Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The Wise County "missing dogs" story (that I thought just had a two day news cycle) morphed into a story of all the dogs missing from Decatur, and it ended up on "Inside Edition." 

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• A judge who got Paxton'd in the Republican primary has been appointed to preside over Wise County's most sensational murder case. 
  
  
  
• He's crazy. He's shockingly crazy.    
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• 1.8 million Palestinians would be without a home, and U.S. troops could be used for the occupation and "rebuild." Do we still have a Congress?  

  

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• This is MAGA. Trump said he wanted to turn Gaza in the "Riviera of the Middle East."
  
  
  
• Look, a Gaza takeover will never happen.  There would be a bomb go off every day at every hotel -- assuming every worker wasn't murder or kidnapped during the years of construction. Even the mere suggestion last night of a Gaza takeover by Trump will probably get Americans killed right now. 
• Didn't expect to see the play-by-play man of the Dallas Cowboys, who happens to be Jewish, enter the fray. 
  
  
  
• "Some people are saying" that the Gaza announcement is nothing more than a Trump distraction trick. They might be right. While you weren't looking yesterday, Trump was moving without guardrails at blinding speed:  
• 1. The most dangerous appointee, a Trump yes-woman who is an election denier, is now at the head of the Justice Department after the Republican senate rubber-stamped the nomination. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 2 "The Central Intelligence Agency, in what officials reportedly claimed was an effort to bring the agency in line with Trump’s agenda, offered buyouts to its entire staff on Tuesday." Did Putin order this? 
  
  
  
• 3. The largest humanitarian aid organization in the world is no more.  
  
  
  
• 4. Two of the craziest appointees were voted out of committee yesterday and are on their way to confirmation. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 5. Just like he said he would. 
  
  
  
• Closer to home, Northwest ISD will cut 101 teaching positions. And the legislature is about to gut schools even further with school vouchers.  
  
  
  
  
• This is a follow-up from yesterday.  The defendant testified on his own behalf, the defense lawyers were court appointed, the jury deliberated for only three hours, and the jury also rejected the lesser included offenses of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
  
  
  
• An arrest has been made in the road rage shooting on 820 in Fort Worth last week during rush hour: Koby Burkhart, 22
  
  
  
• In Maine, a 29 year old guy became the subject of a domestic violence call and decided to get into a shootout with police. He lost. The video he posted right before his death is as nutty as he is/was. His Twitter account is also a wild ride.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Eleven dead in a mass shooting in Sweden.
  
  
  
• Man, keeping up with all this is exhausting.