Sunday, March 16, 2014

Relaxing, windy Sunday and thoughts from the mess about Flight 370

    As most of you know, kids baseball has kicked into swing and I have been busy. Umpired a game yesterday and had to break up a near fight, in the middle of the 1st inning between two coaches. Then had our fourth game of the year, by the time I got home, I didn't want to do anything. After we ate our dinner, I retired to the backyard with a nice fire and short wave radio time.
 
 
 
      Most of us on the east coast are bracing for rain, ours will be here tonight and last all day tomorrow. About this time of year, I start my preventative maintenance on the camper and my plan today was to climb up on top and wash and treat the rubber membrane that seals the roof to the elements and use some self leveling roof sealant around the protruding vents, TV antenna, and A/C, but before I start, I through a nice slab of pork ribs on the smoker around 11:45.
 

 
 
     So with the ribs on, I proceeded to the camper to get to work. I climbed up there with the help of a 9 foot step ladder and saw the camper shaking a bit from the wind gusts. I thought for a second, should I or not. Well I said not, I will try again during the week. Instead, I decided to give her a bath and get the winter crud off.


    Once done with the camper, I vegged for a couple of hours and then took the ribs off with a nice caramelized Sweet baby Ray's finish.



    Now for some thoughts:

     Everywhere in the news, they have been all over this Malaysia Flight 370 that has gone missing. I even let a bit out over at OLDNFO's blog so I will continue a bit, but I wont dedicate a whole hour or two like media outlets. My thoughts, the plane has been taken, but for what use? I assume for use as a delivery weapon. Now why would someone want to take a huge Boeing 777? (Rob, don't bust my balls if this isn't a Triple 7).


     Let's see, maybe it has the capability to flew a very long distance? So where is the plane? Try looking at locations where people don't like the Western world, North Korea, Indonesia, Iran, and Pakistan, to name a few. As far as a weapon, the world saw how planes were used on the twin towers and pentagon, and if a terrorist organization has taken this plane, will they use it again to fly into a building? My assumption would be "No". I assume their next big attack will be on a massive scale, possibly a high-altitude detonation of a nuke (EMP) or chemical weapon air-borne distribution. With this being said, I hope and pray that the innocent passengers on this plane will be left unharmed, but I don't think that will be the case. Just so everyone knows, this is my own assumption based on the events of the past week. If I am wrong, I guess I will be wrong, so what.

    Hope everyone has a great week.

Senior

   

15 comments:

  1. Like I told Harry over at my place: " There is a special place in heaven for folks who volunteer and umpire a little league baseball game"

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    1. Yeah, it's a tough job, but someone has to do it.

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  2. Maybe the plane was crashed by a crazy 'I want to comment suicide' pilot. TT looks nice.

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    1. That's possible too. Thanks, hard to believe it going on 6 yrs old.

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  3. Seems like an inordinate amount of time gets spent on preventive maintenance , doesn't it. I am always having to fix or repair something around here. I've been working on the F250 when the weather lets me, it has a few rust spots here and there that need to be fixed. Your travel trailer looks like a very nice piece of gear. I've often though I'd like to have a good, sturdy truck configured for off road with a stout camper on it. Maybe one of these days. I used to think I wanted to buy a used Piper or Cesna, though and I never did that so who knows?

    The whole business with that airliner is bizarre. I originally thought it was systems failure of some kind, but all this about the transponder and communications being shut down for six hours before the aircraft quit flying certainly eliminates that possibility. I have been wondering how long it would be before there was some attempt at pay back for us finally croaking Osama. I wonder if this is possibly related to that? I guess we won't know til something happens.

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    1. Yes, there is a lot of time spent on preventitive maintenance, but I would rather take the time to make sure my investment holds up to many years of use. We have been lucky for so long without a large scale terrorist act, it will only be a matter of time til the next one happens. Obviously the people that may have it have spent a really long time planning this out. We all will just have to wait and see the next chapter of this story.

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  4. A campfire and smoked ribs sound like a little slice of heaven. Camper looks nice too!

    I will hate it for the families but I pray that plane is on the bottom of an ocean floor but it is looking more and more that it may be something else. God help us all!

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    1. Yes Mamma Bear, I hope the plane had a malfunction, because if my assumption may be ever-so slightly correct, this could be a game changer on a global scale.

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  5. Concur with all, and it's as good a possibility as anything else... sigh And those ribs look GOOD!!!

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    1. Hey. If you were in the area you could have stopped by. Had a huge homemade mac and cheese to go along with the ribs.

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  6. Well Israel has upped their security protocols over this so that tells me the plane is somewhere besides in the big drink. Sad to think that the best possible end result is that the people drowned. Sad in a "makes you want to lean over and vomit" kind of way.

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    1. I conur Matt. Harry mentioned "payback" .. Osama's Son is on trial in NYC, and this airliner is stolen...hmmmm thoughts to ponder.

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    2. Israel has good intelligence, i think they know something. Hell, i would trust their Intel before our own in this matter. Just to many things happening. Yes, it is sickening to think what the fate of the passengers is or will be.

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  7. at a cruising altitude of about 40k to 45k ft, it would be high enough to set off an EMP over Israel and affect the whole country thus softening it up for a missile attack from pretty much all sides.

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    1. You know, I started thinking some more about this, what's to say that the pilot had help in the ground crew and put extra fuel on the plane to make it to a known terrorist hub, maybe the Horn of Africa/somalia where you are dealing with a third world corrupt government and radical islamist fanatics? If this plane was taken, they are on a timetable to get that plane reconfigured and back in the air for their target. What's to say they have a bogus flight plan filed? Hell, they let people on the plane with stolen passports. Get ready if this true, maybe our assumptions will happen soon.

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