Random Friday Morning Thoughts

This was in the Bridgeport Index 10 years ago this week.  Allen would suddenly pass away in 2022. What a great, great photo, and a message to us all. 

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• The bodycam videos are really incredible.   
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I thought he would just ride the scandal out -- a tactic which seems to work these days. 
  
  
  
  
• The Washingtom Post has far greater coverage of the trial going on in Fort Worth than any of the local media.  Gift link. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump finally fired someone.  We knew she was going to be a disaster from day one, and she did not disappoint. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Here is her replacement. He remained an election denier even after this. 
  
  
  
• The Official Liberally Lean girl needs a lawyer (and a better spokesperson.) 
  
  
  
• War news:
• Oh, really? New this morning.
  
  
  
• It doesn't work that way, hoss. 
  
  
  
• There is no way we didn't kill over 150 school girls, and I don't know why there isn't a public outrage about it.
• New York Times. Gift link.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Reuters:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Yesterday (seems relevant.)
  
  
  
• The White House released another insane video treating the war like it is all fun and games.  
  
  
  
• Dateline Arkansas. I meant to post this yesterday.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. "In 2015, H-E-B bought 17 acres on the south side of East Bonds Ranch Road, next to U.S. 287. At the time, the corridor was largely undeveloped farmland. In December, H-E-B purchased another 5 acres adjacent to the Bonds Ranch property from a family holding company."
  
  
  
• The Second Business Second™. It's just reorganization so they will  stick around for a while longer. 
  
  
  
• That's a banger of a headline even for the opinion section. 
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 246 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Election results for the primary, 2016.

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• Trump is now trying to cancel the Texas Senate seat run-off and pick the winner between Cornyn and Paxton himself. 
  

  
  
  
• The Dallas DA wasn't paying attention and lost his job. 
  
  
  
• This was what his opponent was doing just last week. 
  
  
  
• The war spread to a new country this morning:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm not sure the war on Iran is just the equivalent of a video game as the White House attempted to make us believe last night. "Following the recent escalation of the United States and Israel's joint military campaign against Iran, the White House has taken to X to share a video promoting its ongoing operations. In addition to real footage from recent attacks, the video includes a killstreak animation from 2023's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3."
  
  
  
  
• Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth does not like you mentioning that an Iranian drone killed six servicemen when it hit a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, on March 1, 2026..

  

  Quote from yesterday's press conference:

  

  
  
  
  
• After repeatedly denying it, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales finally admitted yesterday that he had an affair with a staffer who later set herself on fire.  He called it "a lapse in judgment."
  
  
  
• There wasn't enough room in the headline to add that the protestor was a former marine and that you could hear the man's arm snap during the skirmish. Video.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• She has to be hoping the stock market breaks 50,000 again before the hearing. 
  
  
  
• Dateline Phoenix.
  
  
  
• If there was ever a Texas candidate who needed to lose in her run for office and get only 10% of the vote, it is this lady.
  
  
  
• Her reaction is what you would expect and sounds very familiar. 
  
  
  
• Wise County's Andy Hopper has a speaking engagement. At the bottom: "Join us to mobilize Christian conservatives to defend biblical truth and stand against Islam and the Great Replacement."
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

And she was. She hit an officer with the Denton Police Department causing "serious bodily injury.". Two years later, she would be sentenced to five years in prison out of Denton County two years later (case No. F16-1100-16.)  

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• It's election results time. First, the Wise County races:
• In the race to replace retiring judge Brock Smith, we had the closest result that I can ever remember. That's a difference of 89 votes.
  
  
  
• JP Kim Redman fought off a challenger from Chico by a comfortable margin. 
  
  
  
• In the race to replace retiring judge Jan Morrow, a former DPS trooper came out on top and managed to avoid a run-off to boot.
  
  
  
• John Cornyn and Ken Paxton will be heading to a statewide runoff, but his is how Wise County voted. I beginning to think Paxton could shoot someone on Highway 114 and it wouldn't matter.
  
  
  
  
• The West Texas Oilman PAC, with help from Texas trial lawyers, allowed Andy Hopper to continue to represent Wise County in the Texas legislature. 
  
  
  
  
• State results:
• Here are the Paxton/Cornyn statewide numbers. I think Cornyn will be in trouble in the run-off. 
  
  
  
  
• To replace Paxton as the State AG, it will be "MAGA Mayes" vs. Chip Roy. 
  
  
  
• For Comptroller, Don Huffines finally won a race and did so with avoiding a run-off. And that's despite being the new owner of Epstein's ranch in New Mexico.
  
  
  
• For state comptroller, we learned that "controversial"  Bo French amazingly made it to the run-off. 
  
  
  
• Long-time Ag Commissioner Sid Miller got beat. 
  
  
  

• In other news:
• Moments ago, Iran fired upon a NATO country. Seems significant. Yesterday, they struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia.  
  
  
  
• Four of the six war dead were identified.
  
  
  
• This poor sap was arrested yesterday evening. It was later determined that he was just making a delivery to someone inside the building in Dallas.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oh, my! "A Kuwaiti F/A-18 fighter jet was the cause of the accidental shootdown of three American F-15s on Sunday, according to three people familiar with initial reports of the incident. One F/A-18 pilot launched three missiles against the U.S. aircraft, according to a U.S. official. All three U.S. aircraft went down, but their pilots ejected safely."
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This post caused rumors to fly yesterday about the Austin Sixth Street shooting, and had over 2 million views.
  
  
  
• It wasn't true. 
  
  
  
• The Texas run-off date: May 26, 2026.  Sheesh, that's a long way away.