Privatizing Space

SpaceX Dragon
California-based SpaceX is the first private company to send a cargo ship to the space station. Plans are for the SpaceX Dragon to become the only supplier capable of returning major items.

Pan Am Clipper (2001 A Space Odyssey)
With public spending falling away will commercial space travel pick up the slack? Another company, Virgin Galactic, says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year.
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Question: Has Mitt Romney held a job since 2007? Has he exhausted his extended unemployment benefits?
Woo Hoo -- I want to go for a ride
Listening to the Florida voter purge scandal. Is it time for a comeback of Katy and the twins?
jamie, not to worry, you’ve been taken for a ride ever since 2000.
“…sooner or later you sleep
In your own space”
-Billy Joel -- My Life
maybe these SpaceX folks can fix my ice maker, hasn’t worked for days
buddy roemer throws in the wet wipe. --
Roemer Ends Longshot Presidential Bid
hey guys…. everyone knows that the best is Tony Bennett…
xrepub, i put your url above into link form — those long addresses mess with our frame
see “Commenting Editing Tools” under the Help button above for instructions
Space X is a step forward for the private use of space. Nasa needs to go back to it’s original intent and that is cutting edge stuff. They need to keep leading the way. BTW Nasa is a great jobs program and tech developer that keeps us ahead of the world. Funding it is very important to our future.
But it does need redirection once in a while, break up some of those calcified bureaucratic brain cells.
Jack
BTW… Dylan Ratigan has been begging Richard Branson for a ride on Virgin Galactic for months.
Craig… fixin’ an ice maker is akin to rocket science… who knew…
The nice thing about private companies being involved in space flight is that I don’t need to bribe a politician to get a seat. I just need to win the lottery and I can buy my seat up front.
Jack
The nice thing about our ice maker is that it comes with a big bin that holds a 10lb bag of ice.
The fridge that I bout for my renter came with a retro style ice maker. They are low tech effecient and they rarely brake down. But you do have to fill them.
Jack
Craig, sorry about the space violation. I didn’t mean to crowd the commercials.
In fact, I took the link from a Taegan Goddard news clipping.
Great quote about current ridiculous GOP proposed legislation on immigration, voting, and women’s issues:
“You can pass a lot of laws about bad things that don’t exist.”
Ice makers, like money, are the devil’s invention. However, I love the ice.
Oh yeah, and money’s okay, too.
I hope that some time in my life I can buy a ticket for an extended stay(more than 30 sec ? aday in orbit? 2 hours even.) in space. I think I would scrape together all my saving for the old folks home just to buy that ticket. Then when it is time to put me in the home I will gladly walk out on the ice floe.
Jack
Wheel my chair onto that ice floe. Unless I am very much mistaken, I’ll lose my legs long before I lose my mind.
‘Course, some people say I can’t lose that which I already lost years ago.
I was slender when, in the summer of ’93, I rapidly dropped 15% of my weight for no apparent reason. It was a major signal that I was diabetic. I just thought that I’d been working too hard on a political campaign. By election day, I was skinny.
After I was diagnosed and put on insulin, I gained 80 pounds. I’ve lost 15 pounds of that since last Fall, but I’m sure it’s around here somewhere. I’ll bet that if I look in the peanut butter jar, I’ll find it.
Anywhat, the diabetes will probably take away my legs and eyes. Then it won’t cost so much to shoot me into space.
On second thought, just shoot me.
I have dibs on the planet Old North Australia.
Captain Video with an anti-discrimination message.
Cowboys in space ?
Gallup Election 2012 Trial Heat: Obama vs Romney
XR
If you are taking the North, I have dibs on the south
In a Facebook fight on the DOMA verdict in case anyone wants to help me bang heads together.
speaking of verdicts
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/31/11993007-john-edwards-jury-reaches-verdict-on-one-count-ordered-to-resume-deliberations?lite&ocid=ansmsnbc11
craig, probably shouldn’t have cleaned the fridge.
much like how a car inevitably springs leaks when one flushes the radiator. as jack said, it’s important to buildup a patina.
better the big dawg than the others in the dem pack
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/31/former-president-clinton-jumps-into-wisconsin-recall-election/
from taegan’s political wire:
Judge stops Florida Voter Suppression law
I wonder how many husbands are unaware of that arm that turns off the water-works when the ice hopper is full? And stops it even if it’s empty if the arm is moved into cut-off position?
