Fast Friday thank-you's Pookie!

TGIF! It's that time again. You're off for the weekend!.

Below is your weekend homework assignment. Thought you'd sneak out of it, eh? ;D

My pleasure, as ever, Scott! I'm off on the w/e (except for posting), but still busy hunting & gathering images for next week's threads...

China is ‘moving at breathtaking speed in space,’ Space Force general says in Tokyo

By SETH ROBSON STARS AND STRIPES • April 25, 2024 The head of U.S. Space Command, Space

TOKYO — U.S. Space Command’s new leader warned of China’s rapidly advancing space capabilities this week following meetings with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts. “We’re seriously focused at U.S. Space Command on our pacing challenge, which is the People’s Republic of China,” Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting told reporters during an online press conference from Japan’s capital Wednesday. The Tokyo stop was part of a tour that has included visits to South Korea and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii. Beijing is “moving at breathtaking speed in space,” Whiting said, noting that China is rapidly developing a range of counter-space weapons that threaten American space capabilities.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/space_force/2024-04-25/space-force-china-japan-korea-13651897.html
Source - Stars and Stripes

BTW: Debt is way past 34 trillion.

Biden is headed for a 2.5 trillion dollar deficit this year.

We'll be at 40 trillion by the end of the decade.

I have not hear or seen anything from the MAGA crowd on that one.   

Making America better would include getting the debt under control and balancing the budget.

I might start a group called MASA: Make America Sane Again

or Make America Solvent Again.

Merrick Garland Defies Final Warning to Comply with Biden Audio Subpoena or Face Contempt

Wendell Husebø 26 Apr 2024

Attorney General Merrick Garland defied a final warning Thursday to comply with a subpoena for the audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

If Garland did not comply with the subpoena, he would face contempt of Congress proceedings, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote Garland on April 17.

Biden’s Justice Department replied Thursday to Comer and Jordan by refusing to hand over the audio, citing a lack of “legitimate congressional need” for it.

“If the Committees’ goal is to receive information from the Department in furtherance of your investigations, that goal has been more than met,” Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte replied Thursday. “Our cooperation has been extraordinary.”

“Despite our many requests,” he added, “the Committees have not articulated a legitimate congressional need to obtain audio recordings from Mr. Hur’s investigation, let alone one that outweighs the Department’s strong interest in protecting the confidentiality of law enforcement files.”

“Lacking a justification for complaint—never mind contempt—in the actual record, the Committees’ threats deepen our concern that you are seeking to create a false narrative of obstruction that weakens, rather than strengthens, the American people’s confidence in our government and the rule of law,” Uriarte continued.

“The Department will not shirk from our duty to protect the public’s interest in the integrity of law enforcement work. We hope you find this information helpful. Please do not hesitate to contact this office if we may provide additional assistance regarding this or any other matter,” he claimed.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/26/merrick-garland-defies-final-warning-comply-biden-audio-subpoena-face-contempt/

Not enough nuts going to Gateway Lunatic? Well, gee whiz that sure is a shame. Not that the Hoff brothers would ever print any salacious i.e. false stories. No siree Bob.