Good Read - HL 135 (3)

New Book from one of our pilot authors:

From: abutch4178@aol.com

Date: 7/23/2012 10:36:01 AM
To: mark@pilotcommunication.net
Subject: New Book                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Hello Mark:

I have just had a book published entitled Sixty Years in the Twentieth Century, a Pilot's Memoir which includes my years with Delta. It would be my pleasure to ship you a copy if you would be interested in reviewing it and deseminating availability information to the pilot group. Thank you for all you do.

Respectfully,

D.Allen Butcher

Captain, Delta Airlines

Retired 1998

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Reco from Capt Clark

From: davidclark210 <davidclark210@bellsouth.net
Date: July 7, 2012 2:34:37 PM EDT
To: mark@pilotcommunication.net
Subject: good read

A good read!

CURRENCY

A novel by L. Todd Wood (U. S. Air Force Academy grad, special ops helicopter pilot, international emerging markets bond trader)

The story weaves history, adventure, romance, mystery and current socio-economic events into a timely novel that is both interesting and thought provoking.

The book is available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble (online), Sony (iTunes) and some book stores, including Buckhead Books in ATL airport, etc.

Check out the reviews on Amazon.com.

Dave Clark

B767ret

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Hall health update and more:

From: Gene Hall

Date: 7/26/2012 1:50:58 PM
To: Gene Hall
Subject: A blog

July 26, 2012

In this politically correct environment, any view that is not liberal creates a firestorm of controversy. Dan Cathy is the CEO of Chick-fil-A, and in an interview last week, he said that he supports; “the biblical definition of the family unit”. The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) prevents the federal government from recognizing gay marriage, and the constitutions of 31 states prohibit it. It is legal – or soon to be – in 8 states, but has never been made legal by popular vote.

One would think that supporting traditional marriage wouldn’t be controversial. The main line media is overwhelmingly in support 0f gay marriage, and boycotts of Chick-fil-A are being threatened. The mayor of Boston says there will be no more Chick-fil-A stores in Boston, and an alderman in Chicago is blocking one there. Mike Huckabee is calling for Americans to support Ckick-fil-A by patronizing them next Wednesday, while the gay and lesbian community is calling for a national same sex kiss in – that’s like a sit in, except for the kissing part – sometime next week in Chick-fil-A’s.

It’s 380 miles from Atlanta to Ocean Springs, MS. It’s all interstate driving, and we measure the miles between Chick-fil-A’s rather than towns. I know where every one is on that route. There is an original Dwarf House in Newnan with sit down service, as well as the fast counter and drive through window. The next one is in LaGrange at exit 18. Then 39 miles to Opelika, Alabama, exit 58 and travel NW a couple of blocks, and there it is on Tigertown Parkway. I don’t wear my Bulldog cap there. There are 2 in Montgomery, both close to I-85. We stop at the one a few hundred yards south of the interstate at exit 9 – 49 miles from Tigertown. It is a long way – 176 miles - to exit 4 on I-65 in Mobile, if one is hungry. Relief is east of the exit on Dauphin Street.

Free speech is under attack in the US, and has been for a number of years. The progressives want the opposition silenced by any means. They are trying to get conservative talkers like Limbaugh and Hannity off the air, and they threaten preachers with the loss of their tax free status. Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman says the Navy is now so politically correct that a joke that is considered racist can ruin an officer’s career. All who oppose the present administration are considered racist by the progressives, because there could be no other reason to be against “the smartest president in our history”.

Ravi Zacharias has been called “the great apologist of our time” by the late Chuck Colson. He is a visiting professor at Oxford, and the host of a radio and television show. I watched the third installment of his series “Deliver Us from Evil” today. He is one, among many who make me realize how intellectually weak I am. There is so much meat in his teaching that I have to watch or listen more than once to get the most out of it.

Today he made the point that mankind doesn’t learn from history. He used examples of leaders turning nations to evil in one generation. The first was Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah. Hezekiah had Israel on the right track, but after he died, Manasseh was on the throne for 55 years, and he turned Israel to evil. He also talked about more contemporary leaders, Hitler and Stalin. He asked the question; “Have we forgotten how to think for ourselves?”

Back in my wild youth, we were still a Christian culture, even if we weren’t a Christian nation. Even though I wasn’t a Christian, I had been brought up in a Christian home, and when I was doing wrong – most of the time - I knew that what I was doing was wrong. It seems that the norm today is to do whatever feels good, and many don’t seem to know the difference between right and wrong.

It’s lunch time, and we had a late breakfast in Atlanta, because I have been golfing in Carmel, California for the last several days, and am still stuck on West Coast time. Incidentally, I don’t think the temperature ever reached 70 while we were there. We are leaving in a few minutes for the drive to Ocean Springs, and will be stopping for a late lunch around 3 or 4 PM at Tigertown. I predict that Chick-fil-A’s business will increase significantly during the next several weeks. Huffington Post, New York Times, AJC, and all the rest keep doing your part on the great publicity!
I feel great, and my next medical appointment will be on August 6, to find out what the big C is doing in me.

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