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Hobby Balloons
susie
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In the quest to show how strong we are, the powers that be decided if it flies it dies? Apparently one of the objects that was disintegrated may have been a hobby balloon from a group in Illinois.
Biden has gone from Hiden Biden to Biden the Balloon Buffoon.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illinois-hobby-club-fears-balloon-shot-down-usaf-report
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That hobby group will live in infamy.
It's really getting difficult to discern when its malfeasance or incompetence, with this administration. They sort of waffle between the two. Some have suggested merely weaponized incompetence. I tend to lean toward malfeasance, personally.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I don't buy it.
Not so sure I do either. With all of the laws, rules and regulations we have in this country, it is legal to float a balloon at the heights commercial aircraft fly? Bob
Biden is now saying THREE of the balloons were not Chinese, instead most likely private owned or research related.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/china-spy-balloons-biden-addresses-nation-on-shootdowns-of-aerial-phenomena.html
I especially liked the part where they said they tried to contact the government to tell them about the balloons but nobody would listen.
It's almost guaranteed all of this will inevitably be either Trump, or Bush's fault.
We sure are looking bad in the world stage these days! I can almost hear the laughter across the pond! 😔
Wag the Dog all over again. This administration is so corrupt that now it's shooting down college engineering projects. They recently said they couldn't find the wreckage of the 2 or 3 others they shot down. Well yeah you blew up a weather balloon with a side winder missile. What do you think is going to be left of it???
Add Putin to the list
In Biden's press conference, he said they didn't know what it was they shot down, only that it wasn't balloons from China's spy program.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I honestly think if a kite gets away from a kid this Spring some branch of our military will shoot it down.
These things were - literally - under the radar until now. Hobby balloon flying will soon be illegal, I predict. Such things really are a hazard to commercial air traffic. It will be regulated in a way similar to drones or amateur rocketry.
They are only shooting down the assault balloons. Man. those things will tear the lungs right outa you. But we have decided that some of the Chinese balloons are harmless.
But an hour after you shoot them down, you want to shoot another one. Need to keep an eye on the Germans.
A $500,000 missile to shoot down a $1000 balloon. In one case two missiles.
Brad Steele
God Bless 'Merica
The price of Hot Air sure has gone up!!
Biden needed a crisis in order to push his incompetent handling of classified documents out of the news. Suddenly, by pure coincidence, the balloon "crisis" happened to appear, literally out of thin air.
Well it seems that it worked...
any bets if the hobby balloon club gets a bill for two missles? i heard $400,000 apiece
We are going to have a real problem race time in Indy with the balloon race.
and you can now add trip to Ukraine and Poland.............