Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

And this was a Wise County case. 

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• I'm not sure I've ever seen a law enforcement agency release a photo of the face of an actual dead body before, but it happened yesterday.  It worked. 
  
  
  
• And they first met in Canada. 
  
• A couple of stories that got bumped yesterday because of election coverage here. 
• Horrible. This happened in a smaller town just south of Pittsburgh, PA. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This is not what I was expecting him to look like. 
  
  
  
• How bad was the beating that Republicans took in Tarrant County? Well . . . 
  
  
  
• And this is the luckiest man in Tarrant County for the sole reason that he wasn't on the ballot on Tuesday. 
  
  
  
• So how did Trump respond to the political beating that he received on election day?
• And he appeared exhausted. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Then later he turned to a really serious issue.
  
  
  
• This will not be your mother's Texas attorney general: 
• No more being MAGA-driven. 
  
• And then there's this: 
  
  
  
  
• The Texas legislature will meet in just a couple of months and there's a whole lot of "back to the drawing board" going on right now. 
  
  
  
  
• Ok, that's a funny headline. 
  
  
  
• Yesterday, there were oral arguments before the nine member Texas Supreme Court when only hours beforehand four of the judges found out they will be out of a job on January 1st. All four dutifully showed up for work.
• Breaking sports news. Oh, my. 
  
  
  
• Sports which I bumped from yesterday:
• Momma let her daughter and her Tommy Boy husband buy out her part of the Mavericks. 
  
  
  
• A player who followed his coach to the coach's new gig in Argyle was disqualified because an assistant at Liberty coached the kid last summer on 7 on 7. That's apparently against the rules. 
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

TEXAS, MY TEXAS!: I DON'T BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW!

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• I don't think people fully realize what happened last night:
• Gov. Greg Abbott - Gone
  
  
  
• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick - Gone
  
  
  
• There is a new Democratic Attorney General ("MAGA" Mayes Middleton lost)
• There is a new Democratic Land Commissioner
• There is a new Democratic Comptroller
• There is a new Democratic Agriculture Commissioner
• There is a new New Democratic Railroad Commissioner (Bo French got blown out. )
  
  
  
• All four Republican Supreme Court Judges up for re-election - Gone
  
  
  
  
• Three Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge positions: All Republicans gone. 
• And maybe the biggest shocker at all: Democrats will now control the House in the Texas Legislature. (This graphic is unofficial.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Wise County (and parts of Denton County) sent Rep. Any Hopper back to the statehouse. But if the guy can't even get a simple water bill passed when Republicans controlled Austin, he might as well not leave his office in the upcoming legislative session.
  
  
   
• My prediction was wrong. Kalshi was right. Texas elected a Democratic U.S. Senator for the first time since Lloyd Bentsen.
  

  
  
  
• Tarrant County was a complete Democratic sweep:
• County Judge Time O'Hare - Gone
  
  
  
• District Attorney Phil Sorrells - Gone
  
  
  
• Longtime Republican District Clerk Tom Wilder - Gone
• The Republican County Clerk - Gone
• Every Republican district judge who had an opponent - Gone
• Every Republican county court judge who had an opponent - Gone
• And I haven't even mentioned Congress yet!
  
• The House
  
  
  
• The Senate
  
  
  
• LOL.
  
  
  
  
  
• And this finally came true. If the normal and conservative Republicans don't rid themselves of the MAGA crazies, they may never win again.  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• It's amazing what, in less than two years, a needless Iran war, needless tariffs, and a cartoon character in the White House who lies to the American people every time he opens his mouth will do. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

And here is one of the dumbest things I've ever done.  Ten years ago, when I left the comments here open, there was a guy who always posted in all caps who was my online nemeses. Fortunately, he never took me up on this bet. (To this day, I don't know who he was.)

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• News was a little slow to trickle out about this but 10 people were sent to the hospital after a multi-vehicle crash on 380 on Saturday night. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Video here.  And that was a lot of people standing right by it.
  
   
  
  
  
• The fireworks guy at the Seahawks' stadium almost shot down a military helicopter last night. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• At the New York Marathon on Sunday. Life is short. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's election day, and I think the prediction market at Kalshi is way off base here.  My bold prediction is that Paxton will win. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump's Justice Department just announced the locations where they will be sending "election monitors" today.  In Texas, it just happens to be counties which vote Democratic.  This is not normal. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There are local elections as well. Be sure to vote for someone who is able to read a weather forecast for the next day. 
  
  
  
• Then again, the FBI can't even get the date correct. (This is real.) 
  
  
  
• The identities of the those involved in the Learjet crash have been released. Side note: That 20 year old female co-pilot did a brave and heroic job in relaying the flight conditions to the tower during the emergency. She was professional even when she knew it was all over. 
  

  

  
  
• Update on the Deep Ellum shootings: For some reason the U.S. Attorney is running towards the cameras at every opportunity even though these are clearly state crimes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Quite the contrast from above. 
  
  
  
• And Trump's support of Russia keeps getting weirder and weirder. Overnight: 
  
  

  

  
  
• With less than 24 hours before the polls open, Trump gave one of the weirdest speeches he's ever given yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trumpism:
  
  
  
• Trump went to the Supreme Court yesterday to try and interfere with the elections in California.
  
  
  
  
• And look it the wiggle words in the Petition to the court: 
  
  
  
  
• In watching the election returns tonight, there is a 100% chance that Talarico will jump ahead of Paxton by 7:30 p.m. because the first thing that is released is the early voting in the largest and most Democratic counties.  Then the rural vote will start to come in more slowly. 8:30 pm. will look much different than 7:30 p.m. (This is exactly what happened in Beto vs. Cruz.)