5.13.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




We were even losing those jets back then. 
  • I think we've already forgotten about this guy. He is still on the run after cutting his ankle monitor off on the morning of his capital under trial in Kaufman County.

  • Since grand juries operate behind closed doors, I will forever be frustrated by not knowing what happened in cases like this. Christy Jack of Fort Worth was the defense lawyer, but she wouldn't have been allowed to address the grand jury. 

  • What's going on with the heartland?
  • Trump has arrived in Saudi Arabia this morning and brought his BFF along for the ride. 

  • Re: The $400 million jet gift from Qatar: I'm surprised she doesn't spontaneously combust sometimes. 

  • Story. This guy is in charge of making us all healthy again.

     

  • Legal stuff:  Just when you thought the Texas legislature couldn't get any dumber.


  • I'm not sure I would post this (below) on social media if I were charged which sexually assaulting four women between 1999 and 2005.

  • In case you didn't hear, this happened last night: 

  • Breaking economic news: Inflation is at 2.4% which isn't bad.


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5.12.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





When I discovered something called the Lucky Star Ranch near Lake Bridgeport.

  • Fantastic drone footage of the flooding in Wise County last week. 

  • A Facebook post by the son of Roy Cooper is interesting. 

  • I started noticing a couple of motorcycle accidents happening in the metroplex on Saturday so I started to keep track of them. These are all from Saturday and Sunday:






  • The White House says they are "looking into" suspending the right of habeas corpus, depending on whether courts do the "right thing", and it barely is a blip on the news radar. It's over. 


  • Qatar is going to give a $400 million luxury airliner to Trump?  The key is that it would go to Trump "for his presidential library" after he leaves office. The deal has even been approved by AG Pan Bondi who just happened to have worked as a registered lobbyist on behalf of the Qatari government at a salary of $115,000 per month. 


    • If only there was a law dealing with this stuff.

    • When you've lost crazy Laura Loomer: 

  • It's not hard to figure out who Trump thinks are "good" immigrants. 

  • The scandal in 2005 when Jeanine Pirro, Trump's pick for U.S. Attorney for D.C., was a DA in New York and tried to get the police commissioner of NYC to bug the family's boat in order to catch her husband having an affair.

  • How's that Make America Healthy Again thing going?

  • John Cornyn continues his transformation to a Trump sycophant as he faces a contested re-election.

  • The new FEMA chief sounds like a maniac as a secret camera caught his first remarks to the troops. "I don't stop at yield signs . . . I, and I alone in FEMA, speak for FEMA."


  • Ken Paxton took credit for this but he actually contracted the litigation out to the private firm of  Norton Rose Fulbright who will be be paid in one of two ways: Its billable hours on the case times a multiplier of four, or a percentage of the total settlement (27%), whichever is less.

  • Say what?

  • Bill Belichick's girlfriend competed in the Miss Maine pageant this weekend. She got second runner-up. 

  • "The 2025 NFL season will begin with the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday, Sept. 4, the league announced Monday."

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5.09.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




It was Crane ISD in the story that went nationwide. Vice later published an article claiming that the outbreak wasn't true and began because of  a miscommunication by a local doctor to the school superintendent.  

  • Did you hear, just by chance, that there is a new Pope who is an American from Chicago? Finally, we can all come together in unity and peace and . . . . hold on . . . . 

  • In looking at the Rockwall County online records (since the news story is absolutely no help), it looks like this wasn't a plea bargain deal but instead a jury trial where the they probably found her guilty of two incidences of Indecency With a Child. As far as the sentences, they were "30 months" (kind of weird) on each to be served consecutively.


    • Legal nerdy stuff: I can't tell if she elected to have the jury or the judge assess punishment.   But since she almost certainly wanted probation, I'm guessing she chose the jury because that option would only be available via jury chosen punishment.  Heather Barbieri was the defense lawyer. 
  • "(AP) BREAKING: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a judicial moderate and advocate for humanities and civics education, has died."

  • Let's check in on Trump's ever changing tariff policies the morning. Seems a tad bit high.   

  • Oh, good lord. And is there anyone still left over at Fox News or have they all been appointed to something? 

     

  • Follow-up news to Trump's appointment of a new Surgeon General.

  • Massachusetts is up in arms after an ICE raid on a residential street. It had a little bit of a Nazi feel to it.  Video,


  • Quick Trump hits: 
    • Is he going to abolish FEMA?

    • Huh?


    • Iwo Jima wasn't in Germany, and that World War II still continued on after May 8th.

  • We are the dumbest country.
  • It's kind of hard for a guy who used to make a living off of "Deep State" conspiracy theories once he becomes part of the Deep State. Video.

  • "BREAKING (Yahoo Sports): Bill Belichick's girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, is reportedly banned from UNC's football facility."
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 311 days.

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