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Listen, folks, we can only poop just so many times. Do we actually need rolls of toilet paper? And none of us needs 2, rounds of 9mm or ,.

Yes, if you want to, go through concealed carry training and carry when in crowds or other possible terrorist targets. The average firearms encounter is generally over in three to five rounds.

So, get a Glock 19, which has 15 rounds. Just point it and pull. A box of 9mm is 50 rounds. So, you buy two boxes and shoot up one learning the weapon. Calm down! Get a Mossberg 12 gauge and load it with no. Not 00 buckshot. Get a speed loader for it if you want more rounds, which you are VERY unlikely to need. So, calm down folks. So, stay out of those neighborhoods. If you live in one, pick up some more fire extinguishers and an extra box of 12 gauge.

At least we made it seem that way. What kicked this thought pattern off was www. This is a daily auction site that I visit first thing every morning. This morning a museum was selling a Dawes, kit-built, two-point hydroplane with a Mercury short shaft motor.

The instant the photo popped up on the screen, an endless series of memories stampeded through my brain. In each, one of those little beasts played an active role in the lives of a bunch of s Nebraskan teenagers. The years bracketed and the memories blur together as a warm sequence of muddy water escapes and a creaking old shack and dock.

It was a marvelous time during which fate took a holiday and spared us all what should have been a litany of serious injuries. Not a lake. A pond.

A lake is an actual measurable body of water. Probably much less. It was basically a wet spot in the middle of corn fields. And one end was barely wide enough turn a boat with a skier while the other was far too narrow.

However, in that part of the country, if its wet, you strap on skis and go for it. Before we started using it, someone got creative with a bulldozer. A skier who swung even slightly wide wound up impaled in the bank at the edge of a corn field.

Picture this: You take a bunch of aluminum irrigation tubing about 12 feet long ranging from about six inches in diameter down to maybe three inches.

You lay that tubing side-by-side, the bigger tubes in the middle. These are all artfully welded together. At the back, the tubing goes straight back and is capped. There is no transom except for a little area in the middle where a foot-square panel sticks up and an outboard motor is mounted. Remember this point. It was one of the dumbest, most unpredictable water craft ever created so it was ready-made for us.

When it got up to speed, which was almost immediately, nothing was touching the water but the center tube. When you turned, even slightly, it instantly rolled on its side and planed on the outermost tubes. One of our favorites did this in the Thompson too was to get going as fast as we could and jump over the side to land flat on our backs with our feet up trying to skip like a flat rock.

Mostly what we got were mud enemas. But we were having fun! It was way in the hell too fast for such a small stretch of water and, looking back at it, it was actually damn dangerous.

But not to us. Same with everyone else. And we seldom did but not for a lack in trying. Hot sun, lots of laughing, boys, girls, the occasional. No beer. No messing around. Nothing but high-jinks as only kids could have them back in the day. But things were about to change. We were the classes of and 61 and, without knowing it, we were standing in the doorway of a future we would have had trouble believing at the time.

At least some of them carrying nukes. Not one of us could have found Vietnam on a map. It was a momentary, peaceful hole in time. I now wish I had bid on that little hydroplane. It would have looked good floating in my pool. I could have lounged in it in the dark and made believe I was 16 again.

Sometimes, I wish I drank so moments like that would actually flow over me. As we all are. A little mechanical death. Some overheated moments of mechanical pleasure. And a little digital visual disappointment. Death of some Old Friends A Makita, he had given me something like 15 years of hard work and, in the process, became one of the most indispensable tools in my shop. Maybe longer. Then, mid-cut, sparks and smoke started leaping out of the motor housing.

He was all done! I took the motor apart as best I could but he was cooked. No way to resuscitate him. No smoke or sparks and I found an armature hospital that has him working perfectly. Records Set Night before last, I used the last of an pound roll of. It also gobbled up about half a roll of. And the aforementioned lack of self-control.

I started my diet and exercise routine about ten minutes later. This is two pounds heavier than I was when I had my last big-gut epiphany and lost 35 pounds. Hard to do when sitting at a computer, 50 feet from the refrigerator while trapped indoors.

What a concept! It means I can, and have, put eight hours a day on weekends into the shop banging on The Banger. But, have recently. After three or four hours at degrees while welding or something, I walk out the back door of the shop, taking off my clothes as I go. At the pile of towels, I hang a right and fall into the pool.

This is going to be very educational for me. Oh, well… bd. Some good. Some not so good. Many were surprising. I can add nothing new or enlightening to what the Media has said. By far the most important effect on me was one of overwhelming thankfulness for the luck of being born in America. Especially the US and I started thinking about our transgressions and areas of conflicts. And so forth and so on. Every imperfection is grounds for erasing an individual from our history.

I think this is a mistake. They are icons because they were perfect for the time. Judging them by today's standards is Monday morning quarter backing on a grand scale. Given our record in some areas, we seem to have succeeded in spite of ourselves. We should remember those episodes just so we know how we got to where we are now and then vow not to repeat those mistakes.

Learn from it. Here are a few random historical factoids and observations that popped up while I was researching our past. According to the writings of Henry Louis Gates, the noted African American historian and author, in total approximately 12 million individuals were caught up in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Many were sold into slavery by their own, or neighboring, tribes.

Tragically, two million died in route!! Brazil was the biggest importer. The US Is, however, unique in that the North sacrificed approximately , of its young men , both sides to maintain the Union by stopping secession and put an end to slavery. Right behind slavery as a national shame, or possibly at the same level, is our treatment of our indigenous people, both past and present. While the Exhibition was underway, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where Custer got his egotistical ass handed to him by the Lakotas and Cheyenne, took place.

Barely two years before and miles to the west, the US Cavalry massacred several hundred Lakotas, men, women and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. A sad chapter! Just one of many. Some are pretty damn amazing. Prior to , the age for consensual sex varied from state to state but it always fell in the seven you read that right, seven to 12 years of age range. African Americans got the vote in That gave them equal rights in owning property, employment, etc.

Yale and Princeton let them enroll in A lot of these changes had women marching in the streets. So, peaceable protests actually are an American tradition, as guaranteed in the Constitution.

Now, one of the biggest questions in my mind is why any young, intelligent person would want to be a cop? And then there are those who have no definite meanings to their words. These are not the actual protesters. This group is either angry over everything or are raising hell for the sheer fun of raising hell.

The protesters have a focus, a subject and a cause and have every right to be out there. You can have a valid argument with them. The exception is Antifa and their ilk: They have a very different and clearly announced focus: the overthrow of the government.

Mixed in with this mess are the local police. Name a job where, besides having the possibility of being shot dead every single day, your shift may have local citizens throwing water on you, or lobbing bricks and frozen water bottles at your head. Name another job where you have to stand there and have someone stand nose to nose with you, calling you every foul name in the book purposely trying to antagonize you into loosing your cool.

Or drastically cut their funding. Much less mayors and city councils. These kinds of comments display a complete ignorance of the nature of the human species. Since before civilization came out of the caves, there has always been a warped element that is a different kind of human.

It is bred into them that preying on the rest of society is central to their own survival. To that segment of society, criminality is a job. They have to be laughing their butts off hearing city governments talking about doing away with the police.

The anarchists, which are proliferating like crazy and are forming themselves in to an insurgent-type of force, are cheering the anti-police factions on.

Politics are making their over-throw of the government easier. Yes, law enforcement reform is absolutely necessary. There are always a few bad apples in every barrel and the regulations have to be there to both guide the force and define processes for drumming the bad apples out.

So, Congress has to get their act together and come up with a bipartisan level of reform that makes sense. However, it appears that the concept of bipartisanship is seemingly impossible to apply these days. The concepts that are going to absolutely destroy this country are political correctness, politics in general, and a lack of understanding that lawlessness feeds on success. They always do. Normally, I would say we have a solution: The ballot box.

