Perseverance Checks Out Ingenuity on Aug. 2, 2023.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
After nearly three years soaring through the red skies of Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is permanently grounded.
The agency launched the little four-pound chopper in July 2020, with Ingenuity hitchhiking to Mars in the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover. The tissue box-size craft made its first-ever flight in April 2021. Launched as a month-long technology demonstration, the helicopter was built to make a mere five hops to prove that powered flight is possible on the Red Planet.
Instead, Ingenuity endured for nearly 1,000 Martian days, becoming a long-term scout for the car-sized Perseverance, giving planetary scientists a bird’s-eye view of the terrain they wanted to explore. In the process, the little aircraft inspired scientists, engineers and space fans to imagine a new future, one in which helicopters regularly take to the skies of the Red Planet and beyond.
“It’s almost an understatement to say that it has surpassed expectations,” Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, said during a press conference on January 25. “Ingenuity absolutely shattered our paradigm of exploration, introducing this new dimension of aerial mobility.”
NASA ended the mission after evidence that Ingenuity was no longer able to fly after at least one of its rotor blades got damaged during touchdown on its most recent and 72nd flight on January 18. That flight had been designed as a short vertical flight to test Ingenuity’s systems after its previous flight ended unexpectedly early. But during the little test hop, communications shut down early, signaling an issue.
The helicopter’s handlers reestablished communication with the little chopper on January 20, and they had hoped to get Ingenuity flying again. But an image taken after that final flight shows the shadow of a battered rotor tip—one that’s lost perhaps a quarter of its length—against the reddish Martian sand. The damage suggests the rotor hit the surface on the way down.
“Going through a blade strike for a helicopter is typically the end,” Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said during the press conference. Tzanetos said that terrain under recent flights appeared particularly featureless and difficult to navigate, potentially triggering the two errant landings that doomed the aircraft; he also noted that engineers believe some, or all, of the other blades are also damaged.
That said, the mission isn’t quite over. NASA still needs to conduct¥ final tests and download data that remain on the helicopter….
[continues]
in other news
The former president’s lawyer may have lied about Covid exposure to delay his trial, Wall Street insiders say President Biden’s economic policies have delivered us to the mythical “Goldilocks Zone,” and Stephen Colbert explains the term “vibecession.”
more from the late show
While President Biden has locked up endorsements from several major transportation unions, his challenger Donald Trump has secured only one.
In the Beatles’ last photo together, Ringo was 29, John was 28, Paul 27, and George 26; 1969. Ringo was in the group for 7 years. Hank Williams dead at 29, on January 1, 1953. Elvis on Sullivan 1956. Beatles on Sullivan February 1964. Sullivann’s last show March 1971.
Weird times.
Keef Richards noted one time that all the Liverpool players would play their guitars very high up, and all the London players slung them lower.
Sturgeone et al
I just rewatched Ken Burns magnificent Country Music documentary. All episodes are available on PBS and You Tube for anyone who hasn’t seen it. Here is the first one.
The Beatles cover Buck Owens. Liverpool county music.
I ain’t et it all….just most of it.
Sullivan’s last show in ‘71 was about 50 years ago. 50 years before I was born was still in the 1800’s.
Sturgeone – I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos the last several years, no television since an episode or two of The Big Bang Theory and that not near the end. Probably half the channels are put together by men and women who were not even a glimmer in 2000. I enjoy watching the kids. Sometimes I will send them a message helping them to understand something about the last century, or even earlier as I had relatives born in the period after the Civil War. More often I help them with something technical about film photography as they learn about the magic.
I am constantly hit with the phrase of ‘X many years ago’ or way back in the last century around nineteen seventy or nineteen ninety, when their parents or grandparents were born. Yeah. A kick in the side of the head it is.
Keith was from Dartford, Kent, southeast of London. Probably why he slings his guitar even further down.
Here’s a short segment about my (and Pat Conroy’s) neck of the woods, which in the last 75 yrs has gone from agriculture to megas amounts of additional people and the proverbial paving of paradise.
I had a period of low riding the guitar cause of the way it looked, but I couldn’t get what I wanted with that thing being one hung low; just didn’t work. Then later I graduated to the piano, that monstrous jewel of an instrument, and guitar position became academic. That was because a hotshot salesman down at Fox Music told me that while guitars come and go, a piano player wil always have work. Then he sold me a Farfisa Mini-Compact electric organ….No Hammond B-3 but wow, could it ever make a noise.
