Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I've never thought this got talked about enough. A reporter and her cameraman shot dead on live TV in Roanoke, Virginia. The person being interviewed, in white, survived.

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• I' think these two sentences say the same thing, but I'm not sure: "The baby was dead when police arrived, and the release said it is believed the child was left unattended in the vehicle for an undetermined amount of time at a residence in Rockwall. Police said it is believed the infant was left in the vehicle at a residence and later discovered at the high school." Regardless, that's all we know.
  
  
  
• We are the dumbest country.
• Exhibit A.
  
  
  
  
• Exhibit B. University of Tennessee. Video within the story.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• In an insane public cabinet meeting which lasted over three hours, members took turns praising Trump in a manner that make Kim Jong Un blush. And that was in between nutcase false revelations, including autism was artificially caused, there are "burn bags" of 2020 voter fraud information found, Trump was leading a "third" revolution, and Trump proclaiming "many people" are saying that the country would rather have a dictator."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Not to mention the secretary of the Department of Labor saying at the table,  "Mr. President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."  She wasn't kidding about the banner: 
  
  
  
• Don't criticize the Fuhrer. 
  
  
  
• On the heels of the U.S. taking a 10% equity interest in Intel, is Lockheed Martin next? “I mean, Lockheed Martin makes 97 percent of their revenue from the U.S. government. They are basically an arm of the U.S. government,” the commerce secretary said in suggesting the Administration would like a piece of the company.
  
  
  
• Weird: The State of Texas just bought the Menger Hotel and the Crockett Hotel next to the Alamo. They had not been for sale. 
  
  
  
• Another story yesterday about a subject I mentioned on Monday. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• Real photo from the U.S. Open.
  
  
  
• Random Oklahoma sports nugget: Five schools will play in Norman for the first time this football season - Michigan, Auburn, Ole Miss, LSU, and Illinois State