You will too.

HERE

If you don’t, then you need help.

When there is a winter storm in the midwest, or a storm in the south, the media can barely be bothered to cover it at all.

But when there is a winter storm in the east coast, they cover it with many people and for half the newscast?

OMFG!!! 400 thousand without power!!! Might not get it back for 12 hours!!

A foot of schnow! We can’t get to the store!

Armageddon (ish)….! 

Yet, when worse conditions happen in Oklahoma, or Kansas, or Minnesota, or other parts of the Midwest, they have other things to talk about.

Odd, that. 

But the winds, 300ish at 10 or so all morning, then became 310/320 at 10…GUSTING 28, then gusting 32….all in the space of 15 minutes….they weren’t forecast to be that bad, either. Plus the ceiling dropped to about pattern height.

Just a bit outside my level of skill at this point. So I preflighted an airplane for nothing.

The instructor and his student who arrived back at the hangar just as I was leaving (I helped ’em push the C150 back into the hangar) were a bit wild eyed (even the instructor) at their last landing. Apparently they did 3 go arounds then flew the pattern for 15 minutes or so hoping for better winds.

I think I made a good call not to fly…. the gusts continued until after noon.

(Runways are 9/27, 18/36) 

My UPS guy says they are delivering ammo to LOTS of houses lately. Folks that bought once a year are getting deliveries once a week now.

All that ammo isn’t gonna just sit there, if and when. Bet on it. And I doubt that folks that shot 500 rds a year are suddenly shooting so much more that they need thousands of rounds.

(And it is something to think about though: Your delivery folks; FedEx, UPS and even USPS….They KNOW when they are delivering ammo. If you have good ones, like my UPS guy, he doesn’t care (doesn’t mean he doesn’t notice though). But if they wanted to tell someone that MIGHT care………)

Today was the day, 182 years ago, that the folks at the Alamo made their last stand,

Their actions gave Sam Houston’s army time to prepare at San Jacinto.

I’ve been to the Alamo….long ago, when I was but a child. It is tiny, and crude, and yet, it gave the men a spot to rally. They may have lost their lives, but they won much more than that. I found it a solemn place, and will always remember it with reverence.

If you live in Texas, and love it, remember this day. Men gave their lives for the birthing Republic.

Had they not stood, you might be speaking Spanish and living under a different flag today. 

‘Tis folks like the one quoted here that are a great deal of the reason that we, as free citizens, NEED to be able to own firearms.

Because it is folks like this, and the politicians who listen to them and/or think like them, that we need to protect ourselves AND our Country from.

They won’t enforce laws on Drugs, as she says, (and especially not on Illegal Immigration) but sure as hell, there are folks who think it is OK to turn you into a serf for the fact that you wish to be free. Who would, with the stroke of a pen, turn you into a criminal simply for exercising your Constitutional right. Who would villify you and imprison you because they blame the object, rather than the wielder….And who would ignore the failures of society and the minions servants of society  to protect itself and it’s members even using existing laws. Who would remove your freedoms and the freedoms of all because some individual cannot abide by the laws the rest of us respect.

By her logic, we should remove all alcohol because some folks abuse it, remove all automobiles because some are not responsible enough to use them properly…And, especially, because we disagree with her views.

I think she would be better served in going to Australia or western Europe, where the State (composed of people like her) tells the rest of the serfs how to live. … And the Serfs, having no other choice,, are compliant after many years of social engineering.

First it was blacks, then it was kikes and then it was the polaks and then it was the spics and now…..

How quickly they change the object of their Ire….

I remember when the AK-47 was the terrible “Assault Rifle” thing that needed to be banned. It was the one that had the “thing that goes up” and all the bad features that defined an “Assault Weapon”(whatever that was). You could shoot tens of thousands of people with one magazine, and IIRC, it even MADE people into killers, just by holding it.

Now, it would seem, AR- series of rifles is the new “Bad ” rifle, and AK is ok, at least for now. At least the press isn’t focusing on it….Yet.

SO the folks in New York get to shell out a million bucks to cover the ass of the NYPD and their officers who falsely charges a guy when THEY caused a wreck.

Odd, that. I thought the Blue Line, while thin, had SOME limits as to how far they would go to cover up misdeeds….. Yet these cops are still working, and not dismissed for cause, nor hounded out of the force by their other officers.

Remember, COPS WANT RESPECT. Yet they allow guys like these to sully the uniform they all wear, and tarnish that badge….

Make no mistake, there are a LOT of good, honest officers out there who make a difference every day in their communities.
The problem is they don’t clean their house, and they suffer from failing to do so. 

Spent 1.3 hours turning left Saturday morning.

Temps in the low 50’s wind 075 at 8.

10 landings.

Practiced short field landings and soft field takeoffs. Got the takeoffs down, the short field landings I will work on again real soon.

At one point there were 9 aircraft in the pattern all practicing landings. Got kinda crowded there.

Twas a good way to start the day.