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Claim: One of the possible Chinese spy balloons, or possibly reactionless drive alien UFOs, shot down with $380,000+ Sidewinder missiles might just have been a $12 balloon sent up by an amateur aeronautics club.

Bottlecap Balloon Brigade - an Illinois hobby group - claims its $13 weather balloon last pinged near Yukon on February 10 - hours before F-22 brought down UFO in SAME area with $400k missile
Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade reported one of its balloons 'missing in action' around the same time location jets downed an object over Alaska
It's now suspected the object shot down using $400,000 Sidewinder missile may have been the group's balloon
Hobby balloons cost as little as $12 and carry device that transmits their location
By Lewis Pennock For Dailymail.Com

A mystery object shot down by U.S. fighter jets amid ongoing hysteria sparked by a Chinese spy balloon may have been a $12 inflatable launched by a hobby group in Illinois.
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) reported one of its balloons 'missing in action' around the same location - and at the time time - a U.S. Air Force jet downed an unidentified object near Alaska using a $400,000 Sidewinder missile.
NIBBB said its 'K9YO' balloon last reported its location shortly before 1am GMT on Saturday, February 11 (8pm EST on February 10), near the coast of southwest Alaska.
Later on Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared an 'unidentified object' was downed over Canada's Yukon territory, several hundred miles from K9YO's last known location.
The object shot down by a a U.S. Air Force F-22 fighter jet over Mayo, Yukon, was variously described by officials in Canada and the U.S. as a 'cylindrical', metallic balloon with a payload.
Balloons used by hobby groups like NIBBB often fit the same description. They are usually attached with a small, solar-powered payload that transmits location data back to listening posts on the ground. Typically, these payloads are no larger than a credit card.

Is it true? Well I guarantee you this: If it is true, our corrupt government and lying media would never, ever admit it to be true. They'd just lie, as they do about everything.

So what can one do except to take this as true?

Megyn Kelly talked to Spencer Klavan about the "Reality Crisis." The institutions which formerly could be counted on to provide the truth -- or the truth with a political bias, but still close enough that if you squinted you could make out the truth -- have become lunatic lie factories.

This has infected all formerly-respected institutions. They are so determined to defeat Trump -- and people who supported Trump -- that they have made lying their chief vocation. They think they're just keeping "the deluded common folk" from believing Trump's lies by fighting them with Better, More Enlightened Lies.

And thus, everything Trump said about covid must be countered with a lie. Trump said that "the cure must not be worse than the disease," speaking, correctly, about the harms caused by shutdowns? Then we'll just lie and say there are no harms caused by shutdowns, and we'll like to make covid sound more threatening than it really is.

We will fight the Bad Lies with Good Lies!

Hey assholes -- there are no "Good Lies." You're just lying for the same reason every other tyrant and dirtbag has ever lied -- to benefit yourselves. To obtain or keep power and money.

Pennsylvania police say that alleged human remains turn out to be... a discarded sex doll.

A silicone sex doll "used for self gratification" was found by Pennsylvania authorities after it was initially believed to have been human remains, police said Monday.
The Tunkhannock Township Police said officers were dispatched over a report of possible human remains inside a bag Sunday found by a man and his son. They were retrieving a ball from a creek when they found a black plastic bag with a foot sticking out.
...
"We’ve seen this item referred to as a mannequin online," the police department said in a Facebook post. "That really isn't accurate. This was a lifelike silicone item used for self gratification. It's the size of a small child, weighs about 50 pounds and is anatomically correct."
"The foot we were able to observe through the bag was extremely detailed all the way down the French pedicure it had," the post said.

Ohhh la la, classy.

Not sure if the "size of a small child" means its a child-shaped sex doll, or it's just an incomplete body to save money (that is, the lower half of the body).

A man tried to escape a maximum security prison... dressed as a sheep.

You had my interest, now you have my attention.

This plan isn't as crazy as it sounds. The prison adjoined a sheep pasture. So his idea was that if he could just get out of the prison, he could make his way across the pasture in a sheep costume, and hope that guards wouldn't notice he was a Fake Sheep.

It's not the stupidest thing I ever heard.

He somehow got a sheep's wool jacket delivered to him in prisoner. Then he got out of the prison (I don't know how he did that, the article doesn't say) and wore the sheep's wool jacket to blend in with the grass-munchers.

This is not fully stupid, when you consider he made his way out at night:

I think he's on his belly there because the police have surrounded him.

The guards noticed he wasn't in his cell and searched the field and discovered him.

Yeah, the costume cannot hold up to close scrutiny. It might be able to fool a guard in a tower, especially if you're able to blend in with the other sheep. Maybe that was the problem -- the sheep moved away from him, denying him his chance of blending in.

He also needed more of a head start. He needed a better Fake Human in his bed to delay the guards' notice of his absence.

But I insist: This is not a terrible idea!

"Shear genius," someone on Twitter remarked.

America under Biden, and Secretary of Transportation Mayor Butt:

Your wife takes you home after she finds out you cheated on her. pic.twitter.com/ce07QPhVZ3
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) February 15, 2023

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1 Meep meep!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 16, 2023 06:56 PM (lphXC)

2 Foist

Posted by: Dad of Six at February 16, 2023 06:56 PM (VpZau)

3 Dang!

Posted by: Dad of Six at February 16, 2023 06:56 PM (VpZau)

4 We are living in a parody of ourselves.

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 06:56 PM (iayUP)

5 "Ohhh la la, classy.

Not sure if the "size of a small child" means its a child-shaped sex doll, or it's just an incomplete body to save money (that is, the lower half of the body)."

Could also have been broken in half to fit in trash bags or something.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 16, 2023 06:57 PM (eYoxG)

6 Nooded.

Posted by: Dad of Six at February 16, 2023 06:57 PM (VpZau)

7 I've bought some questionable women 20 bucks in drinks

I have no room to bitch

Posted by: REDACTED at February 16, 2023 06:58 PM (us2H3)

8 That days later the US Government has no idea what they shot down? Ludicrous.

And that some Air Farce Pilot shot down something without identifying it? When it was NO THREAT IN THE FIRST PLACE? Highly unbelievable. No way they didn't do a fly by....

