https://babylonbee.com/news/in-continued-push-for-gender-neutrality-air-force-removes-all-flight-sticks-from-planes

Still not completely decided which I’d vote for if Desantis runs in the 2024 primary but this analysis is very compelling.

https://rumble.com/v1kf30r-the-gavin-newsom-ron-desantis-feud-is-an-astroturf.html

OMG this is LITERALLY TRUE.

Any of you living around NC in 2001-2003 probably know all about this case.  Or it even got national attention along with the Scott / Laci Peterson case.  Back then I said, “What is it about Peterson men, they kill their wives.”

Netflix has released a documentary called “The Staircase”.  A team had filmed the case from the start in real time as it happened and we get to see the story unfold.  Back in the day I thought he was guilty.  After watching this and after learning about the new owl theory I am totally convinced Michael Peterson is innocent as the day is long.

For example, when we find out that a close friend of his, Elizabeth Ratliff, the mother of what ended up his two adopted daughters, had also died falling down stairs, I said well that seals it, he killed them both. That can’t be a coincidence.

But wait a minute.  When that happened back in 1985, both the U.S. military and the German examiners determined she died of natural causes, a cerebral hemorrhage second to a blood disorder she had. 

So the Durham prosecutors exhumed her body which had been sent home and buried in Texas.  They schlepped her corpse from Texas all the way to Durham NC so she could be re-autopsied by the same medical examiner that did Kathleen, who seems to be biased in favor of the prosecution.  The defense wanted a neutral examiner in Texas but the Durham DA would not allow it.

Here’s the thing, the Durham examiner, a Ms. Radish (spelling?) said Elizabeth Ratliff died of “homicide”.  This is inappropriate for the circumstances.  The theory is that Peterson pushed her down the stairs.  The supposed evidence for homicide is blunt force injury on her head.  But you cannot say that.  She could have fallen on her own and gotten the blunt force injury.  The report should only have concluded head injury, or actually, intracranial bleeding.  The original autopsy determined the intracranial bleeding was due to a natural hemorrhage preceding the fall.  It caused her to fall and then she bumped her head.

But in defense of the prosecution the lacerations on Kathleen’s head seem impossible to have been caused by a mere fall.  Obviously something else happened.  But the “blow poke theory” also didn’t really fit.  Both the defense and the prosecution were actually correct in that their opposition was wrong, but neither considered a third possibility, which no one would have at the time.  It took a sharp thinking neighbor to finally solve the puzzle.

I can easily see why the jury convicted him. He was not a sympathetic figure. Not good looking, not charismatic, had some sordid sexual perversions, and was a rich white male and let me put it this way: I don’t think any of the jurors were rich white males. But the kicker was the NC SBI’s blood spatter evidence that the jury said pushed them over the fence to a conviction.  That evidence turned out to be bogus and the SBI investigator was fired, having gotten other innocent people convicted on false testimony.  The corruption in the NC justice system is why I reversed my position on the death penalty years ago.

When I first heard the owl theory I thought that’s crazy!  But after looking into it, I learned those things will attack people’s heads and claw you viciously.  There were owl feathers found in Kathleen’s hair.  I believe now it is the only thing that fits the physical evidence.  And it totally explains why both the prosecution and the defense put on utterly pathetic, not very believable arguments. 

God I hate these.  It would have been better if Kathryn’s Report had stayed down, I don’t need to be reading about these things. 

Newly minted pilot allows pax to exit with engine running, pax is his brother’s wife.  (An assumption, he shares her husband’s last name.)

http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2022/08/diamond-da40-diamond-star-n723ag-fatal.html

Wow.  If you haven’t kept up, he is one of the Jan 6 political prisoners and was finally sentenced to 41 months, I think 11 already served.  His “crime” is obstructing a civil proceeding.  (Actually he was just lawfully protesting.)

Anything you read about him in the media is apparently a lie.  Surprise surprise.

He’s an anti-globalist and believes in non-violent non-compliance.  He talks quite a bit about how violence is the wrong way to fight the “fascist communists” that are trying to rule us all.

He went through a similar spiritual journey to mine, coming to a Tao of Physics sort of conclusion that the energy that powers all things in the universe is basically how God creates and maintains the universe.

He is correct about Tesla, I’ve read quite a bit about Tesla’s coil. 

I expect the FBI will be raiding me now that I posted a few beliefs in common with this “insane violent insurrectionist”.

https://qsentmemovie.com/articles/jacob-chansley-first-interview

Found this buried in a box today.  Something I had written long ago about a lesson:

Dual cross country with the CFI today in gusty bumpy conditions.  He put the foggles on me and had me fly on instruments the whole $#%&@ two hours!  Four airports and four landings in gusty, wind shear conditions. VOR tracking with wind corrections.  And he's talking the entire time: 

Him:  "HOLD THAT ALTITUDE!"

Me:  "It's the thermals, Sir."

Him:  "YOU'RE WAY OFF HEADING AGAIN!"

Me:  "Oh... so I am.  I was trying to hold altitude."

Him:  "SCAN! DON'T FIXATE ON ONE INSTRUMENT!"

Me:  "This is hard!"

Him:  "If it were easy, everyone would be a pilot and there'd be even more idiots up here than there are now."