After 5+ hour standoff (and teargas!) police find suspect not in home.
One wonders how much money was spent barricading the empty house? How many of the neighbors were evicted for those hours?
What is their (currently unspecified) solution to closing the border? What method are they proposing to use to secure the border? They have had ample opportunity to tell us, but they haven’t. Wonder why?
I think they are simply lying.
And, can someone explain how closing the border is “immoral”? Please, I’d like to know.
They claim that most drugs come in via “Ports of Entry” therefore a Wall will not help that problem….How do they know? Some drugs do, obviously. But if you know how and where (and how much) of the drug trade comes in via those ports…..Why aren’t we stopping it? Logically, since no one has tracked those drugs that have entered…followed them from point of origin to point of distribution inside the US, we have no idea how or where they entered. If we can count it, we can stop it. But they are for sale on our streets every day…….All we have is “estimates” by an “expert” (who likely wants more funding)….which are just guesses at best, Again, I think someone is lying.
Similarly, it is claimed that the number of illegal immigrants is declining…..Again, how do we know? How do we count them? How do we count the ones that are already here….How do we count them when (if) they leave, and how do we count those folks who (continue to) enter illegally? If we know where they are, why aren’t we deporting them, and if we can count the number who are entering, why aren’t we stopping them??
It is claimed that people use other methods of entry than the border so a Wall will do no good…….Again, how do we know? If we do know (must be we are counting them “one by one” as they enter, right?), why aren’t we stopping them from entering? If those other methods of (illegal) entry are so simple to use, why do people walk for DAYS across a desert instead of using those “easier” entry point?
And why is it ok for latino people from our southern neighbors to enter illegally and live here in violation of the law, but people from everywhere else in the world are required to emigrate legally….isn’t that racist? How come spanish speaking peoples get an exemption but Poles and Koreans and Congolese and Russians and Somalians and South Africans and Latvians and Indian peoples (and others) don’t? If welcoming immigrants with no restrictions is such a good idea, why are we blocking people at our points of entry?
Why do we even have immigration? Why do we check passports at airports at all? if one open border is good, why bother at ports and airports and such?
Which is it? Open borders are good? Or only open borders for people who are willing to walk via Mexico are OK, and other methods of entry are bad?
I have asked, and will continue to ask:
Why do the DNC folks, and many RNC members wish to keep the southern border unprotected? Why do they object to securing the largest path of entry for illegal immigrants?
Bad for skin.
Next time, wear your Person Protection Gear.
Remember: Safely Third.
(yeah, it’s only one finger on my off hand.) But still. I knew better. Preventable.
And painful.
I, of course, said yes. We set it for Saturday morning about 11 AM.
While he was a shooter, if not at the level I am, nor as current, he knew what he was doing. She had shot before, but not for a decade…and that with Dad.
So we did the safety briefing, they signed waivers, and we went into the indoor range. Started out with a Buckmark to get her acquainted, then worked up. That New Shooter Smile was evident.
She shot at 50 feet at first, then we strung the cable and shot at 21 feet so she could see the holes in the paper better…
After a little coaching, she did quite well. Of course, a whole range of firearms and calibers. 22, .32, .380, 9mm. and .45. She liked the 1911 better than the Shield, and the Beretta Tomcat best of all. It just fit her hand well, and she like the way it shot best.
I don’t think she will be a “gun person”. She does however, know safety and how to handle, and unload and load. And she isn’t “afraid” of guns. And the one other member of the range that showed up while we were there was also a good ambassador and made her feel comfortable and welcome. She had fun. All told, if she is not pro gun, she will not be Anti Gun.
And that (and the New Shooter Smile) makes the time worthwhile.
So I did. A quick flight plan, and a call to 1-800 WXBrief , and then bang, we were off! Me and Mom and Dad and Midwest Chick. I did take the ballast out of the baggage compartment (for balance, rather than weight) for this trip.
3 PM Central. We took off and flew to another place I know that has a good restaurant within walking distance of an airport. Just plain good chow.
Shorter flight this time. But it was as fun as Friday, just shorter. First landing was in daylight, but with only 29/11 as choices, and a 13 knot crosswind (250) it was a challenge…especially as the wind was different (both direction and intensity) on downwind, base, and final.
But I did a decent crosswind landing. Parked, shut down, secured and walked to eat.
Walked back, quick but thorough preflight, and we took off in the darkness from 29 (the winds were 26 at 3, so it really didn’t matter) and 29 was more in our direction of travel and went back home.