John Edwards is a frickin’ pig and I hope he rots in hell. But that trial was a political witch hunt… initially charges were brought up by a long time Republican opponent… and then continued by an Obama administration afraid of being accused of protecting one of it’s own if the charges were dropped.
Edwards’ family and tax payers were the losers… no one won except maybe Edwards himself by at least staying out of jail. I hope this matter is now ended.
Congratulations all us -- a good recognition of equal rights for all a large part of the Defense of Marriage Act has been thrown out.
and what Jack said
whskyjack says:
05/31/2012 at 12:29 PM
Space X is a step forward for the private use of space. Nasa needs to go back to it’s original intent and that is cutting edge stuff. They need to keep leading the way. BTW Nasa is a great jobs program and tech developer that keeps us ahead of the world. Funding it is very important to our future.
But it does need redirection once in a while, break up some of those calcified bureaucratic brain cells.
So Mittens aand the goopers are the trying to turn the war on women “on its head” by claiming Democrat backed abortionists are practicing sex selection abortions and killing “little girls” before they are born.
So Boner rigged the vote so all the rightwing tools could vote for it so they can campaign on it but so it wouldn’t pass and cause the biggest uproar and completely end any chance that Mittens will ever be president
Every time you think the goopers can’t sink any lower they do
And Ms Affront’s coverage of the Blomberg anti enormous sugary drink law was positively juvenile and when she finally got around to mentioning the public health costs of people slurping down 32oz of sugar water -- it was the lost in the pathetic punchline of her whatever it she does --definitely not reporting.
Any time it involves sanity and health care you can absolutely count on the fact that the GOP will be elsewhere.
Taxpayers foot the bill for crisis care in big city hospitals while people die unnecessarily but heaven forbid you have mandated health insurance or non profit single payer.
Anti abortion so lets wipe out all sex education and birth control access.
Now they are solving the massive problems of India and China by outlawing sex selection here.
It adds new meaning to dumb asses.
Watching a great documentary On Demand. If you get a chance to see it, look for Booker’s Place
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/31/privatizing-space/#comment-290276
Oh Jamie,
You fought the good fight against some ignorant asses! Wish i could have assisted! Your posts did the trick but doubt the haters were swayed..I’m sure they were religious too! So funny how they overlook all the other things the bible puts out but they just can’t overlook gays..
Panties in A Bunch Over Politico
by Taylor Marsh
Ed Schultz Challenges Pres. Obama to Show Up in Wisconsin
by Taylor Marsh
Oh man, Ed must have tipped a few??? When he doesn’t show up in Wisconsin , as usual for labor with President Obama, ED will being making excuses and falling back on his poooooor Barack story line, so tiring!!
Privatizing Water
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10151007550869993&set=a.116473849992.111957.663574992&type=1&theater
The rail-road-raft :
Getting the seats installed. They are made from old people walkers, and nylon webbing.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663574992#!/photo.php?fbid=10151007557924993&set=p.10151007557924993&type=1&theater
3 more things on the punch list.
The rippers’ attempt to protect marriage from people who want marriage, doma, is on the ropes.
rippers want every one of greg allman’s 7 marriages to be sacred.
in the summertime with the muppets
Soda/juice is the one, bad eating habit I haven’t ever picked up.
Maybe if it was as cheap & convenient to get something healthier to drink or eat, the grubberment could stay outta our menu choices.
A visitor from another country was hungry & managed to find an apple. When I heard that, I was like, “Oh, I guess that is a better choice than a bag of chips.”
If the grubberment could stop subsidizing non-food food ingredients, if the food lobbies didn’t keep paying for politicians who would write legislation to ruin our food supply and keep giving them subsidies to do so…binge, binge, binge.
My theory is that if everyone in this country (let alone on the entire planet) wanted only good, healthy foods, there would not be enough & it would not be economical. Empty calories are what keep the masses in line; full, sick and slightly sedated.
