12.05.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I looked up what happened with that case.  The prosecutor accepted the case, a jury actually convicted the man, but the Michigan Supreme Court overturned it. The whole ordeal took five years. 

  • Say what? As usual, the story doesn't have any more facts than the headline.  

  • It was 6-3.  Everyone should have seen this coming. 

  • Since when has the federal FOIA applied to state entities?


  • A big Business Second™ this morning. Who would have ever thought a company that mailed DVDs would become this media behemoth. (But Trump might kill this deal, using antitrust grounds to do it, at the urging of his buddy who will be upset with this deal.)


  • I'm not sure why it took the controversy over the Second Strike to call attention to the bombings in general.   I think all of the 21 first strikes, and the 87 people who are dead because of them, is the problem.  But the U.S. did it again yesterday. 
     
    • And you think the Administration is worried? Nope.  The Secretary of Defense was doing a tap dance yesterday afternoon.
  • In a news conference regarding the arrest in the the D.C. Pipe Bombs case yesterday, it was very short on facts but big on irony.  I can't believe Kash Patel led with this: 


  • This happened yesterday. They truly are the gang that can't indict straight.

  • Are you telling me he didn't think this through?


  • Dallas D.A. news. 
  • Weekend read. (Gift link)   The man who caused school vouchers to be ramrodded through Texas. 

     

  • Sports: The biggest game in UNT's history will be on ABC tonight. 
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 155 days.

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12.04.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




We need a "Where are they now?" segment. He finished his probation on December 10, 2023.

  • Woah.

  • Another unforced error leads to another multi-million dollar jet crash.


  • Dateline Dickson County, Tennessee. Everyone got out OK yesterday afternoon. 

  • “Whatever they have, we’ll certainly release,” Trump said.  Ok, get after it. 


  • Trump pardons yesterday:
    • Trump has a thing for (allegedly) crooked congressmen. 

    • This guy was charged with bid-rigging in the construction of the Moody Center at the University of Texas.

  • I would joke about his chances of winning, but I don't rule out anything anymore.


  • It's becoming very North Korea-like in D.C. 


  • Trump constantly discolored hand was covered by bandages yesterday. 

  • The Business Second™. That place was a beating.
     

  • The new D.A. in West Texas might want to get off social media.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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12.03.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Fourteen were killed in San Bernadino. Then-candidate Trump said afterwards, for the first time, that he was calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."

  • This is a little wild. Casey Hall, the Montague County DA who was convicted in May in Denton County for theft related claims occurring while she was in office, was back in jail on Monday.  She had received a sentence of one year "to do" in a State Jail but had appealed the case and was out on bond. But after not paying the court reporter for the transcript (!), the Fort Worth Court of Appeals dismissed the case. The dismissal became final late last month, so now it looks like she is back in jail to begin her sentence. (h/t to my big sky country correspondent for the heads up.)

  • Pete Hegseth continues to change the facts regarding his involvement with the Second Strike and now blames the "fog of war" for him ever saying anything to the contrary


    • Oh, come on.  SS? 

  • And to think Trump used the nickname "Sleepy Joe Biden."


  • 71 million views. Here's the video she was referring to. 


    • I'm no PR expert, but I don't think it's smart to attack one of the most popular singers in the world. 

  • One of the biggest stories under the radar right now is how the Justice Department is agressively collecting voter data from blue states.  Mark my word, they are going to use it to later falsely claim the elections in those states aren't valid. 


  • I'm no Adam Smith, but I don't think giving away money is a way to teach kids about capitalism. 

  • That ballroom just keeps getting bigger. 

  • Random Wichita Falls paper front page headline and photo.  The kids really dressed up for the playoff game. 
  • The college football playoffs are just about set. Tech will get a bye with a win this week, and they will certainly be in the playoffs even with a highly unlikely loss to BYU.  But a BYU win, making them the a conference champion, would guarantee the Cougars a spot in the playoffs and Notre Dame would get squeezed out altogether.  The other thing to watch is this week's conference game of Tulane vs. North Texas. The winner will get the 12th spot.  The ACC champion will get the 11th spot. 



  • It's college football national signing day which means the name Max Emfinger pops into my head. 

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