Dawn Maintenance Flight

A quick flight this morning to take the planes to the Avionics shop in Flint to get some work done.

Got to the airport while it was still dark, did the preflight on the Archer and Eric came out and did his preflight on the Dakota.

 By the time the preflight was complete, dawn was breaking and it was a beautiful morning to fly.  Dawn was good as the landing light on the Archer is currently INOP pending a replacement, so it would have sucked to land without it. 

Winds were calm, with some light mist at ground level.

Took off and headed to Flint VFR.

Talked to Great Lakes Approach once out of Pontiac's airspace, got the squawk code and  was first told to enter a downwind for Runway 18.

This then got changed to enter a base turn Runway 27 - oh, and to watch out for the mower at the end of the runway.

There was still a good layer of mist at Flint so making out the airport from the sky was harder than it should have been,  as the runways and environs were all covered looked fuzzy and hard to see, but I found it and I got lined up on the runway nicely and did a nice approach. Yes there was indeed a mowing machine right at the runway arrival end.  I then did a well-nigh perfect landing.

Taxi'd to the avionics shop and shut down the plane, met up with Eric and the avionics guy and went over the issues to be addressed, and then we got a ride back to Pontiac from Eric's wife who had driven up in her truck.

As usual, driving is more dangerous than flying. We almost got sideswiped by an idiot in the left lane who decided to try and merge into the side of the truck. Then once warned off by the horn, the driver then proceeded to have his right tires over the line for a couple miles and still not get out of the left lane. 

With any luck, the avionics will be updated in a couple days and we will have to pick them up and return them to Pontiac.

That 0.5 and a truly excellent landing and a great way to start a day.

Gangster Government, Much, Senator?

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D) just made a public threat against young people  considering working for the Trump administration:

New York Post: Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin

Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must “go after” and make examples out of officials in President Trump’s orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration.

“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,’” Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last week that has since gone viral. 

“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,’” the senator went on. “I want that deterrence message sent.” 

Surely using prosecution as a political weapon could never come back to haunt anyone?

Senator Slotkin now states she is being criticized for this intimidation because she's a woman.

No, Senator. The problem is the message itself: threatening people with “a ton of problems” to discourage them from working for an administration you oppose.

That's playing with fire.

Alberta's Choice: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

The Canadian province of Alberta is holding a referendum today on raising the question of separating from Canada.

After being used as a funding source by the eastern elites because of the province's oil, especially by the Liberal Party.  Albertans have not exactly getting much in the way of gratitude back nor much say in how the country is going, and a lot of Albertans are fed up with confederation.

So far, exit polls show leaving to be leading - and an affirmative result will lead to a second vote on actually leaving.

Will Liberal PM Carney and the Liberals accept the results of the referendum?

Will Alberta actually vote to leave Canada? 

We shall see. 

CFB Wainwright Tragedy

A serious tragedy in Alberta, Canada occurred last night at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright. 

CFB Wainwright is a very large training base for the Canadian Forces and NATO with lots of room for maneuvering and exercises.

The most recent live fire exercise there has resulted in a major tragedy. 

Global News: At least 7 dead, dozens injured in explosion and fire at CFB Wainwright: Sources

An explosion, whose origin is not yet confirmed, possibly from an errant munition hitting a gas well or gas pipeline during a live fire exerciser, then caused a rapidly moving grass fire fueled by 60 mile per hour winds.

The fire killed seven soldiers and wounded dozens more.

Medical reinforcements were sent in by parachute drop to the site and nearby hospitals have initiated mass casualty protocols.

In short, it is a terrible tragedy and we'll likely know more as to what occurred.  

For now, here's to hoping the fires are brought under control, and the wounded make as full and complete recoveries as possible.

Hamtramck: Found Votes Push The Democrat Candidate To Victory

The mayoral race in 2025 led to a victory for the Republican candidate for mayor, Adam Alharbi - by an 11 vote margin in Hamtramck, a Muslim majority city on Wayne County.

Then 37 absentee votes that had been "overlooked" were  conveniently found in the clerk's office.

The Court has now ordered them to be counted and applied to the results, even as the chain of custody of these discovered ballots is questionable at best.

The Detroit Free Press: After 37 votes counted, Hamtramck ex-councilman leads 2025 mayoral race

The votes now counted put the Democrat challenger, Muhith Mahmood  ahead by 12 voted.

Funny how that works.

All is not lost however, there's a separate court challenge and investigation alleging that Muhith Mahmood does not actually have residency in Hamtramck as is required.  This may very well disqualify him.

A sudden discovery of votes that just happen to put the Democrat in the lead seems to be an ongoing theme, and it is a theme that really needs to stop, as it certainly raises doubts as to the validity and fairness of elections. 

Even in Detroit, Those Are Not Standard Commands

The Detroit Free Press: Detroit police bodycam video shows officer chase, shoot man in back

This is a likely lawful but ugly police defensive shooting of a fleeing armed felon. 

It really doesn't help when the officer's command to stop and drop the weapon is not "Stop and Drop the Weapon!" but instead is:

“I’m ‘bout to shoot you, b–ch,” repeatedly, Detroit police body camera video shows.

“B--ch, come here b--ch, I’m ‘bout to shoot you, I’m ‘bout to shoot you, I’m ‘bout to shoot you b–-ch, I’m ‘bout to shoot you, b–-ch, “I’m ‘bout to –”

Yep that's a very non-standard string of commands that end in: Bang. 

Officer David Gonzalez fires four times, hitting the 18-year-old in the back as he runs through a downtown parking lot before the June 22 Ford Fireworks event, Gonzalez’s body camera footage obtained by the Free Press shows. Lee-Perkins survived.

Police have said Lee-Perkins’ hands made him look armed and that Gonzalez fired because he feared for his safety and the safety of others.

Even in Detroit, these are not appropriate commands to give to an armed fleeing felon and they really didn't help in the matter. 

Yes, the felon in question was indeed, illegally concealing a firearm in his waistband and likely reaching toward it at the time.  He fled from police while armed, and he got shot in what appears to be a furtive movement shooting.  However, police and indeed armed civilians are held to a better standard than saying "B--ch, come here b--ch, I’m ‘bout to shoot you" as a defensive command.  

Parisian Gay Chickens For KFC

Gays in Paris are apparently calling for, checks notes, Sharia Law.  

This could be because they have ignored all the evidence as to what Islam and Islam's adherents thinks about gay people, and mistakenly conflated the idea that since Islam is against Western Civilization and capitalism, it must be an ally.  

In short they fell for the canard that "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Not so much. Often the enemy of your enemy is just your enemy's enemy, and nothing more. 

In this case based on past and present performance it's their enemy too. 

 Gays in Paris are calling for Islam and want to live under Sharia. They believe Islam is the only progressive religion and that it will help them dismantle capitalism.This will not end well. 

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) October 5, 2026

Funny how they eschew western civilization with its ideas of tolerance that have allowed them to thrive, to jump into the embrace of a far less tolerant socio-religio ideology.

 I can't wait until they really find out how Islam feels about gays. I expect they'll be welcomed with open arms....dropping them off rooftops.