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Trump to present trophy at World Cup Finals
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Almost 90 degrees today but rain is in the forecast for the rest of the week. 
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He'll probably try to nick it.
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He'll probably try to nick it.
The guy receiving it might lick it......
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Democrats will lose the midterms thanks to Mamdani.....
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My sister wants to go play trivia tonight.  I was planning on not imbibing until we go to the beach for the 4th. Then going dry again.  I have been waiting to feel motivated to start running and go dry.  It am feeling it.  I need to drop 30 pounds.  That's about all I can lose. 

I sleep so much better too laying off the sauce.  I have been drinking too much since I broke up with my girl.
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I like to run and cool down for 1.5 hours and then do a half hour trail walk in the woods around my subdivision.  I'll have to take it easy at first.
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I wasn't even gonna drink on Father's Day.  When we got to my folks my dad pulls out a couple of IPA tall boys that he got for me.  I said, okay, I'll just have one.  One turned into 3 or 4, lol.  They are such bad influences.  😜
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My dad and I were playing my aunt and black sheep bro in pinochle, until he had a melt down and quit.  Then my boys, who had never played before played with me and my aunt.  I hadn't played since I was maybe 16 or 17 years old, but it came back quick. 

My German side used to play a similar game called 66.
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"Sixty-Six (or 66) is a fast-paced, 2-player trick-and-draw card game played with 24 cards (Aces down to 9s). The objective is to be the first to reach 66 points by winning tricks and declaring "marriages" (King and Queen pairs).

The Basics:

The Deck: 24 cards, stripped from a standard deck: A, 10, K, Q, J, 9.Card Values: Aces (11 points), 10s (10), Kings (4), Queens (3), Jacks (2), and 9s (0).Setup:

Each player is dealt 6 cards. The remaining deck is placed face-down, with the very bottom card flipped face-up. This face-up card establishes the trump suit.

How to play:  The Lead: The non-dealer leads the first trick.

Trick Rules (Phase 1): In the early game, players do not have to follow suit or even play a trump card. The highest card of the led suit—or the highest trump card played—wins the trick.

Drawing: The winner of the trick draws the top card from the deck, followed by the loser.

Trump Exchange: If you hold the 9 of trumps, you can swap it for the face-up trump card as long as you've won at least one trick."

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It's similar to pinochle, but with half a deck and only two players.
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I said Family Feud.
Cassidy had it with him. Good for him.

Trump’s Capitol visit devolves into shouting match with GOP senator he helped oust in primary fight

In the month since President Donald Trump put a decisive end to Sen. Bill Cassidy’s congressional career, the Louisiana senator has become one of the president’s sharpest critics in the halls of the US Capitol.

But as they stood face to face in a Wednesday meeting at the Capitol, the two Republicans unleashed anger at each other in a shouting match in front of dozens of their Senate GOP colleagues.

The testy back-and-forth began, according to Cassidy, as Trump demanded to know why members of his own party — including Cassidy — voted with Democrats a day earlier to rebuke the president’s military authority in Iran.


“I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on,’” Cassidy recalled after the meeting, describing what he told the president behind closed-doors. “It was supposed to last four weeks, it’s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved, and I want to know what’s going on.”

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 From there, according to multiple sources in the room, a furious Trump went after Cassidy, raising his voice. Cassidy recalled that he “lost his temper” and was shouting back at the same “tone and volume” as the president.

At one point inside the luncheon, Trump ordered Cassidy to sit down — but Cassidy refused, another source said. Trump then called him a “lunatic.” In return, Cassidy shouted at Trump, in one instance referring to Trump as his “brother.” Trump told him he wasn’t his “brother” — and eventually Cassidy sat down.

The tense, roughly 70-minute meeting between Trump and GOP senators comes amid rising tensions as the president has repeatedly upended key pieces of the Republican agenda on Capitol Hill. While Trump has spent much of his second term circumventing Congress to satisfy his own aims — from firing federal workers, blowing up budgets, even waging a war — a growing bloc within his party is willing to say they’ve had enough.

House and Senate GOP leaders are eager to move beyond some of Trump’s personal priorities — including an elections overhaul bill that lacks the votes to pass the Senate — and instead work on cost-of-living issues to tout back home. But they’re confronting a particularly unpredictable version of Trump who seems to care little about the party’s efforts at a carefully coordinated midterm strategy. Inside the Capitol, senior Republicans are exasperated by the president’s behavior over the last several weeks, with some insisting he is getting “bad advice” from his team, according to multiple GOP sources.

“They’re pretty exasperated by it all,” said one Republican who’s spoken with several vulnerable GOP lawmakers, describing them as increasingly dismayed by Trump’s declining approval ratings. “They see the same data everyone else sees, but they also don’t want to get into a position where they’re in a sniping match with the president.”
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Games being here I have no problem with that.
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Supreme Court to hand down important decisions tomorrow sounds like.
 Losing birthright citizenship case likely send Trump ballistic.
 Also rulings on if mail in ballots have to arrive by election day.
Firing of Lisa Cook-Federal Reserve

The Supreme Court’s next rulings could set Trump off
The justices will hand down rulings Thursday.
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Now, Trump is staring down a high likelihood of defeat on another issue key to his political agenda: his attempt to end the nation’s century-long tradition of granting citizenship to almost everyone born on U.S. soil. Trump, who underscored his interest in the birthright issue by taking the unprecedented step of showing up in-person for the high court’s arguments on it in April, seems resigned to losing. He said on Truth Social last month that the justices would “probably” rule against his policy because the court system is “rigged.”
(Rigged by that dang Constitution)

The justices also have the chance to complicate Trump’s immigration policies if they conclude his administration cut too many corners in trying to end special protections that allow citizens of war-torn and disaster-stricken countries to legally live and work in the U.S., sometimes for decades.

Roughly dozen decisions left. Court likely to add more decision days before June 30 when normally been wrapped up

 

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