Fourth of July Weekend Thread
- Sen. Lindsey Graham, RIP
- Saturday thread with new poll
- Finally Friday
- Ossoff up Four in Georgia
- Michigan Dem Primary Close
New Book:
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Happy 250th USA!
128 responses to “Happy 250th USA!”
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even though he voted to strike the order on statutory grounds.”
That is why the vote was 6-3.
janzam is a lying moron who has already said the vote was 5-1-3 (no) and now says it was 5-4 (no).
The vote on whether Trump’s order was constitutional was 6-3 no matter how many times janzam lies about it.
The janzam lied saying other countries do not have birthright citizenship, when dozens do just in this hemisphere.
As for congressional action, the odds congress will void birthright citizenship are nil. A constitutional amendment has even lower odds.
Dems universally support it and many conservatives do too.
I would support some narrow measures to prevent so called birthright tourism. Perhaps a pregnancy question when issuing the visa, so it would be easier to deport the parents if they violate the visa.
But in my view, children are not responsible for where they are born. I think if they are born in the US, the legal status of their parents should not matter.
We should WANT them to grow up to be patriotic American citizens, serve in the military, become US soccer stars like Folarin Balogun.
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hen trouble finding our car in parking lot near Green lot stop 10 at Dulles airport…we got on a green lot bus. the green shuttle bus stops at green lot stops 1 through 8, then at stops 13 through 20 whatever. At stop 13 we talk with our green bus driver about stop 10. He says green lot stops 9 through 12 are stops made by the blue lot busses, not any green lot busses. “
Funny, the exact same thing happened to me at the exact same stop 3 weeks ago. I was sure I was in the Green lot at stop 10, but I did notice it was the blue bus that took me to the terminal. I thought it was just that they had rerouted a blue bus through the Green Lot, so I took the green bus. The only difference was that the green bus driver was nice enough to drop me off at Stop 10 because I was the only passenger.
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Bitterlaw
Here is my plan:
1. Seal the border. Pretty good job so far.
2. Deport illegals. Not going to get all of them so start with the violent/dangerous ones.
3. Try to shut down birth tourism. Won’t fully succeed but try.
4. Born here? Citizen.
5. Work permits but actually enforce time limit.
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Jan – Let me explain. It was 6-3. A concurring opinion means the Justice agreed with the result. What you are trying to do is pretend they did not. It would be like reporting a 3-1 baseball score as 2-1-1 because the winning team had an unearned run because of a wild pitch.
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amazing the USA was allowed to play in the world cup, given the woke push for inclusion with Chad, Liberia, Madagascar and so many others left out
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I failed to credit Bitter for the “let me explain” post. My bad.
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Not all news is bad for Janzam and Tina…
“A ferocious Russian attack on Kyiv Thursday killed at least 30 people, making it the third deadliest assault against the Ukrainian capital since the start of the war.”
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why didn’t the Vatican get to play in the world cup? Leo could be the coach, given he is a failure as Pope
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Soccer is the greatest (and most popular) sport on Earth.
That being said, I agree that FIFA has carried the “inclusiveness” meme too far.
Having Curação, Qatar and Haiti while Italy, Denmark and Poland are out makes zero sense.
I propose a system similar to baseball and other sports where you have a World Cup for the best teams according to FIFA rankings and a World Cup B for the those ranked outside the top 60 for example.
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why didn’t the Vatican get to play in the world cup?”
They could probably field a good team if you let priests from all over the world play.
There are over 400k priests in the world.
That’s like 2.5 times the population of Curaçao.
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Of course, allowing only Catholic priests to play for the Vatican would be discriminatory and racist, so the Vatican would have to allow rabbis and Imams.
Yeah, medicine men and witch doctors would have to be included, fair is fair.
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Chile also left out
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DW opened up this thread with a wish more people should have for this country – that we are able to thwart the socialism/communism that so many seem to embrace these days. We have our American flag up and I am appreciating it being there more than ever before…..Happy 4th of July to everyone.
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Didn’t the FIFA teams have to win to get in?
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My flag is out every day. I am 365x more patriotic.
