12.02.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




I posted that on 12/3/15.  Then six years later this happened: "Sep 29, 2021 — Texas oil-and-gas mogul Christopher A. Faulkner has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of millions of dollar."

  •  You don't see this every day. 

  • This wreck occurred in Uptown where the driver's Tesla went airborne and landed on top of a Porsche driven by a 29 year old lawyer who worked at Jackson and Walker. Side note: The arrested man, who grew up in Highland Park, had his mother in the car with him. 


  • We have a brewing story regarding this death in Austin which occurred after the Aggie/UT game on Friday. 

  • Yay! 287 will probably be an Interstate! Boo! This last sentence: "The projected construction timeframe is 10 years, with work potentially beginning in 2041 and ending around 2050."

  • And you know one of the ways she was identified? "The defendant's probation officer observed the video, and immediately recognized Trevino,." Oof. And another odd fact?: She's just 17.  Second side note: The video of her rambling will make you fear the future.  


  • She's gone national. She will be an anchor with ABC's overnight news show, World News Now. 


  • The White House refined their story yesterday.

    • And that was followed up with Hegseth throwing an Admiral under the bus. 

  • Trump has made approximately 400 posts (!) already this morning on Truth Social. 
  • I'll admit I just learned of Chesterton's Fence for the first time, and I love it. 
  • The AP photos.of the year are here.  (You'll realize the charmed life you live after scrolling through them.)

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12.01.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I normally wouldn't post about weather, but receiving 10 inches in November, with almost all of it falling over two days, was something. 

  • This is awful. Messenger story (free).   

  • Story.

  • At 2:38 a.m. Sunday morning, Fort Worth Police and Fire/EMS responded to a shooting at Flips Patio Grill in north Fort Worth near Western Center and I-35.

  • A mass shooting you probably missed: "At least four people, including three children, were killed and 11 others wounded in a mass shooting that erupted on Saturday evening at a child's birthday party at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, authorities said."


  • You'll often hear about a car crashing into a business, but this one by a 90 year old in California had quite the photo associated with it. The business was closed at the time.

  •  Hegseth ordered a second strike in order to kill two survivors.  Gift link. So maybe there was a reason for those four Senators to do a PSA telling the military they didn't have to follow illegal orders. 

    • Hegseth mocked the controversy last night with a cartoon.       

  • Meanwhile, since the continued killing of unknown people in boats is justified by the Administration by citing the War on Drugs, we had this pardon news below. “He paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States, protected by machine guns,” prosecutors said in their closing arguments ahead of his conviction.


  • Speaking of laws not longer applying. 

     

  • What are we doing?  She had been in the U.S. since she was seven. 


  • Welcome to the Autocracy.   Rule #1 is to discredit the media, one of Trump's ploys from the very beginning. And now the White House web site makes it official policy.


  • Random Trump. Video.

  • The Business Second™.  Five buildings. Thirty-seven full time jobs.  

  • No one has had wilder departures from their jobs than Lane Kiffin.  As he leaves playoff bound Ole Miss for LSU, all of his exist are ranked below.  There are links under the tweet to stories for all of them. 

  • Due to weather delays, the Southlake v. Prosper football playoff game didn't kickoff until 11:14 p.m. on Friday night and didn't finish until 1:42 a.m. on Saturday morning. 

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11.28.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I couldn't find any reports about a subsequent criminal prosecution, if any.

  • Plane crash in Palo Pinto County yesterday. 

  • Around 200 people are still missing. 

  • From Oklahoma. 

  • A Wednesday afternoon "targeted atttack" in D.C. has now left a 20 year old National Guardsman from West Virginia and another critically injured.  "Officials say he ambushed them outside the Farragut West Metro station, firing repeatedly at one Guard member with a .357 revolver and then turning it on the other before he was shot himself."



    • To drive all the way across the country from Washington state just seems beyond weird.



    • This may be one of the most tone deaf things Trump has said. Video
  • Fuzzy Zoeller has died. I had forgotten how bad thos comments at Augusta really were. Video flashback.
  • The Business Second™.  This is in Coppell.

  • Big 12 playoff tree to see who could end in in the conference championship game.   It's great. The SEC, ACC, and Big 10 scenarios are here.
  • Arizona State actually did this for this week's game. 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 147 days.

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