16,000 ft at 210 knots. Not too fast, but fast enough

It was bad even at 15,000 feet:

Haze and smoke made everything indistinct. Like IMC only sorta not….The camera makes it look better than it was to the naked eye. For most of the trip I had only intermittent contact with the ground.

On the climb out

about 14,000 feet

One wonder where the EPA is on this? Gotta be a violation or something….

Sad, and angering, but funny, nonetheless….

Stolen form Ms. Misfit

Radioactive wasps go missing from nuclear site in South Carolina…..

The question I have is where is the exposed contamination such that the wasps can get contaminated material to build a nest?

From either Uber or Lyft, whereas I CAN request a female driver (and we all know about women drivers, amirite?)

Is that not discrimination? Both for the Male drivers as well as for myself?

Asking for a friend and all that…..

In the NTSB hearing on the collision of Blackhawk “Priority Air Transport 25” and American Airlines flight 5342, the NTSB is focusing on the altimeters…..failing to set the real blame: that the pilot of the Blackhawk was way too high (Odd, innit, that all the altimeters were in error in the same direction, even the radar altimeter), not bothering to face the real facts….. that she was a DEI promoted person being pushed for promotion, that she was unused to flying with the Night Vision Goggles, that she was a marginal pilot whose failures in training were being glossed over so she could be rapidly promoted, and that her performance was lacking even before this incident that killed 67 people. It is obvious that she failed to maintain visual separation and she killed these people on the airliner, and her entire helicopter crew as well as herself….

No one wants to admit that DEI killed these people…that when your selection is for gender, or race, or sexual preference or identity (and she fit at least two of those “special”  characteristics)  or other characteristics besides flying skills, you will get results other than flying excellence, and end up with pilots who are substandard and a danger to themselves and the people around them.

There were other factors, and the flights though the Airport arrival and departure corridors were an accident waiting to happen (if the pilots of the helicopters were below standards) and the NTSB is likely going to fixate on the altimeters to hide her many failures (But her crew chief told her to “Come Down please ma;am” several times before the collision so they knew she was too high) …but at the end of it, the decision to push this pilot beyond her capabilities caused the deaths of 67 people…and that responsibility lies directly on the people in the military who pushed for inclusion instead of excellence.

Unless, and Until, we choose to select for excellence of skills rather than other characteristics, we are going to see similar incidents.

Because it is funny, and true:

If you don’t follow him, he’s at Joel’s Gulch

‘Twasn’t folks of Swedish ancestry….it pretty much never is…..

Three arrested in Cincinnati Brawl case that left two injured.

Sad that it takes a foreign press to tell us about it. The US media is still trying to downplay it because it doesn’t fit what they want you to believe…

Again, if this had been white folks beating up black people we’d be hearing it wall-to Wall and the only thing that would have pushed it off the front page would have been nuclear war….

“You don’t get to live life twice. Learn from your mistakes, don’t dwell on them”

‘If you are unwilling to sacrifice for what you desire, that desire will become the sacrifice”

“Who’s the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?’”

“Some people are worth fighting for. Be one of those people”

“The end of a journey with someone is also a part of that journey”

“Mistakes are proof you are trying…if you never make mistakes you are merely existing”

“Knowing others is intelligence, Knowing yourself is wisdom: Mastering others is strength, Mastering yourself is true power”

“Trust that Karma will take care of wrongdoings in it’s own time”

But NO….they want the rest of the country to fund the Illegal Aliens Free Shit Giveaway:

Coalition of 21 States and D.C. Seeks Emergency Injunction, Citing “Chaos” and Irreparable Harm from New Rules on Federal Benefits

“The states assert that these sudden changes have created “chaos,” forcing them to make an “impossible choice between shutting their doors or risking an immediate cutoff in federal funding.””

If they think these services are worthwhile, and they don’t think that they should be exclusively for Americans, then they can fund them out of State monies, rather than depend on the Feds.

Remember, “there are no Federal Funds going to Illegals….” we know this because the Liberals told us so…