Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Ghosts from Christmas past.

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• Texas Christmas mall chaos:
• Killeen on Saturday:
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Northeast mall last night with a scare yesterday afternoon as two men pulled guns out at the food court:
  
  
  
• There is a video of this, but it's obviously disturbing. 
  
  
  
• Drone attack!  Here's video of it, and that last one was coming down like a rocket.
  
  
  
• .President Biden was busy overnight.
  
  
  
  
• Only three people, all involved in high profile cases, did not have their death sentences commuted.
  
  
  
• Trump went a little nutty over the weekend, and threaten to take back the Panama Canal by force.
  
  
  
• When the President of Panama objected, Trump responded and proved we are now all just living in a cartoon. 
  
  
  
• In the continuing saga of the U.S. military losing their own aircraft due to their own mistakes . . . 
• We got creative by shooting down one of our own jets. 
  
  
  
• But did the more traditional thing by crashing a helicopter in California.
  
  
  
• On Friday, the House was able to pass an emergency spending bill after the Speaker consulted with both of our President-Elects. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There was a ton of misinformation about Fort Worth Congresswoman Kay Granger this weekend. (Her term ends in a few days and she did not run for re-election.)
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  

  

  

  
  
• The twelve team college football playoffs got underway this weekend which proved only that there are not close to twelve teams worthy of contending for a national title.  As a side note, it sounds like a bunch of private planes were not able to land at the tiny airport at State College, Pennsylvania including these high tone folks from SMU:

  

  But at least they got to miss seeing SMU throw two pick-sixes.

  
  
• Very legal nerdy stuff: The Fort Worth Court of Appeals has reinstated the prosecution of a Denton murder case after the trial judge dismissed the case due to the State not disclosing evidence timely. 
• The House Ethics report on Trump's first attempt at AG, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, was just unofficially released as Gaetz files a lawsuit this morning to stop it.