Hell, they could have knocked it out of the air with the Jet Wash.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 06:58 PM (oHd/0)

9 Emerald Robinson said her very high ranking source in the DOD claims it was a hypersonic antigravity Chinese rocket spy plane the AF shot down.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 06:58 PM (DK4U1)

10 This little lady is in the book of Marxists:

https://tinyurl.com/5n8kck9s

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 06:59 PM (DK4U1)

11 $400k to take out a balloon still cheaper than Ukraine

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

12 Called it:

President Biden remains in tip-top shape, according to White House physician Kevin O'Connor.

"President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency," his physical, Kevin O'Connor, wrote in a Thursday memo request by Biden.

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (geLO8)

13 Things are not getting better.

Let's see if I have this right - Chinese multi-ton spy balloon over our military facilities, no, the right thing to do is not shoot it down, we need to wait.

$12 hobby balloon - scramble the ready squadron and shoot shoot shoot!

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (pwExq)

14 Bottlecap Balloon Brigade must be white supremacists.
Also they love bottled beer.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (v0R5T)

15
If that last clip was a Chi-Com bus driver, what must their military be like? If our Army were composed of Sam Brintons, we might have a shot.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (x0n13)

16 "Balloons used by hobby groups like NIBBB often fit the same description. They are usually attached with a small, solar-powered payload that transmits location data back to listening posts on the ground"

Radio tech called APRS, basically internet protocol over RF. You can see all of the traffic here: aprs.fi

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:01 PM (24fqN)

17 Bus driving looks like a video game.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 16, 2023 07:02 PM (lphXC)

18 Things are not getting better.

Let's see if I have this right - Chinese multi-ton spy balloon over our military facilities, no, the right thing to do is not shoot it down, we need to wait.

$12 hobby balloon - scramble the ready squadron and shoot shoot shoot!

The $12 balloon wasn't relaying data back to Biden's paymasters.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2023 07:02 PM (Bd6X8)

19 Somebody should ask Joe if he has defeated the Bottlecap Balloon Brigade yet.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:02 PM (v0R5T)

20 11 $400k to take out a balloon still cheaper than Ukraine
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

Now add in the fuel used, and maintenance time to get that F-22 back up to speed.

Note, currently our F-35 fleet is only 55% airworthy, according to the Pentagon... 45% are down due to maintenance problems... which means with the air hour to maintenance hour normal cycle, only about 25% are deployable at any time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:02 PM (oHd/0)

21 Life is ultimately about the search for truths. Without the truth, you have nothing but emptiness and evil. That they have turned entire institutions and the media into organs of mendacity, tells you everything you need to know about them.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:03 PM (pIKd9)

22 Seems like not stopping isn't his idea to me

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:03 PM (xhxe8)

23 16 The payload has a GPS rcvr, a xmtr, and a microcontroller like a Raspberry Pico (which I got my first two samples of today.)

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:03 PM (24fqN)

24 Then we'll just lie and say there are no harms caused by shutdowns, and we'll like to make covid sound more threatening than it really is.

They certainly did this...but the left does this about EVERYTHING.

Spending money on shit? Hey people get money and we never have to pay it back?

Bringing in illegals? Better tacos, cheaper workers, and its not like they ever break laws, take government dollars, or end up taking American jobs

and on and on.

Every leftwing idea is 100% pure upside.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2023 07:04 PM (lc5cP)

25 Question is does this club balloon have the capability of getting well above 40,000 feet?

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:04 PM (xhxe8)

26 This administration is a sick joke.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2023 07:04 PM (fR7jR)

27 Remember those 12' high hot air balloons you could order from comic books? They were made of tissue paper strips you had to glue together and worked, like, once. I hadn't thought of those in years. I ordered one though, and it was every bit the disappointment you would expect.

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 07:05 PM (iayUP)

28 Out: Using a $400K missile to blow up a camel in Trashcanistan

In: Using a $400K missile to blow up a weather balloon in Canuckistan

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2023 07:05 PM (lc5cP)

29 Bottlecap Brigade vs Joe Biden sounds like a kids book.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (XtkZj)

30 Odds on Dr. Kevin O'Connor visited Epstein Island.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (N52dd)

31 >>>A mystery object shot down by U.S. fighter jets amid ongoing hysteria sparked by a Chinese spy balloon may have been a $12 inflatable launched by a hobby group in Illinois.

Top. ~~Men.~~ Sperm providers.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (PyOKD)

32 25 Question is does this club balloon have the capability of getting well above 40,000 feet?
Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:04 PM (xhxe

It's a balloon.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (XtkZj)

33 Sheepish escapee felon was in Bolivia.

Posted by: Ciampino - what a bovine at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (qfLjt)

34 That bus driver has skillz. Didn't crash. I *assume* it was a one way road, but who knows?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (ynpvh)

35 Question is does this club balloon have the capability of getting well above 40,000 feet?

Mile high club...I'm all over that!

Ok, yeah I literally mean the balloon can go that high, not that I've ever been with a woman. Sigh...

Posted by: Some Balloon club nerd at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (lc5cP)

36 David Strom: Nimrods against Nimrata

https://tinyurl.com/5ae6x9pu

Left is being racist as fuck again.

Posted by: Robert at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (pf6bn)

37 video sounded like the chinese version of do it yourself roller coaster.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (kFrCu)

38 AIM-9M should not cost $400k/per

Posted by: Halfhand at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (fnOLQ)

39 That'll teach him!

@WashTimes 5m

Rubio urges Biden to ask Buttigieg for his resignation -

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (XF9Gj)

40 No math, but I figure being on the wagon until my birthday at the end of the month, maybe just go all the way through Lent, and lay off the gambling a little I could launch a balloon a day for a month. I know a couple wizards who could probably whip up some cheapo transponders that just broadcast FJB, FJB...

