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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7.24.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



For the first Republican debate scheduled for for 8/6/15, the GOP decided to invite only the top five poll leaders. This is where it stood on 7/21/15.

  • I honestly don't understand why we allow uncontrolled and unlimited victim statements. It's as if judges just completely turn over their courtrooms for a couple of hours. 



  • Don't do that.  And she's 67. 

  • And especially don't do that. 


  • It was a mistrial because the jury couldn't reach a verdict.  And I noted that the defendant testified in the case -- a tactic which I have been championing for years.

  • "In May, Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the White House that his name was in the Epstein files."  Honestly, I thought that was a given. 


    • But just last week Trump denied that Bondi had told him that:


    • Well, I guess he he was right all along.

    • So will the Department of Justice fight the subpoena?

  • Columbia University has caved.
  • I've pretty much ignored Tulsi Gabbard's false claim that Russia didn't interfere with the 2016 election and that Obama created fiction. Russia absolutely did by manipulating social media.
    •  Heck, even Trump admitted it. Video.

  • Texas Politics: It sounds like a scandal is about to be revealed in the next couple of days involving this DFW representative from Southlake.  He announced on Tuesday that he would not seek re-election.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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7.23.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Garth Brooks announced seven concerts at the AAC with the twist being back-to-back shows on Friday and Saturday nights. 

  • One of the three missing bodies near Kerrville was recovered yesterday. Still missing are "one adult male and a little girl from Camp Mystic."

  • Dan Patrick vs. Greg Abbott on THC: The Texas Senate's new proposal on THC in the current special session, SB 5, is a complete ban.  But the headlines that Gov. Abbott wants "stiff regulations" are also misleading. All he was trying to say yesterday was that he basically supports the current law which has a 0.3% delta-9 THC limit established by the federal 2018 Farm Bill. (But he even screwed that up by saying "3 milligrams" instead of 0.3%.)


  • Stay with me here . . .
    • Alina Habba, Trump's personal lawyer who had no criminal or prosecutorial experience, was appointed four months ago as interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. But without confirmation by the U.S. Senate, her term expires by law after 120 days.  After that, once again by law, she only can remain in that position if the federal judges in New Jersey approve her. Yesterday, they refused to do so and appointed someone else in the Justice Department instead. (Gift article)

    • Here's the statute giving the judges the authority. It's pretty clear.  Congress allows the federal judges to have that power over unconfirmed U.S. Attorneys.

    • But what did Trump do in response to Habba being rejected? Through AG Pam Bondi, he fired the person the federal judges appointed and called the judges "rogue."  

    • And this sentence really stood out out to me. We are on the verge of the judiciary being neutered. It's over. 

  • Epstein News: 
    • Trump claimed yesterday he had no idea that the Deputy Attorney General (also his personal lawyer) planned to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell. Video.

    • Speaker of the House Mike Johnson dismissed the House for summer vacation because they were about to be forced to take a vote on releasing the Epstein files. 



    • Trump is playing all the hits to try and divert attention.
  • Ozzy Osbourne has died.  He made news in 1982 for "urinating on the Alamo."  In reality, however, he didn't do that, but instead relieved himself on a statue on the grounds -- not that that is much better. 

  • Good lord. Video.

  • The Business Second™. Doesn't that sound a little cheap for a full city block with no height restrictions?
  • The Second Business Second™. Another bidder has shown up with a higher offer for the Dallas Morning News.  But this one sounds even worse than the first one: "Alden, a hedge fund firm based in New York that owns MNG, has attracted controversy for focusing on cost-cutting at the newspapers it owns."

  • Random Meme Thought: Wait, this girl . . . 

  • My last bullet point should always just be "Thank you for your attention to this matter." 

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