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A news alert says Biden will announce something next week. I will admit to being surprised if he runs. It’s weird and I can’t explain it. I expect he will but also be shocked. I know it doesn’t make sense.

From what I know about you I think you would really like this book. It’s filled with nuggets like that. He goes into great detail and a lot of it I skip through but I bet engineers would devour it. https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Lander-Developed-Smithsonian-Spaceflight-ebook/dp/B006Q2D5DK/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1F7224JR2DZK5&keywords=thomas+kelly+moon+lander&qid=1682034954&sprefix=thomas+kelly+moon+lander%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1

Ah ok. I haven’t followed her topics in years. I only know she’s dating or was dating Jimmy Walker.

What’s her angle on that? I’m not getting it. Is it to preserve the white race since that’s presumably what she means?

Hospitals here made masks optional now. She's seeing many co workers faces for the first time. "Ah, so that's what you got going on? Not what I expected"

I told you already I am reading about the development of the Lunar Module. Very unique thing as it was built to not fly in our atmosphere and would not be used to bring humans back to earth. That gave them the ability to design simply for functionality with no regard to aerodynamics. Weight was the most critical factor. I'm blown away by the attention to detail that had to be made down to every screw. During testing of the tanks they kept having problems with leaks and finally narrowed it down to just one tank, they couldn't figure out why that one tank wouldn't pass the tests. They spent months figuring out why. It was putting the moon race in jeopardy. Grumman got their top investigator on the job and they went over every piece of tracking history. Turns out when they were wiping the tanks down that was the only tank that didn't use a brand new rag. it was used. The rag had traces of detergent on it and that affected the titanium. I'm both amazed that happened and that they could figure that out, down to the rags used to wipe each piece of equipment. Another example referred to the Redstone rockets, used on the early Mercury flights. An unmanned launch attempt lifted off the ground a few inches then settled back into the bay, luckily it didn't tip over because the escape chute did fire and they were worried the wind would catch it and bring it all crashing down. The reason the rocket aborted? A crewman at one point had filed down one prong just a little bit of a two prong plug and didn't tell anybody. This prong was ejected during liftoff. Safety mechanisms in place said that if the prongs didn't exit at the same time then something was wrong and to initiate abort.

The goal was to clear the tower so it's a success.

Gambling is a legitimate revenue source and baseball can't turn their back on that.

My overall point is that it's early and we don't know who will or won't prevail. I have memories of Presidents Gary Hart, Mario Cuomo, Guiliani, etc.

I distinctly remember one debate where Rubio took the gloves off and slapped Trump around. It went nowhere obviously but he took one for the team.

I've told this story before so forgive me but I like it: During the 1960 race MLK Jr was arrested. He was put in jail and the campaigns took different approach. Nixon didn't want to get involved because he felt it would look like pandering for votes, tried to be above board. JFK wasn't sure either but RFK took the initiative and contacted Coretta King and showed support. After that MLK Sr announced he wasn't planning on voting for JFK because he was Catholic but now he would. JFK to an aide: "So, Martin Luther King's father is a bigot eh? Well we all have fathers don't we?"

RFK Jr is the right's favorite son. They were fawning all over him this morning on Fox News. They're gearing him up to be a spoiler, coinciding with a potential Trump spoiler should DeShantis get the nom.

I’m not sure we should count desantis out for the nomination.

I have a hard time watching Curb now knowing Cheryl Hines is/was married to that guy.

He does have some kind of condition where it’s like that. Don’t know if it was cancer or whatever. But that is how he talks.

Hard to get upset about today. They battled and almost swept a good team.

I assume west siders? Like Holland area? My wife and I didn't technically live together as I never changed my address, but we got married in 1998 and she bought our first house in late 1997 so for those few months I was sort of in both places.

Seems like this is said every year but a baseball team 11 games into the season is the equivalent of an NFL team in the first quarter of game 2.

Even if she resigns the Senate? man the Senate is stupid with their 60 vote rules. That's based on old precedent that they were a more "deliberative" body and serious rather than a clown show. Of course if the situation was reversed the Dems would be nice and genteel and vote for a replacement. The GOP plays hardball. Not the dems. They think it's 1985 still.

MB said if she resigns the GOP said they still won't let her on, I guess that refers to resigning the committee and not teh Senate? I assume if she resigns from the Senate then the dems can fill the seat.

Wait... what's the process that allows a minority party to control assignments to a committee when a member resigns?

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DeSantis will off set those missing Trump voters with the suburban vote because we all know that their biggest fear is Disney and Gay people.

What do you mean? He got Chip Roy!

He probably thought they were drag queens and as we've learned from Bud LIght, nothing is scarier and brings more fear to old conservatives with guns than a drag queen. They will cower in fear and curl up in the fetal position.