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (lz5hY)

41 Say what you want a bout George Santos but he along with MTG and a number of other house members, introduced legislation to ban sexually explicit from school, making him more conservative than Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (up/3i)

42 Bottlecap Brigade vs Joe Biden sounds like a kids book.

But do I get to smell the kids in the end?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (lc5cP)

43 I ordered one though, and it was every bit the disappointment you would expect.

Pffft.

Posted by: Sea Monkeys at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (Xrfse)

44 Every toy balloon just doesn't get to 40-60,000 feet

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:08 PM (xhxe8)

45 >>>A mystery object shot down by U.S. fighter jets amid ongoing hysteria sparked by a Chinese spy balloon may have been a $12 inflatable launched by a hobby group in Illinois.

It's a shame.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 07:08 PM (PyOKD)

46 12 Called it:

President Biden remains in tip-top shape, according to White House physician Kevin O'Connor.

"President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency," his physical, Kevin O'Connor, wrote in a Thursday memo request by Biden.

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (geLO

But enough about his ability to sniff out little girls...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

47 Spy barroon floated over the country, making them look weak. No like looking weak. To stop looking weak they shoot at everything.

Top Men.

Posted by: davidt at February 16, 2023 07:08 PM (SYTee)

48 Pikers.

Posted by: Baking Soda Submarines at February 16, 2023 07:08 PM (Xrfse)

49 I still don't get the furor over Santos. So he lied about being gay? Don't they tell us endlessly its a spectrum?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (lc5cP)

50 20 11 $400k to take out a balloon still cheaper than Ukraine
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

Now add in the fuel used, and maintenance time to get that F-22 back up to speed.

Note, currently our F-35 fleet is only 55% airworthy, according to the Pentagon... 45% are down due to maintenance problems... which means with the air hour to maintenance hour normal cycle, only about 25% are deployable at any time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:02 PM (oHd/0)

STILL cheaper than Ukraine

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (ynpvh)

51 "Yeah, the costume cannot hold up to close scrutiny"

Better to choose black sheep for night ops.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (24fqN)

52 F-22 pilot: "This one looks like a blue dachshund. With HAPPY BIRTHDAY written on the side. Ribbons trailing behind. Over."

Ground control: "FIRE FIRE FIRE!"

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (v0R5T)

53 Say what you want a bout George Santos but he along with MTG and a number of other house members, introduced legislation to ban sexually explicit from school, making him more conservative than Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 16, 2023 07:07 PM (up/3i)

If we sacked Congressmen for lying we'd need 435 special elections.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (eoQWY)

54 Jim I was waiting for a car or bicycle coming up the hill

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (xhxe8)

55 27 Remember those 12' high hot air balloons you could order from comic books? They were made of tissue paper strips you had to glue together and worked, like, once. I hadn't thought of those in years. I ordered one though, and it was every bit the disappointment you would expect.

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 07:05 PM (iayUP)

I hope you didn't order the sea monkeys or the x-ray glasses...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

56 Biden's doctor is a full of de caca.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:10 PM (XtkZj)

57 >>>But I insist: This is not a terrible idea!

>>>"Shear genius," someone on Twitter remarked.

Good idea. Baaaaahhhd execution.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 07:10 PM (PyOKD)

58 Why do you use a heat seeking missile on a balloon?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 16, 2023 07:10 PM (lz5hY)

59 Here's some truths for you.

Russia is out of missiles, ammunition, tanks, planes and men.

Ukraine victory is only weeks away.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 16, 2023 07:11 PM (d7tk9)

60 Mile high club...I'm all over that!

Ok, yeah I literally mean the balloon can go that high, not that I've ever been with a woman. Sigh...
Posted by: Some Balloon club nerd at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (lc5cP)

Mile High Club? Hell, I'm a long time Snow Skier... been that many times over without ever having to leave the ground.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:11 PM (oHd/0)

61 I heard that after they caught him, the prison guards treated the fake sheep the same way they treat the real sheep when they're on break.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2023 07:11 PM (r46W7)

62 Bribe'em 2024, he's all in. Count on it

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2023 07:11 PM (fR7jR)

63 Oldcat and a new President

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:11 PM (xhxe8)

64 Don't they tell us endlessly its a spectrum?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (lc5cP)

I read that as speculum.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 07:11 PM (XIJ/X)

65

Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade

https://nibbb.org/

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2023 07:12 PM (63Dwl)

66 Here's the QRZ bio page for K9YO, the ham behind the balloon:
qrz.com/db/K9YO

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:12 PM (24fqN)

67 The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) reported one of its balloons 'missing in action' around the same location - and at the time time - a U.S. Air Force jet downed an unidentified object near Alaska using a $400,000 Sidewinder missile.

--

That's absolutely a bunch of honkey mofos.

Guess who is going to jail (or Gitmo) for a long, long time for things that aren't illegal, weren't illegal, but will now be illegal after the fact?

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:12 PM (ZLyax)

68 Note, currently our F-35 fleet is only 55% airworthy, according to the Pentagon... 45% are down due to maintenance problems... which means with the air hour to maintenance hour normal cycle, only about 25% are deployable at any time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:02 PM (oHd/0)

STILL cheaper than Ukraine
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:09 PM (ynpvh)

We might win the proxy war against toy balloons.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

69 bill my opinion you use a heat seaking missile to destroy what's under the balloon

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:12 PM (xhxe8)

70 Here's some truths for you.

Russia is out of missiles, ammunition, tanks, planes and men.

Ukraine victory is only weeks away.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

---

Not if Ukraine has anything to say about it.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (ZLyax)

71 >>>A mystery object shot down by U.S. fighter jets amid ongoing hysteria sparked by a Chinese spy balloon may have been a $12 inflatable launched by a hobby group in Illinois.

Top. Men.[/] Sperm providers.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (PyOKD)
.......

