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You can thank Stu Roosa. He used to fight forest fires as a smokejumper (Yes, they jump into it) and later became a test pilot and was selected by NASA. He was the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 14. That position stayed in the command module circling the moon while the other two lucky bastards got to go land and walk on the moon. That position has the morbid responsibility of having to fly back to Earth alone in case of any tragedies. Anyway, because of his work with the forestry he took up the seeds as part of his personal kit, it wasn't a NASA program or experiment but something he did on his own. If not for the Nixon budget cuts to the program he probably would have commanded an Apollo 20 mission and been the last man to walk on the moon for now. I took this photo of his grave at Arlington in 2009.

people's perception of the "economy" will be based on gas prices, interest rates, and the stock market.

People that act like uneven weather is something new, or a Michigan thing. It's not. For as long as I can remember we had warm days sometimes in February and cold/snow in April and May. My wife has a framed cutout from a newspaper story she was in from like 1977 where the headline is "Cold day in June" and she's bundled up in a snowsuit because it was freezing temps. yes the overall trend is a thing but the day to day fluctuations are not.

Still with the nickname for Ron.

First woman to win a Republican primary.

I share that concern but I am hopeful the Dobbs effect can offset it. I also am of the belief that the BLM and defund the police protests did some damage to Biden.

The value in fixing it is less than the value of grievance politics. I’ve always been in favor of raising retirement age but now that I am 50… screw that. 62 here I come. I just checked my payout and my wife’s payout. I love the argument that “well your taxes are rally 13.5% because of the employer half. As if they would give that to us.

The limit in 2024 is $168K. The most a person can pay in SS taxes is $10,453.

I think a post Trump GOP does take a lot of the wind out of the sails of the crazy lot. Haley is banking on picking up the pieces when it shatters.

What about Biden and his administration is bad that is on a level that Trump is and was? Biden isn’t talking about tearing down democracy. He’s not talking about imprisoning opponents.

Id like to think I was looking at it when they snapped it. I get notified every time it flies over and run out to look if it’s not cloudy. that images was repositioned from its original on nasas site. The version I saw had lower michigan in the upper right.

Does anybody else start to cough, or want to cough, when they see someone in movies up close smoking or doing something ilke putting out a butt in an ashtray? It gets me every time.

So now they are treating their embryo persons with the same love they treat real kids who get shot in schools. Expendable for political purposes.

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.... it's so bad.

Did I suggest otherwise?

JD Vance

Today is leap day. As a kid in Bible school I learned that the reason we have a leap year is because Joshua stopped the earth from moving for 24 hours during a battle. I believed that for a very long time.

I worry less about that this time because he doesn't have the power of the office behind him.

So you are saying that they'd do bad things, which will end up being good because the public will not go along with those bad things and in the end vote them out? Nuking the filibuster could be a good thing... one of those things you want but would rather the other side do it first 🙂

We're going to miss Cocaine Mitch. Whoever it is will be far worse. It will be a big loss. Mitch is an asshole and I hate him for what he did regarding the SC picks, granted it showed he had balls of steel. He DGAF. But he also stood up for our Allies globally. This will be one more step towards maga and the makeup of the Senate is not shaping up to be a good thing for our country. If the GOP were in the minority I wouldn't care. But a Majority leader full on MAGA is not good.

If we do have a disputed election and Trump is the winner, then we'll have Harris presiding over it. I'm sure some democrats would object and then we'd have the "both sides" argument going on.

I love it.

There’s morons here in Dearborn that now think he won’t be on the ballot in Dearborn in November.

You can't go back too far though because then it becomes "Ancient texts" and I guess somehow not valid anymore... kind of like when we have to figure out when a fetus becomes a child, at some point in history it becomes a legitmate stake to land. But nobody can claim when that is. It's just a 'I know it when I see it" kind of thing.