Seems to be popping up in larger cities.

It started, apparently, in Minneapolis. Which took in HUGE numbers of Somalis and other Eastern Africans.

And, oddly, the disease is MUCH more common in East Africa than anywhere else. (still rare, but MUCH less so).

Now, correlation is not causation. Be aware of that. But still, it is likely that the vector for the disease is the population that has moved from a location where it is more common to a place where it is rare….almost unheard of. It could be Global Warming, or Bush’s fault, but I doubt it….

And it seems to be appearing in many “sanctuary cities” as well. Might just be the larger number of immigrants, might just be statistical noise.

But I doubt that the reason why matters to those children who are US citizens who are now in Iron Lungs or under care to relearn how to move their limbs. I doubt that they care that the DNC got to feel good by resettling a bunch of Somalis in places where they would not assimilate.

Hope and Change, ya know.  I bet little Suzy Whitebread who caught it at school will be in favor of immigration when she grows up…If she lives.

If the Republicans can band together to confirm Kavanaugh, WHY CAN’T THEY GET TOGETHER AND REPEAL OBAMACARE??

Because the Insurance companies have bought and paid for some of our finest politicians I’m not sure why they can’t do it….

It is happening

I expect that women are gonna next complain that this isn’t fair either….that the relationships and deals that are made outside of the formal office environment, and the mentoring that occurs after hours that they will lose out on are valuable parts of business and that they are being treated unfairly by being excluded…

But if I were still in business, I’d never be anywhere with a woman that was not my wife or girlfriend for fear of being accused….and found guilty simply because “she said so and women deserve to be believed” or whatever the current catchphrase of the feminists is.

Mike Pence won’t do dinner or anything else with a woman…unless his wife is with him…..He looks smarter now than a few months ago, doesn’t he? 

Needed to clear my head, so since there was an hour where there was a rental plane available, I chose to do some pattern work. I hadn’t flown since 9/27 either. when one is new at this game, it is easy to get rusty

Wind was varying 180 to 210, 12 gusting 20. No one in the pattern when I started.

Taxiied out and did the run up at the threshold of 18, took off, entered the pattern and did a crosswind landing on 18. Not my best one, but adequate.

Later, rinse, repeat. 5 times.

By then the pattern was full of airplanes,  spaced almost too close for my comfort. Planes arriving every minute or so. Congested for an uncontrolled airport. Plus there were 6 planes stacked up waiting for departure and complaining that no one would let them out. I landed and taxiied out to the end of 18 and parked the plane back at the flight school.

0.7 and 5.

And focusing on the pattern procedures and the landings cleared my head tremendously.

I really need my own aircraft though. 

What leverage was used to push her out?

Nikki Haley Reigns as US Ambassador to the United Nations.

I liked this lady. She kicked ass. Made the rest of the UN pantywaists realize that there was a “new sheriff in town” and the US wasn’t gonna be pushed around like it was during Barry’s terms. She was making changes in the UN’s mismanaged and shortsighted profit centers programs that wasted money too.

If our justice system was as good as it should be, ALL of our judges, Liberal or Conservative, male or female, religious or agnostic, Muslim, Christian, Jewish….Catholic or Protestant….Wiccan or Bhuddist, would be interchangeable.

It really shouldn’t matter…..

Because our justices, Circuit or Supreme (or any of the lower courts) would adjudicate from the letter of the LAW, not from their beliefs.

No Liberal (or, to a much lesser, but still there, and still wrong) or Conservative or religious biases…no “Legislation from the Bench”.

No human is perfect. None of us can be entirely objective. But if a judge at that level cannot be impartial, and set aside his or her feelings and judge cases based upon LAW, and the Constitution, then they should not be a judge at all …especially at that level.

In fact, if our justice system had decent judges, we should be able to take any Federal Circuit Court judge’s name and any Court of Appeals judge’s name and put them in a hat and pick one…..and get a decent judge that was qualified for the Supreme level.

Sadly, we don’t have that.

We have political animals, and biased judges and those who Legislate from the Bench….and who play politics.
And those judges are failing in their oaths. 

That Ms Ford will now disappear back to wherever the Democrats dug her out of, only with a pocket full of cash and other prizes (Plus the GoFundMe which is reputed to be near $1 million) and that the Dems will dump any contact with her…She will be abandoned, having done the job they used her for.

Unless, of course, she meets Vince Foster. 

That the military and our government are just now realizing that this is a problem….that the manufacturing base that is so necessary to fight a war (which, hopefully we don’t have to do again) of any large scale no longer exists in this country Raw materials are one thing, the ABILITY to manufacture things from those raw materials is another…. …and we don’t control many of the sources of raw materials, anyway.

Should large scale conflict happen, especially with the Chinese, how long can we wage war without the electronics and other products that the CHINESE exclusively produce? Yes, the Japanese and the Malaysians and the Singaporese can take up some of that slack, but they are in, essentially, the Chinese backyard. How long will they last? Even if they do, how will we transport those components they produce (and we DON’T) from them to us?

Global manufacturing is a great idea…as long as everyone is at peace. But the military is about defending the citizens of this country and taking the fight to the enemy should that be required….and they need the tools with which to do so

How much of that manufacturing…of chips, other electronics, exotic smelting and refining, chemical processes, etc has left our country because of taxes and, especially, our environmental regulations? How much because our trade practices made it easier and cheaper to outsource? How do we get enough back under our control and security to make us able to defend ourselves (much less wage offensive war) for an extended period?

“every Blade of Grass” is, indeed, a thing. But that only works so well, for so long.  Real weapons of war take more infrastructure and more manufacturing. Remember: In WWII, the real reason the US (and it’s allies supplied by the US) was the ability to produce more weapons and tools of war faster than the opponents…More ships, more guns, more ammunition, more fighter planes, more of the tools of war for soldiers to use. We OUT-MANUFACTURED our enemies as much as beat them man to man. At the end of the day, no matter how valiant the fighter is, he needs guns, and food, and clothing, and the other tools of war to wage war. An empty rifle is just a club, and a fighter jet without missiles is just a fast plane. …a submarine without torpedoes is just a boat that submerges.