Low motility.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (v0R5T)

72 oops

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (v0R5T)

73 56 Biden's doctor is a full of de caca.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:10 PM (XtkZj)

I think he went to the same medical school as the doctor that declared that Fettermonster was fit to be a Senator.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (ynpvh)

74 Not only can no institutions be trusted, they've all actively betrayed us and stabbed us in the back. It's all rigged.
Everything is bullshit and lies.
Everything's a scam.
Everything's a rip-off.
Everything's an op.
Everything is fake and ghey.

Posted by: Except the cops. Back the Blue!!! at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (UKe2c)

75 Wouldn't shock me if Biden tried to order a bombing of their clubhouse to stop further incursions.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (XtkZj)

76 That's absolutely a bunch of honkey mofos.

Guess who is going to jail (or Gitmo) for a long, long time for things that aren't illegal, weren't illegal, but will now be illegal after the fact?
Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:12 PM (ZLyax)

IT WAS LAUNCHED ON JAN 6! Clearly part of the insurrection!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (oHd/0)

77 Target ID is critical to taking the shot. Fifth Gen and updated Fourth Gen aircraft all have very good target ID capabilities. So do a lot of the support aircraft they are flying.

Now given that, ask yourself why they would shoot it down and keep the payload, which they have a pretty fair amount of intel on, and even physical evidence, secret?

It's not a mystery. It's another diversion.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (pIKd9)

78 Good evening, horde. Can't stop laughing about the sheep disguise.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (OX9vb)

79 Big mistake, Sheep Guy, leaving a Hay Boy in your cell instead of a sex doll. That's Ace for you, providing the questions and the answers in a 'quick hits' post.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (DePyg)

80 75 Wouldn't shock me if Biden tried to order a bombing of their clubhouse to stop further incursions.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (XtkZj)

Just be careful of aspirin factories!

Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 16, 2023 07:14 PM (oHd/0)

81 61 I heard that after they caught him, the prison guards treated the fake sheep the same way they treat the real sheep when they're on break.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2023 07:11 PM (r46W7)

"...but you fuck ONE sheep..."

Posted by: Angus not known for bridge building at February 16, 2023 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

82 Biden's doctor is a full of de caca.

You take that back!

Posted by: Dr. Bombay at February 16, 2023 07:14 PM (Xrfse)

83 Now given that, ask yourself why they would shoot it down and keep the payload, which they have a pretty fair amount of intel on, and even physical evidence, secret?

It's not a mystery. It's another diversion.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (pIKd9)

Gun camera pictures, right?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

84 Here's the QRZ bio page for K9YO, the ham behind the balloon:
qrz.com/db/K9YO

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos
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Oh jeez. That white dude is casually holding a humble cross in that photo, too. Probably something made and given to him, and special to him beyond the obvious "savior" aspect. And he made a point to be holding it in the photo.

That insurrectionist is so f*cked.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:15 PM (ZLyax)

85 "Wouldn't shock me if Biden tried to order a bombing of their clubhouse to stop further incursions."

I'm gonna guess Libertyville is pretty blue, so the sortie will have to avoid collateral damage as much as possible.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (24fqN)

86 Here's the QRZ bio page for K9YO, the ham behind the balloon:
qrz.com/db/K9YO

From that page: "I am also interested in the intersection of technology and faith."

Obviously this means that the war on Christians has gone kinetic.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (Bd6X8)

87 What do they do when balloons cross the White House restricted airspace?

Posted by: Angus not known for bridge building at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (ynpvh)

88 Late 1960s, Municipal Junior Arts Center had a floaters and flyers class, made custom plastic helium balloons incl spooky mylar, sent aloft from Barnsdall hill over Los Angeles. Hilarity ensued.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (tsrLw)

89 /sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (ynpvh)

90 More info on the amateur balloon....

https://tinyurl.com/bdxjj9cc

Likely something that's been flying for years.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (Q4IgG)

91 83 Now given that, ask yourself why they would shoot it down and keep the payload, which they have a pretty fair amount of intel on, and even physical evidence, secret?

It's not a mystery. It's another diversion.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:13 PM (pIKd9)

Gun camera pictures, right?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

It moved like no other powered aircraft ever moved...and was completely quiet!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:17 PM (ynpvh)

92 87 What do they do when balloons cross the White House restricted airspace?
Posted by: Angus not known for bridge building at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (ynpvh

I assume Biden claps and giggles like a two year old.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:17 PM (XtkZj)

93 Tip-top Joey.

Expect Rep. Dr. Ronnie Jackson to be asked to opine on the fact we get another letter not a Dr able to withstand questions to which he'll again say a letter is a far cry from what ought be expected.

You know, ever since KJP did that 'top of mind' thing (forgetting the nature of that comment) it is now in full use by our precious media to noone's surprise. Oh the dead rep (car crash)

Posted by: micky at February 16, 2023 07:17 PM (3byMq)

94 What do they do when balloons cross the White House restricted airspace?
Posted by: Angus

They tie them together to distract Joey Choo-Choo from grabbing children.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2023 07:17 PM (XF9Gj)

95 "What do they do when balloons cross the White House restricted airspace?"

Fail to detect them.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:18 PM (24fqN)

96 Odds on Dr. Kevin O'Connor visited Epstein Island.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 16, 2023 07:06 PM (N52dd)

When Dr. O'Connor was asked by reporters if Biden had taken a cognitive test along with his physical test he answered unequivocally: "Huh?"

Posted by: Boswell at February 16, 2023 07:18 PM (+Cgut)

97 yah, it's pretty scary out there bros...with the two tier justice system working super double overtime to get trump. then they'll go after desantis.

say, what was impeachment one point oh about ?

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 07:18 PM (MLrvz)

98 using a 400K missle is like performing kintsugi on a piece of fiesta ware

Posted by: REDACTED at February 16, 2023 07:18 PM (us2H3)

99 Not sure if the "size of a small child" means its a child-shaped sex doll, or it's just an incomplete body to save money (that is, the lower half of the body).

