From: lbrunasso@aol.com
Date: 1/13/2019 1:58:18 PM
To: Mark Sztanyo
Subject: Fwd: Last Fighter Pilot interview
The Last
Fighter Pilot AWESOME and MOVING.....only 4 minutes long.... DEFINITELY WORTH
YOUR TIME; Jerry Yellen is 93 years old. Watch until the end
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One man’s view of current day
California. What say you?
Member
since 9/18/09
Fwd:
FW: GOODBYE TO CALIFORNIA (show original) Jan 14
Subject:
FW: GOODBYE TO CALIFORNIA ??
For those
STUCK in CA due to personal/family connections, I understand...…
For
those outside of this former wonderful place to live...…...you may have time to
worry about the future...….
Let's
face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth,
that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great
decisions, not easy decisions.
---Adlai
Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician. Speech, July 26, 1952,
Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. Acceptance speech, Speeches
(1953).---
From:
Arthur Telech < Subject: GOODBYE TO CALIFORNIA
GOODBYE
TO CALIFORNIA by Dr. Ron Martinelli
Dr.
Martinelli is a renowned forensic criminologist and retired police detective
from the San Jose Police Department.
As I
sit in the LAX terminal after concluding business in downtown Los Angeles for
the past two days, I cannot help but reflect upon my journey from a once
California native to a new resident of the Great State of Texas and why You see, in my personal and professional
opinion, the once great State of California has in essence has become a
third-world country.
“The
concept of the “third-world” has evolved to describe countries that suffer from
low economic development, high levels of poverty and little to no ability to
utilize natural or economic resources.” French demographer Alfred Sauvey, 1952.
While
the reasons for California’s ever-spiraling downwards status from 1st World
economic prominence and prosperity to near 3rd World malaise are many; I will assert that when you combine
uber-liberal politicians, with rich elitist Hollywood Celebrities, dotcom CEO
billionaires, disengaged millennials and illegal aliens; you in effect create
the circumstances where your city or state becomes a 3rd World environment.
The
process of California’s demise from the “Golden State” to 3rd World status has
been slow but steady; supported and enabled by the aforementioned actors. While much of the legislated changes for the
worse have been designed and voted in by politicians in Sacramento; municipal
politicians and a complicit uninformed, naive and entitled voting public must
also share blame After all, when 51% of
those on some type of government subsidy out-vote the 49% of the money-earning
and tax-paying citizenry, any state is doomed to failure. With California now a “Sanctuary State” and
their libtard Democratic state legislature pushing for voting rights for
illegal aliens, the state will never recover.
My
observations during my short visit to Los Angeles underscored many of the
problems Californians are facing as they follow lemming-like their Governor
Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, their Democratic legislators and urban mayors like Eric
Garcetti of Los Angeles off the economic cliff.
Literally
nothing substantive is good about L.A. Anymore.
An ever-growing homeless subculture populates the downtown area. The intoxicated, drug influenced, mentally
impaired and criminals are everywhere.
They literally surround Civic Center, federal buildings and courts – the
so-called foundations and protectors of the Rule of Law and society. How ironic to be surrounded by the failures
these very systems, liberal politicians and judges have created. Isn’t karma interesting to watch in real
time? The homeless, numbering in the thousands, sleep in the shadows of
immense, gleaming edifices owned by multi-billion dollar international
conglomerates and dotcom corporations. Business executives in Brioni suits and
workers quickly pass by the unwashed masses, while holding their noses to
screen out the stench of urine and feces.
The obvious health and safety hazards to the public are too many to
count.
Interconnecting
Los Angeles city roadways and state highways designed to transport the
commuting, tax paying public to their job sites are a debacle. The ribbons of roadways are a mess of
potholed, weed infested, trash laden, graffiti vandalized passages filled with
vehicles lined up bumper-to-bumper going nowhere fast. These are your tax dollars at work. While California voters grumble and groan, in
the end they just seem to accept their fate as one of the prices to pay for
living the "California dream."
You
see, the working public has no time to get out and protest the outrageous and
constant increases in taxes on gas, municipal services, vehicle registrations,
rapid transit and a bullet train going to nowhere. Only the unemployed,
government subsidized masses have time to demonstrate in the streets to ensure
that their subsidies continue. Since the liberal politicians in Sacramento know
this dynamic and their power base all too well, the taxation without
representation continues.
I was
staying at a hotel near LAX and my mileage commute to downtown L.A. Was a mere
twelve miles. However, it took me every
bit of one hour and twenty minutes to arrive at my destination. I then paid $20
for the privilege of parking my car in a public lot. Of course, this was after I paid $30 a day to
park my rental car at my hotel. Nice,
I’m seriously considering Uber next time.
