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April 15, 2010 ... Elon Musk gave President a tour of Launch Complex 40. Obama committed and the White House to support the NewSpace era of commercial space flight.

One of our old buses is in the background ... I always thought of those as my mobile classroom. I didn't drive; the bus had a jump seat facing the audience, from which I lectured.

Anyway, visual evidence that Elon wasn't always a douchebag.

Oh say, can you see ... A southern bald eagle atop a light pole during Friday's college baseball game in Winter Haven.

I went out the door before sunrise to go cycling, but Nature had a different opinion. I pulled the plug after 15 minutes.

Tomorrow's apocalyptic weather forecast for SoCal reminds me of "the Big One" on March 1, 1983. I was a police dispatcher in Irvine, in Orange County. Flooding and road closures everywhere. My apartment complex flooded, but I was at work and my unit was on an upper floor.

Hopefully the next few days fare better.

I used to do tours in the Launch Control Center. The lobby has plaques for every mission launched from there. Each plaque has the launch and landing date.

Only two Shuttle plaques are missing the landing date -- STS-51L Challenger and STS-107 Columbia.

This is the Columbia plaque, missing its landing tag.

Consumer Confidence Index reaches two-year high. "The reading was the highest since December 2021, and marked the third straight monthly increase."

Look at the chart to see where it was when left office in January 2021 versus now.

Cue the mainstream media ... "Why this is bad news for ..."

conference-board.org/topics/co

From : election board concludes it doesn't have jurisdiction to decide ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment, punts the question to state courts.

Note ... The bipartisan ruling was 8-0. Several Republicans said they thought Trump committed insurrection but didn't have jurisdiction.

cnn.com/2024/01/30/politics/do

The morning after ... The front page of local newspapers, 38 years ago this morning, after the Challenger accident.

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