Pug’s Place

So after repeated snubs by the media, I’m happy to see Ron Paul beating McCain for 2nd place in the Nevada GOP caucus today. As of now he’s holding 2nd by a few hundred votes, but not all precincts are reporting yet, so this may change. At any rate, he’s a long way from 4th or 5th place. (Update, midnight: Paul did place 2nd)

So, I’m somewhat annoyed to see to what lengths Fox News goes to avoid showing Ron Paul. Check this out, snapped this evening:

Notice in the bottom right corner that at the time this was shown Paul was in 3rd place. Now look at the three photographs.

These people disgust me. Incidentally, this sort of thing is why I never watch Fox News.

…But it’s all in the best interests of the American people because Glenn Beck on Fox News says Ron Paul supporters are a “domestic threat.”

Update, 11:30 pm: I just noticed that the New York Times doesn’t even show Dr. Paul as a candidate. Even in their online coverage. How can people roll their eyes when I say the media’s snubbing him?

I took about two hours this morning and got back into flying — I hadn’t flown since the second week of December. I felt the need to not only taste some sky but to also practice some of the basics again: stalls, slow flight, specialty landings and so forth. So I took N60616 around Maricopa doing maneuvers, then did some short field and slips-to-land sort of landings.

Anyway, a middle-aged sort of gentleman helped me push my plane back into its parking space and, after talking with him a few minutes, I learned that he was a student pilot (around 17 hours) and starting to contemplate the scary idea of soloing sometime soon. After tying my plane down I walked back over to where he was preflighting his aircraft for a lesson and gave him my contact information, telling him that if he ever wanted to talk with or ask some questions of another new pilot to give me a ring.

We’ll see if he does. And we’ll see if I completely forget about this exchange by the time he calls/emails.