Since I
frequently travel throughout California on business, I will tell you that Los
Angeles is a mirror image of all of the other large urban cities in the state. I have observed similar and even worse
depressed and dysfunctional urban environments in the San Francisco Bay Area,
Orange County, San Diego and a number of other cities.
California
is rapidly becoming a two-tiered society of the very rich and the very poor,
similar to the 2nd and 3rd World countries I regularly visit. The middle class, small business owners and
the retired are either being pushed out of state and/or escaping in droves to
such tax free, business friendly and less crime ridden states such as Nevada,
Arizona, Texas and Florida. Lame duck
Gov. Moonbeam and the state’s liberal Democratic legislature know this. They just don’t care because their power base
is now assured.. Just ask any of their
castrated, powerless Republican colleagues.
There
will never again be a Republican administration in California. The days of Ronald Reagan have long
passed. The candidates lining up for the
governor’s race in 2018 are Open Borders and Sanctuary State advocates Anthony
Villaraigosa and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom.
Governor Brown and his Democratic legislature are pulling out all the
stops creating legislation that will allow illegal aliens in the state to vote
in state and local elections.
Republicans, conservatives and moderates don’t stand a chance.
Here
are just some of things Californian’s have done in recent years to turn their
state into a 3rd World mess:
1.
Passed Proposition 47 which has since freed tens of thousands of felons from
state prisons and county jails back into communities
2. Prop
47 also eviscerated the parole enforcement agency and created a system where
police on the streets can’t even enforce outstanding felony and misdemeanor
warrants anymore.
3.
Police no longer arrest people for being under the influence of dangerous drugs What would be the point; it’s just a
misdemeanor.
4. They
have reduced the crime of auto theft to a citable misdemeanor. Steal a car; get caught and get a
ticket. Commit non-violent crimes, get
arrested and you are out the same day with a promise to appear in court that
will not ever be enforced. No warrant
enforcement, remember? Amazing!
California’s
new “Sanctuary State” status supports and enables its Open Borders
mentality. Police in a number of cities
such as San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles are ordered not to assist ICE
with border enforcement. Remember the
Kate Steinle murder case where her five-time convicted criminal and deported
illegal alien was acquitted? Well,
that’s the political mentality that created that circumstance. This is also an excellent example that
liberal politicians in California are willing to sacrifice the innocent to
demonstrate that they support violent illegal alien criminals.
What
happens in California’s larger cities filters down to its medium and small
sized cities as well. I recently wrote
about the city of Salinas, CA. that
experienced an incredible 150% increase in its homicide rate from 2014 – 2015
which rated Salinas as one of the nation’s 30 most violent cities. Fifty percent of all of their murders were
gang and drug related, with the predominate population of gang members being
illegal aliens. I can only wonder how
Silicon Valley dot-commers’ who are paying over half a million bucks for a home
and commute over four hours a day to San Jose like living in that violent
environment?
Which
brings me back to why my successful business owner wife and I escaped to
Texas. The state loves us. No commute problems, no state taxes and we
live in an area where there is little to no crime. Our area just outside of San Antonio has some
of the best school districts in the U.S.; high employment, great people and
lots of fun things to do.
My wife
and I live a great life on a ranch with a river in our backyard where we can
fish, swim, kayak and BBQ with family and neighbors anytime we want The price?
Less than you would pay for a one bedroom studio condo in any of the
cities in California I’ve mentioned. New
home buyers only need three percent down to purchase a home and veterans make
no down payments. If you are a younger
middle-class person, a small business owner or retired, you’d be nuts to remain
in California.
With
California over a trillion dollars in debt and 30% of their budget going
to subsidizing illegal aliens at the
expense of hard-working, taxpayers who have little to no voice on how their
state is run, the state and the majority of their citizens are doomed. That’s what a two-tiered society eventually
creates: One heck of a THIRD-WORLD COUNTRY!
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From: David
L. Roberts
Date: 01/19/19 16:04:34
To: MY DELTA FRIENDS
Subject: DELTA'S OLDEST LIVING PILOTS -
JANUARY 2019
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Hello
all,
Each year I compile a list of Delta's Oldest Living Pilots, which includes all living pilots from ANY airline that is now shown on Delta's Family Tree schematic (attached below).
