I just did a quick search. There have been threads posted here about Starliner for the past 5 years or more. I hope the doors don't fall off.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Although Boeing got $4.2 billion to develop an astronaut capsule and SpaceX only got $2.6 billion, SpaceX finished 4 years sooner.
Note, the crew capsule design of Dragon 2 has almost nothing in common with Dragon 1.
Too many non-technical managers at Boeing.
1:13 PM · May 6, 2024

Eric Berger
@SciGuySpace
Here's my deep dive into why Starliner is seven years late.
From arstechnica.com: The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all; "The structural inefficiency was a huge deal."
8:15 AM · May 6, 2024

 Biden Admin Officials Coordinated With Anti-Israel Group To Isolate Israeli Jews in West Bank, Emails Show
DAWN is leveraging clout with the Biden administration to push sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes


Adam Kredo   
May 6, 2024

Senior Biden administration officials have been coordinating since at least early 2022 with an outside anti-Israel group to isolate Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank, internal government emails show.

The previously unreported emails show top officials at both the State and Defense Departments fielding concerns from Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), a human rights group that is highly critical of the Israeli government and has lobbied the Biden administration to cut off military aid to the Jewish state.

At the time, DAWN sparked an internal push at both departments to stop American officials from engaging with Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank and other contested areas of Jerusalem. DAWN is leveraging its clout with the Biden administration to push fresh sanctions on Israeli military units for alleged human rights crimes, having provided the State Department with a list of Israelis to punish. DAWN's anti-Israel lobbying campaign traces back to at least 2022, with the internal government emails shining new light on the level of access and influence it peddles inside the Biden administration.

In February of that year, DAWN's then-advocacy director, Adam Shapiro, emailed two top Pentagon officials—Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, and Jennifer Zakriski, then the deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

In the email, Shapiro raised concerns about U.S. officials engaging with Israeli "settlers," citing "media reports documenting a trip to Hebron by 2 US military officers, organized by an [Israel Defense Forces] commander and hosted by a settler affiliated with the Hebron Fund," a nonprofit group that provides education about the city of Hebron's Jewish history.

"From where I sit," Shapiro wrote, "I think this raises serious questions about the purpose of this trip to occupied territory and the ideological nature of the presentation and messaging—and seeming endorsement by US military personnel."

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https://freebeacon.com/israel/biden-admin-officials-coordinated-with-anti-israel-group-to-isolate-israeli-jews-in-west-bank-emails-show/

Why Everyone Thinks Biden Had an Accident in Front of the Press Corps

"Why?"  Because nearly everyone has seen a small child strike that pose when they have to "go".  Some people have seen adults suffering from dementia do the same thing.  Biden is obviously suffering from dementia, so the conclusion is obvious.

Warren Buffet Warns That You're Going to Get a Tax Hike
Stephen Green | 11:00 AM on May 06, 2024

Warren Buffett, the billionaire Oracle of Omaha, says that Washington will likely "take a larger percentage of what we own, and we'll pay it," because it's either that or cut spending. And you know how Washington feels about cutting spending.

"I think higher taxes are likely," he warned investors at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder conference on Saturday. "[Washington] may decide that someday they don't want the fiscal deficit to be this large because that has some important consequences."

"So they may not want to decrease spending and they may decide they'll take a larger percentage of what we own, and we'll pay it."

Presidentish Joe Biden has promised as much, too, indicating that he won't push to extend the Trump tax cuts next year if he wins reelection in November. David Winston wrote for Roll Call last week that in April, Biden told electrical union workers that in 2025, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will die. “It’s going to expire, and if I’m reelected it’s going to stay expired.” 

    According to House Ways and Means Committee Republicans, if Congress fails to extend the Trump-era tax cuts, it means an average American family of four making $75,000 will get hit with a $1,500 tax increase. “Main Street businesses will face a 43.4 percent tax rate” and “working parents will suffer from a Child Tax Credit slashed in half” along with the standard deduction every taxpayer is due.

Remember Biden's promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000? If you had a dollar for every time Biden has broken that promise, you might have enough money to pay for those tax hikes he said you wouldn't be getting.

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https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/05/06/warren-buffett-your-taxes-will-go-up-to-pay-for-bidens-spending-n4928792