9.29.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





Trump's first ever campaign meeting with religious leaders occurred at Trump Tower. It was very awkward, (Youtube)

  • New this morning:

  • Mass shooting weekend update:
    • #1: A man opened fire at a waterfront bar from a boat in North Carolina leaving three dead and five injured. The shooter was a 40 year old Marine who served in Iraq. 

      • Oddity: In 2012 he escorted American Idol star Kelli Pickler to the CMT Awards.

    • #2: At least four people were killed and eight others were wounded in a shooting and intentionally set fire at a Mormon Church in Michigan on Sunday morning. The shooter was a 40 year old Marine who served in Iraq.


    • #3: "Eagle Pass, Texas — Two people are dead, including a retired CBP agent, and several others are injured after a shooting at the Lucky Eagle Casino on the Kickapoo reservation on Saturday." The shooter was 34 years old an not a veteran.

  • Truly shocking news: In a crime that once sent one man to death row, with others facing the same fate,  the 1991 Austin Yogurt Street Murders has been solved.  It turned out to be a serial killer who had never been associated with case.  (If you have HBOMax, watch the documentary on the killings that just came out a couple of months ago.) 


  • Over the weekend, the Alvord Kitten/Snake controversy made its way to the DFW media outlets and then, this morning, to the New York Post. 


  • It's getting weirder.  First we had Stephen Miller tweet this strange thing out Friday night. (NSPM-7 is the odd "memo" Trump signed last week threatening ANTIFA which basically is defined as anyone who doesn't support Trump and ICE.):


    • Then Trump decide to invade Portland and authorized "full force" in doing so.  Pure insanity. 

  • Trump now says he will attend the hastily called meeting of all of the military brass this week.

    • But the Secretary of War said what? 

  • I told you they would go after Fani Willis:

  • The new FBI is not going to put up with anyone who is anti-racism. 


  • We said E-P-S-T-E-I-N, not . . . 


  • Just the President of the United States demanding one of his donors fire a private person at a private company just because he doesn't like her. 

    • And look at the looney who took credit for it. And she's probably telling the truth. 

  • Trump's granddaughter has joined the Grift Train. She's selling $130 sweatshirts and using the White House as a backdrop to promote them.





  • The Business Second™:

  • Apparently the Ryder Cup crowd was very unruly this weekend. You mean a country made up of people who go to Walmart in their pajama bottoms and loudly drop F bombs while on speaker phones can act boorish? 

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9.26.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




And they keep happening. 

  • What I warned about yesterday has happened. We've crossed the Rubicon. It's over. 



    • It cannot be overstated what has happened. 

    • Here's Trump's hand-picked prosecutor - the only prosecutor to be in the grand jury room, and the only one willing to put her name on the indictment. She had been named by Trump as Acting U.S. Attorney only four days earlier.


    • She'll never get a conviction.  (It wasn't even a lie by Comey.)  And, by the way, she sought another charge against Comey from the grand jury, and they refused to do so. 

  • And it's just the beginning. 

  • And I'll say it again: Trump isn't leaving office in January of 2029.    
  • What's this about?

  • Trump has signed an executive "memo" for the federal government to target ANTIFA.   There is no ANTIFA.  It is - and this is the point of it all - just any group at any gathering that Trump wants to call ANTIFA. And when Stephen Miller is behind it, look out. 


    • But the most dangerous and potentially telling thing Trump said yesterday largely went unnoticed.  Trump was asked who he blamed for an “uptick” in political violence, and below is his response.  (Video.) He's basically giving the go ahead for private groups to be his own Brownshirts.  Remember when he told the Proud Boys to "Stand back and stand by?"  We're here. 


  • On a lighter and different note, this quote is even crazier when you hear it.

  • I don't think ICE agents are your typically trained police officers based upon a couple of videos floating around yesterday.
    • Video - Dropping a gun and then pointing it at the crowd.

    • Video - He didn't have to do that.

  • Metroplex quick hits: 
    • He's probably right. 

    • There's a million people who live at The Village. The body was found at 11:00 a.m. That's all we know (which is now the standard for any DFW "local" news.). 

    • That's quite the drop off at the beginning of that ride.


  • The Business Second™.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 84 days.
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9.25.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




The bank robber was identified as Dylan Perry, 38, but I can't immediately find out whatever happened to him. 

  • Quite the one week history of this story.
    •  On Monday:

    • Then we have a tense arrest in Grapevine yesterday.

  • Look, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but the podcaster turned FBI Director posting this pic while people were still bleeding at the Dallas ICE facility almost makes me want to be one.  "Anti-ICE" written on one unspent round after three detainees of ICE were hit, one fatally, and then the guy immediately commits suicide? They are begging for conspiracy folks to come out of the woodwork.

    • And by noon the President, Vice President, and the Secretary of Homeland Security had all blamed the shooting on "the left." And then the paper of record for Trump runs with it today . . . 


  • The upcoming indictment of former FBI Direct James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress five years ago is the surest sign yet of "It's Over." If it happens, here is what led up to it over the last few days: 
    • Over the weekend, Trump fired the acting U.S. Attorney in Virginia for not indicting Leticia James. A shocking moment that would have any prior president impeached and convicted immediately. 

    • Trump then tells AG Pam Bondi, in a post that almost reads like a direct message instead of a Twitter post, to get her underlings busy indicting his enemies including James Comey. Once again, a 100% authoritarian move.

    • Trump then immediately names one of his former lawyers who has never served as a prosecutor to replace the fired U.S. Attorney in Virginia.

    • And now we have the news yesterday that the she will try to indict James Comey with the the five year statute of limitations running next week.  It's a five alarm fire that can't be stopped. 

  • We are ruled by a child.

     


  • The sample ballot in California for voter approval of the new congressional district redrawing specifically refers to what just happened in Texas. 

  • Updates on posts from yesterday:
    • That statue didn't last long.

    • "Ed Martin was ordered by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to retract the letter he sent to the FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook massacre, which Alex Jones was touting online." (Letter.)

  • Messenger - Above the Fold  (which features a story of an Alvord teacher feeding a kitten to a snake in front of their class.)

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