If you are a member of a club, you should read this.

Lessons from the Annals of Club Management

Really Really good advice if you are involved in any Social or Civic club. 

Equal protection under the law…right?

When will Peter Strozk be imprisoned for  failing to answer question posed by Congress?

(And, for that matter, one would wonder Lying to Congress as well)

That, after years of the DNC types ignoring court orders, and DNC affiliated heads of Federal agencies being allowed to ignore or dismiss court orders…Especially when it comes to investigations into the practices of their members…..or when ignoring those orders benefits their cause.

Yet now, these same folks are insisting the the Trump Administration follow the courts orders to reunite the kids taken from their (criminal) parents be reunited with them….

Odd how they think that the courts have the power to rule when it benefits them, and not so much when it doesn’t….

(and, again, are we gonna “reunite” all those kids taken from their parents when their (US Citizen) parents were arrested for crimes and incarcerated??? Who is gonna pay for those huge expansions to the prisons and jails for schools and playrooms? I mean, all US citizen arrestees get separated from THEIR children…..How come illegal border crossers get special treatment?)

I’m no economist.
I don’t understand international trade interactions and how they interact to make the economy work better or worse as they change.

But I DO know that China needs the US as a customer more than the US needs China as a customer.

Without the US as a buyer for Chinese goods, China’s economy falls on it’s face.

Now, it could be that I’m wrong……I welcome (sane, polite, somewhat well thought out and not ranting)  comments which will show if I have made a mistake in my thinking.

But I do think that, if the US stays the course, China falls on it’s face without us as a consumer of their products.

Then they will play our game (They will, of course, cheat all they can, because Chinese Culture, but they will play. And then the US will be in a better position. but I repeat myself) go apeshit over the looming additional tariffs TheDonald intends to impose on the PRC. 

32 rounds at a time.

Heat of the day, 15 pushups, 50 yard sprint,,,no sunglasses, as fast as I could squeeze the trigger and change magazines…

And I still hit the 6″ gongs at about 90% at 15 yards.

Man, that is work.

But if it Ever Happens, it ain’t gonna be in a nice airconditioned lane at a range with bottled spring water and at whatever pace I want, when I am calm and with a low heart rate and low blood pressure. SO I do what I can to simulate the physical.

And the SIG 1911 never even had a hiccup. Ran perfect.

a short one.

I had the plane from 10-1.

So, I planned a trip from VPZ to MGC to watch the parachute jumpers, but when I got there, there weren’t any at that time…..So I did a touch and go, and then set course for RCR.

Flew there, with Flight Following from South Bend, and then did a full stop landing and taxied to a parking spot on the grass to check out the restaurant across the street….but, being Sunday, they were packed full of post church folks.

So I taxied back to the ramp and went in to use the bathroom.

At the ramp was a couple of airplanes and one of them was a 337 Skymaster, which have always interested me.

When I came out of the bathroom, the owner of the 337 was waiting to use the plumbing. We started talking and he showed me his aircraft. (He had stopped in and met some friends for lunch at that same restaurant)

I think I want one. Odd airplane, but pretty nice. His was pressurized, and he claimed 220 knots at 20K Feet. (which is pretty fast, but he also said that that makes for high fuel consumption….like 30 GPH). But he did say that at 170 or so at 10K, it is only 20 GPH, so that is doable…

He also said he can carry 6 people, or 4 people and weekend baggage….With full fuel. Which makes that a decent aircraft for my expected needs.

Might be that I will have to get a twin endorsement soon as well.

Overall, it was a good flight. Winds were negligible at 3500 and 4500 respectively, and the traffic was not bad at all. Even SB approach frequency wasn’t too busy. I guess everyone flew yesterday?

as Aaron says….1,7 and 4. 

She was wearing a short skirt and was provoking that response….

Oh, wait,

I mean, really?

Wearing a hat is enough for a physical attack?

Funny how Free Speech, no matter how offensive, by the Left is always OK… but a conservative??

Found Via Clayton Cramer. 

That the one community, the main demographic RESPONSIBLE for the “gun Violence” issue in Chicago…..

The culture wherein NO One ever talks to police, or in any way helps them solve a crime….

Whose lifestyle fuels the market for drugs, that in turn fuel the drug gangs who are most responsible for the shootings….

The folks whose neighborhoods are where the Drive By shootings happen at least weekly, if not nightly….

Are the folks who are going to protest “Gun Violence” by shutting down a major Chicago Freeway….

The Gun Violence issue doesn’t happen in the neighborhoods of those folks who they are inconveniencing.

But the protesters blame everyone but themselves and their lifestyle and culture.

Kinda sad. 

Private Pilot.

Man, that whole escapade was a BITCH. Oral exam, then the Checkride. 9AM-3PM… no break for lunch ’cause we were racing thunderstorms coming from the west. Hot and humid, just to make things interesting with comfort and thermals to add to the fun.

But I did it.

Got my Temp certificate, and I am Official.

Now a Complex endorsement and a High Performance, and I think I will buy a 182….and spend more time learning and earning IFR.

Why we celebrate the Fourth Of July……For those that don’t know, it is a Holiday called Independence Day….The day the 13 Colonies declared that they were a nation in their own right, no longer under the rule of the King of England. Self Rule…..

They chose their destiny, not some overbred Monarch who wasn’t even sure where the lands were and who knew nothing about the people living there.

This was the day that began the greatest nation on the planet. The Constitution, which enabled it to be so, came later, but this was the day those many years ago when that nation began. A nation which became the destination for freedom-loving peoples from all over the world….The day the United States of America….That great Republic, began.

Take a minute to raise a glass to those men who signed that document, who signed the document and, in doing so, ““mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor,” ….some  of those men did lose some or all of those.

Now go enjoy your beer, hotdogs, and fireworks.

But remember. And be glad you live here.