2.02.2026

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




"[A Wise County man] destroyed a front door, vandalized several cars and fought several people on Meadowdale Drive, police have said. Brown was hit twice by Tasers deployed by officers before he was fatally shot by a Saginaw police officer."  Video is still online


  • Early Saturday in Weatherford. The headline is all that we know.


  • We had a big upset in a race watched nationwide. 

    • The map of the district in Tarrant County.

    • The dollars involved: 
    • Trump backed the ultimate loser on Truth Social three times in two days before the vote. And yesterday he claimed he didn't know anything about the race.  Video

  • This is real post from the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas.

    • This is also real. 


  • Incredible, What would be one of the biggest corruption scandals in American presidential history is just a news blip now. 

  • I don't understand it either. Story (including embedded PDF of court's ruling.)
  • "The Trump administration is bypassing a Congressional review process to send $6.5 billion of weapons aid to Israel. The package includes Apache attack helicopters and combat vehicles. It's the third time the Trump administration has gone around Congress to send arms to Israel." There is no Congress any longer. (Gift link.)

  • If you are a federal judge and are going to order a kid wrongfully captured by ICE to be released, and include a dramatic ending and a photo of the kid to your written order, please get the date right. (Order here.)

  • Update on Trump suing his own IRS for a billion dollars. Video.
  • Trump orders it “for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding.” He's not going to raze it, is he? 
  • Gift link


  • Story


  • Sports:
    • Super Bowl news:.

    • Former Dallas Cowboy running back  Scott Laidlaw has died.  (Note: He spoke at the Bridgeport All Sports Banquet in the late 1970s.)
  • BREAKING: An 84-year-old woman who was reported missing in Arizona under "concerning circumstances" has been identified by officials as the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie.

1.30.2026

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






Random Friday Morning Thoughts




Those were some big shoulder pads. 


  • Gift link. There was also a story about it in the Dallas Morning News today.  This trial is going to get massive news coverage. 


  • Incredible.

  • Big fire at a big house in Rockwall. 1460 Anna Cade Road


  • New this morning: Don Lemon is in jail.  They are coming after journalists now. One federal magistrate had previously rejected the request for a warrant, so the federal government found another judge (edit: or found a grand jury?). 

  • Always something weird about this case.

  • So will he direct the Treasury to settle the case and write him a check?  Who could stop him? 


  • In the middle of the night, Trump basically said that Alex Pretti deserved to die. 

  • Gift link. One of them is in Hutchins outside of Dallas.  (I never thought that my prediction of concentration camps and my preaching to invest in warehouses would collide.) 



  • Trump quotes from yesterday:
    • When you learn stuff about your wife from a movie for the first time. 

    • Video

    • Video.

  • This just happened. And, yes, that's really her at the end of that rope.


  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 211 days.