12.19.2025

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




And if I thought Buzbee was in the news a lot back then, I had no idea what was coming. (Side note: the referenced verdict gave rise to a legal malpractice claim by the insurance company against their defense lawyer and firm.)

  • We have a resolution.


    • I hadn't even mentioned the MIT killing this week. Here's the connection to the believed shooter (Valente) and the professor (Loureiro)

    • And a poster on Reddit solved the case? Yep. 



  • I am really, really surprised by this. The verdict was around 8:00 p.m. last night after about five hours of deliberations and three jury notes. 
     
  • Such disrespect to John F. Kennedy.


    • And the way the announcement was made, by Trump's press secretary, makes you believe we are living in North Korea. 

  • I never understood why they were sealed in the first place. 

  • The sentence was 15 years, but I can't tell if it was by a plea bargain or by a judge sentencing after a guilty plea. It was not a jury trial. 


  • This is awful. There were two pilots on board. 

  • It's Epstein Files Release Day. 

  • If for some reason this sounds odd . . . 

    • . . .  there's a reason. Flashback: 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 169 days.



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12.18.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




I'm not a Star Wars fan so I didn't remember the hubbub surrounding the release of The Force Awakens, a sequel to 1983's  Return of the Jedi.

  • Australian police may (or may not) have just stopped another attack at Bondi Beach. It just happened so I don't know if this is legit or not. 



  • In the search for the Brown University shooting, police released a photo of a witness in effort to identify him.  "All we know is that this person was in the vicinity of the person of interest, and we want to speak with him." That seem kind of reckless and dangerous to plaster that guy's picture everywhere. 

  • I would run, not walk, away. 


  • Just a few years ago, you couldn't conceive of this headline ever being written. 
  • Trump quick hits.
    • He decided to yell at us for 18 minute last night. 


    • He's a child.

       

    • "President Trump on Tuesday received and discussed a draft copy of a book by lawyer Alan Dershowitz that studies whether Trump could constitutionally serve a third term as commander in chief . . . . "

  • The Real Estate Second™. This is a routine feature of the New York Times which is normally focuses on property hunting in and around New York. But today the wrote about a Dallas family deciding between three different homes. You get to vote on what you would chose and what they actually chose.  Gift link. 

  • Sports quick hits:
    • Quality comedy from last night on Twitter: 

    • It's Quinn Ewers time, baby!!!

  • Messenger: Above the Fold

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12.17.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Cruz was leading in the Iowa polls - which will turn out to be correct. 

  • The shooter from Brown University is still on the run.

     

  • Gift link.  That guy still has lots of charges waiting for him.

  • The man went missing Monday at 10:00 a.m.  And that lake, right off 820, isn't very large.  

  • This seems to be big news in the South as it appears to be a murder-suicide at the couple's home. The daughter was found unharmed. 



  • "Classified."
  • Hot opinion: I don't think any Susie Wiles said in the Vanity Fair interview (all 11 of them), was particularly controversial. 
  • Trump quotes and Trump news:
    • Last night he proved, once again, that he thinks a "stealth" jet is literally invisible. 


    • Fore more years from the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.


  • I want college athletes to be paid, but I also hate the transfer portal.

  • I follow a random Twitter account which gives daily news from 50 years ago. This one popped up yesterday.

  • Trump will "address the nation" tonight for some reason.  

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