Norma Anderson?

I mean, there are people with Trump Derangement Syndrome, but most of those are Democrats. (with the exception of Liz Cheney, who went from hating him to obsessed) not republicans….

But this Norma Anderson is most obviously a front for someone else. She was a republican once, apparently, but has obviously become something else. She hates Trump….

“I’m an old-fashioned Republican that believes in strong defense, supporting business, and helping those who don’t know how to help themselves, and less government, and a fair tax base,” Anderson said.” You’d think that if she really believed her words then she’d approve of Trump, but no.

Instead she is the front person for “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington” a “Nonpartisan ethics watchdog”. Founded to oppose Conservative  groups.

Funny that a lifelong Republican would join forces with them innit? I wonder how much they are paying her?

Biden classified documents case closed with no charges

Apparently when you are a democrat, intent and cooperation make the difference, as does “Difficulty of prosecution”.

Is there any way the DOJ could be more obviously partisan? I mean, we had the whitewash of the Clintons by James Comey, and now this double standard.

Of course, the Media is trying hard to run interference as they are trying to explain why Trump is facing charges for the exact same method of handling documents but Biden is being let off….

(BTW, notice that the press and the DOJ are referring to Joe Biden as “A confused old man with a poor memory”……if that is the case, and a reason to not prosecute, then why is he still President? (Look at the testimony….”Confused, unsure of dates, “limited cognition””….)

(After thinking about the above paragraph, I gotta think that that statement will be used to make Biden withdraw and then the Left will put someone (Mike Obama?) in his place on the ballot.)

So I went flying in the 340A for the first time this year on Wed.

I hadn’t been up, first due to the strain of the issue that led to my surgery and then the surgery itself, then the healing process. While I wasn’t too sure about it, again, one has to keep up if yer gonna keep on keepin’ on.

So I went to the airport, and they had already pulled the 340 out so they could get to some other plane stored behind it, which was convenient for me. Preflighted, fired it up, and taxiied to the active runway.

Called for a radio check, did the runup per the checklist (since I hadn’t flown in a month I paid particular attention to the checklist) then called my departure on CTAF, pulled across the hold-short line and lined up. Ran up to full power, released the brakes and accelerated to takeoff speed.

Climbed out at 1000 ft per minute, did a circuit of the pattern, and landed….not a perfect landing, but not bad. Slight crosswind from the right, Firmer that I generally do, but on centerline and where I wanted to touch down. Full stop-taxi-back and took off again. This time departing for an RNav approach.

Which I did perfectly until some asshole who I have never seen at the airport before cut right in front of me.. No radio calls, nothing. Flying on a more or less perpendicular vector below me, then suddenly turned and aimed for the Final Approach fix that I was descending towards. Then, after I called on CTAF to state that I was breaking off my approach, he belatedly called that he was 8 miles out on the same Rnav….except our near collision (and it was less than half a mile and less than 500 ft spacing) happened closer to 5 miles out, at the final fix, not the initial fix which was 9 miles out..he wasn’t even sure where he was, I dunno, maybe he was just one of those assholes…. Irritating though. Such is the fun of flying at uncontrolled airports…and why I have the instrumentation I do so I get traffic alerts early. There have been a LOT of near misses at the airport where this happened in the past few months, so much so that the FAA is likely to get involved. Lots of flight schools and an ever increasing amount of traffic is causing this.

Anyway, after that fun, I circled back to the initial fix and started the approach over. Again, a decent approach, slow descent from the initial fix to the final approach fix, then follow the glide slope and localizer all the way down,  this time all the way to a landing.  While I was on the approach, I heard 2 other planes in the pattern yell on the radio at the asshole who made me break off. He never made a “final” call, and never told anyone where he was in the pattern and just kinda bulled his way through.  (I’ve called the flight school that owns the airplane to complain, but that’s pretty much all I can do, they are at another airport 40 miles away and it is likely this person was on a solo practice instrument flight.)

After that landing though I gotta say that my gut and associated musculature was telling me it was time to stop, so I did.  I guess I am not as healed as I thought.

So 2 landings one (and sorta a half) practice Rnav approach (no foggles or safety pilot so it doesn’t count in the logbook as an instrument approach) and 0.8 hours.

But I am gonna have to work harder to get my gut muscles back to strength. I see the doc on Friday so we will see what he says. I think I need some exercises, but I wanna wait and see what the doc says first.

I have a trip upcoming at the end of the month, so I gotta get back to flying shape.

So I went back yesterday to the Tuesday morning old boys shooting club at the range. I hadn’t ben there in the weeks leading up to the surgery and for a while afterwards. But you gotta keep on if yer gonna keep up, and like flying, shooting is a perishable skill.

