Random Friday Morning Thoughts

 The prices might seem cheap compared to today, but it is wild that the lawyers in Decatur all got together and decided what they would charge.

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• Lost of red flags in this story. Gift link. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• That' was a heck of a break-up agreement for a boyfrind-girlfriend relationship. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Anyone else confused why this fire is still burning? 
  
  
  
• So much winning. 
  
  

  
  
  
• I think the judge is on dangerous grounds if he wants to question a holdout juror this morning. And the defense lawyer seems to be taking a huge gamble in trying to remove that juror -- I'm not sure why he is so confident that the jury is hung 11-1 in the defendant's favor based upon the jury note.  What if that holdout juror has a "doubt" and it refusing to convict because of it, but the other jurors are telling him, correctly, that the doubt must be "reasonable" in order to vote to acquit. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Donkey murder. 
  
• Speaking of, J.D. Vance is an ass. 
  
• And the current Administration is ghoulish.  So the Secretary of Homeland Security gets his jollies by posting a picture of black men in chains being forced out of the country. 
  
  
  
• Breaking job numbers (if you trust them.)
  
  
  
• College football is in chaos. LSU files suit in state court to allow it to put ex-NFL players on its roster (and won late last evenging) and the SEC files a federal lawsuit in Mississippi to stop it. 
  
  
  
• Fun facts from a couple of last night's college football games:
• And Rutgers paid UMass $1.5 million for this home game
  
  
  
  
• Oh, my.
  
  

  

  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 63 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

"An earthquake struck northern Oklahoma early Saturday morning, rattling houses and waking residents in the region around Pawnee . . . .  Preliminary measurements show the quake had a magnitude of 5.6 — believed to be one of the strongest in state history."

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• She died last week in our jail, but the Sheriff's Office didn't says anything until "a request for information from the Wise County Messenger" this week?  That's unheard of. Side note:  She was in jail for Public Intoxication, an offense punishable by fine only.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If you read the headline and then the excerpt below, you'll understand they really have no idea at all as to how the fire started. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• As is so typical of the news these days, we don't know much more than the headline.
  
   
  
  
  
• He's not kidding. They are great.  Gift link. 
  
  
  
• We've gone from bombing a school to bombing a wedding.
  
   
  

  

  
  
• Here's a dystopian headline for you: 
  
  
  
• GardaWorld is a worldwide security company which is now making millions from the federal government by converting warehouses into concentration camps in Texas and also paid for transporting those who ICE snatches up from across the state.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He won't stop saying this. 
  
  
  
• Random crazy tweet: 
  
  
  
• So tell me why Trump refuses to even so much as utter a negative word about Russia?
  
  
  
• He really did it. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• He did this too.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Weekend reading. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Texas Monthly's unfortunate timing on a cover story that was released a few days after Romo's career ending injury in a preseason game. 

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• Some Wise County folks were scammed in this deal. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• The three Republican majority knows what's coming for Tarrant County, and they are trying to avoid it. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• David Thomas Gilchrist, 70, of Grand Prairie. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• DWI news : 
• Yesterday:
  
• This morning: 
  
  
  
  
• Victim of the knife attack in Times Square has been identified. 
  
  
  
• If you take a look at this video of her taken after the child went "missing" but before her arrest, you knew something was up. And you could tell she was high. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. 
  
  
  
• No one needs a PR firm more than that Flock company. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We are the dumbest country. 
  
  
  
• More proof that Trump is going to steal the mid-terms. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Yes, that's the Secretary of Transportation. And, yes, this is real. 
  
  
  
• Dateline: Hidalgo County Courthouse.   That's an engine in the lunch room. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Ken Paxton gives the worst answer in the world in trying to explain why he has so many homes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It looks like the  Lindsay Clancy jury will not be able to reach a verdict unless something weird happens today.