4.06.2026

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




"In total, Walker allegedly stole $224,682 in cash and $14,887 in money orders from Walmart" according to original PC affidavit. 
  • This isn't the same as being found not guilty by reason of insanity. Instead, they will "send her to Wichita Falls" where she will, in a few months, miraculously "be cured" making her eligible to stand trial.


  • Dateline San Antonio.   Video.


  • The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who has his finger on the button of our nuclear arsenal.  



  • So what happened with U.S. planes and pilots over the weekend? Here ya go: 
    • One F-15E was shot down in Iran on Friday with two pilots on board. One pilot was quickly rescued. 
    • Not mentioned much: "A second U.S. Air Force combat plane crashed near the Strait of Hormuz about the same time the F-15E was shot down over Iran, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. The lone pilot in the second plane, an A-10 Warthog, was rescued."
    • Then the race was on to get the remaining F-15E pilot. Here's a New York Times gift link describing his rescue.  But a lot of people are raising eyebrows over the explanation given regarding four of our own aircraft supposedly blown up by the U.S. 



    • Our governor was dumb enough to not realize a picture was fake. 

  • "Tori Spelling and several children were taken to the hospital following a car crash last week, the actor’s spokesperson confirmed to NBC News. The spokesperson also confirmed that the Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 52, was driving with seven kids in the car — four of her children and three of their friends — when another driver allegedly ran a red light while speeding and struck their vehicle."


  • The greatest headline of the year so far. 


  • The government shouldn't be doing this.
  • Nerdy legal stuff: A pro se brief was recently filed in a legal malpractice case out of Waco with a picture on the front of Paxton's impeachment trial. I have no idea why.  

  • It's official.  Since the Dallas Morning News was sold, it has dropped off a cliff.  This was on its home page this morning scattered among a slop of sports stories:

  • The Liberally Lean Pick Em Tourney will come down to tonight. With he final worth 100 points, a third place holder can jump to the front. 

  • Our friends in England see what is happening. 

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4.03.2026

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





The bunny with his hand over his heart will always be funny to me. 

  • Breaking:  Iranian state TV is reporting that a U.S. F-15 was shot down in southern Iran. Two pilots ejected. Search underway.  (The U.S. has yet to confirm. Axios is running with the story.) This image is also unconfirmed:

  • She wasn't fired yesterday because she wasn't willing to do anything Trump wanted her to do in his quest for "retribution." Oh, no. She was willing. It was just that she was horrible at the execution of his unlawful orders. 

  • Remember the Texas woman who was arrested for murder in connection with an abortion when there was no law - then or now - making abortion a crime of murder for acts committed by the  pregnant woman?   Well, there's nothing she can do about it. 


  • Then pay it. 

  • We are in the middle of a war, right?


  • I feel like I should know what all of this means, yet I have no idea. (But it sounds more insane if you pretend "DOJ" is just referring to some other rapper and not the Department of Justice.) 

  • If you commit an election denying crime in this country, you also somehow have super powers when it comes to accountability. 


  • Trump is talking crazy again this morning about the war. 

  • The Tiger Woods DUI (alleged) video was released:
    • "I was just talking to the president." Sheesh. And he says it in such an arrogant tone. 

    • Tiger carries a money clip!

    • I don't who they brought in to do the field sobriety tests, but she didn't know what she was doing. I have no idea what this test below was, and I've been involved in  DWI litigation since 1991 and watched well over a thousand or more DWI videos. (Someone online called it the "sitting walk and turn test.")

  • The Texas Rangers announced a new Nacho Sombrero Hat which is as dumb a it sounds.

     
  • This is a fun fact.  Fletcher, of Fletcher's Corny Dogs fame, wa in the Bonnie and Clyde movie. 

  • Extremely nerdy legal stuff:  The Michael Morton Act, which requires Texas prosecutors to turn over evidence to the defense, is about to be significantly limited. Right now, the law provides that prosecutors can't simply say, "We didn't know about the evidence we didn't turn over because the police had it and didn't tell us about it."  But yesterday the Court of Criminal Appeals signaled, by granting a PDR, that it was about to reverse itself on that very issue it decided just three years ago.   

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 274 days.

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4.02.2026

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



Fun sports fact from back in the day.

  •  A faithful reader thought this line in the Messenger's Update yesterday was kind of funny.

  • Don't do that. 

  • Trump addressed the nation last night, and no one really seems to understand why he did it. To call the speech "mixed messaging" is an understatement. 
     


    • The part that the Secretary of Defense heard: 

    • The part the oil traders heard: 

  • Trump became the first president to ever attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court.  He left halfway through. 


    • A social media post by Trump immediately afterwards. and another one this morning. makes me think -- and I'm going out on a limb here -- he's not too optimistic. 

  • The President of the United States followed that post with this one. He is not well.

  • FBC of Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress looks on as Paula White compares Trump to Jesus during an Easter celebration yesterday. Video.

  • Don't do this, Part II.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold



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