So, because getting it will lower my (not insubstantial) insurance bill, I am going for my Commercial Pilot rating.

(Note that I have zero plans to fly for hire, simply learning more and (hopefully) saving money down the road.)

So I went up with an instructor to start the process….They had good reasons for wanting to use their cessna 172 over my plane, even though the rental cost is about my hourly cost to fly the 340.

Now, I have been flying a (fairly) powerful twin engine airplane…high performance, as it were., for the past year. It has been a bit over a year and a  half since I flew a single engine airplane. 3 or more since I flew a 172.

Lots of adjustment to be made.

So, I tended to fly the poor 172 Way Too Fast….approaches especially. Can’t land at those speeds (but those same speeds would cause the 340 to fall out of the sky). Plus my control was…lacking. Flared too high as well, but that is just because I am used to a plane that sits higher. Flap deployment speeds are much slower that I am used to as well. Gotta pay attention to that…..

But the speeds and the flare are gonna take some work to adjust to. I hope I can still fly the 340 after this.

Ever learning though…or re-learning as it is, really.

Go to MC’s blog for links to comment on the addition of Covid Gene Therapy “Vaccines” to standard children’s vaccination packages.

So we are to believe that thousands upon thousands upon THOUSANDS of “Migrants” simultaneously decided to walk to the southern US border? Really?

And can someone explain how they are travelling so quickly, where they are sleeping, defecating, and where they are getting their food, water, and shelter?

(ETA: DO these “Poor” folks have cell phones like the previous migrants? Who is paying for them?)

Seriously. Who is sponsoring these people and urging them to come north? Who is feeding, sheltering, and taking care of their needs?

and, quite frankly, an abuse of power.

Biden invokes Defense Production Act (wasn’t that for Domestic manufacturing in times of war???) for Solar Panels from other countries for the next 4 years…..

Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are gonna get special treatment….waiver of tariffs. and other considerations.

One wonders how much commission Hunter Biden will make on this deal. (10% for the Big Guy” and all that, remember?)

There is no war, so the use of the Defense Production Act is a joke and an abuse of power.

Reducing the price of imported Solar Panels is a great way to jump start production of those panels domestically, innit?

Can you imagine the screaming if Trump had done something like this?

Dark of the moon, happened on the 6th of June

And thousands of men stormed the beaches of Normandy (and others) to invade.

Facing near-certain death they went. Many died. Others succeeded in gaining a toehold on the beach.

Other parachuted or flew in in gliders to behind the enemy lines…no chance of reinforcement or rescue.

They did it anyway.

Balls. Those men had balls.

What would they think of the country they fought for…today?

Or one an awful lot like it

Suddenly there are two strains of monkeypox….

Of course, if you read the whole thing, there have been money pox cases for the past few years. even as far back as 2017.

So other than the fact that it is now being spread by gay men to other gay men, no new news.

But I bet it becomes another manufactured crisis.

Next thing it will be the cause of high food and gas pricing, and then who knows what else they will find to blame it on instead of blaming Brandon.

A whole Brooklyn bar is terrorized when a possum wanders into a bar, (“So, this possum walks into a bar…..”)

And a lady from Alaska simply picked him up and took him outside.

Now she’s a hero in the bar.

All for taking charge of a frightened and lost animal.

And these folks think that when the Shit hits the Fan they are gonna take charge. And that they are superior to all those country folks.

Frightened by a 12 lb possum.

Sadly, the Media (the foreign ones, anyway) have coined a new term…..”Bidenflation”

“Gas prices leap to nearly $10 a gallon at California station after smashing record highs nationally amid Bidenflation”

Dude is becoming an even bigger joke than Carter. It’d be funny except we have to live with it.

So the police in Uvalde used the excuse that they were unable to enter the school in order to secure and rescue the children from the gunman because they were unable to open the door.

Amother was initially handcuffed by the officers on-scene  (but not in the school) before getting released when somehow, she was  was able to enter the school and get her kids out. (why not take the rest of the class as well?)

IF she could get in why mot the cops?

Lots of discrepancies, but this is just one more.

SO, rather than rewrite the laws to include bees as endangered species and give them protections under the state’s Endangered Species Act, the courts chose to do something that shows why California is so screwed up:

They reclassified Bees as Fish.

‘Cause you know, that makes sense.

Why not just point out that the bees IDENTIFY as Fish……?