If you read this blog regularly, then I think you’ll like this book. IF you were born from the mid sixties to the mid 70’s then you’ll get most of the references.

HIGHLY recommended reading. One of the few that are worth the price:

The Heretics of St. Possenti by Rolf Nelson.

Well written, well thought out, well researched.
And just a damned good book.

I was not compensated for this recommendation. I just think it is a good read. As good as (although different than) the Grey Man series

Most people have forgotten by now that Jeffrey Epstein was (very likely) killed in his jail cell by persons unknown to keep what he knew quiet.

If he was a suicide case, then I still want to know how it was that the cameras and monitoring guards so conveniently were ineffective? Were those guards fired for incompetence? Were the whereabouts of all the other people working at the facility checked and accounted for?

You know (or at least, if you have more cognitive ability than cauliflower or cilantro, strongly suspect) that Epstein’s death wasn’t a suicide. Yet the media and our politicians have decided to let the case die a death by being ignored.
It shouldn’t be ignored.

At worst, those “Guards” should be tried. Anyone close to the area should be watched for 5 or more years to see if they got a sudden financial windfall (or are strangely and suddenly killed in a freak bowling accident or something).

No matter how we slice it, it appears that Epstein was silenced. And our government, Law enforcement, and our Media is allowing whomever orchestrated that death to get away with it.

So much for the rule of law. 

No doubt after a great deal of coaching, the Democrats were able to find a witness to TheDonald’s conversation with the leader of Ukraine.

Where has he been all this time? Hiding? Choosing to not say anything? Being coached on what (and likely what NOT) to say?

This is like Kavanaugh’s accusers, or Anita Hill many years ago.

Why didn’t this dude show up back when the accusation(s) were first made? Why wait until now? Yes, he told some other diplomatic staffers, but the Democrats knew all about this and withheld him until….now? Why? Why wait, (unless there was a carefully crafted information campaign to discredit Donnie)? 

Curious.

“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.