Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

The time Usain Bolt won the 200 meters at World Athletics Championships in Beijing, and then almost had his legs broken by a cameraman on Segway. Video.

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• You don't see a sheriff get indicted every day. WFAA has most of the details out of Johnson County.
  
  
  
• Another day in America. This time, kids were shot dead while sitting in pews at a church.
  
  
  
• And Texas Tech got an unnecessary scare yesterday afternoon. 
  
  
  
• More Tech news. The parents were returning home to Grand Prairie when stopped for a traffic violation in Eastland County. The next thing they knew, they are in the custody of ICE. They have been here for 25 years.
  
  
  
• Update from a story earlier in the week:
  
  
  
• "Heath" news:
• You may soon get to eat horse paste if you choose to do so, without having to go to Tractor Supply.
  
  
  
• The director of the CDC got fired because she thought, correctly, RFK Jr.'s anti-vax policies are nuts. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, legislators, including Wise County's own Andy Hopper, welcomed RFK Jr. with open arms in Austin yesterday.. 
  
  
  
• News from out friends up north:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Hey, I asked about whether this would happen two days ago! I love the rebellious grand jury. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump's big trip to Alaska to meet with Putin hasn't exactly worked out. Last night, 598 drones and 31 missiles were launched by Russia into Ukraine, killing at least 15 in Kyiv alone.
  
  
  
  
• Legal jobs with no experience required:
  
  
  
  
• Gift link.  Regular Joes buy drugs on the street and go to jail.  Rich guys have their doctor prescribe it. 
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

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

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

D Magazine, later that year, would have a long exposé on her problems..

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• Trump is now trying to take control of the Federal Reserve.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Just driving down a road at 1:15 in the afternoon, and a tree falls on a lady in Dallas. 
  
  
  
• What's up with bounty hunters? This story comes after two other bounty hunters were arrested in June for killing a man in Deep Ellum. 
  
  
  
• A DART bus did not safely arrive yesterday in Dallas.
  
  
  
• "So sorry" that we killed 20 people. 
  
  
  
• The kid at Northwest ISD is going to win an Olympic medal soon, but I had no idea you could be a professional track guy at age 16. 
  
  
  
  

• It's getting to harder and harder to figure out what MAGA stands for. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• AI Wars.
  
  
  
• Legal Stuff in D.C.: "Federal prosecutors on Monday reduced the charges against a woman accused last month of assaulting an F.B.I. agent during a protest against immigration officials in Washington, refiling her case as a misdemeanor after they were unable to persuade three grand juries over a month to indict her with a felony." (Gift link.) Hey, I wonder if they will be able to get a grand jury to indict the sandwich throwing guy?
  
  
  
  
• If you have YouTube TV as your TV provider of choice, there is some bad sports news on the horizon for this weekend.
  
  
  
  
• Uh, this will not make your customers happy: 
  
  
  
  
• Democracy dies slowly, then quickly.