5.07.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




The cops agreed to go to the kid's school to briefly take the child into custody to teach him a lesson for misbehaving in class. And school officials weren't given a heads up first.  I can't find where anyone suffered any ramifications for this stunt. 

  •  Just two nuclear powers on the verge of a full scale war:


    • Don't worry. The U.S. is on top of it:

  • We lost another $70 million fighter jet from the same aircraft carrier. This time it rolled off the side during a landing. 

  • The Prime Minister of Canada was in the Oval Office yesterday and, I can't believe I have to write this, had to tell Trump . . . 


    • Our own Minister of Propaganda described the meeting this way:

  • Deportation news overnight: 
    • Ukraine?

    • And this "could happen as early as today."

  • It appears that Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney for D.C. (who is a Stop the Steal supporter, who had never been a prosecutor before his interim appointment, and then dismissed his own client's case when he was) won't even get to a vote due to one lone Republican member who sits on the Justice Committee.



  • It doesn't even register that a law passed by Congress, signed by President Biden, and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court is just ignored by Trump.

  • Wise County's state rep yesterday voted against a gambling bill because he wants to protect us from it. (Have I mentioned he voted for school vouchers?)

  • Legal stuff: You can't get people interested in school vouchers, but it's a packed house in Austin this morning at 7:00 a.m. for the hearing on the big "tort reform" bill. Livestream. Seventy-five speakers have registered.


  • Cowboy news this morning:

  • Clever headline from a Canadian newspaper . . . 



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5.06.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Do you remember the incident at the Culwell Center in Garland? It has its own Wikipedia entry.

  • I'm didn't know Wise County had an up-to-date web page dedicated to road closures because of the Trinity River currently overflowing.  

  • Colleyville lightening strike of a home was caught on video yesterday. That's unnerving. 



  • "McEuen is accused of shooting and killing his neighbor, Aaron Martinez, on Neal Road in Forney on May 1, 2023. Investigators said he shot 35-year-old Martinez multiple times . . . . "

  • Newark airport has been a mess for over a week, and yesterday we learned one of the reasons why: At least five air traffic controllers took "trauma leave" after an incident a week ago where there was a complete communications blackout with all aircraft for 30 seconds.



  • It probably sank from the weight of  the self-importance onboard.






  • So they think that an immigrant, who has seen you round people up and send them to an El Salvadorian prison, will trust you enough to enter their identifying information into a government app? And for just $1,000? To be paid after you have been returned?


  • Trump thinks all immigrants are entitled to a full jury trial before deportation.  Due Process does not always equate to a jury trial.  For immigration purposes, due process requires notice and a hearing. Jury trials, like for criminal cases, are the "gold standard" of due process.  (Side note: The NFL Commissioner having to uncomfortably stand there while Trump held an impromptu press conference was unusually satisfying to me.)

  • And that's how you begin to remake a military which will become Trump's own personal army.

  • The grift never ends.

  • Just Trump "directing" the Justice Department (who he thinks is his personal team of lawyers) to somehow free a person who was convicted by a state jury for a state crime and sits in a state prison. This is insane. 

  • Bad legal takes. 

  • The Business Second™. 

  • I finally got around to watching all episodes of the Robert Durst documentary, The Jinx. Very good stuff. And I'm almost through with the Karen Read documentary A Body in the Snow. It's great, too. Both are on Max. 

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5.05.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





Yep, that means one of the original MTV VJ's turns 80 today.

  • Bridgeport voters, once again, proved it is next to impossible to pass a school bond proposal these days.  Boyd's bond proposal failed as well. 

  • In the always interesting Decatur school board races: .

    • Extreme conservative PAC supported candidates got crushed in Tarrant County.

  • He's insane.
     

  • On Saturday, Greg Abbott signed the voucher scam bill into law surrounded, for some reason, kids who just happen to be black.


  • It's a weird world when a lady can drop the n-word at a kid and his parent and then get rich because of it.  Video.


  • And everyone shrugs. Video.


  • Let's check in on how January 6th is being handled these days. 
    • Are you kidding me? (Details of the settlement are unknown.)

    • On April 9th, Trump shockingly ordered Pam Bondi to go after him. It has now begun. 

  • Israel news.
    • The Houthis took time off from bombing ships in the Red Sea to launch a missile from Yemen at Israel.

    • Meanwhile, Israel expands the war over what's left of Gaza. The U.S. is supposed to take over that strip. right?

  • Because things like Uvalde are simply "woke" now: 


  • The current Texas DA who had no experience (other than running for a different election while topless), but won election anyway out in far, far, far West Texas, is having some problems. 


  • The NFL draft in 2027 will be held on the National Mall in Washington D.C.

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5.02.2025

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

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