Trump floats idea of reviving “Mental Institutions”>

Of course, the Left went apeshit, as expected.

But at some point, some folks simply cannot and should not be “mainstreamed” into society…sometimes for their protection and sometimes for societies protection. Yes, some criminals are put in prisons, bit others, a danger to society in general, need to be removed as dangerous.

Of course, who makes that decision is the slippery slope, mind you.

But fully 2/3 of the “Unhoused” living in homeless camps are somewhat mental. The rest are mostly also drug addicts, which could also be classified as a mental issue.

I fully expect that the Left will fight idea this tooth and nail

But worth every cent.

Flew to have breakfast at KJXN with Aaron of the Shekel

The flight was pretty near prefect. Severe VFR conditions, but I handled it…..

Landed straight in runway 07 at JKJXN (Jackson, Michigan) and taxied to the parking. Got out, secured the airplane and walked to the restaurant.

Looking ADSB, I saw that Aaron was about 10 minutes out, so I got us on the list for a table and waited.

They seated me and I watched as Aaron entered the downwind for 07, and then made a REALLY steep approach (Unusual for him) and landed really long (again not his nor al style, which is to land perfectly in a textbook manner). I later found out the tower had demanded a short approach so he had to lose a LOT of altitude quickly and he carried a lot of speed….Anyway, he put the plane on the ground, taxiied, and parked.

He sat down, (I had already ordered him coffee) and perused the menu and we ordered.

We talked and ate for about an hour, and then paid the bill and left.

On the way out, some grandma was asking a pilot if her grandson could sit in his plane, and Aaron and I both offered ours as well, but the kid was happy after the first one. (I have seen Aaron take a lot of time with kids who want to see an airplane…he’s good with the little basterds)

A quick preflight, and then I closed the doors and fired up the engines. Called listened to the ATIS, then called Ground for Flight following, got my code and departure frequency and taxi instructions and taxiied to the runway…Arron right behind me.

Waited for the plane in front of me to take off and turn on course, Was told to take off,  and “right turn on course” pulled onto the runway advanced the throttles, rolled down the runway….50—60—70—80—and rotated at 90…. nose level for a second to accelerate in ground effect and then climbed at 120 knots. As I knew Aaron was behind me, I turned on course at about 400 feet to clear his path for takeoff.

Climbed to 8500 (westerly course) and got handed off from Great Lakes approach to South Bend and then Chicago…called the field at about 15 miles, cancelled Flight Following, switched frequencies, called a 10 mile out call, and entered the left downwind for the runway…extended for the slower plane in front of me, then turned base and landed….not the worst I have done, but not perfect either.

Taxiied the long way to cool the turbos and then put the plane back in the hangar. As it is Labor Day, no fuel except self service, so I will call for the fuel truck and fill it up tomorrow afternoon.

A good hour flight each way and breakfast with a friend I see not often enough.

Makes for a great day.

2,1 and 2 landings.

‘Twasn’t two women who took action to save the kid, it was two men, two simple members of the crowd, unrelated to the kid, just two men helping a lost and confused child while others looked on.

Men save lost child from falling of monorail tracks at HersheyPark 

But the feminists and the “normal” women who support them are doing their best to eliminate men like this from society.

But It true:

Still waiting, still wondering whose name(s) they are trying to hide, still wondering who has the chops to make sure the keep hiding the files.

Where are the files Pam? Why hasn’t your boss forced you to do your job?

I used the Kubota and my handmade log tongs to pick up the rounds and put them on the splitter to break them up into pieces I can handle (75-120 lbs)  and began to split the pieces.

If I hadn’t had the tractor I would have had to use a Wedge-and-Sledge to break them up…they were pretty heavy/

lots of heat in that pile

My neighbor helped guide the rounds onto the splitter and got about a rick of good oak firewood for his trouble.

Next week or so I will split and then stack what you see in the photo.

Wood warms you 3 times, cutting it, splitting it, stacking it and burning it.

(the scheduler….didn’t.. so this was posted a bit after noon ) Should have been at 8:30 AM

I cut these final rounds on Friday afternoon and will be breaking them up Saturday morning for splitting later.

