SpaceX Dragon

It is one of those events that might be more historic than it seems when it happens. The first commercially developed space vehicle returned to Earth at 11:42 AM ET today (NASA Videos).

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.

 

120 Responses to Privatizing Space

  1. Jamie says:

    Question: Has Mitt Romney held a job since 2007? Has he exhausted his extended unemployment benefits?

  2. Jamie says:

    Woo Hoo -- I want to go for a ride

  3. Jamie says:

    Listening to the Florida voter purge scandal. Is it time for a comeback of Katy and the twins?

  4. patd says:

    jamie, not to worry, you’ve been taken for a ride ever since 2000.

  5. xrepublican says:

    “…sooner or later you sleep
    In your own space”
    -Billy Joel -- My Life

  6. maybe these SpaceX folks can fix my ice maker, hasn’t worked for days

  7. xrepublican says:

    buddy roemer throws in the wet wipe. --

    Roemer Ends Longshot Presidential Bid

  8. RebelliousRenee says:

    hey guys…. everyone knows that the best is Tony Bennett…

  9. 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

  10. whskyjack says:

    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

  11. RebelliousRenee says:

    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… Wink

  12. whskyjack says:

    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

  13. whskyjack says:

    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

  14. xrepublican says:

    Craig, sorry about the space violation. I didn’t mean to crowd the commercials.

  15. xrepublican says:

    In fact, I took the link from a Taegan Goddard news clipping.

  16. Jamie says:

    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.”

  17. xrepublican says:

    Ice makers, like money, are the devil’s invention. However, I love the ice.

    Oh yeah, and money’s okay, too.

  18. whskyjack says:

    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

  19. xrepublican says:

    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.

  20. xrepublican says:

    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.

  21. xrepublican says:

    I have dibs on the planet Old North Australia.

  22. xrepublican says:

    Captain Video with an anti-discrimination message.

  23. xrepublican says:

    Cowboys in space ?

  24. Jamie says:

    Gallup Election 2012 Trial Heat: Obama vs Romney

  25. Jamie says:

    XR

    If you are taking the North, I have dibs on the south

  26. Jamie says:

    In a Facebook fight on the DOMA verdict in case anyone wants to help me bang heads together.

  27. patd says:

    my ice maker, hasn’t worked for days

    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.

  28. patd says:

    from taegan’s political wire:

    Update: The Raleigh News & Observer reports the judge declared a mistrial.

  29. Flatus says:

    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?

  30. RebelliousRenee says:

    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.

  31. Katherine Graham Cracker says:

    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.

  32. Katherine Graham Cracker says:

    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.

  33. Jamie says:

    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.

  34. Jamie says:

    Watching a great documentary On Demand. If you get a chance to see it, look for Booker’s Place

  35. Tonyb says:

    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..

  36. Tonyb says:

    Panties in A Bunch Over Politico
    by Taylor Marsh

    The criticism about the Politico piece today has landed on the heads of Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, two of the leading powers at Politico, for basically doing what they do every day, which is whatever they can to garner links from Matt Drudge, while sucking up to whomever they need to in order to keep their page hits up.

    There’s a reason you won’t find stories about Syria on Politico, but you will find Joe Scarborough’s op-ed pushing Pres. Obama to get involved in the dramatic crumbling of that state. “Morning Joe” offers Politico a TV segment, so giving the former conservative congressman an op-ed blog is a no-brainer that costs very little. When Scarborough predictably channels the Syria hawk line it’s all the better for Politico.

  37. Tonyb says:

    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!!

  38. coloradobob says:

    Privatizing Water

    The upper tank farm of the Cactus Water Harvester.

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10151007550869993&set=a.116473849992.111957.663574992&type=1&theater

  39. coloradobob says:

    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.

  40. xrepublican says:

    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.

