POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: waitlist edition. Many good ones, but my favorite is this:

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FAA’S ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW finds no problems with Space-X launch site near Brownsville, Texas.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which had raised concerns about possible impact on habitat for some endangered species, ultimately concluded that "the project is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any listed or proposed to be listed species nor adversely modify piping plover critical habitat."

But wildlife officials don't expect the project to be harmless: Two individual cats, either from the endangered ocelot or jaguarondi species, could be lost as a result of the project in spite of efforts to avoid just that with measures such as posting warning signs along the road leading to the launch site. And federal wildlife officials also anticipate that more than 7 miles of beachfront used by nesting sea turtles could be disturbed by security patrols, though driving is already permitted on the beach.

You can bet the environmentalists will go bonkers, though.

SPACE ENTHUSIASTS make contact with NASA'S abandoned ISEE-3 spacecraft.

More here.

THE SCOREKEEPER punches back. Good.

SPACE-X unveils manned version of Dragon spacecraft. Video here.

SCORES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, caught by authorities in Texas trying to sneak into the country via the Rio Grande Valley, are being flown, bused and then abandoned in places like Arizona, New York and Maryland instead of being sent back across the border.

Populating the states with future slaves voters for the Democrat plantation....

GODZILLA: 2009-2016.

UNLESS REPEALED, YES. NEXT QUESTION? Will ObamaCare spell the end of employer-provided health insurance?

For those of you too dumb to recognize the obvious, ending employer-provided health insurance is the whole point of the so-called 'Affordable' Care Act.

GUN CONTROL, done correctly: Marine veteran on lunch break fatally shoots suspected store robber.

JUST ANOTHER OBAMA RECOVERY SUMMER: Consumer Spending Sees First Fall in a Year.

CHINA'S YUTU ROVER no longer roving, soon to be no longer.

BUT THEY'RE still smarter than Harry Reid.

IT'S NOT JUST HARDWARE ANY MORE: Ford recalls 695 000 vehicles for airbag and transmission software updates. I never thought I'd live to see the day my vehicle could be recalled for a software update.

What's next? Plugging the car into a USB port on my PC for an update download? Or will it be done wirelessly?

YOU'VE GOTTA BE EFFING KIDDING ME: HHS board rules transgender Medicare recipients can seek coverage for sex-change surgery.

Is there anything the deep pockets of the average American taxpayer can't be forced to pay for?

HEH: First it was cell phones whose radiation would kill you; now it's your car.

"THIS KIND OF SICKENING HYPOCRISY should cause every Democrat to look in the mirror and ask: what has my party become?"

But it won't.