We might have a really rough patch ahead, folks, so, keep your mags loaded and protection close at hand. However, as the week worn on, there was a clarification of the definitions: We are clearly seeing the difference between protesting and rioting.

I want to make this one as short and clear as I can. What is not written into the constitution is the wanton destruction of property, both personally and publicly owned. What we have seen this week is a noble protest against the actions of an obviously out of control officer being high-jacked by a combination of anarchists ANTIFA , bad actors just capitalizing on a situation for personal gain and entertainment, with possible involvement by a criminal element.

What we have to recognize is that every kind of population has a small number of individuals who basically bear more resemblance to animals than humans. They are our criminal and socially unbalanced elements and they will take any opportunity to strike out against the rest of society, but only if they think they can do it with no consequences attached to their actions. Some bad actors may be acting out of anger at perceived inequities of the system, some of which can be understood.

The other is neither. A quick photograph of what points out different views of this is, as I was typing this, Marlene called me into see something on TV where celebrities are raising funds for rioters who were arrested.

I know none of the details, but that makes little or no sense. This calls for some careful research. They stood around inside the store where they could clearly be seen through the windows carrying ARs and handguns.

The looters skipped past them to the store next door. Remember what I said about their actions and consequences. They have no particular convictions so have no courage to back-up their actions. A number of low-income areas have lost their primary retail and grocery stores and, considering the threats associated with the area, companies may be a long time returning, if at all.

What I do see emerging out of this is a serious re-thinking of the use of police in these situations by some cities. Many suffered far more than they would have, had they responded to the rioters in kind sooner. I also see a spike in security companies renting out quick-response combat teams to large targets such as gigantic malls. As soon as a target goes from being passive to having a risk attached to it, most of these groups will avoid it and go for easier pickings.

This, however, is how I see it today. Who knows about tomorrow? You don't have to watch many of the videos of people rushing out of broken windows and doors, their arms loaded with loot to know that George Floyd is no longer part of this episode in history.

Then, when you see young people cruising the street and attacking single individuals, knocking them out and bloodying them up it's easy to see that this has all divolved to pure anarchy and hoodlumism.

It is attracting the most extreme and violent elements of our society because they feel they can do what they want because there is almost no chance they'll be caught. The cities hae become their playground. This kind of violence knows no logic and the authorities are going to have to get seriously tough to keep it from spreading.

PPS Did anyone notice the incredible launching of our first privately owned and operated space launch? It got lost in the shuffle. To me, the most incredible part is the technology of them landing the boosters vertically on barges.

That looked like CGI. The complexities to be overcome are mind numbing and SpaceX did it! Nice going Elon!! We have protests everywhere you look that are populated by basically normal people, not radicals, all of which are talking about freedom and financial survival.

Is this what our colonial revolt looked like in ? Think about it: The Revolutionary War, which could easily be renamed, The Freedom Fight, started off with regular people getting fed up with The Crown levying taxes and the population getting nothing for them.

So, in , they turned Boston harbor into iced tea. Then, in , the Crown decided the colonials were becoming too uppity so they marched to Concord to confiscate their arms. At that point, the fight for freedom from The Crown was inevitable and a nation was suddenly in the process of being borne.

In effect, they have become the final authority on how freedom shall return to the people. And some appear to have gotten power hungry and approached the process in a mindless, dictatorial fashion: Do it MY way or suffer the consequences.

They are forgetting who put them in the position to govern in the first place. This, however, appears to mean little or nothing to them but means everything to the population of their states. The news is full of stories about gyms, restaurants, beauty salons, etc, all of which have gone overboard to guarantee social distancing and mask wearing.

The owners understand the risks involved and are trying to lower them as much as they can, but they are desperate to survive. Customers recognize the risk as well. They are desperate to be free. Yes, they broke the rules but the response has been over-kill. It feels as if some governors are taking such actions as personal assaults on their authority. Watch this! They are, in too many cases, showing zero compassion towards those involved.

