Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The great clown scare of 2016.

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• Breaking: It is not Big Tex. Repeat. It is not Big Tex. 
  
  
  
• Honestly, I'd rather have a firing squad than a botched lethal injection like we saw in Tennessee last week. Side note: It would be the first military firing squad since 1945.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Notable death.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We seem to be seeing more and more of these.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Not a chance in the world that he's telling the truth.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• What would get you impeached 20 years ago now won't make the news cycle through noon of the following day.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He's launched about 100 meaningless (and possibly non-existent) "investigations" in the last 60 days in an effort to get a headline. 
  
  
  
• Abbott avoiding Trump: 
  
  
  
• She almost bit it.  Video.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Nerdy legal stuff: It's just coming from one federal district judge (PDF), but it could have some legs. Side note: Most of the opinion deals with a Rodriguez prolonged detention issue which is favorable to defendants. 
  
• On the first day of the Supreme Court's term yesterday, they declined to hear 745 cases which have been filed asking for the court to review it by the losing party on appeal.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The ten year anniversary to the day when Ted Cruz sold his soul.

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• Dateline Houston. Oh, my. 
  
• Photos from the weekend: 
• The ACL music festival in Austin was a muddy mess, and this is a great photo for a lot of reasons. 
  
  
  
  
• Former special prosecutor Jack Smith went to a Bruce Springsteen shown. 
  
  
  
• Gov. Hochul is listed at 5'8".  AG James' height is hard to pin down. 
  
  
  
• The GOP thought it would be a good idea to roll out ads featuring Angela Paxton urging you to vote straight Republican ticket. First, all you think about when you see it is that Ken Paxton cheated on her.  Secondly, the line that a general election is not about “the individual players” is one crazy take.
  
  
  
• Trump continues to go crazy.
• Tell me again that the United States will never be a socialist country.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• If you voted for him, you deserve him. 
  
  
  
  
• Drugs? They were manufacturing drugs in the nuclear plants? 
  
  
  
• Not only is this a bizarre rant, but he posted a congressman's phone number. 
  
  
  
  
• Another bizarre rant -- this time about Fox News not covering his Alabama rally on Saturday night.
  
  
  
• That could stop its use by guys who care more about their hair than their bellies. And that's pretty much all of them.  
  
  
  
  
• Very legal nerdy stuff: The Texas Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a Wise County case that should make every lawyer scared to practice civil law. (Court of appeals opinion here.) 
• No one is listing the cause of death which is normally a bad tell-tale sign.
  
  
  
• Weekend Sports:
• "During"? 
  
  
  
• A replay review turned into Inception on your TV screen. 
  
  
  
• Anyone else irritated about  the three hour scroll for a flash flood warning for the strange place of "Henderson and Henderson" during the Tech/Colorado game?
  
  
  
• Of course, Wise County rep. Andy Hopper was a speaker at the Anti-Muslim rally referenced below: 

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

With Hillary vs. Trump a month away, USA Today absolutely nailed the stakes at hand 

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• Ages 21 and 15. It happened yesterday.  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• Good. Seven years passes for most of us in the blink of an eye. But it would feel very diffierent if you lived it in a cage.  
  
  
  
• The great Fox4Terry is throwing me off by using the word "iconic" for a strip club. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cornell controversy: The DA is out, and the AG is in.   This could end up being a disaster for everyone. 
  
  
  
• Note to Tarrant County DA: Based upon that second sentence, this case is not something to brag about.  At all.
  
  
  
• Our Orwellian revision of history continues. 
  
  
  
  
• We live in the oddest of political times. 
  
  
  
• This is real.  The corruption knows no bottom. Edit: The text and the dinner and the corruption is real. The photo is very fake. 
   
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  
  
• The Second Business Second™. How many homes can they keep adding in that area between 287 and Eagle Mountain Lake?  And there's no easy ingress and egress. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Dateline Waco. Pretty wacky facts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• North Texas beat Tulsa in overtime very late last night, but they might have been lucky there was no camera positioned right on the goal line on that instant replay.  Video.
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 91 days.