*barf emoji*

I know they make very diminutive silicone dolls that aren't exactly sold as children but uhm yeah. The whole thing just is repugnant to me, like vomit inducing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2023 07:18 PM (0hOvj)

100 What do they do when balloons cross the White House restricted airspace?

-

Look to see if they might go towards Ukraine, and then shoot them down if so.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:18 PM (ZLyax)

101 Boy oh boy I can't wait for the trigger time when Albuquerque has that hot air balloon deal. Crew chief's gonna be pretty busy with the paint brush.

Lesbian F22 driver, ready to make her mark in history.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 16, 2023 07:19 PM (lz5hY)

102 [shudder]

. . . Meth is my co-pilot . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2023 07:19 PM (xhaym)

103 I thoroughly examined the putz...
I mean the president, and once the check cleared I gave him a clean bill of health.

Posted by: Dr. Vinny Boombatz at February 16, 2023 07:19 PM (qmOv7)

104 Apparently, randy prison guards are more choosy than expected when they get an urge for barnyard sodomy.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 07:19 PM (Jg7EG)

105 I assume Biden claps and giggles like a two year old.
--

He looks around to try and find the three year old holding the string.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:20 PM (ZLyax)

106 90 More info on the amateur balloon....

https://tinyurl.com/bdxjj9cc

Likely something that's been flying for years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (Q4IgG)

I heard that one of the mysterious silvery objects that were shot down had a picture of Dora the Explorer on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2023 07:20 PM (r46W7)

107 That bus video looks like it's from the end of that Norwegian movie, Force Majeure.

Posted by: moviegique at February 16, 2023 07:20 PM (asXVI)

108 Don't know about y'all but I'm blaming Biden when we have severe tornados this spring.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:21 PM (XtkZj)

109 Some balloon thoughts:

There is speculation that at least one of the objects shot down over Canada, Yukon by a US Air Force jet may have been amateur radio pico balloon K9YO-15 which was launched from Illinois on October 10 2022. It was on it's seventh circumnavigation of the globe after being aloft for 123 days.

It's larger than a Mylar party balloon with a little package of sensors hanging below. Highly reflective. Weather/HAM enthusiasts use them frequently.

Perfectly legal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:21 PM (Q4IgG)

110 106 90 More info on the amateur balloon....

https://tinyurl.com/bdxjj9cc

Likely something that's been flying for years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (Q4IgG)

I heard that one of the mysterious silvery objects that were shot down had a picture of Dora the Explorer on it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2023 07:20 PM (r46W7)

Control, this is Raptor 13, looks like we found Waldo...

Posted by: F-22 Pilot, firing a sidewinder at February 16, 2023 07:21 PM (oHd/0)

111 I'm a bit late to the party...Have any Morons 'fessed up about the sex doll yet?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 07:21 PM (BpYfr)

112 There is this ugly stereotype that Asians are bad drivers.
I've no idea where that comes from...

Posted by: gourmand du jour with a knee brace at February 16, 2023 07:22 PM (jTmQV)

113 106 90 More info on the amateur balloon....

https://tinyurl.com/bdxjj9cc

Likely something that's been flying for years.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:16 PM (Q4IgG)

I heard that one of the mysterious silvery objects that were shot down had a picture of Dora the Explorer on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2023 07:20 PM (r46W7)

And candy came out of it afterwards.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:22 PM (ynpvh)

114 111 I'm a bit late to the party...Have any Morons 'fessed up about the sex doll yet?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 07:21 PM (BpYfr

That's the problem with sex dolls. Disposal.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:22 PM (XtkZj)

115 He also needed more of a head start. He needed a better Fake Human in his bed to delay the guards' notice of his absence.
---
Apparently there's a discarded sex doll that's available...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (BpYfr)

116 It's larger than a Mylar party balloon with a little package of sensors hanging below. Highly reflective. Weather/HAM enthusiasts use them frequently.

Perfectly legal.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:21 PM (Q4IgG)

So, the US Government is using Military assets, to destroy US owned private property.... when there is no Law being broken.

This just keeps getting more and more ... interesting...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (oHd/0)

117 "the sheep moved away from him, denying him his chance of blending in. "

I get that a lot.

Posted by: eleven at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (t4fCu)

118 Bus driver has mad skillz.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (gryET)

119 "The foot we were able to observe through the bag was extremely detailed all the way down the French pedicure it had," the post said."

What I want to know is how a police department would even know what a French pedicure is.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (qoGsy)

120 POTUS is doing just fine. He finger popped two interns and showered with the Alexandria HS's field hockey team just yesterday.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (DePyg)

121 "Gun camera pictures, right?
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:14 PM (eoQWY)"

Fifth Gen usually have DAS and EOTS and other capabilities. These are the most sophisticated systems in the air today. That's before we even get to visual ID, which they will do before a shoot down.

It was also stated the first object they let traverse the country, when first detected over Alaska was "interfering with their sensors". That means it had some type of detection counter measures. None of the other incidents reported that.

This entire thing stinks.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (pIKd9)

122 112 There is this ugly stereotype that Asians are bad drivers.
I've no idea where that comes from...
Posted by: gourmand du jour with a knee brace at February 16, 2023 07:22 PM (jTmQV)

Uh, ever been to Asia?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (oHd/0)

123 I've been divorced too long. What is a French pedicure?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (XtkZj)

124 What I want to know is how a police department would even know what a French pedicure is.

Diversity.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (Xrfse)

125 yeah, let the China spy balloon collect intel and spew out a load of the newest bio-WMDs (because they paid Joe to allow it) ... then boost the MIC with a shoot down of a $12 balloon. ...

The oligarchs are at war with free people everywhere. It is just about power, in its most evil form. They get joy out of making good people suffer ... the same power rapists get, or and pedophile, or the prosecutors going after Trump for anything and everything ... special prosecutors love their power to abuse.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (Cus5s)

126 Does seem this Illinois group is putting balloons around the world, still wondering how high they get

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (xhxe8)

127 So, the US Government is using Military assets, to destroy US owned private property.... when there is no Law being broken.

