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• It’s starting to look like the historic meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un won’t take place. It was always hard for me to believe he would ever leave his country out of fear and paranoia, he’s only left it once as the ruling leader and that was to boarding country and ally China. When the notion of the meeting taking place at the DMZ, that’s when I thought things would really take place.
• CBS11 had a segment on the high salary and perks of area school superintendents. For instance, Grand Prairie ISD will pay Dr. Susan Hull an additional $75,000 this year, on top of her $390,795 salary, which includes items such as a $1,000 monthly housing allowance, $1,000 monthly automobile allowance, and $50,000 district investment as a “retention supplement”. But it was this a $1.2 million interest-free loan for Highland Parks’s superintendent that made me raise an eyebrow.
• Valley Ranch, the old home of the Cowboys, will be turned into single-family housing.
• SiriusXM will have a dedicated U2 station for the entire month of June.
• You can add celery to my list of enemies.
• Three neurosurgeons from India wrote a paper on Michael Jackson’s iconic “Smooth Criminal” lean.
  • So no — MJ’s shoe-hitch isn’t new news, but, as the neurosurgeons elaborate, the mind-boggling feat could only occur with incredible core strength from the spinal and lower-limb muscles.
  • Trained dancers can lean forward a maximum of 25 to 30 degrees, but even then, it can put serious strain on the Achilles tendon. . .  the King of Pop achieved the 45-degree lean while keeping his spine straight, not just on video, but in live performances around the world.
• Just a few more episodes left of ‘The Americans’ – I was chief of disguise at CIA. ‘The Americans’ got a lot right
• YouTube – KTLA helicopter started following the wrong car in a pursuit
• Judge orders 30-year-old son to leave parents’ home after they sued him
• I share a lot of the same readers as LiberallyLean.com, and I too have noticed his unexpected absence and because of it, my morning schedule is also a bit off kilter. I have no news to share, and even if I did, that’s something for him to share, not me. Whatever is the case, I just want safety and happiness for him and his loved ones. Courage.

• Vic Cunningham is running for Dallas County Commissioner and admits to setting up a payout in a trust if his kids marry a white Christian of the opposite sex.
• Behind the Scenes at the Disney ‘Morgue’ Where Animation History Is Being Saved
• TCU’s Sarah Rose Summers, Miss Nebraska, won Miss USA. Is she eligible to be the next university queen?
• Gov. Greg Abbott cancels shotgun giveaway after Santa Fe shooting
• I’m not saying any of this is Gov. Abbott’s fault, but the deadliest school shooting in Texas history (since the U.T. Tower shooting) and the deadliest church shooting has happened under his tenure. That’s got to weigh on a person.
• How the eel’s double jaw works
  

• I had no plans on watching the royal wedding but I got sucked into a replaying of it and actually enjoyed it. I guess it was the modernization and the black American influence infiltrating the traditional British royalism. Only the most stone-hearted of individuals wouldn’t have liked the performance of “Stand By Me”.
• I noticed the NBC anchors went out of their way to say they didn’t provide any commentary during the service. During the last two opening ceremonies for the Olympics, they were ridiculed for providing too much commentary and not allowing the viewer to simply take in the experience.
• I’m familiar with the Episcopal church, but not enough to know someone in the church would have the title of The Most Reverend, like the Chicago pastor who delivered the sermon at the royal wedding, The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, the presiding bishop of the American Episcopal Church. Research tells me The Most Reverend is not an office but a courtesy title used when addressing a high member of the clergy such as an Anglican archbishop, or a Roman Catholic bishop. Curry’s sermon stood out because it ran a bit long and it was emotional, but WifeGeeding noticed he used an iPad to refer to his notes. I guess that’s another way the wedding was “modernized”.
• I may have mentioned this before, but when Queen Elizabeth dies and Prince Charles becomes king, he has the option of choosing any of his given names as his regnal name, Charles Philip Arthur George. So that means he could become King Arthur, which would be very cool. He’ll probably go by Charles for familiarity, but he’d actually be King Charles III. However, the previous two Charles weren’t looked at favorable, Charles I was the only member of the monarchy to be tried and executed for treason, and his son, Charles II, was known for his raucous romantic life. If he were to go by George, he’d be King George V, the previous George was his grandfather. There have been no King Phillip so if chose that he’d be the first.
• Queen Elizabeth has been ruling for over 66 years, which means people of the kingdom haven’t had to sing “God Save the King” in quite some time. Here’s a thirteen-year-old Julie Andrews singing “God Save The King” for George VI in 1948.
• NBCDFW.com – Bulletproof Safe Rooms Latest Innovation to Protect Students From Active Shooter
  • The shelters come equipped with double-steeled walls – the same material used to build military tanks They can withstand bullets from handguns, assault weapons and shotgun blasts.
  • Haugen estimates the shelters would cost about $20,000 per classroom. He said the district would like to be able to connect two rooms to one shelter if possible. Carroll ISD is considering having the shelters installed at some of its elementary schools.
  • In about 30 seconds, nearly 33 elementary school-aged children and their teacher can file into the structure to create an impenetrable barrier between the shooter and potential victims. The shelters could fit about 17 high school students.
• Texas governor’s website continues to tout shotgun giveaway in aftermath of school shooting
• I’m not sure why I’ve been avoiding this story, but I certainly remember several SBC pastors in my youth and college years using very similar stories of an abused wife who takes no action but pray and eventually gets her husband to take part in church.
  • The Dallas Morning News – What to know about the Southern Baptists’ #MeToo moment
• FiveThirtyEight – Just 21% of U.S. adults are on Twitter, and only 15% of all Republican voters follow @realDonaldTrump on Twitter.
• What the heck is up with Bobby Darin’s “Beyond The Sea”? I heard that song three times on the radio this weekend.
• A few pics of WifeGeeding doing goat yoga.
  

• WifeGeeding scored a great deal at the local water park hotel so we stayed there last night. We get access to the park for two days and it made for a great early birthday present for DaughterGeeding. My back held up better than I expected on the rides. Not only did the kids get to play at a waterpark after school yesterday, but it was also track and field day at their school. They were knocked out.
• Tomorrow, WifeGeeding will attend a goat yoga session. It’s basically yoga with goats walking on your body.
• I’m not a morning person, but this new book has caught my attention – My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired. One of the authors was recently interviewed and he stated his interviewees average a 10:57 p.m. bedtime and a 6:24 am wakeup.
• @BobbyBeltTX – Cowboys OL coach Paul Alexander wrote in his book “Perform” about how he can rule out certain offensive lineman playing for him by the way they dispense ketchup from a bottle. [pic] [article]
• Chinese school uses facial recognition to make kids pay attention
• I always thought him wearing that white suit against a black background with huge long slender letters of his name was exceptionally cool – Elvis Presley’s ’68 Comeback Special Gets 50th Anniversary Celebration On NBC
• When it comes to dogs greeting kids coming home from school, there are no two cuter GIFs

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Dog is super excited to see his tiny human coming home!