I honor my good friend Dave Bonin, who served in the Navy during the Iraq wars as a welder, has carries that through to his retirement, and is in the greatest battle of his life against Cancer. God bless Dave and all who serve and have served.
#DireStraits 🎼Private Investigations (Alchemy Live) #MarkKnopfler 🎵
It's a mystery to me, the game commences
For the usual fee, plus expenses
Confidential information, it's in a diary
This is my investigation, it's not a public inquiry
I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt
You get to meet all sorts in this line of work
Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it
And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it
And what have you got at the end of the day?
What have you got to take away?
A bottle of whisky and a new set of lies
Blinds on the windows, and a pain behind the eyes
Scarred for life, no compensation
Private investigations.
@feelgoodtale As a professional landscaper of almost 30 years, I hear that, and would be happy to do the same for the rest of my days if I had his money. The slow return that is unmeasurable and unknown when one works with Nature is astounding. I get the modern phrase, “ Go touch grass”
Today is our 51st wedding anniversary! Franni’s been my life partner from the time we met freshman year of college to this day. We’ve grown up together. She’s the best girlfriend, wife, mother, grandma, and friend. Thanks, honey. Here’s to another 51!
The hardware is still sitting there.
Decades after Neil Armstrong’s bootprint, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter flew low over the Sea of Tranquility, Hadley Rille, Taurus-Littrow and the other Apollo sites. From 20–50 kilometers up, its cameras resolved the lunar module descent stages, the dark trails of rover tracks, the glint of experiment packages, and even the shadows of flags.
These are not fuzzy smudges. At the Apollo 11 site the Eagle descent stage sits beside Little West Crater, and the dark path the astronauts walked is still visible in the soil. At Apollo 17 the Challenger descent stage stands amid a web of rover tracks that stretch for kilometers; the parked Lunar Roving Vehicle itself is a distinct bright speck. The same details appear at every other landing site.
The pictures were taken by a camera built and operated at Arizona State University. Japan’s Kaguya, India’s Chandrayaan-2 and South Korea’s Danuri independently imaged the same hardware. Lasers fired from Earth still bounce off the retroreflectors the crews left behind. The rocks they brought home have been studied in laboratories around the world.
The hoax version requires that every one of those spacecraft, every foreign space agency, and every laser observatory is in on the same lie. The simpler explanation is the one the images show: we went.
Apollo 11 landing site: Eagle descent stage and nearby craters.
Apollo 17 site: Challenger descent stage, rover tracks, experiment package, and the parked rover.
Detailed low-orbit view of the Apollo 17 landing area.
The landers are still there. The tracks are still there. The argument is not.
Josh Gad speaks up about 7 men gang raping a woman at the Cornell University:
“When we start setting a precedent that our girls and women can be brutally raped, and the resulting disciplinary action is to hand out (checks notes) ESSAYS (like it's Bart Simpson being a lil' rascal), about why it was wrong to brutally violate an innocent girl, we have lost our fucking minds.
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This isn't an Oopsie Daisy. It's the destruction of a life. And we are sending a profoundly disturbing message with our inability to hold anyone accountable that this is OK. Fuck that. Enough.”
Kudos to the student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun.
This is why journalism matters, at all levels. Keep shining a light on the darkest corners of power.
A Texas woman got an abortion. So Texas police used 83,000 Flock cameras to track her down. 83 THOUSAND!! They aren't using these cameras to track down rapists, pedophiles, or traffickers. They're not using them to find your missing children. They're using them to throw women in jail for making choices about their own bodies, with OUR tax dollars.
I honor my good friend Dave Bonin, who served in the Navy during the Iraq wars as a welder, has carries that through to his retirement, and is in the greatest battle of his life against Cancer. God bless Dave and all who serve and have served.
It was inspiring to watch the Artemis II launch yesterday — @NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon since 1972. Our space program has always captured an essential part of what it means to reach beyond what we thought was possible, and I hope the four brave astronauts on this mission will inspire a new generation to follow in their footsteps.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.