Was the Secret Service  Agent-In-Charge at the Trump rally where the Shot was Heard Around the World?  What is their name and work history? We should have heard by now…..

Congress grilled Cheatle, who finally resigned…

But who was the person making the decisions at the scene, whose actions (Either carefully made choices (so as to give the shooter (and Crooks) the chance to take a shot, with extra large holes in the security, with the failure to have a decent communications setup, with essentially zero coordination of the assorted commands,, etc, etc, etc) or else total and utter incompetence (which I find hard to believe) made the entire attempt at Trump’s life possible?

Seriously, who was that person.? Why have THEY not been under the microscope in front of Congress and the Media? Why haven’t we been told their name? Why hasn’t the Press bothered to ask? Are they another DEI hire and simply totally incompetent or are they a carefully chosen agent?

Of course, I would not expect many of the people directly involved to have a long life, really. I expect a sudden statistically improbable blip of accidents and arkancide like happenings and other such mayhem in the folks that were making the decisions there in PA.

But then again, I am kind cynical when it comes to things like this.

ETA: I just saw that Tom asked a similar question last evening in my comments. GMITSG and all that.

the Nation….

Man, that was sad. That was almost pathetic.

I’m sure he meant what he (thought he) said and I am sure he was sincere. But that performance shows exactly why he should not be running, and should not have been president for the past year or more.

After looking at the MU-2 (Nice plane!), we got a crew car and drive a few miles to a nice place for a bit of lunch.

Place called Toast. They had sandwiches, burgers and other dishes. I had the steak stroganoff, which was pretty good. While the service was slow, the food was excellent. While waiting,, and while eating, we discussed the Mu-2 and some of the things that would need to happen in order for the sale to go though….and some anecdotes of the type in general. Ron is very knowledgeable about the Mitsubishi planes, and I learned  a thing or three

After lunch, we drove back, turned in the car, and fueled up. Both of us have had experiences with the line jockeys trying to put jet fuel into a piston engined plane (bad things happen), so we both prefer watching as the planes were filled, first his (a really nice, if batttered looking Aerostar 700… fast as hell (like 260 knots) for a piston plane and then my 340. My plane is a minivan, his is a sports car….

After that, we talked a bit more, shook hands and went to our aircraft. I had filed a flight plan on the Ipad with Foreflight while we were talking, so I did a quick preflight, sumped the fuel, got in, started the engines,  listened to the ATIS,, called clearance on the radio got my clearance. switched to Ground, told ’em “Ready for Taxi”. As I was taxiing, Ron in his  Aerostar took off then another plane, then I was at the hold short line. A quick runup (mags, props, fuel flow, etc) and I was ready to go as well.

Once airborne I turned to the assigned heading and climbed to the assigned altitudes, first to 3000, then, just as I reached that, was assigned 5000, then 10, then 16, then told to “Climb and maintain flight level 210”.  (my filed final altitude) The climb was at about 175 knots or so, 800-ish feet per minute, I had to balance my climb performance with my cylinder head temps as I got higher as the decreased cooling effect of the thinner air became an issue…

I leveled off at FL210 and the speed climbed to 210 then 215 and, for a moment, 224 knots….but the engines couldn’t sustain that power level without getting hot at that altitude, even with the cowl vents open…I settled in at 216 knots true airspeed.

The flight back with a tiny bit of tailwind, was at 221 knots ground speed.

Haulin’ ass at FL210

The flight back was a bit faster, and there were some scattered clouds down around 700 feet or so. The view was spectacular.

Totally smooth and uneventful. Along the way I heard ATC dealing with the Airventure bound pilots….I think the controllers were a bit frustrated. Many of the pilots were not good at following ATC instructions  and likely seldom wander far from their home airport except for this once a year pilgrimage…and it showed.

Chicago ATC did a great job descending me (which is a surprise, the generally keep you high then dive bomb you in at the last minute)… again 500-700 feet per minute, They too were dealing with lots of Oshkosh/Airventure VFR traffic…..They brought me in over the EON VOR and turned me north towards my airport.

Before long I was on the ground and at the hangar and getting fuel. 4.7 hours of flying, nearly 850 miles and back for dinner.

And I might just have found my next plane.

Negotiations commence.

By people whose word I trust….That under orders from Secret Service director Cheatle, and contrary to the normal operating procedures, there was no recording made of the radio traffic at the scene in Pennsylvania where Trump was shot.

