8.22.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




A post like this made national news back then, but now it's just commonplace. 

  • Breaking: John Bolton's House Raided By FBI. This raid might be legit or it might be part of Trump's "retribution" promise. I'm guessing the latter, and to, expect more and more of these type of headlines.



    • Bondi, Patel, and Bongino, all who will follow Trumps orders without question, ran to Twitter this morning:  


    • Flashback to the September 2020 and the last months of the first Trump Administration.  And this was after Trump threated to "have bombs dropped" on Bolton because of the book. 

  • A big Trump win in court in New York, kind of: The huge fine was overturned, but the fraud finding was affirmed.  From the best I can tell, the fine is now just wiped out. You would think they would have remanded the case to the trial court for a do-over on the fine, but I don't think that's what was ordered.  Side note prediction: Trump will have the New York AG, Leticia James, who brought this case, in handcuffs soon.
  • The musician best know for his huge hit from 2018, “Old Town Road,” had quite the night in Los Angeles. Video of his walk through the streets.


  • Six dead in a strange incident in Colorado.


  • "The White House has increased its pressure on the Smithsonian on Thursday, calling out a list of exhibitions and materials mentioning race, slavery, transgender identity and immigration." The Nazis called museum pieces they didn't like "Degenerative Art" -- art that was considered to be an "insult to German feeling" and "un-German" -- and removed them.

  • Microsoft sent a warning yesterday of how AI can become your confidante - with dire results.  I absolutely believe this will become a major mental health crisis if it is not already. For a great (yet long) New York Times article with example after example on this, see this gift link.
      


  • The Business Second™: This company is taking over two huge industrial warehouses at Alliance in North Fort Worth.

  • Gift link.

  • Legal Stuff: The firm represented Dominion in its $787.5 million settlement agreement in 2023 in its defamation case against Fox News.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 49 days.

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8.21.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Dueling headlines of Jared from Subway pleading guilty, and the Ashley Madison hack pretty much summed up what the next 10 years would be like. 

  • We now have a date for the reopening of the Wise County Courthouse although I think the renovation workers over there are going to have to hustle to make it happen.

  •  Top ranked high school coaches salaries in DFW area.

    • That list came from this article. (Gift link.)

    • While we are at it, here are the top superintendent salaries.

  • A 15 year old sophomore.

  • Up until a few years ago, it was a no-brainer that this silly law was unconstitutional.  Let's now see if the judge's ruling holds up. 

  • As expected, the call came down from on high and Texas finally complied. 


  • With Ken Paxton trying to unseat John Cornyn as senator, we've got an open race for a new Texas AG.  And we have a new contender for that opening this morning:

  • After listening to the alleged victim, I'm kind of skeptical of this claim.


  • I'm sorry, say what?
  • Pete Hegseth, J.D. Vance, and Stephen Miller, Trump's authoritarian policy maker, had a photo-op yesterday at Union Station in D.C. where troops have been brought in under the guise of reducing crime. Side note: Where's the pocket on Miller's suit jacket?


  • Twenty members of the Defense Department's JAG Corps are set to begin working as special assistant U.S. attorneys — federal prosecutors — in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia next week. Those two jobs are not the same.

  • Just the Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party making a casual anti-Muslim and threatening post yesterday.

  • For some reason, the Republicans are mad at Cracker Barrel for a logo change?. 

  • Religion news: Overnight, Dr. James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, has died. 
  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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8.20.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Good times. 

  • This young lady appears to have been from Rhome. The crash happened Sunday morning at 4:00 a.m., and I saw where her mother blames another person by name in a GoFundMe post.


  • A "transformer box behind Fitness Connection in Watauga caught fire last night during the storm" which rolled through northern Tarrant County around 9:00 p.m. 

  • This story is weird with the shooting occurring in the middle of the afternoon. A passenger of the singer, named Blanton, said he was told to "lean back, then [Blanton] pulled out a handgun and shot at the victim’s car at least one time, police said in the affidavit. Blanton had pulled up next to the victim’s car in traffic after both vehicles left a gas station in the area."

     

  • Trump is going to whitewash (literally) history at the Smithsonian museums.  History isn't there to be liked or disliked. Yet more proof that i's over.


  • I don't think I express enough how much I disklike Karoline Leavitt, Trump's press secretary. That was a great question that she was afraid to answer.

  • It's like they are screening for teachers of the Hitler Youth by giving them a test to make sure they aren't "woke."

  • She doesn't have enough to do, does she? 


  • Does anyone remember that both houses of Congress voted to ban TikTok, the President signed the bill, and the Supreme Court upheld the law?  Trump has just unilaterally decided to not enforce the ban, and now he's joining the Chinese app.

  • It's getting very North Korea-like around here. 

  • This happened on Friday and she's been released from the hospital and recovering. Other than the incident happening in a parking lot, I don't see any other details.


  • Random college football news: BYU, after banishing its quarterback who just happened to be Jewish, will start a true freshman who is a Catholic and who wears the very unconventional QB number of 47.

  • Here's a rom-com idea: A Texas democratic lawmaker falls in love with the DPS trooper who had been assigned to follow her around to make sure she doesn't break quorum



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