12.08.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The video of Trump and eagle during a Time photo shoot was released. 

  • Shootings in the news.
    • Outside of Hulen Mall on Saturday afternoon. .

    • Police were called out to Pandora Men’s Club, 8700 South Freeway, at 4:20 a.m. (!) Sunday. 

  • I always complain about how local newsrooms have been gutted. Case in point: I saw this great tease only to find out from the story that the incident occurred in 2021 and the case was disposed of in court in 2022.  Absolutely nothing new has happened since then. 

  • The craziest thing about the video is that he could have high-fived the Amazon driver who was on the way back to his truck. 


  • Political news this morning. Colin Allred drops out of a Senate run. U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett  is expected to launch a Senate bid this afternoon.  

  • You could teach constitutional law by just telling your students to know who was on the court when a case was decided. 

  • I never understand headlines like this.   I read time and time again of judicial decisions demonstrating how qualified immunity is almost impossible to overcome, and then a city just gets out their checkbook anyway. 


  • Wait a second.  Does the United States government just represent Elon Musk now?





  • Lots of buses catching fire lately.  Video.

  • Ken Paxton sued the developers of the "Islamic housing development" north of Dallas but the "radical plot" he cites to justify it sounds a lot like the business plan of  D.R. Horton. or any other land developer.

  • Trump news. 
    • He basically gave himself a Dundee on Friday.

    • Good news! We'll all be driving tiny cars. 

  • What are we doing here? 

  • College football observations:
    • North Texas missing out of the playoffs by losing to Tulane on Friday night might turn out to be a blessing in disguise once all is said and done.
    • Texas Tech could actually win the National Championship because of that defense. 
    • The path of the Aggies is a brutal one. 

    • Notre Dame (10-2) , Iowa State (8-4), and Kansas State (6-6) have all decided not to play in any bowl game. That caused a domino effect yesterday evening causing the the last bowl on the totem poll to go searching for a team. Appalachian State finally came to the rescue. 

  • DWI cases used to be training grounds for new prosecutors to gain trial experience in the big cities. That no longer occurs because of deferred adjudication probation becoming a plea bargain option in 2019.  The Tarrant County misdemeanor courts used to be constantly busy with DWI jury trials. Now they basically sit empty on trial days. 

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12.05.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I looked up what happened with that case.  The prosecutor accepted the case, a jury actually convicted the man, but the Michigan Supreme Court overturned it. The whole ordeal took five years. 

  • Say what? As usual, the story doesn't have any more facts than the headline.  

  • It was 6-3.  Everyone should have seen this coming. 

  • Since when has the federal FOIA applied to state entities?


  • A big Business Second™ this morning. Who would have ever thought a company that mailed DVDs would become this media behemoth. (But Trump might kill this deal, using antitrust grounds to do it, at the urging of his buddy who will be upset with this deal.)


  • I'm not sure why it took the controversy over the Second Strike to call attention to the bombings in general.   I think all of the 21 first strikes, and the 87 people who are dead because of them, is the problem.  But the U.S. did it again yesterday. 
     
    • And you think the Administration is worried? Nope.  The Secretary of Defense was doing a tap dance yesterday afternoon.
  • In a news conference regarding the arrest in the the D.C. Pipe Bombs case yesterday, it was very short on facts but big on irony.  I can't believe Kash Patel led with this: 


  • This happened yesterday. They truly are the gang that can't indict straight.

  • Are you telling me he didn't think this through?


  • Dallas D.A. news. 
  • Weekend read. (Gift link)   The man who caused school vouchers to be ramrodded through Texas. 

     

  • Sports: The biggest game in UNT's history will be on ABC tonight. 
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 155 days.

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12.04.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




We need a "Where are they now?" segment. He finished his probation on December 10, 2023.

  • Woah.

  • Another unforced error leads to another multi-million dollar jet crash.


  • Dateline Dickson County, Tennessee. Everyone got out OK yesterday afternoon. 

  • “Whatever they have, we’ll certainly release,” Trump said.  Ok, get after it. 


  • Trump pardons yesterday:
    • Trump has a thing for (allegedly) crooked congressmen. 

    • This guy was charged with bid-rigging in the construction of the Moody Center at the University of Texas.

  • I would joke about his chances of winning, but I don't rule out anything anymore.


  • It's becoming very North Korea-like in D.C. 


  • Trump constantly discolored hand was covered by bandages yesterday. 

  • The Business Second™. That place was a beating.
     

  • The new D.A. in West Texas might want to get off social media.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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