I mean, if we can put a man on the moon…
The Austerity Agenda
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The Most Ignorant, Stupid, Insipid and Moronic Congress in History
by Taylor Marsh
tony, destroying unions seem to be the first step in that krugman’s theory of
John Nichols: Scott Walker tries to buy an election — and a state
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47642866
Mrs. Roger Ailes facing competition in the market place. Lord knows there would never be any competition for what’s at home.
Pat, thanks for that piece! President Clinton is gonna be there! I hope it helps, yeah!
Jobs Report May 2012: U.S. Employers Added 69,000 Jobs In May As The Unemployment Rate Rose To 8.2 Percent
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
Not good news on the employment situation for Obama.
Link to the BLS report
Just 69000 jobs added in may and the April number were revised down from 117,000 to 77,000. That is a major revision imo.
The good news in the report is you all are making $.02 more and hour.
So what are you doing with your 2 cents?
The other bad news included in the May jobs report is the downward revision of Aprils jobs report. It was first estimated to be 177K, it came in at 115K, and was revised downwards to 77K. Also the labor force participation rate -- the share of working-age Americans who either have a job or are looking for one -- rose to 63.8 percent after dropping to a 30-year low in April. All this while a flock of recent graduates will be looking for jobs. The near future doesn’t look good.
Bill Clinton is singing from a different hymnal with reference to Mitt’s business record with Bain Capital.
http://politi.co/KQQxD0
since 2008 nearly 300,000 teaching jobs loss. local gov’t jobs loss (also known as public employee union jobs mostly)not private sector jobs are what account for the bad news.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1110/S00146/white-house-blog-jobs-act-to-prevent-teachers-job-loss.htm
Pat
Local government and state revenues continue to be down and that is as good an indicator of the economy as anything. When the their revenues/the economy turns up their lay offs will slow.
Jack
Pat
Look out for spin
From the report
Craig should be impressed, Brooke Baldwin ensconsed in London retweeted one of my tweets. Truly momentous statement: How to make a Pimms’ Cup
Isn’t Bill Clinton’s son-in-law an investment banker? Just sayin’….
I suppose there are ways to do investment banking that are good for all involved. However, the way it was practiced by Mitt and his Bain crew doesn’t qualify as ‘good’, in my book. Just can’t see that the relatively few successes they can claim outweigh the destruction they left in their wake.
CBob…. that railroad raft is a mighty fine looking contraption.
Jamie… congrats on the retweet…
I want to associate myself with Harborwoman’s 12:53.
I know that ‘splainin’ things can be hard at times, but I do wish that the pundits would at least try to describe Venture vs Vulture capitalism. Either that or just go tell people to rewatch “Pretty Woman”. Not all ventures pay off. Some do go broke, but it isn’t in a way that wipes out pensions and totally destroys families. There are actually two Bains One is venture and the other Bain Capital was vulture. One was designed to try to support and save companies thus creating value for investors and the other was to raid and destroy to make profits for investors.
Too much of Capitalism these days creates nothing. There is no product. Without a product you are just servicing the shuffle from 3rd world countries to 1st world and the 1st world is dying because they are making nothing of value. Add in too few jobs for the population undercutting wages and you have the makings of a global crash.
These things Jamie describes were happening 90 -- 140 years ago. As a result, there were revolutions and cataclysms. However, today we have tv and Prozac.
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There is nothing wrong with Bain’s bussiness model.
Bain is the salvage yard of business. Bain didn’t ruin the businesses, the previous many years of mismanagement did. A great example are the workers here in KC Armco. Because of Bain’s investment in the grinding division those workers (who are whining on many videos) got an extra 10 years of high union wages that their breathren at the Armco Union wire rope plant which was sold to a nonunion outfit didn’t get. In the end they both lost their jobs in 2001 because of factors beyond the companies control.
Jack
BTW, I doubt that throwing pity parties for unions is going to get you many votes.
The fact that Obama has to pander such a narrow section of his base says much about his strength at this time.
Jack
Jack
They took all sorts of tax benefits, dumped pension money, loaded up debt and then raided the coffers. None of it was illegal. Most of it was immoral. The trouble with all the Capitalists who haven’t actually read (or at least understood) Adam Smith is that they tend to ignore the moral concepts necessary to preserve Capitalism. As a result they are destroying Capitalism.
