Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The father of  County Judge J.D. Clark died in an accident. He was only 52 at the time. 

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• "MONTAGUE COUNTY (KFDX/KJTL) — A man faces five felony charges after officials with the Montague County Sheriff’s Office said he ran over multiple vehicles with a 'monster truck' at Rednecks with Paychecks in Saint Jo, causing two victims to be hospitalized."
  
  
  
• According to one of his childhood friends, former Decatur, TCU, and Chicago Bear football player James Maness has passed away at the age of 61. He was inducted into the TCU Hall of Fame in 2007. 
  
  
  
• I understand Israel's state of rage over the past year, but they will be subject to attacks for decades to come for the way they've handled all of this. 
  
  

  
  
  
  
• Dueling other headlines. Only one of the six defendants was found civilly liable and ordered to pay $40,000. 
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• Random historical tidbit: An actual poll tax receipt from Wise County from 1946. Source.
  
  
  
• Trump from last night's rally:
• He is really worried about how much women hate him. Video.
  
  
  
• He's just going to round up people who are legally here because they look different. And the crowd eats it up. Video.
  
  
  
• Legal stuff re the current status of the January 6th prosecution of Trump in D.C. federal court:  Because of the Supreme Court immunity ruling, they are trying to sort through which of Trump's acts were "official." To do so, prosecutor Jack Smith wants to file a 180 page brief to detail Trump's actions -- where the public would learn things we don't yet know. That's 4x the legal limit so he has to ask for permission (PDF).  Trump opposed that yesterday (PDF). 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. The last K-Mart store, located in Bridgehampton, New York, will close next month. That chain was the Walmart of the country when I was a kid. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Obviously this is fake news from last night because I read on the Internet that Hamlin died because of the COVID vaccine on the football field last year and was replaced with a body double. 
  
  
  
• I occasionally glance at the New York Post to see what propaganda they are spewing, and they didn't disappoint this morning with "Democrat talking points" . . . .