First, though, good news for Republicans, as signs are showing that the rift between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is beginning to soften.  Musk deleted the Epstein and impeachment allegations from his X platform, while Donald Trump, when asked about taking back the symbolic White House key he gifted to Musk, responded:   I don't take things back, I gave him a key, he tried very hard, praising the efforts of DOGE . About  Vladimir Putin's revenge strikes against Ukraine , he launched hundreds of drones....killing maybe four.  But how accurate were Ukraine damage to Russian bombers?   NBC  says maybe only half of the 40 cited were damaged, and some not totally.  Still, Putin hasn't quite yet ended his retaliation campaign, for Ukraine's foray was truly remarkable. Yesterday, I alerted you to two productions on television.  One of them was  Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best by PBS .  Watched it. First, this was originally show...

The USA today played France in soccer.  What hope do we have in upsetting the host nation, which is favored to win the gold in this event?  Low.  However...  Incidentally, Morocco already upset Argentina, #2 to get the Gold, 2-1. And by the way,  another team USA played two games today, in Men's Rugby 7's .  Huh?  Yes, you never heard of that, and America is sort of deficient.  However, first, they tied FRANCE. 12-12, which is the second favorite team to win the gold medal.  Alas, we got trounced by #4 Fiji, 33-5.  That's a country?  Sure, stopped by myself for a visit there last year.  Rugby is the national sport of this nation, which also today beat Uruguay 40-12.  Because of that tie, we do have hope to make the quarterfinals, and  have a 21% chance of winning one of the three medals .  Argentina is favored to win the Gold. According to this source, the  USA will win the most gold medals . Bet type: Team ...

  We returned yesterday to Honolulu after one week on the Norwegian Pride of America.  Departing Kauai. A Liberty dinner with Abraham Lincoln. The best wine on this cruise was Conundrum. Dinner. Goodbye Abe. Saturday morning, arrival in Honolulu. A rainbow greeted us. Before departing the ship, had our first breakfast. All in all it was worth the money and enjoyable.  On the other hand, there were issues that make me want to say I won't again board this ship until certain improvements occur.  For one, the WiFi was terrible.  When we asked a staff member, they uniformly said all is fine.  But I guess that this what they are told to say in that nothing was wrong because this is the way it is on this ship.  It typically took me several minutes to download a photo when it should have been two seconds.  What made it worse was that we not that long ago returned on a 53-day cruise on the Seabourn Odyssey, and in the most remote portions of the South Paci...