MAGAt Mike Johnson is working for Orange Adolf, not for the American people.
“House Speaker Mike Johnson is warning in a new letter that the emerging border deal is “dead on arrival” in his chamber if it resembles anything close to what has been reported, while also announcing that the House will soon vote to make Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the second Cabinet secretary in history to be impeached.”
“But Trump has argued that tackling the border would only undermine his bid for the White House, handing Biden a victory on an issue that would otherwise be a major vulnerability for him in November.”
“A Border Deal now would be another Gift to the Radical Left Democrats. They need it politically, but don’t care about our Border,” Trump said in a statement Thursday.
Perhaps each and every tRUMPer should be required to be a host family for immigrants until the GQP agrees to a deal the President Biden. President. Biden. The actual President. Not Orange Adolf, who lost the last election and will lose the next one.
Not playing nicely will create even more votes for Dems, up and down the ticket, from Independents.
The GQP is not smart enough to win this chess match. Collectively, they don’t have half of Pelosi’s capability.
Carroll lawyer’s rebuttal: “He gets to lie. He gets to threaten. He gets to ignore a jury verdict. He gets to defy the law and the rules of this courtroom. You saw how he behaved through this trial. Rules don’t apply to Donald Trump. Ladies and gentleman, this isn’t a campaign rally. It’s not a press event. It’s a court of law and Miss Carroll’s life. Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. He defamed her. He is not the victim”
“In America today, about 16 million people throughout our country have long COVID-19. It affects people of all ages and from all backgrounds. And we don’t know why.”
“Long COVID-19 can include more than 200 symptoms– including serious cognitive impairment − that might continue for weeks, months or even years after the initial infection.”
“What is deeply concerning to me is that long COVID-19 can affect anyone who has had the disease, from those who experienced mild symptoms to those who were severely ill. Furthermore, although you may not have long COVID-19 after your first infection, each reinfection can increase the risk of developing it. This escalating danger, particularly for those who have suffered repeated infections, poses a severe threat to public health that demands our immediate and focused attention.”
“Far too many patients have struggled to get their symptoms taken seriously and far too many medical professionals have either dismissed or misdiagnosed their serious health problems.”
“The shortage of health care providers – from primary care to mental health providers – means that too many Americans are unable to access affordable, high-quality care when they need it. As a result, patients are forced to navigate a dysfunctional health care system that is too confusing and too expensive, with no real answers.”
“That is one of the reasons why I have been fighting to pass bipartisan legislation to substantially expand access to primary care in America and significantly expand the number of doctors, nurses and mental health professionals in our country.”
“Second, we must sustain our investment into long COVID-19 research. We need to understand why some people get it and others do not.”
“In my view, Pfizer should not be allowed to charge nearly $1,400 for a five-day supply of Paxlovid (which is being tested as a potential treatment for long COVID-19) when it costs just $13 to manufacture. No American who needs Paxlovid should go without because they cannot afford it.”
“Because of the pandemic, Americans all across the political spectrum now understand: Health care should not be a privilege tied to employment or income. When a worker loses a job they should never, under any circumstance, lose their health care. It is a system designed only to make huge profits for the insurance industry and drug companies, while ignoring the needs of ordinary Americans.”
“The time is long overdue to join every major country on earth and guarantee health care as a fundamental human right for all, not a privilege for the wealthy few.”
“The United States is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Yet we are the only major country on earth that does not guarantee paid sick days or paid family and medical leave to all people.”
*For the Republicans: How many mandatory days of maternity leave do women have? Answer: It’s less than one. Not very pro-family.
“Do we really want to continue this expensive and cruel system that ties health care to our jobs? Or do we need a simple, comprehensive and cost-effective system that understands that health care is a human right for all of our people – employed or unemployed, young or old, rich or poor?”
*For the Republicans: WWJD? (Not what you’re doing, so stop pretending to be Christians.)
“Do we really want to continue the complicated, wasteful and bureaucratic system in which virtually every visit to a doctor or hospital requires filling out endless forms in order to determine how much of our deductible we have paid, or whether we got sick in the appropriate “network”? Or do we want a simple system in which we go to any doctor we choose and never see a bill, because the system is publicly funded?”
