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- Lowe's Markets has purchased both grocery stores in Jacksboro and shut one of them down.
- Boyd PD recently received/purchased five "trucks" for its police department. And, I've heard, they are all new.
- The web site run by uber-election predictor Nate Silver says that the Democrats are perilously close to losing the Senate in the Fall. (The stuff they do is pretty interesting.)
- Something that isn't getting enough press is that discovery of a German U-Boat in the Gulf of Mexico. I heard so many people say yesterday that they had no idea that Germany was sinking ships in the Gulf during World War II. I'm right there with them.
- Deion's Prime Prep Academy was shut down by the state yesterday. The SMU recruit and Prime Prep graduate announcing he won't go to SMU one day before that is beginning to make sense.
- In this day and time of drones, Israel and Hamas firing missiles at each other is very sticks and stones like.
- Thanks for all the tips on the A/C issue yesterday. I change the inside filters and took a hose to the outside unit as suggested. If the breaker trips one more time, we'll bring in someone who knows what they are doing.
- And for those that missed it, the funniest comment told me to open up the outdoor unit and start poking around in there. It was signed by Double Fake Coker Funeral Home.
- Sports: (1) I'd flip over to the All-Star Game last night every now and then but all that Derek Jeter fawning was too much to take. (2) The Mavericks will be average to slightly above average next year. No one is calculating in Dirk's decline which has already begun. They'll be a middle rung team -- exactly where you don't want to be. (3) The Big 12 Media Guide is now online so I checked it out because I wanted to see how Baylor is now doing in the all time records section. They weren't bad. But, man, those Mike Leach years at Tech dominate the passing categories. (4) The Longhorns are worried about four of its players dining with an agent.
- On Saturday morning I came across a Batman marathon from the 1960s. I watched a couple of them and was very surprised by the subtle comedy injected in those shows. (Robin: "Trouble?" Batman: "Trouble? Oh, we've got trouble. Right here in Gotham City!")
- The Texas appeals judge arrested for DWI finally had her mugshot released. Still pretty hot.
- Man, the conservatives have to be careful in trying to justify their border security attack by basing it on the potential "diseases" that these migrant kids might have. Mark Davis has done it. Dan Patrick has done it. And Sean Hannity harps on it constantly. That's dangerously close to calling them "dirty Mexicans", no?
- By my unofficial count of indictments handed down by the last Wise County Grand Jury, 27 of the 47 indictments were for drugs. There has to be a a better way.
- The Girls In The House are a fan of American Ninja Warrior.
- Very, very late last night, the Denton City Council voted against banning fracking in the city. But regardless of that vote, the general public will vote on the issue in November. So why even mess with it last night?
