Kerry's coming to OSH

*And* attend the r.a.p gathering at Jay and Mary's campsite! Extra credit
if you stay at their hotel for the pool
party/BBQ/suck-down-free-beer-that-Jay-buys event (still working on that one
myself...some year Jay, the weather is going to push us far enough South).

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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"Dave S" wrote in message
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At the risk of sounding unpatriotic.. I agree with some of what you were
criticizing. America has actively earned the hatred of many abroad by
virtue of our foriegn policy and active meddling in the affairs of other
countries.

Like the UN does every day? (And the rest of the world intervenes through
them)

How about our Foreign aid? Do they mind that meddling? How about the World
Bank?

We have supported former dictators on several occasions who
later we moved to depose when they no longer served our needs.

Like the USSR during WW2?

We have a
reputation for being arrogant, impolite, demanding and hypocritical.

That wounds like the world in general...that same world that never seems to
mind our bailing them out several times in the past 100 years.

You are absolutely right, but I can still hope - even without voting for
them...
denny
"Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Dennis O'Connor" wrote:

I am deeply suspicious of any man like Kerry who incites class warfare,
envy
politics, punitive taxation of the most productive, character
assassination,
etc., but if he were to come to OSH I would cheerfully show him around
and
try to convert him into an airplane nut - not that I have a snowball's
chance in hell of getting near him in the first place...


Well, good luck. My point is that the politicians show up for photo ops
and good PR every chance they get, and often they have little to no
interest in YOUR interests when they do show up. If Kerry or Bush or
anyone else decides to show up at OSH, it in no way indicates that they
are actually an advocate of GA. Politicians are necessarily
self-serving above all else. Caution when dancing with the devil.


JKG

"Tom Sixkiller" writes:

How about our Foreign aid? Do they mind that meddling?

Well, historically an amazing amount of our foreign aid has gone to
support repressive dictators. People in countries where they had to
live through that probably *do* remember, and dislike, our foreign
aid. More broadly, it often comes with strings attached, and it often
makes no sense. People could easily notice and find that
objectionable.

How about the World Bank?

Rather out of favor in a lot of places. And widely viewed as an agent
of the US, though we don't formally control it.
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Jay Honeck wrote:


But I've known a fair number of pilots who quit flying. I don't know how,
or why.

I have given up a number of activities over the years, for various
reasons. One is ham radio. I used to be pretty active on the HF bands
and gathered about 180 countries in about three years of activity.
After getting married I sold the HF radio but stayed on 2 meters for a
while. Still have a 2 meter radio now but only use it to monitor the
aviation band.

I have given up a number of activities over the years, for various
reasons. One is ham radio.

Apples and oranges. As fascinating as ham radio can be, it ain't flying.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Long, long, ago, in a galaxy far, far away, for one entire winter I used to
chat with Paul every tuesday night, the navigator on board a NORAD bomber,
loitering somewhere to the north of Michigan near the arctic pole... He, of
course, could not tell me where he was I knew enough not to ask, but by
switching antennas I knew the direction... He was one bored puppy stuck on
an 18 hour ride, several times a week...
denny

"Jay Honeck" wrote Apples and oranges. As
fascinating as ham radio can be, it ain't flying.

Jay Honeck wrote:

I know we kept recon early warning flights airborne for much of the Cold
War, but I didn't know we kept bombers in the air.

We kept armed B-52s up at all times through at least 1980. There's an H-bomb
at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Spain and another one in the Gulf
near Alabama. I don't remember why they were jettisoned. Prior to the buffs,
we kept B-36s up and had F-100s carrying nukes out of Turkish bases.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message

....There's an H-bomb
at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Spain and another one in the
Gulf
near Alabama.

I thought they found that one off Spain. Or, did they jettison two and find
only one?

JG

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message

I know we kept recon early warning flights airborne for much of the Cold
War, but I didn't know we kept bombers in the air.

What year would this have been?

There were armed Buffs orbiting in Intl airspace close to Soviet 24/7 for
about 25-30 years.