Random Monday Morning Thoughts

Five people in the Karl Klement dealership's service department split $1 million. 

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• Private schools line up for taxpayer dollars, but none from Wise County so far according to the government map.
  
• Dateline Cedar Hill: "When officers arrived at the scene, they found the suspect's vehicle stopped along the highway shoulder. Officers say a woman then exited the passenger side of the car and was shot by the man driving the car.  The man then got out of the driver's side of the car and pointed a gun at responding officers, who opened fire on the man."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This was family related with the shootings happening at three different locations. 
  
  
  
• We have a big update on the Ohio dentist and wife murder.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "The Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office in August 2023 offered LaGrone a plea agreement under which he would be sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to a record filed by the district clerk."  The final deal was seven years deferred adjudication.
  

  

  
  
• It's over.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We had the officer's cell phone video released on Friday where we got to see the "domestic terrorist" in her car. Her final words: "That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you."  The officer's words after he shot her in the face are unprintable.
  
  
  
• Sadly, this may very well be true:
  
  
  
• So they just monetized the "Hey, Grok, put her in a bikini" feature?  
  
  
  
• Told ya. (And this weird meeting got weirder when Trump just decided to get up and look out the window, and also read out loud a private note handed to him by Marco Rubio.)
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The definition of conservative is very wonky these days.  (And this was proposed in Congress last year by Bernie Sanders and got shot down.)
  
  
  
  
• The White House ran a clip from this video. 
  
  
  
• Rewriting history. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Streaming review: Pluribus = big thumbs up. 

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

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Hey gang. Important PSA. Don’t do this at home.
For more tips on how to NOT adult, like/follow/subscribe. Almost melted my face off tonight pic.twitter.com/COLWXYDpJN

— Jane Slater (@SlaterNFL) January 7, 2026

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Where are they now?

Someone update us. pic.twitter.com/zbXTlLjA6V

— Amiri King (@AmiriKing) January 4, 2026

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WOW this hit hard!
Enjoy every minute!
It goes in a blink
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/KdsKpmrqqY

— Fletch17 (@RealFletch17) January 1, 2026

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts

Let me tell you, this 2016 ad was pretty creative. 

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• Oh, my. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• She's running for the Texas house seat but filled out the federal application form to be on the ballot. The Tarrant County Republican chair rejected it. 
  
  
  
• If I understand the story, it looks like he filled out a community service sheet for someone on probation and gave them extra hours, and also didn't report someone getting the "fat drug" within the sheriff's department without a prescription. 
  
  
  
• Updates on the ICE agent shooting and killing of Renee Good. 
• Least surprising news ever. 
  
  
  
• Huh? 

• So?
  
  
  
• This is bad.  Throw in falsehoods on social media (and gullible people unable to discern even the simplest of truths) and AI (which makes it impossible for the least gullible people to discern fact from fiction), and we are entering an error where no one will know what it is real. 

• Trump:
• Then the globe is in trouble. 
  

• Big Oil is coming to the White House today (none of which would be willing to take any risks in Venezuela), and Trump decides not to bomb the country again. 

• We have a massive federal debt and people can't afford healthcare but, yeah, let's do this: 
  
  
  
• They finally found a use for the Trump Kennedy Center since everyone refuses to perform there now. 

• Legal stuff:  In browsing through new appellate opinions yesterday, the opening of facts of this one made me (and will make you) do a double-take. 

• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 190 days.

Random Thursday Morning Shots

I don't remember it being that low at all. 

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• Quick reaction which could change once we know everything: Yes, you stop when an officer tells you to stop, but there's not a single Wise County cop who would have pulled the trigger and killed her.  But when you offer someone a $50,000 bonus to sign up for ICE and give them little, if any training, this is what you are going to get when you unleash them on the streets of the United States. 
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who was cosplaying in Texas yesterday, immediately went in front of the the cameras and outright lied calling the dead woman a domestic terrorist. She then just made up some facts: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• She doubled down later. So the dead woman is some kind of trained assassin?:
  
  
  
• The mayor of Minneapolis had some very hot opinions. He probably should have taken a deep breath before getting in front of the cameras as well. 
  

  
  
  
• Trump, as usual, had trouble with the facts.
  
  
  
• The ICE agent who it's "hard to believe is alive" was clearly walking around unscathed after the incident. The video which showed the shooting actually continues on for another four minutes and shows the aftermath.
  
  
  
• Odd things that are getting little notice. 
• The soon to be dead woman tried to wave the ICE agents through  before they got out of their vehicles and approached her.
  
  
  
• It's not critically important, but the shooter walked around the back of her car, holding something, before he goes around and walks in front of the vehicles. It looked like he was filming with a handheld device.
  
  
  
• Lest we forget already:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Seems important. 
  
  
  
• A couple of flashbacks:
  

  
  
  
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