Random Friday Morning Thoughts

It didn't take much to get us excited.

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• Wise County roads are already not cooperating for the new year. Moments ago:
  
  
  
• The Las Vegas Cybertruck bombing update:
• He shot himself before the vehicle blew. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The amount of nutty conspiracy theories that people come up is mind-numbing. The Chairman of the Republic Party of Tarrant County asserts that someone else killed the guy and then had auto-pilot drive the vehicle to the Trump hotel: 
  
  
  
• Sometimes the answer is the most obvious one:. A suicide after he was caught cheating. 
  

• There are lots of horrific videos from the Bourbon Street Massacre out there if, for some reason, you want to look for them, but this one of everyone escaping the speeding truck contains no gore. And that girl with the red hair has to be thinking she's blessed. She barely made it to the sidewalk in time.
  
  
  
• North Richland Hills make the news again: "A 47-year-old man died Wednesday morning, after he was booked into the in the North Richland Hills detention facility the previous day. The man, identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner as Michael Gene Knight, was arrested by Watauga police and booked into the facility at about 3:45 p.m. on New Year’s Eve."
  
  
  
• What a wild image from yesterday afternoon.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Congress gavels in today with a vote on the House Speaker occurring at 11:00 a.m. CST when we will learn if Mike Johnson can retain his leadership role.  And CSPAN will be allowed to have additional cameras in the chamber which is great for capturing some wheels off moments (like two years ago.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, no! We are losing Osmonds now!
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Fish crime! Game wardens in Travis County "located two suspects—one actively spearing black bass with a pneumatic speargun while snorkeling (a violation of state fishing regulations), and the other stationed onshore with a cooler and bag" at Lady Bird Lake in Austin. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Is there any chance we are all living in some big computer simulation and are all being punked? I mean, there's no way that this is coming from the richest man in the history of the world, right?:
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Who would have thought that acting like a nut would scare off people from buying his cars?
  
  
  
• Wise County's newly elected state rep is already doing stupid things. And who could this possibly benefit anyway?
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Quite the headline. 
  
  
  
• Fun upcoming Cotton Bowl fact: The first game of the year for both Texas and Ohio State next year will be against each other. 
• Since we have a change in administrations of the Wise County Sheriff's Office, I need to reword my weekly Lauren Whitener bullet point. Until then, it has been: 5 years and 183 days.