Graphic from Bloomberg News. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second: This new rule takes effect on March 11th. Is this a big deal? It sounds like a big deal.
  
  
  
  
• This caused a question mark to form over my head.
  
  
  
• I think any 99% winning percentage chance on any in-game odds graphic is grossly overrated.