Pretty much as I expected, really. After some real, careful review, All the “Uncommanded Discharges” of the M18/P320 were simply found to be mishandling.

Additionally, a review of weapons discharges throughout Air Force Global Strike Command showed none had been attributed to malfunctions, the news release stated.

Much like the early GLOCK’s, the trigger safety caused a lot of people to shoot their firearm because they weren’t handled correctly. This is what led to the implementation of the “New York Trigger” because the NYC cops couldn’t be trusted to not shoot themselves or others with a normal trigger weight so they needed an extremely strong trigger spring to prevent the negligent discharges. Back then, the consensus was often that GLOCK firearms were supposed to be dangerous, but nearly all of the issues were “Booger Hook on the BangSwitch” issues (or stuff in the trigger guard when reholstering) , not mechanical failures. I believe that this is the issue with the SIG’s as well. The statistics bear my conclusion out. At this point, it is Urban Legend level of idiocy though.

Sig has mishandled the issue, but they are getting screwed in Social Media.

Took my parents shopping in Traverse City, along with a friend

It’s either a 5 ish hour drive or a 1 ish hour flight.

We flew. I own a decently fast airplane, after all.

We chose to burn some avgas and save some time. The choice is 38-40 gal per hour at 210 knots or so or 28-32 at 185 knots. We chose faster.

The flight up was hazy,, technically VFR (but not really) for much of the way,  and I did not get any decent photos of anything due to the haze at altitude……

This was on the way back, just above the clouds about 8 pm  heading more or less south southwest

200 knots at 10K

Shortly after that, we descended and it was clouds and IMC pretty much down to 4000 ft. A little bumpy in the clouds but not too bad….

(Sorry it is sideways, I don’t know why and do not have the tools to rotate it…..exercise is good for your neck, or turn your monitor )

So 1.2 up and 1.3 back, with about 0.4 IMC on the way north and 0.5 on the way back.  Both ways we had brutal (like 55 knots at one point) direct crosswinds at altitude.

The landing at KTVC was perfect: RWY 280 with 17kt gusting 26 at 320, and it was textbook perfect (I get lucky once in a while). Upwind wheel first (and I didn’t even chirp the tire), then the downwind one, then the nosewheel.  If you had had a drink in your hand the ice wouldn’t have even clinked. For once there were witnesses. I wish I had video, but I was too busy to hold a phone….

The landing back home was good, but not as perfect as the one at Traverse City.

A great day with my parents too. Shopping and then dinner at Sorellina. The only downside was that, because I was flying, I couldn’t have a glass of wine with dinner.

It don’t get much better than that though. The real reason I own a plane and fly is for days like that.

But I doubt it.

The DNC is strapped for cash, many of their big donors have chosen not to donate this election cycle.  So have many of their smaller, yet still significant donors.

And this just after DOGE cut all that funding to USAID and all the other NGO’s….you know, the ones that got billions in unsupervised taxpayer grants and who employed all those second and third sons and daughters of those wealthy people (who were unemployable in the private sector) at inflated salaries and that generated such huge profits in the procurement, shipping and distribution of “aid” by USAID and those NGO’s…..

Coincidence? Possibly, but I honestly think that this loss of donations is not just a random happening.

The US taxpayer was likely funding (if indirectly) much of the DNC this way. And now that those taxpayer funds have dried up, so have the donations….

American Eagle only makes Jeans up to size 18. (which is, IMO, still pretty large).

But they should market that fact….Loudly and unashamedly:

” We don’t care what the fat liberal women think, we only make jeans to size 18. If you can’t buy our jeans you can’t boycott us so we don’t care what you think and BTW, you are fat. It ain’t genetics, you are fat and lazy and unattractive, so Fuck Off”

The fact is that all the women who are complaining about this ad and Sydney Sweeney are too lazy to maintain themselves and are simply jealous of those who bother. And, rather than face their failures, the complain and find something like Nazi Racism to pin the complaint on.

40 or more years ago, we “Fat Shamed” women and men who were ..overweight. Then “Big and Beautiful” and all that bullshit came into the culture of women and now we have these women wo think it is ok to be 60 or more pounds overweight with diabetes and other health issues. ,,,,they were told it was ok to be obese.

