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Most Saturdays, we do a movie matinee from our DVD collection.

Today was ... .

Previous films:

Shakespeare in Love
Good Night and Good Luck
Solo
Ed Wood
Last Action Hero
The Maltese Falcon
Mamma Mia!
The Hunt for Red October
Citizen Kane
Backdraft
Damn Yankees
Get Smart
Great Expectations
The Right Stuff
Seven Days in May
Dances with Wolves
Buckaroo Bonzai
Serenity

For residents ... returns to flight tonight with a launch from Pad 39A. The launch is targeting 12:21 AM EDT with a four-hour launch window. ๐Ÿ˜ด

I know a lot of people didn't care for Season 1 but, for what it's worth, Prime has releases a trailer for Season 2 of the prequel, "The Rings of Power."

youtube.com/watch?v=pzJDzIDv0m

From :

The leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel was arrested today by the at the Mexican border, along with a son of "El Chapo."

Comment ... Republicans have been bashing for being the "border czar." Democrats should give her credit for the arrest of the prime smuggler of fentanyl across the border. She should lead the press conference that announces this. Watch and soil themselves.

cbsnews.com/news/sinaloa-carte

Former Deputy Administrator Lori Garver was interviewed today for an hour on the Off-Nominal podcast. I've known Lori for a long time; she tells it like it is, doesn't spin like the NASA bureaucracy does. (Which is why many in the NASA bureaucracy hated her during her time in service, 2009-2013.)

youtube.com/watch?v=a9dltoIjbD

In case you hear someone claim that "NASA found life on Mars!"

Not quite ... Those of us who remember the hype over the "Mars Rock" during the Clinton administration know that turned out to be a bust. Let the scientists do their work.

jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-persev

Five minutes until the national address at 8 PM EDT. Watch on the White House YouTube channel.

youtube.com/watch?v=93T8biDlaB

Methinks Elon changed his mind about giving $45 million/month after was replaced with . Now he fears he'd be flushing all that money into a doomed campaign.

Vance is a fellow "tech bro" so I doubt that was the reason.

He might be also waiting to see if Senator (and former astronaut) Mark Kelly is nominated VP, thinking it's more business for SpaceX.

Who knows what really goes on in the cobwebs of his mind.

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

President 's national address is scheduled for 8 PM EDT / 5 PM PDT. You can watch live on the White House YouTube channel at the link.

youtube.com/watch?v=93T8biDlaB

I'm supposed to go swimming tomorrow morning at the Cocoa Beach lap pool. The forecast right now is for a heat index of 96ยฐF (36ยฐC) with 74% humidity. I may cut that one short, or cancel.

"Midnight Sun" aired on November 17, 1961. Today, meanwhile, here in the , the heat index right now at 5:30 PM EDT is 100ยฐF (38ยฐC) with 70% humidity.

That episode has been in my head all day.

dailymotion.com/video/x80ckkl

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