It's a start

 

https://t.co/ixZ0kLYY1k -- In an 8-1 Decision, SCOTUS says POTUS can deport illegals aliens that Biden gave protective status to. ( I must've missed the news).

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 19, 2025

If nobody else can or will do it, perhaps it is an opportunity for me

With respect to the first post of the day, I note that few sources that I look at will take something of a more serious dive into the news of the day-- in this case SpaceX's Starship. It's feast or famine for SpaceX, in more ways than one. If you support them, you'll get a lot of fan boys/girls who won't really do anything deep in terms of news. But you might get the advocacy on the other side, meaning Musk haters.

So I've been looking for news about what actually happened with the last two flights, and this was the only thing that seemed to be anywhere close to a serious explanation. Otherwise, it is the fan boys/girls v the Musk haters. The point is that nothing much is being learned. Unless of course, you are determined about finding out something or anything about what actually happened.

So I can segue from the particular to the general. It is advocacy journalism's weakness. You are with one side or the other. In case of Musk, who has allied with Trump, it is the same garbage that masquerades as "news", and provides no insight whatever in what is actually going on out there in the world.

If nobody else will do it, I will make an effort to do it here.

So what exactly did happen?  There's only my speculation and the one mentioned above.  If it is POGO, then it isn't a show-stopper.  Musk haters would like it to be, but all rockets have POGO problems, as it is a fairly common problem.  Therefore, solutions are pretty well known.  What may be the real news is that SpaceX isn't saying that it is POGO.  Why not?  I detect a pattern.  SpaceX doesn't necessarily follow best practices.

They launched the first test flight without a flame trench. Flame trenches are pretty well established in launching rockets. Why did SpaceX follow the path that produced the "rock tornado"? It must be some sort of hard-headed attitude of doing it their own way that sometimes gets SpaceX into trouble.

Best practices would also have included well-established ways of dealing with POGO. But if SpaceX didn't follow those practices, then why not? It may well be understandable that they'd rather not be upfront about mistakes. Not accounting for POGO would have to be considered a major mistake. Not having a flame trench is also a major mistake. Notice a pattern?

Fortunately, if POGO is the case, it isn't a show-stopper.

You won't read anything like this on fan boys/girls hangouts. But you will get it here, as well with whatever else happens out there in the world. I'm not going to be a fan boy.

News on Starship seems hard to come by

 

Sure, there's a lot of youtubers out there posting stuff. Some of what they're reporting is getting to be a bit stale, though. Others seem to be click-bait-ish.

So I decided to check out SpaceX's tweets. Nothing much on X. Found a tweet that's nearly a week old. There's supposed to be a launch soon. When will it take place, exactly?

Supposedly there will be a launch in the next week or so, but the date appears to be a secret.

Truth embeds, 5/17/25

Sharyl Attkisson on Big Pharma

 

Dinesh D'Souza on Biden's autopen pardons

 

 

 

Green Frog Labs babies talking like adults

 

Loggins and Messina: Angry Eyes

 

Supreme Court's silly decision

 

The decision regarding the deportations is bereft of any common sense. It would seem that the Court could get the memo from the electorate. Joe Biden imports every Tom, Dick, and Crook in the world. It would seem to be common sense to allow the public's will be done and send the undesirables back home. Trump ran on it, won on it, and was trying to govern on it. The Courts step in to stop it.

The practical effect of this is to tie up the President in courts for the duration of his term before all of this gets sorted out. Courts move slowly, crooks move quickly. Seems that you need a nimble government to hold the crooks in check. Instead of letting Trump move nimbly, the Courts check Trump, and give the crooks a blank check to cause murder and mayhem all across the fruited plain.

It makes little sense. The Court needs to step aside, and let the grown ups set things right. Let the President govern as he was elected to do.

Starbase morale is low?

 

Ellie in Space youtube channel--- she says that "disgruntled employees" said that morale is low. Seems to me that is a qualifier. Of course disgruntled employees would say that... It does not follow that everyone agrees, or there would be massive numbers of disgruntled employees. No suggestion of this was in the vid. Musk will give a talk soon. Perhaps issues can be clarified in the talk.

P.S.

I stopped watching the video at the point that she begin hawking the 3D printed models.