*For the white nationalists aka Republicans: Look at Denmark’s healthcare system. Not insurance. Health. Care. Ah, but they have high trust as to how government spends their taxes, and we know you only care about the lobbying money and wealthy donors.
“As the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, I will be doing everything I can to address this crisis with the sense of urgency that it demands.”
“Over the course of the next three and a half weeks, Haley’s campaign has planned at least 13 fundraisers in five states: New York, Florida, California, South Carolina and Texas.”
Despite threats of being excommunicated from the MAGAt-verse for donating to Haley…
“Her campaign has touted bringing in $2.6 million in donations since the polls closed in New Hampshire, but there are also real questions about her ability to keep donors on her side with questions about her campaign’s path ahead.”
“Some big donors have said they no longer plan to back Haley’s campaign, others are privately worried about her endgame, and some groups are beginning to turn their focus to the Senate races as Trump’s nomination appears inevitable in their eyes.”
“All he did was tell his truth,” Habba said…
A fair-minded jury should easily see through his truth.
Alternate facts.
$83.3 million!
Stuck pigs do squeal!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Absolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party. Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon. They have taken away all First Amendment Rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!
Jan 26, 2024, 4:55 PM
Nikki Haley just got 83 million new reasons to stay in the race. But will she go there?
Greg Abbott just put more razor wire in his Amazon cart, as an FU to SCOTUS.
“The fight between Texas and the federal government over the control of the US-Mexico border has further intensified after state governor Greg Abbott announced he will defy the Biden administration and US supreme court by ordering the installation of even more razor wire to deter migration.”
“Federal agents were given further confirmation this week at the supreme court that they may remove the razor wire, as the enforcement of immigration law is under federal jurisdiction. But Abbott has argued there is nothing preventing him from ordering the Texas national guard to continue laying more razor wire down. The national guard is ultimately part of the US military, overseen by the US president as commander-in chief, but except in specific situations where the president explicitly takes federal control, the national guard in each state takes orders from its state governor.”
“Immigration matters, as confirmed in the 2012 supreme court case Arizona v United States, officially fall under the federal government – not individual states. Abbott has repeatedly invoked the invasion clause, essentially as a loophole, in the US and Texas constitutions, likening migrants to a public foreign enemy, which gives him the right to enforce border security and immigration matters, he argues.”
I’m surprised tRIMPsky hasn’t told him to stop trying so hard, same as he did the MAGAts in Congress.
If magas want to take food off their own Friday night pizza-outing and deplete their grandchildren’s inheritance to go-fund the Plumpty’s rape-penalty punishment, fine with me.
Nikki needs to go after him directly, every day. Let him spazz out against her; it makes him look even more deranged. She’s gotten $2 million plus in FU tRUMPsky donations since he forbade MAGAts to do so this week. If not now, when? This is her chance. She either gets really tough with him, or it’s over.
Buddy from HS who played in a band with 3 other buddies from HS had a Farfisa that was probably the same model as yours. That keyboard launched a thousand ships, or some other metaphor like it.
$83.3M for Ms. Carroll? Good for her. She best be recording that judgment in NYC, Bedford, NJ, Palm Beach, FL and anywhere else the orange slime has property that he might need to sell if some unfortunate eventuality arises, you know, like a criminal conviction that needs to be appealed and he needs cash in a hurry.
Nikki has been texting me like crazy. She probably thinks i still live in Alabama based on my area code. She says it’s not a coronation, it’s an election. She wants me to chip-in to prove I’m not intimidated by his threats. I’m tempted.
Did you notice that now his defamation of the woman he raped is now a “witch hunt” against him “and the Republican Party,” because he can’t take responsibility for anything in his fractured, tiny mind?
Happy Anniversary to me and Mr. Ivy. January wedding? There’s always a thaw before the late winter blasts.
Till the wheels fall off.
Happy Anniversary to Mr & Mrs Ivy!
6th Beatle
Nikki: “Donald Trump wants to be the presumptive Republican nominee and we’re talking about $83 million in damages. We’re not talking about fixing the border. We’re not talking about tackling inflation. America can do better than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”
“Be Best,” Biden simply wrote on his official X, formerly Twitter, account after reposting an online report that claimed Trump has been “rattled” by Biden increasingly personally insulting him on the campaign trail.
