in his rhetoric, and his lies.

Apparently he has been pulled back to his old, lesser position in California. I expect he will quietly retire.

Funny how that works, When you lie to hide what your agents did, and everyone can see it, and you try to exonerate them even before all the facts are in evidence, and in the face of videos that contradict your words, you become less than effective as a leader….or a spokesman.

I expect ICE Barbie will follow soon.

DHS and ICE (and Bovino and Noem) now have less credibility than Baghdad Bob

This time the excuse is a “gun” rather than a vehicle.

The video is pretty clear. No matter what the Narrative from Border Patrol and Ice Barbie…

The smart move, to not get shot, is to not be there doing useless protests.

Bu the videos with Alex Prettii is pretty damning.

Carrying a pistol is not illegal. They took it from his waistband holster…even before they shot him. Just having a gun on your person is NOT an excuse that the Border Patrol can use here.

I’d link videos but you can easily find them on Youtube and other places….  if you bother to look and haven’t decided to swallow the government’s narrative without looking at the evidence. They are pretty conclusive.

In many places, they’ve pre-emptively closed schools for Monday and Tuesday.

Over a bit of ice and some snow…

But back in the 70’s and 80’s it took more than that to get us a snow day:

Kids (and parents) today are pussies.

But I was able to pull the 340 out and fire it up Thursday. .

I wanted decent VFR weather for the post maintenance flight…..The plane is FINALLY out of annual and someone had to take it up.

So I did.

It was pretty clear, just a few clouds at 6000 ft…pretty strong winds though

Once around the pattern to see if everything worked, and it seemed to. Crosswind, downwind, base, final. crossed the numbers at 80 and would not have known I had landed except I heard the tires chirp one, two, and then the nose.  (Or Upwind, downwind, then the nosewheel if you prefer.) Smooth as silk.

Taxiied back, did another takeoff, left the pattern, flew from a hundred knots to over 180 knots at full throttle, then to another airport for another decent (if not as good as the first one) landing.

Taxi back and then on to another airport,  then home and did an RNav just for practice.

1.2 and 4

I remember how to fly, oddly enough.

Some minor gripes and some work for me to do, but nothing major fell off and everything worked. The gear goes up and (more importantly) down

Back to flying once the temps get above zero…..

Dangerous thinking indeed:

HERE

Ice for the south, REAL cold for the north.

One would think, from the media coverage, that this was the first time that it had ever gotten cold like this. I expect that the coverage is the same in the south.

Cold is no joke, it can kill you.  You can lose fingers and toes.

Ice is no joke, it makes for downed power lines and very slick travel.  Lots of folks in the middle of the country will get a lot of ice and they might be dark for a week or so.

But at the end of it, it is what most of us call “Winter” and one simply has to prepare for it, and be smart enough to deal with it.

If not, as I was taught so many years ago….”Darwin is always waiting”.

But I grow tired of the hype from the Media. It is like most things in life: either yer gonna be smart enough to prepare for it or you aren’t. You are either gonna be smart enough to dress to handle the conditions, or you aren’t, and yer gonna get hurt if not.

I recommend everyone have enough snacks and easily prepared food…..And enough booze of your choice to weather the storm ahead.

“A society in which the citizens fear the police has issues”

“Your choice of what to do next matters more than the mistake you last made”

“Education is the one thing you should never finish”

“Work like hell, Close a deal with a handshake, and have fun in life”

“If you don’t schedule your priorities, someone else will”

“That which you allow is what will continue”

“Do that which you fear most and the death of fear is certain”

Yeah, It’s a busy time…Sorry

I find it interesting that all the ICE crap started blowing up just a bit after the Somali welfare fraud (that we have known about for several years, but that for some reason the Federal government, as well as several state governments (besides Minnesota) have been quietly ignoring) got exposed by a YouTube journalist….

Almost as if they are trying to make us forget about the BILLIONS of dollars that are defrauded every year from the states and the Federal government and shipped (as cash) overseas….

I think they are hoping that they can distract us with the ICE “abuses” and that we will forget the rest.

Strange that. Almost as if they are getting their cut or something. Odd…

But, like Pepperidge Farm, I remember.

On this MLK day: