Today, a little bit of everything, beginning with the return plans for our stranded astronauts. I've had several postings on their plight, and at one time their rescue would not be until February of next year.- SpaceX launched NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, their 4-seat Crew-9 capsule docked with the International Space Station yesterday. I guess the USA and Russia are still cooperating on something.
- But, whoops, there will be no early return.
- NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore have been stuck on the ISS since June 6.
- The four will return to Earth in February.
The death toll from Hurricane Helene is now up to 119, and will continue to grow, for there are 600 or more still unaccounted. Most of those killed, 73, are from the Carolinas (46 in North Carolina, where as much as 30.78 inches of rain fell), 25 in Georgia and 13 in Florida. Several million are still without power. At this point the total damage estimate has risen above $100 billion.
Tomorrow begins October, when JD Vance and Tim Walz have their first and only debate. I don't think I have ever watched a Veep debate, but will this time.
- Starts at 9PM EDT from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City.
- Will run for 90 minutes.
- Moderators will be Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS.
- No audience.
- Open mikes.
- Here is something I did not know: Walz is nervous about this event and says he is a bad debater.
What is Israel doing? They are creating a second front in Lebanon, assassinating Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike of Beirut, and even bombing Yemen, while awaiting the involvement of Iran.
Last week I suggested that 67-year old Shigeru Ishiba, on his fifth try, would be selected as the next Prime Minister of Japan. He won. My favorite was 43-year old Shinjiro Koisumi, but only because of his youth. John F. Kennedy became president at that age.
The Major League Baseball season ends today with two previously postponed games to determine which two of the Braves, Mets and Diamondbacks will enter the playoffs, beginning tomorrow. Easy to explain, but you wouldn't be interested in the details anyway. On the other hand, the Mets beat the Braves in game one, and has qualified. The management has the pleasant task of winning to eliminate the Braves, allowing the Diamondbacks to get in, or losing, to face Milwaukee instead of San Diego.
My three ESPN fantasy baseball teams did well: one will end up in second place, another will be first, and the third is currently tied for first, and the two games today will decide who is champion. I want my players to steal bases and hit home runs.
Kris Kristofferson passed away at the age of 88 at his home on Maui. What a life.
A Rhodes scholar at Oxford.- Captain and Ranger in the U.S. Army.
- Got married in 1961, but divorced in 1968, relegated to sweeping floors at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville.
- Commercial helicopter pilot for oil platforms off Louisiana, and even, unannounced, landing one in Johnny Cash's front yard.
First big hit was Me and Bobby McGee in 1970. He sang it, but the more popular version was by his then lover, Janis Joplin, who died that year of heroin overdose at the age of 27.
Sunday Mornin' Coming Down, about one hangover too many, recorded by Ray Stevens in 1969, but made more popular by Johnny Cash in 1970.- For the Good Times, recorded by Bill Nash in 1968, Kristofferson in 1970 and also that year, by Ray Price, who took it to #1 on Billboard.
Can't believe it, but also in 1970, wrote Help Me Make It Through the Night, inspired by Frank Sinatra, and later that year performed by Sammi Smith, becoming her signature song.- Did some acting, in a 1974 Martin Scorsese film, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, with Barbra Streisand in the the 1976 A Star is Born, alongside Wesley Snipes in the 1998 Blade and others.
Married Rita Coolidge in 1973, had a daughter, difficult relationship, divorced in 1980.- Was the founding member in 1985 of The Highwaymen alongside Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, and the song I best remember is Desperados Waiting for a Train.
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