4.03.2026

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





The bunny with his hand over his heart will always be funny to me. 

  • Breaking:  Iranian state TV is reporting that a U.S. F-15 was shot down in southern Iran. Two pilots ejected. Search underway.  (The U.S. has yet to confirm. Axios is running with the story.) This image is also unconfirmed:

  • She wasn't fired yesterday because she wasn't willing to do anything Trump wanted her to do in his quest for "retribution." Oh, no. She was willing. It was just that she was horrible at the execution of his unlawful orders. 

  • Remember the Texas woman who was arrested for murder in connection with an abortion when there was no law - then or now - making abortion a crime of murder for acts committed by the  pregnant woman?   Well, there's nothing she can do about it. 


  • Then pay it. 

  • We are in the middle of a war, right?


  • I feel like I should know what all of this means, yet I have no idea. (But it sounds more insane if you pretend "DOJ" is just referring to some other rapper and not the Department of Justice.) 

  • If you commit an election denying crime in this country, you also somehow have super powers when it comes to accountability. 


  • Trump is talking crazy again this morning about the war. 

  • The Tiger Woods DUI (alleged) video was released:
    • "I was just talking to the president." Sheesh. And he says it in such an arrogant tone. 

    • Tiger carries a money clip!

    • I don't who they brought in to do the field sobriety tests, but she didn't know what she was doing. I have no idea what this test below was, and I've been involved in  DWI litigation since 1991 and watched well over a thousand or more DWI videos. (Someone online called it the "sitting walk and turn test.")

  • The Texas Rangers announced a new Nacho Sombrero Hat which is as dumb a it sounds.

     
  • This is a fun fact.  Fletcher, of Fletcher's Corny Dogs fame, wa in the Bonnie and Clyde movie. 

  • Extremely nerdy legal stuff:  The Michael Morton Act, which requires Texas prosecutors to turn over evidence to the defense, is about to be significantly limited. Right now, the law provides that prosecutors can't simply say, "We didn't know about the evidence we didn't turn over because the police had it and didn't tell us about it."  But yesterday the Court of Criminal Appeals signaled, by granting a PDR, that it was about to reverse itself on that very issue it decided just three years ago.   

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 274 days.

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4.02.2026

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts



Fun sports fact from back in the day.

  •  A faithful reader thought this line in the Messenger's Update yesterday was kind of funny.

  • Don't do that. 

  • Trump addressed the nation last night, and no one really seems to understand why he did it. To call the speech "mixed messaging" is an understatement. 
     


    • The part that the Secretary of Defense heard: 

    • The part the oil traders heard: 

  • Trump became the first president to ever attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court.  He left halfway through. 


    • A social media post by Trump immediately afterwards. and another one this morning. makes me think -- and I'm going out on a limb here -- he's not too optimistic. 

  • The President of the United States followed that post with this one. He is not well.

  • FBC of Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress looks on as Paula White compares Trump to Jesus during an Easter celebration yesterday. Video.

  • Don't do this, Part II.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold



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4.01.2026

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




This story out of Frisco was wild. The medical examiner would later "rule" that her death was a result of suicide by overdose. 

  • It looks like the Tanner Horner trial is still on track to begin on April 7th.  But this gift link story from the Star-Telegram contained this  nugget: The parents' civil case against Fed Ex has settled.  It was originally filed in Wise County but later was voluntarily dismissed and refiled in Dallas. 


  • "WHITNEY, Texas (KWTX) — A vehicle fire spread to Fort Graham Baptist Church on FM 2604 north of Whitney, destroying the sanctuary, according to the Hill County Sheriff’s Office."

  • U.S. astronauts will begin a mission this afternoon to go around the moon. I have no idea why.  The launch is set for at 5:24 p.m. CDT with a two hour window to get it done.  

  • I told you yesterday nothing would happen. "No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, Patriots," he said.  

  • I had a little trouble comprehending this story yesterday. I still do.  



  • Nancy Mace: Too dumb for Congress. Too dumb for governor. 


  • New this morning: Trump renewed his attacks on NATO, suggesting he could withdraw the U.S. from the alliance over its lack of support for his war on Iran.  “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” he said. Side note: That would take an act of Congress but things like that do not matter any longer. 

  • Put this on the list of Things That Never Happened.  Video.  Hegseth is just so weird. 

  • It's over. 

  • Place your bets on which way the Justice Department will decide to go. It seems obvious: They'll send him a blank check. 

  • Legal stuff: The judge out of Houston who berated the IT worker has been found to have acted like a jackass in another video.


  • Very nerdy legal stuff: So what happens if the jury finds a defendant guilty of only a lesser included offense , the jury is polled to confirm that is their verdict, the case moves on to the punishment phase, and then the jury sends a note during the a brief break that they had actually agreed to convict him on the greater charge? An appellate court said yesterday they can no longer change the verdict.   

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