I passed my Biannual Flight Review yesterday. I actually picked a good day to schedule it. Clear below12,000 ft, wind out of the south at 5. No precip at all. And while it was 25 degrees F, the lack of significant wind made it fairly comfortable….

I actually remembered all the regulations they asked me about in the oral portion of the exam….

And the flight portion went well. I actually made acceptable steep turns in a Piper Warrior on the first try (they usually suck in any airplane, and I don’t have that much time in a Warrior, so…..). Did all the maneuvers (stall, turns, etc) and then an approach.

So I am legal for the next 24 calendar months.

Seems that most of Europe has decided that those terribly dirty, polluting , Coal fired power plants aren’t that bad after all.

I guess the politicians decided that they’d rather fold on their high minded “environment” principles than be hanged when the peasants were angry ’cause they were shivering in the dark…..

Funny how that works, innit? You can’t rake in money from “Green” programs graft if you aren’t in power….

From last

6th place, out of 10 in my class. … I said I was out of my league….

Shot 434 out of a possible 455.

2 shooters went clean, one went 452, one went 449, one 448.

I wasn’t last, but didn’t shoot as well as I had hoped. Totally ganked one shot, the rest were small errors. I felt as if one of the shots should have been scored a 9 instead of an 8, but it would have made no difference in the rankings. And I don’t generally argue with scorers…

I was shooting about 2 MOA, when I can normally do 1.5 or a bit better. Dunno if it was the pressure or the environment.

It was a fun day, and a bit of a learning experience. Sadly, not my best performance, but at least I didn’t embarrass myself.

I will be doing precision paper punching with a bunch of like minded extremists this morning.

These guys are good. I’m out of my league, but that is, after all, how one learns and expands knowledge and skills ….learning and associating with those who are better, right?

Huh. A school board with integrity.

And she had the integrity to actually fall on her sword:

PA School Board Member to Resign After Refusing to Vote for ‘the Only Cis White Male’ for District President

Open discrimination based on race or gender should be stamped out no matter why it happens. Wrong is wrong.

Prominent attorneys are investigating whether Elon Musk lied on his application for U.S. citizenship

He DARED to change the Left’s lock on information…..and now they are gonna try to get him.

The vendetta is reminiscent of the way they went after Trump.

If only they cared as much about citizenship when Barry Obama was running for President…..

“If only we’d known”: three quarters of survey respondents say voters lacked ‘critical’ information about Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 elections, and half would have voted differently

Twitter, the FBI, other Media (like the NY Times) and the “experts” that said it was “Russian Disinformation”….

All of ’em accomplished their goal: keeping people (voters!) from finding out the truth about Joe and his son’s dealings…..and helping hide the facts that would keep people from voting for Joe……Keeping Trump’s votes below the “Margin of Cheat”

The sad part of this story is that all these voters were so uninformed that the facts could be hidden from them. Where, exactly, do they get their data, their news, from?

Fever is down to zero. Temp is normal. Fatigue level is much better.

And I am hungry again. Ravenously so.

Over a week of this shit.

I gotta go back to drinking.

I was never sick when I drank. Just sayin’.

Cause now, after all this time, the White House is trying to actually do something to accelerate the release of Paul Whelan.

Odd, that, innit? Unless, of course, they are finding out that people really don’t care about an American hating gay female basketball player arrested for drugs.

The Biden administration cannot even look good in such a simple transaction as this. I shudder what their failure will look like if it should be real diplomacy at stake.

Of course, if it were the other way around that would be Discrimination, wouldn’t it?

Shocking moment woke Pennsylvania school board treasurer says she cannot vote for ‘the only cis white male’ candidate for president – despite admitting he’d do an ‘excellent’ job ….’I feel that electing the only cis white male on this board president of this district sends the wrong message to our community,’ she told the meeting 

Funny how for people like that, that doing the “woke” thing matters over all….