{"id":3826,"date":"2016-05-06T07:37:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:55","slug":"154-best-friends-fill-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/154-best-friends-fill-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"#154 Some of my best friends are (fill in the blank)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Normally, I don\u2019t discuss religion or politics in the pages of the Tailewheeler\u2019s Journal.\u00a0 But I couldn\u2019t resist this time and I hope my readiers with strong opinions in that area will understand and put up with me this once.\u00a0 That would be tolerant of many of them, and tolerance is kinda what this little article is about. \u00a0B.L.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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My mother didn\u2019t raise any idiots (well, there was the one, but she drowned him).\u00a0 I\u2019d<\/h3>\n
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My mom, Janet Lansburgh, c 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

be an idiot to rail against a system which controls well over 90% of flight training and not to realize that I can\u2019t change the resultant 90% of pilots.\u00a0 For some time, I\u2019ve been ranting against the teachings of the Acme Flying School and of Whuffos in general.\u00a0 I may have given the wrong impression.<\/h3>\n

When I thought of this little article, I thought mostly of tolerance.\u00a0 I remember listening to a broadcast preacher acquaintance of mine, who railed against tolerance in one of his sermons.\u00a0 I guess some Christians think that tolerance is a quality of Christianity\u2026 others have no use for it. I guess they\u2019re the ones who ignore the lessons of Jesus.<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m unabashedly heterosexual, but there is no way I\u2019d ever think about limiting the rights of those who are not.\u00a0 They can marry whoever they want, as far as I\u2019m concerned.\u00a0 As some wag put it, \u201cif heterosexual people can marry and be miserable, there\u2019s no reason homosexuals should be denied the same right\u201d.<\/h3>\n

With tolerance in mind, I realize that many of my flying friends are Acme proponents.\u00a0 I think they are wrong and that their flying skills are substandard as a result, but I\u2019m not going to try to convince them.\u00a0 So many of my arch liberal and wild-eyed conservative friends always seem to be trying to convince others of their correctness.\u00a0 It\u2019s futile.\u00a0 Just as futile as it would be for me to think that I could convince all those Acme fliers that they don\u2019t have to settle for a stabilized approach, can learn how to slip well before they are on final, can go ahead and extend their flaps in a turn and should probably practice closing the throttle abeam the numbers.<\/h3>\n
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The woman who didn’t raise any idiots was also an accomplished scooter thief.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nope, I count a lot of wild-eyed liberals, conservatives and Christians among my good friends.\u00a0 I\u2019m certainly not going to limit my list of friends to those who agree with me.\u00a0 That would be stupid.\u00a0 And my mother didn\u2019t raise any idiots\u2026.well, there was the one\u2026<\/h3>\n

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Happy Swooping!<\/h3>\n

Brian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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