Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

The passing of "Speedo Man" pictured in the masthead.

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• My highly compensated weather team still thinks it snows all day and into the night in Wise County, and they think we will get a lot of it. (It even began falling a bit earlier this morning than they expected.) But Dallas-Fort Worth proper might get nothing but rain until this evening. The closing of schools in the metroplex might have been a bit premature. Edit: Or not,
  
  
   
• There's a criminal trial ongoing in the district court in Decatur about a child who died.  The State claims it was due to malnourishment while the defense claims the death was due to other medical issues.  Here's the obituary. 
• Yep, it was, and still is, a catastrophe. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The Pacific Palisades area is simply gone. Click to enlarge 

  

  Just the coastline damage in the northern area

  
  

  

  Red depicts the homes destroyed. And those were
  some high priced homes. 

  
  
• The Eaton fire with homes in Altadena.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• You can count on Trump to fail to provide encouragement as lives are destroyed. Even Junior got involved.  Just very bad people. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Keller ISD  is considering cutting out the riff-raff from its school district by splitting and creating the Alliance ISD which would take all of Keller's school campuses west of Denton Highway 377. That would include the high schools of Central, Fossil Ridge, and Timber Creek high schools and leaving only the original Keller High School.  It's trying to become a junior Southlake ISD. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• An electrical substation just south of Roanoke dramatically caught fire last night.  Video of it as it was ongoing.
  
  
  
• Trump made a phone call to a Supreme Court judge as Trump was filing his request with the court to stop his Friday criminal sentencing.  The call was allegedly about a low level job reference but almost certainly just an excuse to ex parte the judge (who certainly has no ethics about it.)
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Lots of kissing of the ring going on. 
  
  
  
• Wise County's goofy Congressman was on some spare internet streaming show yesterday talking about taking taking over Greenland, Canada, and Panama as something serious and legitimate. 
  
  
  
• With Texas playing in the Cotton Bowl on Friday, there have been some flashbacks to when coach Steve Sarkisian led BYU over Kansas State as quarterback in the game in 1997.  I actually went to it with a buddy because we didn't have anything to do and tickets were cheap.
  
  
  
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