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Thursday, December 28, 2023
Starship Update, 12/28/23
Video from Great SpaceX channel
Starship updates as well as Falcon Heavy updates, and more.
The best way to rate the media is to take it all with a huge grain of salt
12/28/23: Update to yesterday's post:
You may have heard of the website called Political Wire. It's authored by one Taegan Goddard. Looking a bit at this fellow would give the appearance that is a reliable source of information. Not to knock this Goddard fellow, but one would want to give pause to the credentials he claims. Sure, he was educated at the "best" institutions, and has accolades about being the "best" political site out there. One should ask, especially these days, about how much weight these credentials should actually have.
You've got the Harvard scandal at the moment, with respect to the DEI political initiatives. Evidently, credentials can be obtained that way, but how useful would the credentials be if that system has been corrupted?
One story they had on this website was about the "insurrection" narrative that the "credentialed" press keeps pushing out there. The way the comments went on that site would indicate that the readers are primarily of the opinion that it was an insurrection. Never mind the evidence that is accumulating that it wasn't not only not an insurrection, but could have been a set up in order to install Biden as POTUS, while at the same time, disqualifying Trump from ever holding office again.
The facts have been suppressed for three years. The House Select committee held a Star Chamber, and the public was not convinced. However, the matter rages on. Of course, the Colorado Supreme Court weighed in and disqualified Trump on the basis of the alleged insurrection, which hasn't even been charged, must less reached a conviction.
Now the matter goes to the US Supreme Court. One has to wonder how far the rot has progressed. Especially in Washington DC. Can the SCOTUS come up with the correct decision, or will it fumble the issue yet again? If the Court had intervened in the election controversy itself, perhaps much of this could have been avoided. The situation is not entirely encouraging.
end update, the original post is directly below:
I can swear I saw this article on Ground News, but now I can't find it. Anyway, I wanted to see how Ground News rated the article embedded down below. Since I cannot find it, I'll rate it as a fraud. Trump wrote that she called him and was crying on the phone call, not that he was mocking her while she was crying at the funeral. She was thanking him for how well he treated her husband.
Obviously the article below is a political hit, and it is a lie. The Dems cannot win an honest campaign.
Normally I don't write responses to this stuff, but it does show how people can be turned against the guy for supposedly doing stuff that he doesn't do. There is plenty of news articles out that the probably rate this article as having some sort of factual basis to it. The Democrats want to run this campaign directly on anti-Trump propaganda. Not on Biden's record.
Trump mocks Debbie Dingell for crying at her husband's funeral https://t.co/eVAiaG4LPC via @MailOnline
— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) December 27, 2023
Crash near Cleburne Texas claims six lives
12/28/23: Update to post of 12/26/23:
No links are available on this update, as I am writing from memory. A perusal of Robert Ringer's link site ( which can be found on the left sidebar) provides the source of information that I'm relating from memory. As mentioned in the original post, it was hard to pin down the exact location of the crash. It turns out that my best guess was correct.
Speculation about the cause of the accident is just that. To me, it is a rather odd situation. If I am not mistaken, this was a head on collision between a pickup truck and a minivan full of people. Nobody in the pickup died, but almost everybody in the van died--maybe one survivor.
The thing that is strange is that it was a head on collision, but the vehicles should not have been in a position for this to have occurred. Which tells me that somebody was executing a maneuver that wasn't exactly kosher. I'm guessing the pickup truck tried to head in the direction that the minivan was coming from. In order to do this, the pickup truck would have had to turn widely left, which would not have been a very good idea. Vision of traffic coming from that direction would have been impaired. Without further information, it would be too speculative to go any further than this.
end update, the original post is directly below:
This caught my eye since I've traveled on this stretch of highway on the way to Irving Texas.
Details are sketchy, so I had to do a little digging. It was necessary to go to Google maps in order to get some accurate information about the location. This article says about 10 miles Southwest of Cleburne on Highway 67, near farm rd 1234. It appears to be at a merge point, so one could speculate as that could be the cause of the accident. It was said to be head on, which is strange.
There's not many more details at this time. I guess if I go that way again in the future, this story will come to mind.
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Evading mass surveillance
Rob Braxman video
From the description
In the recent videos, I discussed the various ways the State and hackers can surveil you or implement mass surveillance. In this video, I explain how to beat that.
comment:
The 4th Amendment in the Bill of Rights might as well not exist. Yet they still call this the "Free World". Yeah, right. If you try to evade it, like this video shows you, you may get accused of hiding something! If the 4th Amendment means anything, is that the government has the burden of proving a NEED for any "searches and seizures", and to provide a warrant enabling for such. All of that has been taken away.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Gemini 8 historical video
Here's another historical video-- this time of Gemini 8, which flew in 1966. The mission was to practice techniques necessary for the lunar mission, which was to occur by the end of the decade.
There was an emergency onboard, as the Gemini capsule went into an out of control spin while in orbit. Control over the spacecraft had to be given back to the astronauts, who managed to get it back under control. An emergency re-entry was achieved, and the situation ended safely.
The point is that success doesn't occur automatically. Things can and do go wrong.
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