Who you gonna believe, Me or your Lyin’ Eyes?

I mean, it happens at least weekly somewhere in the country…a cop that shouldn’t be a cop, overly fearful (cowardly, one might say) and sure that his authority extends to shooting people just because the cop isn’t feeling safe (“Officer Safety!!!”) …. (and because they believe that “Qualified Immunity” covers all of their actions) shoots and possibly kills someone, somewhere in the country, when circumstances indicate otherwise….

It isn’t always a black person and a white cop, but when it is, that makes it “Special” somehow.

Even more so when it is an election year.…Then it gets sensationalized in the press.

Someone is riling up the black people in Chicago (and, apparently, other large cities) over this.

Thing is, few, if any, of the people attending the protests even know where this happened or any of the details…all they know is that a white cop shot a black woman….(it was a bad shoot, and the cop should NEVER have been a cop, having been kicked out of something like 6 other police departments, and the cop is now charged with murder).

The details do not matter to most of these people, the fact that the cop is charged with murder doesn’t matter, the fact that black people kill each other at a rate that is easily 30 times that of cops (all cops, not just white ones) doesn’t matter. All that matters to the people being agitated is that it was a white cop and a black woman. That’s the headline part of every story, and that’s ail they hear. Not “Cop charged with murder after bad shooting”. Nope,,,, Not “Cop charged with murder after shooting woman”….Nope…..What they  headline is “WHITE Cops shoots BLACK woman”!!. And that is all that maters to them Black person…White cop does something wrong…. Discrimination. .

Of course the DNC types some across as sympathetic and promise to help, but for 4 generations  (that I have observed) they’ve not done so. They ignore the black people 3 years out of 4…you’d think the black folks would get wise, but they never seem to do so.

The DNC need the black people riled up so they can present themselves as the saviors of black people and get them angry enough to vote (and vote DNC) . ….and things like this provide a perfect vehicle to rile ’em up.

And it works.

Blacks kill each other at a higher rate, but that doesn’t matter…white cop kills black is all that matters.

Right on time for the election. Remeber, this sort of shit happens every day, or at least every week across america.

as sharp, pointy-needle wise, as the broken bristles of a wire cup brush from a 4 inch grinder?

Holy shit, when they fail and break and  fly out, they penetrate damned near anything, won’t they? I just pulled one out of the upper of a pair of Nocona Bullhide boots…it penetrated all the way through to my ankle.

I mean, even HARLEY DAVIDSON is having to pull back their DEI efforts (Now that they have been outed)….Who would have thought HD would go DEI/Woke?

I mean, it isn’t like your average biker is a weasley, faggoty, queen. I mean, yeah, you have “Dykes on Bikes”, but they are just posturing….and a VERY small minority of the heavy cruiser market. Most HD customers are anything but Woke.

Why would a CEO want to anger an already shrinking and aging customer base?

It has to , again, have been a teacher or teachers at the business schools that infected all these people, the CEO’s and HR directors about 35 years ago.

Was the Secret Service  Agent-In-Charge at the Trump rally where the Shot was Heard Around the World?  What is their name and work history? We should have heard by now…..

Congress grilled Cheatle, who finally resigned…

But who was the person making the decisions at the scene, whose actions (Either carefully made choices (so as to give the shooter (and Crooks) the chance to take a shot, with extra large holes in the security, with the failure to have a decent communications setup, with essentially zero coordination of the assorted commands,, etc, etc, etc) or else total and utter incompetence (which I find hard to believe) made the entire attempt at Trump’s life possible?

Seriously, who was that person.? Why have THEY not been under the microscope in front of Congress and the Media? Why haven’t we been told their name? Why hasn’t the Press bothered to ask? Are they another DEI hire and simply totally incompetent or are they a carefully chosen agent?

Of course, I would not expect many of the people directly involved to have a long life, really. I expect a sudden statistically improbable blip of accidents and arkancide like happenings and other such mayhem in the folks that were making the decisions there in PA.

But then again, I am kind cynical when it comes to things like this.

ETA: I just saw that Tom asked a similar question last evening in my comments. GMITSG and all that.

the Nation….

Man, that was sad. That was almost pathetic.

I’m sure he meant what he (thought he) said and I am sure he was sincere. But that performance shows exactly why he should not be running, and should not have been president for the past year or more.

After looking at the MU-2 (Nice plane!), we got a crew car and drive a few miles to a nice place for a bit of lunch.

Place called Toast. They had sandwiches, burgers and other dishes. I had the steak stroganoff, which was pretty good. While the service was slow, the food was excellent. While waiting,, and while eating, we discussed the Mu-2 and some of the things that would need to happen in order for the sale to go though….and some anecdotes of the type in general. Ron is very knowledgeable about the Mitsubishi planes, and I learned  a thing or three

After lunch, we drove back, turned in the car, and fueled up. Both of us have had experiences with the line jockeys trying to put jet fuel into a piston engined plane (bad things happen), so we both prefer watching as the planes were filled, first his (a really nice, if batttered looking Aerostar 700… fast as hell (like 260 knots) for a piston plane and then my 340. My plane is a minivan, his is a sports car….

After that, we talked a bit more, shook hands and went to our aircraft. I had filed a flight plan on the Ipad with Foreflight while we were talking, so I did a quick preflight, sumped the fuel, got in, started the engines,  listened to the ATIS,, called clearance on the radio got my clearance. switched to Ground, told ’em “Ready for Taxi”. As I was taxiing, Ron in his  Aerostar took off then another plane, then I was at the hold short line. A quick runup (mags, props, fuel flow, etc) and I was ready to go as well.

Once airborne I turned to the assigned heading and climbed to the assigned altitudes, first to 3000, then, just as I reached that, was assigned 5000, then 10, then 16, then told to “Climb and maintain flight level 210”.  (my filed final altitude) The climb was at about 175 knots or so, 800-ish feet per minute, I had to balance my climb performance with my cylinder head temps as I got higher as the decreased cooling effect of the thinner air became an issue…

I leveled off at FL210 and the speed climbed to 210 then 215 and, for a moment, 224 knots….but the engines couldn’t sustain that power level without getting hot at that altitude, even with the cowl vents open…I settled in at 216 knots true airspeed.

The flight back with a tiny bit of tailwind, was at 221 knots ground speed.

Haulin’ ass at FL210

The flight back was a bit faster, and there were some scattered clouds down around 700 feet or so. The view was spectacular.

Totally smooth and uneventful. Along the way I heard ATC dealing with the Airventure bound pilots….I think the controllers were a bit frustrated. Many of the pilots were not good at following ATC instructions  and likely seldom wander far from their home airport except for this once a year pilgrimage…and it showed.

Chicago ATC did a great job descending me (which is a surprise, the generally keep you high then dive bomb you in at the last minute)… again 500-700 feet per minute, They too were dealing with lots of Oshkosh/Airventure VFR traffic…..They brought me in over the EON VOR and turned me north towards my airport.

Before long I was on the ground and at the hangar and getting fuel. 4.7 hours of flying, nearly 850 miles and back for dinner.

And I might just have found my next plane.

Negotiations commence.

By people whose word I trust….That under orders from Secret Service director Cheatle, and contrary to the normal operating procedures, there was no recording made of the radio traffic at the scene in Pennsylvania where Trump was shot.

If so, then it looks more and more like a conspiracy to assassinate Donald Trump and less and less like simple incompetence. (For the record, I never believed that anyone could be that inept)

Can anyone corroborate?

Imma come right out and say it:

Kimberly Cheatle did not kill herself. 

Does anyone really think that all that she apologized for was simply incompetence?

But one has to wonder, how any pieces of silver did it take for her to violate her oath? Will she get a payoff for resigning? Or will she suffer a sudden cardiac event in a moth or two?

At the end though, she resigned, and will likely get away with it….Although, were I her, I would be afraid and looking over my shoulder for the other members of the conspiracy to express their displeasure….

Does anyone really think this is just a bunch of inept management?

And this is funny:

Republicans climb to rooftop where Donald Trump gunman opened fire while mercilessly mocking Secret Service director for ‘sloped’ excuse