"I want a balloon."
"You've already got one!"
Posted on 02/03/2023 2:25:53 PM PST by conservative98
The White House said Friday it is "keeping all options on the table" regarding the Chinese spy balloon after President Biden followed "strong" recommendations from defense officials not to shoot down the aircraft due to safety to people on the ground.
White House officials said Biden made his decision based on a "strong recommendation" from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley and the commander of Northern Command
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Meme of Native Americans....
Except for Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles with his Yiddish accent, 99% of the movie and TV actors in these roles had Brooklyn accents. Mostly Italians with makeup.
OK Joe, we know what’s on the table. Now tell us what’s under the table.
What we need is a really big “common” pin.
Verne wrote several balloon novels (as 80 Days):
In a review of a new edition of Five Weeks in a Balloon, there is this nonfiction account of another flight:
My favorite moment in Holmes’s narrative is the landing of the first hydrogen balloon, piloted by Dr. Alexandre Charles in 1783. After a successful 27-mile flight, the balloon was brought to earth and secured, but when Charles asked his companion to step out of the basket, the balloon unexpectedly “rapidly relaunched and climbed into the sunset, reaching the astonishing height of 10,000 feet in a mere ten minutes.”
Charles managed to reach earth again in 35 minutes, but he never flew again. Despite intense and partially successful efforts to find ways to steer and better control the flight of balloons, they remained in the 19th century, as Holmes puts it, “beautiful, expensive and dangerous toys.”
Great cover of an elephant pulling down a line in Africa:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-image-of-africa-from-the-sky-jules-vernes-five-weeks-in-a-balloon/
“””Wouldn’t surprise me if US taxpayers paid for the balloon and reconnaissance mission”””
I am with you. We paid the Chinese for the covid virus. A balloon is a lot cheaper.
And what if it were a Chinese plane?
Would the coward Pedo Joe shoot it down?
Probably not.
Where’s Maverick when you need him.
Simple enough since there are only two, shoot it down it down or don't.
How did this thing get through the ADIZ if no flight plan, no ID?
I decided not to stop the guy raping my wife, but all options are on the table.
Trojan Balloons....
"I want a balloon."
"You've already got one!"
he’s worried some jackrabbit in Montana might get hurt?
You want that balloon down and gone? Forward the following to 5 people, and tell them to send that to 5 people: “the balloon contains information that could lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.”
And the visitor guest book to Epstein Island!
Napalm it, I guess...
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230204-chinese-balloon-advanced-hard-to-shoot-down-us-expert
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