Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Let's bring that back. 

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• And that opinion comes from the new 15th Court of Appeals which is composed of only three judges and all appointed by Gov. Abbott. 
  
• When I first saw this story last night, I thought that's pretty surprising result from the appellate court in  Austin. A reversal with an acquittal? You don't see that very often. He had been sentenced to two years in a state jail. 

• But then I tracked the opinion down. The appeal was transferred from Austin to Amarillo as part of docket overcrowding distribution. And it began like this:
  
  
  
• From yesterday afternoon:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Update from yesterday evening. "The body was found in a field roughly 100 yards from Olmos’ home, which authorities had previously searched."
  
  
  
• This may be the craziest video I've ever seen, and that's not hyperbole.  Story. Full video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• New this morning from the Washington Post.  Keep an eye on ICE and this moment in history.  It's quickly becoming large, more untamed, and it is all Trump's. I saw someone refer to the agency the other days as the Ice Storm Troopers. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Marijuana? The U.S. is killing people over marijuana?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Yesterday we had another day of Orwellian information from your government:
• Trump posted a picture claiming is was a bald eagle killed in America by a windmill. It was actually not an eagle, and the picture was taken in Israel in 2017. Original here. 
  
  
  
• AG Pam Bondi posted a graph to tell us how great Trump's war on drugs was going.  But the graphic only had data ending in 2024. She later deleted it. 
  
  
  
• The Wall Street Journal this morning has a warning about the phones killing, of all things, dancing. 
  
  
  
• Flashback: 
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

That arrest was two days before the bowl game. And that game was the Alamo Bowl where TCU, despite losing 31-0 at halftime, came back and won 47-41 triple-overtime over No. 15 Oregon.

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• It used to be that a covert CIA strike without Congressional approval would be the plot of a Tom Clancy novel.  Now, the president just casually references it during a Q and A, causing the press to go find out what happened. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Lot's of family chaos these days. From yesterday morning:  
  
  
  
• I was under the impression he was killed by police when he was found in the home.  Nope, despite the fact "police shot him multiple times Sunday after discovering his parents’ bodies and finding him in a bedroom of the home with a long gun."
  
  
  
• This sounds like she waived a jury, pled guilty to the charges, and allowed the judge to assess sentence without the benefit of a plea-bargain. 
  
  
  
• It's pretty easy to get Trump's full support.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Google searches reveal a timeline of what was the hot news topic of the moment was in 2025: 
  
  
  
• What a USA Today poll of Americans in 1998 thought would be true today: 
  
  
  
• He was pretty hard to avoid back in the day if you are a radio fan, and he was pretty good. He always signed off with, "I'm Ed Waaaaaallace." 
  
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: This all be done for publicity, since she hasn't even been charged, but the criminal statute (which just got amended) seems to allow prosecution. Here's the Fifth Circuit opinion. 
  
  
  
• Gift link.
  
  
  
  
  
• Link to the criminal case story below:

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

They were found in Puerto Vallarta.

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• Police shootings are big local news: 
• Woah. The victims have been identified as 73-year-old Leonard Ragan and 72-year-old Jackie Ragan. 
  
  
  
  
• This was in Haslet right off 287.  The headlines is all we know.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• "Officers learned the driver, a 56-year-old white male, had an active probation revocation warrant for solicitation of prostitution."
  
  
  
• I'm not sure why some missing person cases become national news while most are never heard about.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Oh, my. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump met with the Ukraine leader at Mar-a-Lago yesterday and afterwards said this. He's delusional.   
  
  
  
  
• Trump got mad about the Epstein files at Christmas time. Has he forgotten that he signed the law to release them?
  
  
  
  
• At least someone is living in the new "Gilded Age." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Both of theses stories seem like they should be bigger news.
• An update on the Christmas day strike. 
  
  
  
• A land strike?
  
  
  
  
• This shooting on December 9th at Kentucky State University had all the makings of a Netflix documentary even before the grand jury no-billed the case. (And we now have a bonus episode because the parents of the dead student have been arrested.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. There hasn't been an increase since 2021.
  
• "The lawsuit was filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, by attorney Jonathan Mitchell. Defendants include the State Commission on Judicial Conduct and its commissioners."   Just take a look at Mitchell's Wikipedia page and you'll have an idea as to where he will want to take this.  
  
  
  
  
• It was the 50th anniversary of Hail Mary pass play yesterday.  But everyone forgets the chaos that happened afterwards when an official was hit in the head with a liquor bottle. (Video from the broadcast.)