At the bottom of all profit is an underpinning of labor and product. Devalue labor and replace production with paper and you have the seeds of revolution.
Jamie it was’t Bain that destroyed those companies nor captalism. Salvaging is an important part of removing the dead from the living so that the living part of a company can survive. And yes they got paid well for the task.
One of the interesting things about innovation is that it makes production less dependent on labor. So what you have is labor being a factor of production but and increasingly smaller one.
Which makes the statement ” At the bottom of all profit is an underpinning of labor and product” So Eighteenth century.
Jack
I would like to associate myself with Jamie’s 3:13…and I’d like to recommend reading Dylan Ratigan’s GREEDY BASTARDS to all.
Jack
Unfortunately you are correct about innovation. If you can think of a way to bump off about three billion people without their relatives complaining, do let me know.
Another concept from the past. When labor becomes cheap, life becomes cheap. Welcome to the unending wars.
Jamie
History has proved you wrong. The more we inovate the better life is and the less violence we have.
For all the moaning life world wide is better than it was 50 years ago and unimaginable from 100 years ago.
The population bomb has turned into a dud. What we are seeing is a lowering of the birthrate world wide with no end in sight so far. We are close to seeing peak population as the current demographic bulge works its way through. Then from current trends our grandchildren will be dealing with worldwide declining populations.
Jack
Jack
The middle class didn’t start until the Bubonic plague wiped out the unnecessary. Right now we are about two times the carrying capacity for the globe for food and water if everyone is to have something near a middle class lifestyle. Famine, desertification, global pollution etc. Our grandchildren already are looking at a declining life expectancy.
From 2008 Malthus Was Right
Jamie, no they aren’t , the numbers just don’t back up your worries
When was the last time you saw a famine that wasn’t war related?
with conflict decreasing you will see even war related famine disappear
As I said the population bomb was a bust, innovation and modernization is what made it fizzle.
Jack
Jack
Check back with me in a decade and see who is right. You cannot have huge populations unemployed and governments raking off all of the profits while keeping them in poverty and not have combustion. Just because the previously until now populations aren’t feeling it yet, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. At least read Friedman’s “Hot Flat and Crowded“
Jamie
Your link supports me.
As Krugman said Malthus was 100% correct up until his time. What he wasn’t able to predict was the future.
Fact is Malthus was blindsided by modernity and the places currently having problems are places where modernity is slow to take hold.
Jack
Jack
There are currently more people on the planet that have existed in total dead before now. Water, land, and food are finite. You cannot have an unending ponzi scheme of population. Now I suppose we might figure out a way to colonize the moon or Mars, but the warnings against polluted fish and depleted populations of ocean dwellers are coming down.
If you eat the food chain, the guys at the top are equally dead.
“We have financial entrepreneurs taking over from product entrepreneurs…” Rob’t Reich a few minutes ago on Tweetie’s show.
Reich is exactly right. And that explains the Bains of our existence.
Just to get things started, here are the probable entries for the Belmont Stakes. Start thinking about it. I’ll let everyone know post positions etc. before the June 9 race
Alpha 15-1
Atigun 15-1
Dullahan 5 -1
Five Sixteen 50-1
Guyana Star Dweej 50-1
I’ll Have Another 4 -- 5
Optimizer 30-1
Paynter 12-1
Street Life 15-1
Union Rags 6 -- 1
Unstoppable U 30 -- 1
Flatus
And those financial entrepreneurs are all slice and dice servicing of a product of labor. How much do you pay per hour for a servicing at the lowest level and can they survive on that paycheck?
Does Grover Norquist have the worst smirk on a face ever?
Mitt Romney Thanks Pres. Clinton
by Taylor Marsh
henry ford on paying workers
http://www.americanprogress.org/cartoons/2012/05/052912.html
looks like our delmarva friends are in for some bad weather and better hie to their safe places. maybe a good rathskeller ’til it blows by.
