UNLIKE COLIN POWELL AND JEFF FLAKE, THEY ACTUALLY MATTER:
UPDATE: Trump Lands Major Endorsements From Democrat Mayors in Minnesota.
Archive for 2020
August 28, 2020
I REMEMBER WHEN FUNDING FOR HIGHER ED WAS DEFENDED ON THE GROUNDS THAT IT STRENGTHENS CIVIL SOCIETY: Antifa on Campus: University Professors Fuelling Civil Unrest.
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Mutant Mosquitos Bring Armageddon to Key West.
WOW. THANKS, ANTIFA! THANKS, BLM! 2020 Gun Sales Have Likely Surpassed All of 2019. And don’t even ask about ammo.
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
CONDEMN THEM? SHE’S DELIBERATELY INCITING THEM.
Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
UPDATE: Flashback: Pelosi Worried About Angry Health Care Rhetoric. She’s not worried that angry rhetoric will lead to violence as such. She just wants the violence to be against the right people.
WELL, IT’S DOING THE SAME THING HERE: Covid-19 is becoming less deadly in Europe but we don’t know why. “This doesn’t seem to be the same disease or as lethal as it was earlier on when we saw huge numbers of people dying.”
Flashback: Could the Coronavirus Be Weakening as It Spreads?
BEATING AMMO SHORTAGES WITH UNCOMMON CALIBERS. Yeah, rounds for my GyroJet Pepperbox aren’t any harder to get than they ever were . . . .
DEFUND THE POLICE: U.S. Marshals find 39 missing children in Georgia.
You expect a party to rally around its leader’s record. But the contrast between the way Joe Biden’s record of nearly five decades was downplayed at the Democratic convention and just how comprehensive the Republican boasts about Donald Trump’s successes were signaled something that is important even beyond the 2020 election. The contrast testified to what a new and transformative force Donald Trump has been, and how tied to the past the Democrats are: tied to a past, that is, of which Democrats themselves are ashamed. NAFTA, signed under Bill Clinton, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, championed by Biden within the Obama administration, are not things that Biden or his party want to celebrate today. Nor is the Iraq War for which Biden voted. Nor is the crime bill that Biden sponsored in 1994. Even Barack Obama’s policy achievements — the Affordable Care Act and the Iran Deal — are not sources of much enthusiasm among Democrats these days. The Iran Deal hardly merits mention, and Obamacare is now an old warhorse. The Democrats are fresh out of ideas, and even the recent ideas, like Obamacare, that they do defend are not thought by anyone to be bold solutions to the 2020s’ challenges.
Exit quote: “Reality is on the President’s side, and it’s a hell of an equalizer.”
HE’S LOSING IT: Wow, Joe Biden Confused Jacob Blake With Kyle Rittenhouse.
Related:
Oh my gosh, he IS reading!!
Also, how is Trump “rooting” for this violence???!! He’s the one that has offered to stop it!! https://t.co/2PXVcGKgdy— Kathleen McKinley (@KatMcKinley) August 27, 2020
Here you can see Biden reading extensively from notes during a powder-puff interview with Anderson Cooper.
I’M EXPECTING A GALAXY-SHATTERING KABOOM: Physicist Predicts How The Universe Might End: With Explosions Like None in Existence.
DEMOCRATS FAILED THE CONVENTION OPTICS TEST: In comparing the DNC and RNC, the optics and the policy contrasts could not have been clearer. And that was even before the fireworks.
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CONGRESS IS NOT A GOOD STEWARD OF YOUR MONEY: NASA just announced in a blog post that SLS will cost 30% more.
After discussing this and other details, Lueders then rather casually let it slip that, “NASA also aligned the development costs for the SLS and Exploration Ground Systems programs through Artemis I and established new cost commitments.” The new development cost for SLS rocket is $9.1 billion, she said, and its budget for the initial ground systems to support the mission is now $2.4 billion.
Left unsaid: This represents a 33-percent increase for the rocket since 2017, when a “re-plan” of program estimated development costs for the rocket, including a single test flight, would be $7.17 billion. (This was detailed in a US General Accounting Office report published nearly a year ago.) This figure represents only direct development costs. NASA has received more than $20 billion from Congress since 2011 for SLS development and related activities.
At the time of the “re-plan” in 2017, NASA established a “December 2019-June 2020” date for the first test launch of the SLS rocket. This was a delay from earlier plans to launch it by the end of 2017.
Those are just the most recent figures. We’ll see what further fixes and modifications might be required after the “green run” test firing, currently penciled in for sometime this autumn.
And from an Ars Technica commenter:
Congress has paid $20b for a rocket that is still a year away from flight using 40+ year old designs, with a current projected cost of $40b for 4 flights, and a maximum possible payload SOME DAY of 130t. And every single stack that goes up is 100% disposable.
SpaceX is already flying grain silos in the middle of a desert for orders of magnitude less, on a rocket concept with never-seen-before engines, a fuel system which can harvest new fuel almost anywhere, and will have a 30% higher theoretical maximum payload. And every single stack that goes up comes back down and goes back up again.
Sigh.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S ONLY BECAUSE THE RESPONSE HAS SUCKED: Poll: Americans, Britons disapprove of COVID-19 response.
RUSSIA PRODUCES A LOT OF VAPORWARE, BUT COMMUNIST CHINA IS GETTING BETTER AT THIS STUFF: China And Russia In Mysterious New Submarine Project.