Random Friday Morning Thoughts

This is more for me than for you. For some reason back then, I shared the results of my wheels off, yet successful, attempt to "assist" in a high school electricity project. I ended up staying up all night.

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• The deceased in the Walmart shooting has been identified as Brady Lee Murray, 46 -- the same guy who was listed in the Wise County civil records that I mentioned yesterday. Other than that, I can't find any Internet presence of the guy at all. We don't even know where he's from. 
  
  
  
• Edit: A faithful reader says the man is from Beaumont.
  
  
  
• The Trump-friendly New York Post doesn't think much of his handling of the Ukraine-Russia war. 
  
  
  
• The "Vladimir, STOP" message didn't have much of an impact on Russia:
  
  
  
• And Ukraine continued to show that it will not go down without a fight. They struck in Moscow hours ago.
  
  
  
• This is a horrible story that the DFW news boys were slow to report on.   But the way Texas self-defense laws are, a conviction is certainly not a given. I'm not saying it is self-defense, I'm just saying the case is legally messy.
  

  

  
  
• From a couple of days ago: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Update from yesterday (although no "official" confirmation yet that it's the same people): "The remains described as a Black male, a white male, and a white female were recovered and sent to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office."
  
  
  
  
• Follow-up from yesterday.  This kind of graft would be scandal of biblical proportions back in normal days. It's just flat out money in exchange for political access. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• I've been telling you, one way or another, he's not leaving in four years. And I'm dead serious. It's over. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Things at the Pentagon seem to be going swimmingly.
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
• The Texas Senate streamlined the voucher bill scam yesterday afternoon by "concurring" in the House changes to the bill and sending it straight to the governor. Rural schools have been sold out.
  
  
  
• The Business Second™.
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 297 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

This is the first time we learned what Bruce Jenner might be up to. Three months later, Vanity Fair would have Jenner on the cover announcing the debut of  "Caitlyn Jenner."

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• The best I can tell, we don't know anything more about the Walmart shooting than we did.  The CBS affiliate was on the square yesterday trying to get some "man on the street" reactions, but didn't find many takers.
  
  
  
• I noticed that an autopsy "inquest" was filed in Justice of the Peace #1 yesterday which shows a body was taken to the Dallas County Medical Examiners office. (Case No. JP1-25-IN-0014.)  It lists a name which I don't recognize. And I also don't know if it has anything to do with the Walmart case. 
• Another person was killed in this gun range off I-35 in the Alliance area.  A 26-year-old man died at the same shooting range on December 30th.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• After having been found to have withheld evidence in a capital murder case while District Attorney, the lone district judge in Cooke County has now been barred from presiding over any pending or new criminal cases.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Yesterday, Trump continued his strange and long love affair with Russia by trying to "stop" the war with Ukraine by trying to pressure Ukraine into giving Russia everything it wants.   The United States is now Russia's agent and lapdog. 
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• And in response, Russia ramped up its killing.
  
  
  

  

  In Kyiv at 1:00 a.m. 

  
  
• Trump's response this morning? "Vladimir, STOP!"
  
  
  
• Trump artificially inflated the price of his $Trump meme coin yesterday with an announcement that entices people to buy it in exchange for having dinner with him.  Corruption in plain sight.  Gift link.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Oh, my.

  

  $Trump Coin Chart from yesterday. Guess
  when the announcement was made.

  
  
  
  
• You guys have been in charge of the Texas government for 30 years.  If there is anything out of control about it, it's your fault.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Entertainment News Second™: I'm in on this.
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Back in the days where if you screwed up, you admitted it. 

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• Big Wise County news this morning:
  
  
   
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Edit: Even @Fox4Terry showed up.
• Edit: The Fox 4 story link above said there was a second suspect in a car that got away, but the Messenger has confirmed that the person turned out to not be involved. 
• Tesla released its first quarter report yesterday which showed that profits plummeted. Elon is beginning to realize that pissing off half the country, and the group most likely to buy an electric car, was not a good idea.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump strangely backtracked yesterday on both being "tough" on China with tariffs and with his threats to fire Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• So what happened to cause this change of tone?: Three people got to Trump that he apparently, at least for today, listened to.
  
  
  
• But he followed it up with this lie about a subject he won't be able to get away with.  
  
  
  
• This was actually a retrial - she lost the first one, too. And now just watch this case be the one which the Supreme Court used to overrule New York Times v. Sullivan. 
  
  
  
• The corruption is now out in the open and no one will stop him. Gift link. 
  
  
  
  
• Who could have predicted that?
  
  
  
• A while back I posted a video of an attorney getting viciously punched in court by his client at the beginning of a criminal trial in Hill County. That trial finally took place this week with a new attorney. But I discovered that I had completely  missed the name of the injured lawyer: Pat Dohoney. He used to come to Wise County from time to time.
  
  
  
• The measles outbreak in Texas has risen to 624 cases in 26 counties. As a result, a "measles tracker" was unveiled by  the Texas Tribune,:
  
  
  
• Oh, good grief.
  
  
   

  

  My red lines: Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, Paula White, Kristi Noem, RFK, Jr.

  
  
• Back in normal times, this news would launch congressional hearings. Their resignation letter to Todd Blanche is here. 
  
  
  
• If you are familiar with the incident where White Supremist Nick Fuentes visited the West Texas Oilmen PAC's working arm, Pale Horse Strategies, in Fort Worth, you'll be interested in this short thread.