I’m ALL IN on private investment in space exploration technology, BUTTTTT…
Let us not forget that it still takes a great nation to accomplish projects like this…The new Mars Rover CURIOSITY will land the first week in August and it is an awesome device! Here’s the link to the NASA Mission Countdown Clock…
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
And to Pat-D, love the space songs, check out my selection of the greatest Space Rock songs of all time at my tribute site to the new Mars Rover, INCLUDING a version of Bowie’s Space Oddity that I had never heard or seen before at MarsRoverBand.com
http://marsroverband.com/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47648741
2-4 inches of rain also expected which will no doubt test craig’s recent leak fix and new carpet. stay safe you guys.
Love Rachel if only because she explains stuff. It might be hard for the headline news watchers with short attention spans to handle, but if you care, she is darn good.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/29/from-hope-to-fear/#comment-290192
Thanks Buddy,
That means a lot coming from you.
I’ve always enjoyed your intelligence as well as your ‘great sense of humor’.
Hope you’re loving the weather ‘and’ the fish in Florida. I love the warm weather (as long as I have plenty of air conditioning) — that’s the business we’re in, and there’s no shortage of demand for temperature control in Houston (we have 2 temperatures: hot and cold — but mostly hot). I guess you’ve noticed living in Florida how different your life style is when you live in this kind of weather. We started in Southern California (a much dryer climate, but hot all the same) in ’74, and brought our business to an even hotter state when it got sluggish (along with the economy and high cost of living there) after many years of doing well.
It’s so good to be in a state where there is actually (at least seemingly) plenty of work (for those who are willing to work). I’m so grateful to have found my way here — I just wish so many others hadn’t found it too. It’s crazy crowded, but it keeps the economic ball rolling (and that’s why they’re flocking here in in the first place). Everyone hates the governor here (except for those living here whom appreciate that he’s running one hell of a fair state, regardless of his reputation as not being too smart — we’re more interested in an (by all observation from vantage point) a well run state with plenty of jobs (new roads, highways, freeways, etc. etc. and all the many other things that are creating new jobs here — which is in a big part owed to the increasing population) than what others say about him. Otherwise, I neutral and nonjudgmental about him, as I am not following politics anyway. The state has apparently has been well planned since the problems they had in the ’80s — they luckily learned from their mistakes. No matter what you hear, there’s less bigotry of any type here than I’ve seen in most other states, and that includes the ever liberal state of California. So others can think what they want, but I’ve seen first hand.
Actions speak louder than (some of the dumb words the governor says we find easy to ignore -- we’re more interested in results).
The northerners (yanks??), along with the westerners (like me from California which (I think we are nothing (.. no smart remarks now, but even independent doesn’t fit us, at least those from Southern Calif., which is like a different state from Northern California for those who actually live there) now outnumber the red necks.
Twenty years ago when we found our way here, that wasn’t the situation. Now it’s starting to feel like”California, but without the gorgeous mountains and wonderful Pacific ocean. But at least we’re working, and that’s what makes it happen at this point, I see license plates from every state in the union every day.
Whatever, it’s all good, and just keeps getting better. It must be those ‘choices’ we we were talking about (apparently, in spite of the politicians, someones making some beneficial ones).
If you ever run into my good friend Tony there in Florida, give him a high five for me, would ya.
…and If Solar ever show’s up in your beautiful sunny state on the ocean, do the same for him (either that or give him a big kiss for me
.
Watching my PBS recording of Memphis. Damn fine musical.. Never let anyone steal your Rock N Roll even if in 1950 you had to go “Underground”
Craig,
I’m sorry for not congratulating you and David on your engagement. It was unintentional, but a rude over-site on my part. I’ve always had only the best wishes for you (and David too).
What a wonderful partner you have (and he has as well), and I wish you to live out your life as happily as it began — forever soul mates. Not everyone ever finds that.
………………
… on another subject (a sad one though) there’s something I’ve thought about for a long time, (and very deeply) which is what Sean said near the end of his life. He said paraphrasing “that he’s so over himself”.
I think he meant that he had developed an insight of what’s really important and what’s not. That the things ‘we think’ are important aren’t really all that important when it comes down to the realization that we’re not going to live forever -- and maybe our priorities should be examined before we all get to that point (which, of course, is inevitable).
