11.24.2025

Random Monday Morning Thoughts




The lawsuit which followed the demand letter would be dismissed by a federal judge.

  • Messenger story.

  • This is probably interesting to those who wish to wade through it: The (former) Decatur hospital sued BlueCross and BlueShield in a sweeping lawsuit. Last Thursday, the Fort Worth Court of appeals side with BlueCross and said that the case must go to arbitration instead of to a jury like the hospital wanted.  Link for opinion. (Legal nerdy folks will want to check out all the filings, including briefs, here.) 



  • A Jack County carjacking on Sunday morning with a brief shootout at the end of a chase. The suspect was taken by helicopter to a hospital.

  • The story doesn't have much more info than the headline. 

  • Merry Christmas everyone! Video of gunfire being heard as band was on stage.

  • Will the Texas new congressional maps withstand a court challenge? Friday evening, Justice Alito kept them in place for now. And I'm betting that they will survive in the end. 


    • I was slow to realize this, but the redistricting issue is big to Wise County. Under the old map, Runaway Bay, Lake Bridgeport, Chico and Bridgeport are in Ronny Jackson's district (TX-13).  Under the new proposed map, they are all in Brandon Gill's district (TX-26).


  • My head is still spinning about the meeting between Trump and socialist New York mayor-elect Mamdani.
    • In anticipation . . . 

    • Immediately after . . . 

    • The fallout: 


  • Marjorie Taylor Greene shocked everyone by announcing on Friday evening that she will leave Congress after the first of the year. “I’m not going to be Trump’s battered wife,” she said.

  • Trump continues to speak like an Autocrat. And why not?  It's over. 

  • SMU Jones Film Collection released this WFAA video of an interview with tellers in a bank in Alvord after a robbery in 1961. Audio kicks in about halfway through. (YouTube)

  • Dateline: JP Court in Waco. 

  • Dateline: Uvalde. He allegedly got mad at a UPS guy as to where he was putting his packages at the courthouse and ordered him to be arrested by a deputy. 

  • The weed smoking DA in far West Texas is finding out that social media is not her friend.

  • I'm dissapointed in myself for missing this last week.  Video of her performance.

  • Art Briles is set to be the new head coach of Eastern New Mexico University.
  • Trump's state media newspaper is not happy with Trump trying to give away Ukraine under the currently being negotiated "peace plan" with Russia . . . 

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11.21.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




And the link is still alive. Still weird that it existed at all. 
  • Oh, my. Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, of Allen, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle have been indicted for plotting to invade a Haitian island, kill its men, and enslave women and children.  Edit: Here's the U.S. Attorney's Press Release



  • That's a baller move to have one of your final requests be that those two wouldn't be at your funeral. 


  • So let's get this straight:
    • Six members of Congress, four senators and two House Representatives - all ex military, put out a video telling the military it's ok to not follow "unlawful orders."

    • That message was absolutely correct, and they should be lauded for it.  After all, the literal defense of the Nazis as Nuremburg was "I was just following orders."

    • But then Trump responded yesterday by saying those six members of Congress should be executed. Are we just numb to this craziness?


    • Then Trump's sycophants go completely Orwellian by changing the words of what the lawmakers actually said, claiming the lawmakers told the troops to disobey "lawful" orders.  This is truly right out of 1984.
      Video of Leavitt yesterday
      Mike Johnson's quote. Video. 


    • And we just sit back and think all of this normal? The government, through Trump, called for execution of his critics who members of Congress. And then the government changes the actual words of those critics to justify Trump calling for their death. In America. Or what's left of it. It's over. 

  • And this barely causes a wave. (Gift link.)

  • Other quick hit headlines straight from front pages:
    • Wall Street Journal:

    • Also from WSJ: 
    • Denton Record Chronicle: 
    • And, finally, from the Baylor Lariat.

       
  • Weird legal nerdy stuff: So a dissenting judge on the Fifth Circuit, on the issue of certification of a question to a state supreme court, just randomly, and out of nowhere, takes a shot at Bluesky? 
  • Say what? 6A Plano West has an enrollment of 4,914.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 140 days.

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11.20.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




This was right around the time Abbott began to change. Or at least begin to reveal who he really is. 

  • Probably relevant to Wise County. (Gift link.)

  • Bridgeport's own announces his retirement as Chief of Police of the city of Lake Worth. 

  • Most of the public can't discern fact from fiction as it is. The death of newspapers will be one of the major causes of the fall of America. 

  • If you think all the Epstein files will be released, you will be sorely disappointed. This press conference yesterday by these three, which was beyond comical, almost assured that their Leader will be protected. .


  • And the story behind the famous picture: "Three days before he landed at Travis Air Force Base, he was handed what he described as a 'Dear John' letter from his wife."


  • If this is going to be in front of the cameras, I smell an ambush coming.  Or at least an attempted ambush because Mamdani can more than hold his own.  


  • Oh, good lord. 

  • I've been confused from the start as to why they are sealed.

  • So apparently this is controversial to MAGA? (And Trump, moments ago, said they should be "arrested and put on trial.")


  • Let's check in on Fox News. Well, I'll be: 

  • The Business Second™. Eye popping profits. s

  • Legal nerdy stuff: With regards to the 2-1 federal panel decision invalidating Texas' redistricting map, the dissent came out one day later (yesterday), and it might be one of the weirdest things I've ever read -- which was certainly foreshadowed by the way it started off:


  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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