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• For the last ten days or so the muscle beneath my right eye has been twitching so I thought I’d do some research. Most likely it’s a combination of staring at computer monitors too long during work and when I blog before bedtime and stress. More entertaining though is I found eye twitching can be a superstitious thing depending on the eye and if it’s the top or bottom muscle. So my future may hold:
  • Happy events await.
  • Disaster may befall.
  • Someone far away will visit.
  • A missed blogger will return.
  • An arrival of a stranger.
  • Birth of a child.
• WifeGeeding’s father and brother caught another alligator and have now reached their bag limit.
• I graduated college in 1999 with about $37,000 in student loan debt and a lot of ignorance. For a good hour, I considered joining the U.S. Border Patrol because they offered the best student loan payoff plan at the time. I thought, how hard can that be, nothing happens at the border? I’m sure I would have been miserable with the heavy workload, depressed at what I saw, and killed by a cartel member.
• I think the last president to most recently operate a weedeater would have to be either Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush.
• The last burial at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial was in 2005 until this week. Both Pieper twin brothers died together on D-Day but only one body was retrieved and identified. The remains of the other brother were recently positively identified and now the twin brothers are reunited in burial.
• I don’t deal well with crowds or people invading my personal space, or when I think people are close to intruding my personal space, so this picture freaks me out a bit.
  
• What are the odds President Trump sends Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the border to direct any of those new tent cities housing teenage boys who illegally entered the United States with their parents?
• Trump Jr. pulls out of fundraiser for George P. Bush due to immigration criticism
• This article reminds me of this classic ‘Simpson’s’ moment, I always loved the lawyer’s reference to his case against The Neverending Story – All-you-can-eat restaurant closes after customers eat too much
• Four ‘Star Trek’ series are in the works from ‘Discovery’ showrunner –
  Including shows about Starfleet and Khan, plus an animated series.
• General Electric gets booted from the Dow – For the first time in 110 years, General Electric will not be a member of the elite Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Peter Mayhew, the original actor who was in the suit to portray Chewbacca, posted this nice Star Wars alumni photo. Carrie Fisher’s daughter is on the far left. Mayhew is on the back row and second from the left. He’s seated and everyone else is standing, yet his as tall as them.
  

• That’s WifeGeeding’s father. No, not the one on the tailgate, the man standing up wearing the hat. I don’t have the details, but all I know is that he and his son caught that alligator and then the family ate it for dinner. I bet that was a great father and son bonding moment.
• When people tell me I’m a “country boy” because I’m from Mineral Wells, Texas, I have to explain to them there’s a difference between being a living in town and living in the country. I’m a simple town boy. Finding a gator and eating it for dinner doesn’t happen to us town folk.
• I haven’t had a really good deep sleep in a while but I did the other night and had a most excellent dream about discovering and watching three new episodes of ‘The Americans’ which added on to the finale.
• I bet a certain amount of my Wise County readers, and a handful elsewhere, felt a return to normalcy yesterday, for the most part, and the better.
• Once a year a student from Baylor University calls my cell phone asking me to donate funds, and each year I politely tell them no and ask them to remove my name from whatever list they may have. I’ve never provided my phone number to anyone at Baylor for anything. Perhaps a Baylor alumnus like WifeGeeding has been pranking me all these years.
• I saw a commercial for First Baptist Dallas’ upcoming “Freedom Sunday” ceremony which showed fireworks going off inside the sanctuary. Evangelical idiocracy is getting close to its peak when you have live fireworks inside a sanctuary. As you can see from the image below, first-time visitors also get a free copy of the Dr. Robert Jeffress’ latest book.
  
• If you are a fan of Dr. Jeffress, you can go to www.InspirationCruises.com and book a ten-day trip with him to Israel for next year.
  
