10.29.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts





Oh, my. A couple of weeks ago I reprinted the story of the Dallas jogger killed by a former Aggie football player with a machete. I had completely forgotten this horrible news in the wake of its aftermath. 

  • I noticed a forfeiture suit filed yesterday in Wise County seeking to confiscate $75,000, but I don't see any arrests associated with it.  That normally means the money was found during a traffic stop but there was no basis to arrest the occupant.  (Cause no. CV25-10-887.)  Edit: There was an arrest. California man. DPS was the agency. Book in # 115065.
  • Buying elections. The American Way.

  • That peace accord is going swimmingly. 

  • Our government is still killing people in boats. 

  • U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino appeared in front of a federal judge yesterday in connection with the immigration "crackdown" in Chicago.  Cops wearing masks and helmets in a federal courthouse? Totally normal, right? 

  • Of course. 

  • South Korea just gave Trump a gold crown. They definitely know how to play him.
     

  • Government and Business in bed together:
    • #1 What do you call it when the government owns the means of production? (Gift link) 


    • #2 This is what you typically see. A company "investing" in Trump's new ballroom gets a major deal in return. 

      • Flashback from August: "Trump’s latest investment filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed that he owned between $615,000 and $1.3 million in Nvidia shares at the end of last year."
  • The Business Second™.  2,656 single-family homes? And that' development is not all that far from Rhome and certainly won't help highway 287 traffic. The housing market must be booming. 



    • Uh, counterpoint?

  • AI is coming for us all: 

at 8:30 AM

10.28.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




Wikipedia entry. 

  • "An F-150 lost control, hydroplaning on the wet roadway, and crashed into the deputy's squad car with the detained person inside. The deputy was between the car and the bridge railing. When the deputy was struck, he was thrown off the overpass and landed on Harry Hines below." The deputy survived.

  • A deputy was leading the diving class that ended with a 12 year old dead? Story.

  • This was a wild scene yesterday afternoon in Los Angeles. The chased ended when an off-duty officer rammed the motorcycle. Video


  • The Liberally Lean Weather Team tells me that the wind will be blowing a gale by noon today in Wise County.  And with a low tonight of 47 degrees tonight, tomorrow morning will feel like winter. 

  • I like her. No news as to where she is headed next. 


  • Another day, another baseless lawsuit is filed by AG Ken Paxton. But as long he can make headlines, he's happy. 

  • Normally, an U.S. Attorney General keeps a low profile to keep in line with the Justice Department's independence from the president. Pam Bondi not only runs to friendly news outlets, she likes to choose the White House as her background.

  • The Business Second™.

  • Let me tell you something, Fawlty Towers is one the all-time great comedies. 

  • Here's the standard cognitive test that Trump claims he is "acing" every time he takes it. 

  • If you didn't watch the World Series last night, this screengrab gives you an idea of the zaniness. 

  • A meaningless sports term I'm hearing a lot this year: "Complimentary football".  Coaches say it like it is some revolutionary term when it just means that neither the offense, defense, or special teams screwed up. That's about as basic as it gets.  

at 8:30 AM

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.



at 8:30 AM

10.24.2025

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

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