2.04.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts





The funeral for Pepper the police dog.

  • I think Fox 4 jumped the gun on this one yesterday.


    • They then deleted the story.

  • I noticed a not guilty verdict out of Tarrant County in a murder case yesterday 


  • In the heart of winter: 

  • As I predicted, Trump backed down on the tariffs by claiming victory although nothing changed.  He announced that Mexico will send 10,000 troops to the border and that Canada will spend $1.3 billion on border security. BUT . . . 
    • For Mexico, 10,000 troops from Mexico is not new.

    • For Canada, the $1.3 billion "boost" they agreed to was announced in December. 

    • We are watching a propaganda machine that would make Joseph Goebbels blush. 
  • Speaking of, Trump's lie of $50 million in "condoms to Gaza" just fantastically increased to a $100 million lie yesterday. Video.

  • ♪"That's me in the corner"♪ - Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office yesterday.

  • So Wired magazine identifies by name the inexperienced, young people working for unelected Elon Musk who now have access to all of our personal data on the Treasury Department databases, Musk gets mad, and then the new U.S. Attorney for D.C. immediately threatens to prosecute anyone who "impacts the work" of DOGE.  (Democracy dies slowly, then quickly.)


  • New State Department appointment. They aren't even hiding it any longer 


    • The appointee certainly doesn't hide it. 

  • With it being Super Bowl week in New Orleans, I was curious what the atmosphere on Bourbon Street would be.  The main entrance off Canal Street has a makeshift memorial.

  • Wichita Falls criminal justice news.  Based upon the picture, even the DA likes getting into photos of seized drugs. 

  • Tom Selleck can almost convince me to do a reverse mortgage, and I don't need, and certainly don't trust, reverse mortgages. 

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2.03.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




Our County Judge had been in office for only a month and
was already making baller moves. 

  • I'm so used to seeing fake stories online that my brain initially doubted even this headline from the Dallas Morning News yesterday --  which was actually the first thing I looked at after I got up. (Kudos to them for having late breaking news in the Sunday morning edition.)

    • The Villains: Billionaire owner Miriam Adelson and general manager Nico Harrison

    • Mavs fans treat the trade as if Luka had died at a makeshift memorial outside the AAC.

  • In one of the goofiest moves yet, Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. I'm not convinced the tariff threat isn't just a bluff. That he calls it off and then announces a victory despite nothing about the status quo changing at all.

    • The Wall Street Journal didn't mince words. 
    • And then Trump went back to his weird rant about making Canada the 51st state. Are we going to invade them like Austria?


  • After pardoning the criminals, Trump now fires their prosecutors and the police who investigated them.   We are watching a fascist revolution in real time.
  • Speaking of, eliminating the media, and replacing them with his Pravda-like mouthpieces, is another sign of fascism. Three major examples from the weekend:
Kicked out of the Pentagon

Musk's X is the official communication channel

Trump sues 60 Minutes and now his FCC
goes after them.
  • Did someone elect this oligarch to anything? 
    • He now has access to everything and control of the government's financial infrastructure.

    • And he's shutting down entities authorized by Congress. This one is the world's largest distributor of food assistance.

    • And is just a strange guy.

  • The guy is literally in a wheelchair.  And, yes, physical disability is included in DEI.

  • A Learjet crashed into the heart of Philadelphia on Friday night, and it came down like a rocket. Six onboard were killed and one on the ground.  Video 1. Video 2.
Someone's dashcam caught it.

It left an eight foot crater.
    • Watch debris from the crash fly into a restaurant and strike the guy circle in blue in the head. Video. 

  • Politician cosplay:
    • The new secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, is really leaning into her gig.


    • State rep. Jeff Leach (middle) at the Fort Worth Stock Show playing cowboy as well. 

  • Kanye West's girlfriend showed up naked to the Grammy's last night. Video. (Insert appropriate warnings here.)


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1.31.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





Oh, the old, fun days of social media.

  • Bridgeport's own J.T. Manoushagian had a busy night.




  • That's quite the collision yesterday.

     

  • There's a new and clearer video out there of the D.C. airplane/helicopter crash other than the one that was seen all over the place yesterday morning. 

  • Trump has said a lot of disgusting things, but he reached a new low yesterday morning when, with bodies still in the Potomac, he blamed minority hiring for the crash.  It was incredible. It was racist. It was sickening. He was an American embarrassment.


    • Video.

    • Video

    • Video. 

    • Just in case you were wondering. 


    • And then later in the day, he topped it off with this. Video.

  • This makes no sense. Are media entities just making payments to a mob boss now because they are scared of the consequences it they don't?

  • Great moment from the next FBI Director's confirmation hearing. Video.

  • It's been a stellar week for the Insurrectionists.
     

  • The Fifth Circuit was at it again yesterday. (PDF of opinion.)

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 212 days. 



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