An Eight Day Trip to the ISS Turned Into an Eight-Month Trip, Thanks to Boeing

NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they’ll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last more than eight months.

I can't imagine how much this has upended their lives. Besides that, it also screws over the two astronauts who were going to ride that Dragon capsule to the ISS.

You can bet the farm that Boeing lobbied hard for NASA to fly the two astronauts back on the Starliner. Oh, they may claim they didn't and that they're good with NASA's decision, but the real world knows that's just bullshit and spin.

Boeing may fly again, but it'd be better with some crash-test dummies for the next flight.

Caturday

Where there is a sunbeam, there is a cat.

Political TV Ratings

Since it's common knowledge that Dolt-45, being a TV showman, cares about such things:

According to Fox Sports’s president of Insights and Analytics, Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech drew 22% more viewers than former President Donald Trump’s speech.

That has to just chap his ample ass.

Crime and Lunacy

First, crime:

A Florida sheriff’s deputy was charged with manslaughter with a firearm, launching a rarely seen criminal case against a Florida law officer, after a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman was killed after answering his apartment door while holding a gun pointed toward the ground.

Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran was charged in the May 3 shooting death of 23-year-old Roger Fortson, Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille said. The charge is a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.

It's about fucking time this happened. But we'll see if the state lays down on the job so the cop gets off, sort of like what allegedly happened after Philando Castile was murdered.

Now, to the lunacy:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday he’s suspending his independent presidential bid and will seek to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states because he believes his presence in the race would help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

It's personal with him. He's an unhinged lunatic who had part of his brain eaten by a worm and the FOFF is willing to indulge Babbling Bobby in his lunacy, whereas, VP Harris is not. He said that his supporting DonOld is hard for his wife and kids. Maybe he'll either have to sleep on his couch (assuming JD doesn't fight him for it) or maybe he can retreat to the beroom he suppsedly rents in Katonah, NY.

Because It's Friday

Essex Valley RR

3025 is a Chinese-made locomotive, made in the late 1980s and sold new to another tourist railroad.

Radiating These Down, Here

The Biggest Whopper Told By the TOFF

"I try and be nice to people, you know."

Of the tens of thousands of lies that he's told in the last nine years, that has to be one of the biggest lies of all.

And it is one that doesn't require expounding upon.

The Wheels Grind On

An attorney who represented the far-right Oath Keepers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges stemming from a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including members of the extremist group.

Kellye SoRelle, who was general counsel for the antigovernment group and a close associate of its founder, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 17 by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C.

SoRelle, 45, of Granbury, Texas, answered routine questions by the judge as she pleaded guilty to two charges: a felony count of obstructing justice and a misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. The felony carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, but her estimated sentencing guidelines recommend a maximum of 16 months behind bars.

The various armed clowns who have wet dreams of tearing shit down need to keep this in mind: When the dust settles, those who enforce the law will come for you.

Plus: Trump's greatest accomplishment.

Old Attention Whore Keeps on Whoring

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak Friday “about the present historical moment and his path forward,” his campaign announced Wednesday, fueling growing speculation that Kennedy could drop out and support Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Whatever disjointed bullshit of a rationale Baby Bobby will spew from his blowhole is tempered by the fact that he's been peddling his ass to both campaigns and only the COFF took the bait.

MAGA, Your New Home Awaits

Russia has declared itself a “safe haven” to any “foreigners” who want to “escape” their “neoliberal” home countries.
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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree this week which would allow foreign nationals into the country “outside the quota approved by the Russian government and without providing documents confirming their knowledge of the Russian language, Russian history and basic laws”.

Applicants may apply via a simplified, expedited system and can request residency if they reject their home countries’ “destructive neoliberal ideals”.

Alex Jones is thinking of going there, leaving one question: Does he need any help packing up his shit?

Go ahead, MAGA. Take your Orange God's Master up on his offer. Go. Join this pedophile. Don't let the screen door hit you on your way out. The rest of us can set up a foundation to help pay your reasonable moving expenses.

And who knows, maybe you won't get drafted into the Red Russian army.