Yeah, I’m whining.

The fun of owning a 40+ year old airplane…..

The air conditioning in the 340 is not functional. (It’s kind of a strange design…a hydraulic pump on the engine drives a hydraulic motor elsewhere that drives the compressor for the AC…and there is a hydraulic leak)

The plane is NOT designed to be flown in summer heat without functional AC. The airflow is lacking and it gets downright uncomfortably hot in the cockpit and cabin. For long trips, you can fly really high, and and (maybe) find cooler air, but in the midwest in the summer, you gotta go REALLY high. Sometimes climbing that high isn’t really practical for shorter trips. In my 182, when I had that plane, there was no air conditioning but LOTS of airflow so you made up for the heat with volume of air. Like sitting in front of a fan. Not so much in the 340. Imagine driving in a car using only the heat vents for cooling,. You can’t open the windows. It’s kinda like that.

Hopefully the (REALLY expensive) part will be here before Friday, when I need to go west for a couple of hundred miles.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she told ABC News on Tuesday.

“And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”

Are there any people in the Biden administration that are competent?

It wasn’t a steeply pitched roof, People were walking on it after the incident without issues. Most roofs that are not on large city buildings have some slope. This metal shed building wasn’t terribly steep…..It wasn’t lie a Swiss Chalet or anything. Most people without a disability can walk on it, you can even walk on it after a few beers.

I think they are covering for the fact that they deliberately chose not to guard the roof, letting the shooter patsy have the time to set up so it would appear that he was the one who did the deed.

You know, and I know that this was a prepared assassination. Much like the death of Epstien, it didn’t just happen. We can’t prove it, but we know.

Looking more and more incompetent ever time they make an announcement. At this point, it becomes obvious what the people in charge expected to happen.

How little the press has told us about the guy that attempted to assassinate Donald Trump patsy blamed for the shooting? I mean, if he had been a republican (not just registered) we’d know his height, weight, last 12 meals, length of his manhood, clothing sizes, have all of his last 10 texts, they’d have interviewed all his neighbors, his classmates, they clerk at the corner convenience store where he bought his morning coffee. We’d know the type of car he drove, his favorite color, what he read, where he bought his clothing, the name of the gunstore where his dad bought the “AR type” rifle, have his last 2 months of social media, etc.

We have essentially nothing.

Strange, innit?

Also, I find it funny (strange, not humorous) that the FBI is now distancing themselves from any responsibility for the glaring fact that the roof was unguarded, “It was the responsibility of the local PD!”….the single closest vantage point, less than 200 yards from the principal they were supposed to protect….Somehow it was “overlooked” by the people responsible for security (Can they really be that incompetent?)….. It is really had to discriminate between total incompetence and malicious intent.

Lots of storms last night, lost of small damage. I only got the 70 MPH or so gusts. no obvious major damage besides a few limbs and some power outage for a few hours

West of me, it was pretty bad. a few tornadoes, but squall line thunderstorms are pretty powerful.

Cleanup of branches and such commences.

Of Biden, while obviously a piece where Biden was well prepped with answers beforehand, is sad. He is still mumbling and losing focus. Even in this “interview” (which is more like a stage play).

He is repeating most of the Media talking points about most subject like the Jan 8th protest, mostly lies. many times repeating the stories that have been refuted or simply proven to be false. This is flat out propaganda.

“JD Vance is unqualified to be president”

Yet they all applauded when Kamala Harris was chosen as Joe’s Vice-Presidential pick.

She is also unqualified for anything at all. Not a prosecutor, not a politician, not a vice president. She can barely speak, can’t put a sentence together, and is really only qualified for one thing, the reason she got where she is, by being on her knees.

If Vance qualified? More than the DNC VP choice, that’s for sure (But that is a really low bar, innit?)

Funny how those qualifications matter now, but not 4 years ago. .

I used to have an old plastic quart-sized Jack Daniels bottle that I used as an iced ta container when I was working a work party at the range, or doing a charity project or walking the beach. Sadly, after much use, it cracked and is leaking.

There’s nothing like working for a while, announcing you need a drink, going to your cooler, pulling out that bottle (full of iced tea) putting it to your lips and drinking down half the bottle when people are watching, Then putting the lid on and getting back to work without a word.

People just aren’t sure what to think.

Like this:

then this guy needs to be tried for dereliction of duty. His job was to protect President Trump, If he saw the rifle, saw it being aimed, then he should have taken the shot regardless.

If he waited, then the deaths and injuries of the spectators as well as the damage to Trump is on his hands.

Anyone can be anyone on the internet, so I wonder if this is really the countersniper that is making this claim.

The problem is that no one can verify it, so you are left with your confirmation bias.

(Updates as they occur to me)

We’d be talking about a different subject in this post.

(and we’d likely be seeing a civil war beginning here in the US)

The story is unfolding….and the storyline is, of course, still being trimmed and adjusted.

As it is, this early in the timeline, we have to ask:

How did a man with a rifle get to within less than 500 feet of Trump (or the area in general) with a rifle?

One might wonder: why no helicopter or drones for overhead watch?

Was this guy another Adderall filled drone under the control of the Feebs like so many of the other shooters in the recent past?

A headshot at that distance is not that difficult, but it does take some training and steady hands…neither of which the shooter appears to have had……

Would security have been this poor if it was Biden?  If so, why? If not, why was there a lower tier of security for the man who might well become the next president?

Is there a fund for the people who were shot ?   (Link provided by Rick in comments)    https://www.givesendgo.com/VictimsTrumpRallyShooting

And, sadly, in today’s age, one has to wonder: Was this staged? I mean, was this supposed to be another Dallas but the shooter missed? It’s not, sadly, outside of the realm.

ETA: Kudos to the Secret Service agents who did their job and surrounded Mr. Trump and put their (body armor clad) bodies between him and any continued threat. That takes dedication to your job.

Also: My dad pointed out that anyone with even a bit of sense had to know that being the shooter was gonna be suicide. There was no way that the shooter cold get out of this alive. One wonders.

ETA: (Conspiracy theory time: Dude (Patsy)on the roof shot at the people in the crowd, Unsupported with an AR at more than 100 yards, so not terribly accurate….But he wasn’t a precision shooter either…..)

Another person was in the barn, out of sight, unseen,  A skilled professional, shooting the “Money Shot” from a rest and with a rifle in the same caliber. Much like the JFK assassination in Dallas in 1963….Prove me wrong…..This is a much more likely scenario. How shiny is your tinfoil hat?