Stupid is, More if You are Rich

 

Don’t Fly into Terrain

2/13/2026 an Epic 100 with four aboard flew into the crest of Emerald Mountain near Steamboat Springs, CO. Why my interest? That airport is where I first learned to fly. The best analysis I’ve found is here. 

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There is a perfect good all weather airport just twelve miles to the west at Hayden. Low terrain, full ILS, and a wide well lighted runway that will accommodate nearly any commercial aircraft. Still, the pressure of rich people wanting to do “The Boat” has led to putting lipstick on a pig. The Steamboat strip was “upgraded” enough to handle DHC-6’s.

Add people with more money than capability buying airplanes they aren’t trained enough to operate properly (think doctors/lawyers and V Tail Bonanzas) and shit happens.

Wind is seldom a factor at that strip and few locals ever landed or took off to the North. Off the South end you immediately have 200’ of elevation and a right hand turn takes you down the river and lower terrain. Straight ahead is a 9,000’ mountain.

So, WSF, you never took chances as a pilot? I most certainly did. One difference; I was always solo.

ICE

Personally conflicted describes my feeling about the mass deportations underway. On one hand, I’m all in favor. My reservations are based on actions allowed now can be used for other purposes later. What happens if/when the (P)regressives take back the Presidency? Will I get a pallet next to the stove at the reeducation camp?

Our on-line left wing newspaper, self proclaimed as unbiased, covers part of the question.

Bias? Early in the article we read, “mostly of people who have no criminal record”.  Ignoring that entering the country illegally is a criminal offense. Liberal logic? 

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From the article.

Dionisio Castillo, 53, tearfully recalled how two ICE agents arrested him at his construction job site in January without asking him any personal questions. Had they asked, they would have known he has lived undocumented in the U.S. for 30 years, has three U.S. citizen children and no criminal history. He spent 48 days at the ICE detention facility in Aurora. His family had to pay a $2,500 bond for his release.

“I was standing next to my truck and I turned to the right and I saw that the officers were walking toward me,” said Castillo through an interpreter. “They handcuffed me with my hands behind my back.”

Been here 30 years and needs an interpreter?  Been here 30 years and did nothing to gain legal status? Sorry, no sympathy from me.

ICE +Voting

Twenty Blue States demanding ICE pledge to not have agents near voting stations? Why, do they expect illegals to show up and vote? 

Up Yours, Gun Grabbers

Concealed carry in Colorado.

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Every legislative session more gun grabber bills get passed. I’m sure I violate some law someway every time I leave my apartment.

To the North, Wyoming lowered the age for concealed carry to eighteen.

Iran

I’ve put variations of this on other blogs and FB as comments.

PDJT has stated his goal is to insure Iran never has a nuclear weapon. OK, we probably know where all the facilities are, bombed or not bombed. Send in Sea Bees and/or Army Combat Engineers, backed up by combat units to protect them as they work, and utterly destroy these facilities. Salt the earth, so to speak.

Once that is done, get the hell out and let Southwest  Asian people go back to slaughtering each other as they have for millenniums.

 Oh, WSF, that is too simplistic. OK, why?

Car Story

 Montana Molesters

Among the very best retail car sellers I ever worked with were five men from Kalispell, MT. All had worked at the same store in Kalispell. They drifted over to Washington State for larger opportunities.

 They quickly became monthly sales leaders and greatly upset the old guard. I welcomed them. The more successful the store became, the more opportunities were opened for me. Let them be salesman of the month! Let me continue to be “grossmonster”. 

(We were paid on gross profit. Bonuses were paid on number of sales regardless of gross profit. One guess as to which, over time, put pleasing numbers on the end of the month check?)

 Their personal lives were chaotic. The parade of girlfriends, wives, infidelities, and after hour adventures earned them the name, Montana Molesters. Not my problem, I wasn’t a manager.

As always, YMMV