The voters who put them in office. In most cases, the local authorities have difficult decisions to make. The law is the law. For the most part, we all agree on that. I just think some of them are going about it the wrong way while showing little or no empathy. They are prosecuting good people, not criminals, all of whom have their backs against the wall and going to work is the only way out.

In fact, I think some folks consider getting sick as nothing more than the price of freedom. Talk about ignoring self distancing! More important, will we remember that other things are equally as important. Five-Year-Olds Scare me! Do it, then fix it. The only thing that seems to come naturally, is public speaking.

Talk about being outside my comfort zone! Do you know how hard it is to talk for 10 minutes about aviation without using one piece of jargon on which all of av-speak is based or swearing at some level? For instance, about every 18 months our main sewer line gets plugged up and we have to call Rotorooter. The air conditioning is in cahoots with the sewer line because it conks out between the sewer episodes. AC is not a luxury. Again, it always dies on Friday night when we have visitors.

Never any other time. Last night it was our beloved Nikki, the puppy that refuses to grow up and absolutely owns our hearts. In a heartbeat, we were emergency mode and racing to the hour animal hospital. And it was 10pm! And it was Friday. Nikki stayed overnight and finally, at 2 AM, they told Marlene to stop calling them. They let us pick her up at Not eating it. Just playing with it. The bracelet information about distancing is also being fed to a computer and they are going combine that information with follow-ups on the workers involved and quantify the correlation between distance and those who get sick.

That, I think, is going to answer a lot of questions about Covid In addition, they are being beat over the head with conclusions drawm from that data. Normally data makes sense out of situations, but not always. And this is one of the classic cases where the more data we have, the more confused we get.

Or you can take different sides of any of the arguments and easily find data that supports that side. Thousands of Pigs but no Butchers I was talking to my sister who still has a business in our little home town in Nebraska and she says local pork producers have run into a real bottle neck Nebraska is the 6th largest pork producer in the US and the 2nd largest beef producer.

Because there are no longer any local butchers to process them for purchasers. The skill has simply disappeared. The age-window during which a pig is viable for market is quite narrow so they had to kill them all and bury them.

No one knows how to butcher a hog!? Oh, wait…too late. There has been a lot of talk about what they were going to do and that shoe finally dropped earlier in the week. Now those of us who have made it the seminal annual event have to deal with a new reality: Life without Oshkosh!

As stay-at-home orders cascaded down on us and we started to see body counts of a thousand a day or more, Oshkosh timing became more and more critical. Actually, there were two things happening at the same time: First, it takes the EAA nearly two months to get things ready to go and the work force during those two months is almost entirely volunteers.

An entire army of volunteers descends on Oshkosh and become working residents. Hundreds of them. The first hurtle was how many would be willing to be part of a work crew, given the situation. The second hurtle had a similar decision point: The aviation population is, if not freaked out, at least they are very wary of crowds. At least the intelligent ones who are taking this thing seriously are.

Even if the government were to wave a magic wand and suddenly there were no new cases and no deaths to report, the population would still be spooked about large gatherings. More important than all the above is the humanitarian side of this thing.

The EAA membership may be focused on airplanes but the organization itself is focused on its membership. This whole aviation fraternity thing is based on people functioning with people. Otherwise I was going to have to show up in a full hazmat suit with a forced-air painting hood. This thing is passed from person to person, person to doorknob to person, person to five-dollar bill to person, etc.

Everyone on the planet knows all of this. The biggest drawback to them cancelling OSH is that the majority of us airplane gray dogs date our year from that week. Not January one. We date things as being either before or after Oshkosh. People who had never ordered on line now have dozens of Side Mount Drawer Slides Home Depot As empty Amazon boxes laying around their recycle bins. This morning I ordered a half dozen cut-off disks for my angle head grinder. McMaster-Carr is doing the same thing.

