Gotta love California protestors:

They were protesting Sessions visit to the state

Sign held up:

"We don't have an immigration problem, we have a capitalism problem".

Just what, exactly, do you think made the prosperity that makes immigrants, legal or not, come to this country?

Yeah, it's capitalism, and the bounty and prosperity it brings to the citizens. Pretty much, here is America, anyone who is willing to work can live better than almost anyone anywhere else in the world. Some will do better than others, but at the end of it all, you can be what most folks in the world would consider "wealthy" with a bit of hard work. Of course, being as we live in a wealthy country, we consider that "Middle Class".

Yeah, we have a Capitalism Problem. 

I laughed

You will too.

HERE

If you don't, then you need help.

Ain't it interesting?

When there is a winter storm in the midwest, or a storm in the south, the media can barely be bothered to cover it at all.

But when there is a winter storm in the east coast, they cover it with many people and for half the newscast?

OMFG!!! 400 thousand without power!!! Might not get it back for 12 hours!!

A foot of schnow! We can't get to the store!

Armageddon (ish)....! 

Yet, when worse conditions happen in Oklahoma, or Kansas, or Minnesota, or other parts of the Midwest, they have other things to talk about.

Odd, that. 

Almost went flying at 9

But the winds, 300ish at 10 or so all morning, then became 310/320 at 10...GUSTING 28, then gusting 32....all in the space of 15 minutes....they weren't forecast to be that bad, either. Plus the ceiling dropped to about pattern height.

Just a bit outside my level of skill at this point. So I preflighted an airplane for nothing.

The instructor and his student who arrived back at the hangar just as I was leaving (I helped 'em push the C150 back into the hangar) were a bit wild eyed (even the instructor) at their last landing. Apparently they did 3 go arounds then flew the pattern for 15 minutes or so hoping for better winds.

I think I made a good call not to fly.... the gusts continued until after noon.

(Runways are 9/27, 18/36) 

Think you can take 'em away?

My UPS guy says they are delivering ammo to LOTS of houses lately. Folks that bought once a year are getting deliveries once a week now.

All that ammo isn't gonna just sit there, if and when. Bet on it. And I doubt that folks that shot 500 rds a year are suddenly shooting so much more that they need thousands of rounds.

(And it is something to think about though: Your delivery folks; FedEx, UPS and even USPS....They KNOW when they are delivering ammo. If you have good ones, like my UPS guy, he doesn't care (doesn't mean he doesn't notice though). But if they wanted to tell someone that MIGHT care.........)

I'm surprised all you Texans failed to remember:

Today was the day, 182 years ago, that the folks at the Alamo made their last stand,

Their actions gave Sam Houston's army time to prepare at San Jacinto.

I've been to the Alamo....long ago, when I was but a child. It is tiny, and crude, and yet, it gave the men a spot to rally. They may have lost their lives, but they won much more than that. I found it a solemn place, and will always remember it with reverence.

If you live in Texas, and love it, remember this day. Men gave their lives for the birthing Republic.

Had they not stood, you might be speaking Spanish and living under a different flag today. 

Rule of thumb:

I've heard this from folks who should know, as they are the ones that respond....But they have the knowledge and equipment to stay safe. They call first responding cops "Blue Canaries"....

Good Advice:

For those who may not have seen it:

'Tis folks like the one quoted here that are a great deal of the reason that we, as free citizens, NEED to be able to own firearms.

Because it is folks like this, and the politicians who listen to them and/or think like them, that we need to protect ourselves AND our Country from.

They won't enforce laws on Drugs, as she says, (and especially not on Illegal Immigration) but sure as hell, there are folks who think it is OK to turn you into a serf for the fact that you wish to be free. Who would, with the stroke of a pen, turn you into a criminal simply for exercising your Constitutional right. Who would villify you and imprison you because they blame the object, rather than the wielder....And who would ignore the failures of society and the minions servants of society  to protect itself and it's members even using existing laws. Who would remove your freedoms and the freedoms of all because some individual cannot abide by the laws the rest of us respect.

By her logic, we should remove all alcohol because some folks abuse it, remove all automobiles because some are not responsible enough to use them properly...And, especially, because we disagree with her views.

I think she would be better served in going to Australia or western Europe, where the State (composed of people like her) tells the rest of the serfs how to live. ... And the Serfs, having no other choice,, are compliant after many years of social engineering.

The New Bad Thing

First it was blacks, then it was kikes and then it was the polaks and then it was the spics and now.....


How quickly they change the object of their Ire....


I remember when the AK-47 was the terrible "Assault Rifle" thing that needed to be banned. It was the one that had the "thing that goes up" and all the bad features that defined an "Assault Weapon"(whatever that was). You could shoot tens of thousands of people with one magazine, and IIRC, it even MADE people into killers, just by holding it.

Now, it would seem, AR- series of rifles is the new "Bad " rifle, and AK is ok, at least for now. At least the press isn't focusing on it....Yet.

"All of the officers involved are still employed by the department."

SO the folks in New York get to shell out a million bucks to cover the ass of the NYPD and their officers who falsely charges a guy when THEY caused a wreck.

Odd, that. I thought the Blue Line, while thin, had SOME limits as to how far they would go to cover up misdeeds..... Yet these cops are still working, and not dismissed for cause, nor hounded out of the force by their other officers.

