7.15.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




In the first couple of weeks of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, he headed for the border.
  • The Washington Post has a great interactive map showing how the flooding happened at Camp Mystic. (Gift link.)

  • Our Wise County judge is up in Philadelphia conquering the world. 

  • Big flooding in New York and New Jersey yesterday.


  • What could go wrong?

  • I'll say it again: No one will stop him. 

    • From the dissent:

  • The man stole a trophy?.


  • Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security is crazy. Side note: Doesn't that image need some dead native Americans in the background for accuracy?

  • Trump was on a wild roll yesterday at the "White House Faith Office summit with business leaders."
    • Rick Perry taking strays for some reason.  Video.

    • Why was the crowd laughing at this? Video.

    • Did I mention this was a "faith based" luncheon? Video.

  • Wise County's state rep may not have been able to pass a simple water district bill for us, but he's excited that you can now buy your Big Mac with a gold bar in Texas.

  • Do we have the Epstein files yet? I've been told the Deep State has been keeping them from us for years.



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7.14.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





The arrest by the DPS trooper probably never should have happened, but a great examination of how it all happened is in a chapter of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Talking to Strangers.

  • Overnight.




  • A wrong way driver collision on 114 near DFW airport shutdown the freeway overnight. Two are dead.

  • Dateline Parker County. "Stanley had reportedly been recorded detailing her plan to an acquaintance. She allegedly intended to buy powdered fentanyl and inject it into a high-end box of chocolate, which she planned to mail to her ex-husband as a congratulatory gift for his recent engagement, along with a 'honeymoon incentive offer.'"  Hey, tell me more about that honeymoon offer.

  • I didn't even think this could be done. 

    • I also don't think there was even time for a replacement judge to be named before the order was signed. The elected judge recused herself on Thursday. The order sealing the file was signed Friday by someone whose name we don't even know. 

  • The conspiracy crazed world of MAGA is in a tizzy over the Epstein list either not existing (per AG Pam Bondi) or Trump desperately telling them to get over it because the files are fake and were be created by Obama (!!!). 


  • Always attack the press.

  • How FEMA got gutted just when it was needed most:


  • Nothing authoritarian about this, right?

    • Or this. 

    • Or this. (Just substitute "LA" with "Germany" and "illegal aliens" with "Jews.")
  • Cause of the Air India crash on June 12th that killed 260 determined: "In the flight’s final moment, one pilot was heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded that he did not do so.” And it is not the type of switch you can just accidentally turn off. 


  • If you didn't read that first hand account of the Kerrville flooding in Texas Monthly, take 10 to 15 minutes and do it. 

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7.11.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




So it is now 20 years of Liberally Lean, I used Enterprise on this year's vacation, too, and still love it, and the guy behind Silk Road is now out of prison via a Trump pardon. 

  • Trump heads to Texas today. I'm guessing he won't say anything as dumb as Gov. Abbott's football analogy the other day.

    • Meanwhile, Texas will prevent catastrophes like Camp Mystic in the future by . . . . creating a couple of committees.

    • Weekend read: I'm seeing lots of people rant, in a good way, about this article in Texas Monthly which is a first-hand account of the flooding. 



    • The EPA released a website to debunk the silly claims that the weather is geo-engineered, but its chairman announced it in a post in such a manner that it sounded like he's a conspiracy theorist.

    • This is not true.

  • DFW local news coverage is in bad shape. Case in point, a woman is found dead earlier this week in a high-tone apartment complex in Plano, and then yesterday her alleged killer was gunned down in a police shootout in Euless. Want to know more? Me, too.  But that's all the information that is out there. 


  • What took her so long?


  • From the official White House account.  We are the dumbest country.

  • They need to bring back The Wire. 

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth found the time to shoot this very bizarre self-promotion video. 

  • OpenAI's ChatGPT is already a better search engine than Google, but Google's Chrome is still a really good browser. This will be interesting to watch.



  • Texas Tech has been making the news as one of its alumni, Cody Campbell, is throwing money around to buy players.  Campbell made his money in oil with a partner named John Sellers.  They first hit my radar in 2021 when Sellers rented out the Fort Worth Zoo for his fortieth birthday and hired Pearl Jam as the entertainment. So what's their origin story? I wrote . . . 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 6 days.

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