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• I’ve mentioned I’ve been watching ‘The Crown’ on Netflix. After watching most episodes, I’ll look for stuff online to compare factual history with the dramatic version. The last episode dealt with John and Jackie Kennedy visiting the Queen and Prince Phillip and the president’s death. In 1965, the Kennedy family was invited to Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215, for a John F. Kennedy memorial dedication ceremony. An acre was gifted to the United States so that the memorial would stand on American soil. I found these photos of the event and was touched by Prince Phillip holding John Jr.’s hand. The character in the series has annoyed me and there are things I read about him historically which hasn’t given me a good impression of the man, but these photos humanized him for me. A pompous royal simply doing a kind and fatherly thing, an act of tenderness.
• I had no idea Daisy Fuentes is married to Richard Marx.
• For my handful of Canadian readers, you may get a kick out of the Canada study guide the third-grader in GeedingManor is using to studying for a test. I think it should include “U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was born in Canada.”
• I needed to run a quick errand and DaughterGeeding tagged along, bringing with her the new pup. As soon as we exited the alley and hit the road she lifted the pup up to the window and said, “Look out the window, little puppy, that’s the world!”
• Juan Pujol García has been described as the greatest double agent of WWII.  He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler for his “extraordinary services” to Germany and an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) from Britain.
• TIME names Frisco, Texas as the best place to live in America.
• The New YorkerThe Unlikely Endurance of Christian Rock –  – The genre has been disdained by the church and mocked by secular culture. That just reassured practitioners that they were rebels on a righteous path.
• Deadpool 2 – A Blockbuster Store Has Popped Up In London And It’s Only Renting Out One Movie
• Spiders blamed after broken siren played creepy nursery rhymes randomly at night to UK townsfolk
• “When you think you are alone, you are not. You bring all your memories, relationships, advances, and setbacks.”
• Old but interesting article – The Unexpected Agony of Recording Your Own Audiobook
  – I thought I had processed the emotions in my memoir. Then I read every word aloud to a stranger.
• I wonder how Bob Barker is doing. Which makes me wonder if it’s possible for anyone to become famous for hosting a game show anymore. Ryan Seacrest and Tom Bergeron have become famous for hosting talent competitions. Game show hosts today are former actors or comedians like Drew Carry, Wayne Brady, or an athlete like Micheal Strahan. I doubt we see the likes of a Bob Barker, Pat Sajak, Alex Trebek, or a Chuck Woolery ever again. Woolery, btw, hosted ‘Wheel of Fortune’ right before Sajak.

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• We walked into our local Whataburger for lunch on Saturday and while waiting in line struck up a conversation with two members of the Black Daggers, one of the Army’s parachute demonstration teams. The guys were beyond friendly and started to banter with the kids, and on the whim, I bought their lunch. The guys decided to sit next to our family and we peppered them with all sorts of questions about jumping out of planes. They were kind enough to show us pictures and videos on their phones from previous jumps and from a jump earlier that morning for a local event. When asked about the coolest place or event they jumped into, they said landing at Arrowhead Stadium for the start of a Chiefs game was pretty dynamic. One of them said the most jumps he made in a day was fourteen.
• Even though we drive an electric car, it still has a standard 12-volt car battery. The one in our car recently died.
• I skimmed First Baptist Dallas’ Dr. Robert Refress’ Twitter feed and noticed he’s mentioned his appearance on Fox News, disagreeing with Bob Woodward, the hurricane, and plugging his own book, but hasn’t mentioned anything about the tragedy of the off-duty Dallas cop who shot a man in his own apartment thinking it was her apartment – something in his own backyard. Talk about a missed opportunity to minister to those in your own community who are questioning what’s right and just in a complex situation. The scene of the crime/accident is less than 1.5 miles from his church.
• WFAA did a very petty thing and Twitter-blocked local critic Ed Bark, but the station later remedied the situation.
• North Texas explains the (amazingly elaborate) FAKE FAIR CATCH touchdown trick
• I think it would be beyond awesome if President Trump tweeted college football opinions throughout Saturdays. It would be epic to see how fan bases would erupt.
• Les Wexner renounces Republican Party affiliation after Obama stops in Columbus
  • At an Ohio event where Obama made an unannounced stop on Thursday on his way to his Cleveland rally, one of the state’s biggest GOP donors announced he’d quit the party and likes what the former president has been saying lately about civility
• Sleazy Deceptive Politics – Ted Cruz Campaign is Mailing Donation Requests Disguised as Legal Summonses
  
• The Federalist – How Denying Infant Baptism Leads To Leftist Politics
• Not much of a role model – Vontae Davis Quit Bills, Retired at Halftime of Loss vs Chargers
• Jury: Crossroads megachurch in Grand Prairie must pay couple nearly $4M after using retirement money to expand
• All presidential administrations stage photos, but this one released by the White House is a bit ostentatious. I wonder what was going through Vice-President Pence’s mind? “He’s not wearing a tie, so I’ll take mine off, Mother told me to mimic him. I’ll also strike the arms-crossed pose that he likes.”
  
• Hong Kong typhoon footage
  https://twitter.com/Saunic/status/1041177657323401216?s=09
• Richard Marx tweeting some shade at Kenny Loggins.
• This guy has a fan for life.
  

  Shoutout Josh Donaldson for giving this little guy the memory of a lifetime pic.twitter.com/qJKiP6N2Mo

  — Starting 9 (@Starting9) September 15, 2018

• I thought the USC/Texas game was fun to watch, but this woman may not have thought so.
  https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1041137702559776768?s=09
• https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1041468308271362048

• Someone who shall not be named likes to dress up OtherDogGeedingII. It would be funny if either I or BoyGeeding could find a matching outfit.
• To answer a question from yesterday – Yes, WifeGeeding has been to George’s in Waco but no, she has never had the Big O, she claims.
• Sears did an odd thing, they stated they were going to report earnings before the market opened on Thursday but missed its own deadline and reported after the closing bell instead. No surprise, they reported yet another huge loss in the second quarter — $508 million, about twice as much as it lost a year earlier.
• My place of employment has been avoiding this terminology for a while – ‘Master/Slave’ Terminology Was Removed from Python Programming Language
• When a hurricane dominates the news, I start to wonder what important news is being overlooked because reporters are distracted doing segments in the rain and wind.