This just keeps getting more and more ... interesting...
Posted by: Romeo13

I've said it before: When I am elected King, there will be either a pile of stars or heads on the table in front of me.

Now that I think about it, quite possibly both.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (qoGsy)

128 Did they run another brain scan on Biden?

If so, did it still come up negative?

Posted by: davidt at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (SYTee)

129 The Brigade is a very healthy amateur radio club. They're involved in newer tech, while a lot of hams are still mired in the old stuff, out of nostalgia. Importantly, they've successfully engaged many youth in the project. I'm surprised this is the first I've heard of them, and wish them much luck.

The membership of our local club will all die in the next few years, we're so old, and we can't attract any young members. Mainly because kids don't want to yack in mikes about how things were in the old days, and how's the weather.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (24fqN)

130 123 I've been divorced too long. What is a French pedicure?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (XtkZj)

$20, same as in town...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (oHd/0)

131 Okay, this should get great pretty fast.

People who were not aware that folks did this yesterday are now in fear for their lives because apparently passenger aircraft are in danger of sucking these small balloons into their engines.

"How are you acting like it’s no big deal to be launching unregistered objects to fly around at the altitude of passenger jets? It’s “innocent” until one gets sucked into a passenger jet’s engine. Hope the US continues to shoot them down, and owners should be prosecuted."

Twitter:

https://tinyurl.com/2kkdxhyr

Spoilers: Federal (FAA) law will soon be changed to ban these objects that haven't caused any trouble until they embarrass a dumbass president and his dumbass staff.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (ZLyax)

132 "the sheep moved away from him, denying him his chance of blending in. "

I get that a lot.

Posted by: eleven at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (t4fCu)

From sheep?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (PyOKD)

133 US Hwy 64 over Palo Flechado Pass is a little like that bus trip, but with traffic both ways and less screaming and speaking in tongues.

Posted by: huerfano at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (dTFZY)

134 when he takes enough linzess

Biden wipes his ass with 24 KT gold leaf

Posted by: REDACTED at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (us2H3)

135 Large capacity hobby balloons which nobody needs. For G-d's sake, lets end the sale of these weapons of war once and for all.

Don Retardo de Scranton y Wilmington, muy seria

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (lz5hY)

136 "Bus driver has mad skillz."

Insane but skilled.

Posted by: eleven at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (t4fCu)

137 122 112 There is this ugly stereotype that Asians are bad drivers.
I've no idea where that comes from...
Posted by: gourmand du jour with a knee brace at February 16, 2023 07:22 PM (jTmQV)

Uh, ever been to Asia?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (oHd/0)

I have. Being a pedestrian crossing streets is quite dangerous in some cities. Traffic lights? We don't use no stinking traffic lights.
Driving on the wrong side of the road? Those lanes weren't being used.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (ynpvh)

138 I've been divorced too long. What is a French pedicure?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

About $60. Same as in town.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (qoGsy)

139 I thought the sheep guy was kinda hot. Lucky the guards got him.

Posted by: Ram at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (EQybP)

140 Sigh.
Mrs D has been binge watching the tv show Bones.
I'm convinced kamala used this character as a role model.
The longer I sit in the room the more stoopider i get.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (anj39)

141 I've been divorced too long. What is a French pedicure?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (XtkZj)

I didn't know either, but Google sez

A French pedicure involves decorating your nail tips with thin white horizontal stripes. The nail plate will be painted in pink or neutral tones.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (eoQWY)

142 A clown tying balloons that're filled with helium would bring much hilarity to these preceedings.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (e6UQI)

143 The convict should have gotten his sheep outfit from this guy-

https://tinyurl.com/mrys6f4t

Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (NpAcC)

144 That's the problem with sex dolls. Disposal.

If you can attach one to a balloon that will go to high altitude the problem may resolve itself.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (Bd6X8)

145 Here's some truths for you.

Russia is out of missiles, ammunition, tanks, planes and men.

Ukraine victory is only weeks away.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Uhhh....somebody get hold of the folks at Salem. One of the RedState writers appears to have wandered over here. Pssst......blink three times if you're being forced to write Pentagon puff pieces against your will.

Posted by: SeaWorldActual at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (E1rpg)

146 Large capacity hobby balloons which nobody needs. For G-d's sake, lets end the sale of these weapons of war once and for all.

Don Retardo de Scranton y Wilmington, muy seria
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (lz5hY)

You kidding - there is a Party Balloon GAP. More funding!

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:27 PM (eoQWY)

147 Uh, ever been to Asia?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 07:24 PM (oHd/0)

Even been on a military installation where there are more than two asian wives?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2023 07:27 PM (anj39)

148 How soon until criticism of the EPA head honcho (jogger) gets the mob screaming "RaCIsmS"?

Posted by: micky at February 16, 2023 07:27 PM (3byMq)

149 Watching OSS 117: Cairo- Nest of Spies which seems to be a spoof/tribute to 1950s Bond films.
Made in 2006, it looks like a 1950s film

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2023 07:27 PM (Xlnez)

150 "Spoilers: Federal (FAA) law will soon be changed to ban these objects that haven't caused any trouble until they embarrass a dumbass president and his dumbass staff."

I wonder how pilots feel about them.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:28 PM (24fqN)

151 There is a farm next to the minimum-security prison in my town. The trustees get to work on the farm. No sheep though, just cattle.

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 16, 2023 07:28 PM (DB16e)

152 Babylon Bee headline:

"Biden Taken To Coroner For Annual Physical"

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 16, 2023 07:28 PM (ZSK0i)

153 A black woman invented mylar weather balloons in the 12th century and intended to only use them in legal ways to not crash passenger jets.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:28 PM (ZLyax)

154 149 stumbled on it on prime

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (Xlnez)

155 You all know Joe's doctor, right? Dr Vinnie Boombatz.

What a doctor, lemme tell ya...

