1.23.2026

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Back when the New York Post was a little woke in its weather forecasts. (From 1/21/16)

  • It's been a wild ride on the roads of Wise County over the last 24 hours (per this Facebook account):
    • Yesterday afternoon a woman and child were careflighted from a three vehicle wreck on 114 just east of Rhome. 

    • Also late yesterday afternoon at the Montague/Wise county line on 287:

    • Yesterday evening near Boyd:

    • This morning ,at one of the most dangerous places in the county, there was a wreck but it doesn't appear to be a major one. 
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  • We've got another LL weather update.  It will now hit freezing today at 8:45 p.m.  Total accumulations over the weekend is now set at 2.4" of a "wintery mix."   
    • It will be colder than previously predicted with the high on Saturday at 24 degrees, Sunday is only 18 degrees, and 26 degrees on Monday (but sunny.) We won't break freezing until noon on Tuesday,   
    • This change has led to another firing of my weather team (I didn't understand that flag patch from the beginning.)
  • As expected. 

  • I'll repeat it: He's not leaving. 

  • The government has digitally created a lie to try to humiliate one of its own citizens after accusing them of a crime but before a trial. It's over. 

    The original

    Altered image by the White House. 

  • "Two weeks." He really went there on Greenland. Audio.

  • J.D. Vance yesterday with an attempted analogy: 

  • The new Justice Department is having a rough time in the courts Gift link.


  • Then again, the habit of accusing people of being gang members when it isn't true does not help their cases.

  • Rewriting history. 


  • "The suit in state court in Florida seeks $5 billion in damages."

  • Trump now has bruising showing up on his other hand. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “At the Board of Peace event today in Davos, President Trump hit his hand in the corner of the signing table, causing it to bruise.”
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  • The Business Second™. "Mark and Robyn Jones of Westlake-based Goosehead Insurance paid $56 million for the 41,000 acre ranch."

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 204 days.

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1.22.2026

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




That was a heck of a pipe bomb.  Here's the place on Google's street view today.

  • The Liberally Lean First Alert Weather Team™ has revised its forecast. They tell me that we will now just have rain on Friday with the temperature not dipping below freezing until 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.  And they now project 2.1" of "wintery mix" on Saturday instead of snow.  I immediately fired the guy who looks like Tom Homan. 

  • The best defense was probably just "Of all the officers there, why are you picking on him?"


  • Dateline: Waco federal court. 

  • I though this war was over? Eleven are dead  including two 13-year-old boys and  three journalists .Story. 


  • Trump has a Concept of an Agreement on Greenland!  

    • Maybe we will get the details "in two weeks." 

    • And the head of NATO says Greenland wasn't even discussed as part of any deal. 

  • Trump formed and presented  a ceremonial "Board of Peace" moments ago in Davos which did not include one European nation but did include Bahrain, Morocco, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia.   

    • And this is real: Jared Kushner just presented this slide as part of that ceremony. 


  • Postcards from Minneapolis: 
    Detaining a kid. 

    Not sure that was necessary

    Five year old detained and used as "bait" to lure out family members

    DHS's Greg Bovino Throws Gas Canister 

  • This will definitely not turn down the temperature in Minneapolis once he gets to a microphone. 
  • New Cornyn ad paid for by a PAC.
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1.21.2026

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




How did we not get legalized gambling after that?

  • My highly compensated Liberally Lean Winter Weather Team has issued a prediction of the temperature dropping below freezing in Wise County at 7:10 p.m. on Friday and is projecting 4.7 inches of snow through Saturday.  Oh, and I asked ChatGPT to finally show you their faces, and I'm not quite sure about the result:

  • Here is a Facebook video of the Wise County candidate forum which was held last week.

  • To their shock?

  • He ranted about windmills for at least five minutes during his speech, and that's the most sane thing he's said so far (which has been going on for over 50 minutes right now.)  Edit: He just said, "Until the last few days when I told them [NATO] about Iceland [he means Greenland], they loved me. They called me daddy." 

  • Air Force One had to turn around last night due to a "minor" electrical malfunction last night.


  • Trump's hand-picked prosecutor -- who can't get a a grand jury to indict -- is gone.  

  • Trump reposted someone who said NATO is the problem and not China or Russia. 

  • Trump did an hour and half news conference yesterday. 
    • I'm not sure the "Don't Tread on Me" and "Come and Take It Crowd" really understand what they have done.

    • Link.

  • Seems lopsided.

  • So not only are lawyers getting in trouble for using AI, but courts are chewing out opposing counsel for not catching it. Opinion.

  • Ted Cruz was spotted on a plane heading to Laguna Beach yesterday. 

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