8.20.2024

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




No, I don't think that's legal.


  • "A Galveston, Texas, jury on Monday found the parents of a teenager who shot and killed 10 classmates at Santa Fe High School in 2018 not liable for the violence, ending an unusual civil trial."

  • Yesterday evening. 


  • It look like I might have been right about how the incident from the screenshot below not being an attempted abduction at all.

  • Hey, this guy might eventually be found guilty, but this is a little premature. There were no field sobriety tests done at the scene and police don't even know his blood-alcohol level yet.  And "strongly suspect" isn't even enough to legally make an arrest. 

  • That was a short but very eventful swim through Congress.

  • Change that to God and the marketing department. 

  • Wake me up when Israel agrees to a full cease fire instead of agreeing to some murky and vague "bridging proposal."

  • DNC quick hits:
    • It was a surreal scene last night when the crowd began to chant "Lock him up!" as Hillary spoke. Honestly, I'm not a big fan of that chant, but she probably deserved that little moment of what-goes-around. (Video.)

    • Probably only 5% of you watched it, but Kathy Hochul might be the worst speaker ever

    • President Biden had his moment in the spotlight.

  • In Deion Sanders first press conference for Colorado the other day, a local reporter had an odd question that began about him personally having a health event and "thank god I had Aflac." It was stunning coming from a reporter and some people wondered if that question had been planted for a fee. That is, the equivalent of a paid ad. The question:

    •  Now we have this: 

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