“Vince McMahon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of TKO, the parent company of WWE, following disturbing allegationsof sexual assault, trafficking and physical abuse.”
“Reports that McMahon had paid out settlements to multiple women while serving as WWE’s CEO and chairman have been circulating since at least 2022…”
NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Ends Mission on the Red Planet after 3 Years | Scientific American
Perseverance Checks Out Ingenuity on Aug. 2, 2023.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
in other news
The former president’s lawyer may have lied about Covid exposure to delay his trial, Wall Street insiders say President Biden’s economic policies have delivered us to the mythical “Goldilocks Zone,” and Stephen Colbert explains the term “vibecession.”
more from the late show
While President Biden has locked up endorsements from several major transportation unions, his challenger Donald Trump has secured only one.
In the Beatles’ last photo together, Ringo was 29, John was 28, Paul 27, and George 26; 1969. Ringo was in the group for 7 years. Hank Williams dead at 29, on January 1, 1953. Elvis on Sullivan 1956. Beatles on Sullivan February 1964. Sullivann’s last show March 1971.
Weird times.
Keef Richards noted one time that all the Liverpool players would play their guitars very high up, and all the London players slung them lower.
Sturgeone et al
I just rewatched Ken Burns magnificent Country Music documentary. All episodes are available on PBS and You Tube for anyone who hasn’t seen it. Here is the first one.
The Beatles cover Buck Owens. Liverpool county music.
I ain’t et it all….just most of it.
Sullivan’s last show in ‘71 was about 50 years ago. 50 years before I was born was still in the 1800’s.
Sturgeone – I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos the last several years, no television since an episode or two of The Big Bang Theory and that not near the end. Probably half the channels are put together by men and women who were not even a glimmer in 2000. I enjoy watching the kids. Sometimes I will send them a message helping them to understand something about the last century, or even earlier as I had relatives born in the period after the Civil War. More often I help them with something technical about film photography as they learn about the magic.
I am constantly hit with the phrase of ‘X many years ago’ or way back in the last century around nineteen seventy or nineteen ninety, when their parents or grandparents were born. Yeah. A kick in the side of the head it is.
Keith was from Dartford, Kent, southeast of London. Probably why he slings his guitar even further down.
Here’s a short segment about my (and Pat Conroy’s) neck of the woods, which in the last 75 yrs has gone from agriculture to megas amounts of additional people and the proverbial paving of paradise.
I had a period of low riding the guitar cause of the way it looked, but I couldn’t get what I wanted with that thing being one hung low; just didn’t work. Then later I graduated to the piano, that monstrous jewel of an instrument, and guitar position became academic. That was because a hotshot salesman down at Fox Music told me that while guitars come and go, a piano player wil always have work. Then he sold me a Farfisa Mini-Compact electric organ….No Hammond B-3 but wow, could it ever make a noise.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/politics/speaker-mike-johnson-letter/index.html
MAGAt Mike Johnson is working for Orange Adolf, not for the American people.
“House Speaker Mike Johnson is warning in a new letter that the emerging border deal is “dead on arrival” in his chamber if it resembles anything close to what has been reported, while also announcing that the House will soon vote to make Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the second Cabinet secretary in history to be impeached.”
“But Trump has argued that tackling the border would only undermine his bid for the White House, handing Biden a victory on an issue that would otherwise be a major vulnerability for him in November.”
“A Border Deal now would be another Gift to the Radical Left Democrats. They need it politically, but don’t care about our Border,” Trump said in a statement Thursday.
Perhaps each and every tRUMPer should be required to be a host family for immigrants until the GQP agrees to a deal the President Biden. President. Biden. The actual President. Not Orange Adolf, who lost the last election and will lose the next one.
Not playing nicely will create even more votes for Dems, up and down the ticket, from Independents.
The GQP is not smart enough to win this chess match. Collectively, they don’t have half of Pelosi’s capability.
