While, as stated below, I do not support Federal troops doing any policing in any city where they are not invited,….

I DO, however, support Federal immigration sweeps in any city, especially “Sanctuary Cities”.

I want every undocumented illegal alien invader looking over their shoulder every single day, every time they step outside their home…and every time there is a knock on their door, I want them to be afraid of being arrested and deported.

(Ideally these invaders will save everyone time and expense and remove themselves back to their home country (or at least anywhere but the US)

As per a point made in comments….I do NOT support our current President sending troops to crime ridden cities in order to quell crime…be they Regular Military of National Guard,. That is up to the states and until, and unless, the states (governors) request it, it is not under the purview of the feds to take over of the policing of our Democrat (or any other) led cities.

In addition, I think asking National Guardsmen to be police is idiotic and unfair to the troops.

YMMV.

That “Crime is Down” in Chicago? That the statistics used for the latest claim have not been created out of thin air?

Supposedly “Crime” is Down by 21%, homicides by 38% and Multi-victim shootings by 44% 

Odd that they never mentioned that drop in crime until Trump promised to bring Federalized National Guard troops to the city, innit? You’d think that if the mayor and his staff had actually reduced crime by that much that they would have been trumpeting (ahem) it to the skies…everyone would have heard about the wonderful reduction in crime.

You know, and I know, that the new statistics promulgated by the Chicago Mayor Johnson and by Illinois Governor (Fatso) Pritzker are lies made up by twisting their new definition of “crime” into pretzels.

I just find it funny that they never bothered to even try to push the new statistics until Trump promised to come and do their job for them.

“Do not trim your dreams to match someone’s tunnel vision”

“Don’t bother getting angry….Change that which makes you want to be angry”

“When you screw up, apologize, make it right, and show remorse, else no one will believe you know you screwed up, nor that you have remorse for your actions. If you are truly sorry, act like it”

“Certainly the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you; if you don’t bet, you can’t win”

“The right partner will encourage your ambitions, not compete with them nor denigrate them”

“Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and take a look around once in a while, you could miss it”

“You only lose those things you cling to”

Can anyone explain to me why the DNC run cities want to be “Sanctuary Cities”? Why they want illegals, and the crime they bring to invade their spaces? To have their welfare and other government aid budgets explode as they have to pay for an additional 15%-45% of their aid budgets to the indigents from South and Central America? Why the are doing all they can to hobble the efforts of the ICE agents in rounding up the illegals?

Why, besides identity politics, do they want to harm the citizens of their cities, to break their budgets, to lower the standard of living in their community, to have additional people who will lower the average wage and compete with the productive citizens for lower wage/unskilled jobs?

Can someone give a cogent and complete answer?

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.