Can You Top This?

Can you top this? The competition continues. 

On Sunday in North Carolina, with flooding everywhere in sight, a pilot rescued four people with his personal helicopter. Then an unnamed fire official in Lake Lure threatened to have him arrested if he rescued anyone else. Thirty minutes later, they announced a restriction on flights in Lake Lure. On Monday, they lifted the restriction. So, the restriction was not actually in place when the rescues were made by the helicopter pilot. 

If your question of the day is "How stupid can one government official be?", that fire official is your answer. If only for a day, he bumped Kameltoe and Lying Joe off of the top of the charts. His mother must be proud.

How much training as an air traffic controller did the unnamed fire official actually have? What training has he had in flight operations? Just when you think that the government couldn't do anything dumber, some petty official says, "Hold my beer!" That guy needs to lose his job.

As long as I am on the subject of helicopters, someone on the news pointed out today that while people are stranded in the mountains, down at Fort Liberty Bragg, military helicopters sit unused. The reporter said that he has seen pictures of an Army helicopter rescuing people off a mountainside in Haiti, but they won't use them here. Why aren't these helicopters being used to help North Carolinians in the mountains?

How bad is it in the mountains? A group is using pack mules to carry supplies to people where motorized vehicles cannot go. The mules keep hauling while the helicopters and our tax dollars sit idle at Fort Bragg. How about all of those Marines at Camp Lejeune? They talk about fighting in the air, on land, and the sea. Great news Marines!! We have all three of those conditions in the mountains of North Carolina right now.

Someone from Tennessee sent me something that may actually top the Lake Lure story. On Saturday, 700 Tennessee National Guard soldiers were sent to Fort Bliss in Texas to prep for a deployment to Kuwait.  I thought one of the purposes of the Guard was to help in emergencies. I have actually seen television commercials about that. Apparently, that mission expired when Biden was elected.

Jack Smith is trying to convict Trump for not calling out the National Guard on January 6 while Biden ships the Guard overseas during the biggest natural disaster of the century. I think that whole Democratic thought process is some kind of mental illness. 

Do you know what we are really missing here? We are missing real leadership. From Asshat Roy Cooper to Dementia Joe Biden, we don't have a leader worthy of the term. You won't see that mentioned in the press because the politicians' butt-licking media accomplices are hiding the truth.  

The storm hit on Friday. Biden finally showed up on Wednesday. He spent the weekend at Rehoboth Beach. He didn't even bother to go back to the White House for the weekend emergency. Nothing says, "I don't give a shit!" like staying at the beach while a couple of battleground states get inundated by a hurricane. You would think he would at least do something for Asheville. That's where all of the Democrats live in the mountains.

I have seen more statements from Ron DeSantis about the hurricane than I have seen from Roy Cooper, the North Carolina Governor. NC AG Josh Stein is so busy running for governor that all I have heard from him is that he activated the NC price gouging laws before the hurricane hit. Attention Josh Stein: There's nothing left in the mountains to price gouge. Nobody's buying mud.

These people are actually making George W. Bush's handling of Katrina look good. Biden better find himself a real general to take over this disaster. This could tank some moron's campaign.