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I'm not a gambler but why would you share accounts? Is there an incentive on volume?

In 2021 we were lucky in that we had people doing the honorable thing. now the honorable thing could be Luigi.

I follow a cosplay influencer on social media who left the country. She said something insightful today. Our government system is based on the honor system. Who will stop trump? Even if congress fought him. And the courts agree. Then what? Who physically prevents his people from accessing a system? The FBI? Looks like they are compromised. Congress can scream and have hearings…. But in terms of enforcing the rules that’s under Trump. We are passed the point of cooler heads prevailing. Federal money for elections? Nope. Not paying that. Sorry. There’s a border emergency. Want Social security checks? Ok. Give me a third term. Even if he’s impeached or voted out he will just pardon everybody involved or JD will do it because “Biden did it”.

I watched La Bamba a few years ago again for the first in about 25 years and damn what a great movie. Also about 10 years ago I saw Los Lobos open for another band and became a big fan of theirs. Have seen them 3 times. I wish the movie was streaming but I know with song rights it's complicated. I just purchased Eddie and the Cruisers last week as I've been jonesing to watch that. I think the song Runaround Sue is preventing that from being available.

Rosenthal said 2nd year goes to $20 if he makes 15 starts which he should. If he doesn’t… then he probably will not opt out.

If someone says that I will embrace them but I doubt they will. They will be pushing their shopping cart down a dirt road with all their possessions inside muttering things about Trans people and saying “if only they’d given us Greenland”.

Jesus didn’t have guns either.

Some just lack the balls or intellect… or both to be able to defend a position.

I was reading about Apollo 14 today b/c of the anniversary of the launch. It’s also the anniversary of the mission almost being altered. After launch they do a few orbits to make sure everything is ok. Then they do what’s called trans lunar injection (TLI) where they fire their S-IVB stage for about 5 minutes to a velocity that shoots them in a trajectory to where the moon will be in a few days. After that burn is when they do transposition and docking. Inside the now deleted third stage of the rocket is the lunar module. They separate then turn around and face and begin the docking sequence. This was never a problem on the previous 5 missions but on this one they couldn’t get a hard dock. When certain connections were made 12 latches would fire and seal. They tried 5 times. What I didn’t know is they brought back the docking mechanism with them. It comes off because that’s the area where the tunnel is to go from ship to ship. Previous missions would leave it with the lunar module due to weight. Turned out it was debris that prevented the initial attempts. Dirt could have halted a billion dollar mission. They reused that docking mechanism on a Skylab mission.

"for miles and miles..." is the legend. Not to divert but here's another cool moon video where Dave Scott demonstrate's Galileo's theory where he drops a hammer and a feather.

YOu know you can't let a space thing sneak by me..... but I already covered teh Apollo 14 mission here somewhere... This was Shepard's long awaited return to spaceflight after his 15 minute miaden voyage almost 10 years earlier. He'd been grounded due to ear issues. He had what was then experimental surgery, now it's kind of routine. Fellow astronauts were a bit but off that he was given a command without being a backup but he was a legend still. Stu Roosa took up some seeds with him and later they were given to friendly nations and planted as "moon trees". He was an environmentalist and flew planes to help put out wildfires. He would have commanded an Apollo 20 if they hadn't cut out missions.

This western trip came at a good time for me to be able to stay up late again to watch them. I miss that to be honest. I still find myself saying "We're playing Montreal again? We just played them 2 weeks ago..." Last night was fun to be up by myself in a quiet house, drink in hand.

I'm reading a biograpy of Robin Williams. Robin. NY TImes bestseller. It's a quick read.

There will be an SNL concert on peacock. Not sure if on NBC that 7 min opening on their music special was brilliant.

And I thjnk it’s some weird sect as well.

He blamed it on Obama and Biden. Remind me... who was in between those Presidents?

they must have picked up all the bodies by now. Apparantly that's the criteria.

Yep, from about mid june onwards. August sometimes gets too hot, I'll never complain, but a few times thinking "Ok... come on". But late Sept to late Oct area also near perfect. Those 72 degree days and 52 degree nights. We don't get that in the spring anymore. In the spring it goes from 50 to 75 immediately, and it seems later and later.

"Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that." -- Sean Duffy, our new secretary of transportation in the new awful administration.

I was in Phoenix staying with my sister when that happened. I was 13. My flight home was the next day. That plane was going to Phoenix so it was all over the news there. My first time flying. I was by myself. For security reasons they weren't letting non ticketed people into the terminals but my sister threw a fit so they let her go with me. We flew over the wreckage. That summer began my love affair with Arizona. I'd move there tomorrow if I could. "It's a dry heat"

They are just mad b/c Fox and Newsmax hasn't given them their talking points yet.

go back to your klan rally. The adults are talking.

I've only been to DC once, in 2009, and I couldn't believe how close Reagan was to everything. Standing at Arlingon House they fly right over you... and I grew up near the airport so low flying aircraft is part of my existence. But in such an urban area it was new to me. San Diego was the same way.

I saw the plane was full of families going to a figure skating competition. I went to the dentist yesterday and my hygenist was telling me about how her whole family was going to a skating competition in Boston. SO no, not the same one, but it puts a human face on it for me as I imagine a plane full of young people like the girls I saw in the photos yesterday, happy to be going to see someting they enjoy. and yeah.... this admin is hoping that there will be some non white person involved in this. The cynicism is warranted. We can hope for a remote chance this will wake up the leaders currently in charge of our country, or at least those who have the power to stop them, to knock off all the bull**** like we saw from that Priest at the Pro Life thing earlier in this thread. This is life and death. The Republican party's love for our country and it's people is dwarfed by their love of money and hatred of liberals. That's their driving focus.

a friend of mine who does sports broadcasting work says that teams are all advised by the leagues to fly into Dulles over Reagan beause of the constant military training going on.