I mean, a fairly warm weekend here in the greater Chicago area.

So I bet the South Side gets a toal of 28 shot, 6 killed….

And the police won’t have to kill any black person ’cause they will kill each other.

Just think of those brave servicemen waiting in the Higgins boats and other transportation….waiting to assault their beaches. Knowing that they might (and likely wouldn’t) make it.

Balls. those men had balls.

Few are alive today. Fewer every year.

Heroes, each and every one.

Everyone in Europe who doesn’t have to speak German today should be thankful for their sacrifice.

If the Media and the Social Media and most of the Federal Agencies that knew about 8 months ago what they are releasing/admitting today….that the China/Wuhan virus was created by China and likely released accidentally (or not) from the lab….

We’d likely not have to deal with Biden’s gaffes nor would we be making jokes about “Joe and the Ho” nor would we have had the election controversey…nor would we still have to listen to the Left and the media (but I repeat myself) yammer on about the “Kapitol Insurrexxion!!!!!”

In other words, we’d likely have Trump as President right now.

But the Media the Left (but again, repeating) and much of the agencies tasked with finding out and telling us the truth failed to inform us of China’s responsibilities in ths global crisis.

If yer Reynolds Wrap Kippah seems too tight, then you might think all of the above failure to tell us the truth had been done for a reason….and we got Creepy Slow Joe and Willie Brown’s side piece as out Executive Branch.

But this is a great slam, with facts, on North Face for their stupid and hypocritical stand against the “Oil and Gas Industry”.

Seems that North Face refused to sell their products, specifically jackets, to a Petroleum supplier. Because reasons. Taking a stand against the eveil petroleum industry and all that.

BUT…..It seems that their products are nearly 90% made from fibers and other materials derived from…..petroleum!

Kinda hypocritical, innit?  Of course most of their customers will applaud the stand that North Face took and not realize that they, being customer and consumers of North Face Products are themselveves willing (if ignorant) co-consirators..

Watch THIS

Found via The Pirates Cove

” the impact that overdraft fees have on Black and Latino households, which are historically poorer than their white counterparts and are hit with overdraft fees more often”

So Black and brown people can’t manage their finances, so we will remove the incentive to not overdraw your account in the interest of appearing non-racist…..

Another way to look at it is that they believe that Black (and brown) people are too stupid to handle their finances. And too stupid to follow the rules that the rest of us learn to follow.

Me, I think it is more a cultural thing…..and that some folks will (and some won’t) learn to follow the rules…no matter what their level of melanin or ancestry. To claim that a practice like bank fees or fees for not paying your car registrtion “Disporoprtianately impacts people of color” doesn’t mean it is racist….

Well, I don’t trust it….Not eve now that half the country has been injected.

I don’t trust the people who say it is safe.

Those are the people that told us that other treatments like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were ineffective, even when studies showed otherwise…and those drugs are being used to good effect in India right now.

Those are the people that told us thre was no reason to close our borders early….and then, when it was too late, cried that the borders hadn’t been closed….(playing politics with people’s lives makes me untrustful….)

These are the people that told us that they had investigated the origins of the virus, and assured us it came from bats from 200 miles from the “wet market” where people bought them and then ate them….despite the fact that the people in the area where the bats originated from didn’t get the disease….and assured me that this could have nothing to do with the bioweapons lab that existed nearby. These same people told us that the virus could nto have escaped from the lab, even accidentally,,,,And that the fact that the lab we studying the Coronavirus was coincidence….but that the lab had not been weaponizing working to “gain of function” it.

Now we find that pretty much all of the above paragraph is a lie….(not that that is a surprise). and it appears that these people are working for China as much (or more) than for the United States and her citizens.

The advice and information from the people that tell me that the Covid Jab is safe has so far been more , shading the tuth, and otherwise politicized information aimed to either hide the truth or to mitigate public anger towards China or our own Federeal Government people who are supposed to protect us (not China).

I should believe these people?

So Saturday, I went to look at a different airplane. THe 182 is on the market and I am gonna upgrade to a twin, so I went to Creston, IA to look at a Cessna 340.

316 NM in 2:04. (I had a decent tailwind)

Left at 8 AM (13Z) and departed straight west. Called Chicago and got flight following at 6500 ft as it was a beautiful VFR day (I had tried to look at this airplane twice before, but, while I didn’t mind departing IFR FROM my home airport, I did want it to be VFR at the airport where the plane was, so had cancelled twice) so I didn’t bother to file IFR.

First part of the scenery was the Chicago skyline as I departed KGYY…

Then I passed over the (I think) Dresden nuclear plant

Then the mighty Mississippi

Then it became more or less boring farmland until Creston….Where I called 10 miles, then 5 miles, overflew the field, and entered the downwind to a nice landing on RWY 34.

My contact met me at the FBO (Which was very nice, if small and plain) and we went to look at the aircraft.

Very nice, new paint, new interior, nice avionics (530/430) and a brand new Garmin autopilot.

Did an long inspection, (Hey, it ain’t my aircraft, but it might be my ass) and a good preflight, then fired up and taxiied to the end of 34 for a departure.

Me like….a lot. half fuel and only 2 people and twin 325 HP turbocharged 520’s. Climbed like a fighter with that low gross weight… ‘Twas an aircraft one could easily get behind, as fast as it is…but I managed to stay with it. Ths is not a “Seat of the Pants” airplane, but rather a “Fly by the Numbers” airplane.

About an hour later, after flying, climbing, doing a pretty thorough checkout, I returned to the Creston airport and entred the pattern. a decent, if not perfect, landing (hey, my first time for the type) and we taxiied back to the hangar.

Then it was time for a preflight and a departure in the 182..the fuel station a KCSQ was having issues, so I decided to get fuel enroute.

Climing to 5500 after departing Creviston, I found the expected headwinds…20 or so knots. About 30 minutes later, I encountered 35 knot headwinds…..So I stopped for gas at Ottumwa. I figured 20 gallons would get me home with an hour reserve….and it would have…if it wasn’t for the headwinds that climbed to 47 knots. So I stopped for gas again at Peru.

On the way back, I passed over one of the set of locks on the Illinois river just past Peru.

It took a longer time to get home..nearly 3.5 hours. But it was a smooth flight until I crossed the Indiana border and started descending for landing.

I might just buy this 340…it has everything I want in an airplane. A bit (ok, a LOT) pricey….but maybe.

But the media has done nearly everything they can to avoid telling us the real source of the problem….or the race of the perpetrators.

All they do is sensationalize the fact that it was “Gun Violence”. If you took the black on black gun violence out of the picture then the amount of deaths from “Gun Violence” would be miniscule…on the order of deaths from poodles.

So every loop in a piece of rope is considered one….

Even a cable lifting loop on a crane

If all you are looking for is racism, then thats all yer gonna see.

To the folks who aren’t around to read this:

Thank you.

To the rest. Remember WHY this is a day…..It ain’t about a long weekend, nor the barbecue/cookout. It is a day of rememberance.

And since some folks sacrificed, you have the freedom to ignore this post.