Random Monday Morning Thoughts

He was named Secretary of the Department of Energy the following year.

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• The Ross fire is still burning in Palo Pinto and Jack County, but there were a couple of arrests that arose out of it. But they are a little different from each other. 
• Out of Jack County: s
  
  
  
  
• Out of Palo Pinto County:
  
• I'm not sure why he did this. I suspect most of his supporters are pro-Flock cameras.
  
  
  
• The Iran War is back on again:
  
  
  
• He did what?
  
  
  
• It's not Nepal, but newsworthy: 
  
  
  
• Speaking of Nepal: 
  
  
  
• "In 2023, NPR ran a big story about the danger of glacier melt creating a huge lake of water that could one day flood a Nepalese valley."  They were spot on. 
  
  
  
• The Pentagon is paying people to post propaganda on social media that mimics Pete Hegseth. 
  
  
  
• Oh, my. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Ken Paxton campaigned this weekend in a Four Seasons of Orlando shirt while wearing a $40,000 watch.  He's clueless.. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This radio host needs to think twice about his advertisers instead of just seeing if the check cashes.  Link. 
  
  
  
• So the U.S. just became a private oil company after invading a country?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Random Trump posts over the weekend.
• He doesn't know that's AI, does he? 
  
  
  
• Couldn't say it better myself: 
  
  
  
• Desoto traveled to Florida for its opening high school game last weekend, and its captains refused to shake hands at the coin flip. Video.  That's a bad look. That and getting beaten 38-14 after the stunt. 
  
  
  
  
• After TCU banned the Star Telegram last week, Texas Tech's big time football money donor Cody Campbell told the newspaper they will always get the red carpet treatment in Lubbock.  

Random Friday Morning Thought

And it all began. 

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• A big murder conviction in Wise County was affirmed (PDF) late yesterday by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals.  One of the points of appeal was a juror passing out during some of the testimony.
  
  
  
  
• A faithful reader sent me this photo of the huge solar farm in Palo Pinto County I mentioned yesterday. You have to look closely, but tract after tract of land in this pic is being used for it. 
  
  
  
• Shocking headline. 
  
  
  
• In other news, the Tarrant County DA's office was having a little trouble in misdemeanor court this week.  One not guilty and two directed verdicts against them. And there are still two verdicts yet to come. 
  
  
  
• There are large parts of the Alliance area which didn't have electricity for over 24 hours after a minor storm blew threw on Wednesday evening. 
• Cruelty is the point:
• On Tuesday:
  
  
  
• Yesterday:
  
  
  
• I don't think they will convict her, but there sure are a lot of lesser charges they have as an alternative option to murder. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The man is laser focused on the main issues that matter to us. "We're going to call it Lake America, and all it takes is a good pen and some intelligence," he said yesterday.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• He's going to make the 25th anniversary of 9/11 all about him. 
  
  
• The Business Second™.  Nvidia, the chip maker, just keeps getting buried in cash and in sales.  
  
• This game was actually streamed last night. Southlake was dead in the water, and there was no way they were going to come back. I thought.   The game was played in a very hot looking and virtually empty Cotton Bowl. 
  
• Here's a link the barratry verdict story in the Morning News (below).
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 7 years and 54 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

I'm not sure the Messenger has gone after some that hard since then. 

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• Palo Pinto County has a solar farm? 
  

  

  
  
• This is really, really weird decision by TCU. Gift article. 
  
  
  
• 2028? Does the government need a little more time to prepare after having 23 years to do so? 
  
  
  
  
• Assuming the "new rules" are implemented, it will take about 30 minutes for kids to figure out a way around it. 
  
  
  
  
• Dan Patrick finally left Austin and campaigned in Vernon and Wichita Falls yesterday.  I'm sure he really "loves campaigning."  Doesn't that look fun? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm saying the obvious when I tell you the videos of the wall of water coming down that river are unbelievable.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I first learned in Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary that the story behind this photo is not as feel good as you might think. Now the photographer has left us. 
  
  
  
  
• Trump thinks it is a good idea to simply declare "Mission Accomplished" in Iran. Does he not know that Bush is still not ridiculed for doing this?  
  
  
  
• It took him less than 24 hours to bring it back to him, but you knew it was coming. 
  
  
  
• Is that scores of other games or just other junk? 
  
  
  
• Legal stuff: There's an uncomfortable clash of AI generated images in your own home and criminal laws and the First Amendment coming.  What if you think of something illegal? What if you draw that image on a piece of paper. What if you use your computer to draw it with AI? One federal court dealt with it this week: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold