That the rest of the Middle East wants them dead.

There’s the attack by Hamas in Israel itself, and then there’s things like this:

Egypt: police officer shoots dead two Israeli tourists and Egyptian guide

Make no mistake: If a police officer is willing to do this openly, then the rest of the population is as well. While the cop may have been a radical, the sentiment is festering just below the surface. The fact that Jews are doing tourist things in a hostile country is telling of their failure to appreciate the threat.

Apparently the People of Israel have forgotten that they have enemies all around them, and that these people hate them because they are jews. Why else would you hold a music festival a mile from a hostile border without a major armed presence?? The Military  and police were apparently napping that day, and apparently the intelligence services have been for weeks or months. (how do conceal such a large operation?)

This is being referred to as the “Israeli 9-11.”..and it is, but only as an example of the intelligence failure compounded by the complacency which allowed it to happen….Just like in the US 9-11.

As long as the Palestinians feel that Israel is an enemy….why help them at all?

Act accordingly. Let them fend for themselves. Treat them as the enemies they wish to be.

Israel orders ‘complete siege’ of Gaza, cutting off food and electricity,

Let ’em fend for themselves get their own food and water and electricity. Thousands of Palestinians will die of starvation and from lack of water, but that will simply be fewer enemies, right?

They should do the same with the West Bank as well. They can get their food and water and electricity via Jordan, if that country cares enough.

Is “What caliber for Palestinian fighters?”

While I am not unsympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians, the thing is that NO ONE wants them. They’ve made nothing of themselves in all the years that they have been next to Israel, they’ve done nothing but foment trouble, they’ve been used as pawns by the other factions….and even before the Jews were emplaced they were never anything but half-assed goatherds….The regular people allow fighters to hide amongst them, then whine when there are civilian casualties…..they are unwanted by the Syrians, the Jordanians, and the Egyptians….either of which could have absorbed their population over the years……but they won’t.

And the Israelis aren’t innocent here, either…

Being surprised like this in a war zone is kinda foolish, doncha think?

If this isn’t a good example of why an armed civilian population is a Good Thing, then I don’t know what is.

The Pain that is now being SHARED by blue states has caused them to “Buckle”.

First New York City, (with Chicago not too far behind)

Now Denver has folded, sending flyers asking the illegal border crossers to “stay away from the Colorado capital, after 21,000 new migrants arrived this year” and that “Denver ‘can no longer provide the same level of sheltering resources to newly arriving persons.”

Now if the Border Patrol will just start doing their job, then the insane flow of people invading our country might just stop. Of course, that means no cutting the barriers that keep people from simply walking across the border, and actually enforcing that border…which the Border Patrol Personnel seem to have been ordered not to do…..

At some point, we need to start shipping these illegal entrants back across the border into Mexico, If we did that the Mexican Government would stop them from coming over THEIR southern border….’Cause they don’t want to have to house and feed these people either.

Despite the dreams of the Democrats, the US simply cannot feed, house and employ all these people wishing to live here in the US. If they were as the Liberals say, a net asset to the country, then they’d have been an asset to the countries they are leaving….and they wouldn’t be the shitholes that they are. I’m sure living as a refugee in the US beats a serf in Venezuela, but that is their country, and we can’t feed house and otherwise take care of all those freeloaders.

So Mayor Adams, of New York City, says “the city is at capacity” after getting 120 thousand illegal invaders bussed or otherwise transported from the Southern Border States to NYC…..in the past YEAR. “It’s not sustainable”

Now, consider that at some places in the US, on the border, there have been as much as 10,000 illegals crossing the border in as little as a week…..aided and abetted in their crossing by “Border Patrol” personnel under orders from Washington…(border patrol, what a joke)

I find the disparity in numbers amusing. 125,000 vs tens of thousands…..and the whining  from the leader of a “Sanctuary City” is downright hilarious.

I was told by a guy, who appeared to be smarter than me…,:

That the whole Open Border thing has been a dream of democrats since the mid 70’s and he pointed out that that was the time that a young, impressionable Joe Biden began his senate career. Joe was a supporter of the 1986 immigration (amnesty) act…..That was supposed to be a one-time amnesty to allow all the current illegals in the country to become citizens…but also to close the border and cut off the flow of illegals……But that didn’t happen, did it? The borders remained open, and the flow of illegals continued, and the Democrats continued the dream of open borders

Now, of course, that Joe is President, we are seeing him do his best to make sure that that dream comes true.

I couldn’t argue with the dude….

(Of course, now they are building the border wall (a tiny, tiny bit of it) and deporting some of the illegals, but neither is more than a symbolic gesture to the mess they have created)….Their dream is still happening.

Is where all the environmentalists who sued the Federal Government when Trump tried to build the border wall, and who sued the State of Texas when Governor Abbott tried to build a barrier are right now? What are they doing about the New Biden Border barrier?

The same issues apply now that applied then. Are they gonna sue the Biden administration or are they gonna stay silent this time?

If they stay silent, then we can be assured that this is proof that those “environmental” organizations are (and were) tools of the Liberals, and not legitimate.

So your friend is murdered. Obviously, you feel bad, need time to process and grieve.

But would you hold a GoFund Me for money to help you live while you are “Reeling from this Brutal Loss”  so you can have some money to help “ease the burden and stress of the Horrifying Situation so that we can have space and time to grieve and remember”

The stupid part is that people actually ponied up about eighty thousand dollars.

Sharing the Pain of the migrant mess by moving the migrants to the Blue Cities apparently has convinced the Liberal Power brokers to influence Joe Biden (or his handlers, anyway) to reduce the flow of migrants.

Apparently they are now deporting Venezuelans who enter the country without permission.

Thing is, they aren’t just tossing them back across the border back to Mexico, they are being delivered back to Venezuela….at our expense.

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The GPS in the 340 is fixed. Took it to Rockford and had an expert look at it.

As I suspected, it was the antenna. Likely the amplifier at the antenna had failed. They replaced it after checking the GNS 750 unit out in a test fixture. Either way, the 750 GPS works and I now have not only easier navigation, but also ADSB in and out, which gives me airport data, weather radar, and nearby traffic.

Plus, while I was there, I had the plane undergo it’s 2 year IFR certification since it was due.

More flying soon.