Hint: It isn’t, and those of you who are fat know it isn’t, That’s why you complain about a healthy (and she ain’t all that terribly pretty) woman showing herself in an ad about jeans.

I mean, it’d sure get people interested in voting for you, I think…..

Force the US Postal Service to give you your actual mail separately from the 42 pieces of junk mail that they deliver to your mailbox so you can just toss the junk mail rather than having to sift through to find the 3 pieces of actual mail:

1. Your electric bill
2.  your credit card bill and/or bank statement.
3. the government form you have to fill out in order to stay free and not spend 3 months in jail and/or pay a fine or something…..

I get more junk mail that real mail. I actually could probably use the woodstove and the junk mail I receive yearly to heat my house for a month or more…..

Once again, lawfare for a Liberal cause.

Enough of this shit.

The Democrats ignored judges time and time again when they felt like it…with no repercussions.

Why should the Trump administration not do the same? You know, and I know that this latest ruling, by an Obama appointee, is just because the DNC led folks don’t like the fact that thousands upon thousands of illegals are being processed and removed from the country.

Judges like this (of whatever political stripe), who make blatantly partisan rulings such as this should be removed from office and barred from ever acting in the judiciary

Why should the Grand Jury testimony from the Epstein trials (Both Fla and NY) be such a tightly held secret?

What information in there is so dangerous to the country’s security (the only acceptable reason) that this needs to be hidden from the public?

Who has the wherewithal to influence so many people, people powerful in their own right, to keep the information under wraps? What information is in those files that the people named are working so hard to keep hidden?

Judge blocks release of Epstein files

So lessee here,,,,

The Epstein files did exist because Schumer and Pelosi and Durbin all worked very hard to block their release.

Trump promised to release them.

The files are used as evidence (part of it) to convict Maxwell

Bondi said “They are on My Desk”

Kash Patel said they “Needed to be reviewed to make sure that no victims names would be released”

Then, when push came to shove they weren’t “on her desk”….

Then Trump said “What files?”

Then they promise to release what they have…” Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval,”

Now, after trying to release something, (Notice that both Florida and New York denied the request for the testimony in their trials) a Clinton appointed judge say they can’t be released: A federal judge denied his administration’s attempts to release grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein case….U.S. District Judge Richard Berman deemed Trump’s Justice Department did not provide adequate reasoning to unseal the highly-protected materials

Why is this “Highly Protected Materials”? Why does court records and testimony in a federal or state court hidden from the public? Is there top secret material that would compromise the safety and security of the country in that testimony? This is about a criminal trial fer chrissake.

And we all know that Epstein didn’t kill himself in jail either.

“Timing is often the key to the successful Rain Dance”

“No amount of anxiety can change the future”

“Blowing out someone else’s candle will not make yours burn any brighter”

“People who never take the time to do it right generally find the time to do it over.”

“Everyone leaves, learn how to survive alone”

“Some of the wisest people have little or no education”

Apparently, when Zelenskyy attended the meeting at the White House, He promised Donnie that he would buy 100 Billion dollars worth of weapons and $50 Billion worth of drone components...

Yet less than a year ago, he was demanding billions of dollars of ammunition and weapons from the United States because his country could not afford weapons to make war defend against the Russians.

This time, his attitude was less demanding. less of that of a superior trying to give orders to an inferior. More of someone who wanted to make a deal with a more powerful country.

But a question:

Where is this (supposedly) poor country getting all the billions of dollars for the current offer? Where was all that money a year or so ago? Were they lying about their finances then or are they lying about their ability to pay now?

We know they have a fair bit of money, and apparently every third new resident permit holder in Switzerland is a Ukrainian holder of a large Swiss Bank account….

Some of the people in Ukraine have somehow (corruption?) become very rich…..I mean, they even bought a US Vice President and (apparently) a Clinton Secretary of State…

But seriously, where is a country that was supposedly too broke to get their own weapons less than a year ago and demanding money from the US now getting $150 Billion to spend? ?