Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The accident somehow gave rise to a civil suit filed in Decatur.  The criminal case was 

disposed of this way:

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• Breaking: We have a running mate decision from Kamala Harris. I'm a little surprised. 
  
  
  
• The stock market going down was much ado about nothing.  After it, the S&P is still up 9.46% year-to-date and up 14.79% over the last 12 months.
  
  
  
• Trump and the stock market:
• When it is up (from January):
  
  
  
• Yesterday: 
  
  
  
• The $345,250 Man has reinstated the one Texas Ranger who has been suspended since Uvalde -- suspended with pay by the way. DPS refuses to take any responsibility for that cluster.
  
  
  
• Carroll ISD, which has been taken over by Patriot Mobile school board members, has named its new superintendent. 
  
  
  
• Where have we heard of him before? Oh, yeah. He's from the crazy Granbury ISD:
  
  
  
• No deaths, however.
  
  
  
• Kind of legal nerdy stuff: They would have made this one a DWI case if it was just a regular Joe. But losing your job for a PI is probably an equivalent punishment. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Insurrection news: 
• One of these days, all of these people will pay for the Insurrection. I hope.  
  
  
  
• This nutcase will get his toys back.  Specifically, his helmet and spear. And, legally, he should have them returned to him since the government didn't make forfeiting the property as part of his plea deal. 
  
  
  
• Sidenote: He pled guilty and was sentenced to a 41 month sentence to the charge "of obstruction of an official proceeding, a charge which has since been largely invalidated by the Supreme Court in the cases of Capitol riot defendants."
• The Business Second™. UTA has purchased 51 acres in Parker County (barely) to open up a satellite campus. Artist rendering:
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Sports: It took an a while yesterday, but the silver medalist of the women's 5000 meters was disqualified -- and then reinstated -- in Paris. Here's slow motion video of the disputed contact. The eventual silver winner (Faith Kipyegon of Kenya on the inside) had been disqualified for obstructing Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay (on the left and facing Kipyegon in this photo). 
  
  
  
• Tim Walz is the first person on a Democratic presidential ticket not to have attended law school since Jimmy Carter in 1980. Good.