Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

They had to have renamed themselves to the current day "Wise County Conservatives", right? 

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• Drudge got excited about this this morning, and it is a big deal.  But the plane safely landed. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• So a parent shows up with a gun at school and somehow it's just a "mental health" crisis? That didn't stop the police from arresting them. (The story provides no information other than the headline.)
  
• He gets shot in the back and charged with a crime. 
  
  
  
• If you haven't seen this, you need to.  A senator thinks that a text message referring to particular seat at a basketball game must mean that Jack Smith was in Atlanta at the Hawks basketball game that night. In fact, the text referred to Smith going to a University of Maryland women's basketball game. 
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Welcome to the new D.C. show, "The Oligarchy and the Mob Boss." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• When things go to hell in a hand-basket in a country, whoever controls the military controls the country. 
  
  
  
  
• College girls suddenly have developed superhero powers. 
• Kansas State: 
  
  
  
  
• Georgia: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We finally found out which government account is paying for the new Trump propaganda ads. "And a total of $20 million has been allocated for the effort" so there's more coming. 
  
  
  
• I still think this Cornell Sex Scandal is criminally iffy, but the student newspaper decided to publish the names of the men allegedly involved which kicked off the current news coverage.
  
  
  
• It's not like that was a 60 Minutes investigation, though. It's right there in a public civil lawsuit filing. 
  
  
  
• In a story in the New York Times examining the student newspaper's decision, I'm not sure what drives me crazier: The editor's use of "like" or the lawyer's legal advice. 
  
  
  
  
• A player goes into the crowd at a WNBA playoff game last night. 
  
  
  
• The official Aggie twitter account thought it was a good idea to tease a new end zone design this way. The avalanche of submitted altered photos in the comments should have come as no surprise. 
  
  
  
• Our long summer heat nightmare is over. It ends for good today. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

On September 24, 2016 at  the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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• It may not be the best idea to have a 21 year old kid -- who is just three years away from being the school's football star -- be a teacher in that same school.
  
• Flashback:
  
  
  
• Video.
  
  
  
• Yep, he actually said this yesterday.
  
  
  
• And he really said this.
  
  
   
• The student killed in the bus crash on Friday has been identified. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Notable death. 
  
  
  
• This would put a scare into you, wouldn't it? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Are you upset with the Texas Tribune for this? They obtained the information when the U.S. Attorney's office accidentally released a report with the guy's name in it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And another yesterday.  But technically the government hasn't expressly said what happened to the jet, although it can't be good. 
  
  
  
• After a bullet point from yesterday, Pete Delkus must have got in touch with the Liberally Lean Weather Team to come up with this forecast.  
  
  
  
• Let me tell you, this case is far more complicated than the headlines. There's a reason that prosecutors rejected it the first time, and I don't think they will change their minds after this second investigation. 
  

  

  
  
• But while that story is making national news left and right, the home paper in Ithaca, where Cornell University is located, is running with this front page today. Yep, newspapers are in trouble: 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

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Trump's first presidential debate. We had never seen anything quite like it.

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• Someone might want to tell him he lost last Thursday based upon insufficient evidence. 
  

  

  
  
• America. 
  
• Special emphasis on "wingsuit." 
  
  

  

  (Not actually him, but you get the idea.)

  
  
• Russia hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine overnight which was occupied at the time. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Random story linked on the Drudge Report this morning and the new issue of Texas Monthly. Completely unrelated stories, but it made me do a doubletake.
  
• This is not normal, and it's right out of 1933 Germany.  And, I'll say it again, he's not leaving in 2028. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Say what?
  
  
  
• Not only did he say this in 2015, he first said it in 2011. 
  
• Evil Empire vs. Tennessee notes: 
• “Unsportsmanlike conduct for simulating using the restroom.” Video.
• Trump did in fact showed up. With Natalie. 
  
  
  
• Dateline Danville, KY: "Seneca Driver (6-7, 250lbs) literally gronk-spiked a defensive back after an interception. The 5-star high school TE is committed to Oklahoma." Video The fact that guy popped back up after that is amazing. 
  
  
  
• I asked the Liberally Lean First Alert Weather Team about the chances for rain this week, and I was told, "Look out for late Wednesday into Thursday. Big weather!"