Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The answer is "no", and this guy wasn't executed. But he died on May 26th of this year. 

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• Developing national news out of Dallas this morning: "DALLAS — Two ICE detainees were killed and one person was injured at a Dallas ICE facility Wednesday morning and one shooter is dead, police sources tell WFAA." Most reports are saying that that shooter died on a roof from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  But the victims are "detainees"?
  
  
  
  
• Aggies making national news.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A bad accident on FM 730 in Azle around noon yesterday left two dead.  
  
  
  
• No reason was given by the city.  He earns $352,612 (as of 2021).
  

  

  
  
  
  
• The courtroom artist was also doing bad things with his own drawing instruments. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Tell me about indoctrination again. Walters is Oklahoma's State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He last made news by ordering 55,000 "Trump Bibles" to be placed in every school. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump did a 180 on Russia/Ukraine yesterday. He went from "you don't have any cards" and "land swaps" to a position that Ukraine can now completely push Russia out of Ukraine and even take some of Russia's land as a bonus.  Make it make sense. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air last night as Trump, speaking on behalf of the U.S. Government, doubled down on his pressure to remove him from the airwaves with a rant on social media.
  
  
  
  
• Escalator-Gate!
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
• A statue of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein has been temporarily erected on the National Mall. It's entitled “Best Friends Forever” and it's legal. It has a permit to remain on the grounds until Sunday. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We are so doomed: 
• Justice Department official, and all around crazy, attorney Ed Martin met with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on September 12th.
  
  
  
• Three days later, Martin sent a threatening letter on Justice Department letterhead to the lawyer of an FBI agent who sued Alex Jones because of Jones' lies over Sandy Hook:
  
  
  
• And Alex Jones celebrated it. 
  
  
  
• COVID can still get you. 
  
  
  
• Finally.
  
  
  
• The Dallas Morning News is now owned by the same company that owns the lead paper in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.  This is not good.