NASA's ongoing testing and management of the Perseverance Mars rover has confirmed it should be able to continue its journeys on the Red Planet for many years and miles to come. It's covered about 25 miles so far, but the onboard actuators for the motors should last at least another 37 miles, giving it plenty of room to roam.
Picnics are a fun way to catch up with your favourite people, but did you know there is a picnic table where folks from three different countries can have lunch together -- without crossing any borders?
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease
Anything goes on this thread. So post whatever y'all want. But I'll try to stay with media theme songs (emphasis on "try"). The cited link is A Swingin' Safari by Bert Kaempfert (1962). A theme of the TV show, The Match Game back in the day. read more
"There is no legal requirement that US citizens carry papers or have proof of their citizenship on them," said an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.
... President Donald Trump appears to be completely omitted from the files despite his history with Epstein. ...
Trump is named 1,500 times in the Epstein document dump. (November 12, 2025)
www.cbc.ca
... Donald Trump's name appears at least 1,500 times in documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein made public Wednesday by Republicans in the U.S. Congress, according to an AI-assisted search of the material by CBC News. ...
The times Trump's name appeared in the Epstein files the DOJ has already released (July 2025)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/times-trumps-appeared-epstein-files-doj-released/story?id=123848078
... Along with other high-profile individuals who were associated with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump's name was mentioned nine times across the hundreds of pages made public earlier this year in the "phase one" release of the declassified Epstein files. ...
Dennis McCarthy - Where My Heart Will Take Me (2012)
www.youtube.com
(no lyrics seem to be available ...)
@#17 ... Trump lies so much how do we even know if ...
That's the thing, we don't.
Maybe apropos?
New Johnny 5 - Let Go (1986)
www.youtube.com
(apparently, too obscure of a song for lyrics to be posted ...)
Ten Wheel Drive - Morning Much Better (1970)
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
How many times have I told you, baby
That I'd do anything you say
But listen here, daddy
I got a new feeling
That you can't do me this way
Ain't said no to your love
And never did and never never plan to do
But if you want to keep me happy, baby
Better hear what I'm saying to you
Coming to night I might dig being up
For floating around on a cloud
Watching people walking past my window
Playing my music out loud
Coming to noon I can't think about nothing
But the daylight blazing through
And the afternoon is a no count time
'Cause I got my business to do
Well I could probably function
For a little conjunction, yeah
But I usually like it
In the morning much better, yeah
Most people think that the midnight trip
Is the proper kind of scene
But I come on feeling very foggy
And I never can cut it too clean
People think they're at the top of their form
After staying up half of the night
But I know after a good night's sleep
Well I can get it on all right
I ain't never resisted, lord
When you have insisted, no
But I usually like it
In the morning much better, yeah
Early in the morning with the sun just up
And the air so fresh and sweet
Folks just getting their boots pulled on
And they're straggling out to the street
Taken their time while before they start
In to cutting on their wood
I can't say just what it is sugar
But I know it sure feels good
Pull the curtain behind me, yeah
You better come find me
'Cause I usually like it
In the morning much better
...
W.G. Snuffy Walden - West Wing Suite
www.youtube.com
Yeah, I often watch the West Wing DVDs that I have to assuage me that Pres Trump's reign of terror upon the Constitution is only a temporary thing.
That aside,from what I've heard, the producers of The West Wing decided that a more classical music oriented music background would be better for the show than the original rock-oriented music background that had originally proposed.
imo, good decision.
The full version of this Cheers theme song, complete with the verse that is usually omitted ...
Gary Portnoy - Everybody Knows Your Name
www.youtube.com
@#7
My current view is that you may be looking towards a future that may not be allowed to exist.
The Twelfth of Never
en.wikipedia.org
... "The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old English folk song in 1956 by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including Johnny Mathis, Cliff Richard, Donny Osmond and Slim Whitman. ...
"The Twelfth of Never" was adapted from "The Riddle Song" (also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry"), an old English folk song. Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster wrote the bridge and new lyrics in 1956.[1]
The title "The Twelfth of Never" is an idiom referring to the date of a future occurrence that will never come to pass.[2] In the case of the song, "the 12th of Never" is given as the date on which the singer will stop loving his beloved, thus indicating that he will always love her. ...
OK, the song is from 1935, but the show (PBS' This Old House) was not as old ...
Fats Waller - Louisiana Fairy Tale (1935)
www.youtube.com
A fav, albeit obscure, movie that I enjoyed back in the 1980's ...
Together In Electric Dreams / From "Electric Dreams" Original Motion Picture (1984)
www.youtube.com
@#8 ... Georgia included over 300,000 improperly certified ballots in their total. ...
...Trump: "We have anywhere from 250 [thousand] to 300,000 ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls, much of that had to do with Fulton County, which hasn't been checked."
Fact check: Trump's made-up claims of fake Georgia votes (January 2021)
www.mprnews.org
The facts: There's nothing mysterious or suspect about it. He is describing a legitimate vote counting process, not a sudden surge of malfeasance.
Trump appears to be referring to large numbers of votes that were tabulated in the early hours of Wednesday morning after Election Day and later. The arrival of those votes was not mysterious, but expected, because many of Georgia's 159 counties had large stacks of mail-in ballots that had to be tabulated after polls closed and in-person ballots were counted.
Indeed, news organizations and officials had warned in the days leading up to the election that the results would likely come in just as they did: In-person votes, which tend to be counted more quickly, would likely favor the president, who had spent months warning his supporters to avoid mail-in voting and to vote in person either early or on Election Day.
And mail-in-ballots, which take longer to count since they must be removed from envelopes and verified before they are counted, would favor Biden. States tend to count mail-in ballots at the end of the process. ...
@#4 ... He's got his eyes closed and his head leaned back. ...
OK, while I do not agree, let's go with that for the nonce.
That is appropriate behavior for the President of the United States during an important press conference?