Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

An attack on the Canadian capitol was the big news. A video captured the police response with tons of gunfire heard down a hallway. 

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• Wise County early voting: 3,559 voted on day one, and 3,526 voted yesterday. That brings the total to 7,085.   Four years ago the numbers were 2,263 and 2,409 for a total of 4,672.    So for every 2 people that voted last time, we've got 3 this year. (My Bridgeport math education is paying off for me, big time.)
• Get out your jackets.
  
  
  
• New this morning. Everything is fine. It's just buddies Putin and Kim Jong Un teaming up against Ukraine.   
  
  
  
• Trump:
• Trump's former Chief of Staff comes out to do three recorded interviews with the New York Times to warn us about Trump.   Gift link. Add him to the list of former Trump confidants, including his own former VP and AG, who are sounding the alarm.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The Atlantic had quite the article yesterday. And they didn't even put the "bury a . . . Mexican" comment in the headline. 
  
  
  
• Tarrant County MAGA dysfunctional government on display yesterday:
• One guy out of White Settlement, who seems to be very capable of pushing a wrong button, claimed that he voted for Trump but the machine switched it to Kamala Harris.  He checked his paper ballot that was printed, saw the error, and the ballot was torn up and he voted again.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Then ultra-MAGA Tarrant Republican Chairman Bob French went into "They are trying to steal the election!" mode and lied about it having happened to multiple voters.  (Get ready, you are about to hear this lie a lot -- especially nationwide.)
  
  
  
• That prompted a retort from just plain MAGA Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare to slap everyone down by saying this is just one report out of 100,000 where someone has "claimed his vote was altered" (emphasis added.)
  
  
  
• Incredible pictures by the AP of an Israeli missile strike on Beirut apartment building.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, good lord.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Pretty bold move in a campaign down by Round Rock.
  
   
  
  
  
• The FIU football stadium (officially Pitbull Stadium), as well as the team's uniforms, went with Miami Vice theme last night. Big thumbs up.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: The Texas Supreme Court doesn't impact my practice like the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals does, but at least one judge on the former is very suspect. This is just the latest eye-brow raising scandal of Judge John Devine:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Wise County Sheriff's Office arrested a Chico man for "disrupting a meeting or procession" yesterday. (Book-in number 112960.)  You don't see that very often.