4.15.2025

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts




I think the was my first reference ever to the $350,000 Man back when he was only the $183,000 Man.

  •  The guy who allegedly torched the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania appeared before the cameras yesterday. He looks stable.

    • I was reminded that the Texas governor's mansion was almost burnt to the ground by an arsonist in 2008, and no one was ever caught. 

  • The Texas legislature will vote on Wednesday as to whether to gut public schools by passing private vouchers -- sending your tax dollars to private schools instead. Tell Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper to vote no. 

  • The accused teenager in the Frisco stabbing case "was released from the Collin County jail about 4:20 p.m. and put on house arrest with an ankle monitor. After an hourlong hearing at the county courthouse in McKinney on Monday morning, state District Judge Angela Tucker lowered Anthony’s bond from $1 million to $250,000."


    • Twitter was handling the release well: 

  • Pretty funny social media feed regarding the "space" flight yesterday. 

  • After the Supreme Court told Trump to "facilitate" the return of the man from the El Salvadorian prison who was deported inadvertently and without due process, Trump brought the President of El Salvador to the Oval Office to both say with a straight face, "There's nothing I can do." It's over. Fascism is here. I warned you. 


    • The President of El Salvador actually said when asked if he will return the man: “How can I return him to the United States? How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”  That makes no sense. It was like two guys being asked to move a couch and both saying, "I can't do that by myself!" 

    • And Trump brought in all his yes men to help sell it all - including Stephen Miller, our modern day Joseph Goebbels, who lied in every sentence he uttered. 

    • And in a shocking moment caught by an El Salvadorian government live stream, Trump said he wants to next send American citizens to the prison there.


    • It's only going to get worse.  Start with deportations to horrible prisons of those no one cares about, and then move on to anyone who, in Trump's view, don't "deserve" to be an American.  And remember I told you that there would be concentration camps? It might be a good time to remind you that Auschwitz wasn't located in Germany. 
  • Trump again said yesterday that Ukraine started the was with Russia. We are living in Orwell's 1984.

  • Finally a school stands up to Trump's attempt to take them over.


    • Trump responded yesterday evening like a dictator would: 

  • And another. His sin was protesting Israel's committing genocide in Gaza on a college campus. For that, he will summarily be thrown out of the country.   Both arrests like this and actions against universities like Harvard have one purpose: Silence dissent.

  • The University of Colorado is retiring two numbers of these guys who led the team to a record of 13-11 over two seasons.

  • Big news out of Cooke County late last week: A judge found that the current (and only) district court judge in the county, while she was DA, intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence in a 1997 capital murder case, and has recommended that the man go free. Order is here. 

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4.14.2025

Random Monday Morning Thougts




The guy got four months in prison for it. 

  • Katy Perry and others will board Jeff Bezo's rocket and fly to "space" and back for 11 minutes. Launch times is scheduled for right now at 8:30 CST.   Livestream here.


  • A weird arson attack occurred on the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania on Saturday night. An arrest has been made. 



  • Probably propane related. The home did not have natural gas. 

    Before

    After

  • Ten students from the University of North Texas learned about lakes and high winds on Saturday.

  •  A day after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin to try to "end" the war with Ukraine, Russia launched two misses (10 minutes a part) at a populated area in Ukraine killing 34 and injured 117.  Trump called it just a "mistake" by Russia. 


  • Off the coast of Florida:


  • Trump and his entourage went to a UFC fight in Miami on Saturday night. Even Ted Cruz got to tag along with Elon and others.


  • Just as I predicted, the Trump Administration is using the Supreme court facilitate/effectuate case to defy the federal district judge. The government made a filing on Saturday which said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is still alive, but that he's now the exclusive property of El Salvador. That's basically a "Not our problem," response.  Side note: The El Salvadorian president is in the White House today. 


  • Trump got mad at 60 Minutes last night and said CBS should "lose their license" and wants his FCC chairman to “impose the maximum fines and punishment.” This is fascism. 

