3.21.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I had a lot of posts about Greg Hardy back then. Everyone apparently 
was really worked up.

  • The Wise County Messenger was on top of this yesterday. 

  • We had a hung jury yesterday in the Wise County district court on a dope case in The State of Texas vs.  Kory Carter, CR25016.  The defense lawyers were Ray Napolitan, who was court appointed, and Tim Godwin, who served as second chair. 
  • Oh, my! Wise County's state rep Andy Hopper posted this last night from Austin where he thanked a group of "patriots" in the room with him. But who is that up front? Is that Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder? You might remember the Oath Keepers when they kept an arsenal of weapons across the Potomac River during the January 6th assault on the Capitol which led to Rhodes being convicted of Seditious Conspiracy and an 18 year prison sentence. Then Trump pardoned him. 


  • Trump dismantled the Department of Education yesterday with a bizarrely staged backdrop.


      • Texas was represented there by these three.

  • After this story came out last night in the New York Times (and then confirmed by the Washington Post), Trump has posted twice at length to deny it -- a sure sign that it is, or had been, true. I bet the meeting gets cancelled now, and Trump just screams "Fake news!"


  • Sen. John Cornyn has now bent the knee to the Fuhrer.  For a man who has quietly resisted for years, he made this embarrassing post yesterday:

  • This is really incredible. A huge Washington law firm, targeted by Trump because they had represented prominent Democrats in the past, caved to his extortion yesterday.  A judge had already ruled that Trump's identical "targeting" order sent to a different firm, who chose to fight it, was illegal. But this firm instead cowed down to the illegal conduct in its pursuit of future legal fees. Shockingly, they also agreed to do millions of free legal work for Trump's "initiatives." (Gift link.)



  • Coming soon to NWS stations near you . . .

  • Legal news about a story I didn't know happened last year in Texas. "Loud, 39, created a disturbance last year during jury selection at his first [felony] trial . . . .  That’s when Loud entered the courtroom, walked up to [defense lawyer ] Dohoney, pulled his arm back as far as he could and smashed Dohoney with a staggering roundhouse right in front of 80 potential jurors seated in the courtroom . . . . The assault was so brutal that it caused the 63-year-old Dohoney to permanently lose sight in his left eye after his orbital socket was shattered." A video of it, which I don't think I had ever seen, is shown in this TV news story.

  • Legal nerdy stuff: The 9th Circuit had something truly bizarre happen yesterday.  One of its judges issued a dissenting opinion not in writing but on a video posted on YouTube. He even used real guns to make his point. The judges in the concurrence, which begins at page 60, were not happy with him. 


  • A 138 new state troopers go to work today.  But a months-long wait to renew your driver's license will continue. 

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 262 days. 


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3.20.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts





I don't remember this story, but I was spot on with the highlighted part. There is no such thing as a scandal today. 

  • For some reason Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is there for it and is posting pictures about it this morning. 

  •  Oh, my. "The Dallas County Sheriff's Office said she was walking her dog along the highway when the dog ran into traffic. She ran after the dog, but both of them were hit and killed by a car."

  • Yesterday the Texas Senate passed a bill to ban all THC products. It's now up to the House. 


    • The day started off with the Tarrant County sheriff being at a press conference in Austin telling an obvious lie. (He's in the mandatory cowboy hat, above.)

  • A bill to make public schools safer, The Uvalde Strong Act, is sponsored by almost every conservative Texas House Republican. But noticeably absent from the list is Wise County rep.  Andy Hopper. There's a weird (or not) trend of him avoiding everything to support public schools while championing private school vouchers. 


  • Because nothing is more important in an elementary classroom than those children being reminded every day not to covet thy neighbor's wife and to avoid adultery. 

  • Think this made my head explode?  Yep. And that was even before I saw Robert Jeffress leading the whole thing and standing right next to Trump. 


  • Quick: What is 2/3 of 100?

  • First it was Tesla cars at the White House and now the Administration is hawking Tesla stock. Last night U.S. Treasury Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Fox New, "I think, if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla. It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again." Incredible. 


  • Wise County's representative for the south is now being mocked nationally. Is he eventually going to embarrass us more than Ronny Jackson drunk at a rodeo and cursing at officers?  


  • Ok, this gal was arrested for speeding 84 in a 55. But there's a twist. "Minutes" earlier, the same cop stopped her for going 79 in a 55. Still, an arrest seems silly.

  • Evil Empire news: UT head basketball coach Rodney Terry is gone after the team's loss to Xavier last night in the play-in game. 
  • Last chance. Only a couple of hours left! Be like Greg and sign up for the Liberally Lean March Madness Pick 'Em Tourney while you still have time. 

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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3.19.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




 "A man wielding a machete and a can of wasp spray entered Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Friday and was shot by an officer as he threatened TSA agents near a checkpoint." He would later die.

  • Less than three hours after Trump's crazy Twitter rant yesterday morning about impeaching the federal judge, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, realizing the country is on fire, issued a rare, rare statement.


    • Wise County now has crazy Ronny Jackson representing the north side and the guy below representing the south side. We are doomed. 

  • Trump, who told us time and time again that he would end the Russian/Ukraine war "within 24 hours" of taking office, spoke to Russia's Putin for over an hour yesterday.  The results:




  • Elon Musk's Tesla has had a bad month for its stock.  But, yes, damaging and burning Teslas on the streets is bad. 


  • Wise County state rep Andy Hopper has removed his name as a sponsor on the bill which would ban cell phones in public schools.   Wild speculation: The West Texas Oilmen PAC instructed him to do so because they are pro-vouchers and don't want anything done to improve public schools. 

  • The astronauts finally made it back yesterday.  I would think you would have to go to physical rehab for several days just to get your body back in shape enough to walk after all that time of weightlessness.  (Which reminds me of one of my greatest random thoughts: We have too much gravity on Earth. It would be better if it were cut back, say, 50%.)

  • The federal government is now dictating the terms of what a private university can teach. This is not normal.  

  • Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem traveled to San Diego to cosplay once again. Can DOGE look into how much these stunts are costing us? (Side note: Her $200 million taxpayer funded commercial praising Trump, which is everywhere, has a very North-Korea-Dear-Leader feel to it.)

  • Legal quick hits: 
    • This is an unusual one. The DA's office indicted him 15 times, and then tried him, one indictment at a time, three times to different juries. A 10 year sentence was the result of each.  After that, he then pled to the remaining 12 counts and took a 10 year offer.  But that's what happens when you have a video of you stomping kittens again and again. It looks like the defense lawyer, at least for one of the trials, was a Kent Starr out of McKinney.


    • That's a shot at his local D.A.  (h/t @dejonredd)

    • He didn't really think this one through, did he?

  • Sign up for the Liberally Lean March Madness Pick 'Em Tourney while you still have time. 

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