Althouse: Sunrise — 6:21, 6:44, 6:47.

September 19, 2024

Sunrise — 6:21, 6:44, 6:47.

24 comments:

rehajm said...: Sports, NFL all hiding their crazy this election season. It will be back, and in greater numbers; 9/19/24, 7:16 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/TheFigen_/status/1836433397985550716; 9/19/24, 7:18 PM
narciso said...: https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/jay-varma-nyc-covid-czar; 9/19/24, 7:19 PM
Vance said...: Did I miss the comments about Inga and Rich's close friend in Alaska trying to kill the Supreme Court? Or their close trans friend arrested before "they" could storm an elementary school and gun down all the kids at lunch?; 9/19/24, 7:25 PM
tcrosse said...: If I were to talk about Kamala the way her campaign talks about Trump, I would probably get a visit from the FBI or Secret Service.; 9/19/24, 7:32 PM
narciso said...: Well that mostly harmless; 9/19/24, 7:38 PM
Maynard said...: tcrosse,

There's no "probably" about it.

You would probably be in jail over night.; 9/19/24, 7:50 PM
Eva Marie said...: Via CPS: is this story true? BREAKING: Former NYC Covid Czar Held Secret Drug-Fueled Sex Parties During Global Pandemic; Says New Yorkers Would Have Been “Pissed” If They Found Out Because He Was Running Entire Covid Response For City; 9/19/24, 8:00 PM
Vance said...: I don't know if it's true, but I know the response from our leftists: "Who cares? The Party has the right to party as our betters while you lowly peons suffer! It's their Democrat aristocratic right to do whatever they want! Only you idiots who don't know better must suffer!"

Sounds exactly like our leftists there. DD probably.; 9/19/24, 8:03 PM
n.n said...: Bloodshot at dawn.; 9/19/24, 8:05 PM
Eva Marie said...: My mistake. It’s via CFP; 9/19/24, 8:08 PM
Eva Marie said...: Sorry narciso. I didn’t realize you already posted this.; 9/19/24, 8:13 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Elon Musk threatens to sue FAA after feds propose fining SpaceX $633,000

"The Federal Aviation Administration alleged Tuesday that SpaceX violated its launch license requirements on two occasions last year by using an unauthorized launch control center and fuel farm at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The regulator seeks to fine SpaceX $633,009 for the alleged violations, which occurred during a Falcon 9 launch and a Falcon Heavy launch last year. Combined, the proposed fines make up the largest civil penalty ever imposed by the FAA's commercial spaceflight division.

[snip]

The FAA rarely imposes fines on commercial space companies. The agency oversees the licensing of commercial launch and reentry operations by US companies and is responsible for ensuring spaceflight activities do not endanger the uninvolved public or go against US national security and foreign policy interests.

Last week, SpaceX accused the FAA of delaying the next test flight of the company's giant Starship rocket "for unreasonable and exasperating reasons." The FAA said it doesn't expect to decide on approving SpaceX's request for a commercial launch license for the next Starship launch until late November, two months later than the FAA's previous estimate.

[snip]

The FAA's commercial space division has struggled to keep pace with SpaceX's rapid-fire launch cadence. SpaceX and other space industry advocates have called for Congress to appropriate more money for the FAA space office. Lawmakers approved an increase in funding for the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation to $42 million for fiscal year 2024.

This allowed the FAA's space office to hire approximately 35 new workers, bringing the total staffing level to 158 employees, said Kelvin Coleman, the FAA's associate administrator for space transportation, in a hearing last week before the House Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. The Biden administration requested another funding increase for the FAA space office in fiscal year 2025.

What did they do?
According to the FAA, SpaceX violated its launch license requirements twice during a Falcon 9 launch of an Indonesian communications satellite on June 18, 2023. SpaceX's launch team used a new control room at the company's Hangar X facility at Kennedy Space Center instead of the FAA-approved control rooms SpaceX previously used at the Florida spaceport. In addition, SpaceX's launch team did not conduct a readiness poll two hours before liftoff.

More than a month before this launch, SpaceX requested FAA approval to use the new launch control room and remove the readiness poll from its countdown procedures. The FAA says it informed SpaceX it would not approve the changes in time for the June 18 launch last year, but SpaceX went ahead with the mission.

The new control center at Hangar X debuted last year, and NASA approved its use for the launch of an astronaut crew to the International Space Station in August 2023.

On a separate launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket a month later, the FAA alleges SpaceX used an "unapproved rocket propellant farm" located at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Nine days before the Falcon Heavy mission, SpaceX asked the FAA for an update to its launch license nine days prior to reflect the change to the ground fuel facility at the launch pad. Similar to the situation a month before, the FAA says it told SpaceX it would not grant the company's request in time for the launch.

The FAA said SpaceX has 30 days to respond to the allegations."; 9/19/24, 8:13 PM
Jim at said...: Twenty eight percent of Democrats surveyed think the nation would be better off if Trump were to be assassinated.

And only 48 percent of Democrats surveyed think the country would be better of if he isn't killed.

Keep those numbers in mind anytime one of our resident leftists claim they're better than that. Or that those people don't represent them.; 9/19/24, 8:16 PM
They’re eating the cats — They’re eating the dogs said...: So, Trump endorsed a self-described “Black Nazi” with a trans porn fetish to be Governor of North Carolina?

Do I have that right?; 9/19/24, 8:28 PM
The rule of Lemnity said...: X: "Former Chief BP Agent Aaron Heitke was ordered by Biden-Harris to cover up the disaster at the border"; 9/19/24, 8:37 PM
Iman said...: eat teh cat, eat teh turd… eat, eat teh cat, rich.; 9/19/24, 8:45 PM
Bill Crawford said...: Was a parallel question asked about Kamala being assa*******ated?; 9/19/24, 9:05 PM
walter said...: They put targets on their backs, donchaknow..; 9/19/24, 9:22 PM
walter said...: Did he shower with his daughter?; 9/19/24, 9:30 PM
FullMoon said...: Watched Trump on Gutfeld. Substance aside, no way could Harris or Biden sit and converse like Trump did. Trump on Gutfield; 9/19/24, 9:54 PM
Jim at said...: Was a parallel question asked about Kamala being assa*******ated?

I don't know. Rasmussen has it. But I doubt it because it's not even a consideration. Whereas .....; 9/19/24, 10:43 PM
Mutaman said...: Good news for the Know Nothings : Kennedy Junior getting Mark Robinson off the front page.; 9/20/24, 12:18 AM
Mutaman said...: Vance
"I don't know if it's true, but I know the response from our leftists: "Who cares? "

You mean like the Know Nothings say whenever someone mentions their candidate's long history of cheating on one of his three wives?; 9/20/24, 12:23 AM