One click shopping with no shipping costs. Even Aircraft Spruce shipped some tubing to me that I had ordered Sunday night and it arrived Wednesday. Buying patterns were already changing but this has been a tsunami of change.

Brick and mortar retailers are going to take it in the shorts. Right now, if you scan through your e-mails and The Media of any kind there will only be three subjects being covered Covid19, Trump and Covidcombined-with-Trump.

Enough already! Every movement is an exercise in pain. And God help you if you sneeze or cough. Anyway, this was probably only my third or fourth journey out into the new world which has been re-sculptured by Covid19 and I ran head-on into a new me. And the world around me. On went the uncontrolled mental rant. I surprised myself! I usually sluff that kind of thing off.

I went out the front door, mask and gloves still in place, hung a left and walked into a local grocery chain, Bashas. It was too late for the butchers so I had to take a couple of the pre-made, in a plastic container, sandwiches. My mind took off again: who-handled-the-plastic-containers? Was that me over-thinking things? As I ran my card into the reader, I was acutely aware of pushing buttons half of the universe had pushed and sneezed on.

I was mentally repulsed and very aware that I had handled my card and my wallet after pushing the final key.

Then she dropped my purchase in a plastic bag and all my brain could see were herds of bugs most were black, a few purple and one very aggressive yellow one running all over the plastic, just waiting for me to pick up the bag. By this Side Mount Drawer Slides Home Depot Vba time, I was beginning to doubt even my sandwiches. Who had butchered the pig? Had they breathed on the ham while making the sandwich?

I had never seen this me before! Back at the car, I took the gloves off before opening the door but then realized I had touched both my wallet and card with the gloves that were probably totally coated with germs. So, I ripped a Lysol wipe out of the ever-present box in the other seat, got out, wiped the door handle, my wallet, my credit card, my hands, the steering wheel, the start button, the shift lever, etc.

I think I wiped the rearview mirror because I had looked at it. Well…you never know. Is that really you? Have you gone nuts? This was an entirely new concept for me. And was probably being too paranoid. Will we, as a nation, eventually come out of our social burrow and into the sunlight? The decisions being made by us and the federal, state and local governments are uniquely critical.

None of these kinds of decisions have ever been made before. If they go too far, people will die. Damned if they do, damned…etc. The political hate and divisiveness have further divided an already-divided country at a time, when both sides should be pulling together.

At the same time, most of that division, but definitely not all, exists primarily inside political ivory towers. And the media. Especially inside the DC beltway. The People are still The People, which is a very American way of thinking. This is as it should be. The sweaty-unwashed-masses, you and me, regardless of political persuasion, have clearly seen where governments, and more often specifically, politicians, have forgotten who put them in office and whom they are supposed to be working for.

Especially their actions in delaying critical funds for troubled businesses for political gain. Time will tell. November is going to be very interesting and will say a lot about who learned what during this trying time. And I apologize for there being no indents. How obvious is that? You have to be kidding! With meatballs? It is, however, going to be crowded because weather has diverted traffic from other cities to Kennedy.

The local New York weather is perfect, however, so there should be no problem. A pilot himself for over thirty years, he had his own thoughts on the matter. This ought to be a lot of fun. Molly knew the signs: Jack was just getting up a head of steam. As soon as I saw how badly that jerk Buchanan was screwing up, we should have packed up and left England right then.

Same thing with gas stations. We should have learned our lessons with the gas shortages. Or Katrina. Then, guess what? They do run out of everything. Things started to go to hell a couple of weeks ago. And, what did Buchanan do? He just sat there acting like God. Now, not even the truckers are eating.

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Traffic filled every lane of highway as far as their eyes could see. The tunnels have to be a disaster. This is just great! Is that you, Jackson? What the hell do you mean; the station is leaving? Maloney got word that a gang was moving down his street in Secaucus cleaning the food out of every house as they go. Accommodation of Standard Technical Measures It is Company policy to accommodate, and not interfere with, standard technical measures it determines are reasonable under the circumstances, i.

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