Man, that was a big tree. It fell in April due to wind….literally pulled the roots out of the ground, and I have spent the summer cutting the tops, branches, and most of the smaller parts of the trunk for firewood for later this winter. I gave about a cord to my neighbor as he was short for this year. Plus about 5 ricks to Ed as he is 75 and just failing physically and can’t cut and split his own any longer.

I did a quick count of the rings and extrapolated a bit and determined this tree was about 130 years +/- old….A nice white oak. A shame to use it for firewood, but no sawmill will take a yard tree for fear of nails.

Big wood

This is the last of it, and it needs to season a winter before burning.

For size reference, that saw is a 1976 36 inch bar McCulloch Double Eagle 80. What a beast of a saw. Made for someone who is more man that me, I gotta tell ya.  4 hours cutting with that thing and I am DONE. My forearms and wrist are toast.

Better than bucking a crosscut saw with another person though.

Each 16 inch thick round weighs between 450  and 550 lbs,  so that is about 3 and a third tons of wood. It’ll lose 15-20% of it’s weight due to evaporating water over the winter though.

Still gotta split it and stack it yet, so the work ain’t done.

I burned some calories today and will burn many more in the near future. Better than a gym membership.

Now the narrative is how the folks in the Lower 9TH Ward were somehow discriminated against because they were mostly dispersed into other cities in the aftermath of the storm and were not paid to return….(forgetting that many may not have wanted to return) and how no one, not even the city of New Orleans wanted to help rebuild the lower 9th (mostly probably because it was below sea level) and they were given FEMA loans rather cash handouts….so it must be discrimination against Black people…

Watching the narrative of the 20th anniversary of Katrina hitting New Orleans.

And yes, it is a narrative.

They skip all the (actual) failures of the city government, and the state government, and instead focus on the claimed failures of the Federal government in the aftermath.

But the reality, despite the narrative, is that the Nagin administration failed to do much to prepare despite the forecast that the hurricane would hit the city heads on days before, that the pumps had not been maintained for years, that the flood control structures had been allowed to decay over decades leading to broken levees, that the evacuation efforts were almost comical in their implementation and the leadership criminally incompetent at the city and state level.

But watching the media gloss over those failures, you’d think that the DNC types had done a wonderful job, both before the landfall, and afterwards.

And that just ain’t so.

Trump has threatened to send National Guard troops to large (and Democratic run) cities to quell crime…..

They all, to a man repeat the Mantra:

“Crime IS Down!!”.

But so what, crime is down from a high, but the one thing they don’t say is that crime is at an acceptable level. What is an acceptable level of crime?

And they can’t really fight crime because the source of the crime would scream and cry in outrage that they are being unfairly targeted…..the blacks and the illegal invaders from south and central America.  They’d claim ” Racism!!!” Until, and unless you fundamentally change the culture of inner city blacks, the crime in their segment will stay at the level it is. Unless and until you stop the handouts so that people will need to either work or starve (Or drug test for Gubmint handouts) drugs will be an issue, and even then, impulse crimes will still happen.

Illegals have their own problems, but mostly, they are similar.

But until you address those issues in those two demographics, all you can do is claim “Crime is down” not that “crime is at a level that is acceptable”…and that it is at a level similar to the predominantly white suburbs….

“Crime is down!” is not really a great accomplishment though.

It would seem that the California Appeals Court has chosen to ignore a ruling by the US Supreme Court.

“… There is no basis for affording property rights less protection in the hands of legislators than administrators,” Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court in April. “The Takings Clause applies equally to both – which means that it prohibits legislatures and agencies alike from imposing unconstitutional conditions on land-use permits.”

The high court vacated the first appeals court ruling and remanded it back to the court for further deliberations. But last month, the California court reaffirmed its first decision, finding that the traffic impact fees were constitutional despite the higher scrutiny advanced by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Why then, should anyone follow a ruling by either the Supremes or the California Appeals court?

If a lower court  (or any government agency) chooses to disregard a higher court, Then why should any of us follow any court ruling (or for that matter, any law at all) with which we  which we disagree?

Either we have the rule of law, adjudicated by the courts and enforced by the police, or we don’t. There is no middle ground. Law or Anarchy. Choose.