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Or is the news Media showing all the crowds protesting in St Louis composed of mostly white girls and a few white men with a smattering of black faces? Chicago media was nearly exclusively videos like this.

Murphy said the same thing about protests in New Orleans.

Not saying the protests aren’t for a good cause…(Maybe they are, and maybe they aren’t there is doubt either way, but the folks killed by police weren’t choirboys) but you’d think, since it is Black Lives Matter, that there would be a majority of black folks instead of young white girls….

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to my logbook. This time in a C150.

Oddly, I had issues taxiing this time. I found the 150 hard to steer. Maybe ’cause it is a higher time airframe and  a bit worn. I dunno.

My takeoff was good, even with a LOT less power to climb with. My climb out was good.  I got straight and level down. Turns, (level,climbing and descending) were OK. I got the concept, now I just need practice.

Pracicing descents was ok. it was windy, and I fought the changing wind a bit.

Landing? Nope. I got behind as we descended and was chasing the damned thing. Ended up giving up and going around and letting my instructor do the landing. He bounced. Twice. The gusts were straight out of 180, but they were on and off. I didn’t feel too bad that I had to go around.

Monday is 30% chance of precipitation, so maybe I will and maybe I won’t. We shall see. 

interstellar Kamikaze

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Likely, as you read this, the Cassini probe is beginning (or, has ended, depending) it’s final portion of its mission, diving into  the atmosphere of Saturn.

Just shy of 20 years….and everything (mostly) still works. Pretty good engineering for a VERY harsh environment.

And, despite the protests, it hasn’t polluted the earth with Plutonium 238.

Instead, it has increased our knowledge about our solar system immensely.

And again

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Fog, this time…..

and there were no afternoon slots available for aircraft. Except the Baron, and I am not ready for dual.

The Forecast for tomorrow is much better. So there is that.

1.1 Hours

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Of heavier than air flight.

Yep, I started private pilot school yesterday.

I got a lot of work to do. Lots of things to learn. And unlearn.

Turns were ok…. for some reason a coordinated turn is easy for me. Straight and level, I have issues. I tend to climb slightly.

But hey, one hour and 6 minutes. Lots more to do.

It was fun. And I learned a fair bit.

I wasn’t the great car driver I am today the first time I tried that, either.

Thanks to StinsonGal and Aaron and others who inspired me to get off my ass and do this.

Question:

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I know it is racist and all;

And maybe it is just media bias in that they only show the one kind and all.

But in all the hurricane aftermath coverage, it appears that there are no Asian looters. No Hispanic looters. No White looters.

Odd that.

How come only the Black folks get their portion of  “15 minutes of fame”?

I think it is terrible that they won’t show all the other looters in Florida. Those folks deserve their fame too.

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Today is the 16th anniversary.
Yep, 16 years.

I haven’t forgotten.

Have you?

How many folks that you know HAVE forgotten?
How many think we still are not at war?  Think that the folks high in the culture of and governments of counties where the state is Islam still want us all dead because we are “unbelievers”? Still think that the fundamentalists still don’t want our country to be a part of their Caliphate?
How many still think that most Muslims are moderate? That they don’t want to colonize the US? To bring Sharia law to this country?

Sadly, many folks that I know all think that we aren’t at war, that the Caliphate is a myth…..That most Muslims are moderate. That Sharia law can coexist with our laws. That one can be a good, practicing Muslim and still obey the laws of the United States.  That our Constitution can coexist with Islam.

It just isn’t so. And I know many Muslims, some of whom ARE moderate. Nice folks. Decent people (by their own lights)….But they are Muslims first, Americans second. Their values are NOT ours. And if you are an unbeliever, then they have NO regard for you….Period.

And remember, it isn’t Bhuddist monks who do suicide attacks. It isn’t (generally) Irish terrorists who target children to blow them up. It isn’t Basque separatists that explode themselves in crowded markets. It isn’t Hindus who drive car bombs full of propane and gasoline into stores full of innocents. It isn’t Black Lives Matter folks who use their grievances to destroy themselves while taking tens or hundreds with them. It isn’t South Africans Christian that make pressure cooker bombs and plant them in crowds… ’tis only those touched by the stain of Islam.

Can you help?

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Got a few bucks you can spare? One of our own is hurtin’. Harvey did him a bad one.

Read HERE.

Not a fan of GoFundMe. But if that is your way, his account is HERE.

Soon as he sends me an address, he’s gettin’ a check from me.

If you can, toss a few bucks his way.

ETA 7:06. My check is, literally, in the mailbox at this time.