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  1. willard
    I don't know what he was thinking at that instant, but it wouldn't be hard to guess a few seconds later!
  2. willard
    The Yankees still suck.
  3. willard
    Why, do you have a sudden yearning to walk down the 7200 block of S. Talman? I'm sure someone does. Do you think we should avoid some sections of cities and just let the gangs control them? The city is very effectively cleaning up the gang ridden neighborhoods. I don't think exAFO or any other vigilante will help matters very much - and most probably will make things much worse. Vigilantes=bad. No disagreement there. But citizens carrying a means to protect themselves are far different from vigilantes. I'm still interested as to why "law abiding citizens" would wish to go there, unless they are not so law abiding as they claim and wish to trade in some illicit substances. I wonder the same thing. But until a law is broken the "why" is irrelevant.
  4. willard
    Why, do you have a sudden yearning to walk down the 7200 block of S. Talman? I'm sure someone does. Do you think we should avoid some sections of cities and just let the gangs control them? The city is very effectively cleaning up the gang ridden neighborhoods. I don't think exAFO or any other vigilante will help matters very much - and most probably will make things much worse. Vigilantes=bad. No disagreement there. But citizens carrying a means to protect themselves are far different from vigilantes.
  5. willard
    Why, do you have a sudden yearning to walk down the 7200 block of S. Talman? I'm sure someone does. Do you think we should avoid some sections of cities and just let the gangs control them?
  6. willard
    Yeah! God likes beer and Scotch and is sick of the cheap wine the church dishes out. Tornados don't frequent taverns while working? The men who built the tavern were more skilled than those who built the church? It was all just chance? Nah, that couldn't be it.
  7. willard
    "Here comes Peter Cottontail, limping down the bunny trail...." James Brown singing "Thumpers Got a Brand new Paw" Hippity Hop Hippity Limp Hippity Hop Hippity Limp....
  8. willard
    I don't watch much TV, so i just saw for the first time a commercial for Travelers Insurance. Its theme was a rehab clinic where they re-attached rabbits' feet. Little bunnies learning to hop again with a bright red, green, blue, yellow, etc, paw! Something just not PC about that!
  9. willard
    As your post states, they were immigrants also. Being 1/2 Hungarian and 1/2 English, there is a good chance that I have blood from both Long Shanks and Attilla running through my veins. Both are infamous for their crossing of borders. With the possible exception of parts of Africa, everyone is a descendent of an immigrant. Most people i know have no problem with immigrants. Legal immigrants. It's the illegals that we have issues with. Yes, I know the Europeans were illegal immigrants to North America. The native folk had their chance to keep 'em out and blew it. Now it's our chance to keep illegals out. It's just the way civilizations work and interact over long periods of time.
  10. willard
    A buddy once had an old beat up Jeep Cherokee. Since he didn't care if anyone stole it he never bothered to lock it and almost always left the keys in it. To his dismay it was never stolen, but some dummy busted the window (evidently didn't check to see if it was locked) and stole the radio...which didn't work anyway. And yes the keys were in it.
  11. willard
    As George Carlin once asked: "Why do you want to heat hot water? If it's already hot, it doesn't need heated!
  12. willard
    You're not to depressed to work overtime this weekend, are you? I hope not. Millions on welfare are counting on you!
  13. willard
    I've heard similar reports on the Lo-Jack. The Club is also a good deterent, making thieves spend more time than they want to spend stealing a car. However, if they really want it, they'll come back with something suitable to remove the club. (Cordless recipricating saw cuts through a steering wheel pretty quick.) The guys who stole my car, they were caught soon after taking it, worked for a ring. They each got 6 months in jail, suspended, for "attempting to recieve stolen property".
  14. willard
    I had the privalige (misfortune?) of working with two brothers who had spent their youth stealing cars in the Cleveland area.What they told me really opened my eyes. Alarms mean jack chit. They would routinely steal a car in downtown Cleveland parking lots and nobody would even pay attention to the alarm. If they want it bad enough you aren't going to stop them from taking it. Conversely, if you have a junker you want to get stolen it probably won't happen. They wouldn't risk getting caught for a rust bucket. A car of mine was stolen in Cleveland and I always wondered if those two had a hand in it. Never asked, figured they would deny it anyway.
  15. willard
    Again, agree with you 100%. ATC can't prevent all accidents and has even been known to cause a few. I like to think of ATC for VFR as a seatbelt. Probably won't ever need it to save your butt, but if it's not used then it can't. As a VFR pilot I use ATC whenever possible. I suspect the controllers like to know who that little 1200 blip is and what their intentions are even if they don't need to be activly talking with them.
  16. willard
    I agree with you 100% :) VFR is far less in touch with ATC than IFR and therefore crries the overwhelming majority of responsibility for a safe flight. The reminder most common for me is to stop climbing when I've reached assigned altitude. It's easy to get comfortable and just keep going up. However, saying ATC cannot prevent aircraft-building collisions is pretty far fetched. All it takes is one instance of a controller warning a VFR pilot of imminent danger to prove that they can prevent such accidents. After decades of millions of VFR flights in contact with ATC it's a pretty safe bet that situation has played out many times. Easy scenario to imagine: Student VFR pilot flying through a major city and in touch with ATC. Pilot fumbles for something he dropped, plane goes off heading and altitude assigned, ATC notices and reminds pilot to stay on heading etc., pilot looks up in time to avoid striking that big building/tower that came out of nowhere.
  17. willard
    I don't think I'd want to shake a stick at any of those Chicago Poles. I'd end up getting the Gypsy blood beat out of me... Slang for Pole...."pole-lock" Fish...."paw-lick"
  18. willard
    It would be the freakin' "Wild, Wild East", everybody fighting all the time, throwing each other into tissue walls, talking out of sync with their mouths, putting out challenges, slapping the floor and posing in martial stances. It's nuts, you Americans, all you want to do is flip each other. EVOLVE Yeah, maybe so, but the gravity-defying leaps would be really cool!
  19. willard
    Grammer police!
  20. willard
    Nice arch!
  21. willard
    You are right, of course. That eye test every pilot has to pass to get a medical certificate does not guarantee that the pilot will see a skyscraper 1/2 mile away in broad daylight with 3 mile (VFR legal) visibility unless someone whispers in his ear "Hey, there's a huge building over there". I'm surprised the NTSB report didn't mention that Lidle never saw the building because no-one told him it was there. However, you win.
  22. willard
    Uhhh...ok. But I do own firearms. Two large safes full. And I carry on occasion. And I have no problem with other responsible adults carrying.
  23. willard
    That brings to mind something a high school teacher of mine once said. He was a Marine in the South pacific in WWII and would always point out errors in war movies. One of his least favorites were scenes showing a soldier throwing away his gun to fight with a knife. As he would say, "It's stupid to give away an advantage. If you have a gun and he has a knife, SHOOT THE SUMBITCH!"
  24. willard
    No. Most of the time all I have handy is a knife. A club is not an option most of the time. I am not practiced in martial arts and have neither the time nor the desire to learn.
  25. willard
    I take your input to heart and am happy to hear you are a safe pilot. But one or one thousand pilots having succesfull flights such as yours doesn't mean ATC has never saved a life by correcting a flight path. Odds are they have and more than once.