  41. patd says:

    in the summertime with the muppets

  42. blueINdallas says:

    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…

  43. Tonyb says:

    The Austerity Agenda
    By PAUL KRUGMAN

    So the austerity drive in Britain isn’t really about debt and deficits at all; it’s about using deficit panic as an excuse to dismantle social programs. And this is, of course, exactly the same thing that has been happening in America.

  44. Tonyb says:

    The Most Ignorant, Stupid, Insipid and Moronic Congress in History
    by Taylor Marsh

    This shouldn’t even be an issue, but since the House decided to vote on a bill, we have to turn our head toward this train wreck. If Congress was a serious institution Speaker John Boehner would be impeached for allowing this idiocy; but he’s too afraid of the Tea Party to stop it.

    But our politics is so intellectually corrupt that twenty idiot Democrats actually voted for “PRENDA,” acknowledging their stupidity that “sex-selective abortions” actually exist in any number whatsoever. Either that or they are so incompetent they are incapable of arguing “gendercide” doesn’t require legislation, and are so scared they’d get “caught” being “for” “gendercide” that they just went along anyway. Every one of them has earned a primary challenger.

    This is a prime example of why no matter who is elected president in November our country will remain on the skids.

  45. patd says:

    tony, destroying unions seem to be the first step in that krugman’s theory of

    using deficit panic as an excuse to dismantle social programs

  46. patd says:

    “Those people have an agenda. That’s not a Wisconsin agenda. It’s not about the people in Milwaukee, Appleton or Green Bay. It’s about the Tea Party movement,” said Barrett.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47642866

  47. Jamie says:

    Mrs. Roger Ailes facing competition in the market place. Lord knows there would never be any competition for what’s at home.

  48. Tonyb says:

    Pat, thanks for that piece! President Clinton is gonna be there! I hope it helps, yeah!

  49. whskyjack says:

    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?

  50. Movingon says:

    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.

  51. Movingon says:

    Bill Clinton is singing from a different hymnal with reference to Mitt’s business record with Bain Capital. Shock

    http://politi.co/KQQxD0

  52. patd says:

    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

  53. whskyjack says:

    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

  54. whskyjack says:

    Pat

    Look out for spin
    From the report

    Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging, retail trade,
    information, financial activities, leisure and hospitality, and government, changed
    little in May
    .

  55. Jamie says:

    Craig should be impressed, Brooke Baldwin ensconsed in London retweeted one of my tweets. Truly momentous statement: How to make a Pimms’ Cup

  56. harborwoman says:

    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.

  57. RebelliousRenee says:

    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.

  58. Jamie says:

    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.

  59. xrepublican says:

    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.
    ( :>D))<

  60. whskyjack says:

    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

  61. whskyjack says:

    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

  62. Jamie says:

    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.

  63. whskyjack says:

    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.

  64. whskyjack says:

    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

  65. harborwoman says:

    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.

  66. Jamie says:

    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.

  67. Jamie says:

    Another concept from the past. When labor becomes cheap, life becomes cheap. Welcome to the unending wars.

  68. whskyjack says:

    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

  69. Jamie says:

    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.

  70. whskyjack says:

    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

  71. Jamie says:

    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

  72. whskyjack says:

    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

  73. Jamie says:

    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.

  74. Flatus says:

    “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.

  75. Jamie says:

    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

  76. Jamie says:

    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?

  77. Jamie says:

    Does Grover Norquist have the worst smirk on a face ever?

  78. patd says:

    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.

  79. 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/

  80. patd says:

    Tornado warnings have come and gone throughout the D.C. area Friday afternoon and evening, and a tornado watch for the entire D.C. region has been extended from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m.

    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.

  81. Jamie says:

    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.

  82. nemo says:

    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 meSmile.

  83. Jamie says:

    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”

  84. nemo says:

    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.

  85. Jamie says:

    The Music of My Soul

  86. Tonyb says:

    Good Evening all!
    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! Rolls Eyes ..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!

  87. patd says:

    But he added that some prosthetics might be in order to make Clooney look more like himself.
    “You could bulbous things on his nose,” Clinton said, referring to his own infamous schnoz.

