8.25.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Posted on 8/27/25.

  • A man named James Cooper pled guilty and agreed to a 30 year sentence in Wise County last week for the odd combination of Possession of  Child Porn (CR25950) and Aggravated Assault (CR25374) -- committed on different dates.
  • Breaking: Israel just bombed a hospital in Gaza and, while journalists rushed to cover it, a second strike killed five of them.  (Video of second strike.).  Reporters from Reuters and the AP were among the dead in addition to at least 15 non-journalists at the hospital's site.

    Screenshot taken one second before second strike. 

  • This video, retweeted by a sitting Congresswoman, of a guy carrying an umbrella caused the University of South Carolina to go into an active shooter mode last evening.


    • Once it was all figured out, the poor guy was able to pose for pictures. 

  • More evidence that It's Over and that an Autocracy is in process. 
    • Federal troops are now armed on the streets of D.C. 

    • Over the weekend, Trump threatened to send in troops to Baltimore.

    • And threatened to send in troops to Chicago in an insane rant. Video. (Don't mind the hat and lack of a tie in the Oval Office.)

    • On the heels of the raid of John Bolton's home, Trump threatened Chris Christie with prosecution yesterday after Christie criticized him on ABC.

    • Remember the general who said that the Iranian nuclear sites were not "obliterated" like Trump said after a U.S. missile strike? He's gone. No one will provide facts that contradict the Fuhrer. 

    • On Friday, Trump gleefully announced that the U.S. Government now owns a large amount of Intel. He's actually seizing the means of production.   

        • Related: Check this out. 
    • New this morning:
  • On Friday, Trump released the transcript of the odd meeting between attorney Todd Blanche and Epstein's partner in crime where she said she never saw Trump engage in improper activity.  So is this the whole reason the meeting was set up and she was moved to a less secure federal prison?  It only makes it worse.

  • What the heck is this?


  • Something is up with Trump's hands.
     

  • I give up.
  • A former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was cut yesterday, and then sent out this:

  • Very nerdy criminal legal stuff: Can a judge lawfully grant a defense Motion to Dismiss when the State's prosecutors show up 11 minutes late for trial? A Texas appellate court said "no" on Friday. Practice note: I think if the judge would have just asked the empty chairs to call their first witness and, when no response, the defense should have then moved for a directed verdict. I don't think the State could appeal a judge granting that. 

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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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