Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Dueling headlines of Jared from Subway pleading guilty, and the Ashley Madison hack pretty much summed up what the next 10 years would be like. 

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• We now have a date for the reopening of the Wise County Courthouse although I think the renovation workers over there are going to have to hustle to make it happen.
  
  
  
•  Top ranked high school coaches salaries in DFW area.
  
  
  
• That list came from this article. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• While we are at it, here are the top superintendent salaries.
  
  
  
• A 15 year old sophomore.
  
  
  
• Up until a few years ago, it was a no-brainer that this silly law was unconstitutional.  Let's now see if the judge's ruling holds up. 
  
  
  
• As expected, the call came down from on high and Texas finally complied. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• With Ken Paxton trying to unseat John Cornyn as senator, we've got an open race for a new Texas AG.  And we have a new contender for that opening this morning:
  
  
  
• After listening to the alleged victim, I'm kind of skeptical of this claim.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm sorry, say what?
  
• Pete Hegseth, J.D. Vance, and Stephen Miller, Trump's authoritarian policy maker, had a photo-op yesterday at Union Station in D.C. where troops have been brought in under the guise of reducing crime. Side note: Where's the pocket on Miller's suit jacket?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Twenty members of the Defense Department's JAG Corps are set to begin working as special assistant U.S. attorneys — federal prosecutors — in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia next week. Those two jobs are not the same.
  
  
  
• Just the Chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party making a casual anti-Muslim and threatening post yesterday.
  
  
  
• For some reason, the Republicans are mad at Cracker Barrel for a logo change?. 
  

  

  
  

  
• Religion news: Overnight, Dr. James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, has died. 
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Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Good times. 

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• This young lady appears to have been from Rhome. The crash happened Sunday morning at 4:00 a.m., and I saw where her mother blames another person by name in a GoFundMe post.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A "transformer box behind Fitness Connection in Watauga caught fire last night during the storm" which rolled through northern Tarrant County around 9:00 p.m. 
  
  
  
• This story is weird with the shooting occurring in the middle of the afternoon. A passenger of the singer, named Blanton, said he was told to "lean back, then [Blanton] pulled out a handgun and shot at the victim’s car at least one time, police said in the affidavit. Blanton had pulled up next to the victim’s car in traffic after both vehicles left a gas station in the area."
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Trump is going to whitewash (literally) history at the Smithsonian museums.  History isn't there to be liked or disliked. Yet more proof that i's over.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I don't think I express enough how much I disklike Karoline Leavitt, Trump's press secretary. That was a great question that she was afraid to answer.
  
  
  
• It's like they are screening for teachers of the Hitler Youth by giving them a test to make sure they aren't "woke."
  
  
  
• She doesn't have enough to do, does she? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Does anyone remember that both houses of Congress voted to ban TikTok, the President signed the bill, and the Supreme Court upheld the law?  Trump has just unilaterally decided to not enforce the ban, and now he's joining the Chinese app.
  
  
  
• It's getting very North Korea-like around here. 
  
  
  
  
• This happened on Friday and she's been released from the hospital and recovering. Other than the incident happening in a parking lot, I don't see any other details.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Random college football news: BYU, after banishing its quarterback who just happened to be Jewish, will start a true freshman who is a Catholic and who wears the very unconventional QB number of 47.
  
  
  
• Here's a rom-com idea: A Texas democratic lawmaker falls in love with the DPS trooper who had been assigned to follow her around to make sure she doesn't break quorum

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The first ever pieces of what would become a full blown scandal began this week a decade ago with a Deadspin article, and a court conviction later in the week. 

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• Calm down, buddy.
  
  
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• Texas House Member Held Hostage: "House Speaker Dustin Burrows told lawmakers that members who broke quorum could only leave the House chamber upon agreeing in writing to be released into the custody of a Texas Department of Public Safety officer tasked with ensuring their return when the House reconvenes at 10 a.m. Wednesday." One of them refused to sign. She's still there.
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  

  

  Sample of pledge agreement signed by other lawmaker.

  
  
• It's not as much as Fox, which paid Dominion $787.5 million back in 2023, but Newsmax has less than 10% of the audience that Fox News has.
  
  
  
• He's not gonna leave, and he's not going to lose control of his do-nothing Congress.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• And he'll do it one way or another. 
  
  
  
• This five minute video out of Rhode Island is a masterpiece. As a lawyer, nothing provides more pleasure than cops jacking up another lawyer in the wrong who tries to play the lawyer card. These two drunk ladies, who just got kicked out of a restaurant, were asking for it. And their husbands/dates need to get some scene control. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I wouldn't get too excited over this. But it does keep this Trump headache in the news. 
  
  
  
  
• Per DPS, we are getting a new driver's license design.
  
  
  
• I'm not sure if anything was accomplished with the big meeting in the White House yesterday, but we learned this morning that Trump still doesn't know that Russia invaded Ukraine. 
  
• Legal stuff: The topless DA in West Texas was all set to go to trial yesterday until her docket fell apart because she admittedly "had to learn another hard procedural lesson this morning."