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• You can’t get any more right-wing than that. She’s even showered in red. At least she put Jesus ahead of Guns. Though, I expect the order is different in her heart.
• Jamaica has a four-man bobsled team back at the Olympics for the first time in 24 years.
• I always thought certain fast-food establishment’s soft drinks tasted better than others. – The Real Reason McDonald’s Sprite Tastes Different
  • McDonald’s uses a high syrup-to-carbonated water ratio, which results in a sweeter and stronger version of the drink than can be had at other fast-food restaurants or that is found in cans and bottles. McDonald’s also uses high-end filtration systems to filter its water so that the Sprite concentrate isn’t just being mixed with sparkling water from the tap — it’s being mixed with bottled water-quality water, with no impurities that could affect the taste. The company claims to filter its water twice as much as its competitors.
• One thing I miss about parenting with a spouse is talking through stuff like all the current news about book banning. It would be great to know her thoughts and see where we are alike or differ. But, not only is she not having any of that kind of talk. Anything I say would eventually come back to haunt me, most likely misquoted and from her lawyer.
• Not that divorced parents compete with each other when it comes to gifting birthday presents, but it sure does feel good when your son tells you his two presents were the best of the bunch. What’s better is that both of them didn’t cost me more than eight bucks. Both of them were magic tricks. One, a pair of double-sided quarters and a trick deck of cards in which you can tell the card from the back. He had a blast performing tricks at school the next day.
• There’s going to be a three night Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln special this weekend on the History channel. Unfortunately, I’m a YouTube TV subscriber and the channel isn’t part of my package.
• Her eyes freak me out – Mom decapitates 6-year-old son and dog, claims the devil was speaking to her, police say
  
• I haven’t found one person who had a positive comment to say about this Nicole Kidman cover. One of my friends is certain the 54-year-old has had plastic surgery. I’m bad at being able to spot those things.
  
• This is some cool footage.

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• Cowboys paid $2.4 million to settle cheerleaders’ voyeurism allegations against senior team executive Richard Dalrymple
  • Each of the women received $399,523.27 after the incident. One of the cheerleaders alleged that she clearly saw Richard Dalrymple, the Cowboys’ longtime senior vice president for public relations and communications, standing behind a partial wall in their locker room with his iPhone extended toward them while they were changing their clothes, according to several people with knowledge of the events and letters later sent by attorneys for the cheerleaders to the team. Dalrymple gained entry to the back door of the cheerleaders’ locked dressing room by using a security key card.
  • Dalrymple also was accused by a lifelong Cowboys fan of taking “upskirt” photos of Charlotte Jones Anderson, a team senior vice president and the daughter of team owner Jerry Jones, in the Cowboys’ war room during the 2015 NFL draft, according to documents obtained by ESPN and interviews.
    • I thought something was up when Dalrymple left so unexpectedly and with little fanfare after so many years of dedicated service. If you are wondering just how important that man was to the organization, take into consideration when the NFL made the America’s Game edition for the last Cowboys Super Bowl victory. They chose only three people from the organization to provide commentary. It’s usually always players and coaches, but for some reason, Dalrymple, the PR guy, got one of those coveted spots.
    • For anyone wondering why Jerry wouldn’t fire him immediately for taking up skirt pictures of his daughter, you have to consider this man was responsible for burying and hiding every potential damaging thing about the organization since Jerry bought the team. He has so much on Jerry he could blackmail him for anything. And when businessmen make it big, they don’t care about the sin, they only care about loyalty.
• My ex refuses to be nice or do anything accommodating. Yesterday was our son’s 10th birthday. Our daughter was not well enough to go to school and stayed with me, and I picked the birthday boy up from school. My daughter and her mother no longer have a healthy relationship and see a counselor almost weekly. My house is on the way to the counselor’s office from either her apartment or place of employment. Normally, I drive the kids to the counselor and we exchange the kids there. But yesterday, our son requested we eat cookie cake at my house after their counseling session. So that the birthday boy could enjoy his day and wouldn’t have to ride along for his sister to be dropped off at the counseling session she and her mother were going to, I asked my ex if should could pick up our daughter at my house since it’s along the way. As expected, she said no and didn’t provide a reason.
• It was weird having my ex inside my house. The last time she came over, I caught her snooping around. I have no doubt she was making mental notes to tell her mother and sister how tacky of a place I live in.
• US approves new headlights that won’t blind oncoming drivers
  • The headlights, commonly used in Europe, have LED lamps that can focus beams on darkness such as the driver’s lane and areas along the roadside. They also lower the intensity of the light beams if there’s oncoming traffic. Camera sensors and computers help determine where the light should go.
• Drunk sisters take off clothes, fight at Disney World
• Cynthia Perkins: Teacher who fed students cupcakes laced with husband’s sperm gets 41 years in jail
  • A Louisiana teacher has been given 41 years of jail time after she pleaded guilty to several child sex crimes, including feeding cupcakes to students laced with her husband’s sperm. Cynthia Perkins was arrested along with her husband Dennis in October 2019 and slapped with 150 felony charges, including rape, child pornography, sexual battery of a child, and video voyeurism.
• I had no idea the man responsible for this was from my hometown of Mineral Wells – D Magazine – The Great Frisco Caper – How America’s fastest-growing city fueled its success with professional sports and a financing scheme so clever that the state of Texas had to make it illegal.
  • No other city of Frisco’s size is based in a top-five media market and is involved with all of the country’s five largest professional sports leagues, to say nothing of hosting the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) national championship game, an additional college football bowl game (the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl), one of the country’s premier esports teams (Complexity), or the constant stream of youth sports. Up next is the PGA of America, which has built two 18-hole golf courses and is relocating its headquarters from Florida to create an enormous mixed-use development that includes a hotel and convention center.“Sports City USA” has become more than a marketing moniker. Frisco seized on a novel financing strategy to fuel a professional sports boom that helped drive and sustain a population explosion. It truly is a unique American experiment. And it all started with a God-fearing city manager who wasn’t afraid to make a big bet.
• Lolong was the largest crocodile in captivity. He was a saltwater crocodile measured at 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in), and weighed 1,075 kg (2,370 lb), making him one of the largest crocodiles ever measured from snout-to-tail. Hunted over a period of three weeks, it took around 100 people to bring him onto land.
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• This place is in Bellville. Here’s a straightforward review.
  Saw the sign, had to stop, curiosity killed the cat. Politics aside, I’d encourage anyone who loves a good burger and might happen to love where we live to enjoy one. Surprisingly diverse mix of clientele and all there for one reason I’d guess, is this place legit? The burger speaks for itself. It was not a Pro-Trump crowd is my guess but burger loving. Strongly recommend…
  