• First Baptist Dallas ‘America is a Christian nation’ billboard removed
• My God, this is horrible – Texas deputy sexually assaulted undocumented immigrant’s child, sheriff says “The details of the case are quite frankly heartbreaking, disturbing, disgusting and infuriating all at the same time.”
  • A Texas sheriff’s deputy was being held Monday on a charge of “super aggravated sexual assault” of a 4-year-old girl after authorities say her mother, an undocumented immigrant, was being blackmailed to stay silent about the abuse — or face deportation.
• Norm Hitzges recently did a Q&A interview for the Dallas Morning News. I wasn’t aware he had the first full-time sports talk show in morning drive time in the country.
• I got in a conversation with someone yesterday which made me track down a comment left on this blog six years ago. It’s funny the stuff that sticks with you.
• I’d say most of these parents have no idea they are doing it – ‘Helicopter Parenting’ linked to behavioural problems
• Trump says he’s directing Pentagon to create a new ‘Space Force’ – The name, ‘Space Force’, is rather prosaic and sounds like a bad cartoon. He should have used ‘Star Fleet’ just to tick off another segment of the population.
• Elon Musk emailed all of Tesla about attempted ‘sabotage’ by an employee
• I see commercials from TIME LIFE selling DVDs for old Johnny Carson shows. I think they’d make more money if they just ran old episodes on some channel in a time slot. If I was flipping channels and nothing was one, I’d tune in and take a trip down memory road. One channel did it for a while with old David Letterman ‘Late Night’ shows and it was fantastic.

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— Trump Draws (@TrumpDraws) June 19, 2018

• I didn’t intend on blogging this week because WifeGeeding and I planned on taking the kids to the beach for the first time in their lives and my focus was going to be on family and a little R and R. But sometimes life throws you a curveball, like two family members suddenly getting ill. Too bad the condo we booked doesn’t give refunds.
• The kids were feeling well enough to play in their first basketball game for the summer league they asked us to sign them up for. BoyGeeding scored the first points and got the first rebound of the entire season. DaughterGeeding didn’t score but she did play point guard and got all the assists. In this league, both boys and girls play together. DaughterGeeding was the only girl on her team and I like that she doesn’t even notice it. The kids on their teams get to choose their team names. BoyGeeding plays on the Golden Tornados. I’m not sure why they are golden, I guess it’s some kind of compromise, but I couldn’t help but think of the term “golden showers”, which would make for an interesting team name for five and six-year-olds. DaughterGeeding plays for the Ghostbusters.
• A little while back I told y’all I watched Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade with the kids. On Friday, I was flipping channels and put Jaws on, more than half the movie was already over. It caught the kids’ attention quickly, and less than a minute into the movie DaughterGeeding asked if I was watching an Indiana Jones movie. Even though she was wrong, I thought that was quite perceptive of her to see the artistic style in two different Steven Spielberg movies and make the connection.
• Even though I dislike my name, I’m glad I don’t have a name like Steven because I’m sure people spell it with “ph” all the time. I’m also glad my name isn’t Stephanie.
• My favorite Jawsit was in Dallas fact is that the first time the movie was screen in front of an audience. That theater is now a Kohl’s.
• At last week’s 2018 Republican Party of Texas Convention, a Muslim couple decided to set up a “Ask A Muslim Anything” booth. They said 90% of their interactions were nice and of course got some interesting questions.
• Want to Take a 10-Day Trip to the Space Station? It’ll Cost You $55 Million
• Taylor Swift was in Dublin to perform and U2 sent her flowers to welcome her to their hometown. The florist’s handwriting makes “Bono” look like “Buno” which gave my daughter a good laugh, that’s her bunny’s name.
• Mr. Roger’s 90-year-old widow was on Fallon last week. She looks to be in fantastic health. She shared a cute story on how her husband maintained the weight of 143 pounds because he loved the number – each digit stood for a word of the same length, spelling out ‘I love you.’
• Beyoncé and Jay-Z renting out the Louvre in Paris for a music video is quite impressive, as well as the album cover pic of them in front of the Mona Lisa.
• Infographic – The Official & Ceremonial Vehicles of 45 World Leaders
  • The ceremonial presidential vehicle in Chile is a 1966 black Ford Galaxie XL Convertible, given as a gift by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Chile.
• “I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.” – Laura Bush
• Courage