10.20.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




It was a better time when a Cowboys receiver would just show up with his new pet monkey. 

  • Drive-thru rage? This shooting sounds like a confrontation between people in the drive-thru line at around 8:00 last night. This is by I-35 and Western Center.


  • A wild scene over the weekend after a guy allegedly kills three people  (a 51 and 72 years old who were shot, both women, and a 51 year old man who was stabbed) in Mabank in East Texas. He then crashed into a a Buc-ee's and shot himself while still in the car.



  • This shooting, while left three people injured, occurred after students returned from an off campus party.


  • This was right out of Ocean's 11.  And, maybe I'm naive, but what exactly do they do with the jewels now? It's not exactly something you can sell on Craigslist. 




  • So we're told that the people on these boats are drug dealers who are so dangerous that they must be killed without any due process, but if they don’t die in the initial strike, they just get released and allowed to go home? We are being lied to. 

  • What are we doing here?


  • You gotta be kidding me. 


  • Trump let for U.S. Rep. George Santos out of prison on Friday because “[a]t least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!”   

    • We also had a record from being in a prison cell to going onto the Fox News couch: 

  • "Peace in the Middle East" didn't last long.  

  • Trump had said only a month ago that Ukraine should be able to retake all the land Russia had invaded and "even more." No he's saying completely different as he refuses to give Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. 

  • The No Kings Protests:
    • There were big crowds everywhere on Saturday and not a whiff of violence. 

    • Trump responded with maybe his most shocking post yet.  He's not well.  


    • The official White House account mocked the protestors as well.

  • Now that would get your attention. Video.


  • One of the two Texans arrested for leaving their infant alone on a Florida beach "currently serves as U.S. Heart and Vascular’s regional president for southeast Texas."
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10.17.2025

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

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* Sorry for the technical screw-up in the delay in posting.
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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




"In a stunning and rapid turn of events, USC coach Steve Sarkisian was fired Monday, just one day after appearing intoxicated at a team meeting and missing practice and just hours after he was placed on indefinite leave. The announcement by Athletic Director Pat Haden followed revelations of more than a dozen alcohol-related incidents involving the second-year coach, including routine excessive drinking after games."

  • Video from last night of the Celina coach who finds himself in a very uncomfortable spot.

  • Yesterday on I-35E during rush hour. Video.

  • Another day, another press release.  And Paxton can't be that dumb regarding Free Speech, can he?  You might find anyone "celebrating" someone's death to be offensive, but the government can't punish you for it. 
     
  • And when did the Freedom to Assemble become just some quaint and outdated notion? 

  • Those who didn't sign off on the the Pentagon's demand included Fox News, Newsmax, the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times and the Daily Caller. (Gift link.)

  • Someone check on Marjorie. 

  • The U.S. bombed another boat last night off the coast of Venezuela, but this time there may be survivors.  Meanwhile, the admiral in charge of the U.S. Southern Command, where the boats are being attacked, has resigned. 

  • This isn't some troll in a basement posting online. This is from the press secretary of the president. 

  • Who's "we"?

  • Re: Trump's Justice Department office headed by Jeanine Pirro: Remember when this happened earlier this year? They had to finally file the case as a misdemeanor since doing so does not require grand jury approval.

    • Well we have an update yesterday on that misdemeanor:


  • He said it again yesterday.

  • That was a heck of a night. Story.

  • Comments like this drive me nuts.  All contracts of college coaches are "guaranteed."  If, say, only three years of a "10 year" contract were guaranteed, then it's only, in reality, a three year contract. If none of it was guaranteed, it wouldn't be a contract at all - he would just be an "at will" employee. 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 105 days.

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10.16.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




"The Love Ranch owner, Dennis Hof, has said Odom arrived on October 10th for a four-day stay and spent $75,000"

  • The victims in the fiery plane crash north of Saginaw on Sunday have been identified as John Daly, 75, of Fort Worth and Michael Daly, 46, of Argyle
  • This death of this young girl from Rockwall happened in Terrell a couple of months ago but, as typical these days, the news is just now hitting the metroplex. Isn't 12 a little young for scuba diving? 


  • Brian Wilks, 40, and Sara Wilks, 37, of Houston were arrested after "witnesses confirmed the 6-month-old baby had been left alone for nearly an hour beneath a tent while the parents walked down the beach with three other children."  The beach was just east of Destin. 

  • Also in Florida.

  • How this moment yesterday barely makes the news is mind-blowing.  The President of the United States telling the AG who to prosecute live on TV while the FBI director looks on. We've never been here before.  It's over.

  • So in addition to blowing up boats thousands of miles away, we've got the CIA in Venezuela and we are considering bombing the country outright -- both which Trump confirmed yesterday. 

  • From the Wall Street Journal today:

    • But don't worry about little things like this because there are no guardrails:

  • How many times have we've seen Kristi Noem in these propaganda pro-Trump "public service announcements" on TV? A bunch. And it has cost you $51 million. 

  • Business Second™. There's a lot more going on out there than what we know about. 

  • Random Cowboy history note: Old-timers remember when you would keep your fingers crossed during the week hoping for a last minute Cowboys sell-out so the game wouldn't be blacked out locally. (Wise County folks had the option of "turning" their antennas towards Wichita Falls in hopes of picking up the CBS signal from up there.)  And the Cowboys were 4-0 going into this game against Green Bay: 


  • Since I'm not sure I understand the Texas Tech "pocket knife" controversy, I'll just go with this random image I saw while reviewing a Rhome Police dashcam video yesterday. I think the brief appearance by the truck was related to last year's Liberty Bowl appearance:

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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