They must be worried

 So the Media blitz against the idea that the Republicans (and the rest of the Congress) might not certify the electors from the “Battleground” states is fully ramped up….”Will of the people” and all that is being bandied about on the Liberal media sites…..

“You get the most Flak when you are over the target” and all that. Apparently someone is worried that the dissenters might actually succeed in getting the Congress to not ceritify the Electors….

I think they are very worried about this. Very. 

The other three couldn’t hang on to her?

 Seems a “young woman” somehow slipped off of the seat at a chairlift in a ski resort in New York….and the staff had a tarp waiting for her to catch her as she fell. 

Kudos to the staff and whiever trained them. 

But I ahve a question: There were three other people in that chairlift….they couldn’t hold her for the time it took to get the chairlift to the top? I mean, she looks to weith about a hundred or so pounds. Three people. One might have thought that SOMEONE in that chair could have held her for the 5 minutes to get her to safety.  It’s not like she was a two-ton-Tessie. 

They keep getting louder and more shrill

 Telling us that “THERE WAS NO ELECTION FRAUD”. Louder and louder and more and more shrill as Jan 6th approaches. 

They deny and deny. The “Bluer” they are, the louder and more shrill they get. 

“There is no proof”. (Have you noticed that every court case, every investigation says the same thing?) IS the Mantra. 

Proof. It is hard to come by when the apparatus that is being investigated is the same apparatus that did the fraud in the beginning…..

Yes, there is evidence. It is obvious. In fact, one must go out of one’s way to NOT find evidence of fraud. 

Is there evidence that ballots were added after the polls closed? Yes, Is there evidence that “absentee” ballots were allowed after the election, with no chain of evidence like verified signatures? Yes there is.

Is there proof that the added (and illegally counted) absentee ballots were enough to change the outcome? No.

Is there evidence that ballots were changed in the counting machines? Yes, there is evidence that that happened. Can we PROVE that it made a difference? No we cannot.

I see it this way. Were this a murder trial, there is enough evidence “Beyond a a doubt” that I could not convict a person of murder…

And that is enough to invalidate.  

Well, that sucks

 Had  a checkride for my Multi Engine rating.

Cancelled. 

Ceilings 300-500 feet. I need at least 4000 AGL.

So today, all dressed up and nowhere to go….This sucks

End of a shitty year

 While it can always be worse, I can’t say that I will look back on 2020 fondly. 

And yes, I do look forward to 2021. 

Having said that, this was a shitty year. Friends lost their business, some got Covid,  I lost people I knew to other causes…..We have all, essentially, been trapped in our homes for the past 10 months or so. We had an election whose legitimacy is (and always will be) in doubt….and that election will forever taint the trust that we have in our election process, from now until far into the future…..My plans for my future blew up, leaving me somewhat rudderless on the personal front. 

2021 may be better, it may not. Covid will fade, but now we have an illegitimate President who is feeble and weak, and whose loyalties are suspect. His second is, to put it bluntly, a socialist in the mold of Barry Obama, only even less restrained…I fear for my country. I fear for the economic health of our fellow citizens, and I fear for the ability of our military to defend our country and the citizens therein. I fully expect to see cuts on Militaty funding to pay for ever increasing Social Programs…Funded with non existent dollars that will dilute the savings of millions of people who have worked and saved for many years for their future. I fear we will inundated with non citizens that will dilute the vote of the folks who care for this country and it’s culture and productivity. 

And yet, I have hope. Hope that the American People will overcome…..that they will soon take up their jobs again, and work and be productive and make this country great DESPITE the so-called elected leaders we have. That they will thrive despite the drain on their resources and savings. That they will overcome the obstacles that have been put into their path, and succeed despite the obstacles yet to come. 

I believe in my own future…..things may have changed for me, but I believe that things will regain their equilibrium…..a door closed, but others lie ahead. I pray I choose the right doors, but forward is generally better….and I will continue forward. 

As I said, I will not miss the 2020 year. While it could have been worse, it wasn’t all that great, either. 

I hope that 2021 is better for all of my readers. Fear not, do not lose hope, bear down and move into the future with confidence. 

To do otherwise is to fail. 

Wirecutter (AKA Knuckledraggin) is down

 The blog throws a “harmful Programs” warning in Google and IE. 

Kenny is aware of it, and is working on a solution to fix it. 

ETA : It appears to be a glitch. His site works now on IE with no errors. Apparently this has happened to other blogs that are not terribly liberal, so who knows?