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (geLO8)

156 There is this ugly stereotype that Asians are bad drivers.
I've no idea where that comes from...
Posted by: gourmand

She didn't crash... Can't say the same for our train drivers...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (BcMd9)

157 Russia is out of missiles, ammunition, tanks, planes and men.

I guess we'll know in a few days. Seems unlikely though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (0hOvj)

158 The membership of our local club will all die in the next few years, we're so old, and we can't attract any young members. Mainly because kids don't want to yack in mikes about how things were in the old days, and how's the weather.
Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM

My current club is doing well in that aspect. Embracing digital modes, NodeRed, POTA/SOTA, etc. We had 14 high school students get licensed a few months ago following a class we gave.

Posted by: Bert G at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (aCgRi)

159 What I want to know is how a police department would even know what a French pedicure is.

In some thread recently I mentioned that men don't care about painted nails on a woman and someone responded about liking a French pedicure so...I guess some people are into that sort of thing...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (lc5cP)

160 That's the problem with sex dolls. Disposal.

If you can attach one to a balloon that will go to high altitude the problem may resolve itself.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2023 07:26 PM (Bd6X

Not a bad idea.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (PyOKD)

161 ou all know Joe's doctor, right? Dr Vinnie Boombatz.

What a doctor, lemme tell ya...

Does he specialize in necromancy?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2023 07:30 PM (Bd6X8)

162 Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)

These guys will need some milk and cookies for their FBI visitors... and an attorney.

Posted by: DaveA at February 16, 2023 07:30 PM (FhXTo)

163 From an earlier thread:
The main advantage to having Epstein dead is that his accomplices may not know who organized the whole thing, or even if they know, their testimony can be discounted.
Sure, they may have seen a customer or a dozen and slept with them, but they do not know under whose orders Epstein acted or who had access to his cameras and recordings. Or, even if they know, they have no evidence.
Maybe Epstein met someone and received explicit orders. Maybe he even mentioned it to others, but now it's hearsay.

Posted by: PG at February 16, 2023 07:30 PM (84jHt)

164 23 16 The payload has a GPS rcvr, a xmtr, and a microcontroller like a Raspberry Pico (which I got my first two samples of today.)

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:03 PM (24fqN)

Here's an example :
https://qrp-labs.com/u4b.html

Posted by: a.moron at February 16, 2023 07:31 PM (F6Xpw)

165 Russia is out of missiles, ammunition, tanks, planes and men.

I guess we'll know in a few days. Seems unlikely though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (0hOvj)

Well, they've sent out 50-100 item missile attacks yesterday and last week, so unless that was the last drop at least one of those is false.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:31 PM (eoQWY)

166 My current club is doing well in that aspect. Embracing digital modes, NodeRed, POTA/SOTA, etc. We had 14 high school students get licensed a few months ago following a class we gave.

Posted by: Bert G at February 16, 2023 07:29 PM (aCgRi)

Outstanding.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 07:31 PM (PyOKD)

167 That lady needs to quit screaming so the driver can hear his bus tires squeal.

Posted by: DaveA at February 16, 2023 07:31 PM (FhXTo)

168 Like I said, ugly stereotype, LOL!

Posted by: gourmand du jour with a knee brace at February 16, 2023 07:32 PM (jTmQV)

169 I wonder how pilots feel about them.

--

Probably nothing:

"While hitting a weather balloon may sound scary, it seems as though the effects were minimal as the aircraft didn't declare an emergency or deviate from its flight path."

https://tinyurl.com/yyk5hwq4

Also I'm betting the sky is really big and the chances are really, really, REALLY in your favor.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:32 PM (ZLyax)

170 Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)

These guys will need some milk and cookies for their FBI visitors... and an attorney.
Posted by: DaveA at February 16, 2023 07:30 PM (FhXTo)

Nah...all but one are FBI men already.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:32 PM (eoQWY)

171 By the way, I'll partially defend NORTHCOM. The reason they don't track these objects is precisely why you see them shooting down weather balloons. But that's also a capability gap the CHICOMS are exploiting.

BTW The first balloon was an act of war. Especially given what was in that package. Some have theorized they are also testing EMP type capabilities or a launch vehicle for some other type of armament package. Some have tried to dismiss that idea because they feel there are more advanced/better launch vehicles for that. Me? "Really? They just butt fucked your billion dollar systems by sneaking, largely undetected, balloons over your most sensitive sites". That's a big deal because we can detect satellites and know their positions. Cheap Chinese Balloons? Not so much. Apparently.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:32 PM (pIKd9)

172 You know why it is true ? China didn't say crap about any of the supposed "other" ones.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 16, 2023 07:32 PM (ztQ7U)

173 Like I said, ugly stereotype, LOL!
Posted by: gourmand

Yup, I took it the opposite way.
Mea Culpa.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 07:33 PM (BcMd9)

174 $100 billion for Ukraine but no FEMA money for Ohio.

I didn't think i'd see a more unAmerican regime in my life than Obama but Biden has lowered the bar.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 07:33 PM (ZLI7S)

175 >>We will fight the Bad ***Lies*** with Good Lies!

You misspelled "Truth.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 16, 2023 07:33 PM (XxNmq)

176 158 Excellent! There are guys in my club who refuse to even touch a computer. Can't learn anything new on their own without being "Elmered." They can't understand why, in a world of cellphones, (the most advanced tech ever placed in the hands of everyman,) that there is no longer anything magical or appealing about yacking into mikes, for the younger set.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:34 PM (24fqN)

177 The whole "atmospheric novice" thing... people with an interest in weather is now being demonized. People who routinely debunk "teh science."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:34 PM (Q4IgG)

178 So we're shooting down hobby balloons?

the idiocracy is here

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 16, 2023 07:34 PM (geLO8)

179 Brigade. Military term. Ties in with militia. Fire up the MRAPs boys, put on the body armor, we're going in. Don't let those bag lunches with juice boxes confuse you.