If so, then it looks more and more like a conspiracy to assassinate Donald Trump and less and less like simple incompetence. (For the record, I never believed that anyone could be that inept)

Can anyone corroborate?

Imma come right out and say it:

Kimberly Cheatle did not kill herself. 

Does anyone really think that all that she apologized for was simply incompetence?

But one has to wonder, how any pieces of silver did it take for her to violate her oath? Will she get a payoff for resigning? Or will she suffer a sudden cardiac event in a moth or two?

At the end though, she resigned, and will likely get away with it….Although, were I her, I would be afraid and looking over my shoulder for the other members of the conspiracy to express their displeasure….

Does anyone really think this is just a bunch of inept management?

And this is funny:

Republicans climb to rooftop where Donald Trump gunman opened fire while mercilessly mocking Secret Service director for ‘sloped’ excuse

It is said that More than 10 million hunters and gun owners are not registered to vote in America, according to a new grassroots voter-registration group firing warning shots at the GOP.

Do you know anyone who isn’t registered to vote? If so, boot them in the ass….take them to get registered.

Especially a gun owner. There is no excuse.

10 million people in the right state could totally change the outcome of the election….And even spread evenly across all 50 states it more or less overcomes the Margin of Cheat that the Left will do their best to exploit again.

Very nearly 850 miles…in a straight line.

I left the house about 7:10, having already gotten a briefing via telephone while getting ready to leave.

Opened the hangar doors at 7:48

Filed my flight plan while holding the “open” button for the doors ….Preflight was done the evening before.

Pulled the 340 out and fired up at 8:02. Listened to the ASOS, got the winds and barometer/altimeter setting while the engine oil warmed, was taxiing at 8:10, did the runup at the end of the taxiway, called Clearance, got my clearance, pulled to the Hold Short line, called and told ’em “number one, ready for departure”, and waited…and waited…and waited…. for 9 minutes, called ’em again, finally got released for takeoff, switched to the CTAF frequency, called that I was taking the runway and advanced the throttles.

The turbos spooled up and in less than 2000 feet I was wheels up and retracting the gear and climbing out. (just me and a full load of fuel, so the 340 was pretty light and the air was pretty cool yet, so the initial rate of climb was pretty good)

Went to 3000, then 5000 on a heading of 200, , then was directed straight south to a fix called ZORRO (45 miles out of my way, (likely for Midway airport traffic)) then they climbed me to 10,000 direct Lincoln, Nebraska, where I had an appointment to look at another MU-2 Marquise.

Soon, Chicago Approach gave me clearance to my final altitude of 16,000 feet and I flew for 2.2 hours at an airspeed of 200+ knots.

From the Indiana state line to most of the way to Nebraska is …..flat. Mostly once prairie-now farmland gridded into 1 mile squares by roads, cut with the occasional river, railroad, and the sparse towns. ATC handed me off sector by sector and the 340 simply ate the miles up.

It was interesting (and amusing , in a sad way) listening to all the folks flying to Oshkosh for AirVenture….many of them probably only fly more than 50 miles from their home airport only once a year. most never going cross country the rest of the time…and their radio work, and airmanship, shows it. But while they kept the different controllers on their toes, the controllers did a great job with them.

ATC did a nice job of stepping me down to the airport, altitude wise. No screaming dives at the last minute (like what Chicago is known for), just a steady descent at about 500 FPM…

Sadly, I was too busy in the descent to take photos of the approach to Lincoln (KLNK) airport. It was hazy and I had trouble finding the airport, never having been there before, so picking it out of the terrain was difficult.

But find it I did, executed a nice visual approach to runway 17 (their ATIS warns that there is a long wide runway to the west (Runway 18) and a short skinny runway to the east (runway 17)…apparently folks have issues with landing on the right runway).

I found the correct runway and did a nice, if not perfect, approach and landing in a gusty environment.

Taxiied in, parked myself  at Atlantic FBO (no marshallers showed up, so after waiting,I simply parked. ) and shut down the plane.

Got out, was met by the agent selling the MU-2, and we went down the way to look at it. This one is nice, no obvious issues…and while it does not have the interior that I want, it can easily be modified to have it….and I think this one will pass a pre-buy inspection, which the other planes I have looked at might well not have…

It is, of course, priced a bit high, but negotiations can and might well happen…..

The return flight in another post.

Until Kamala gets out on the campaign trail..

The word salads should be epic.

Debates? I kook forward to that entertainment. Whether between the DNC hopefuls OR between her and Trump, it oughta be epic.

It ain’t like we could do worse..

Got this image from my brother.