3.14.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




In a shocking crime in Graham, a man murdered his two young children and then sent a photo of their bodies to their mother.  After a change of venue order, the trial was transferred from Young County to Tarrant County where the jury rejected the death penalty. 

  • We might either blow away or catch fire today.
    Yellow Wise County box provided by Liberally Lean Graphics Department


  • Unnerving scene in Denver late yesterday as passengers escaped via the wing while the plane was burning. Video.


  • It was on southbound I-35 in Austin last night. Eleven more were hurt, some critically.

  • And you wonder why I kept mentioning concentration camps? Get ready.  Here comes a 1798 law to move us ever closer to it:



    • And Texas will play a major role. From today's Texas Tribune: 


  • That was quick. 

  • Ironically, we last invaded Panama in 1989 in order to remove a "Strongman."

  • Steller week for Tarrant County DA's office in the felony courts:

  • The Business Second™. 

  • Tiger Woods is dating Trump Jr.'s first wife.


  • Legal nerdy stuff outside of my area: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick unveiled his second round of priorities yesterday.  If you are a plaintiff's personal injury lawyer, you might want to look at Senate Bill 30. 

  • Oh, my.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 255 days. 

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3.13.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




A video of two OU fraternity guys, ages 19 and 20, singing a racist chant with racial slurs got the nation's attention. It also got them kicked out of school, and the fraternity shut down and banned from the university. 

  • A wild evening in Lubbock. These videos (here and here) are bizarre.

     
    Yep, that's green. 

  • It's a good thing he was a bad shot. 

  • Oklahoma does not have a statute of limitations on these crimes, and the allegations against Robert Morris involved acts from 40 years ago. (PDF of indictment.) There probably should be a statute of limitations.


  • Let's check in on Elon Musk's SpaceX.
    • At least this one didn't blow up. 

    • But Musk got $17.5 million of your tax dollars from Texas yesterday.

  • It seems like you either need the fire chief's "permission" or you don't.

  • We have the public speaker count (signed up) for the voucher scam bill's committee hearing.  Tell Rep. Andy Hopper to vote no and prove he's not a puppet for the West Texas oilmen. 

  • He's at it again this morning. 

  • So what was this all about in the first place. For a dog and pony show?


  • Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, sent a one page memo to all employees on the important criminal justice issue of . . .  paper straws. 

  • Say what? Video. 

  • Legal nerdy stuff mixed with authoritarianism  (Gift link)  .
     

  • Messenger - Above the Fold



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3.12.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




Wikipedia entry. 

  • More flip-flops on tariffs yesterday as Canada retaliated, Trump retaliated back, and then both sides backed down. But this morning the European Union has entered the fray since Trump's 25% steel and aluminum tariffs went into effect at midnight.  I have no idea why Trump wants to self-inflict this gunshot to the U.S. economy. 
  • Sheesh.
     
  • Trump turned into Clay Cooley yesterday as he tried to sell Teslas in front of the White House with Elon by his side. It's Idiocracy once again. 


    • Seriously, he was trying to actually sell cars (as captured by this Gettys photo.) It's corruption at a dystopian level.  

    • Fox News' Peter Doocy better be careful or he's going to get fired for questions like this and this.


  • Since Congress is the only way to completely eliminate a Department, the Administration has found a work around: Just fire all the employees. 

  • The Texas Voucher Scam bill is being debated in committee, but that committee went all night to try and get the hearing over with before the outcry grows louder.


  • Update.

  • That's what I've been thinking. 

    • For those who care: As predicted, government filings from yesterday reveal that he was immediately moved to Louisiana so that the government can make the claim that no New York judge has jurisdiction over the case. 
  • I think this is a way of saying that so many people have died in his jail that he can't keep up with them all.
  • How many other times has he (1) rejected a case on a Sunday, (2) when the case hadn't even been presented to his office yet, and (3) where the arrest was less than 24 hours ago?

  • And just as I'm about to hit "publish", I see this: "TORONTO (AP) — AP sources say Canada will announce more than $20 billion in retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump's metal tariffs."


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