Remember, COPS WANT RESPECT. Yet they allow guys like these to sully the uniform they all wear, and tarnish that badge....

Make no mistake, there are a LOT of good, honest officers out there who make a difference every day in their communities.
The problem is they don't clean their house, and they suffer from failing to do so. 

Turning left

Spent 1.3 hours turning left Saturday morning.

Temps in the low 50's wind 075 at 8.

10 landings.

Practiced short field landings and soft field takeoffs. Got the takeoffs down, the short field landings I will work on again real soon.

At one point there were 9 aircraft in the pattern all practicing landings. Got kinda crowded there.

Twas a good way to start the day.

Perhaps the DOJ

actually DOES, one in a while have some Justice to dispense.

Seems that they are looking at pardoning Kristian Saucier after denying him one earlier.

The Department of Justice is taking a new look at a former U.S. Navy sailor’s request for a pardon following his release from jail for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear submarine, his attorney said.
The letter, from the DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney, comes less than a year after the former sailor, Kristian Saucier, received a letter rejecting his pardon request on the grounds that it did not meet several criteria, including waiting five years.

I mean, really, it isn't like he didn't do it, but at the end of the day, a candidate for the office of the President of the United States was NOT prosecuted for even more egregious mishandling of "Confidential" or higher classified material and information....primarily because she was a Democrat...

(I really think both are guilty, and both should do the punishment, but if not for one, then not for all, or vice versa). No Selective Prosecution.  

After 202 yearz

Indiana will allow package liquor sales on Sunday.

yep, since 1816, there have been restrictions on alcohol sales on Sunday.  Mostly meaning "None".

This, of course, didn't stop people drinking on Sunday, we just had to plan ahead. Some folks couldn't, and got caught out though.

At he end of the day, the Liquor Lobby won out over the Church lobby.

Although they can't sell until after noon. The church thinks it will restrict competition for their services or something...

Asstro-Turf.

Seems that the truth is COMING TO LIGHT regarding the "Spontaneous" protests by students re: Gun Control

As always, follow the money.

Part of me still thinks that this Hogg kid is a Crisis Actor though. He's just too articulate and too composed for an 18 year old. 

Perzactly

Read:

He's right.

Plans to discriminate....

Based on GENDER,,,,are, apparently, OK, as long as the recipients are the RIGHT gender.

"I believe we have now reached a crossroads where it is imperative that a woman-led board acquire control of the company and create content that continues to inspire audiences around the world, especially our young girls and boys," Contreras-Sweet said in the letter.

So it is OK to state that the "New" company will have a woman led board of directors, the majority of which MUST be women.

Isn't that discrimination by gender? If discrimination is bad, then it is bad. Reverse discrimination is still discrimination. And announcing that one plans to discriminate would seem to me to be a conspiracy to do so....

How about folks who are neither "standard" or "Biological" gender???? Will there be an appropriate number of trans individuals on the board??

Electrical piping

Seems that in Brisbane, they have, accidentally, found the old "Edison Tubes" that were the underground electrical conductor of the day.

Apparently these sections are somewhat rare today.

20 feet per section. Must have taken forever to do an actual wire run of any distance.  

Bet that hurt.....

I mean, when the Georgia Legislature shoved it up Delta's ass and gave it a full turn...While wearing rings.

Georgia Legislature removes sales tax break for Delta Air Lines....supposedly over their SJW posturing regarding the NRA.

Delta is the largest carrier at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. This is a pretty big slap in the face for the airline. 

Toldjasoo

Seems that ALL SORTS OF LIBERAL GROUPS have been lining up to use the school kids from Parkland and other schools as props in their argument/Meat puppets/ examples of something...

I toldya that the kids were being used by someone....and that someone was paying the bills to move 'em around and feed 'em. .

Note the list of the groups: Planned Parenthood? Really? (Irony Alert here.....) This is why I think they should get ZERO funding from the federal government. Unions? Really?

Any parent who allows his or her child to be used like this as a prop by Leftist groups (or, in other instances, a Right group) is a fool, and an idiot.

It occurs to me....

That all these folks that want a ban on firearms and more "Gun Control" and other restrictions on our Second Amendment rights should consider this:

If you fear for your children's safety, and want restrictions on "guns" for that reason, then y'all should also want restrictions on Pakistanis, Somalis, Iraqis, Iranians and Palestinians (and other folks from predominantly muslim areas)....especially men between 16 and 30 of Muslim descent.

After all, your chances of having one of them detonate a bomb or shoot up some public area or otherwise perpetrate an act of terror in a mall or other public place are higher than a white male shooting them in a school......(do the math, both chances are nearly infinitesimally small)

Why aren't you asking for the banning of Muslims as well as "Assault Weapons"?

"It's for the Children"...."If it saves even one life"...

(Note for the stupid: The above was satire, perhaps in bad taste, but satire nonetheless. The statistics are correct, sadly. The odds of either happening are not that different ,however. And no, I don't want to ban Muslims...Nor have background checks before purchasing one...I do think that we shoud have limits on how many can be in one home though. ...Just pointing out some facts and trying to show some stupidity in the hysteria ) If this offends you then grow up and get a life....Or grow a set.