5.29.2026

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




My man @Fox4Terry was working hard as he photographed a failed ATM theft at Comerica Bank on West Mockingbird Lane near I-35. And it was the second time a forklift was attempted in an ATM heist. 

  • A huge apartment fire, probably due to a gas leak, killed three yesterday in Dallas.


     

  • Dateline Galveston. They were all college kids, and it took over four hours to get them all down.  



  • Story.

  • There was a serial killer on the loose in Hawaii.   He was finally been captured after he tried to pull off a Rambo-style escape.

  •  Look at this view of last night's explosion from a patio bar many miles away.




  • The Great American State Fair, a "free 16-day festival set to take over the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with concerts, military tributes and patriotic bashes for America’s 250th anniversary" is having a little trouble. They better put Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood on standby again. 




  • Russia just casually bombing a NATO country?


  • We live in Idiocracy.

  • In John Cornyn's concession speech, he said this regarding voting:  "Those who show up decide for those who do not" 

  • Don't do this.

  • The MAGA takeover of CBS is underway.

  • The Business Second™.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 330 days.


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5.28.2026

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




Harambe!

  • If you hire a principal who happens to be Muslim, MAGA will come for you. 


  • It was testing by Bell Helicopter related. 

  • This is a bold move.  If the judge picks a prison number, he'll have to serve one half of it before becoming eligible for parole.  But one loophole, not mentioned in any story about this, is that the judge could grant him deferred adjudication and place him on probation. (Side note: Notice how it now takes almost three weeks for a story like this to make the local news.)



  • Here's an idea: Flip-flops.

  • You can bet on what people will be searching for on Google?

  • He had his own little Fort Knox going on. 

  • The cease fire/peace plan for Trump's war against Iran isn't going well. Over the last 18 hours: 



  • More examples that we are living in an autocracy:
    • Yet another instance of using the Justice Department like a mob boss.  

    • New this morning.  Gift link.

    • A month ago Trump said to “go out and buy a Dell computer.”  In the February before that, he had purchased shares of Dell in the "$1 million to $5 million band" according to financial disclosure forms. Now this: 

  • There was another South Korea-like cabinet meeting yesterday. Here are a couple of Trump quotes: 



  • The Texas D.A. who once indicted Netflix on pornography charges, and who was once a small time movie star himself,  will not seek re-election.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold


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5.27.2026

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




And it all came crashing down. 

  • I wouldn't call it an upset, but it was a butt-kicking. 


    • Three years ago to the day: 

  • How Wise County voted. You boys never disappoint. :


  • Trump weighed in on the Paxton win this morning.  I appreciate a good Alfred E Neuman reference although I'm not sure how many people know who that is.  And that's either a very funny or very bizarre reference to Davy Crockett as well.


  • "But the identity of the judge is being kept private by the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Council of the United States in its decision issued Friday."

    • But this website identifies the federal judge as sitting in Atlanta and, interestingly, also a former Tarrant County assistant district attorney.
  • Video.

  • This happened very early yesterday morning.  That's not the way you honor Memorial Day. 

  • Oh, come on. 

  • New image of the UFC stadium and the ballroom under construction at the White House. 


  • The NCAA is not cooperating.. Sorsby had already filed a preemptive lawsuit, and there is a hearing in that case on June 1st in Lubbock. 

  • There will be a presidential cabinet meeting today for the cameras. It was supposed to be at Camp David but was moved because of weather. 

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