7.30.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Lots of details and photos here.

  • Everyone freaked out last night after a major, major earthquake off the coast of Russia.  When one of these things happens off the West Coast, and it will, it will be catastrophic. 

     

  • Story.

  • Thanks to a 50-49 Senate vote last night, a Trump sycophant, who is completely unfit and and ethical trainwreck, now has a lifetime appointment on a federal appellate court.  


  • Trump is uncharacteristically making PR snafus -- and damning admissions -- left and right. He thinks he can talk himself out of anything, but that no longer seems to be true.  Audio.

    • And if you don't recall Virginia Giuffre, she was one of Epstein's outspoken victims who committed suicide earlier this year.  She "was 16 when she was recruited to Mr. Epstein’s sex ring while working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, and said that she was groomed and abused by Mr. Epstein and his associates [including Prince Andrew] until she broke contact with him in 2002." 

  • Good grief, I finally agree with Marjorie on something. 

  • The topless DA in far West Texas is a pistol.


  • I try to avoid posting mugshots, but this one out of Corpus Christi from last week is, uh, something. 

  • Did anyone have Katy Perry and the former Canadian Prime Minister on their Bingo card?

  • The Business Second™. 

  • The Business Second - Flashback™: A short YouTube video clip from WFAA in 1976 ponders why Coppell can't attract development on its vast open land.  The lone bit of construction, the reporter says, was in one area where homes from $50,000 to $100,000 were being constructed. One was pictured. 

  • The hunt for the killer of the couple in the Arkansas state park continues.  But they still haven't even ID'd him. 



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7.29.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Of course, someone grabbed a screenshot of the original school post. 

  • "Three of the four people killed were shot in the building’s lobby as the gunman sprayed the area with bullets, Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, said at a news conference. The fourth was killed on an upper floor after the gunman took the elevator there, Ms. Tisch said. He then shot himself in the chest, she said."



    • New this morning is the connection to the NFL.  


    • I'd be doing that, too.  

  • Earlier in the day, there was another mass shooting in Reno which couldn't even stay at the top of the headlines for 12 hours. 


  • Finally.


  • The man is old enough to understand this is not proper courting.  

  • Trump keeps stepping in it.

     

  • Just the official White House account being an advertisement platform for Trump's hotel.

  • For the life of me, I don't understand this controversy. Gift link.

     

  • "They need to read the Constitution!!!!"

  • Forgetting to spell check your campaign rollout for Senate. 

  • Deion Sanders had a cancerous gall bladder removed. He also appears to have taken up farming.

     

  • Some notable Cowboy news. 

  • I'm most of the way through Adolescence. Big thumbs up.



at 8:30 AM

7.28.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




“Liberties were stomped on,”  Representative Jonathan Stickland, a Tea Party-backed Republican from Bedford, in the Fort Worth-Dallas area, who is white, said to Mr. McCraw.  

  • "Police are searching for a suspect after a couple was attacked and killed while hiking with their two young daughters, ages 7 and 9, in Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains tourism region." The daughters were unharmed.

  • A car banked off this house on a corner lot in Dallas, and then crossed the street and smashed into another home. The driver died. 

  • I still have no idea what Trump's plan is in all of this.

    • But Trump is really freaking out.  And for now, he just wants you all to look away. He'll even create his own "list." 

  • A guy stabs 11 people in Michigan but is finally stopped after he sees the business end of a gun in the parking lot. Video.


    • Let's see how one of Trump's trusted advisors had to say about it. He was not, in fact, a Muslim.

  • The Boyd Raceway will no longer allow alcohol in the pit area. Seems like a less than optimal place for booze in the first place. 

  • Not that there's any difference between 99° an 100°, but Wise County broke the 100° barrier on Friday while DFW Airport has failed to so thus far.

  • A retiring Southlake legislator admitted to an affair with a woman after reports that he had a side gal for 17 years. He first met her when she was a stripper. 



  • This is ghoulish. This was in response to a the question yesterday of: "Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?" Video.



  • The official White House Twitter account gets weirder and weirder every day.

  • Just the Chairman of the FCC saying that media companies better be more Trump friendly. Or else.

  • Trump on Putin just moments ago: "I'm gonna make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today."

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7.25.2025

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

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