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1 posted on 10/30/2015 11:59:22 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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Expensive surveillance equipment.


2 posted on 10/30/2015 12:04:31 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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These things don’t just “break loose.”


3 posted on 10/30/2015 12:04:56 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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Whoooo Doggie! Biggest duck I ever done see!

Yeah, we have rednecks and moonshiners in southern Pennsylvania.

4 posted on 10/30/2015 12:06:08 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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I am sure, in the private sector, if a $235 million asset got away for going on 7 hours with no one noticing, someone would be fired.

WTH do we need with a $235 million blimp, anyway? What is the purpose of it? What is the benefit of it? Why is no one in the media asking these questions?


5 posted on 10/30/2015 12:07:39 PM PDT by NEMDF
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State police used shotguns to shoot down wayward military blimp that cut loose and drifted across Pennsylvania http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3295818/Could-weeks-untangle-wayward-military-blimp-Pennsylvania-woodland-state-police-use-shotguns-deflate-it.html


6 posted on 10/30/2015 12:08:00 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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You should read all the jokes on social media - the veterans sites are having a ball...


7 posted on 10/30/2015 12:09:34 PM PDT by Old Sarge
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saw a video of it coming down...looked like a big condom, something you’d see in a Woody Allen movie &^)


8 posted on 10/30/2015 12:10:14 PM PDT by SGCOS
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What took so long to make the shoot down decision? They’re prepared to shoot down a commercial airliner with hundreds of passengers on board if need be, what’s the delay with an unmanned, empty blimp? And what’s $200+M taxpayer among friends?


9 posted on 10/30/2015 12:11:50 PM PDT by EDINVA
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The expense is not so much the balloon, as the fancy electronics in its .
10 posted on 10/30/2015 12:14:03 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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11 posted on 10/30/2015 12:14:57 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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“It looks like a giant....”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1JgMxRm—0


12 posted on 10/30/2015 12:16:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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When this happens around our house, the aerostat deflates automatically near the site.

http://www.acc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123272558


13 posted on 10/30/2015 12:18:20 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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O the Hugh manatee WWI zeppelin battle photo: Zeppelin postcard BabyKiller.jpg
14 posted on 10/30/2015 12:18:38 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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It is not clear who shot down the blimp.

I have my suspicions...


16 posted on 10/30/2015 12:20:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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"Blimp fricassee"...good eatin' !


22 posted on 10/30/2015 12:31:52 PM PDT by twister881
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When I first read about a runaway blimp, I thought Michael Moore had slipped his collar.


25 posted on 10/30/2015 12:45:27 PM PDT by IronJack
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It’s just swamp gas.


27 posted on 10/30/2015 12:56:02 PM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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When I first heard about this balloon coming over Pa, I told my wife that if it comes down chances are they are going to find it with at least one hole in it.

Washington doesn't have a clue just how fed up the American people are with its government.

29 posted on 10/30/2015 12:57:21 PM PDT by jimbug
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We can not let the Russians get ahead of us in blimp technology race. The wave of the future


31 posted on 10/30/2015 1:03:53 PM PDT by Cyman
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Russia bombs Syria , Obama shoots down his own Blimp


32 posted on 10/30/2015 1:16:04 PM PDT by butlerweave
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