A bit of excitement on my approach to the airport: I called 10 miles east of the airport… then 7 miles, and then another plane called 7 miles east of the airport just after I did…at the SAME ALTITUDE. We all swivelled our heads all over looking for him, as I started my long final approach no one could see another plane….then he made his 5 mile call as WEST of the airport. Whew.
We saw him on downwind at 3 miles final. He saw us and called “Landing Traffic in sight” and I unpuckered ….and so we landed (I still gotta work on making my night landings as smooth as my daylight landings) and taxiied back to the hangar and pushed the plane in.
We had Flight Following both ways. This time the controllers were a bit busier. Skies were clear, but vis was only 20 or 30 miles from 4500 feet. Kinda hazy
As Aaron puts it: another 1.3 and 2.
You just can’t do quick unscheduled trips if you are renting airplanes.
They are serious too.
Someday, they might actually meet the Wright Brothers first flight duration and distance.
Maybe.
Ok, you can laugh.
I did. Especially the Flying Winnabago.
Preflighted at 4 PM Central time and then fueled up (I had about 7 gallons in one tank and just under 30 in the other according to the dip tube…which was enough, but just barely and my reserve would have been marginal) with 37 gallons of 100LL.
Fired up and listened to the weather, then taxiied out to 18 and did a southbound departure. The takeoff roll was long as the weather was fairly warm (FIFTY DEGREES in January!!!) and I had full fuel with me (180lbs), Ed( 250) and MC (120 lbs) plus 40 lbs of ballast in the luggage compartment. fist time I have had that much load in the plane. Climbed out well though.
We went up to 5500 and flew to Eagle Creek with Flight Following, arriving after dark. Picking out the airport from the other light clutter on the ground was at first difficult, then, once we saw the airport, it was easy. Did a base leg entry and an Ok landing…not my best, not my worst. I did miss the last taxiway and had to turn around and back taxi as there was a plane waiting at the end of the runway (winds were negligible, so either end was useable. We never did hear any of his radio call though, (and yes, I WAS on the right freq….I checked)
Dinner was AWESOME. Service was excellent. Walked back to the FBO and unlocked the plane and did a preflight and fired up and took off. The ATC folks weren’t busy, so they were pleasant and fun to interact with. We had ’em watch us on the way back too…
Arrived back home, did another base leg entry for 27 and was a bit fast over the numbers….but other than the float, the landing was good.
Pushed the pane into the hangar and went home.
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A VERY good evening. MC had never seen the lights on the ground from up at night, so she was happy. Ed got his “Altitude Fix” so he was as well. (his 182 is down for an engine/prop rebuild)….he does now want an autopilot though. His 182 doesn’t have one. The air was smooth as one could ask for, clear as glass, and ceilings were 25,000 or greater.
I gotta do some pattern work and practice night landings. Mine are OK, but just OK. I need more practice so that I have better perspective on final. The lights and nighttime illusions make it hard.
But overall, nights like this are why I wanted to learn to fly. this would have been a 2+ hour drive each way, with lots more hassle and stress. In a plane, it is a bit less than an hour each way.
Plus it is fun. I could not do things like this with rental aircraft either. Too expensive and the availability of the planes just isn’t there.
I’m glad I learned to fly and bought an airplane.
As Aaron puts it: 2.2 and 2.
Once, I can understand. Everyone needs some help now and again. Twice, maybe, some of us have a run of just plain old bad luck.
But some families seem to either have LOTS of bad luck, or (maybe) have learned that people can be fleeced over and over again as long as they present a good enough sob story to tug those old heartstrings….Because, for the most part, bloggers and their audiences are good hearted people.
But, sadly, I must remove one from my sidebar. Too much. I cannot countenance continual blegging.
Nevermind that a statement that is made, with no supporting facts, is just an opinion…nevermind that the statements are biased…..”if it is published (and I agree with it) it must be factual. This is why a headline may say one thing, but the body of text in the article may show something else…But the headline is all they read….and believe.
We, on the right, are also (To a lesser extent) subject to making this failure in our search for knowledge.
But the Dems and the Liberals (but I repeat myself) seem to have a lack of discrimination when it comes their News.
By the way, this is an example of Op-Ed. No supporting facts, just opinion…if I had facts, there’d be links and support for the statement(s) I made.
May your finances be good and your personal life be happy and fulfilling.