Random Friday Morning Thoughts

The former Wise County attorney in charge of misdemeanors passed away 10 years ago. The blurb above is from when he was in office. It was some wild days back then, but Hale, when it comes to marijuana, was just way ahead of his time.  

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• The hours after "Liberation Day" didn't feels too liberating.
  

  

  
  
• Here comes China:
  
  
  
• As the markets were crashing, Trump headed to Mar-a-Lago to watch a Saudi-funded LIV golf tournament at his own course.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• And in case you wondering if he had anywhere else to be this weekend. 
  
• Let's check in on Fox News was covering the tariffs impact on the markets. .
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On his way to Florida on Air Force One, he showed off the new "Trump Card" which allows immigrants to buy their way into the U.S. for $5 million.
  
  
  
• The fact that Laura Loomer even sets foot in the Oval Office, much less give advice that Trump heeds, is amazing.
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
    
• I don't know if I would have hired this guy, but the proposed development in Collin County, which will welcome those of the Islamic faith, needs to fight back over the bigotry trying to stop it.  Affluent white Christians live in their own little enclaves all the time -- and then simply move to another one once it is no longer all white. When Muslims try to do it, everyone yells "Sharia law!!!"
  

  

  
  
• This is an update on the the car that went into the Trinity River last weekend which led to the death of a child and mother (later at the hospital.)  But "Fort Worth police said they 'are not at liberty to say' what information led investigators to believe the crash was intentional." Uh, that's kind of important. 
  
  
  
• Tell Wise County representative Andy Hopper not to sell out our public schools. The school vouchers are a scam to move your tax dollars to private religious schools which you have no control over and can't afford.
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 276 days.