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win to get in? That was the 80s. Now we live in the age when everyone gets a participation trophy
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argentina will win today 2-0, Colombia 1-0
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Australia wins 1-0
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Look on the bright side. Except for Walt, none of us will be here for the tricentennial. The future of America won’t impact us.
If we are honest, most generations are not happy with how the next one changes the country. The Founders would freak at Andrew Jackson’s populism. The next generation got swamped by Irish Catholics and hated it. Then the Irish assimilated enough to hate Jews and Italians….And a lot of Americans hated the Civil Rights movement. Etc…..
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Didn’t the FIFA teams have to win to get in?”
They play regionally. So Curacao qualifies by beating Barbados and Aruba, etc.
Meanwhile Poland had to play The Netherlands and Sweden.
Cape Verde? They played the likes of Mauritius and Eswatini.
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Australia wins 1-0″
Their performance in the penalty shootout was horrendous.
They are out.
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My flag is out every day. “
They haven’t banned the US flag yet in Radnor?
Bitter’s woke friends and neighbors are sleeping on the job.
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Zzzzzzzzzz Most houses on my street have American flags displayed AND tomorrow’s Independence Day parade literally comes up my street.
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ABC just showed a light show at the Statue of Liberty. One section of the production used colored lights to show what it looked like before the copper turned green. Very cool.
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jason,
No, soccer is not the best sport on earth.
Far from it.
For excitement and clarity of rules sucky soccer ranks behind and lower than fake wrestling [aka ‘rasslin’], bowling, archery, dijamadoo tossing, bocce ball, midget tossing, lawn darts, jenga, quoits, horseshoes, marbles, cow tipping, ladder ball, Skipbo, kick the can, hunt the gray fox, frisbee golf, hog calling, frog licking, limbo contests, cake walks, musical chairs, demolition derby, and even mumblypeg.
Granted, that fewer deadly riots broke out in marble tournaments midget tossing contests, musical chairs playoffs, etc as compared to suck…er, soccer.
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Ok I will take the bait.
Soccer (or football, as it is known globally) is the most popular sport in the world, boasting an estimated 3.5 billion fans. Its global dominance is driven by its simple rules, minimal required equipment, and massive international tournaments like the FIFA World Cup. [1, 2]
Global Dominance
Soccer stands as the undisputed champion of the sporting world. It completely dominates the international landscape in terms of both viewership and active participation. [1]
- Fanbase: It commands roughly 3.5 billion followers across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
- Global Reach: The quadrennial FIFA World Cup is one of the most-watched sporting events on the planet, often drawing billions of viewers across its month-long duration.
- Accessibility: The sport’s incredible rise is heavily attributed to its low barrier to entry. All that is needed is a ball and a designated space, allowing anyone, anywhere, to play
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It’s even more popular than baseball in the US, no surprise there.
“In 2024, before World Cup fever took over North America, soccer had already dethroned baseball as the third most popular sport in the U.S.
Using data from Ampere Analysis, a market research firm that focuses on media, entertainment, and sports, The Economist published a list of the most popular sports in the U.S. based on the share of fans.
According to the firm, American football is the most popular sport in the U.S., with a 36% share of fans. The results were as follows:
- American football- 36%
- Basketball- 17%
- Soccer- 10%
- Baseball- 9%
- Ice hockey- 4%
- Tennis- 3%
- Boxing- 3%
And soccer is only going to get more popular, given that American children like soccer even more than adults.
According to a 2024 study by the Aspen Institute, the population ages 6 to 17 prefers soccer over American football. Among the youngest ones, basketball, baseball, and soccer are the most popular sports.
Per the study, the share of children participating in different sports goes as follows:
- Basketball- 13.7%
- Baseball- 11.7%
- Soccer- 7.5%
- Flag and tackle football- 6.7% (between 2019 and 2024, tackle football became 7% less popular, while flag football grew 13.6% more popular)
- Tennis- 6.5% (the fastest-growing sport between 2019 and 2024)
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And as the wokesters water down football with non stop Marxist messaging and pussyfoot rules, American football will lose ground to soccer.
You read it first here.
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tackle football became 7% less popular, while flag football grew 13.6% more popular)”
Eventually, the NFL will become white flag football played between the Philadelphia Peace Doves vs. the Pittsburgh Eco Defenders (started out as Eco Warriors but someone claiming to belong to the Monongahela Tribe (extinct in 1635) claimed “Warrior” was offensive to him so they changed it.
