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• My eye is still twitching.
• It’s very rare to see President Trump with his suit jacket buttoned.
• Google Maps now gives you the ability to measure distances in a straight line as well as the area of any particular location.
• Wearing socks with the image of Bill Clinton, Bush41 welcomed former President Bill Clinton for a visit yesterday.
• Most Texas Republicans think point of Mueller investigation is to discredit Trump, UT/TT Poll finds
• Woman killed man she met on Farmers Only website
• Everything after the five-minute mark is just an advertisement for Audible.com.

• I’m picky about opening envelopes, I never rip them open and always use a letter opener. I still use the same two letter openers given to me in college so they are about twenty years old. One looks like a knife and is engraved and was given to me as a gift since I served as an usher in a wedding. The second was given to me by my university’s school of business and it says “Taking Care of Bidness”.
• I tend to glance over news headlines instead of actually reading them, so I thought this was another story about the adult actress, the president, and immigration – Tropical Storm Daniel forms far off Mexico’s Pacific coast
• Sam Elliot is in an interesting new movie:
  • Sam Elliott (TOMBSTONE, ROAD HOUSE) stars as a legendary World War II veteran who many years ago assassinated Adolf Hitler – an incredible secret that he’s frustratingly unable to share with the world. One day, just as he’s coming to terms with rounding out his life, Calvin gets a visit from the FBI and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They need him to take out Bigfoot.
• Recent Pew Center Research Data:
  • Voters trust Republicans more on terrorism, the economy, the budget deficit, taxes, and trade
  • Voters trust Democrats more on the environment, immigration healthcare, foreign  policy, and gun policy
• Short answer, the state – Who Owns the New Land Created By a Volcano in Hawaii?
• Short answer, they work really hard at it – Why There Are No Mosquitoes at Disney World
• Air Force veteran MJ Hegar is running as a Democrat in the 31st Congressional District in Texas. Her campaign created an impressive campaign video and is getting a lot of buzz. Even if you disagree with her political stance, I think you’ll still agree it was well produced and put together.
• Just outside Austin, you can watch JAWS as the sun sets while floating in a comfortable inner tube on a lake.
  • This year’s inner tubes are specially designed for Jaws On The Water, with headrests and cup holders to ensure maximum comfort (though, as chum for unseen marine beasts, you’ll never be THAT comfortable). You’ll even get to take them home, should you survive.
    
• Last week a billboard in West Texas encouraging liberals to leave Texas made the news. A more positive one was spotted in Amarillo recently.
• Saudi Moves Forward With Plan to Turn Qatar Into Island
  • Saudi Arabia is moving forward with a plan to dig a canal that would physically enshrine its yearlong rift with Qatar by turning the emirate from a peninsula bordering the kingdom into an island, Saudi media reported on Tuesday.
  • This gives me an idea. Maybe the U.S. should do something like this, widen the Rio Grande by about ten miles and divert the water to become a physical border all the way to the Pacific Ocean making it the world’s largest canal.
• 13-year-old LeBron James Jr. just inches away from throwing down first in-game dunk
• What a glorious way to leave the world – ‘Teacher to the end’: Family, friends fulfill educator’s final request at funeral
  
  Per Reddit: About 100 teachers who had worked with Tammy over the years served as honorary pallbearers and carried the backpacks full of supplies back to their schools.
  
  
• One in three American drivers can’t tell if their tires are bald
• The kid has some high standards

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• Bob Sturm of The TICKET mentioned he’s now working for Troy Aikman providing special statistics and analysis for him and will even travel with him during the football season. Aikman has express become a GM one day, and we know that won’t happen in Dallas, but I’m sure many see him in that role like Elway. I expect wherever Aikman lands, Sturm will follow and that will be the end of BaD Radio. I say this happens in about five years when Troy’s youngest graduates high school. I don’t know her age, but I know he wants to be with his girls so I expect him to stay in the booth until she’s out of high school.
• Progressive Insurance has been using Flo for their commercial for quite a while and the bit doesn’t bother me. However, the Ozarka sparking water with the slow-mo models is played ad nauseam.
• There’s a story behind the First Lady wearing that particular jacket yesterday, she didn’t simply just wear that jacket on the first day of summer and there are plenty of advisers and handlers around to assist her. Someone is sending a message. That jacket is not “just a jacket”. You’ll soon see a report on how the $37 jacket is sold out at stores. It will be the highest selling jacket of any summer.
• I like all the bright colors Queen Elizabeth wears.
• I saw chatter, but nothing confirmed, that an Oreo with four times the stuffing is scheduled for grocery stores in January. The Double Stuf Oreo is already perfect, even though it only consists of only 1.86 times more “stuf”. And yes, the correct spelling is “Stuf”.
• Amid immigration debate, feds moving ahead with land seizures for South Texas border wall
• Judge Who Literally Wrote the Book on Corruption Indicted on Fraud Charges
• Madagascar – Why One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla
• Kate Spade’s father dies one night before daughter’s funeral
• “Gerrymandering” was named for Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
• The National Park Service has approved an application for the group behind the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville to host a one-year anniversary rally near the White House.
• I’m not a fan of the grilled cheese sandwich.