7.29.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Of course, someone grabbed a screenshot of the original school post. 

  • "Three of the four people killed were shot in the building’s lobby as the gunman sprayed the area with bullets, Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, said at a news conference. The fourth was killed on an upper floor after the gunman took the elevator there, Ms. Tisch said. He then shot himself in the chest, she said."



    • New this morning is the connection to the NFL.  


    • I'd be doing that, too.  

  • Earlier in the day, there was another mass shooting in Reno which couldn't even stay at the top of the headlines for 12 hours. 


  • Finally.


  • The man is old enough to understand this is not proper courting.  

  • Trump keeps stepping in it.

     

  • Just the official White House account being an advertisement platform for Trump's hotel.

  • For the life of me, I don't understand this controversy. Gift link.

     

  • "They need to read the Constitution!!!!"

  • Forgetting to spell check your campaign rollout for Senate. 

  • Deion Sanders had a cancerous gall bladder removed. He also appears to have taken up farming.

     

  • Some notable Cowboy news. 

  • I'm most of the way through Adolescence. Big thumbs up.



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7.28.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




“Liberties were stomped on,”  Representative Jonathan Stickland, a Tea Party-backed Republican from Bedford, in the Fort Worth-Dallas area, who is white, said to Mr. McCraw.  

  • "Police are searching for a suspect after a couple was attacked and killed while hiking with their two young daughters, ages 7 and 9, in Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains tourism region." The daughters were unharmed.

  • A car banked off this house on a corner lot in Dallas, and then crossed the street and smashed into another home. The driver died. 

  • I still have no idea what Trump's plan is in all of this.

    • But Trump is really freaking out.  And for now, he just wants you all to look away. He'll even create his own "list." 

  • A guy stabs 11 people in Michigan but is finally stopped after he sees the business end of a gun in the parking lot. Video.


    • Let's see how one of Trump's trusted advisors had to say about it. He was not, in fact, a Muslim.

  • The Boyd Raceway will no longer allow alcohol in the pit area. Seems like a less than optimal place for booze in the first place. 

  • Not that there's any difference between 99° an 100°, but Wise County broke the 100° barrier on Friday while DFW Airport has failed to so thus far.

  • A retiring Southlake legislator admitted to an affair with a woman after reports that he had a side gal for 17 years. He first met her when she was a stripper. 



  • This is ghoulish. This was in response to a the question yesterday of: "Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?" Video.



  • The official White House Twitter account gets weirder and weirder every day.

  • Just the Chairman of the FCC saying that media companies better be more Trump friendly. Or else.

  • Trump on Putin just moments ago: "I'm gonna make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today."

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7.25.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Just a couple of quality random thoughts. 

  • Yesterday Trump's former personal lawyer, and now the second in command at the Justice Department, met in private with the second in command of the Epstein crimes.  I can't believe this happened. What exactly are they trying to accomplish?  If Trump wants to stop the uprising of his conspiracy-loving MAGA base, this is not the way to do it. It only feeds the beast. 


    • And what was caught on video afterwards will not help the growing belief among a great number of MAGA members that Trump is part of the "deep state."


    • And why Todd Blanche? For a crime that occurred over years and prosecutions which spanned a decade, there is no way he could be prepare in time to even know what questions to ask. 
  • Two things from the Update yesterday that caught my attention:
    • Regarding the creation of an organization to help with water problems for Wise County - an organization" which resembles the previously failed Wise Regional Water District but avoids the requirement of legislative approval." Do county leaders think that Rep. Andy Hopper would again fail to get a simple water district passed like last time?
    • Regarding an accident on FM 51: "Due to the nature and number of injuries they sustained, first arriving crews requested a medical helicopter, but none were immediately available, with the closest an hour away." I this fallout from the sale of the local hospital?
  • At the north end of DFW Airport yesterday
  • After months of Israel bombing and killing tens of thousands of Gaza residents, it is finally getting mass media attention that innocent people are now starving to death. Oh, this picture: 
  • Well, it looks like Paramount's $16 million payout to Trump on a baseless defamation lawsuit against 60 Minutes has paid off. 

     
    • Speaking of, the South Park episode going after Trump and Paramount was a jaw-dropper. And this comes on the same day it was announced that Paramount reached a new contract with the South Park creators and will pay them $1.5 billion. (Entire South Park episode here.)
  • If you haven't seen the Chairman of the Federal Reserve catching Trump in a lie yesterday, it's gold. Video.

  • In the stabbing case at a track meet in Frisco last spring, the District Attorney's office has issued a subpoena to the school.  But this is weird and probably not legal.  Sure you can request existing documents, but you can't force someone to create a "list" or a document.

  • Hey! Look! There's a new concentration camp!
  • Considering the current political climate, I wonder if the Gaylord Texan is thinking of renaming its annual ice exhibit to something other than "ICE."
  • I thought this was fake, but it really happened in Tallahassee, Florida.


  • Nerdy appellate civil stuff: Yesterday, the Fort Worth Court of Appeal threw out a lawsuit by a man claiming that the Tarrant County Water Board was responsible for his injuries occurring while he walked on a "boat dock adjacent to a public boat ramp near the Lake Bridgeport dam" that the Water Board maintains.
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 20 days


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