10.31.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





Well, at least an attempt at humor.

  • This is incredible. After working a full day at the sheriff's office, and after "leaving his [night] job at Fisher Investments at 6 a.m., he then reportedly had a drive of more than an hour to the Scuba Ranch [to teach the class where the 12 year old would die]  . . . . Video of [the victim] getting in the water was taken at 8:33 a.m."  (Fox 4's Lori Brown's investigation of this case is a flashback as to how local news used to be.)


  • If you have YouTubeTV, you've got a problem as of a few hours ago.

  • WFAA posted this last yesterday, got roasted online, and still hasn't changed it. 

  • Seems wrong.
     

  • Here's the actual criminal complaint (PDF) for this "breaking news" this morning.  It sounds like just a sting operation against a 19 year old who had no independent ability to carry out any attack.

     
  • This is a demonstrable lie.  And it's another Orwell quote come true: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

  • Another day, another Paxton investigation so he can get some free press.

  • Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance at Ole Miss on Wednesday night.

  • Trump gave out Halloween candy last night.  The twins from The Shining showed up.

  • The Business Second™.


  • Random Flashback to Baylor Homecoming Parade (circa 1970): Kids just running up to a real bear on a leash along the parade route.

  • Nerdy legal stuff: Yesterday the Court of Criminal Appeals held that a drug dog sticking his snout into an open window of a vehicle is an illegal search. (At least under the specific facts of that case.)  

  • Nerdy Attorney General new opinion stuff: "May a district or county court-at-law judge forbid a district attorney or assistant district attorney from carrying concealed firearms in courtrooms under Penal Code §46.15(a)(6) and (a)(7)?" The answer is no. 
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 119 days.


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10.30.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



It was definitely a wild scene.

  • As the story points out, the County Judge of Jack County can now sleep soundly since he no longer has to worry about being faced by this decision. And who knew that Jack County was such a hotbed of gayness?
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  • The Fifth Circuit has upheld the Tarrant County Commissioners redistricting to create three out of four Republican districts instead of the current two out of four.   No surprise from that appeals court.

  • I would think that this would get some publicity today. (Gift link.)

  • Welcome to the Autocracy (all examples from just the last 48 hours).
    • "WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create 'quick reaction' forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S., according to internal Defense Department memos."

    • Yesterday: 



    • Below are the highlighted offending words in the memo referenced in this story. A new sentencing memo was submitted which deleted the paragraph just as if January 6th had never happened. 


      • You are finally here. 

    • Last night: The Attorney General now has her marching orders from the Fuhrer. We've never seen anything like this. 

    • Last night: We are going to "start testing" nuclear bombs?  (And none of the "facts" in the post are even remotely true.") 

  • With a history of hiring Jumbo Fisher at Aggieland (and costing a fortune to fire him) and then hiring Brian Kelly at LSU (and costing a fortune to fire him), the governor of Louisiana is not going to let that athletic director hire the next coach.  And even this sports story won't let us get away from Trump. 



  • The Vice President really took that "you can't thow tortillas" policy hard. 

  • This Saturday's college football weekend in 1975. You kids have no idea how much we suffered.

  • Legal nerdy stuff:


  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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10.29.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts





Oh, my. A couple of weeks ago I reprinted the story of the Dallas jogger killed by a former Aggie football player with a machete. I had completely forgotten this horrible news in the wake of its aftermath. 

  • I noticed a forfeiture suit filed yesterday in Wise County seeking to confiscate $75,000, but I don't see any arrests associated with it.  That normally means the money was found during a traffic stop but there was no basis to arrest the occupant.  (Cause no. CV25-10-887.)  Edit: There was an arrest. California man. DPS was the agency. Book in # 115065.
  • Buying elections. The American Way.

  • That peace accord is going swimmingly. 

  • Our government is still killing people in boats. 

  • U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino appeared in front of a federal judge yesterday in connection with the immigration "crackdown" in Chicago.  Cops wearing masks and helmets in a federal courthouse? Totally normal, right? 

  • Of course. 

  • South Korea just gave Trump a gold crown. They definitely know how to play him.
     

  • Government and Business in bed together:
    • #1 What do you call it when the government owns the means of production? (Gift link) 


    • #2 This is what you typically see. A company "investing" in Trump's new ballroom gets a major deal in return. 

      • Flashback from August: "Trump’s latest investment filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed that he owned between $615,000 and $1.3 million in Nvidia shares at the end of last year."
  • The Business Second™.  2,656 single-family homes? And that' development is not all that far from Rhome and certainly won't help highway 287 traffic. The housing market must be booming. 



    • Uh, counterpoint?

  • AI is coming for us all: 

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