Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I had to check, but she is still on that Texas appellate court. Some of her DWI video is still out there. 

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• News from the Messenger:
  
  
  
• Alleged killer updates: 
• He's gone a little crazy, no? 
  
  
  
• He yelled, “It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and the lived experience!” as he was going into court.   I don't know what that means.
• The "manifesto" he was carrying when arrested turned out to be pretty short.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This is the guy who was retained as his lawyer for the extradition issue (which is a foregone conclusion) and for the Pennsylvania charges (which will never be prosecuted). So he's just a bit player, but that didn't stop him from getting in front of the cameras at every chance yesterday. He's a bit of goofball.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I blame this case for making this song from the 1970s get stuck in my head. (Fun fact: He's alive and well at the age of 84.) 
  
  
  
• And he's back in the local jail. I guess the relationship with the gal from Uzbek didn't work out.  A news conference is today. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Welcome to the American Oligarchy.  If you are rich, we will let you bypass all those pesky environmental  regulations. But the masses just shrug. 
  
  
  
• A great new play:
• Act I: Junior dumps his fiancé for a girlfriend.
  
  
  
• Act II: Fiancé gets appointed to ambassador to Greece as a consolation prize.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Matt Gaetz went from potential Attorney General for the U.S. to the only job that he was qualified for on the open market: A talk show host for the the crazy OAN network. 
  
  
  
• Oh, no!
  
  
  
• We learned on Monday night that the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have a member who suffers from alopecia. 
  
  
  
• The Breaking News Business Second™: 2.7%
  
  
  
• I hate every Liberty Mutual commercial -- from the dumb emu to anything with the statute of liberty in background. They are just so bad. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

That was cool.  And a photo from a Southwest flight was pretty great too 

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• As you know, the alleged killer in the CEO case on the Manhattan streets was captured in Pennsylvania yesterday at, of all places, a McDonald's.
  
  
  
• Odds and ends. 
  

  

  Fake ID used at NYC hostel

  
  

  

  The "ghost gun"

  
  

  

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• He was an Ivy League graduate with a master's degree, and was valedictorian of his $40,000 a year private high school. Video of commencement speech. 
  
  
  
• So someone explain to me how none of the the thousands of people who knew him didn't figure out is was him from the police-released photos, but a McDonald's worker did?
• OK, I'm not a conspiracy guy, and I think the right man was captured. But I will admit that for a brilliant guy who pulled off a meticulous killing, the ending doesn't make a lot of sense: 

  

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• This somehow is a little surprising to New Yorkers but the case would never have even been brought in Texas (and probably most other places.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. It happened yesterday afternoon.  
  
  
  
• There was a time when a high speed chase that ended up with a crash in downtown Fort Worth during rush hour yesterday where two guys took off on foot but who were apprehended would be all over the news. Now the only way we know about it through social media and the Lake Worth PD.
  
  
  
• "No other details were released", but we definitely should know. 
  
  
  
• Rep. Nancy Mace has been on a weird and extended anti-gay rant lately, was the subject of a discovered video which is best described as a gross drinking game. 
  
  
  
• This may be a big deal. There seems to be a 0% contained fire in Malibu this morning. Gift link with photos 
  
   
  
  
  
• Yesterday morning in Marshall, Texas. The church was 163 years old.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This kind of got buried because of all the big news yesterday. She may very well end up as a member of the U.S. Senate via appointment. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• What's he talking about? Does he understand how elections work now?
  
  
  
• Legal odd stuff: A federal court order to go to lunch together.  Full order here (it's real and even more entertaining.)
  
  
  
• Random example of why college football, the last sport I watch, is turning into a beating: Maalik Murphy, the one-time backup QB to Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning at the Evil Empire, but who transferred to Duke and led them to a 9-3 record this season, is in the transfer portal again this morning. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Baylor and TCU, both 11-1, were left out of the college football playoffs.

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• Overnight: It occurred during a traffic stop.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We have new photos of the United Healthcare killer, and I cannot believe he has not been identified yet. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Throw in the confusing fact that his backpack was found in Central Park and it contained Monopoly money. 
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy but in the news: The trial of the guy for choking an unruly/threatening guy on the New York Subway went to the jury late last week, and we had a surprising legal maneuver on Friday.  The jury was deadlocked on the charge and, instead of the judge declaring a mistrial (like we do in Texas), the State dismissed that charge and convinced the judge to allow the jury to continue to deliberate on the lesser included offense. (Honestly, I don't know of a case in Texas where the State tried the dismissal trick. Normally the jury can't move on to the lesser charge unless they unanimously agree on an acquittal of the greater.)
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If I'm reading the Wise County records correctly, this guy was sentenced 28 years last week in a plea bargained case. Cause number CR24263.
  
  
  
• The Paradise Panthers are headed to the semi-finals for the first time after defeating Shallowater.  Here's video of their first touchdown which was the result of a great mad scramble with a throw two receivers in the same area.
  
  
  
• Friday.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• The MAGA Republicans and the Normal Republicans were fighting all weekend over who the next Texas House Speaker will be. 
  
  
  
• I'm sure that it was high on God's priority list. 
  
  
  
• The Syrian government was toppled by rebels over the weekend which is good but also means that it'll be chaos there for the next few years.
  
  
  
• Trump:
• Another incredible grift: $199 perfume.
  
  
  
• Interview which aired yesterday: Trump telling us he will sick the FBI on this political enemies. Well, you know, he's not going to "direct" them to do it although his new handpicked FBI director will "have to." Video. This should scare us all to death, but the masses will just shrug.
  
  
  
• Interview yesterday #2: He still doesn't understand tariffs. Video.
  
  
  
• He has named his new Hope Hicks replacement: One of his very bad lawyers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Congrats to SMU for edging out Alabama for the last playoff spot.  But, by the time ESPN got around to slowly rolling out the 12 team playoff reveal, one reputable reporter had, for the first time, leaked the committee's selection. (He was laid off from ESPN in 2017.)
  
  
  
• Not for everyone, but I loved it: Dick Van Dyke in a touching music video with the lead singer of Coldplay. (Director's cut) 
• The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas got mad at the Dallas Morning News for their meth cover story and series.