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Well sure, it is Mother’s Day also. But that is mundane – it happens every year. However, it is only a few times in your lifetime that a piece of space junk could drop out of the sky and into your backyard. How lucky is that? A real, genuine piece of Soviet era space junk that might be worth millions to collectors!

A failed Soviet spacecraft that was mistakenly trapped in Earth orbit more than 50 years ago is expected to finally crash back to our planet this week.

Experts predict that the spacecraft, called the Kosmos 482 Descent Craft, will make its final, fiery plunge through the atmosphere sometime between May 8 and May 12, traveling at an estimated speed of 150 mph (242 km/h) as it careens through the sky like a meteor. Built to withstand a trip through the dense atmosphere of Venus, the 3-foot-wide (1 meter), 1,091 pound (495 kilograms) lander is likely to stay in one piece as it falls to Earth like a cosmic cannonball.

Good Luck! 

Update: It appears that the object has fallen back to earth, but has not yet been found. Speculation is that it may have burned up. As you were.

Trumpco shat out so much last week that it is near impossible to sort it out. Here goes:

A) Fox Employment Agency? With the appointment of Jeanine Piro as Interim US Attorney in DC, how many current of former Fox News(?) employees are in the administration?

B) Because they have nothing else to do (including Iowa’s reps) the US House passed a bill Thursday to rename what body of water?

C) Canadian PM Mark Carney visited Washington DC Tuesday. Why did Stinky Pants not go to Ottawa?

D) When we take over Canada will Canadians have to change their date for Mother’s Day?

E) What two nuclear powers are skirmishing over a disputed province right now?

F) A lot of noise about the new pope. What country was Pope Leo XIV a bishop in?

G) True or false? The new Pope’s ancestry includes black ancestry from Louisiana?

H) John Lennon wrote a song about his mother. What was the name (or her name)?

I) Why did Kristi Noem fire the acting head of FEMA?

J) The day after watching a movie, Stinky Pants pitched re-opening what supposedly escape proof prison?

K) And now they come for the kids teeth. What state ended fluoridated water last week?

L) Iowa’s third district congress member Zach Nunn has picked up what two heavyweight opponents for his seat in 2026?

M) Over in Rome an American tourist tried to sneak into the Roman Coliseum. What happened to him?

N) The new trade “deal” signed by the US and UK was blasted by what negatively affected industry Thursday?

O) Stinky Pants also announced a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US last week. Where did he get this idea?

Q) In a major surprise after two months, who failed to win a majority in the Bundestag to form a government on the first vote?

R) Whoopsie! The US military lost two $67 million what’s last week?

S) Here in Iowa, instead of participating in a federal summer nutrition program Iowa will give families a box of food worth how much each month?

T) In what year was Mother’s Day established as a holiday?

With Trump’s tariffs in effect, we are now making popes in America. – Christian Schneider

Answers:

A) 23. why not just move the government to their corporate HQs?

B) The Gulf of Mexico

C) Because Canada does not let felons into their country (sorry if this is a repeat)

D) No, their Mother’s Day is the second Sunday of May also

E) India and Pakistan

F) Peru

G) true

H) “Julia” on the White Album

I) Because he disagreed that FEMA should be abolished

J) Alcatraz

K) Utah

L) Jennifer Konfrst of Windsor Heights and Sarah Trone Garriot of Des Moines

M) He fell and got impaled on a spike security fence

N) the US car industry

O) from Jon Voight

Q) Fredrich Merz in Germany – he was successful on the next vote

R) Jets. One fell off the deck of the USS Harry Truman, the other was missed by the rope on landing on the Truman

S) $40. No one can starve with a box of food (picked by someone else) worth $40

T) 1914

JD Vance is so loathsome that not one, but TWO Popes have openly spoken out against him and his vile and inhumane views. – Sarah Ironside