10.27.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




It was the third presidential debate with lots of folks still hanging around. 

  • Breaking:

  • The school says this recommendation was made by a third party attorney-investigator so as to not impede the investigation, but . . .

    • . . . it also happened the day after a publicity seeking legislator stuck his nose into the situation instead of letting the police handle everything. 

  • Jamaica, especially the west side, is in big trouble.  

  • We continue to crash high dollar aircraft. "South China Sea – On October 26, 2025 at approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the 'Battle Cats' of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73 went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations."

  • We now live in a country where a man can single handily impose tariffs (a Congressional power) because he gets mad at a truthful TV ad and then tries to justify it by falsely claiming the ad "was AI."


  • Trump has begun a weeklong trip overseas.  It began with him dancing on the tarmac in Malaysia, but the first stop was in Qatar to refuel and invite his buddies, who gave him a  Boeing 747-8 luxury jumbo jet, inside Air Force One. 


  • Moments ago.   

  • America. 

  • With thinly-veiled payoffs like this, does anyone even know where all this "donated" money is being held and under whose control?


  • The Business (Longer Than A) Second™. Gift link. Quietly, it has become legal to bet on sports, and almost anything else, in Texas and every other state. The company, Kalishi, has successfully argued that they aren't accepting bets but are instead using "event contracts as financial instruments, similar to futures or swaps." The Trump Administration is no longer challenging them. Side note: "To help navigate the regulatory environment, Kalshi employs Donald Trump Jr. as a strategic adviser."

  • Extremely nerdy criminal law legal stuff: A Wise County woman, representing herself pro se, tried to appeal a plea bargained sentence on a Motion to Adjudicate. On Thursday the Fort Worth court of appeal dismissed the appeal because of the rule that says you can't appeal a negotiated plea bargain without the trial court's permission.  On Friday they withdrew that opinion (after they realized that rule doesn't apply to plea bargains on an MTA) but dismissed the appeal on the basis of a written waiver of appeal existed in the MTA plea bargain papers. That's a pretty big screw-up. 
  • The front page of the USA Today today is an ad.



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10.24.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




A great social media strategy like this got Willett appointed off the Texas Supreme Court, where he served at the time of the above post, to the federal Fifth Circuit. 

  •  A post on Facebook from her mother here.  


  • My weird feeling about this trial turned out not to be justified at all. (Put another way, I was wrong.) 

  • Gift link. 

  • Delkus didn't miss on predicting the heavy thunderstorms last night -- he says the models missed it. 

  • Overnight, the official Reagan Foundation claimed that Canada was running an ad that was misleading regarding President Reagan's stance on tariffs.

    • Then Trump went nuts calling the ad "FAKE" and then punishing Canada.

    • But if you listen to the ad (1:00 long) and then listen to Reagan's original brief radio address (5:10 long on YouTube), they are exactly the same. There's nothing misleading at all. Reagan hated tariffs and the ad took the literal audio of him saying it. I understand Trump lying - we're used to it - but what's up with the Reagan Foundation? This is all so Orwellian. 
  • A couple of months back, Wise County Rep. Ronny Jackson sued California Gov. Gavin Newsom for that state's current attempt to redraw congressional districts. Yesterday, the most friendly Trump judge in America dismissed the case (PDF). (Side note: Jackson did not attend yesterday's ceremony rededicating the Wise County Courthouse.)  The Daily Beast was very blunt:


  • A handy guide, with lots of great graphics, for modern day America. Gift link.


     

    • And yesterday, Trump told us that "friends of mine" can determine if  he will send those troops onto certain American cities.

  • The corruption never ends. When a reporter asked him about it yesterday, Trump said, "A lot of people say he wasn't guilty of anything . . .  . You don't know much about crypto. You know nothing about nothing, you fake news."  


  • Breaking economic news: Inflation rose to 3% last month .

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 112 days.

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10.23.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




This video out of Granbury was all over the local news. It would eventually lead to a 15 year prison sentence. 

  • Well, this isn't good.


     

  • Not exactly what you want to see happen to your school district:

  • This is the guy who was on the lam in Kaufman County after missing a court date last year.  I'd keep an eye on this trial which is currently ongoing. I've got a funny feeling about it. 

  • We are now randomly killing people on boats in the Pacific Ocean. 

  • The New York Times went exploring about how things went so wrong in the Camp Mystic tragedy. Gift link.
     


  • Someone is trying to throw the dope-smoking DA in West Texas out of office.

  • “What happened in the 2020 election” was that a Democrat was elected president in a free and fair election.  He is telling us that will never happen again, and there's is no question they are working on it.  It's over. 


  • As bulldozers leveled the East Wing yesterday, Trump showed off photos of what his new ballroom will look like. It's as gawdy as you would expect.


    • By the way, he had previously said the East Wing wouldn't even be touched because of the construction. Flashback:

  • Trump tells cattle ranchers they don't know how cattle ranching works. 

  • Delkus gives you rain predictions:
  • Big breaking sports news. The FBI will hold a press conference at 10:00.   Rozier's arrest involves the allegation of fixing games. The coach's arrest, which is amazingly unrelated,  is for mafia-related poker games. 



  • The Business Second™. Even the right wing New York Post couldn't spin this news any other way. 

  • Legal stuff: I think the judge might have been unduly harsh on the prosecutor here. Story.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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