Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

This was actually pretty shocking news. Little did we know that we were five months 

away from Trump's ride down the golden escalator. 

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• I've written about this story before where a son-in-law head-butted his father-in-law three times at Woody's Tavern in Fort Worth. The plea bargain is for 23 years.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Godley is down in Johnson County. 
  
  
  
• That's a heck of way to transform the federal government into Trump yes men. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The offer to resign was via email and looked very similar to the email that Elon sent out to his employees when he bought Twitter -- right down to the title, "A Fork in the Road."   Want to resign? Just hit reply and type "Resign" in the subject line.
  
  
  
• It sounds like it was chaos yesterday with the federal spending shutdown -- including Medicaid shut down for a while -- but we'll have to wait until Monday to see how this is going to pan out.  That is, unless Trump ignores the federal judge, which he absolutely might do.
  
  
  
• Add General Mark Milley to the list of people no longer receiving protection from Iran. We are going to have our own modern day "Night of the Long Knives"  because these guys are so exposed.  Trump's enemy list grows.
  
  
  
• We unnecessarily crashed another plane again - this one at a cost of around $90 million. And it was caught on video. 
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Sure schools need teacher pay raises and more resources, and the legislature is about to gut them with school vouchers. And never mind that we fear our kids might be gunned down like in Uvalde. But Rep. David Spiller (R-Jacksboro) offered the Ten Commandments to schools yesterday. 
  
  
  
• I haven't done my Medical Examiner rant in a while, but there's a new reason. There is absolutely no way you can determine "suicide" by looking at a charred body.  You can tell me that he died by being burned to death, but that's it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It was the first press conference ever for Trump's new 27 year old press secretary yesterday.
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• Chaser (an obvious lie.)
  
  
  
• Oh, my. He was a freshman at Temple University. 

• Crazy Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing begins this morning. This comes on the heels of Caroline Kennedy telling us yesterday that "his basement, his garage, his dorm room were always the center of the action where drugs were available and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks."