It continues to look worse and worse for Boeing. I’m almost starting to wonder if it will ever fly. SpaceX can do the job for less money, and it may not be that long before either Dreamchaser or Starship is flying (though it’s not clear that the latter will be capable of docking with the ISS).
[Update a few minutes later]
Comments over there are (deservedly, IMO) brutal.
[Update Monday afternoon]
“We don’t know how many software errors we have.”
[Bumped]
…that works. Let’s make her “unhirable in academia.”
These are the people who should be sued for defamation.
…and its “liberal” reckoning. Your occasional reminder that there is nothing liberal about these kinds of policies.
BTW, I’ve been tied up with something for the past three days, to explain the non-posting.
The Democrats in the House wants to make the brutality national.
I was approached by a guy in the Costco parking lot the other day with a petition to repeal AB5. I happily signed it (though I’m not registered to vote in CA). I don’t think that Sacramento understands how angry people get when you wipe out their livelihood. Fortunately, Cocaine Mitch will kill this monstrosity in the Senate.
[Late-morning update]
In California, protecting workers means outlawing their jobs.
…were made for you and me. A (long) book review of a flawed history.
A good overview of the problem, from Marina Koren.
…is over:
Impeachment must be viewed in the context of the Democrats’ effort to destroy Donald Trump that began prior to his inauguration. For more than three years, their get-Trump campaign has dominated the news. Mostly, it was the Russia hoax. The Democrats originally intended to use that as the basis for impeachment. When the Mueller report negated that plan, they switched–literally overnight–to the much weaker Ukraine theory. No matter. It was impeachment or bust, if only to continue filling up the nightly news with purported Trump “scandals.”
Now the smoke will begin to clear, and I don’t think the Democrats will like the landscape that comes into focus. Their Iowa caucuses were a laughingstock. They made fools of themselves (Nancy Pelosi, especially) during Trump’s State of the Union speech. And, most seriously, they don’t have a presidential candidate. Joe Biden is in freefall, and the party’s elders, such as they are, concede that Bernie Sanders would be a disaster. Will they turn to “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg? Will Michael Bloomberg be their savior? Or will Hillary Clinton or John Kerry come out of retirement? I think they are grasping at straws.
For a long time now, the Democrats have used their hysterical attacks on President Trump to deflect attention from the real scandal–the misuse of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice, FBI and CIA to spy on, and plot against, the Trump presidential campaign and, subsequently, his administration. This is the biggest political scandal in American history, and the Democrats, with the Russia hoax, Ukraine and impeachment now a spent force, are naked, so to speak. One can only imagine with what anxiety they are awaiting the findings of John Durham’s investigation and any criminal indictments that may accompany them.
I have no sympathy.
Hit all the right notes.
And the Democrats (particularly Queen Nancy) looked churlish. They know they’ve lost.
[Update a while later]
It was the most muscular, consequential State of the Union in years.
[Update a while more later]
Nancy Pelosi is tearing apart America. She gets a lot of help from her fellow Democrats.
[Update early afternoon]
“I’ll never vote Democrat again.”
It strikes me that this was the classiest speech Trump has ever given, considering that he didn’t even mention either impeachment or Iowa. It was all positive, with no political attacks. Which made Pelosi’s (and the Democrats in general) behavior all the more egregious.
It will be interesting to see what his poll numbers look like next week.