12.12.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




The time I posted a gif of a cat attack and followed it up with a pic of The Family Cat watching the gif.

  • Update on the shooting which involved a bunch of 17 year olds at a Burleson park in a "drug deal gone bad."

    • Victim's photo. 

  • This is on the heels of the state taking over Fort Worth ISD a few weeks back. 

  • Video. 


  • "A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., declined on Thursday to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, the second time in a week that jurors had rejected the effort." And these were two different grand juries in two different cities.  That's hard to do. 
  • Trump told Indiana Republicans to redraw their congressional maps to eliminate all Democratic districts. Their legislature, unlike the Texas legislature, said no yesterday.

  • AI headlines: 
    • So much for state's rights.  And isn't this supposed to be something Congress decides?

    • Gift link.


    • Things are about to get weirder. 

  • Random Trump stuff. 
    • He's thinks he can pardon a convicted, crooked, and elecction-denying politician of state charges.



    • He says the strangest things. Video.

    • Ominous Trump stuff from the same speech last night: “We’re going to have a great three years, four years, 10 years, we’re going to make it great. Our country’s going to be strong, safe, rich, it’s going to be great. We’re going to make America great again!” (Video)

  • Legal nerdy stuff: Wichita Falls had a high profile capital murder case over the last couple of years where their local paper describes it this way:  "James Staley, the 43-year-old scion of a prominent Wichita Falls oil family, was found guilty by a Fort Worth jury in connection with the Oct. 11, 2018, smothering death of Wilder, his then girlfriend’s son, at his Wichita Falls home in the Country Club neighborhood" But then, earlier this year, the conviction was reversed by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals based upon an illegal cell phone search.  Yesterday, we had another development. (PDR is here.)

  • Legal nerdy stuff. There is no way the judge's comment was an accurate statement of the meaning of "beyond a reasonable doubt." Oral argument video is here (cued up).  Briefs are here. 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 162 days.

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12.11.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts






Dueling headlines. The media was having a hard time assessing Trump in late 2015.

  • And you think you had a bad day yesterday? How above the University of Michigan football coach, Sherrone Moore, who started the day with a $5.5 million salary but then had an affair with a staffer exposed, got fired "for cause", and then ended up in jail for his conduct while trying to put out the firestorm. 

    • Moore and his alleged paramour. 

  • Our military just kind of does whatever it wants to now? 


  • A big fire at an apartment complex in East Fort Worth gutted 16 apartments yesterday morning.  Based upon the interviews of the occupants, these people are of modest means and lost everything - including their homes - days before Christmas.

  • Time Magazine's Person of the Year has been announced: "The Architects of AI."

     

  • Quicksand?


  • I'm late to the trial of Brian Walshe in Massachusetts, but I did finally learn yesterday that he did not watch many movies on how to get away with murder. 


  • Seems very American. 

  • Kyle Rittenhouse has finally found someone to marry him.  

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12.10.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




When a former Rhome police chief didn't win the election. 

  • I would provide a gift link to this, but the Star-Telegram's website suddenly isn't allowing that function to work. Here's the regular link. 

  • Hey! He's the "Bless Your Heart" guy. Notably, this was a non-jury trial in state court and was based on a Texas law enacted in 2021..


  • Another day, another prostitution sting. This time the cops even took Fox 4's Peyton Yager along with them. I'm not sure the story came across like she thought it did. 


  • It's not earth-shaking, but I think it's interesting. 


  • This truly is a crazy video.


  • Dateline Boston: "Officials took individuals from the line because the federal agency has directed its employees to halt all immigration applications for nationals from the 19 countries that already faced travel restrictions since June . . . . "

  • The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on an issue which kind of jumps out at you. And the case is from (checks notes) . . . Alabama.

  • Trump held a rally last night which was supposed to be about "affordability."
    • I'm not sure that's gonna do it. Video.

    • And he keeps going more and more into Klan mode. Video.

    • And there's nothing like a recently appointed federal appeals court judge, who just happened to be Trump's former personal lawyer, showing up for the rally.

  • If your 79 year old family member posted this, you'd have an emergency family meeting. 



  • College football is basically pro football now. And it's about to get worse with things like this happening: 

  • New this morning: Sophie Kinsella, the best-selling author behind the "Shopaholic" book series that later became a big-screen hit, has died at 55.

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