11.10.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




An odd note is that Travis County paid her $500,000 to avoid a lawsuit.


  • According to the Wise County Messenger, all the teens were from Canada and in Wise County to attend a motorcycle race. 

  • Eight Democrat senators caved and agreed to reopen the government last night based upon a promised vote in the Senate in December to restore ACA subsidies.  It won't pass, and the House wouldn't approve it anyway, but they think they'll be able get the chance to publicly blame Republicans for healthcare premiums going up. 

    • Read the room, buddy. 

  • While Trump took Air Force One  to Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, his justice department asked the Supreme Court to stop a lower court's order requiring SNAP benefits to be paid to the poor. 

  • We have another sports betting scandal. "Prosecutors allege that Luis Ortiz was paid $5,000 for throwing an intentional ball June 15 and Emmanuel Clase given $5,000 for facilitating it. They did it again, according to the indictment, June 27. The payment for each on that pitch was $7,000 apiece."


    • Side note: Federal indictments are apparently including photographs now. 

  • Dateline: Tampa, Florida.


  • We have new pardons this morning.  And the fake electors were also included in addition to the list below. And this will only empower more attempts to overturn elections in the future -- attempts which will be successful this time.  It's over.


    • Other Trump pardons  on Friday that you probably didn't even hear about.


  • Other crazy stuff by Trump over the weekend: 
    • Trump's wine is now available to sell to the military. 
    • Sheesh. 

    • Does anyone want to tell him this won't work? 


    • Does anyone want to tell him that would increase inflation and increase the debt? (This will never, ever happen.)


    • Trump tweeted out a fake story from a website that literally says, "“Everything on this website is fiction.”

    • On Trump's way back to the airport in Florida yesterday, the trunk on "The Beast" was open. Really.

  • The Business Second™. 

  • Bad judge. (Allegedly.)


  • She's hoping (again) that Tarrant County finally turns blue. I'm not saying it will happen, but it could happen this next election if it's ever going to. 

  • The NFL played its first game ever in Berlin in the Olympic Stadium first made famous by Hitler.  These side by side photos are really amazing. 

  • In west Texas, three coaches flipped for a playoff spot late Friday night at a convenience store. Video.

  • Speaking of, across the state there are three 1-9 teams which made the high school playoffs. 


11.07.2025

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






Random Friday Morning Thoughts



Since we've killed wokeness, can we do this now?

  • "Wanna get away?"

     
  • The prosecutor should quit today for either (1) being so dumb that he didn't realize that this was a dog of case from the very beginning, or (2) working for a Justice Department that forced him to try it to a jury.


    • And remember when the White House bragged about an army of officers being sent to arrest Sandwich Guy at his apartment and posted a "hype video" about it? Really. 

  • There are a lot of people who seem to be very excited about making up an excuse to kill someone. The victim, a mother of four, was 32 year of age.  Link


  • That there is a betting scandal in UFC might be the most predictable scandal ever. 

  • Corruption pardons corruption. 

  • Compare and contrast:
    • For the third time this week, a federal court has ordered Trump to restore SNAP benefits to the poor.  Trump appealed that order late yesterday.

    • Meanwhile . . . 

  • If there is ever a moment for a false flag of planted protestors and/or an "ugly incident" made for the cameras, this guy would plan it. 

  • Trump notes from yesterday: 
    • As others elevated the man's feet into the air, the greatest picture of all time was snapped.


    • Before that, and as Dr. Oz. was telling us that "Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by" this time next year (that's 400 pounds per person, by the way), Trump nodded off. 

    • Make it stop.

  • Let's check in on Fox News.
  • Ok, who took over Marjorie Taylor Green's body?
  • Legal nerdy stuff. If you want to see a a federal appeals court grill a lawyer about using AI in his brief, and the lawyer trying to deny it and then blaming a non-lawyer in his firm, here you go (cued up at 9:20 into it.)
  • Legal nerdy stuff (kinda) #2: I rarely get shocked any longer, but the facts set forth in this opinion yesterday from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, affirming the conviction and death sentence of a young woman from East Texas, did it for me. 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 126 days.