No arrests

Oddly, there was a 7 hour Police Standoff in Lincoln Park, Illinois, a neighborhood of Chicago.

A party at a Lincoln Park Airbnb ended in a seven-hour stand-off with police, but the three people involved are not facing any charges Monday morning.

No wonder there is a crime issue in Chicago…7 hour SWAT standoff. No charges were filed. 7 hour standoff, and everyone walked away…

Further, there were several “assault Rifles” recovered and confiscated by the police, as well as 7 handguns….but, again, no charges. And this is Chicago, where such items are all but banned. If not the property of the folks involved in the standoff, then they must be the property of the owner of the home.
Yet, again, no arrests were made.

Odd. 

Faithful Discharge

So what with all the talk of impeachment of Donnie Trump, can we impeach (or recall) the senators from Hawaii?  (or can we, at least, get the folks in Hawaii to do so, since they are their senators)

Their oath is (in part) to ” support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Hawaii, and that I will faithfully discharge my duties to best of my ability.” .

Seems to me that trying to destroy the Second Amendment of that Constitution (as well as the Hawaiian Constitution [Article 1 section 17] )is in violation of that oath. Pretty blatant violation, actually.
We have a process to amend the US Constitution (as does Hawaii for the State Constitution).
I am all for the United States Constitutional Convention to take place……
Lets open that ball. It’ll be fun and exciting…..

Here’s a list of those that have violated that oath:

Senator Stanley Chang
phone: 808-586-8420
fax: 808-586-8426
[email protected]

Senator Karl Rhoads
phone: 808-586-6130
fax: 808-586-6131
[email protected]

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker
phone: 808-586-6070
fax: 808-586-6071
[email protected].

Senator Dru Mamo Kanuha
phone: 808-586-9385
fax: 808-586-9391
[email protected]

Senator Laura H. Thielen
phone: 808-587-8388
fax: 808-587-7240
[email protected]

It has begun

The reassembly of my plane…

All inspections passed.

I got most of the inspection panels replaced this afternoon.

Tomorrow, the rest of the panels and the interior. Plus some minor mods and a bit of repair.

Should be that all that is left is waiting on the prop reseal. 

How to drive away customers:

So I used to be a customer of “Drs Foster and Smith” online store for Pet medicines and other pet supplies.

They were bought by PETCO. I got the email about that a month ago.

In the past two weeks I have gotten more than 30 emails telling me about the wonderful deals available to me from Petco.

I unsubscribed… three times.

But they “want my business”…”to establish a relationship” as a pet owner . Nice way to start out there, assholes. I got maybe 3 emails a year from Foster and Smith, and I liked it that way. Spamming me at a rate of more than twice a day doesn’t do much to make me want to do business with you. In fact, It pretty much makes sure I won’t.

Does anyone in the marketing department have any sense at all?

Annual

SO the plane is up for an annual inspection.

I was offered the option of “Owner Assisted Annual”.

Which means I am the shop monkey that removes inspection covers and pulls the interior.

10 hours of work (so far).

Jesus there are a lot of access/inspection plates,,,and lots of screws. (And someday, in a dark alley, I’m gonna have a discussion with the ham handed asshole who burnt the centers out of a bunch of the phillips screws last annual…probably with a ball peen hammer to the knees….some people just should not be allowed power tools).

Anyway, this morning I’m feeling pretty out of shape. Too much crawling around and unusual (for me) positions

Breakfast of former champions for me today. (Ibuprofen and coffee).

But I have learned a fair bit about my aircraft, which is the real reason for this evolution, rather than paying someone else to do it.

And today, a work party painting the range. Oughta loosen up my arms, if nothing else. 

I sincerely hope

That when I am judged in the afterlife, I get credit for the tings that I DON’T say.

Somedays I should get a medal and cookie for the fact that let some shit go.

Just sayin’. 

‘Private” testimony

Seems that Mr Cohen has some words that we mere citizens are too fragile to hear, so today’s testimony is behind closed doors and private in order that special secrets are not revealed on television. 

Which means that the spectacle yesterday was just for show, and had no real import, but was, rather just a method of making TheDonald look bad as this dildo-holster was able to say really bad things about Mr. Trump with no real recourse by the accused.

And anyone who cannot see that Cohen was coached and instructed to say certain things in a certain way is either blind, stupid, or just plain so partisan that they will believe anything as long as it fits their belief.

I must confess

So there I was, putting my stuff back in my pockets and putting my belt and shoes on after passing through the TSA checkpoint.

And, behind me in the line is some poor middle aged woman getting hand searched after triggering something on the  machine she had passed through.

And another TSA woman was gathering up her bins of stuff from the belt after passing through the scanner.

And I’m thinking”Poor lady, you can tell she’s a terrorist looking person” as she is taken away for further inspection, looking terrified.

And I, helplessly,watched it happen.

I am part of the problem with this country.

GWB should be hung for letting this happen.