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Zzzzzzzzzz Most houses on my street have American flags “
Hey, Ma, let’s use the old and tried Bitter’s friends and family bait, still works.
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South Africa – out
Senegal – out
Algeria – out
Ivory Coast – out
Congo – out
Cape Verde – out
Ghana – out
Egypt and Morocco survived but Egypt is ranked 25th and Morocco 6th in the world.
So the woke talking head meme is that they “played very well” , “exceeded expectations and “proved they deserve to be in the WC”.
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Soccer is popular in Europe where socialism rules.
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c74y970len4o
Germany -Out
Netherlands -OutCroatia -Out
Australia – Out
South Korea – Out
Turkey – Out
Scotland – Out
Apparently, Jason must think these teams were also undeserving.
The U.S. was probably another weak and undeserving choice
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And China, India and Bangladesh were not in the World Cup but they represent a huge chunk of the world population
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I tend to ignore arguments with people that constantly defends either a sport or a past president with trivial factoids.
If you like a sport, good for you. If you admire a past president, ditto.
Personally, I love baseball. But I’m not going to bore with the reasons why.
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Apparently, Jason must think these teams were also undeserving.”
Germany and the Netherlands lost on penalty shootouts, but they should have won the games outright. They dug their own graves.
Croatia is an excellent team, but they got a bad draw and played another good team, Portugal. Only one could survive.
Australia, South Korea, Turkey and Scotland sucked.
But it actually proves my point. The African teams were not “underserving” to advance, they did so according to the tournament rules, they just didn’t merit the hype that went with it.
In the end, none of the lower ranked African teams survived against better teams.
In my view, what it means is that the FIFA corrupt strategy of including a lot of lower ranked African, ME and Asian/Oceania teams at the expense of much better European teams is a failure.
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At the moment there are only 3 “Cinderella” teams that could surprise and make into the round of 16, defined as ranked 30 or lower.
Paraguay, Norway and Canada.
Everyone else is ranked in the top 20
Note that that of the ten top ranked teams, only Germany and the Netherlands are out.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/46664763/fifa-mens-top-50-world-rankings
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How many of these “Honorable Mentions” are still in?
Zero.
Honorable Mentions (teams outside the Top 50 who qualified for 2026 World Cup):
56. Qatar
57. Iraq
60. South Africa
61. Saudi Arabia
63. Jordan
64. Bosnia and Herzegovina
67. Cape Verde
73. Ghana
82. Curaçao
83. Haiti
85. New Zealand
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But heck, they all have one vote in electing the FIFA leadership/
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FIFA = Fraudulent Inclusion Football Association
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FIRST, let me SECOND the idea to be the THIRD to wish everyone a happy FOURTH of July happy birthday to the U. S. of A.
Go drink a FIFTH!
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The U.S. has been a remarkable and unique country since its inception. Providing an ideal that many other countries used to model themselves after.
The U.S. has shaped the world like no other country before.
The U.S. is not and has never been perfect, but it remains the best nation on earth.
Yes we have had flawed chapters, magnified by looking backward 150 or more years from a modern perspective with modern day values. But we have changed the world for the better. Led the worldwide industrial revolution.
First to show up and provide help when disasters hit hit other countries.
The major country whose entry ended WWI, and WW II, won the cold war, led the war against worldwide whackadoodle terrorism from Iraq, Osama Bin Laden, Islamic jihadists, and now Iran whack jobs.
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There are lots of interesting events going on celebrating 250 – Mt. Rushmore fireworks, music; tall ships circling in NY Harbor; air shows in NY and DC; documentaries aired on some stations. Patriotism is being stoked by this symbolic display of America’s legacy. The speech given by Trump at Mt. Rushmore was a direct rebuke of Mamdani’s one on the morning of the 3rd chastising this county and subtly invoking a call for communism.
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Americans are people who understand that the best society possible is one full of winners and losers, but where everyone who wished to work hard has the freedom and opportunity to be winner.
