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Spin Zone / Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
« on: November 22, 2023, 07:31:00 PM »
We are having steak and lobster for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Spin Zone / Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
« on: November 21, 2023, 02:50:13 PM »Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Today is my wife’s birthday, Thursday is Thanksgiving, and on Friday I’m heading out on a long weekend to celebrate our 40th anniversary. I don’t think I’ll be loitering here too much over the next few days, so cheers!
Congratulations! Have fun! Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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Spin Zone / Re: Happy Thanksgiving!
« on: November 21, 2023, 02:00:27 PM »
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Today is my wife’s birthday, Thursday is Thanksgiving, and on Friday I’m heading out on a long weekend to celebrate our 40th anniversary. I don’t think I’ll be loitering here too much over the next few days, so cheers!
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Spin Zone / Some good election news
« on: November 08, 2023, 06:32:56 PM »
We worked hard on a campaign for Port Commissioner and our candidate just won! The Port runs the airport and was running it into the ground with woke, stupid decisions. They stopped helping host events at the airport to bring life to it. They balked at everything good in aviation. They ran the Port into big debt. They fell for green energy grifting companies that later disappeared. They turned away a turbine repair company because it would be too noisy! Idiots and woke narcissists all, from the manager to two of the commissioners on the three-person board.
But a few years ago we also campaigned for that third commissioner and she won! But she kept pretty quiet until we could get our guy on there. Now we have an aviation majority!
We’re pretty thrilled. I bet the Port manager is getting her resume together. She’ll never survive with all that real energy and capability on the commission. The coolest thing is that the guy who just won tonight was the Port manager for 17 years and the current creeps forced him out. He retired, and now can visit karma on them all.
But a few years ago we also campaigned for that third commissioner and she won! But she kept pretty quiet until we could get our guy on there. Now we have an aviation majority!
We’re pretty thrilled. I bet the Port manager is getting her resume together. She’ll never survive with all that real energy and capability on the commission. The coolest thing is that the guy who just won tonight was the Port manager for 17 years and the current creeps forced him out. He retired, and now can visit karma on them all.
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Rusty & Student Pilots / Re: Accelerated Instrument vs. regular
« on: November 06, 2023, 05:40:29 AM »
I'm moving right along with the instrument training. Lots of weather cancellations, though. Third lesson done... "Bravo" pattern with lots of timing and turns. One normal and one partial panel. Turns out that partial panel with two 275s is not as traumatic as with steam gauges. Just press the button on the second 275 to turn it from nav to attitude indicator etc. and you just carry on. Still a challenge to fly, keep everything on track, and enter stuff in the GPS while bouncing around in turbulence. But slowly getting better at it.
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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: October 22, 2023, 10:02:36 AM »https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1715820838564593745.html
I’ll believe it when I see it.
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Spin Zone / Re: 2024 Presidential "Election"
« on: October 19, 2023, 08:11:31 AM »From RFK’s campaign website.
“During Jim Crow, Black banks, businesses, hospitals, schools, and farms were targeted for destruction. Racists knew that without these, the Black community had no chance of building wealth. We must set federal dollars aside to rebuild Black infrastructure.
These programs complement direct redress payments or tax credits to the descendants of the victims of Jim Crow and other victims of persecution. RFK Jr. will find ways to offer this redress that are legal, fair, and win the approval of Americans of all races.”
There is no "black infrastructure". Roads and water mains are not supposed to be racist. Dumping money into communities populated mostly by blacks will not fix the problem which was caused by Democrat policies in the first place. You have to reverse the policies that created gang culture, welfare queens, removed jobs from cities, strangled black owned businesses with regulations, etc. Oh, and start prosecuting crime again. Rescind all gun control and allow blacks to legally be armed in high crime areas, and ban prosecution of business owners or other victims who shoot looters and robbers.
Having said that, I'm all for putting money there instead of housing illegals, which need to be deported right back to where they came from.
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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 05, 2023, 03:03:14 PM »I think you mean McConnell.Look at the difference between Feinstein and Grassley.
Regardless, we have 16 members of Congress 80 or older, plus 1 president.
Feinstein - D - 89
Grassley - R - 89
Napolitano - D - 86
Norton - D - 85
Pascrell - D - 85
Rogers - R - 85
Waters - D - 85
Hoyer - D - 84
Pelosi - D - 83
Clyburn - D - 83
Sanders - I - 81
McConnell - R - 80
Davis - D - 81
Carter - R - 81
Eshoo - D - 80
Wilson - D - 80
Average age of the Senate is 64. Unbelievable.
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Spin Zone / Re: Denver to Pay Pilot $300k
« on: August 19, 2023, 04:12:36 AM »
He should have got a lot more than that.
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Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: August 18, 2023, 05:48:35 AM »
stolen from the interweb:
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
A depression is when you lose your job.
A recovery is when brandon loses his job.
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
A depression is when you lose your job.
A recovery is when brandon loses his job.
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Spin Zone / Re: 2024 Presidential "Election"
« on: August 16, 2023, 03:48:48 AM »Better than throwing your hands up and just give up, which is what you sound like, Becky.
I won’t quit.
Who’s quitting? Or rather, is it you who are throwing up your hands and quitting? Once again, it seems we have opposite premises from which our respective positions flow.
Becky and I have the premise that the only chance to resist the leftist takeover of our government is to stay with the one person who has a track record of opposing them, and who the system demonstrates it most fears by it’s illegal and desperate attempts to stop him from running. Far from giving up, we are staying the course.
You have the premise that Trump is radioactive, that he is too damaged to win, and even if he did, he is so hated he would be blocked and hamstrung all during his term and not be able to get anything done. Other candidates can also fight the leftist takeover and more effectively than Trump, and they have a better chance of actually winning the election. You think you are the one not quitting because you have enough faith the election system still works well enough that someone not Trump can actually beat Biden.
I think we both agree there is election fraud. You think it will be worse with Trump, you might be right. My position is that I don’t know if it will be worse with Trump. I think either it will be just as bad and no R can win, or if it isn’t as bad as with Trump, that means the left doesn’t fear that candidate which means he or she is not much of a threat to them. So there is no point in supporting a candidate other than Trump.
So because of our starting premises, we each think the other is the one throwing up their hands and quitting. There is no reconciliation here until one of us changes his premise.
And by “his” I don’t mean you. I’m using the generic “mankind” pronoun which means “his or her”. I refuse to cave to woke language perversion.
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Pilot Zone / Re: What I Am Doing on my Summer Vacation
« on: July 31, 2023, 01:46:17 PM »Less chance of getting shot on 294.If the stars align an RV12.
What kind of plane?
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Pilot Zone / What I Am Doing on my Summer Vacation
« on: July 19, 2023, 08:02:44 PM »
Starting working Flightline Ops at OSH Friday morning.
https://youtu.be/h7eP0gnPGhU
If anyone sees me marshaling them, give me a wave!
https://youtu.be/h7eP0gnPGhU
If anyone sees me marshaling them, give me a wave!