This is the first list for 2019 and is attached below in both MS Excel and.pdf formats and is current as of TODAY, January 19, 2019 only...!!! This is a list created from various data base lists that provided each pilot's date of birth. The age of each person increases by one year on their day of birth using a spreadsheet formula --- so the list is correct today only. There are two lists below in two formats each; one is sorted by AGE and the second A.Z is sorted alphabetically. Each list is in MS Excel format and in .pdf format, whichever you prefer. The AGE list includes those 17 seniors who died in 2018 and are shown highlighted in GOLD at the top of the list sorted by the date they died in 2018. They are not shown on the A.Z alphabetical list.
Note that at the bottom of the list there are seven former C&S pilots for whom we have dates of hire only, but no dates of birth. They should be included due to their dates of hire but we know little or nothing else about them. We need names for their initials and dates of birth if anyone has that information.
Due to privacy concerns I will NOT PUBLISH the pilot's Date of Birth, only the month of birth and the pilot's age - as of the particular date of this report - which is stated on the report. But to compile this report I need each pilot's exact Date of Birth in the data base.
If you know spouse names for those shown with question marks, please click Reply and send me that information. Those that pass away during the year will be highlighted in Yellow with their date of death shown.
There is an E in the Email column for those for whom I have an email address. If you have an email address for any of the other pilots, please send it to me so I can send them this list.
I arbitrarily determined several years ago that a good age for inclusion on this list was the calendar year the pilot reached the age of 86 and the 2019 list is now as complete as I can make it. For the year 2019 any living pilot from any of the companies now on Delta's Family Tree with a date of birth of 1933 or earlier should be included. The list is a work-in-progress so help me make it grow, in size and accuracy.
If you know of a pilot whose name is missing and should be included, please send me that pilot's FULL name, Spouse's name, the pilot's Date of Birth and Date of Hire and the pilot's ORIGINAL airline company --- or as much of this as you know. If the spouse is deceased, please include that information with the spouse's name.
Lets celebrate our most senior pilots again and again. Send them a Birthday Card or an email at the beginning of their month of birth.
Thank you for your help.
Blessings, all.
Dave
David L. Roberts
Captain, MD-11, ATL (Ret.)
Email: robertsDL@mindspring.com
Each year I compile a list of Delta's Oldest Living Pilots, which includes all living pilots from ANY airline that is now shown on Delta's Family Tree schematic (attached below).
This is the first list for 2019 and is attached below in both MS Excel and.pdf formats and is current as of TODAY, January 19, 2019 only...!!! This is a list created from various data base lists that provided each pilot's date of birth. The age of each person increases by one year on their day of birth using a spreadsheet formula --- so the list is correct today only. There are two lists below in two formats each; one is sorted by AGE and the second A.Z is sorted alphabetically. Each list is in MS Excel format and in .pdf format, whichever you prefer. The AGE list includes those 17 seniors who died in 2018 and are shown highlighted in GOLD at the top of the list sorted by the date they died in 2018. They are not shown on the A.Z alphabetical list.
Note that at the bottom of the list there are seven former C&S pilots for whom we have dates of hire only, but no dates of birth. They should be included due to their dates of hire but we know little or nothing else about them. We need names for their initials and dates of birth if anyone has that information.
Due to privacy concerns I will NOT PUBLISH the pilot's Date of Birth, only the month of birth and the pilot's age - as of the particular date of this report - which is stated on the report. But to compile this report I need each pilot's exact Date of Birth in the data base.
If you know spouse names for those shown with question marks, please click Reply and send me that information. Those that pass away during the year will be highlighted in Yellow with their date of death shown.
There is an E in the Email column for those for whom I have an email address. If you have an email address for any of the other pilots, please send it to me so I can send them this list.
I arbitrarily determined several years ago that a good age for inclusion on this list was the calendar year the pilot reached the age of 86 and the 2019 list is now as complete as I can make it. For the year 2019 any living pilot from any of the companies now on Delta's Family Tree with a date of birth of 1933 or earlier should be included. The list is a work-in-progress so help me make it grow, in size and accuracy.
If you know of a pilot whose name is missing and should be included, please send me that pilot's FULL name, Spouse's name, the pilot's Date of Birth and Date of Hire and the pilot's ORIGINAL airline company --- or as much of this as you know. If the spouse is deceased, please include that information with the spouse's name.
Lets celebrate our most senior pilots again and again. Send them a Birthday Card or an email at the beginning of their month of birth.
Thank you for your help.
Blessings, all.
Dave
David L. Roberts
Captain, MD-11, ATL (Ret.)
Email: robertsDL@mindspring.com
Editor: To access David’s OLDEST LIVING LISTS in either an Excel
spreadsheet or a PDF file, please go to flight west page and look for the
button in lower right corner. Page is
PASSWORD PROTECTED for our group exclusively, so use pcnpilot as the password to access. Click here for page:
http://pcn.homestead.com/FlightWest.html
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