Then it undermines the entire court system, not only in Illinois, but around the country.

She should be disbarred for not being able to realize that she is putting her personal political beliefs over any legal precedent. The fact that she felt that she could do this, or that she failed to be able to separate personal feeling from law, is embarrassing for the court system. Or, it could be that she felt secure enough in her position that she thought it was a good idea to do this even though she knew it to be wrong,  just to be a hassle to the Trump campaign. Or maybe she is just trying to impress some other people,,,Or maybe she intends to resign soon.

Either way, if the Illinois Bar lets this stand, Doesn’t punish this judge (or disbar them completely) for this egregious failure….they’ve made all judges in Illinois a laughingstock. Why should anyone obey any judges orders if the judges cannot even follow the law?

There’s that whole “Innocent until proven guilty” thing, and the fact that as far as I am aware, there have not even been any formal CHARGES against Mr Trump regarding this matter.

If a judge is so ignorant of the law, should she be a judge? Of if she is aware and is that partisan, should she be allowed to adjudicate any cases?

She has proven her unsuitability to be a judge. If she isn’t disbarred then every case she ever tries from this point onwards is suspect

Take a senile old man who is (appears to be) bought and paid for by the President of Ukraine.

Add in the confiscation of billions of dollars of Russian bank money.

Now give that money to Ukraine.

Stir in a bit of NATO and we got ourselves another war.

Exactly what does Zelensky have on Biden and others in our government? Is he that big of a source of cash ?? Does he have Epstien-like files on them or their relatives? There has to be something.

Seriously. The fact that they are even considering this is nightmarish.

and precision paper punching club..

It was pointed out today that we (the attendees) are all racist

Racist ’cause we are only shooting at the black parts of the targets.

(Yes, he was joking)

Yeah, gotta love spring in the midwest.

High 60’s low 70’s on Tuesday. Sunny and beautiful

This morning: Snow. High 20’s

With a really nice set of thunderstorms (what do you expect with that temp change?) in between.

Toldya they were setting Mike Obama up for the job:

Michelle Obama tops Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Gavin Newsom as a replacement for Joe Biden, 81, if he drops out: New poll reveals who Democrats would want on the ticket

At the end of the day all we know for sure is that it won’t be Slow Joe (or the Ho).

It is possible that today we will break a record for the warmest day on 2/27 with a high of 76 degrees there in the Chicago area. That seems really high. But is it?

The previous year that that “record” happened? 1976. So this may be a “warmest day”…in 48 years. The previous high? 1880. There were a bunch in the 1880’s and the 1930’s all above 75 though,..Lots of “Record Temps” well in excess of 30+  degrees above the “average” all across the country (especially the midwest and northeast) 100 or more years in the past,…..so it can’t be that pesky overpopulation/CO2/Cattle production/Industry/Refrigerants/etc causing it. must be something else…. Look it up, don’t believe me.

In other words, this warm February isn’t really a big deal, nor all that unusual either. But that’s not what they are telling you, is it?

At least they can for vaccinations and other medical procedures (note that this also included gender affirming surgery…which is, I bet the real reason, although it might be the vaccinations)

Since they are now able to make such life changing decisions, can they sign contracts, joint the military, and choose sexual partners too? How about tattoos?

Yeah, didn’t think so.

So last night I made plans to be at the airport right at sunset. Pulled the 340 out and preflighted it, (took my time about it and all but still) fired up the engines and taxiied to the runway timed such that it was exactly 35 minutes after legal sunset…therefore 5 minutes past “night” as defined by the FAA. Did the runup and waited for traffic on the other runway to land, then departed, staying in the pattern.

Turned crosswind, then downwind, then a base. Final was just a bit high, but a little power pulled back made for a quick correction. Proper airspeed and I crossed the numbers at 84 knots and touched down exactly at the leading edge of the thousand foot marks.  Rolled out to the end and taxiied back for another one. This time another plane was calling “downwind” but I could not see him, and it looked on the ADSB traffic that he was actually on the upwind. (I called and asked him where he was. He again claimed he was downwind. I told him I would hold position until he landed (as I was pretty sure he was confused) and didn’t want to be surprised by whatever he did…safer on the ground)…..Finally the plane waiting behind me said “Look at your compass”…he then admitted that he was indeed upwind and told me to go ahead and take off as he was gonna go a lap around the pattern…..

Second takeoff was much like the first, rotated at 90, lower the noze to pitch for blue line, gear up at positive rate of climb, then up to about 600 feet, then a crosswind turn and then a downwind turn at pattern altitude (and a radio call for each segment). Pull the power back at pattern altitude and before you know it you are midfield. Pull the power back even more and then first notch of flaps to begin a descent., then altitude for the base turn, call the base,  then gear and a turn to final. Call the final…GUMPS, second notch of flaps, another GUMPS check, then set the speed for the short final. Pitch and power . Fine tune your descent rate and altitude…check the PAPI lights one last time, Cross the numbers at 80 knots and then raise the nose slightly and ease the power out. Stall horn and touch down simultaneously.. one, two, three and roll out to the end. Again right at the thousand footers.

Taxi back and do it one more time.  Then again.

I am lucky, in that I don’t seem to suffer from the issues that many pilots do at night. I do have issues adjusting from dark to too much light and back again, but that is generally not an issue in the landing environment at night. (I find it harder to drive at night than to fly and land). No “Black Hole” issues, no “False Horizon” none of the issues some pilots encounter. None of the sensory issues either…at least so far.

So I did a total of 4 night landings, and they were all decent. I am legal to carry passengers at night now, and more importantly, comfortable and competent  and current to land at night.

So that’s 4 landings and 0.6 time (and about 22 gallons of LL)

It was a good evening. Went home ate, had a cocktail and went to bed.

“Never trust a politician who eats his fried chicken with a knife and fork.

No matter what he tells you, he ain’t “common folk” if he doesn’t eat it with his hands like a normal person”.

News this morning:

Wet weather in California “caused by climate Change” is responsible for an rise in a fungal disease called “Valley Fever”… Of course, what they are referring to is normal seasonal variation called “Spring Rain” …..that is what refills the reservoirs  and snowpack that California and other southwestern states need to survive over the next year….

This is repeated in several online articles that have sprouted at the same time…..

Except that farther down into the article it states that  it is (maybe) becoming more prevalent “as drought pushes more agriculture into fallow ground, subdivisions sprout in the desert, and the West dries out”

None of THOSE could be the reason….Could it? Must be Climate Change. Has to be.

Funny how the news keeps pushing it, innit?