Elon Musk runs spaceX, Bezos founded and runs (or ran) Blue Origin. The Senate is considering giving Blue Origin 10 Billion. How is that completely separate?

 

Hillary's horse.

 

I didn't say Amazon didn't need more money from the U.S., I said Bezos didn't. If he wants hi own space company he has plenty of money to fund it himself. If his "independent" company wants to compete for a contract let them do so fairly and not with some sweetheart payoff from the government.

 

The cop that made that (funny but pointed) viideo of LeBron James was *fired* for it. I doubt his state is a safer place today than it was yesterday.

"An Idaho law enforcement officer who was placed on leave following a viral TikTok videoLeBron James was fired on Thursday for what the mayor described as "his failure to follow clearly laid out well-established policies.""

https://www.foxnews.com/media/idaho-deputy-fired-tiktok-lebron-james-cancel-culture

 

More behavior I don't understand. This woman went to the zoo and then went through considerable difficulty to try and feed monkeys "hot cheetos". Just... why?

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"This young lady decided to hop a fence, climb through some bushes, drop down into a four-feet deep moat, walk across the moat and then try to feed the spider monkeys," he said.

"We can’t let this behavior go unpunished," Montisano added.

In viral footage posted to the Real Fit Fam El Paso Instagram account, the suspect can be seen sitting underneath a waterfall and attempting to feed the spider monkeys with what zoo officials told Newsweek was Hot Cheetos."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-climbed-el-paso-zoo-spider-monkey-exhibit-fired

 

A volcano near the Congo city of Goma (2 million people) has erupted forcing mass evacuations. Prayers for these people to do o.k.!







https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57217598

 

What you are saying does not appear to be correct. It appears SpaceX was given the contract for the whole enchilada, and for 2.9 billion to boot - only 1/3 of the 10 billion Bezos would be getting to do only a part of it? Nope, that's corporate welfare. Use the 10 billion to pay down our national debt a trifle, not make Bezos richer.

Also, if you'll look at the second article, Bezos spent over half a million lobbying Congress over the past few months. Congress is trying to give him a 2000:1 return on his bribe with the taxpayer picking up the tab. That's not supposed to be the way it works.

"In winning the $2.9 billion contract, SpaceX beat out Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which had formed what it called a “national team” by partnering with aerospace giants Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper. SpaceX also won over Dynetics, a defense contractor based in Huntsville, Ala. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

NASA had originally chosen all three companies for the initial phase of the contract, and was expected to choose two of them to build the lunar lander. In other major programs, NASA has chosen multiple providers to foster competition and to ensure it has redundancy in case one can’t deliver.

But in choosing SpaceX alone, it sent a message that it fully trusts the growing company to fly its astronauts for its signature human exploration program — the Artemis program, a campaign to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...ft-to-land-astronauts-on-the-moon/ar-BB1fJccC

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The Bezos space company lost a bid with SpaceX for a contract to put U.S. astronauts on the moon for the first time since 1972. NASA said SpaceX had offered the lowest cost by a wide margin. The Cantwell amendment wouldn’t rescind the SpaceX contract but would create another contract that Blue Origin would be favored to win.

Blue Origin spent $625,000 lobbying Congress in the first three months of 2021, according to disclosure records."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...s-tucked-into-bill-to-rebuff-china/ar-AAKpETL

 

Did you read the article *I* posted? It said Bezo's company would be *favored* to win the new contract. WHY is the government giving him a handout?

Musk got the first contract for the whole project because his bid was much lower. Why then is a second contract necessary at all? It isn't. If it was necessary though, why do you want to have the taxpayer give it to a specific person rather than the person who can do the job the best and cheapest?