3.28.2025

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

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




The Texas Senate passed this session's budget bill three days ago, 
and it comes in at $336 billion. 

  • It's going to take a while to know the full impact of this.  But here's a video of a skyscraper under construction collapsing in Bangkok.



  • Classes were cancelled for the day, in this Frisco elementary, and all of the students were sent home.  (Once we get those Ten Commandments posted in schools, maybe they can stop the bullets.)


  • Update.


  • The executive order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds to be "improper."  Talk about Orwellian. This would be done by the "Ministry of Truth" in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.  


  • The attack on law firms which might be willing to challenge Trump's unconstitutional actions continues:
    • This firm was targeted last night because it "rewarded Robert Mueller and his colleagues — Aaron Zebley, Mueller’s 'top aide' and 'closest associate,' and James Quarles — by welcoming them to the firm after" the investigation of Trump and Russia.  That is insane.


    • And a shocking move by one of the largest law firms in America late yesterday when it bent the knee even before it was targeted . One of the keys to fighting autocracy is to not "obey in advance." You are watching democracy slip away in real time. Gift link.

  • The official White House account on Twitter continues to get weirder and scarier. 

  • Capitalism and free markets without government intervention have always been a major hallmark of Conservatism. 

  • Oh, good grief.

  • Just a South African billionaire buying American elections.

     



  • Embattled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has yet another new tattoo as revealed in a new video. It features the Arabic word 'kafir,' which in the Quran means "disbeliever" or "infidel."

  • The Business Second™.

  • Get your guns up if you weren't awake at 11:43 p.m. to see the end of the game.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 269 days. 



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3.27.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




And then we would learn that the co-pilot had locked the pilot out of the cockpit and 
then intentionally flew the plane into the ground. 

  • For goodness sake, just admit all of you made a horrible mistake and be done with it. Instead the entire Trump Administration has gone 100% Orwellian and telling us not to believe our eyes and ears. 


    • We've never had a Secretary of Defense look and act like this as he put an embarrassing spin on the situation and then walked away without taking any questions.


    • Incredible.

    • But by the end, he just went into the "not my problem" mode. 

  • Four U.S. soldiers went  missing over 24 hours ago in an area of Lithuania nine miles from the border of Belarus. 

    • And Trump seemed as if he didn't know about it all late yesterday afternoon.
  • Get ready. Assuming he doesn't change his mind tomorrow. 

     
  • The queen of photo-ops was at it again yesterday. Yes, this is real. 


  • One thing about the Trump Administration this time around, they are media geniuses.  Example? In light of the beating over SignalGate they've taken over the last three days, they made the actual Attorney General and the actual FBI director go the the scene of an arrest this morning at 4:30 a.m. and invited Fox News along.  And then they held a press conference about it at 8:00 a.m. to announce the arrestee is "one of the top leaders" of MS-13.



  • The U.S. government snatched another college student off the streets (video) who had every right to be here. Her sin? For "engaging in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans." What did she actually do? She wrote an op-ed in the school newspaper criticizing Israel for killing tens of thousands of people in Gaza.  And next they come for who? 

  • You've got to see Marjorie Taylor Greene go off on a British reporter, and please wait until the end when she turns to an American reporter for a different question. It's perfect. 

  • Let's check in on Fox News yesterday.

  • For those who haven't seen the naked woman going nuts at DFW airport last week, here ya go.

  • Decatur Fire Department training photos for those interested.

  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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3.26.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




She was a district court judge at the time. She has since gone on to win a current seat on the court of appeals in Austin.

  • SignalGate Breaking News: After Trump and Trump's men called the editor of The Atlantic a "sleazebag" and a liar, and said there was "no classified" information in the group chat, the editor has called their bluff this morning. 

  • "Fort Worth police say 27-year-old Dylan Lofton left Tarrant County Commissioner Manny Ramirez a series of voicemails using racist language and threatening to kill him."

  • This is the mass shooting case that left 23 dead in El Paso in 2019.  The D.A. inherited the case from his predecessor who turned it into an absolute cluster.  


  • Oh, everyone calm down. (Video of the remarks.)


  • I'm almost more interested in a guy in Flower Mound who sends his regular laundry to the cleaners and orders coffee by DoorDash.

  • Less than two weeks after a deadly pile up in Austin on I-35, there was a 10 car pileup that led to one death on I-35 in Round Rock on Sunday.

  • Oh good gawd.

  • The Authoritarian Regime continues to send a message that anything that Trump does should not be challenged in court or your firm will pay the consequences. This should scare you to death. 

  • SignalGate Update (from yesterday):
    • How big of a moron is Waltz? Buddy, you're the one who added the journalist to your unsecured group chat!

    • And last night he ran into the friendly arms of Fox News where he basically claimed that the reporter hacked his way into the group chat! (Video.) Incredible. Liars all around. 

    • Unfair?  The journalist is the most patriotic guy on the group chat. 

  • Good grief.
     

  • This is being buried by all the other news, but yesterday's executive order by Trump regarding detailed voting requirements he is imposing on the states might be the most dangerous thing he's done. It's not so much what the order does, but the fact that Trump is now exercising "presidential power" over federal elections - something which he has no authority to do, and certainly can't be trusted with.

    • And there are more changes coming. Why is he concerning himself with something which no longer impacts him personally? Something's up. 

    • One man had thoughts. You think what is below is crazy? Get ready.  There has to be a plan.  

  • Robert Jeffress, FBC Dallas pastor, appeared side by side on Fox News with the crazy gal below who wants your $1,000. (Side note: Instead of talking about the prayer he gave in the Oval Office, Jeffress went on a rant about liberal judges. Very Jesus-like.)


  • Story

  • Four sheriff's deputies in the Harris County Sheriff's Office have committed suicide in the last six weeks. 

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