1.31.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts





Oh, the old, fun days of social media.

  • Bridgeport's own J.T. Manoushagian had a busy night.




  • That's quite the collision yesterday.

     

  • There's a new and clearer video out there of the D.C. airplane/helicopter crash other than the one that was seen all over the place yesterday morning. 

  • Trump has said a lot of disgusting things, but he reached a new low yesterday morning when, with bodies still in the Potomac, he blamed minority hiring for the crash.  It was incredible. It was racist. It was sickening. He was an American embarrassment.


    • Video.

    • Video

    • Video. 

    • Just in case you were wondering. 


    • And then later in the day, he topped it off with this. Video.

  • This makes no sense. Are media entities just making payments to a mob boss now because they are scared of the consequences it they don't?

  • Great moment from the next FBI Director's confirmation hearing. Video.

  • It's been a stellar week for the Insurrectionists.
     

  • The Fifth Circuit was at it again yesterday. (PDF of opinion.)

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 212 days. 



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1.30.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




When the courthouse renovations are over, I hope they bring back
the guest book with a "remarks" column. Always fun to look at. 

  • Tragedy in D.C. last night at around 9:00 p.m. EST as an army Blackhawk helicopter collides with a landing AA passenger plane carrying 64 people. Video.  There are no survivors based upon a press conference this morning. 




    • There were  around 14 very young figure skaters who were Olympic caliber on the plane as well as a couple of famous coaches. They were "returning home from the National Development Camp held in conjunction with the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.” 

    • The President of the United States:

    • "Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that." -- Sean Duffy, the new Secretary of Transportation this morning. Video.

    • I been telling you we were headed for a major collision around an airport. 
  • This is a wacky story. He was in a patient room and peaked out after waiting some 30 minutes, and the whole place was shut down.  "I'm at CareNow," he posted to social media. "They forgot about me. The alarm is going off and police are on the way. #CareLater."  (Now that's a funny hashtag.)


  • Wise County (in the red box) willed the heavy rain away for some reason last night.

  • Trump's federal spending "freeze" was put on hold and then (maybe) put back in place again in a matter of moments yesterday. No one seems to know what is going on. 

    • It's over:

    • No, it's not: Press Secretary's official tweet.

  • This is silly.  They are a private company and can ban whoever they wish.  This is closer to a bribe by Zuckerberg than a settlement. 

  • And you just thought I was kidding about the concentration camps. It begins.  No word yet on whether this will include waterboarding.  

  • Two of the nuttier people will have their confirmation hearings today at the same time.  That divides the public's attention in the "flood the zone" plan. 


  • “President Trump was right. This process is political, and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.” He had gold bars in his home which were payments for bribes. 


  • Idiocracy: The National Weather Service is now referring to the Gulf of Mexico in a manner dictated by our dear leader.

  • Before the aircraft crash last night, Trump was hawking a book from the White House

  • Messenger - Above the Fold.

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1.29.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




This was actually pretty shocking news. Little did we know that we were five months 
away from Trump's ride down the golden escalator. 

  • I've written about this story before where a son-in-law head-butted his father-in-law three times at Woody's Tavern in Fort Worth. The plea bargain is for 23 years.



  • Godley is down in Johnson County. 

  • That's a heck of way to transform the federal government into Trump yes men. 


    • The offer to resign was via email and looked very similar to the email that Elon sent out to his employees when he bought Twitter -- right down to the title, "A Fork in the Road."   Want to resign? Just hit reply and type "Resign" in the subject line.

  • It sounds like it was chaos yesterday with the federal spending shutdown -- including Medicaid shut down for a while -- but we'll have to wait until Monday to see how this is going to pan out.  That is, unless Trump ignores the federal judge, which he absolutely might do.

  • Add General Mark Milley to the list of people no longer receiving protection from Iran. We are going to have our own modern day "Night of the Long Knives"  because these guys are so exposed.  Trump's enemy list grows.

  • We unnecessarily crashed another plane again - this one at a cost of around $90 million. And it was caught on video. 



  • Sure schools need teacher pay raises and more resources, and the legislature is about to gut them with school vouchers. And never mind that we fear our kids might be gunned down like in Uvalde. But Rep. David Spiller (R-Jacksboro) offered the Ten Commandments to schools yesterday. 

  • I haven't done my Medical Examiner rant in a while, but there's a new reason. There is absolutely no way you can determine "suicide" by looking at a charred body.  You can tell me that he died by being burned to death, but that's it. 


  • It was the first press conference ever for Trump's new 27 year old press secretary yesterday.
  • Oh, my. He was a freshman at Temple University. 


  • Crazy Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing begins this morning. This comes on the heels of Caroline Kennedy telling us yesterday that "his basement, his garage, his dorm room were always the center of the action where drugs were available and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to his hawks."


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