10.07.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts






Good times. 

  • Wise County Judge J.D. Clark provided a sneak peak of the almost-restored district courtroom, now with a balcony, yesterday. (Those support polls will have some fancy molding put around them.)

  • Say what? Gift link.

  • I saw the story over the weekend of two "teenagers" killed after "subway surfing" in New York, but I completely missed that their ages were finally revealed to be 12 and 13. 

  • Oh, my.  Amazingly, no deaths among the three people on board. 


  • We've finally got the video of the runway collision between two Delta aircraft at LaGuardia Airport in New York last week.  That seems ridiculously avoidable.

  • I've already seen these ads on TV urging Dallas police officers to join ICE. How exactly does that make our cities safter?

  • The government shutdown might be coming to an end as cracks are now appearing in the standoff.


  • Uh, yeah. The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments happening right before our eyes.

  • This might be the most incriminating he’s ever looked in connection with the Epstein scandal.  Video.

  • The Business Second™. U.S. bank Fifth Third on Monday agreed to buy Texas based Comerica in a deal which will make Fifth Third the ninth largest bank in America.  I'll admit I hadn't ever heard of "Fifth Third" bank before this.   

  • The best stuff is often in the last paragraph of the story.  The company could be paid $50 million for the first year and up to $250 million by 2030.


  • Last night: Trevor Lawrence fell down twice and then got up and ran for a score on this game winning play. Video.

  • AG Pam Bondi is appearing before a Senate subcommittee at this moment. That should be good. 


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10.06.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts



He probably wasn't joking. 


  • Fort Worth carnage over the weekend.
    • Six shot, one killed (with "multiple wounds to upper torso) inside a 7th Street bar. (It's the same location where a TCU student was shot dead outside of one year ago.)

    • A robbery of a convenience store at Eastchase Parkway and I-30 left a worker, who was also a UNT student, dead. It occurred around 8:30 p.m. on Friday.

    • This started out as a fender bender at 4:00 in the afternoon.

  • A guy walked inside a restaurant in Victory Plaza in Dallas, and shot his estranged girlfriend in front of diners yesterday around noon. She is in critical condition.

  • The federal judge handed down the sentence is Puff Daddy's case on Friday which upset both him and  his critics.


  • ICE continued an unnecessary show of force in Chicago.


    • And now the Texas Guard is headed there. . 



    • Kristi Noem giving a pep talk to the ICE officers was cringe-worthy. (Video). And the dystopian video produced by the Department of Homeland Security was even worse. And even with all that, Noem had time to bad mouth the NFL for scheduling Bad Bunny perform at the Super Bowl:


  • And in Portland, ICE showed up to guard its offices when there was absolutely no threat to it. This is all an attempt to provoke a fight where there is none.   Trump said the city was "burning down." yesterday.

    Video

    Video


    • And when Trump tried to call in National Guard troops from within Oregon, he was stopped by a federal judge. He then tried to circumvent the order by calling in National Guard troops from California, but the same judge struck that down in an emergency hearing last night. None of this is normal. 

  • Kash Patel is keeping us safe, I see. 

  • I'm going to assume that this fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who blocked the federal government's demand for state voter records is unrelated to Stephen Miller's rants against state judges this weekend.



  • Homecoming mums were on display in Southlake on Friday night. Yes, this bit is out of hand. 

  • RG3 was involved in a wreck on I-35 in Fort Worth on Friday.

  • I haven't heard anything about the Bridgeport woman who went missing in August.

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10.03.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




That was a wild play. Watch it here. 

  • I honestly never thought I would see this image.  And I'm not sure I remember a restitution figure of that amount in a case like this.  


    • State Rep. Jeff Leach just gives me the creeps.  Here he is with Robert Morris' accuser in a post he made yesterday. 

  • A major fire destroyed the Corsicana House of Refuge, a domestic violence shelter. "The fire is still being investigated, but the executive director of the house believes it started in the kitchen."




  • Update from Manchester, England after yesterday's attack:




  • There is not any headline that Ken Paxton won't seek, and that's all he uses the office of AG for. Now he's picking on little Whitesboro. 


  • Two attorneys who practice in Wise County got a "not guilty" verdict in Tarrant County this week. 

  • Nothing to see here. Just Trump's personal friend, private attorney, and now U.S. Attorney hired  to prosecute his enemies just walking into the White House yesterday. 

  • Chicago ICE update.  

  • The ultimatum, which would control speech and curriculum, was sent to nine universities including the University of Texas. 


  • Another weird video from the President of the United States was posted overnight.

    • Oh, and he did this as well.

  • Let's check in on Fox News.  Doesn't seem suspect at all.

  • The Business Second™.

  • Random stuff from Fort Worth Court of Appeals I saw.
    Background from 2022.
    His letter to the Court of Appeals.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 91 days.

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