12.01.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




I normally wouldn't post about weather, but receiving 10 inches in November, with almost all of it falling over two days, was something. 


  • This is awful. Messenger story (free).   

  • Story.

  • At 2:38 a.m. Sunday morning, Fort Worth Police and Fire/EMS responded to a shooting at Flips Patio Grill in north Fort Worth near Western Center and I-35.

  • A mass shooting you probably missed: "At least four people, including three children, were killed and 11 others wounded in a mass shooting that erupted on Saturday evening at a child's birthday party at a banquet hall in Stockton, California, authorities said."


  • You'll often hear about a car crashing into a business, but this one by a 90 year old in California had quite the photo associated with it. The business was closed at the time.

  •  Hegseth ordered a second strike in order to kill two survivors.  Gift link. So maybe there was a reason for those four Senators to do a PSA telling the military they didn't have to follow illegal orders. 

    • Hegseth mocked the controversy last night with a cartoon.       

  • Meanwhile, since the continued killing of unknown people in boats is justified by the Administration by citing the War on Drugs, we had this pardon news below. “He paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States, protected by machine guns,” prosecutors said in their closing arguments ahead of his conviction.


  • Speaking of laws not longer applying. 

     

  • What are we doing?  She had been in the U.S. since she was seven. 


  • Welcome to the Autocracy.   Rule #1 is to discredit the media, one of Trump's ploys from the very beginning. And now the White House web site makes it official policy.


  • Random Trump. Video.

  • The Business Second™.  Five buildings. Thirty-seven full time jobs.  

  • No one has had wilder departures from their jobs than Lane Kiffin.  As he leaves playoff bound Ole Miss for LSU, all of his exist are ranked below.  There are links under the tweet to stories for all of them. 

  • Due to weather delays, the Southlake v. Prosper football playoff game didn't kickoff until 11:14 p.m. on Friday night and didn't finish until 1:42 a.m. on Saturday morning. 

11.28.2025

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







Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I couldn't find any reports about a subsequent criminal prosecution, if any.


  • Plane crash in Palo Pinto County yesterday. 

  • Around 200 people are still missing. 

  • From Oklahoma. 

  • A Wednesday afternoon "targeted atttack" in D.C. has now left a 20 year old National Guardsman from West Virginia and another critically injured.  "Officials say he ambushed them outside the Farragut West Metro station, firing repeatedly at one Guard member with a .357 revolver and then turning it on the other before he was shot himself."



    • To drive all the way across the country from Washington state just seems beyond weird.



    • This may be one of the most tone deaf things Trump has said. Video
  • Fuzzy Zoeller has died. I had forgotten how bad thos comments at Augusta really were. Video flashback.
  • The Business Second™.  This is in Coppell.

  • Big 12 playoff tree to see who could end in in the conference championship game.   It's great. The SEC, ACC, and Big 10 scenarios are here.
  • Arizona State actually did this for this week's game. 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 147 days.

11.26.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




I had been given a 1984 issue of the Alvord News which I posted.  Click to enlarge. 


  • New this morning. Seems pretty noteworthy. 

  • Back to reality (and to something that makes a delayed turkey not seem like a problem at all), a huge fire in Hong Kong occurred while you were sleeping.  The death toll has risen to 13 which seems low. 


  • Gift link.


  • Dateline Brownwood, Texas. It was actually an Assistant County Attorney, but you don't see this everyday. And it was allegedly during the prosecutors plea negotiations with a defense lawyer. 


  • I've got a hunch about this whole thing. "The 18-year-old Florida high school senior had been traveling on the Carnival Horizon ship with members of her blended family when her corpse was found stashed under a bed — wrapped in a blanket and covered with life jackets. Authorities have not confirmed who may have been behind her death, but court documents from an unrelated case have indicated that Kepner’s unidentified 16-year-old stepbrother, who was sharing a room with the teen at the time, is being eyed as a suspect."


  • I bet this will be a prosecutor's nightmare. (The link is a video which shows all the kids being rounded up.)

  • Welcome to the Autocracy. It's over.  


  • The Blaze, which published her name, is in big trouble. Story


    • Crap like this spread like wildfire earlier this month.


  • Happy Thanksgiving everyone. 

  • If he wants to rename the Republican Party this morning, he might want to workshop those names a little bit. 

  • RIP to this American hero. 

  • UNT just learned that its coach will be leaving. Not the best timing for that announcement to be made.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold