Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Somewhere, he's 10 years older.

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• We always have self-fulfilling shortages.
  
  
  
• How this presidential election is even a close will always be a mystery to me.   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And, of course, there's a ton of old stuff in yesterday's filing that the public, unfortunately, has grown numb to. Full PDF is here.
  
  
  
• And how Trump has embraced the Insurrection during his campaign should be front page news every day. 
  
  
  
• Trump's response last night to the new filing is below.  He will ride that lie to the bitter end. 
  
  
  
• When I saw that some guy got hurt last night while roaming around an abandoned silo, I figured it was those which are in Saginaw. Nope. There are some south of downtown Fort Worth on Main Street.   Fox4Terry calls him an "urban explorer."  Videos.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "GREAT FALLS, Mont. — An 81-year-old Montana man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota." Say what?
  
  
  
• So, according from an excerpt of her new book, Melania is pro-choice? 
  
  
  
• We already new about this, but the story is front and center of the Star-Telegram's home page this morning. 
  
  
  
• ProPublica and the New York Times have teamed up for a long article on the West Texas Oilman PACs and how they have bought their way into power.  I was surprised to see no mention of Wise County's Andy Hopper who has received at least $280,000 of oilman money to unseat incumbent Dr. Lynn Stuckey. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Things are crazy in the Republican politicas when the absolute nutcase Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party, Bo French, has to fact check another Republican Nazi, Lara Logan.
  
  
  
• Random lawsuit out of the River Walk in San Antonio.
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. "OpenAI said on Wednesday that it had completed a $6.6 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just nine months ago."
  
  
  
• Jurors are really raking it in now (this actually went into effect late last year but people are always curious about it):
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Dallas Morning News has a piece this morning about how Jerry Jones arrives at the Cowboys practice facility in Frisco.   Video.
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold