11.04.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




From the front page of the Dallas Morning News on 11/6/15. Relevant today.

  • New this morning. 

    • “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” - Dick Cheney (August, 2022)
  • A former Bridgeport native is involved, and quoted, in this case and story.

  • The trial of the century started yesterday. 


  • "The Pentagon unveiled a new press corps last month, consisting largely of far-right media publications, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, and LindellTV — MyPillow founder Mike Lindell’s streaming service — along with independent journalists and online influencers." Now they've added crazy Laura Loomer.  Not credentialed: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

  • This guy will forever be the face of the currently deceased Congress. .


  • Trump's America:   Video

     


  • The Business Second™. 

  • The Second Business Second™: I'm beginning to believe those who think there is an AI financial bubble based upon a handful of companies just buying and selling to and from each other. 


  • And being liquored up out of your mind didn't help matters. Video.


  • Texas Tech fan will trade Goldendoodle puppy for four tickets to the BYU game.

  • Based upon attendance snapshot numbers just released, Decatur High School might very well be moving to 5A.



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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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