11.03.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts



I barely remember this, but I'll take more days like it. 

  • Wise County firefighters had a busy Halloween afternoon.

  • Alcohol is getting some teachers in trouble.
    • And Celina has had enough issues lately without this. 

    • Story.

  • In the last 12 hours, three major freeways have been shut down in the metroplex
    • A wrong way driver shut down I-30 south of downtown Fort Worth yesterday evening. 

    • I-35 east of downtown Fort Worth was shut down overnight..

    • And now Dallas has a big problem this morning due to a SWAT standoff. Both sides of I-20 are shut down.

  • FBI Director Kash Patel got caught using an FBI private jet to go see his girlfriend at a wrestling match and then lashed out, in weird ways, because of it. 


  • Dateline Mar-a-Lago:





  • Trump weekend crazy tweets which hardly became a blip on the radar:
    • A comedian's jokes are "probably illegal."

    • We are going to invade Nigeria

  • Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's son, who had recently been an appointed U.S. Attorney and then a partner in a big Houston law firm, is leaving to join one of the biggest conservative lobbying groups in Austin.

  • Let's check in on Fox News. A reporter got duped by an AI video (with a "welfare queen" theme) and then, once the mistake is discovered, just changed the very same article's headline and rewrote the story.
    • Original:


    • The re-write with the same date and time:
  • The Business Second™.

  • Quick hit sports images:
    • This quiz at SMU, on that scoreboard, is something. (Plus, this isn't going to help the mistaken belief that Ford Stadium was named after the President Gerald Ford. It wasn't)

    • Who wears short shorts?

    • I don't pay much attention to the NFL any longer, but this was wild.

  • Sports quick hit: Luka Doncic joins Wilt Chamberlain as the only players in NBA history to start a season with 3 straight 40+ point games.

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10.31.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





Well, at least an attempt at humor.

  • This is incredible. After working a full day at the sheriff's office, and after "leaving his [night] job at Fisher Investments at 6 a.m., he then reportedly had a drive of more than an hour to the Scuba Ranch [to teach the class where the 12 year old would die]  . . . . Video of [the victim] getting in the water was taken at 8:33 a.m."  (Fox 4's Lori Brown's investigation of this case is a flashback as to how local news used to be.)


  • If you have YouTubeTV, you've got a problem as of a few hours ago.

  • WFAA posted this last yesterday, got roasted online, and still hasn't changed it. 

  • Seems wrong.
     

  • Here's the actual criminal complaint (PDF) for this "breaking news" this morning.  It sounds like just a sting operation against a 19 year old who had no independent ability to carry out any attack.

     
  • This is a demonstrable lie.  And it's another Orwell quote come true: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

  • Another day, another Paxton investigation so he can get some free press.

  • Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance at Ole Miss on Wednesday night.

  • Trump gave out Halloween candy last night.  The twins from The Shining showed up.

  • The Business Second™.


  • Random Flashback to Baylor Homecoming Parade (circa 1970): Kids just running up to a real bear on a leash along the parade route.

  • Nerdy legal stuff: Yesterday the Court of Criminal Appeals held that a drug dog sticking his snout into an open window of a vehicle is an illegal search. (At least under the specific facts of that case.)  

  • Nerdy Attorney General new opinion stuff: "May a district or county court-at-law judge forbid a district attorney or assistant district attorney from carrying concealed firearms in courtrooms under Penal Code §46.15(a)(6) and (a)(7)?" The answer is no. 
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 119 days.


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10.30.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



It was definitely a wild scene.

  • As the story points out, the County Judge of Jack County can now sleep soundly since he no longer has to worry about being faced by this decision. And who knew that Jack County was such a hotbed of gayness?
    d. 
  • The Fifth Circuit has upheld the Tarrant County Commissioners redistricting to create three out of four Republican districts instead of the current two out of four.   No surprise from that appeals court.

  • I would think that this would get some publicity today. (Gift link.)

  • Welcome to the Autocracy (all examples from just the last 48 hours).
    • "WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create 'quick reaction' forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S., according to internal Defense Department memos."

    • Yesterday: 



    • Below are the highlighted offending words in the memo referenced in this story. A new sentencing memo was submitted which deleted the paragraph just as if January 6th had never happened. 


      • You are finally here. 

    • Last night: The Attorney General now has her marching orders from the Fuhrer. We've never seen anything like this. 

    • Last night: We are going to "start testing" nuclear bombs?  (And none of the "facts" in the post are even remotely true.") 

  • With a history of hiring Jumbo Fisher at Aggieland (and costing a fortune to fire him) and then hiring Brian Kelly at LSU (and costing a fortune to fire him), the governor of Louisiana is not going to let that athletic director hire the next coach.  And even this sports story won't let us get away from Trump. 



  • The Vice President really took that "you can't thow tortillas" policy hard. 

  • This Saturday's college football weekend in 1975. You kids have no idea how much we suffered.

  • Legal nerdy stuff:


  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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