On September 28, 2008, SpaceX launched the Falcon 1, the first private spacecraft to go into orbit around planet Earth.
SpaceX has achieved many records since.
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Comey & Epstein
President Trump complained, aloud — that is, on Truth Social, to his Attorney General, Pam Bondi — that there can be no more delays on major cases against Deep State and Democratic corruption. Soon after, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, was indicted on two of three charges, with just days to spare before the statute of limitations kicked in to preclude prosecution. “Comey was charged with one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice,” explains CBS, “related to Senate testimony he gave almost five years ago.”
Meanwhile, the Epstein case appears to be slouching towards disclosure. The O’Keefe Media Group released, on Wednesday, a conversation overheard at an airport that featured an official investigator in the case letting a few cats out of the bag. “Senior Justice Department investigator Glenn Prager revealed Jeffrey Epstein,” Mike Flores summarizes, is “‘CIA’ and confirmed that rapes occurred while Bill Clinton was on the private plane.” That is, the infamous private plane popularly known as the “Lolita Express.”
“I’ve interviewed all the victims, There’s never been an instance where Trump was on a plane with these kids and the rapes occurred. But that can’t be said for Clinton. And it can’t be said for others,” Glenn Prager was overheard saying at a Phoenix airport. “While the Clintons were on the plane, while Bill Clinton was on the plane, there were rapes that occurred.
“They [DOJ] didn’t want to go after him [Epstein] because he’s an asset for the United States and Israel,” he added.
Trump has not been “protecting himself because there’s nothing there,” this Mr. Prager clarified, “but he’s protecting a lot of people.”
The O’Keefe Media Group is the investigative company that James O’Keefe created after his unfriendly ouster from his previous effort, Project Veritas. The conclusion of OMG’s article contains caveats:
When reached for comment by phone Prager simply replied “I can’t talk to you,” before hanging up.
According to a DOJ spokesperson, “This individual [Glenn Prager] worked at the Department of Justice as a program analyst over fifteen years ago. He has no understanding of, or access to, the underlying facts in this investigation. His statements should not be considered accurate. It is disgusting that someone would further exploit victims of sexual abuse by fabricating stories for their personal benefit.”
In April of this year Glenn Prager was announced as Executive Director of Government Risk Solutions for LexisNexis Solutions, a global data and analytics company that provides technology services to the private and public sector.
In a separate article, “DOJ INSIDER: ‘Prince Andrew was on Epstein Island When Rapes Happened’— Claims FBI Kash Patel and DOJ AG Pam Bondi at War over Epstein files,” OMG reveals more of the source’s disclosures.
[F]airly stated, “Say’s law of markets” survives as the most fundamental “economic law” in all economic theory. It enunciates the principle that “demands in general” are “supplies in general” — different aspects of one phenomenon.
W.H. Hutt, A Rehabilitation of Say’s Law (1974), p. 3.
In February, Tina Allgeo was indicted on charges of murdering Mihail Tsvetkov in what the Orlando Sentinel called “a road-rage incident that escalated and turned deadly.”
“Gun violence stemming from senseless disputes will not be tolerated,” the paper quoted State Attorney Monique Worrell.
The Sentinel provides more details in a September 8 report about how Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, is demanding that Worrell drop the case since Allgeo was clearly defending her own life when she shot Tsvetkov.
The two had quarreled after Tsvetkov, who had been closely following Allgeo, struck her car “and then struck her during an attempt to escape after she got out of her car to survey the damage to her rear bumper.” Allgeo then accidentally sideswiped Tsvetkov’s car when she followed him to try to inspect his license plate.
“Video surveillance then showed Tsvetkov exit his car, open her driver’s side door and punch her repeatedly while trying to drag her out her vehicle before she shot him in the face.”
What recourse did she have except wait and see how badly Tsvetkov would beat her?
The Bearing Arms site comments that Worrell would have to show that Allgeo somehow set up Tsvetko, some random guy on the road, so that she would have an opportunity to shoot him in what only seemed like an act of self-defense. That’s the only way it could be “murder.” Which, given the facts that have been reported, makes no sense.
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George Santayana
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
George Santayana, as quoted in Jon Winokur’s compilation, The Portable Curmudgeon (1987).
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Drake’s Voyage
British pirate and subject of Queen Elizabeth I, Francis Drake, finished his circumnavigation of the globe when he returned to Plymouth, England, on September 26, 1580.
Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition (1519–1522) is often credited as the first circumnavigation of the globe, but Magellan himself died in 1521 in the Philippines, with Juan Sebastián Elcano completing the journey as captain. There are no well-documented cases of a captain completing a full circumnavigation before Drake, making the pirate’s circumnavigation (1577–1580) the first where the initial captain, Drake himself — survived to complete the entire journey.
Drake began his circumnavigation in 1577 with five ships: the Pelican (later renamed Golden Hind), Elizabeth, Marigold, Swan, and Christopher. By the time he returned to England in 1580, only one ship, the Golden Hind, completed the journey. The others were either lost, scuttled, or abandoned due to damage, crew issues, or strategic decisions during the voyage.
Nevertheless, the expedition was dubbed a success, for during his voyage, Drake raided Spanish ships and settlements, capturing vast amounts of gold, silver, jewels, and other valuables, particularly from Spanish colonies in the Americas and the treasure ship Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (known as the Cacafuego). The haul was so substantial that it reportedly filled the Golden Hind to capacity. Upon his return to England, Drake’s plunder was estimated to be worth around £600,000, an immense fortune at the time.
Such was “exploration” in the 16th century.
Google is no longer silent about whether the Biden administration pushed Google to censor customers for their viewpoints.
Under Biden, Google censored YouTube content creators under federal pressure, specifically about COVID-19. But Google did muzzle discourse on other matters, such as disputes about the legitimacy of the 2020 election, as a result of its own policies that it now says are “sunsetted” along with policies resulting from its submission to a rogue administration.
Its own role is important because we know that a tech giant can effectively resist federal pressure to censor on the basis of the principles of the company’s leaders.
The proof is how Twitter changed course while Biden or his autopen was still the president. Twitter revamped its policies after Elon Musk ascended to the helm, starting to welcome back those who had been censored under the previous owners.
Yes, Elon Musk found himself under assault from every direction from a variety of federal agencies; which, it seemed, were acting as if in concert with and at the behest of a foiled Biden administration. Musk’s opposition to censorship and documentation of administration pressure to censor was not risk-free.
Now Google is following suit. When restoring freedom of speech is lots less risky.
Let’s hope Google’s words now decrying censorship, and its still-in-progress efforts to make things right — inviting the return of former YouTubers whose channels it had censored, for example — will render the company less eager to cooperate when the next pro-censorship administration takes power.
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Delmore Schwartz
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Delmore Schwartz, as quoted in Jon Winokur’s collection of aphorisms, The Portable Curmudgeon (1987).
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Rome’s Last
For the final time in Roman history, Rome’s Senate chose an emperor, electing 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus on September 25th, A.D. 275. This is yet another milestone on the road to the collapse of republicanism in the much-discussed “decline and fall of the Roman Empire.”