There seems to be a campaign among the media to ramp up the “Glowbal Warming Climate Change” panic (again). The statistics they quote are, at best misleading, the stories they push are very close to lies, and the graphics they publish are dramatic, but, again, misleading at best.

This comes close to lies, and is, to anyone who bothers to investigate, is propaganda.

What is the end game here?

I mean, how many of the DNC candidates have you heard promise to violate one or more parts of the Constitution:

Squelch free speech that they don’t like.

Ban firearms.

Confiscate property.

Violate due process.

In a just world, these folks would be automatically barred from higher office simply due to their statements, 

Lots and lots of rain.

And, invariably, some folks trash a car by driving into water that is too deep, and have to be rescued…some drown.

This happens every time we get flooding rain.

How can people be so stupid? 

“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,”

Seems the Democrat candidates can’t help but tell the truth. Not that we didn’t already know that they ultimately wish for confiscation.

So a friend had some credit at a flight school that she wasn’t gonna use….and the flight school wasn’t gonna refund it, either……So I thought that I’d use some of it and pay them the amount I used.

I got a rental 172 and a safety pilot and flew from the right seat, rather than the left.

Wow, what a perspective change. And WOW, what a difference using the right hand to fly and the left hand to throttle.

Turns and climbs were ok, Approaches were less than smooth, but ok.

Landings….yeah, not so much. The fine control needed for a good landing is lacking. It’ll get better with practice though.

Plus my shoulder and arm were tired.

But, I did land, even with a quartering headwind of 6 knots gusting 22. Not as smoothly as I normally do, but well enough.
And, best of all, the plane can be used again.

More  of this next week.

Changing sides on a plane is harder than changing sides on a car when driving in the UK.

Seems that Indiana has 14.1 guns per 1000 residents.

Not the most heavily armed state, but (surprisingly) higher than Texas.

Of course, we are undergunned when one compares the number of firearms per resident in Chicago’s West and South sides….. Where guns are highly regulated….

Link found via Wirecutter

Where does YOUR state stand?

The whole “Marked the thing up with a sharpie” meme by the Media is pretty much a lie.

Yes, someone drew on a map with a sharpie.

But it was to demonstrate that, at the time of the prediction on the map, that just off the end of the predicted path was….Alabama.

But since the Media says that the “Orange man Bad”—“Orange man stupid”, and since most Democrats and Liberals (But I repeat myself) WANT to believe that, they buy the story without bothering to actually read or investigate the details.

Even those few Liberals that I respect…Ferisntance some bloggers on my sidebar have jumped into this…..and they show that their bias is enough to lead them astray. Pretty much bad judgement caused by TDS, I think.

But how can we trust folks who publish lies? 

So every year, we have a hurricane come close to, or make landfall, somewhere in the United States.

And every year, when a hurricane approaches, we see the stores run out of bottled water, batteries, plywood, propane and low/no prep food. And, invariably, we see people bitch about the fact that there “aint nothin’ left”.

Yet how hard is it to have a few pieces of plywood for your windows stashed in the back of your garage or in a shed?
How hard is it to stash a weeks worth of cans of food under your bed or the back of the closet?
How hard is it to stock a few cases of bottled water at the start of the hurricane season?

I mean, panic now, beat the rush….prepare early so you have what you will need, that which will be in short supply if and when. It isn’t like cans of food or plywood or bottled water spoil that easily. You can use it for many years.

Why do these folks always wait until the last minute? 

If you want to say Happy Birthday to her, I’ll see to it that she reads the comments.

That is all.