I know you're old. But are you this old?

Kids these days!….. 😆

An 82 year old man had been building model rockets in his garage since 1962. For 60 years. His wife tolerated it. His children thought it was a quirky hobby. His grandchildren thought it was boring. He watched every SpaceX launch on his television. He kept a notebook where he recorded the date, time, payload, and outcome of every Falcon 9 flight. The notebook was thick. He had been keeping it since the first Falcon 1 launch in 2006. His granddaughter was 14 when she asked him why he cared so much about rockets. He explained that when he was 12, he watched Apollo 11 land on the moon on a black and white television. He said the moment the lunar module touched down was the most important moment of his life. More than his wedding. More than the birth of his children. He understood that the human species had changed in that instant and he wanted to be part of what came next. He became an accountant. Not an engineer. Not a scientist. An accountant. The rockets stayed in the garage. The dream stayed in the notebook. For 60 years. When SpaceX landed the first Falcon 9 booster, his granddaughter said she found him in the living room with tears running down his face. She had never seen her grandfather cry. He said "they figured out how to bring it back. I've been waiting 50 years for someone to figure out how to bring it back." He died at 84. The model rockets and the notebook were in his garage. His granddaughter kept the notebook. She is now studying mechanical engineering at MIT. The dreams that one generation carries silently are sometimes completed by the next. The 82 year old accountant who built model rockets for 60 years didn't change the world. His granddaughter might. Because an old man cried in a living room and a 14 year old noticed. The mission to Mars is carried by engineers and billions of dollars. It's also carried by grandfathers in garages who never got to build the real thing but made sure someone in their family would.

Dan Bongino’s podcast has dropped 62% of its viewership since 2024. To the 48% still trusting the plan, please consider joining the majority of us over on Team Sanity.

I could be in the minority on this, but even though he’s been gone for 60 years he’s still the king of Christmas music.

100% -- going back is often not an option because they will end up in prison for crimes they committed before they left. They'd rather stay and go to U.S. prisons or detention if necessary. But that game is now coming to an end -- now the choice is a prison in their home country or removal to Liberia where they have nothing. Choices have consequences.

What happens if their original country requests an extradition for an illegal alien?

Barack Obama: "I don't understand how we got so toxic and just so divided and so bitter."

Nobody hates mormons, they make fun of them because their religion is literally a fairy tale and makes absolutely no sense, and cannot be verified historically or archeologically. To be mormon is to cease to have a lick of common sense. At least catholicism masquerades as Christianity, albeit very badly.

A far greater number have sought and obtained "Withholding of Removal" to their home country, and that is the barrier to deportation, not that their home country won't accept them.

To complete this fall cleanup: 1. Candace Owens is a fraud. 2. Tucker Carlson is also a fraud. 3. Thomas Massie is a loser and a fraud. 4. Marge is trash and a fraud. 5. Israel has a right to exist. 6. Jewish people have a right to exist. 7. Muslims are prone to terrorism. 8. Rubio over Vance 9. Iran is our enemy. 10. Palestinians are animals. 11. Trump is the greatest. 12. Markwayne Mullin is a failure. 13. Susan Collins is a Democrat. 14. John Thune is our opposition. 15. 99% of Congress is worthless. 16. Fox News is fake news. 17. Bring back DOGE 18. J6ers deserve restitution. 19. Take Cuba. All of it. 20. Ukraine and Russia deserve each other. That should be good for now.

Vivaldi's “Winter,” visualized in a fascinating way, so that the auditory experience is even more intense; one can literally “see” the music, so to speak

Does anyone else save documents? Back in July, I posted about the time the Army thought I’d gone AWOL. I had two orders, one for EOD School and one for deployment to Korea. EOD School had priority over other orders. Recently, I found the letter sent to my parents asking them to disregard the “administrative error.” I always think it’s important to save documents like this. Just for peace of mind.

I recited this to my wife Cathy. She said "Those are three problems". I said "What part of 'off by one error' did you fail to understand?" I am resting comfortably and expected to make a full recovery.

"Where is my third house for standing up and being right?" I'm not an Eric Weinstein fan, but he's right. Going against the DC narrative carries a massive financial penalty and an even larger opportunity cost. I know because I've lived on both sides of it. When I investigated the BP oil rig explosion, I landed on the side of environmental justice and was richly rewarded. When I investigated the U.S. Navy collisions, I landed on the opposite side of the government narrative, and it cost me time and money. Same me, just how society saw my alignment. This isn't even political. I wasn't a big Trump supporter during the Navy collisions. I kept pressing on Navy failures because that's who I am. But one man, or even a small handful, can only do so much. To incentivize change, you must give the smartest and most talented people a reason to work alongside the agents of change. After BP came the taste of success: the speaking tours, the Hollywood meetings, the six-figure book deal, the consulting gigs. Without them I could not have extended my impact. I would not have seen results. I would never have known it was possible to fight for institutional change in the Navy and the maritime complex. And it gets worse. We are making vast progress in shipbuilding, yet the relatively small group of people who pushed for that change are being excluded from appointments and pushed out of the administration as "troublemakers," all while being actively attacked by the left. All Republicans want solutions that result in change. Many Democrats do too. But the reward structure does not exist for the originators. It's not a lack of money or rewards. Change is happening, and the second and third rounds of appointees who arrived after the fight was won are being richly rewarded. The OG change agents are being punished. And this is not just a maritime issue. The controversy surrounding @DataRepublican, @CynicalPublius, @RobManess, @KurtSchlichter and @infantrydort is only the latest example. If you want serious structural change, the originators must be rewarded. Not for their own sake, but because their reward is what gives others the incentive to become agents of change. Right now there is some incentive to ride coattails and push change, but little incentive to take real initiative. We need people like @DataRepublican to be rewarded with a second or third house. Not because she wants another house, but because in a well-functioning society, risk must be tied to reward. And the Trump admin doesn’t even need to reward DR herself, they can just demand that storied universities and think tanks and war colleges and such reward the change agents fairly with how they already reward defenders of the status quo on the left.

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