Did he talk to you about that? I know it may be a very personal thing, and if I’m overstepping the line by asking, just say so.
It just means so much to me to know exactly what he was feeling and meant by it — and since he said it I’ve thought a lot about the same thing myself. I realize how petty many of the things I (maybe) mistakenly feel are most important may be (when you look at the big picture) Sean had so much insight, and I’d love to learn even more about it.
I’m so sorry you lost such a good friend.
I’m sorry for all the loved ones here who have left us.
… and I am too: so over myself.
The Music of My Soul
Good Evening all!
..Oh and about politics, you don’t have to pay any attention to it if you don’t want too, just come around here and talk about whatever you want..Makes me smile you coming around, thanks!
Chloe,
What wonderful posts! Damn sure have missed you! Loved hearing about Houston! Sounds like a nice place to live!
Ha and your correct about the A/C, oh god, couldn’t be here without it..Great your business is in heating and cooling, terrific here in the south, we need you!
Bill Clinton hits a home run in Wisconsin. Will it be enough?
Gregg Sargent
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/bill-clinton-chooses-george-clooney-brad-pitt-play-biopic-article-1.1088535
tony, couldn’t access your link so am posting an excerpt from sargent’s transcript of what the big dawg said in wi:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/01/12011424-clinton-makes-the-progressive-case-in-wisconsin
the big dawg dug up the koch bone:
Wow, have just finished watching Game of Thrones season one.
Those folks have some serious anger management issues.
I hope I’m wrong, but it looks like the first victim of Citizens United will be Wisconsin.
Can America be far behind?
Hi Pat,
Thanks..Great stuff from President Clinton in Wisconsin!
Here’s the working link from The Plum Line..Bill Clinton Hits a home run in Wisconsin, will it be enough?
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/31/privatizing-space/#comment-290352
Ha ha, Jace,
Very good HBO! Going to keep going till i catch up, the series is up to S02E09…Can’t wait ‘True Blood” is going to start June 10th..
I’m up to S01E02 of Game Of Thrones and you so funny, yes they do have anger management issues
Tony,
I like True Blood as well, and I feel a little guilty for enjoying it. I don’t ordinarily have much use for vampires and the like, but I really like this series.
Go figure.
Jace
The finale of Season 2 is tomorrow night. Love that show and I’m rooting for my two favorite characters: Tyrion and Arya!!
True Blood has been great but I’ll have to see if it isn’t drifting off a bit with the new season. Like the cable shows -- Eureka, Drop Dead Diva, Royal Pains, Suits, Warehouse 13, Haven and White Collar. Treme won’t be back until the Fall. The cable shows are getting better than most of the network garbage.
Jamie,
I’m just rooting for someone to stay alive into the prime of their life.
Cheryl and the kids all said these were good books, and said that I should read them,but that is not generally what I read. I will pay more attention to their recommendations in the future.
ps not sure why anybody would ever want to be a King, when you could be the ‘Stallion of the world’.
Now that is a title worth having.
Jamie,
I still think that Union Rags can win a race.
Saddle me up.
Boy, that President Obama is one busy guy.
He tanked the jobs report and made the price of gas go down all in one day, don’t see how he found time to campaign.
It’s pouring buckets here and we’re going to a wedding this afternoon. It’s my best friend’s youngest daughter. Her older daughter got married this past Sept. It poured buckets at that wedding too. I guess the rain gods love her kids.
and speaking of vampires… we went to see Dark Shadows while on vacation…. we both thought it sucked. Though the popcorn was pretty good.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/31/privatizing-space/#comment-290358
Jamie,
Hope the new season of “True Blood” stays constantly good..I see Christopher Meloni joins TB, like him from the Old “OZ” show..Oh and your spot on, cable shows far surpass network TV..Showtime is my favorite really..”Nurse Jackie”, “Dexter”, “Homeland”, “Weeds”, the very best IMO…
Renee,
I watched as a kid reruns on TBS of the original series, wow, can’t believe that passed for scary in those days..
Thanks for the heads up on “Dark Shadows”
RR,
I thought vampire were supposed to suck.
Hope the rain doesn’t ruin the wedding.
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