Spent a bit of time with my dad at the Concours d’Elegance in Hilton Head Island helping my dad get his car ready for the car show.

He came in second in his class. Pretty stiff competition. Lots of nice old iron there, despite the rain and wind.

‘Twas a good flight to Hilton head. the 340 (and the pilot!!) performed well in IFR conditions. 5.5 hours each way, but we did some stops to see some folks along the way there and back. Burnt a lot of fuel, but we had fun and that is, after all, why I own a capable plane.

Got lots of photos, and if I can get them off of the IPhone, I’ll post ’em soon. For now, I gotta play catch-up in my real life.

Italy revised it’s Covid Death Rate down by 97%…in other words, only 3% (for those liberals who took Gender Studies in college, that is 3 out of a hundred) of the deaths originally blamed on Covid were actually caused by Covid.

The other 97% were caused by other diseases or reasons like congestive heart failure or liver failure or  just plain old age or other reasons….Not Covid.

THis puts the death rate much closer to a bad flu, as many of us have said. And it means that the entire Covid Lockdown and the damage it did to our economy and our culture and society was completely unnecessary….and that Phizer and Merck and the other companies making :Vaccines” got paid a lot of money for nothing….Taxpayer money spent on unneeded snake oil (tha, apparently doesn’t work all that well and doesn’t last).

Someone needs to go to jail for all the fearmongering. and lies.

And I am aware that there has been a significant lack of posting…Sorry about that. I’ve been busy…..And, to be honest, Higher than A Kite on several occasions. Like 19,000 feet high.

As soon as I can figure out why I can’t get the photos and videos off of my Iphone (the latest IOS update seems to have screwed the pooch here), I will have pics and vids from some of my flights.

Right now I gotta play catch-up on some stuff and get the plane serviced.

Overheard:

“How is it that Youngkin won despite the polls saying otherwise???

“The Democrat fraudulent ballots were printed in China and are STILL stuck in port in LA. …Blame Pete Buttieieg…”

I passed a cup of coffee through my nose at that.

so the movers and shakers of the world met in Glasgow to discuss climate goals.

All on private jets.

Hundred of private jets arrived at Glasgow so that international leaders could discuss ways to reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions to fix Global Warming….

If only there were a way for everyone to stay home and confer via some sort of Internet based video conferencing software…..Instead of burning hundreds of tons of Carbon based fuels so that they could arrive singly in inefficient jet based transportation…..

Rising wages are leading to rising costs…..even in the lower echelons of service jobs.

Funny how that works. Wages go up, costs go up,….so prices go up. Simply inflationary, and no net gain for anyone.

Citing labor costs, McDonalds raises prices.

My Econ Professor once  pointed out that “Menial labor” jobs paid just about enough to pay for a meal food for a day after 1 to 2 hours work….and that had been the case since Roman times, through the present…I doesn’t matter what the currency is, nor what the job was. The ratio was fixed. Devaluing the dollar by raising wages causes prices to go rise…but the COST, measured in hours worked, stays the same…..

The Tesla is a nice car… and, while expensive, it is fairly cheap to operate.

But having a fleet of them as rental cars will not work out well for Hertz.

A “normal” gas powered car can be easily refueled and have the range added back in minutes….A Tesla takes hours to be quickly filled to capacity so the battery can give full range. (yes, you can charge up to 80% in about an hour, but that assumes you have the chargers available….How many chargers is the average Hertz Rent-A car gonna have at each location?)….and are they gonna have the space for each car to sit thre for an hour or more? When demand for cars is high, are they gonna be able to turn those cars for the next renter quickly? Right now, they can turn a car in about 10 minutes, assuming they have the labor….Fully fueled, cleaned and all checks completed….versus an hour or more for the Tesla. (and if someone runs out of battery are they gonna have to go get them with a generator? Versus a gas can and a jump pack for a dinosaur fueled vehicle?) Not to mention the charging issues away from the rental depot.

It makes nice headlines, and I am sure that Hertz wants to appeal to the Green folks…..but having one in 5 of their cars battery powered will not work out well. I bet they cancel the order after only 10% is delivered.

So Kyle RIttenhouse goes to Kenosha Wisconsin, is chased and threatened by three men and defends himself….shoots 2 attackers. and is STILL in jail.

About a year and a bit later, Timothy Simpkins (allegedly) walks into a school and shoots 3 kids, and walks out a day later with a $75,000 bail. No threat to his life, just walked into the school and shot….and walks out a day later.

The difference? Kyle Rittenhouse used a rifle and is White.

Simpkins used a pistol and is Black.

Tell me about white privilege again?

Seems that Springfield is bringing back the Hi-Power.

For old-school-new types, this is plus.

I might have to invest.

If the Covid situation is as bad as they keep telling us (By “They” I mean the CDC, the Biden administration and, of course Fauci, aided by the Media)….

Why then, did we have  all those folks in stadiums and racetracks and other public gathering where a “Superspreader” event could have happened?

Perhaps they have found out what the rest of us already knew…that “SuperSpreader” events are just a figment of someone’s imagination and are only possible in their minds when it is a Right Wing event…

Or maybe they realized that no one cares anymore.