Well, as all of you know the Reno Harrassment Association (RASSHOLE), also known as "RARA" (Rhymes with HAHA) is still out there selling RARA memberships while they and their subordinate organization RARF (Rhymes with Barf), are out trying to sell license plates.

Only problem is, last year, Mike Houghton confirmed that the Air Races would be shutting down. And though RARF has been established to do the same job that RARA was supposed to do, there's no guarantee that they will and that includes the issue of building an Air Racing Museum at Stead Airport, Nevada, when they've sold off all the other land so that the AAWC could defraud the Federal government by building a Reno-Stead Airport Regional Business Center, which will primarily be Industrial Manufacturing and Warehousing.

A Non-Aviation purpose in other words, when an Aviation purpose exists for Stead Airport at this time, in support of BLM Tanker Operations, the Air Races, Air National Guard operations, US Marine Corps operations, Army National Guard operations, Washoe County Sheriff Aero Squadron, Civil and Military Med Evac, charter operations and General Aviation use away from Reno-Tahoe International Airport, to include, Glider Operations.

As it is, RARA is known to be handing out under the table bonuses to its Directors despite their quiet demeanor and lack of denial on the subject. Houghton is known to have personally assaulted an AAWC Secretary with a verbal tirade when she discussed the matter on a Message Board as though the information were out there and well known. She was correct...there are others in existence within RARA and who have left that organization who have seen the same information.

Now, the RARF is supposedly utilizing it's position as a Non-profit charity to solicit for donations and for artifacts that it has indicated will be included in a new Museum planned for Stead, which is marked on at least one of the plans that this Editor personally saw during inspection of documents at the AAWC. All this despite Brian Kulpin's indication that the AAWC had no plans for any development at Stead Airport. And this despite the fact that when he said that, this Editor had in his possession, two documents indicating aggressive development plans for Stead Airport, one signed by the Real Estate Queen of Reno, Nevada, and AAWC Director, Krys Bart, and the other signed by AAWC Planner Dean Schulz. These were Public Record provided by the BLM in Carson City, during a Public Records inspection conducted by this Editor there.

As it is, RARF is no better than RARA, in that Thomas Gribbin is the Director and Member of the Board of both organizations, and is also on the Board of Trustees at AAWC. In regards to the AAWC, this is in violation of Nevada State Law, as established by State Sentator William "Kingpin" Raggio, the Senate Majority Leader, and an Attorney at Law at Jones Vargas, which represents both the AAWC and RARA.

Talk about your conflicts of interest in regards to both men, and remember that in Gribbin's case, he's on the Board of Trustees of the AAWC, which although a quasi-municipal entity, and though it's Board is not elected by the Public, they somehow have the right of eminent domain. That means they can vote people of the land they own, confiscate the land, and use it for Airport (hee-yeah, right) purposes, as they did with the lands involved in the Rewana Farms Scandal, as exposed by Public Watchdog, Sam Dehne.

In that regard, they confiscated the lands of a large number of home owners, apartment owners and renters, in the guise of "Noise Abatement," then immediately turned around and proceeded with a secret plan they had ~ which became public, thanks to Colonel Dehne ~ to build a 100-jet cargo facility on the site, which would substantially increase noise not only by aircraft, but by trucks that would operate on a 24-hour-basis, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, untold numbers of years, at said Cargo facility. Gribbin's construction company was supposed to be involved in building the project. How sweet it is.

So now we have Gribbin in charge of RARF, as well as on the Board of Directors of RARA, and illegally on the Board of Trustees for AAWC, telling the Air Racing World to donate, whether it be aircraft, artifacts, money, or even to buy license plates, for the great task that lies ahead.

Stop and think: If there's no Air Racing on site, what draw will the RARF Museum have in an area that already has trouble drawing people to the Air Races, because RARA and RARF claim to lack the money to pay a proper purse, or advertise, while at the same time, the Directors at RARA are getting bonuses under the table for having done what?:

For having sold the land to their friends at the AAWC, who intend and have announced to the Air Racing Classes already (source: Ray Sherwood, IF1's rightful President) that they won't be racing at Reno very much longer, as Mike Houghton has finally announced, and so too has that louse Wayne Sagar announced, that the Air Races will be shutting down...

...something that SSNS reported years ago, while all denied and claimed ~ in Sagar's words ~ "I need proof," though bundles of evidence existed which he refused to look at.

Well folks, let me put it very bluntly, think twice before you join as a member of RARA, and think three times hard, about whether you want to donate to the RARF. RARA hasn't had a membership meeting that we're aware of despite the fact they are collecting membership funds and handing out membership cards. In a Non-profit Corporation, the Membership votes on what the Board proposes. In this particular group, the Board takes your money and refuses you any voice, vote, forum for discussions, ability to propose changes, opportunity to file complaints, etc.

"Taxation without representation is Tyranny," so said Patrick Henry, in the time of the Revolution.

And as for RARF, since Houghton, Gribbin et al, will liquidate and pocket the proceeds of the Reno Air Racing Association (RARA), what makes you think your donations of aircraft, artifacts and money, are going to mean anything if RARF gets liquidated along with RARA!? Why not just take your money and slip it into the hands of Houghton, Gribbin, Eck, Walther, Robinson, Fisher, et al, and save yourself the disappointment?

Take a look at www.rarf.org. The site has been recently updated for 2006 fundraising. The only problem is, the site's copyright began in 2004, and is scheduled to end in 2006, and to date, no word on what these funds will be utilized for at the RARF site.

"Wings & Strings?" Beyond the Orchestra's educational goals for their funds, will RARF use its proceeds towards the purpose it indicates, and if so, how, and what about public accountability, since their Public Records are closed-off too? And how much is the Reno Hilton's cut, or are they donating the hall and their employees time? If the latter, or the former, for that matter ~ shouldn't that information also be posted on the Publicized websites (Three websites total, at this time of writing...)?

Then you have to contact RARF for information about their activities...isn't that what a website is for? The website lists little in the way of information. Once again, no accountability as to what the funds are being spent for. Funds already taken in. I repeat, both RARA and the RARF are refusing inspection of the Public Record, and I will add that their partners in crime, the AAWC and Krys Bart et al, are blocking it with provision of obsolete information and a facade of lies.

The Wings and Strings event indicates that the RARF side of the proceeds will go to support educational programs and events related to Aviation.

What about education in regards to Air Racing? And do we really want the "loserships" (once was "leadership," i.e., Bill Stead, Thorton Audrain, et al) at RARA and the RARF around children in the first place, considering how they currently treat people in Aviation and Air Racing, when they're not guzzling champagne in their Astronaut of the Day fest. Should we send people like Mike Houghton out as Ambassadors to Young People, right after a night of his exploits down at the Hilton Pylon Bar? Considering how badly the Air Racers get treated by these clowns, do we want anyone of tender years getting their Aviation pep talks from the dredges of Air Racing "Society" (read as: Sorority, Banned Sorority, Animal House...) like Mike Houghton, Tom Robinson, Bill "Mr. CIA" Eck or Tom "Loose Lips" Gribbin?

Oh, and if one considers the RARA Girl line of clothing they tried to develop after stealing from others, will it be: "A man's place in Aviation is the cockpit; a woman's place in Aviation is with us! Down at the Hilton Pylon Bar!" ~ !!??

Based on their treatment of others in Air Racing, the Warbird Community and Aviation in General, these RARA and RARF clowns have NOTHING to offer our children or grandchildren, and hopefully, someone is going to see that and put a stop to the charades of Fisher, Houghton, Gribbin, Robinson, Eck, Walther, et al.

Wouldn't it be nice if they at RARA and RARF raised a glass of champagne in toast to Lyle Shelton, Bill Destefani, Tom Dwelle, or any other veteran or rookie of Air Racing, instead of messing with them all the time, or year-in and year-out, padding their RARA nest eggs with more feathers in the form of appointments to the RRL and the like, or with moneys from these events that are not going to Air Racing or Air Racer related issues, and all by kissing the ass of someone who has been in outer space?

And the astronauts truly think they're being honored, and not being set-up for an ulterior motive. You or I would honor them, but RARA, the RARF...are users and abusers. You can see that in the way they treat the racers, so what do you expect to change in the way of their conduct?

These decadent souls at RARA and RARF have seen the future, and all of Air Racing is excluded. That's why you're seeing toasts to Astronauts, not Air Racers. No Reno Air Race parades anymore, though everyone else gets that star treatment down South Virginia Avenue. They at RARA and the RARF are trying to finagle a position with the Rocket Racing League and Dr. Peter H. Diamandis. RARA and the RARF have to pay their way in. Where do you seriously think the money is coming from?

So, RARA already has a business deal with the Rocket Racing League (RRL)? Where's the money coming from for that, as well? Why won't they open the Public Record? Why are they banning Press? Why are they threatening everyone? Why are they shutting down? Why did they really sell the land? What do they have planned next?

And are you happy that RARA is bringing the RRL to Reno? With Houghton's safety record? How do they hope to pinpoint land these Racers, which will be coming in to land as gliders, power off, deadstick, when other landing sites require dry lake bed style surroundings? All that Stead has to offer is sage and fixed runway positions. The lack of open area for free-style landings could prove deadly. Autoflight controls might take human factors out of the scenario, but the winds at Stead and the turbulence there near the mountains and hills, could still prove fatal in an aircraft with no go-around capability.

Bill Anders, Hoot Gibson, Curt Brown and the late Deke Slayton. They all deserve their due. As astronauts and racers. They've all contributed above and beyond the call of duty outside their assigned duties in the Military and with NASA. One has passed away (Slayton). Another has retired and performs the Heritage flights (Anders). Two continue to race (Gibson and Brown). Three of the four have been saluted (Brown, Gibson and Anders). Repeatedly, and that's a good thing.

However, what about the rest of Air Racing?

RARA has money to party, but not enough for Advertising in the massive population of the nearby, Bay area, which includes San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento, not to mention, San Jose and the Silicon Valley, the latter of which boasts some of the greatest technological minds of this past century and the current? That additional draw would give them more money to party, and more money for the purse, plus additional income boosts to the Community. If the community knew how much, they might opt out of the building of a Reno-Stead Airport Regional Business Center and choose to stay with an event that makes the name "Reno" famous and prestigious World-round, and keep those tourist funds coming in. They might hold an event that size twice a year and fill in with smaller races featuring a mix of classes and increase both draw, as well as income and sponsorship, plus television coverage. The Community might just do that.

The question is, why isn't RARA doing that at this time? Houghton's crybaby attitude that ESPN costs too much is rubbish. Don't pay ESPN, have someone pay you for television coverage, and get them involved in covering Air Races. Not enough draw, advertise outside of Reno and hold more events. Keep the land, don't sell it, since Moya Olsen Lear donated the land for the course and I don't think she planned on having either herself or her family members cheated out of what would otherwise be their rightful inheritence, especially if RARA hadn't the intent to race on the land, but rather, announced it had intent to profiteer by selling it to their friends at the AAWC, and under false pretenses to boot!

Thus, it would seem that the current loserships of RARA and the RARF could care less about Air Racing, the Air Racer, the Team, the Team Owner, the fans, the Air Show Industry, et al, therefore, why should you or I pump our hard-earned money into their organizations, one of which is destined to be liquidated thanks to the illegal conduct of Mike Houghton and the Board in selling the land to the AAWC that was meant for use as a racecourse by Moya Olsen Lear; the other, likely to be liquidated, because it only seems to have something to do with Air Racing in an Aviation sense, is not devoted to the Sport, could care less (like RARA) about the Racers; is led by the same cretins who lead RARA; and is likely to never build a museum that will see the light of day, and is even more likely to be liquidated since money and power, and not the noble cause, are all they care about.

Truth be told: if they cared about Air Racing, why would they sell the land, try to move the air races, then plan on liquidating the grandest event of our century, into oblivion?

Perhaps you should all consider putting your hard earned moneys not into license plates, that should be made by the entire Board of RARA and RARF while institutionalized in a prison, and RARA/RARF donation boxes that should be filled instead with Bandini !

Rather, put that hard earned money into the hands of your favorite Air Racers and sponsor their Teams directly! Especially since charity minded RARA insists that whole classes must present Sponsors on the RARA alter, as I've said before, so Mike Houghton can get down to his skivvies and roll in it like Demi Moore, in a scene from the movie "Indecent Proposal."

For that's exactly what you have here...RARA and RARF with their hands out. And that equates, based on their misconduct, past, present, and what we know is going down in the future, to an "Indecent Proposal" that all in Air Racing should reject!

That is all...but don't be surprised if I have more to say about this in the future. The near future in fact.

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