  

• Today is my sons’s birthday. He now enters double digit territory. This is how I had to experience it a year ago when my wife left me. This is a text I received from her mother after not hearing from anyone in my family for four nights. Despite the call going well, I never got to speak to them again until I got a lawyer involved. WWJD?
• This happened at a Fort Worth hospital – A Reno man donated his kidney. He received a $13,064 bill in return
  • Living organ donors are never supposed to receive a bill for care related to a transplant surgery. The recipient’s insurance covers all of those costs. This rule is key to a system built on encouraging such a selfless act. And for most uninsured patients in end-stage kidney failure, Medicare would pick up the tab. But in Malin’s case, he would end up facing a $13,000 billing mistake and the threat of having his bill sent to collections.
• Ozzy Osbourne publicly urinated in Alamo Plaza 40 years ago this week
  • I never knew he tried to make right – A sober Osbourne returned to San Antonio a decade later and was apologetic for desecrating the historic landmark that honors the Alamo defenders. He also cut a $10,000 check to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, then the caretakers of the Alamo. 
• Texas Sues Meta Over ‘Unlawful’ Use of Facial Recognition – Facebook has been storing “millions” of biometric identifiers without user consent, the state attorney general said.
• Vanity Fair – Bob Odenkirk Says Goodbye to Better Call Saul: “Honored to Have Been Part of It” – Filming on the show’s sixth and final season is finally completed, six months after Odenkirk suffered a heart attack on set.
• ‘Wordle’ is phasing out NSFW words
• CNet – Lewdle, a NSFW Wordle clone, rewards your dirty mind
  • In an internet swimming with Wordle clones, Lewdle has found a way to differentiate itself. The dirtier your mind, the better your chances of success. The word game holds tight to the Wordle rules of six guesses for one five-letter word a day, but the right answer will always be naughty. Before you read any further, let me share Lewdle’s content advisory: “Lewdle is a game about rude words. If you’re likely to be offended by the use of profanity, vulgarity or obscenity, go play Wordle instead!” Otherwise, please proceed. Lewdle’s vocabulary list ranges from the relatively mild (“poopy” and “damns”) to more extreme examples that would make sensitive folks blush. That’s the point. Lewdle is all about reveling in the saucy, sassy and unsanitized, but it’s also about good, clean dirty fun. Lewdle won’t go into slurs, however.
• Her Boyfriend Killed Her Toddler—but She’s Going to Prison
  • When Rebecca Hogue’s 2-year-old son was beaten to death by her boyfriend in 2019, she wasn’t there; she was working a shift as a cocktail waitress. But Oklahoma authorities charged Hogue with murder under “failure to protect” laws—arguing she knew the child was being abused by Christopher Trent—and a jury that convicted her recommended life in prison. On Friday, a judge gave her life, but suspended all but 16 months of the sentence, saying she did not deserve to die behind bars.

• Sometimes when I see the Olympics on I watch them out of guilt. Like, I don’t really want to watch, but I feel like I’m obligated to because of how the games are spread out over four years.
• Well, at least the girl I’m chatting with through a dating app texted me a valentine yesterday.
• Peter King had a great piece about Tony Boselli making the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It announced his inclusion on Thursday. After the announcement, a large gathering of family, friends, and former teammates gathered and watched a 24-minute video of those closest to him. The last person on that video, to the surprise of everyone, was his father, who died in May of last year from cancer. Boselli’s wife knew her husband was going to make the Hall of Fame, but wasn’t sure when. He was a finalist last year. Knowing his father only had months to live, she secretly arranged things so his father could be recorded on video congratulating his son and held on to the recording. She’s one hell of a woman. I wish I could know what it feels to be loved like that.
• A brief history of coin flip rules in pro football.
  • 1921: The referee tossed the coin in front of the captains. Before that, the captains conducted their own coin toss and reported the results to the referee.
  • 1946: The referee conducted the coin toss before teams left the field after pre-game warmups.
  • 1976: Coin toss ceremony changes from 30-minutes before kickoff to three-minutes before kickoff.
  • 1977: Coin toss ceremony can happen any time under three-minutes before kickoff.
  • 1992: In an effort to prevent gamesmanship, rules specified that the number of team captains at the coin toss is limited to six per team, and failure to present captains for the coin toss will be the loss of coin toss option for both halves and loss of 15 yards from the spot of the kickoff.
  • 2008: The winner of the pregame coin toss can defer its choice until the second half.
• Musk blames ‘fun police’ for recall of feature that makes fart and goat noises
  • Tesla is recalling over 500,000 vehicles in the United States due to its Boombox feature, a 2020 update that allows drivers to play sounds such a bleating goat or a fart noise outside the vehicle.
• Breastfeeding mom notices baby’s hair is soaking wet, realizes her armpit is leaking milk: ‘My brain cannot comprehend this at all’
• I realize I could never be the perfect husband, but in many ways, I thought I was anideal husband. I did all sort of things to try to make my wife feel loved and appreciated. Every day for the first week of the school year, when she returned home, I greeted her as she exited the car with a freshly made margarita. Even though I thought making the bed was a waste of time, I realized it meant a lot to her, so I made the bed every day. Noticing how tired she was at the end of the school day, I tried to make things easier and more special for her by having a home cooked meal ready when she and the kids came home. So that we could have more quality time with each other, I also started doing more chores around the house like the laundry, cleaning the bathroom, grocery shopping, and tidying up the kitchen. I tried to be attentive to little traditions that she had with her family to make sure they continue, and do things I’m sure other
  husbands would easily overlook. Trying to keep the romance alive, I’d often surprise her with flowers and gifts throughout the year. I’d tell her I didn’t need a special occasion to give her a gift, that I do it at any time my heart felt like it. That is one adjustment that’s been hard to get used to. During my breaks and to pass the time, I’d often look at websites which highlighted sales and I’d spend hours looking for stuff to buy her. One thing in particular was clothing (always with a receipt. Teachers have a hard time finding good dresses with pockets. At the start and end of the school year I would send her and her team cookies or something else wishing them a great start or congratulate them on the year. When it came  to stuff in the bed room, I always made sure she was satisfied first. I never cheated or smoked or use any tobacco products. I don’t gamble or have any vices. I’ve never set foot in a strip club much less any club. I didn’t have hobbies like hunting or fishing that took me away from my family. She was never been abused. To make sure she always had a voice and a say in a matter, I’d often end our conversations asking if there was something she wanted to add or a question he wanted to ask but never had a chance to. I realized I lacked when it came income and good looks, and no matter how much I felt she neglected me, I never stopped showing her love and admiration.
• Maybe there’s a single woman who has been reading my blog for years who would like to get to know me better and be loved better than any man could love a woman. If we click, I just ask for her loyalty and respect.
• One thing that really hurts about divorce is knowing that someone totally gave up and quit on you. It also hurts more when they leave at your most vulnerable and weakest.