12.29.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts





They were found in Puerto Vallarta.
  • Police shootings are big local news: 
    • Woah. The victims have been identified as 73-year-old Leonard Ragan and 72-year-old Jackie Ragan. 


    • This was in Haslet right off 287.  The headlines is all we know.

       

    • "Officers learned the driver, a 56-year-old white male, had an active probation revocation warrant for solicitation of prostitution."

  • I'm not sure why some missing person cases become national news while most are never heard about.

     

  • Oh, my. 


  • Trump met with the Ukraine leader at Mar-a-Lago yesterday and afterwards said this. He's delusional.   

  • Trump got mad about the Epstein files at Christmas time. Has he forgotten that he signed the law to release them?

  • At least someone is living in the new "Gilded Age." 


  • Both of theses stories seem like they should be bigger news.
    • An update on the Christmas day strike. 

    • A land strike?

  • This shooting on December 9th at Kentucky State University had all the makings of a Netflix documentary even before the grand jury no-billed the case. (And we now have a bonus episode because the parents of the dead student have been arrested.)


  • The Business Second™. There hasn't been an increase since 2021.
  • "The lawsuit was filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Waco Division, by attorney Jonathan Mitchell. Defendants include the State Commission on Judicial Conduct and its commissioners."   Just take a look at Mitchell's Wikipedia page and you'll have an idea as to where he will want to take this.  

  • It was the 50th anniversary of Hail Mary pass play yesterday.  But everyone forgets the chaos that happened afterwards when an official was hit in the head with a liquor bottle. (Video from the broadcast.)


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12.26.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




“Miss Universe 2015 is … Colombia!” But she wasn't. Host Steve Harvey screwed up, and the crown was removed (above) a few minutes later after the mistake.

  • "Terrell police said officers responded at approximately 5:29 p.m. on Dec. 24 in the 200 block of Rash Lane, where four people were pronounced dead at the scene." That's all we know. 


  • This headline is from last Saturday, but the Go Pro video from a motorcyclist only came to light in the last couple of days.  To say "speed was a factor" doesn't come close to describing it. 


  • Hey, we are bombing people on Christmas Day in our own Holy War. 

  • This note buried in the news on Christmas Eve may be one of the biggest developments of the destruction of democracy so far:  The White House is now the mouthpiece for the Justice Department.

    • And what is one of the first thing the Trump's guys tweet out? They just "found" a million Epstein documents so don't expected any release of them for a few weeks. That's one way to shut the whole thing down. 


  • That is one weird "6".

  • Trump talking to kids on the phone on Christmas Eve is always a dicey proposition. 


  • I'll never understand how the Republicans just totally abandoned the mantra of "local control." 

  •  Very random sports thoughts:
    • I'm really surprised he did this.

    • You can do this? 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 176 days.

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12.24.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




WFAA was getting a little edgy back then. And this wasn't even a DFW family -- they were in Florida. 

  • The Hardest Working Man in Show Business™. 
  • The Supreme Court was not out Christmas shopping late yesterday afternoon, as it handed down a big decision.  It was a 5-3 ruling with Kavanaugh and Roberts joining the three liberal judges.  Seems like the Supreme Court might be reeling in Trump, right? 

    • Not so fast. Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence and basically said that Trump should have instead used the Insurrection Act or, amazingly, just sent in the U.S. military instead of the National Guard.   It's over. 

  • ♪ "It's beginning to look a lot like Chrissssssss . . . . "♪

  • Response times for Dallas PD are incredible. (h/t Bud Kennedy)

  • This is fantastic. Go inside Trump's Oval Office.  (Gift link.)

  • “I am aware that the timing could not be worse,” the US Attorney’s Office leadership wrote in an emergency email to the office on Tuesday. “For some the holidays are about to begin, but I know that for others the holidays are coming to an end.”   

  • Of all of the Epstein documents, this one by a assistant U.S. Attorney seems important. The  memos referred to in it have yet be released. 

  • Howard Lutnick lies everytime he opens his mouth.  And with no pushback here from Fox News.  These two are whoppers:


  • The Business Second™.  Say what?

  • Random thought: Did they ever catch this guy? 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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