8.27.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




I've never thought this got talked about enough. A reporter and her cameraman shot dead on live TV in Roanoke, Virginia. The person being interviewed, in white, survived.

  • I' think these two sentences say the same thing, but I'm not sure: "The baby was dead when police arrived, and the release said it is believed the child was left unattended in the vehicle for an undetermined amount of time at a residence in Rockwall. Police said it is believed the infant was left in the vehicle at a residence and later discovered at the high school." Regardless, that's all we know.

  • We are the dumbest country.
    • Exhibit A.

    • Exhibit B. University of Tennessee. Video within the story.


  • In an insane public cabinet meeting which lasted over three hours, members took turns praising Trump in a manner that make Kim Jong Un blush. And that was in between nutcase false revelations, including autism was artificially caused, there are "burn bags" of 2020 voter fraud information found, Trump was leading a "third" revolution, and Trump proclaiming "many people" are saying that the country would rather have a dictator."


    • Not to mention the secretary of the Department of Labor saying at the table,  "Mr. President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."  She wasn't kidding about the banner: 

  • Don't criticize the Fuhrer. 

  • On the heels of the U.S. taking a 10% equity interest in Intel, is Lockheed Martin next? “I mean, Lockheed Martin makes 97 percent of their revenue from the U.S. government. They are basically an arm of the U.S. government,” the commerce secretary said in suggesting the Administration would like a piece of the company.

  • Weird: The State of Texas just bought the Menger Hotel and the Crockett Hotel next to the Alamo. They had not been for sale. 

  • Another story yesterday about a subject I mentioned on Monday. (Gift link.)

  • Real photo from the U.S. Open.

  • Random Oklahoma sports nugget: Five schools will play in Norman for the first time this football season - Michigan, Auburn, Ole Miss, LSU, and Illinois State

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8.26.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




D Magazine, later that year, would have a long exposé on her problems..

  • Trump is now trying to take control of the Federal Reserve.

     

  • Just driving down a road at 1:15 in the afternoon, and a tree falls on a lady in Dallas. 

  • What's up with bounty hunters? This story comes after two other bounty hunters were arrested in June for killing a man in Deep Ellum. 

  • A DART bus did not safely arrive yesterday in Dallas.

  • "So sorry" that we killed 20 people. 

  • The kid at Northwest ISD is going to win an Olympic medal soon, but I had no idea you could be a professional track guy at age 16. 

  • It's getting to harder and harder to figure out what MAGA stands for. 


  • AI Wars.

  • Legal Stuff in D.C.: "Federal prosecutors on Monday reduced the charges against a woman accused last month of assaulting an F.B.I. agent during a protest against immigration officials in Washington, refiling her case as a misdemeanor after they were unable to persuade three grand juries over a month to indict her with a felony." (Gift link.) Hey, I wonder if they will be able to get a grand jury to indict the sandwich throwing guy?

  • If you have YouTube TV as your TV provider of choice, there is some bad sports news on the horizon for this weekend.

    • Uh, this will not make your customers happy: 

  • Democracy dies slowly, then quickly. 

at 8:30 AM

8.25.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Posted on 8/27/25.

  • A man named James Cooper pled guilty and agreed to a 30 year sentence in Wise County last week for the odd combination of Possession of  Child Porn (CR25950) and Aggravated Assault (CR25374) -- committed on different dates.
  • Breaking: Israel just bombed a hospital in Gaza and, while journalists rushed to cover it, a second strike killed five of them.  (Video of second strike.).  Reporters from Reuters and the AP were among the dead in addition to at least 15 non-journalists at the hospital's site.

    Screenshot taken one second before second strike. 

  • This video, retweeted by a sitting Congresswoman, of a guy carrying an umbrella caused the University of South Carolina to go into an active shooter mode last evening.


    • Once it was all figured out, the poor guy was able to pose for pictures. 

  • More evidence that It's Over and that an Autocracy is in process. 
    • Federal troops are now armed on the streets of D.C. 

    • Over the weekend, Trump threatened to send in troops to Baltimore.

    • And threatened to send in troops to Chicago in an insane rant. Video. (Don't mind the hat and lack of a tie in the Oval Office.)

    • On the heels of the raid of John Bolton's home, Trump threatened Chris Christie with prosecution yesterday after Christie criticized him on ABC.

    • Remember the general who said that the Iranian nuclear sites were not "obliterated" like Trump said after a U.S. missile strike? He's gone. No one will provide facts that contradict the Fuhrer. 

    • On Friday, Trump gleefully announced that the U.S. Government now owns a large amount of Intel. He's actually seizing the means of production.   

        • Related: Check this out. 
    • New this morning:
  • On Friday, Trump released the transcript of the odd meeting between attorney Todd Blanche and Epstein's partner in crime where she said she never saw Trump engage in improper activity.  So is this the whole reason the meeting was set up and she was moved to a less secure federal prison?  It only makes it worse.

  • What the heck is this?


  • Something is up with Trump's hands.
     

  • I give up.
  • A former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was cut yesterday, and then sent out this:

  • Very nerdy criminal legal stuff: Can a judge lawfully grant a defense Motion to Dismiss when the State's prosecutors show up 11 minutes late for trial? A Texas appellate court said "no" on Friday. Practice note: I think if the judge would have just asked the empty chairs to call their first witness and, when no response, the defense should have then moved for a directed verdict. I don't think the State could appeal a judge granting that. 

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8.22.2025

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

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