Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

This remains one one of the weirdest cases out of the Wise County Sheriff's Office.

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• A police chase of a stolen daycare van isn't something you see every day. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Nice pay check for being forced out of your government job in Wichita Falls.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I had a huge question form over my head yesterday when I kept seeing various right wing posts about cats being eaten by immigrants in Ohio.  It didn't take long to track down.   It's another Internet hoax that took on a life of it's own. Most of it appears to have originated from a story last month which had nothing to do with immigrants. 
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
• It's painful how they either just knowingly spread lies or are just the most gullible people in the world. But, either way, a claim of immigrants eating cats has a nice racist ring to it that they simply refused to pass up. 

• Video here.  There is no situation which leads to unnecessary police-citizen escalations than not complying within micro-seconds of a demand from an officer to get out of your car. It was the origin of the Sandra Bland story a few years back.   
  
  
  
• At 8:00 p.m. tonight. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• One of the most sensational cases in America will have to wait a little longer. 
  
  
  
• It's been a long time coming, but the police raid based upon lies that lead to the death of an innocent couple in Houston is finally going to trail. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A work of art is on the cover of The Atlantic. 
  
  
  
• Free gift link from the Washington Post about a kid out of Stephenville. You cannot let your kid drop out of school and let him lock himself into his room with unfettered Internet access. It is a recipe for disaster. But they just slapped an 80 year prison sentence on a 15 year old. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I don't really follow Texas high school football that closely, but I like looking at "How The Top 10 Fared" on Saturday morning which lists the results of the games involving the current top ten ranked teams from all the divisions. It looks like the normally pretty accurate writers have misjudged some of the teams in one of the lowest division in Texas:
  
  
  
  
• My Longhorn friends have asked me if I have paid attention to the "The Evil Empire" through the first two games. Why, yes, yes I have. If they don't win the National Championship and walk away with the Heisman Trophy then I hereby proclaim the season to be a complete failure. High Orangeblood expectations on the Forty Acres makes for the best college football season.