Random Monday Morning Thoughts

You may have to download this image of an old Bridgeport Index from 1955 and then enlarge it in order to read about the murder trial of a Bridgeport barber, but it's well, well worth it. And after reading it, you might be surprised to learn that he was found not guilty after the jury deliberated past midnight.

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• The Hardest Working Man in Show Business -- at least for now. I'm entertaining serious thoughts of finally winding this blog down.  I've written it for a long, long time. 
• I never saw an update on this. 
  
  
  
• Dear Wise County Sheriff's Office: The pdf of your jail roster is still not being update. It's going on six days.
  
  
  
• This is weird for McKinney. And that's not far for the downtown area. A 17 year old and a 22 year old are dead in the incident which occurred around 6:00 p.m. 
  
  
  
• It was a Starlink satellite on Saturday night which are all designed to fall back to earth and disintegrate once they reach their end of life.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure why this was worthy of a report on WFAA. It was due to a water main link, not contamination. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This is not normal.
  
  
  
  
• The vote for new Senate majority leader is Wednesday. It will either be the "establishment" candidates of John Corny or John Thune of South Dakota or, now, a new wild card Trump yes-man candidate in Rick Scott out of Florida.  Watch this.  If Rick Scott wins, it is because the Senate fears Trump's wrath. 
  

  

  
  
  
• The MAGA Tarrant County Republicans officially came out against Texas's own John Cornyn. According to them, he's not the right kind of American Republican. 
  
  
  
• This is weird.  A recess appointment would allow Trump's 1,000+ needed appointments to get to work without required Senate confirmation if the Senate is is recess -- and continue working for basically two years.  Although recess appointments are guaranteed to the president in the constitution, they still practically need the Senate's approval of the process because they can always declare themselves to be in session (like they did under Obama and continue to do today.) 
  
  
  
• But the Senate will be fully in Trump's back pocket with at least a 53 person majority. Why does he need recess appointments?
• In any event, all three men currently vying to be the Senate majority leader fell over themselves saying they would agree to recess appointments. Trump runs it all now.
• As expected, Jack Smith took the first steps on Friday to dismiss the federal prosecutions against Trump. 
  
  
  
• And another aspect of that prosecution begins. 
  
  
  
• There is even pilot audio of having to return back to the airport.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Random Cowboys thought:  There is way to much talk about the sun at Cowboys stadium.  That is 1% of their problems. 
  
  
  
• Per David Moore of the Dallas Morning News: "The first coach in Cowboys history and  WWII veteran was recognized for his service during a video montage during today’s game. The name, as it appeared on the video board: Tom Laundry." I haven't seen a video still of it yet.