Random Monday Morning Thoughts

I wrote that on 2/28/14.

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• We are headed to record territory today.
  
  
  
• Cam Newton got jumped. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Holy cow.  "Prior to setting himself on fire, the man said he would 'no longer be complicit in genocide [by Israel in Gaza]' and that he was 'about to engage in an extreme act of protest.'" This gives me flashbacks to the Buddhist monk who famously set himself on fire in Vietnam in 1963.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And another.
  
  
  
• I watched quite a bit of CPAC last week and it was as nuts as I thought it would be. But this was a scary thought . . . 
  
  
  
• A filing by Trump's lawyer may indicate that the fiery DA in Atlanta might have lied in last the hearing two weeks ago. If this is true, it's bad. Very bad.  They got the cellphone records with a simple subpoena. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump won South Carolina easily on Saturday. 
  
  
  
• Drudge has a different spin on it. 
  
  
  
• As the graphic shows below, we are so doomed as a society. I've said it before: About 2/3rds of Republicans (who make up half all voters) are ultra-MAGA.  That's 1/3 of all voters which is exactly the percentage that the Nazi party received in 1932 right before Hitler was appointed Chancellor. And Trump's propaganda machine is far better than that of Joseph Goebbels.
  
  
  
• Trump is sounds more and  more authoritarian with each passing day. Highlights/Lowlights from this weekend: 
• Black people will vote for him because he's been indicted? Video. Side note: Show me a black person who has been indicted on 90 counts who is walking around free before trial. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Translated: The minorities are coming for the white women. Video. 
  
  
  
  
• Immigrants are so dangerous they are even speaking mysterious unknown languages! Video.
  
  
  
  
• Good lord. Video. 
  
  
  
• Legal political stuff: So what's unusual about Justice Clarence Thomas hiring this girl as a clerk? Quite a bit.
  

  

  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a Texas law that is so blatantly unconstitutional that I can't believe it has gotten this far -- but it had to since the crazy Fifth Circuit ruled it was valid. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second. Construction of high dollar property in Uptown is really amazing:
  
  
  
• Former Cowboys receiver Golden Richards has died. For old guys like me, he is right in our wheelhouse. 
  
  
  
• Sportswriter Peter King announced this morning that he is retiring from writing his weekly column (which I used to dog relentlessly back in the day.)  But I'll always remember him for odd tweets like this:
  
  
  
• The mistrial in Wise County's district court last week sounds pretty tense.