5.20.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




It was actually a shot of Runaway Bay, but there was significant flooding in Bridgeport as well.

  • Dear Wise County Sheriff's Office: Your PDF of the current jail roster is not updating.

  • This story involves a head-on crash around noon on Sunday that was allegedly caused by the guy passing in a no-passing zone on a country road near Anna. No drugs. No alcohol. And I think I found the spot on Google Map's streetview. Side note: His bond is $3 million which is way out of whack for an auto accident case under these circumstances. 


  • Story. "When reached for comment, Delkus referred a reporter to the station’s news director." Oh, come on!

  • Says a guy who wears a vest in 2025.

  • There is no definitive word on why.

  • Trump has just arrived at Capitol Hill to try to get the House to pass the "One Big Beautiful Bill." But, instead, he started ranting about immigrants from "the prisons in Congo" and "Biden's autopen."  


  • In one her first official acts, the former Trump personal lawyer, Alina Habba, has charged a Democratic member of Congress with a crime.  Get ready for more of this. 


  • Ridiculous. 

  • Stay with me here: Paramount owns CBS.  Last year, Paramount reached an $8 billion deal to sell itself to a third party, but the sale needed federal approval.  Trump then won the election and also sued CBS News on a silly claim against 60 Minutes.  CBS News wants to fight the lawsuit but Paramount, which calls the shots, still needs the federal approval for its sale so it is planning to settle (bribe) Trump's lawsuit for a reported $30 to $50 million.   The boss of 60 Minutes has already quit in disgust. Now the head of CBS News is out.   The free press is always crushed by an autocracy. 


  • Going 0-23 probably had a lot to do with the decision. (By the way, the Madison Mallards "are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Madison, Wisconsin.")  

  • Gift link. It's a long one, but it is newly published.  
     

  • Legal nerdy stuff: The Texas House passed a bunch of "bond reform" bills yesterday, some of which will require voter approval, but there is no way they know what they are voting on. This story has the links to the bills if you are interested. 

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5.19.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





No one was ever convicted. No one. 

  • After Wise County representative Andy Hopper suffered the humiliating defeat of his Wise County Water District bill, he remained silent over the weekend about how it happened. Well, he did take time to call Ken Paxton a "patriot."

  • Former President Biden has been diagnosed with cancer.
    • Junior immediately sent his best wishes. 

  • A Mexican ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night. Obviously, it was fleeing the unfriendly waters of the Gulf of America. Multiple videos.

  • A 25 year old died with his car bomb that rocked a fertility clinic in Southern California. On a 30 minute audio he left behind, he said he was doing the bombing because he never "consented" to "exist."


  • The Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana, described as "the largest antebellum mansion in the South", burned on Friday. 

  • In a scene right out of Shawshank, ten inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans on Friday. Three have since been captured. 


  • The Supreme Court has yet to rule whether Trump can use the AEA to snatch suspected gang members off the street, but it did say on Friday that he needed to give them more than 48 hours to challenge the government's claim that they are, in fact, Tren de Aragua gang members.

    • Trump gave an Idiocracy-like explanation of the ruling. It's just a matter of time before he ignores the court. It's over. 

  • Let's see what those nations "who want peace" are up to over the weekend:
  • The Business Two Seconds™.
    • After Walmart said it would raise prices because of Trump's tariffs, Trump told the company just to "eat" them instead. (Which is odd because Trump has always told us that the "other country" would be paying the tariffs and not Americans or American companies.)

    • The credit rating of the United States was downgraded late Friday.

  • Trump quotes which I had to pick between: (1) Calling Taylor Swift no longer "hot", (2) Calling Bruce Springsteen a "dried up prune", (3) Wanting both of them plus Bono and Oprah "investigated", (4) Posting a weird AI video of him as a rock star, (5) Explaining the N-word, or (6) Yelling at ABC for exposing his $400 million illegal gift from Qatar.


  • The Wall Street Journal wanted to focus on air traffic safety. but this glamor shot they used for its artice is a funny choice to me. 

  • A civil appellate opinion last Thursday gave the inside scoop on this Decatur mansion in a lawsuit brought by the owners against Zillow.

  • Sports:
    • Hockey news.

    • The Aggies became the first ever #1 softball seed to not reach the super-regionals. 
  • A 40 year old man was found dead in a water hazard at the the Fossil Creek golf course in Fort Worth on Saturday morning. 

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5.16.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




And now we are down to none. 

  • The bill to create the Wise Regional Water District, the only bill Wise County rep Andy Hopper has gotten to the House floor, went down in flames last night when it was royally defeated by a vote of 41-78. Hopper's entire presentation last night, including some brutal questioning, is here. It's 9 minutes long, but it is wildly entertaining .  It looks like Hopper has made some enemies along the way (see at 6:39)

    • But Hopper did spend time on social media yesterday fighting the repeal of the crime of homosexual conduct - a Texas law that was declared unconstitutional and invalidated 22 years ago. 

    • In other legislative news, the House voted to put air-conditioning in all Texas prisons like a federal court has told them to.  Hopper voted against it. 
  • Still on the run.


  • Denver Airport is now competing with Newark for the award of pilots flying blind.

    • So let's check in on what the Transportation Secretary was doing yesterday to see if he is working hard to solve the problem. Oh, he was posting this video message:

  • Walmart made the announcement yesterday morning during an earnings report.

  • Former FBI Director James Coney posted this picture of shells arranged on a beach yesterday, and now Republicans want him jailed because of it. 

    • And the new FBI Director, Kash Patel, is acting like he will do it. Welcome to Authoritarianism.

  • The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in a birthright citizenship case which was actually more about when a federal district judge should be allowed to issue a nationwide injunction.  Prediction: They won't rule on birthright citizenship (yet) but will fashion (make-up) a rule which allows nationwide injunctions only when a "basic and core fundamental constitutional right" - or some other flowery language - -  is involved.  And they will let the nationwide injunction against Trump stand in this case. 


  • Tell me this isn't real. 

  • Trump quick hits from the Middle East:
    • Oh, good grief. 

    • Someone explain to this man that "groceries" isn't some historical term. Video.

    • Stephen Miller runs the government, and Trump wants a palace. 

  • Graduate of Groesbeck High School and North Texas State, actor Joe Don Baker has died.  I remember him most from Cape Fear:

  • The Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed a Wise County criminal case yesterday involving a prolonged detention case. 
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 318 days.


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