Mamdani and the socialist/communist direction he represents sees society as full of equally endowed losers who have no path to become winners, with himself and his ilk ruling and living like kings over all the losers.
Historic liberal democrats thought the best way forward to make more winners was by government intervention with a heavy hand to force more winners whether or not individuals wanted to work hard to become a winner.
But Mamdani’s plan for the country is radically different in that he wants to use the heavy hand of government to ensure everyone is a loser without hope.
May God bless America by waking up enough voters to stop this, before they vote themselves into perpetual and endless poverty and hopelessness.
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America…
where else could a guy like Booker T. Washington–born into slavery–later become famous for inventng peanut butter and then later make a big impact on the American music scene when he started his band, Booker T. and the MGs.
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Morocco running up the score against Canada, 2-0
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“where else could a guy like Booker T. Washington–born into slavery–later become famous for inventng peanut butter and then later make a big impact on the American music scene when he started his band, Booker T. and the MGs.”
Nowhere.
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At the moment there are only 3 “Cinderella” teams that could surprise and make into the round of 16, defined as ranked 30 or lower.”
And now there are 2.
If France beats Paraguay, there will be 1.
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‘become INfamous for inventng peanut butter”
Fixed it for DW.
Peanut butter is an abomination that should be banned by RFKjr.
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I think I had peanut butter for the first and last time in the Army. Same for creamed chipped beef on toast, known as SOS (sh-t on a shingle).
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Personally, I love baseball. But I’m not going to bore with the reasons why.”
Sounds like John Goggin couldn’t think of any reasons….
Ok, ok, just kidding.
I am sure baseball is. great game.
I didn’t grow up with American football and grew to like it a lot to the point I watched a lot more of it than soccer, until the Marxists ruined it for me.
But I guess baseball was a bridge too far.
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104 degrees here now. In a little while we are going out to a big shindig at a home of an india-American family. Will be several hundred people there 75% of whom will be India-Americans , first, second and third generation. They love America.
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So the only African countries left in the world cup are two that are on the Mediterranean and historically have as much more to do with Mediterranean life as opposed to life in the rest of Africa further south.
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Check out this video, “independence day speech bill pullman” https://share.google/Ct0CKx0iqMMZPIH26
The greatest Independence Day speech.
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I guess I should watch that movie.
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It does deal with illegal aliens. Space ones.
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I will have to stand over my tomatoes with an umbrella. The peppers and eggplant seem strong enough.
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Morocco looked a lot better than France today
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Actually only in the second half.
In the first half Canada dominated.
I think France is going all the way. But Morocco will be tough to beat.
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Polymarket says there is a 66% chance the WC winner will be either France, Argentina or Spain.
The US is at 2nd %.
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2%
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Morocco is only at 3%. I think it should be more like 10%
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My garden is safe thanks to Jason’s early warning.
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As a reward you can send me, huh, donate to the food pantry some of the harvest.
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There are fallen branches and all kinds of debris all over the place.
I am sorry my wife will have to deal with it instead of watching WC games.
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today’s predictions, Mexico 2-1 and Brazil 2-0
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England is a better team than Mexico.
But Mexico City is at 7400 ft, so England could tire out especially if there is overtime.
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Compounding the altitude problem, Mexico City is very smoggy.
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When I used to go there on business, the Mexicans had a 5 tequila lunch at 3pm and then wanted to return to the office to work. I remember saying sorry, muchachos, my business day is over, although ready for more tequilas at the hotel bar.
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According to the “Most Patriotic States in America” Virginia is #1, followed by Montana, Vermont, Oregon and Colorado.
They used dozens of categories to get their findings.
The 19 blue states that voted for Kamala Harris were more patriotic than the 31 states that voted for Trump
https://wallethub.com/edu/most-patriotic-states/13680
Go figure.
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USA soccer player Balogun cleared to play against Belgium tomorrow afternoon in Seattle.
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I think it promotes violence when soccer rules say ties will be decided by a shootout.
Watching a bunch of people running amok in soccer is about as entertaining as watching a bunch of looters running around. At least the looters have enough sense to use their hands to cart off armloads of pilfered items.
I would watch professional looting shows if, like soccer, looters could only use their feet. And looters could be an issued red cards for violations that bench forr the next riot/looting event.
