In the past hour it has fallen 3 degrees. No wind to speak of yet.
Got a real fire going in the woodstove and the temp inside is 72F.
If it gets as cold (and as windy) as the weather-guessers forecast, then short of an emergency I ain’t leavin’ the house tomorrow.
But…..
So the City of Chicago has, for many years, been telling people to “Take Public Transportation” in order to reduce downtown congestion and ease the lack of parking…
And many people have become entirely dependent on Public Transportation.
Then, when it is going to be dangerously cold, the city has announce that, due to the weather, they will be running METRA and South Shore commuter trains at a “reduced service level”. and the CTA busses will be on a reduced level as well…
Yeah, just what people want to do…try to stay warm in an unheated bus stop shelter or on a METRA station in -25 F cold with -50 wind chills while waiting an extra time for a ride….
Best way to get people to ditch those cars and use public transport…(and then there are those who need transport, can’t, for whatever reason, afford a car)…Let those people down on the worst weather day in a decade….
If ever there was a good reason to not trust ever growing Government, to distrust and never depend on the State….here is a good example.
I mean, they are even trotting out the “What does he know about the Political System?” bit. And “Very inexperienced”.
Where were they when Hillary and Barry were running? Hillary might have been marginally competent, Barry wasn’t even that. Trump may not know Politics, but he is at the least a leader….
I think they know that he will take many of their middle of the road voters…Sorta semi-conservative types.
And, ultimately, they know that they will lose if the vote is split 3 ways.
(is it harder to cheat if there are three candidates??)
He drew a line in the sand, as it were, and dared the DNC to cross it.
They did. And he had nothing when they did.
And he folded. He got NOTHING. No commitments, no partial payment for the Wall, not even a promise (which the DNC types have broken before anyway) to come up with some real, actual working border security.
He damaged his brand, disappointed his supporters (again) and made the Left stronger.
(Why didn’t he do something while the RNC held the reigns?)
Was this just a power play? (one that he lost, badly).
I am disgusted. I’d have rather seen him keep the shutdown happen than this. Do an EO saying that (at least) “essential” employees get paid.
But instead he folded.
Failed.
Completely.
But, at least we don’t have Hillary. There is that, even if that isn’t much.
Friday, I took advantage of the fact that it had sat in a heated shop for 3 days, and decided to wax it.
I got the wings and tail surfaces done. Man, that is a LOT of area. especially when most of it has to be done from a ladder.
At least it beads water now. Hopefully, next time I get caught in a snow squall, the wax will prevent any minor buildup. (Not that I’m gonna fly in icing conditions, mind you)
The best part was the other pilot who asked me why I was bothering….I showed him the bottle and told him that this was a special coating and it gave 7 knots extra speed because of the smoother airflow across the wings. I really shoveled it on about the “special aerospace coating” and “Extra low friction polymer” and “developed by the French airforce for the Tornado fighter” (he didn’t get that) and a whole bunch of other total BS.
He was all excited and interested.
“Really?????!?”
me: “nope, just kidding”
He wasn’t amused. Everyone else in the shop was, however.
People should know better…too good to be true and all that.
As far as I can see, nothing. Again
Where is the funding coming from for these “pop-Ups”?
Most food banks can’t get enough funds to meet their needs, and they plan ahead months in advance to get the food they do get.
Yet these “Pop-Ups” just appear? Maybe with a week notice?
Who is funding them? It takes tens of thousands or dollars to stock a food bank for even one day. Where are all those dollars coming from?
Or are they just Media showpieces so that they can highlight the poor government workers who aren’t being paid?
One wonders.
As they say…I will start to think about believing the Climate Crisis is real when those who tell me it is start acting (and adjusting their lifestyle) as if it were.
1500 private jets. about 450 to 500 gallons of Jet-A per hour at a little less than 500 knots.(figures are for a G-IV)
How many jet hours per average flight? Lets say 5. So each plane (say 3 passengers) burns 2200-2500 gallons of fuel. So say 750 gallons per passenger or more. Each way.
That’s more carbon than the average person causes (in the US) for 8 months or so.
For ONE trip. times, of course 4500 (3 per airplane).
Lots of carbon there. Plus aerosols from the jet engine.
That’s a lot of carbon for a few lectures and presentations that could ahve been watched via videoconferencing, doncha think?
Do what I say, not what I do.
But, I suppose, if they didn’t make the trip (on whose dime?) then they wouldn’t find ways to fleece the world governments for more money…
Ironic, isn’t it?
They got snookered, and could not wait to report how a kid in a red “MAGA” hat was such a terrible person (and, by inference, so was every Trump supporter) and when additional, more complete video showed the tiny blurb in context, they were embarrassed. Forget that those people and groups that they support do much worse than just stand there and smile at people with whom they disagree…(and that wasn’t even what was happening))
Yet they do it nearly every day, giving us only part of a story, or only showing 10 seconds of video rather than the complete clip, or creatively editing a video to show what they want, and not the whole story….choosing to give only facts that support their viewpoint and, again, not the whole story.
Hypocritical of them, doncha think?? It’s not like they haven’t done the same thing.