Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

That was a heck of a pipe bomb.  Here's the place on Google's street view today.

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• The Liberally Lean First Alert Weather Team™ has revised its forecast. They tell me that we will now just have rain on Friday with the temperature not dipping below freezing until 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.  And they now project 2.1" of "wintery mix" on Saturday instead of snow.  I immediately fired the guy who looks like Tom Homan. 
  
  
  
• The best defense was probably just "Of all the officers there, why are you picking on him?"
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Dateline: Waco federal court. 
  
  
  
• I though this war was over? Eleven are dead  including two 13-year-old boys and  three journalists .Story. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump has a Concept of an Agreement on Greenland!  
  
  
  
• Maybe we will get the details "in two weeks." 
  
  
  
• And the head of NATO says Greenland wasn't even discussed as part of any deal. 
  
  
  
• Trump formed and presented  a ceremonial "Board of Peace" moments ago in Davos which did not include one European nation but did include Bahrain, Morocco, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia.   
  
  
  
• And this is real: Jared Kushner just presented this slide as part of that ceremony. 
  
  
  
  
• Postcards from Minneapolis: 

  

  Detaining a kid. 

  
  

  

  Not sure that was necessary
  
  

  

  Five year old detained and used as "bait" to lure out family members

  
  

  

  DHS's Greg Bovino Throws Gas Canister 

  
  
• This will definitely not turn down the temperature in Minneapolis once he gets to a microphone. 

• New Cornyn ad paid for by a PAC.

• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

How did we not get legalized gambling after that?

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• My highly compensated Liberally Lean Winter Weather Team has issued a prediction of the temperature dropping below freezing in Wise County at 7:10 p.m. on Friday and is projecting 4.7 inches of snow through Saturday.  Oh, and I asked ChatGPT to finally show you their faces, and I'm not quite sure about the result:
  
  
  
• Here is a Facebook video of the Wise County candidate forum which was held last week.
  
  
  
• To their shock?
  
  
  
• He ranted about windmills for at least five minutes during his speech, and that's the most sane thing he's said so far (which has been going on for over 50 minutes right now.)  Edit: He just said, "Until the last few days when I told them [NATO] about Iceland [he means Greenland], they loved me. They called me daddy." 
  

  
  
  
• Air Force One had to turn around last night due to a "minor" electrical malfunction last night.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump's hand-picked prosecutor -- who can't get a a grand jury to indict -- is gone.  
  
  
  
• Trump reposted someone who said NATO is the problem and not China or Russia. 
  
  
  
• Trump did an hour and half news conference yesterday. 
• I'm not sure the "Don't Tread on Me" and "Come and Take It Crowd" really understand what they have done.
  
  
  
• Link.
  
  
  
• Seems lopsided.
  
  
  
• So not only are lawyers getting in trouble for using AI, but courts are chewing out opposing counsel for not catching it. Opinion.
  
  
  
• Ted Cruz was spotted on a plane heading to Laguna Beach yesterday. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Texas AG Ken Paxton issued a non-binding opinion that everyone basically ignored. 

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• Latest from the National Weather Service:
  
  
  
• Everyone is freaking out about snow and ice projections, but the cold snap is definitely real.  My Liberally Lean Weather Team says that at this point they project Wise County will be below freezing for 90 hours: From Friday at 6:00 p.m. to Tuesday at 12:00 noon.  Delkus has the time frame less for the metroplex.
  
  
  
• Big Michigan pile-up.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• No motive for this shooting so far. 
  
  
  
  
• Texas AG Ken Paxton issued a non-binding opinion yesterday that everyone will probably ignore. (The fact that he called it a "landmark" is laughable.)  And that he issued it on MLK Day is not a coincidence. 
  
  
  
• The Fort Worth FD continues to take their photographer along for glamour shots.  This was from a house fire a couple of days ago. 
  
  
  
• Trump has lost his mind on Greenland. 
• He posted this in the middle of the night.
  
  
  
• And he's headed to Switzerland so hold your breath. 
  
  
  
  
• Those "Kavanaugh stops" by ICE agents haven't quite turned out quite like he thought. "ChongLy Thao, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen who goes by the name Scott, was returned home later on Sunday without explanation ‌or apology."
  

  

  Noem v. Perdomo __ U.S. __  (2025)(Kavanaugh J., concurring)

  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• Indiana won the national championship last night. Fun turnover fact: The Hoosiers lost one fumble all year and that was in the first quarter of their first game of the season. That didn't happen again for the rest of the year's final 1,047 offensive plays.