    And who would play his wife and current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton?
    “Meryl Streep,” Clinton replied.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/bill-clinton-chooses-george-clooney-brad-pitt-play-biopic-article-1.1088535

  88. patd says:

    tony, couldn’t access your link so am posting an excerpt from sargent’s transcript of what the big dawg said in wi:

    If you believe in an economy of shared prosperity when times are good, and shared sacrifice when they’re not, then you don’t want to break the unions. You want them at the negotiating table. And you trust them to know that arithmetic rules. Show up for Tom Barrett on Tuesday! If you want Wisconsin once again to be seen by all of America as a place of diversity, of difference of opinion, of vigorous debate, where in the end people’s objectives are to come to an agreement that will take us all forward together, you have to show up for Tom Barrett on Tuesday! …

    “I can just hear it now, on Wednesday. All those people that poured all this money into Wisconsin, if you don’t show up and vote, will say, ‘See, we got them now. We’re finally going to break every union in America. We’re gonna break every government in America. We’re gonna stop worrying about the middle class. We don’t give a riff whether poor people get to work their way into it. We got our way now. We got it all. Divide and conquer works.’

    “You tell them no. You tell them, Wisconsin has never been about that, never will be about that — by electing Tom Barrett governor!”

    http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/01/12011424-clinton-makes-the-progressive-case-in-wisconsin

  89. patd says:

    the big dawg dug up the koch bone:

    We’re finally going to break every union in America. We’re gonna break every government in America.

  90. jace says:

    Wow, have just finished watching Game of Thrones season one.
    Those folks have some serious anger management issues. Wink

  91. jace says:

    I hope I’m wrong, but it looks like the first victim of Citizens United will be Wisconsin.

    Can America be far behind? Confused

  92. Tonyb says:

    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?

  93. Tonyb says:

    http://craigcrawford.com/2012/05/31/privatizing-space/#comment-290352

    Ha ha, Jace,
    I’m up to S01E02 of Game Of Thrones and you so funny, yes they do have anger management issues Grin 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..

  94. jace says:

    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. Wink

  95. Jamie says:

    Jace

    The finale of Season 2 is tomorrow night. Love that show and I’m rooting for my two favorite characters: Tyrion and Arya!!

  96. Jamie says:

    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.

  97. jace says:

    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. Wink

  98. jace says:

    Jamie,

    I still think that Union Rags can win a race.
    Saddle me up.

  99. jace says:

    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. Neutral

  100. RebelliousRenee says:

    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.

  101. Tonyb says:

    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,
    Thanks for the heads up on “Dark Shadows” Cry I watched as a kid reruns on TBS of the original series, wow, can’t believe that passed for scary in those days..

  102. jace says:

    RR,

    I thought vampire were supposed to suck.

    Hope the rain doesn’t ruin the wedding. Wink

  103. Tonyb says:

    Romney Campaign Mocks Obama Team Over Clinton Statement
    by Taylor Marsh

    SO, BILL CLINTON speaks a truth that’s been held as a not so secret reality inside the Democratic Party about Mitt Romney’s private equity career, and the Obama campaign does what?

    Gets defensive and releases a statement from Bill Clinton to CBS News saying he wasn’t endorsing Mitt Romney.

    Would I kid you about political stupid? This was needed why? From CBS:

    “’I said, you know, Governor Romney had a good career in business and he was a governor, so he crosses the qualification threshold for him being president,’ Clinton said. ‘But he shouldn’t be elected, because he is wrong on the economy and all these other issues. So today, because I didn’t attack him personally and bash him, I wake up to read all these stories taking it out of context as if I had virtually endorsed him, which means the tea party has already won their first great victory: ‘We are supposed to hate each to disagree.’ That is wrong.’”

    Whoever made the decision to release a statement from Pres. Clinton to prove he wasn’t endorsing Mitt Romney is an idiot.