Carroll lawyer’s rebuttal: “He gets to lie. He gets to threaten. He gets to ignore a jury verdict. He gets to defy the law and the rules of this courtroom. You saw how he behaved through this trial. Rules don’t apply to Donald Trump. Ladies and gentleman, this isn’t a campaign rally. It’s not a press event. It’s a court of law and Miss Carroll’s life. Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. He defamed her. He is not the victim”
Jury has the case now
Sturg – What you needed was a keytar.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2024/01/26/long-covid-paxlovid-costs-plaguing-american-healthcare/72337750007/
“Bernie Sanders: US is turning its back on long COVID. We’ll pay the price if we don’t act.”
“Since the first cases four years ago, well more than 100 million Americans have gotten the virus, more than 6.7 million Americans have been hospitalized and more than 1 million Americans have died. More Americans have died from COVID-19 than were killed during World War II.”
“In America today, about 16 million people throughout our country have long COVID-19. It affects people of all ages and from all backgrounds. And we don’t know why.”
“Long COVID-19 can include more than 200 symptoms– including serious cognitive impairment − that might continue for weeks, months or even years after the initial infection.”
“What is deeply concerning to me is that long COVID-19 can affect anyone who has had the disease, from those who experienced mild symptoms to those who were severely ill. Furthermore, although you may not have long COVID-19 after your first infection, each reinfection can increase the risk of developing it. This escalating danger, particularly for those who have suffered repeated infections, poses a severe threat to public health that demands our immediate and focused attention.”
“Far too many patients have struggled to get their symptoms taken seriously and far too many medical professionals have either dismissed or misdiagnosed their serious health problems.”
“The shortage of health care providers – from primary care to mental health providers – means that too many Americans are unable to access affordable, high-quality care when they need it. As a result, patients are forced to navigate a dysfunctional health care system that is too confusing and too expensive, with no real answers.”
“That is one of the reasons why I have been fighting to pass bipartisan legislation to substantially expand access to primary care in America and significantly expand the number of doctors, nurses and mental health professionals in our country.”
“Second, we must sustain our investment into long COVID-19 research. We need to understand why some people get it and others do not.”
“In my view, Pfizer should not be allowed to charge nearly $1,400 for a five-day supply of Paxlovid (which is being tested as a potential treatment for long COVID-19) when it costs just $13 to manufacture. No American who needs Paxlovid should go without because they cannot afford it.”
“Because of the pandemic, Americans all across the political spectrum now understand: Health care should not be a privilege tied to employment or income. When a worker loses a job they should never, under any circumstance, lose their health care. It is a system designed only to make huge profits for the insurance industry and drug companies, while ignoring the needs of ordinary Americans.”
“The time is long overdue to join every major country on earth and guarantee health care as a fundamental human right for all, not a privilege for the wealthy few.”
“The United States is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Yet we are the only major country on earth that does not guarantee paid sick days or paid family and medical leave to all people.”
*For the Republicans: How many mandatory days of maternity leave do women have? Answer: It’s less than one. Not very pro-family.
“Do we really want to continue this expensive and cruel system that ties health care to our jobs? Or do we need a simple, comprehensive and cost-effective system that understands that health care is a human right for all of our people – employed or unemployed, young or old, rich or poor?”
*For the Republicans: WWJD? (Not what you’re doing, so stop pretending to be Christians.)
“Do we really want to continue the complicated, wasteful and bureaucratic system in which virtually every visit to a doctor or hospital requires filling out endless forms in order to determine how much of our deductible we have paid, or whether we got sick in the appropriate “network”? Or do we want a simple system in which we go to any doctor we choose and never see a bill, because the system is publicly funded?”
*For the white nationalists aka Republicans: Look at Denmark’s healthcare system. Not insurance. Health. Care. Ah, but they have high trust as to how government spends their taxes, and we know you only care about the lobbying money and wealthy donors.
“As the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, I will be doing everything I can to address this crisis with the sense of urgency that it demands.”
Make him pay bigly!
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-2024-campaign-news-01-26-24/index.html
“Over the course of the next three and a half weeks, Haley’s campaign has planned at least 13 fundraisers in five states: New York, Florida, California, South Carolina and Texas.”
Despite threats of being excommunicated from the MAGAt-verse for donating to Haley…
“Her campaign has touted bringing in $2.6 million in donations since the polls closed in New Hampshire, but there are also real questions about her ability to keep donors on her side with questions about her campaign’s path ahead.”
“Some big donors have said they no longer plan to back Haley’s campaign, others are privately worried about her endgame, and some groups are beginning to turn their focus to the Senate races as Trump’s nomination appears inevitable in their eyes.”