Today's politics is like this

 

Do ya think??? It's entertaining though...

Did Trump find the fountain of youth?

This is pure gold.pic.twitter.com/gDsgfXFxUC

— (news) DOGE (@DOGE__news) May 15, 2025

 

Unnoticed Trump Executive Order

 

As one blogger likes to say: "faster please"...

One Of Trump’s Most Important Executive Orders https://t.co/9tTruxZdA4 --- Federal agencies have become too powerful, so Trump has trimmed their powers a bit. This is a bigger problem than an EO can solve. CONUS originally shunned making Federal laws applying to individuals.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 15, 2025

Geeking out

5/15/25:

I'm moving this discussion over to the other blog.

5/10/25:

If you can follow this, then I'd say you were a certifiable geek.

Not saying that I'm up to speed on this geek speak, but I did learn something new. I may try it soon.

 

The realities may be such that I cannot try the Silverblue thing. If I do, I will discuss it here.

end original post from 5/10/25:

P.S.

5/11/25:

When I wrote that I would discuss it here, I meant this blog, but not this post. The subject appears to be too complex of a discussion for one blog post.---5/12/25: Raspberry Pi won't do. Need Mint or Zorin. I've done those, so the groundwork is set ( or some of it ).

Some of the nuts and bolts of censorship

 

NewGuard gives a rating, and it affect advertising rates and even who gets to advertise. Sounds like censorship to me! Don't check your brain in at the door. Trust your own crooked eye, said the Soviet dissident. Seems like we've lost the plot somehow.

NewsGuard is responsible for censorship, while often targeting conservative outlets: https://t.co/1lhUSxdC75 via @JustTheNews --- It's a racket favoring the political left. What should a person believe when the so-called watchdogs don't bark when they should, and vice versa?

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 15, 2025

Rise and shine, or whatever

 

It is an unusual morning so far. Lots of thoughts that aren't jelling into a post.

There are thoughts from the past, and how they relate to the present. But it is not easy to post about that. Let's just how easy it is to misunderstand, and how hard it is to truly understand whatever situation that you may find yourself in.

I seek to understand, but more than often, I fail to understand. Maybe I'll understand better in the future, but by then, it may well be too late for it to do any good.

Have an interesting day. Seems to be the pattern lately.

 

 

"Topple the West"

‘Humanitarian’ left refuses to help 49 Afrikaner asylees, proving (again) the real purpose of ‘refugee’ campaigns is to topple the West: 

 I’m not splitting the atom by announcing what w...

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More than likely, this is highly correlated with the political left, which has a home within the American Democrat party. If you listen closely enough to them, and correlate it with the racist history of the Democrat party, you may conclude that the Democrats have exchanged white racism for anti-white racism.

You may misunderstand the meaning of "anti-white" racism. It is a type of racism that bred the term "white nigger" once uttered by former Senator and clansman Robert Byrd. Robert Byrd remained in the Democrat party until his death. So far as I know, he never renounced the use of that term "white nigger".

Furtermore, the late Julian Bond once said that the word "racism" was to replace the word "nigger". It would involve treating the former white race like the black race was treated. It is a type of racially motivated revenge against the white man. Hence, the hysteria of admitting the Boer. It may even explain how Russia never got the favorable treatment that Red China has gotten.

I vividly recall how Soviet Russia sought Most Favored Nation status during the "detente" years of the Cold War. But China was admitted into the full embrace of the west without blinking an eyelash. Why is it? Could it be that Russia is predominantly white, and that China is not?

It would be hard to hold China to the same standards as Russia was during the Cold War even though the Chinese have never renounced communism. We have very foolishly admitted an enemy within our midst. Red China has become very dangerous.

Is this machine going to Mars?

 

Opinions vary. I think it's definitely going...

PRUFROCK: ELON’S TUNNELING MACHINE IS COMING FOR GARY THE SNAIL

The Boring Company’s newest invention, Prufrock, is a tunneling robot that “porpoises” — meaning it launches straight from the surface, digs underground, then resurfaces without needing giant pits.

It can start… https://t.co/UGUdbFz2Sa pic.twitter.com/BIMZ2a8cjY

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 13, 2025