Took the non-Ruger 10-22 “Vera” and a rest and a sandbag. Sitting, standing or kneeling. I did sitting ’cause I am not yet fully healed.

Today was a challenge. Firstly 10 rounds in a 3/8 square at 50 feet (indoor). Inside the square counts. Touching the line counts. Cutting the line is a miss.   Not that hard, but there were 10 squares. I went 91. This is with a scoped rifle.

Second Round was “Strike Anywhere” matches…again at 50 feet….. lighting the match counts. A flare counts. Broken match does not, even if it lights.10 shots done twice. I went 2 for 10 twice, which isn’t as good as I can do but not bad for not shooting for a month. I felt pretty good about my shooting.

Of course, Frank did 6 for 10 with a frikkin pistol. But he shoots more in a week than I do in a month, so there’s that.

All told it was fun to dip my toe back into the precision paper punching routine. As I heal, I think I can get back to my regular level of accuracy which just ain’t there right now. I gotta get my musculature back to steady up. It’s the shakes that are killing my accuracy

And the Republicans say “Dead on Arrival”.

I’ll go 7:3 that the funding for Ukraine, Israel and other countries survives. Especially Ukraine….That the Border will not be closed, and that there will continue to be a flood of illegals crossing the border who will  be allowed to remain for years, if not forever, but there will indeed be more money spent on immigration, (just not closing the border).

I fully expect that the Republicans will once again demonstrate that they are spineless and do not care if their actions represent the people who voted for them, and that they will roll over and give the Democrats what they want.

I see that Joe thinks the same way as I do….Great minds think alike (Or run in the same gutter, depends on your viewpoint)

Don’t try to mix it all together. Don’t Fund Ukraine or any other country on the back of the taxpayer, don’t mix that with the border.

Close the fucking border to anyone….Mexicans, Chinese, or any other illegal.

Make ’em wait in Mexico or wherever until the current backlog of “immigrants” applying for asylum have had their cases adjudicated (and sent back if need be).

In the meantime, explain why Israel needs our money, or Ukraine, or Taiwan. All have a great deal of commerce, all have great economies (eve Ukraine) and can pay their own way. Taiwan and Israel have BOOMING economies. Ukraine sells a huge amount of gas and other petroleum products. What are they giving us in return for our deficit dollars?

But stop this bullshit on these giant fully inclusive bills. All this is is political theater and a delaying tactic to keep the southern border open allowing ever more invaders in without any filters. If you believe that the can’t close the border in a day, then you are an idiot. Neither side wants to do so.

Ask yourself WHY?

(and Black run for over 30)

Dixmoor, a Shithole suburb of Chicago, has had water infrastructure issues for over 30 years. They blame, of course, the old water pipes that whites left behind when they moved out 50+ years ago when the blacks moved in….and insist that the Federal Government must help pay for the repairs (replacing 100 year old water mains, filtration systems, etc). These failures are, after all, the fault of the previous owners from 50 years ago…

It couldn’t be that the democrat run government never made sure that their finances were in order to allow maintenance and replacement of the pipes and equipment (that, oddly, worked just fine for over 20 years after the democrat/black government took over.)… It couldn’t be a complete lack of maintenance for 20+ years or that a replacement plan for ageing infrastructure wasn’t ever implemented…or even that the water rates were so low (they bragged about how low their rates were) that there was never any money put aside for replacement of the infrastructure. ..Or that the operators and managers were put in place based on race/tribe rather than competency, leading to failures in maintenance and operation that damaged the water mains and filtration equipment with bad decision making caused by incompetence and lack of operator experience and training.

So now they are declaring an “emergency” hoping the Feds or the State will help.

But now, of course, it is the fault of the white men that left working infrastructure behind all those years ago……and the black run government is crying that they need the Federal government (or SOMEBODY) to pay to fix the system they have damaged with incompetence……’cause they certainly can’t do it themselves, both because they don’t know how and because they have spent the money for repairs on other things…

Life is a bitch when you are so short sighted that you can’t plan for the future.

Sadly, the rest of the state’s citizens will end up paying to bail out the short-sighted policies of the black/Democrat run local government. Me? If I had control every household would pay an assesment and the city would pledge the rest, with appropriate collateral, before they’d get a dime…..and it’d be as a loan, rather than a grant.

Of ever convincing me to vote for her (Not that I was a big fan of her anyway)

I mean, if Nikki Haley is being promoted by the folks at Saturday Night Live, then I certainly don’t want to have her as a presidential candidate…..

Let her be known by whom she associates with. So be it.

(with a little bit of help from the CIA…..)

Biden “won” his first primary. Nearly 97% (against two other people no one had ever heard of)

Must have been some of those 83 million voters from last election, I reckon.