A fair-minded jury should easily see through his truth.
Alternate facts.
$83.3 million!
Stuck pigs do squeal!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Absolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party. Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon. They have taken away all First Amendment Rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!
Jan 26, 2024, 4:55 PM
Nikki Haley just got 83 million new reasons to stay in the race. But will she go there?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/26/border-fight-texas-greg-abbott-razor-wire
Greg Abbott just put more razor wire in his Amazon cart, as an FU to SCOTUS.
“The fight between Texas and the federal government over the control of the US-Mexico border has further intensified after state governor Greg Abbott announced he will defy the Biden administration and US supreme court by ordering the installation of even more razor wire to deter migration.”
“Federal agents were given further confirmation this week at the supreme court that they may remove the razor wire, as the enforcement of immigration law is under federal jurisdiction. But Abbott has argued there is nothing preventing him from ordering the Texas national guard to continue laying more razor wire down. The national guard is ultimately part of the US military, overseen by the US president as commander-in chief, but except in specific situations where the president explicitly takes federal control, the national guard in each state takes orders from its state governor.”
“Immigration matters, as confirmed in the 2012 supreme court case Arizona v United States, officially fall under the federal government – not individual states. Abbott has repeatedly invoked the invasion clause, essentially as a loophole, in the US and Texas constitutions, likening migrants to a public foreign enemy, which gives him the right to enforce border security and immigration matters, he argues.”
I’m surprised tRIMPsky hasn’t told him to stop trying so hard, same as he did the MAGAts in Congress.
If magas want to take food off their own Friday night pizza-outing and deplete their grandchildren’s inheritance to go-fund the Plumpty’s rape-penalty punishment, fine with me.
Nikki needs to go after him directly, every day. Let him spazz out against her; it makes him look even more deranged. She’s gotten $2 million plus in FU tRUMPsky donations since he forbade MAGAts to do so this week. If not now, when? This is her chance. She either gets really tough with him, or it’s over.
Buddy from HS who played in a band with 3 other buddies from HS had a Farfisa that was probably the same model as yours. That keyboard launched a thousand ships, or some other metaphor like it.
$83.3M for Ms. Carroll? Good for her. She best be recording that judgment in NYC, Bedford, NJ, Palm Beach, FL and anywhere else the orange slime has property that he might need to sell if some unfortunate eventuality arises, you know, like a criminal conviction that needs to be appealed and he needs cash in a hurry.
Nikki has been texting me like crazy. She probably thinks i still live in Alabama based on my area code. She says it’s not a coronation, it’s an election. She wants me to chip-in to prove I’m not intimidated by his threats. I’m tempted.
Did you notice that now his defamation of the woman he raped is now a “witch hunt” against him “and the Republican Party,” because he can’t take responsibility for anything in his fractured, tiny mind?
Happy Anniversary to me and Mr. Ivy. January wedding? There’s always a thaw before the late winter blasts.
Till the wheels fall off.
Happy Anniversary to Mr & Mrs Ivy!
6th Beatle
Nikki:
“Donald Trump wants to be the presumptive Republican nominee and we’re talking about $83 million in damages. We’re not talking about fixing the border. We’re not talking about tackling inflation. America can do better than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-taunts-trump-invoking-former-first-ladys-be-best-anti-bullying-campaign
“Be Best,” Biden simply wrote on his official X, formerly Twitter, account after reposting an online report that claimed Trump has been “rattled” by Biden increasingly personally insulting him on the campaign trail.
Ha! Go, POTUS Joe!
Biden/Harris 2024
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/1193431/donald-trumps-history-with-the-wwe-explained/
“He [SFB] also has a long-standing relationship with Vince McMahon and the WWE to this very day. He has been involved with the company for more than three decades.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/investing/vince-mcmahon-wwe-founder-exits-tko/index.html
“Vince McMahon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of TKO, the parent company of WWE, following disturbing allegationsof sexual assault, trafficking and physical abuse.”
“Reports that McMahon had paid out settlements to multiple women while serving as WWE’s CEO and chairman have been circulating since at least 2022…”
(The rest was too disturbing to finish reading.)
Birds of a feather…
Thank you, BID. You are kind.
Exactly. You’ve ruined it, Plumpty.
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