6.13.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





A guy bought an armored van off of Ebay, went and shot up the Dallas PD headquarters as well as a couple of cop cars, and then fled leading to a standoff in a parking lot 13 miles away.  Then a police sniper just shot him as the suspect sat in the van. Police then used a robot to detonate bombs inside the vehicle.

  • Yesterday evening, Israel launched and attack on Iran. The world's on fire, but happy Friday.  



    • This morning, Trump urged Iran to "make a deal" before "there is nothing left." (Side note: What was the "Iranian Empire"?)

    • Sobering thought:

  • Courts are no match for what's going on in America.
    • Yesterday evening:
       

    • A couple of hours later:  

  • Something is weird about this whole deal.


  • This is right out of the movie Unbreakable.



  • This is right out of the movie Catch Me If You Can. (For the life of me I can't seem to find a picture of the guy.) 

  • This is bizarre. Yesterday Trump seemed to clearly indicate that the "good" illegal immigrants won't be deported at all -- so long as they work hard in the fields and in hotels. (Cue Dixie.) MAGA hardliners went nuts in response. 

    • And Trump later double downed on it. 

    • But the Washington Post reports this morning that no changes to immigration policy are coming. 

  • A U.S. senator was handcuffed after attending/interrupting a news conference held Thursday by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.  I'm not sure how I feel about this. He seemed to be wanting the confrontation. 

      

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 346 days.

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6.12.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts





We had two noteworthy media gaffes that week. 

  • New this morning, and there's video of the crash. It was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. No apparent survivors.


  • The lightening strike was at the Bridges Golf Course in Gunter, Texas. 


  • I had this story yesterday, but there is now a video of the guy wrecking out. 


  • Lots and lots of updated details in this story.

  • Trump's hijacking of the the military for political purposes redefines America as we know it, but we'll just sit back and sanitize the road to Authoritarianism. 

    • Drudge may be all that saves us.
  • Trump went to the Kennedy Center last night with Melania (who extended her thumb in a show of support.)

  • An official government website: 


  • Trump is going to actually shut down FEMA, isn't he?

  • This story isn't particularly interesting, but I was was struck by what snappy dressers the county commissioners are in Wichita County.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold
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6.11.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




The protest over the McKinney Pool Party Incident looks larger than what is going on in Los Angeles. 

  • This is weird. The former DA in Montague County, who had her appeal bond revoked for unknown reasons in Denton County, is still in the Hopkins County jail. She should have been transferred to Denton yet to have a hearing on the matter.


  • This is a wonky story from last night .  Two guys get chased by police so they dump the car they were fleeing in and run into the woods. They are located but one suffers a dog bite. The Dog Bite Guy is placed in a patrol car and medics are called to check on the wound.  But while waiting, the guy is able to crawl into the front seat of the cop car and drive it away. He later crashed. 


  • The victim had been tubing behind the boat.


  • He is groveling back. 

  • His tone was even worse than the headline. So make sure not to  peaceably assemble to protest Trump during his birthday parade or the government will attack you on the spot.   Video.


  • The Wall Street Journal reports that Stephen Miller has put pressure on ICE to make more arrests or heads would roll, so they decided to start raiding places like Home Depot where lots of folks seeking work could be found.  You know, because tracking down gang members and those with long criminal histories takes work. 


  • The Director of National Intelligence put out a strange video with all sorts of nuclear war imagery and claiming there are "elites" who want it to happen. Video



  • Trump is tearing up the Rose Garden. 


  • You've got to be kidding. "Texas Republicans are planning to reconvene Thursday to continue discussing the plan, according to Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Irving, and Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Houston, who said they will attend the meeting. Members of Trump’s political team are also expected to attend, according to Hunt and two GOP congressional aides familiar with the matter."

  • Legal stuff: I cannot stop watching this 10 seconds of this lawyer's legal argument in the Karen Read trial from yesterday. 

  • Saw this interesting note on the Tarrant County DA's "trial board": 

  • The Grayson County sheriff left his gun in a Wendy's bathroom in Georgia, and moments later a 15 year old went in, found it, and fired it. No injuries. 

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