Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

It began to become real.  (And I had forgotten how badly Chris Christie wanted on that bandwagon.)

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• A third person has died due to the Austin Sixth Street shooting: 30-year-old Jorge Pederson.  Earlier yesterday, it was officially announced that the first two victims were UT student Savitha Shan, 21, and Texas Tech student Ryder Harrington, 19.
  
  
  
• Video released by TMZ of the immediate aftermath of the shooting revealed two guys taking turns posing for pictures while people were dying a few feet away . 
  
  
  
• A statute. which was removed from Love Field because if was modeled after Rangers Capt. E.J. “Jay” Banks who helped fight integration at Mansfield High School,  has strangely been unveiled at Globe Life Field.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• Chaos on the roadways yesterday. 
• Motorcycles. All of these incidents occurred on Monday.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• People acting a-fool. Also all yesterday.
  
  
  
• Look who ran the United Nations Security Counsel yesterday. Yes. Really. If there was ever a need for an interpreter, it was then. 
  
  
  
• Happening right now.  She's will also be in front of the House committee tomorrow. 
  
  
  
• Oh, yeah, there's a war that we just casually started. Headlines . . . 
• Marco Rubio provided the weirdest explanation yet on why Iran was attacked.  Add it to a growing list of contradictory reasons. 
  
   
  
  
  
• I don't think they thought this attack through.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump made a short speech about the war during a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday morning which was meant to honor three Army soldiers.  Right in the middle of it all, he started talking about the drapes.  Video.
  
  
  
• The reactions of citizens of Kuwait, who weren't sure who the American pilots were who parachuted down after their planes were shot down from friendly fire, were very different depending on the pilot Video of interaction with the male pilot.  Video of female pilot's interaction.
  
  
  
• As if there was ever any doubt, the Hillary video deposition about Epstein was released yesterday and we finally learned who it was that asked her about Pizzagate.
  
  
  
• It's election day which means the ads, flyers, and texts will end.