gonna investigate who the people were that were running the White House these past 9 or so months? We know it wasn’t ole Slo Joe

Those person who pretended that Joe Biden was making decisions? Who made Joe sign things? Hid the incompetence of an elderly and confused man who was held up as President?

Is he (Or the DOJ?) gonna go after those who saw this and covered it up, hid the truth, and lied to the American people?

Are they gonna be charged, tried, and if found guilty, jailed? Is it treason, or just fraud? Will the bills, executive orders and other legislation signed by Joe this past year or so be null and void?

I really wanna know

How they are going to handle Biden speaking at the funeral?

Will it be as bad as during the debate? Will he even be able to speak a eulogy?

Will he embarrass himself and the country while doing so?

On the funeral of Jimmah Carter.

But I simply cannot,

Best not to say bad things of the departed.

As a man, he was, apparently a decent one.

As a President, not so much.

He did more good after he was in office than as President, I think.

Anecdote:

I knew a man who was a Secret Service Agent during Carter’s time. He told the story of Carter’s first day in office, at the White House,, being given his briefing…..

“And so, if at any time there is a threat deemed sufficient to need to move you to a  place of safety, Mr. President, we have assets in place that can pick you up and move you and your family to a more secure location in less than 5 minutes notice”

Carter: “Really? Let’s see. Have them pick me up RIGHT NOW”.

Apparently there were a bunch of embarrassed folks when they were unable to do so .

“Time is your only valuable resource, there are no refunds or credits for the time you waste”

“That which you allow is what will continue”

“The world keeps on ticking, it waits for no one. If you are wasting time you are wasting your life.”

“Don’t ever let the same people disappoint you twice”

“Occasionally, when saying nothing has had no effect, you have to speak up rather than remain silent”

“If possible, stay out of fights. But if you have to fight, fight as if you were the third monkey in front of Noah’s ark. Fight as if your life depends on it, as if your loved ones fate depends on the outcome. All or nothing.”

“Keep your feet on the ground, Make good choices. No one will care how you bleed”

”Forget those things that hurt you…..Never forget what those hurts taught you”

“No one will wait for you forever”

“Don’t hide from your mistakes, embrace them, acknowledge them….. learn from them. Then go forward.”

“One aspect of true love, and true friendship, is respecting each other’s dignity”

For the folks that are caught up in the LA fires.

It isn’t like they didn’t have DAYS of warning, that the fires were there, and that there was likely going to be high winds that would fan and spread such fires to very dry vegetation.

If you didn’t get your most valuable possessions to safety already, and your family and pets out of the danger zone, then I find it hard to feel sorry for you.

You chose to live in an area where this is not an irregular occurrence. Failure to prepare leads to less desirable outcomes..

yeah, so I hadn’t been flying much, what with the holidays, the clouds and icing conditions and other factors.  I did some pattern work a couple of weeks ago, but no real flying.

And I had bragged to some friends that were complaining that “there is no good chines food around here” that I knew where there was the best chinese food…and it was only about 40 minutes away.

The challenged me to show them.

I did. (I never said that the 40 minutes was by car….)

So Saturday, we met about 11 at the airport and took off and flew at 10,500 ft …..

Over a snow covered landscape

to Champaign, Ill …where we landed and got a crew-car and proceeded to drive north  and got the best chinese food I know in the midwest…at Golden Harbor Chinese restaurant.

We ate a shitload of assorted foods, Gen Tso’s Chicken, Pork Dumplings, Beef With Broccoli, Chicken Mushroom, and some other stuff I simply don’t remember. 5 people ordering several things to share….

I was so hungry, and the food smelled so good, that I forgot to take any photos of the meal though….

The consensus was that it is, indeed, the Best in the Midwest.

The 340A may well have been over gross weight after that when we took off for home, We ate a LOT. Luckily it was cold and smooth, so we got off the ground ok. Wind was 310 at 9 and the runway is 320 and 8000 ft long…..

‘Twas a good time, and I got to burn some avgas, get the plane warmed up and dried out, 1.4 hours and 2 landings…both of which were better than I had been doing lately.

The only downside of the day was that the gasoline powered tug in the hangar shit the bed. When I went to crank it over, it was flooded with gasoline and the crankcase was also flooded with gas. I assume the float stuck in the carburetor. It was hydrolocked and no oil (or at least too much gas) in the crankcase….Luckily I had felt the need to take the truck instead of the car so we had a trailer hitch and I was able to borrow a towbar and use it to pull the plane out.

Putting it back in the hangar using the truck was ….challenging. I haven’t used a towbar to push a plane into a hangar in a long time. Like backing up a pair of hay wagons. ….2 pivots.  With a bunch of derisive comments from my associates, and a bit of spotting to make sure I didn’t run into another plane (or the doorway, for that matter), we got it back in the hangar. I didn’t even need to unhook and rehook.

On the MU-2 front, they smoke-tested the avionics yesterday, will do testing this week, and final calibrations the week after that. I get to train on it on or about the 28th.

Anyone know of someone who is in the market for a really high performance pressurized piston twin? Higher output engines, VG’s and High-lift Roberson flaps too…..200 knots all day long. You can pretty much take off from any paved runway in the US. Land in less than 1800 ft and take off in less than 2500…..At full gross wt too.  (Not that I do that very often, but you can….) I do have to sell this plane as I can’t afford to feed two of them…..

past security and got onto the planes?

Is the airport security that much of a joke? (That was a rhetorical question….the answer is yes, it is)

(This isn’t the first time even)

Two people are found dead in landing gear of a JetBlue plane in Florida after flying in from NYC

If two people can access the gear well of an airplane and hide there, they could also plant explosives or other items.

Think about that.

Don’t wanna be called a fool, and stubborn?

Don’t act the fool, and don’t be stubborn about it.

Today was the feigned “Insurrection” at the Capitol. Planned, executed, and documented by the Left and the DOJ. Aided by the Media, the story was massaged and twisted until they could Blame Donald Trump for the crowds action.

It is unknown for sure exactly how many in the crowd were agents-provocateur, but we do know that there were many. We do know that the doors, in many cases, were opened by the Capitol police to facilitate the entry of the crowd into the building.

While it was a “Protest”, it was, in no way an “Insurrection” despite what the Media and the left (but, again, I repeat myself) portrayed it as.

It is also the day Ashley Babbitt died at the hands of an incompetent and extremely frightened Lieutenant Michael Byrd. His conduct was deemed acceptable by the same administration that covered his other misdeeds and he was exonerated.

This pretty much covers my attitude about the coverage by the media:

Kinda a natural progression from what I posted yesterday.

“Pain is information”

Read the whole thing

Lots of people never learn.

ETA: And the people who could most benefit from his message (especially the second half) will likely discount or ignore it.  Especially if it hurts them to realize what his message is, and who it is aimed at.