A Summer Place

Percy Faith Theme From A Summer Place 1960
Sunday Funnies

I'm watching YouTube shorts and this one is playing this tune, and good golly that sounds familiar. It set some kind of record by being number one for 9 weeks on Billboards Hot 100.

Spirit AeroSystems

Spirit AeroSystems and McConnell Air Force Base
Area shown is about 2.5 miles across

My Daily Kona has a post up about the Boeing 737 that lost its exit door. He opens by mentioning the door maker: Spirit AeroSystems. I'm thinking this could be somebody's small shop, hammering out airliner doors in their garage. Not quite:

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., based in Wichita, Kansas, United States, is an American aerostructure manufacturer, and is the world's largest first-tier aerostructures manufacturer. The company builds several important pieces of Boeing aircraft, including the fuselage of the 737, and 787, as well as the flight deck section of the fuselage of nearly all of Boeing airliners. Spirit also produces fuselage sections and front wing spars for the Airbus A350. - Wikipedia

As you can see from the satellite image at the top they are kind of a big deal. It was originally founded as the Stearman Aircraft. They also built the B-29, B-47 and B-52 bombers.

P. S, Yahoo Finance has a pretty good article about this incident.

I Left My Fish

I Left My Home (Military Cadence) | Official Lyric Video
Jonathan Michael Fleming

Great stuff. Via Riders of Skaith

Barbie

Barbie | Main Trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures

Very silly, very funny. If there was any substance, I missed it. Cinemax / HBO

Trump and Biden Don't Matter

 I'm thinking that the Federal  Government has fallen under the control of a mafia-like cabal whose sole interest is in amassing more wealth and power for themselves. Sparkling Joe Biden may be the President of this country but he is not in charge, he is only a figurehead stuck on the front of this cabal to give it a statesman like appearance. If he is impeached, removed from office and Kamala becomes President, it will have no effect whatsoever on how this country is run. It will continue to be business as usual.

If the Trump machine wants to win the next election, they need to have an army of minions checking up on how votes are being counted in all those areas where they suspect the counts were tampered with in the last election. They may already be doing that, but it would need to be done surreptitiously because the Democrat mafia wouldn't want anyone interfering in their 'vote counting'.

But the Presidential election may not matter. The cabal that is running the Federal Government is very thoroughly entrenched, the corruption is too deep and too pervasive for an election to have any effect. There is too much money at stake. I think the most we can hope for if Trump were to be elected is that the cabal-in-charge would be mildly annoyed.

The cabal that is running this country is like the old Russian Soviets, who were a lot like the Mafia, who are a lot like every third world dictator. They are only interested in how much blood they can squeeze from the turnip. The only difference is that the protected class in America (all those on the inside) is much larger, perhaps as large as a third of the country. But you can only squeeze a turnip for so long before the flow of juice starts to dry up. That is already happening, hence the need for even more huge foreign aid and defense spending. Last year you needed an annual income of $100K to be a middle class citizen. This year you are going to need $200K and next year it is liable to be $500K.

When people can't make ends meet from what they are earning, they are going to look for other ways to supplement their income and in our current culture of corruption and theft, corruption and theft are going to be the popular ways of making a little extra money. This is going to cause more businesses to fail, which is going to push more people to the fringes. It won't be too long before criminal gangs start to have a pervasive effect on society, much like the drug dealing cartels are having on Mexico.

If Trump is elected and he manages to implement his Schedule F strategy, it might damp the ruling cabal's power, but it's not going to stop them. Corruption and theft might be reduced, but they will still be the rule.

Remember how the Soviet Union was a world power until suddenly they weren't? I think we might be headed for the same fate, though it might take ten or twenty years to get here.

737 Loses Door

Extracted from a ZeroHedge story:

Boeing 737 Missing Exit Door

A brand new Boeing 737 MAX 9, operated by Alaska Airlines, was forced to make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport shortly after takeoff on Friday evening due to its mid-cabin exit door detaching from the aircraft mid-flight.

737 Flight Path

Data from the aviation tracking website Flightradar24 shows the jet was about ten minutes into the flight, reaching 16,000 feet, with a ground speed of nearly 400 knots when the incident unfolded. 

There are no reports of serious injuries," aviation blog Airways Magazine wrote in a note. 

I'm not sure why I'm posting this. Probably because they had a map and a succinct explanation of what happened. You seldom get that anymore, most news stories are padded with he-said and she-said ad infinitum. Some people care about that. I'm not one of them.

Pat Wise

Pat Wise on a 350 Manx Norton
First woman in Isle of Man Tourist Trophy

Her first race at the Isle of Man was in a sidecar but eventually she started riding her own bike. She passed away in 2012. Links:

• Cycle Cult has more pictures
• TTwebsite has a short article