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I will say that soccer is the only sport that allows viewers to take an hour long nap and not miss anything.
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The 19 blue states that voted for Kamala Harris were more patriotic than the 31 states that voted for Trump”
Sounds like the “Presidential Historians” who always pick Democrats as the best Presidents.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was involved in a hit and run Friday in California’s wine country that left one car with “major damage,” according to local authorities, who said the 86-year-old could face misdemeanor charges.
Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible in Yountville, a small town in Napa County, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then drove away, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said.”
Maybe “wine country” the operative word?
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Norway 2 Brazil 1
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Why did 7 minutes of stoppage time take more than eleven minutes to play? Did they get the 1972?Olympic basketball judges out of retirement to work the clock?
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That’s an upset.
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FIFA admits ref screwed up on the red card. It was the other player that initiated the contact. Ridiculous a red card was even given.
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Lots of poor kids living on some Pacific island? Need to keep them occupied?
Toss out a coconut and have them kick it around and call it soccer…
Same for kids in Afghanistan, throw out a goat head…
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I think there should be a rule that any incoming president must put his assets in a blind trust.
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I don’t. Trump has too many companies to lose complete control of them. i am fine with an irrevocable trust so that his sons run his companies.
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England 2 Mexico 1 so far.
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today’s predictions, Mexico 2-1 and Brazil 2-0
My prediction
Brazil 1 Norway 1 Brazil wins penalty shootout
England 3-1
So far my predictions are better.
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England 2 Mexico 1 halftime
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I guess Brazil was just another woke effort to include a South American country.
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I also oppose barring congress members from owning stocks.
If you can prove insider trading, prove it.
If you can’t, f–k off.
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I guess Brazil was just another woke effort to include a South American country.”
All the SA countries in the WC deserved to be in. The SA qualification is like the European, very competitve.
Same problem. Chile is out, Curacao and Haiti are in.
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I survived another tornado warning.
I couldn’t take shelter as my phone was telling me to do because I didn’t want to miss the game.
My wife and the cat went to the basement. Me and Lupita rode it out.
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WV NEWS…
In Parkersburg on the Ohio River in the extreme western part of the state there is a million Sq. Ft. Warehouse that has been burning for 24 hours. It stores plastic pellets and batteries…
Huge plume of thick black smoke has been blowing from there all day.
In the middle of WV they have gotten a lot of rain, 2 inches an hour, and have flash flood warnings up.
Here in the eastern panhandle in the far east of WV we just got an extended pounding of sustained heavy rain.
All the rain is heading NW
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Checked the rain guage…
2.6 inches of rain in about 50 minutes here near Martinsburg. Still sprinkling.
We also got 1.3 inches of rain on July 4.
we need it.
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English player sent off with red card, another BS call.
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BTW, they are nowhere close to putting out the big warehouse fire in Parkersburg.
Not putting water on the warehouse fire itself. Trying to keep flames from other e
Warehouses and buildings not too far away. Not is any residential section.
It looks like it will burn and put off this big plume of toxic black smoke for at least another day or two…or longer….
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I play bridge Monday and Thursday.
Driving Goofball on Tuesday morning. Rest of Tuesday chores to get ready for next soiree here at the house on Wednesday…
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England is getting ripped off.
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I wonder when I am going to be invited to one of the soirées.
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11 extra minutes, England getting robbed blind.
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Another upset today,
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England 3 Mexico 2
This was no upset, England is a much better team, I predicted 3-1 even in the altitude.
But England had a lot of bad calls against it, including a dubious expulsion and a dubious penalty, and in the end they gave Mexico an unheard of at the WC 12 extra minutes of 11 against 10.
England now a serious contender, overcoming that kind of adversity builds confidence.
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Norway vs Brazil was an upset but not a huge one.
Norway has a guy that has scored in the last 14 games for Norway, and scored 62 goals in the last 54 games for Norway, an almost impossible average to achieve.
Norway NEVER lost to Brazil.
Brazil was not playing well, they beat Japan on the last second with a lucky goal.
That is why Brazil was only given a 6% chance of winning the cup and only 50% chance of beating Norway on Polymarket.
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England was the favorite to win this game.
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