Lots of wisdom passed down to the flight students….

Best one: “A landing clearance is a go around with the option to land”

Found at  Earthbound Misfit:

“Don’t keep asking why a clown acts like a clown….Ask instead why you keep going to the circus”

“Work and save as if you will live a thousand years, play and live as if you will die tomorrow”

“The Expert in anything was once a beginner”

“Time spent with someone is a piece of your life…spend that life wisely. “

“You have power over yourself, not outside events…understand the difference. Live accordingly. ”

The whole, the entire response, to Covid was done by people who apparently had no clue and were just winging it.

Lots of us said that, and were shouted down.

The Shots were ineffective,

The 6 foot spacing was just arbitrary

the Masks were a total failure….A waste of time.

The lies about the origin were just that, lies. It was a Lab Leak in Wuhan. For some reason they tried to hide that fact.

Mush of this could have been prevented if they had closed the borders to travelers from China.

There’s more. Read it all

Most of the “Covid response” was just theater designed to get people to take the shots. There was no reason to believe they would be effective (or safe), as there were no real decent studies done.

Big things, little things

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Some people never realize.

All of a sudden, women who were (more or less, as much as a woman can be) logical and grounded in reality become immune to it, refusing to see what their eyes tell them.

They simply ignore things that don’t fit what they want…how they world to be….

Truth matters not, science, facts, and reality become…..mutable. They see a different reality that the rest of us.

It seems to strike women about 55 or so years old:

“I don’t like it so I will ignore it”.

“that doesn’t fit my worldview, therefore it doesn’t exist”. 

Things like this (and the Liberal White Women shown a few posts below) make me realize that our forefathers may have made a mistake with the 19th amendment……

Plus, I mean, Is it me or are more and more women just plain getting crazy? I mean, they go off on airlines, in the street, on Social Media, and it just keeps happening, A whole shitload of them are dying their hair one day, and deciding to not have sex because a man they dislike was elected president…(and then, apparently, they think it is a good idea to SHAVE their hair….)  They didn’t used to act this way …But now? Women being crazy is no longer news, or a surprise when a woman, who formerly appeared sane, just goes nuts? Did this always happen and we just never noticed it? Are all women nuts and they are just letting it show more as they age than before? , Or is there some other reason for their whacky behavior?

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While I think that Trump could be making better choices in his cabinet picks (and he needs to stop nominating these fake Conservatives/RINOS) I don’t object to his choices for the same reason the republicans and the democrats and the media do find them objectional …

I am ALL for putting new people, with a  new perspective in the positions, to shake up the hidebound cultures…to force a new perspective and a new attitude.

If so and so “Doesn’t have the experience” to run XXX agency then at least that person  won’t be infected by the attitudes and culture of the :old guard” and will likely shake things up and maybe change it for the better (most government agencies could hardly be changed for the worse at this point).

I do think that science based agencies should have someone with a science based  background leading them, and fact-based opinions, rather than fear based….(Looking at you, RFK– get a grip on reality) and agencies regulating certain sectors of industry should have someone with more than a YouTube level of education running them….maybe have worked in the industry….

But Trump has to get better advice for many of these appointments or it is gonna come back and bite him on the ass. Whoever is giving him advice needs their butt kicked.

I hadn’t flown in 2 weeks, and even then, it was just a checkout for the 340 after the annual (which took a month). Then we had crappy weather, and then, of course, Thanksgiving….Before I knew it, it was 2 weeks since I had flown…..

The temp was 16 degreed F, the wind was more or less straight down the runway. Density altitude minus 1800 feet.

Damn, that plane can climb in those conditions. What with the cold air being very dense for the wings to grab, the colder air through the intercoolers so the turbos are working at full peak, and no need to watch cylinder head temps, it felt like I was flying a jet. I hit 2000 feet in les than a mile from the start of the takeoff run.

Spent an hour just flying by hand, getting the aileron trim set right after they screwed with it in the annual, and just plain enjoying myself.

The plane flies hands-off now, all controls are neutral, so there is no roll….which will make IFR hand flying much easier. Did an ILS landing (was by myself no foggles, so it doesn’t log) in VFR conditions just for practice and was kinda wandering across the localizer, but still a good one.

Great day to fly and it was good for me to do so. Lowers the blood pressure and all that.

I gotta find someone to act as safety pilot and do a couple of approaches in a row, both for currency and for competence though.

Either way, 1.2 and two.

“electively, and unfairly, prosecuted”

That’s the reason Joe Biden pardoned Hunter , his sleazy criminal son.

Funny, but when Trump was being “Unfairly and electively  prosecuted” you didn’t hear Ole Slow Joe saying anything, didja? How about the J-6 folks?

And, of course, the fact that Biden and his son actually DID the crimes….Sold  Presidential Power for profit, makes it even worse.

But hey, if the Democrats didn’t have Double Standards, they’d have no Standards at all….

In real life as well as when blogging:

“Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:
At the first gate ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’
At the second gate ask, ‘Is it necessary?’
At the third gate ask, ‘Is it kind?'”
– Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi

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