“History does not repeat itself, but often rhymes”

Attributed to Mark Twain

US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry

What with federal and state governments tossing money at those projects with no worries about profitability nor reliability, what do you expect?

The Male rats or the Female Rats….

(and if they ever tried to teach the females to park, much less drive).

Plus then, there’s THIS point…

Yes, I know…flame away.

Big wood.
I am pretty proud of the wood, in fact.
And it is all stood up and ready….
Not bad for someone who is old enough to be courted by AARP……

I mean, of course, firewood

3 cords of firewood, that is.

9 ricks and a bit more plus about a rick of bastard pieces…those that are too short, too twisted, too irregular or otherwise will not be stackable.

All split, stacked (except the bastards), under cover and ready for burning to heat the house this winter.

Seem that a clamp on an intake coupler simply broke.
Just a fancy aviation hose clamp…(which makes it 8 times more expensive)
Probably an original clamp from 1975.
Just cracked and broke. And the coupler simply backed off until it slipped off of the intake tube. Fixed now.

We ordered replacements for two others just to be safe. 

I  did a full power run (100% power) for about 5 minutes on the ground, then let the engine idle to cool it off before taxiing to runway 18. Did a runup, then took off and did a pattern. ‘Twasn’t VFR weather, really, so I did one lap around the pattern and then a decent, if not great landing in a gusty crosswind.

Should be better weather tomorrow.

For now, it is fixed.

Instead of trying so hard to get rid of Trump. why don’t you DNC folks try a novel idea?

Stop running socialists. Stop promoting people who would punish success with higher taxes.
Stop promoting More State. More regulations. More “Government” (and Government “workers”)
Stop decrying Free Speech (when you don’t like what is being said).
Stop threatening our Second Amendment.
Stop threatening our way of life by threatening our energy supply.
Stop promising Free Shit (paid for by others) to folks who can work, but choose not to, or who have just entered the country.
Stop promising Globalism over Nationalism. We like our country. We don’t wanna be like Europe.
Stop hating on the United States. Stop denigrating the citizens of this country for their successes.

Stop running crooked slimy people as candidates.

Y’all want to Get Rid Of Trump?

Give people something to vote FOR, rather than leaving them to vote for Trump because your candidate scares them too much to garner their vote.

(The same goes for you RNC type folks too, BTW…we don’t want “DNC Lite”. “Less Socialist, less Statist”  nor “less crooked than the last guy”, nor another milquetoast legacy candidate.)

Donne was and is FAR from the ideal candidate. But he was far and above the other choices.
 Yet they haven’t, as far as I can see, come up with anyone worth voting FOR. Nor has their message for the past few years been “Vote for our people because we are better” but rather “That Trump dude is bad because we don’t like him!”.

And so we are left with the “Lesser of the two weasels”.

Sad, really. 

It is a “lynching” when the persecution of a president is by Republicans and he is a Democrat. And the use of that word is acceptable….

However, 15+ years after, the use of that word is a Bad Thing….When it is used by a Republican to describe the 4th or 5th attempt by Democrats to unseat the sitting president.

And the Faux Outrage by the black Congressmen and women and Senators (and, of course, the Media) about the use of the word “Lynching” is outrageously funny to me. Like any of them have ever seen a lynching, or that it was only black people who were ever lynched.

It is as stupid as black people being triggered by seeing a noose on a Halloween display.

I’m talking about the Prime Minister of our neighbor to the north…

Justin Trudeau.

He was reelected to his post, but not by the majority of the citizens of Canada. He lost the popular vote. 

Since our media and our Socialist Democratic Party government members claimed that our legally elected President was an illegitimate president because even though he garnered the majority of the Electorate votes, he narrowly missed the popular vote…

Are they gonna refuse to deal with Trudeau and his government from this point on? I mean, an illegitimate government isn’t one that we can negotiate trade deals on, nor other matters of state, right? Treaties and other military obligations? Can’t do it with an illegitimate Head of State, right? WIll his signature on any document even be recognized as that of the Canadian People?

I can’t wait for the tapdancing to begin.

So Angela Merkel had admitted that “Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed,””.

Duh. Who could have predicted that? Give people entire neighborhoods, don’t force them to integrate (or even learn the native language) and then expect anything else??

Further:
“This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,”
She said too little had been required of immigrants in the past and repeated her usual line that they should learn German in order to get by in school and have opportunities on the labor market.

Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked

She said on Saturday that the education of unemployed Germans should take priority over recruiting workers from abroad,

Read the whole article

I mean, Fonda flew to her house in Washington a few weeks ago so she could be arrested last week, and again this week.….Protesting Fossil Fuels….

Did she walk to the protest? Or did she take a cab or use a car? Is that apartment heated with some kind of renewable fuel? Or is it electric or gas? How about the lighting? Is it done by electricity? Whale oil (a renewable) or solar charged batteries (doubtful)….

How about Sam Waterson? (another aging actor apparently addicted to the spotlight). How did he get to the protest? Walking? Bicycle (which would have been made using…fossil fuels….) Google says his house is in Woodbury Connecticut…a pretty long walk for anyone, much less an old man….

I’d believe these folks were True Believers if their lifestyles reflected it.

As it is, I only see a pair of hypocrites.