Curtis Menard Jr died ten years ago today-accident or murder?

Curtis and his son Dirk.



Was it an accident or murder?



I'm going to revisit a post I written earlier.



The crash report states this:



The pilot departed his residence at a private lake in a float-equipped airplane to transport passengers to another remote lake. Prior to his departure, the airplane was fueled by the pilot from a 1,000 gallon metal tank located on his lake property. During the fueling process, the metal tank's fuel supply was exhausted, but sufficient fuel was obtained to fill one fuel tank, and nearly fill the other. Before departing for the day, the pilot purchased 15 gallons of additional fuel at a nearby airport and placed 5 gallons of the additional fuel in the airplane fuel tanks. He then conducted two round-trip flights to the remote lake. After a day of fishing at the remote lake, the pilot flew to his residence, and added 10 gallons of additional fuel to the airplane. Two empty five gallon fuel cans were found at his dock. He then departed on the accident flight to pick up additional passengers from the remote lake, but he did not arrive at his destination. The airplane was located inverted in an area of tall trees. The airplane flaps were extended full down. The engine did not appear to be running at the time of the accident. The airplane's fuel totalizer indicated 29 gallons of fuel. A postaccident examination of the engine found no mechanical malfunctions. Minor wrinkles were found along the bottom of each of the airplane's fuel bladders. The gascolator contained about a teaspoon of water and particulate contamination. The header tank had about an ounce of fuel and water. The fuel pump contained no fuel. Evidence of tan-colored particulate contamination was found in a fluid sample obtained from the fuel filter housing, attached to the pilot's fuel tank hand pump on his fuel tank.



The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:



A loss of engine power during cruise flight due to fuel system contamination with water, and the pilot's inadequate preflight procedures. A factor in the accident was unsuitable terrain for a forced landing."



However Curtis and Sarah had a big fight a few weeks before the crash. Curtis was always careful about fuel contamination. Sarah had been to his residence many times and knew the lay of the property. Hmmm.

Norway terrorist attack

My thoughts and prayers go out to the country of Norway and the victims of yesterday's terrorist attacks. Apparently the terrorist is a right wing fundamentalist by the name of Anders Behring Breivik.

As a Christian (United Methodist) I'm offended by this guy. There is no place for fundamentalism in this world. The bible was meant for interpretation and is full of metaphors, not to be taken literally. Like where Jonah was swallowed by a whale. It is scientifically impossible for that to happen. He could have been chewed up by a whale. And the bible does not specify what kind of whale it was either. It could have been a shark.

People like Anders Behring Breivik give Christianity a bad name, like Osama Bin Laden gives Islam a bad name.

Casey Anthony gets out of jail today

As you all know Casey Anthony was found not guilty of killing her daughter Caylee, but was found guilty on four counts of lying to police etc.  She got credit for time served and good behavior so she gets out today which is bullshit but that's another story.

Someone on the Immoral Minority commented that Casey and Sarah are a lot alike.    I have to agree they are.

Both are neglectful mothers
Both have a sense of entitlement
Both are proven liars
Both are criminals

Is Sarah Palin a murderer?

Curtis Menard was a school mate and friend of Sarah and Todd's.  Sarah had a big crush on him back in Jr. High when he first moved to town.  Curtis ended up asking another girl to go steady.   However Sarah's crush on him never wavered.  She even wrote about him in Going Rogue:

“For nearly four decades our two families’ lives intertwined like flourishing vines, so much that Curtis Jr. even grew up to be my firstborn’s godfather". (p.24)

“Just before Track was born, Todd and I moved to a small apartment in Wasilla, next door to our good friend Curtis Menard, Jr., who by now was a dentist like his dad. Curtis was like a brother to me. We asked him to be Track’s godfather. Todd and I shared one car, and we loved our little life together, though with the Slope and fishing schedule we still didn’t see each other very much. I wanted another baby right away, so I was excited when I learned I was pregnant again.” (page 55)

In ""Trailblazer" Lorenzo Benet writes about a very heated argument Sarah and Curtis had one day about her parenting skills in 2001.  Shortly after Curtis died in a plane crash, which was caused by water contamination found in his gas tank at his home.  Lorenzo writes about the crash in great detail in his book.

Before Sarah finished her term as mayor, she named the famous hockey complex after Curtis.

There has been speculation that Curtis is the biological father of Track, Sarah's oldest son. Curtis lived in an apartment next door to Sarah and Todd and Todd would be gone for weeks at a time with his North Slope job and the fishing business...enough time for Sarah and Curtis to have a little hanky-panky.

Todd and Sarah married August 29,1988, Track was born April 20, 1989. (ironically Hitler's 100th birthday). So that means Track was conceived in July 1989 and Todd was gone most of that month. Track was a full term baby.

I wonder if Curtis threatened to blow the whistle on Track's paternity during that argument he and Sarah had, and Sarah did something to his gas tanks so his plane would crash.

Then there is Dar Miller.  Dar was a hospice nurse at Mat-Su Regional Care.  She died in a house fire in 2009.   

Dar was from Wasilla and attended the same church as the Palins.  It has been speculated that Dar knew about Trig's real birth and parentage.  A month before the church Dar and the Palins attend also burned in a mysterious fire.  This same church also handles private adoptions.  And Sarah Palin has said she does not believe in coincidences.

The Jeremy Morlock story is now picking up steam

The Anchorage Daily News,  Tacoma News Tribune, and Seattle Times have all picked up the story thanks to the Immoral Minority blog's owner Jesse Griffin aka Gryphen.  Thanks for all your dedicated work Gryphen!.