  • On Friday, Trump declared a 60 foot wide strip of land on the border from the Pacific Ocean to El Paso as under the jurisdiction of the military. That seems ominous.
  • "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." 
  • Highland Park won its first ever soccer state championship, but somehow used an illegible player during the win.  They "discovered" the error right after the came, reported the issue to the UIL, and the UIL did the only thing the rules allow.

  • Another lawyer providing fake court case citations to an appellate court, most likely the result of using AI. The Dallas Court of Appeals is not pleased.

  • The Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed two criminal cases from Wise County late last week - one dealing with a DNA report which was disclosed during the trial. 



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4.11.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




When Jordan Spieth was going to be the next big thing.

  • In Wichita Falls, the former Sheriff of Knox County was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison because of a traffic accident where a 22 month old was killed. This is not a case involving drugs or alcohol. 


  • While you were sleeping:


  • An awful helicopter crash happened in New York which was caught on video. "The Spanish CEO of one of the world’s biggest tech companies, his wife and three young children died Thursday in a helicopter crash off Manhattan. Agustin Escobar, his wife Merce Camprubi Montal, and their children aged 4, 5, and 11 all died when their tourist flight to see New York City plunged into the Hudson River. The 36-year-old pilot, who has not been named, was also killed."

  • We had a Supreme Court ruling in the case of the man who, as everyone agrees, was sent to the El Salvadorian hell-hole of a prison because of an "error." A federal district judge told the Trump Administration to go and get him and bring him back and, astonishingly, the Administration declined and appealed saying, "Well, we think he was an MS-13 gang member anyway and, plus, it's now out of our hands because he is in El Salvador."  These headlines of the Supreme Court's ruling late yesterday are grossly misleading. 


    • Look at what the Supreme Courts actually said. Yes, it did rule that the district court judge was absolutely right in saying that the Administration must "facilitate" in trying to get him back. But as far as the district judge ordering that Trump's government must also "effectuate" his return -- you know, that really important part of actually causing his physical return, the Supreme Court ruled that the judge may have gone a little too far.  So the high court ordered the whole case sent back to the district judge so she can clarify what she meant by "effectuate" because any court must give "due . . . deference" to the power of the President to conduct "foreign affairs."
    • Uh, quick side note:  Is there no sense of urgency here? There is a man who is illegally sitting in that crazy and dangerous prison in El Salvador!!!

    • Trump, through his personal Justice Department which does what he says, declared the Supreme Court's ruling a win. 

    • Then, in the middle of the night, the district court judge issued a new order and said that by "effectuate" she meant "to take all available steps to facilitate" the man's return "as soon as possible." Sheesh. That doesn't help at all.  A hearing has been set for 1:00 p.m.
    • So what do I think is going to happen? Trump's government lawyers are going to eventually say, "We tried the best we could, but they won't give him back. Sorry."  Yes, a man who should not be there will rot or die in that prison, and your government doesn't care because he's not one of "us" - the "real" Americans.
    • It's over. This is Authoritarianism. We are living it, and we are only seeing the beginning. 
  • Why do I rant so much about Trump these days? I wholeheartedly believe that we are in a full red alert free fall. It's something new every time I turn around that proves we have actually entered into fascism. You know, like taking over a private school you have already strong-armed by withholding federal funds:

    • Or shaking down another law firm whose only sin is is representing Dominion Voting Systems in that massive lawsuit against Fox News, and represented others who are your buddies:

    • And talking like this at the cabinet meeting yesterday as though these shakedowns are for his own personal benefit. Good lord. 

    • Or how at the same cabinet meeting they are sending every message that the Executive Brach is going to take over future elections in the U.S. and spreading false propaganda to do it:  

  • The Texas House passed its biggest budget ever last night but, get this, due to a constitutional spending limit, they will still have $40 billion of your tax dollars that won't be spent. 

    • "Fun" fact: Their session ended last night at 3:13 a.m.. It was "budget day" which is typically the longest one of any session, and this one clocked in at the third longest in the last 30 years. 

  • Longhorn trouble.
  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 283 days. 



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