Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Little did he, or the rest of us, know that Trump would be coming. 

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• Mangione was flown back to New York to face state and federal murder charges. Someone needs to tell the authorities that if you already fear someone is becoming a martyr, don't create a photo-op which will feed that narrative.  But this is one fantastic photo.
  
  
  
• Another angle show that New York mayor, Eric Adams, who himself is under federal indictment, is part of the escort party.
  
  
   
• I feel sorry for the lawyers in Paxton's office who have to do all of his needless work to support his publicity stunts. Roberson was supposed to testify before the legislative committee today.
  
  
  
• Oh, my. 
  
  
  
• The only Trump case which had any life left was probably dealt a death blow yesterday when an appellate court said that the DA shouldn't have named an unqualified special prosecutor who was sleeping with the DA and taking her on exotic trips.   The Atlanta DA's office is a trainwreck.
  
  
  
• Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist who met with the publicity arm of the West Texas Oilman PAC in Fort Worth last year, almost got killed the other night. Door cam video here. And it looks like the guy actually killed others that same night. He had a gun and a crossbow.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I like the pictures chosen to go with that headline. 
  
  
  
• United States Oligarchy update:
  

  

  
  
• Gift link: The Washington Post has a great multi-media story of the cost to the taxpayer for simply "maintaining" a Russian oligarch's $325 million super yacht after it was seized by the U.S. while in Fiji two years ago.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Example from the story: 
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff. I don't practice federal criminal law, but the most serious charge brought by the feds yesterday against the health insurance executive killer contains an element that seems impossible to prove when someone gets shot in the back and killed and never sees it coming. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This is great: Last night's NFL game saw the successful use of the Free-Field-Goal-Attempt-After-A-Fair-Catch rule.  And it involved former Evil Empire player, Dicker the Kicker. The last time the rule was invoked and successfully executed was in 1976.
  
  
  
• There's a college football playoff game tonight at Notre Dame and the team just checked in online:
  
  
  
• Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff's Office, despite having a full male DNA profile, has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 5 years and 169 days.