Some bloodthirsty FBI supervisor, fresh from moving assets to the Cayman Islands.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 16, 2023 07:35 PM (lz5hY)

180 But I insist: This is not a terrible idea!

--------

Sequel idea: The Baashank Redemption.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:35 PM (wsx8x)

181 Your KBAL TV Weather Forcast: Today, Barroons! Tomorrow, More Barroons!

Posted by: KBAL TV at February 16, 2023 07:35 PM (SYTee)

182 $100 billion for Ukraine but no FEMA money for Ohio.

I didn't think i'd see a more unAmerican regime in my life than Obama but Biden has lowered the bar.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 07:33 PM (ZLI7S)

How do you write East Palestine in Cyrillic?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2023 07:36 PM (anj39)

183 "So we're shooting down hobby balloons?"
Not unlike Inspector Clouseau

Posted by: gourmand du jour with a knee brace at February 16, 2023 07:36 PM (jTmQV)

184 If you're going to release many of these balloons please let me know... I'll need to buy more Raytheon stock.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 07:36 PM (BcMd9)

185 the bus driver video is not new
and the playback has been sped up

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 16, 2023 07:36 PM (geLO8)

186 So we're shooting down hobby balloons?
.......

I strongly recommend INDOOR birthday parties for the next year or two.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:37 PM (v0R5T)

187 "The foot we were able to observe through the bag was extremely detailed all the way down the French pedicure it had," the post said."
What I want to know is how a police department would even know what a French pedicure is.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 07:23 PM (qoGsy)

The water district was digging a new waterline along the edge of the highway and the crew saw bones in the spoil, and shut down and called the Sheriff's department. They had a tech on hand who did bones, and she came out and identified them as a dog's remains, and then they all laughed.

No one likes finding bodies.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2023 07:37 PM (xhaym)

188 Asians have been under represented in NASCAR since the start.

Posted by: Bubba Wang at February 16, 2023 07:38 PM (wrJpE)

189 My hovercraft is full of balloons!

Posted by: An Hungarian from Hungaria at February 16, 2023 07:39 PM (eLWiU)

190 The membership of our local club will all die in the next few years, we're so old, and we can't attract any young members. Mainly because kids don't want to yack in mikes about how things were in the old days, and how's the weather.
Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (24fqN)

Try interesting them in international news from the source and the options for using the airwaves for internet - at a really low baud rate.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2023 07:39 PM (xhaym)

191 Your KBAL TV Weather Forcast: Today, Barroons! Tomorrow, More Barroons!
Posted by: KBAL TV at February 16, 2023 07:35 PM (SYTee)
........

What about toxic mushroom clouds?

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (v0R5T)

192 I've been to a few of these gender reveal parties where they also let a bunch a balloons go. Imagine the excitement when the 20 millimeter starts flying in.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (pIKd9)

193
Touching on something I've been warning about for years. When Schrödinger's Truth is hidden inside a box of lies at the center of a maze of funhouse mirrors, you get an epistemological collapse. Nobody can sort fact from fiction. It all becomes the same, because everything is Kremlinology.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (oINRc)

194 BTW The first balloon was an act of war. Especially given what was in that package. Some have theorized they are also testing EMP type capabilities or a launch vehicle for some other type of armament package. Some have tried to dismiss that idea because they feel there are more advanced/better launch vehicles for that. Me? "Really? They just butt fucked your billion dollar systems by sneaking, largely undetected, balloons over your most sensitive sites". That's a big deal because we can detect satellites and know their positions. Cheap Chinese Balloons? Not so much. Apparently.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:32 PM (pIKd9)

I wouldn't have been surprised if we had brought it down and examined it that we would have found nothing actionable besides just the balloon that can move itself - no precise cams, no EMP testers, just some weather stuff. The non-detection is the embarrassment all on its own and that keeps it from escalating.

Blinken was heading to China, some figure getting him to cancel over this was what China wanted.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (eoQWY)

195 My God, it's full of balloons!

Posted by: Astronaut David Bowman at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (SYTee)

196 ...the sheep moved away from him, denying him his chance of blending in.
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How dare they other him!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (Vwz3I)

197 russia don't need missiles, they need to use their bullets. But whatever. Let's bleed the ukraine out. for peace. to get the christian blood that the democrats want to spill

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (MLrvz)

198 Your wife takes you home after she finds out you cheated on her.

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Damn, those are some mad video-game like skills; dude (or dudette?) should be racing on the Formula One circuit.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (wsx8x)

199 Asians have been under represented in NASCAR since the start.
Posted by: Bubba Wang at February 16, 2023 07:38 PM (wrJpE)

Well, once, on an Army post, I watched a asian lady...I'm sure she was very nice...get in her car in the bank parking lot, start up, and with the gas pedal floored, put it in gear. Rammed the bank. I'm sure she is ready for Daytona.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (anj39)

200 I was told there would be no baud rates.

Posted by: eleven at February 16, 2023 07:41 PM (t4fCu)

201 Too baaaaaaddd, buddy.

Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 07:41 PM (MF3yS)

202 I'm a bit late to the party...Have any Morons 'fessed up about the sex doll yet?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 07:21 PM

It wasn't child sized. It was midget-sized. Copy of a former GF.

As I've said, I was just nuts over her.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 16, 2023 07:42 PM (iKBwy)

203 My faith in President Joe Biden and his rock-ribbed national security policy has been renewed now that I know NORAD, Joe's IC and the fucking Canadians have been punked by some geek yokels from Illinois floating a balloon.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 07:42 PM (Jg7EG)

204 1 Meep meep!
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Literally 2 minutes ago I began watching a documentary about an English Bronze Age site made by the Beaker People and said, "Meep!Meep!" to myself!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 07:42 PM (Vwz3I)

205 I was told there would be no baud rates.
Posted by: eleven

Don't worry, it's all ones and zeros.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 07:42 PM (BcMd9)

206
One of the possible Chinese spy balloons, or possibly reactionless drive alien UFOs

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Well, they did get a reaction. From the gutless and feckless.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 16, 2023 07:43 PM (Lb5YY)

207 Asians have been under represented in NASCAR since the start.
Posted by: Bubba Wang at February 16, 2023 07:38 PM (wrJpE)
........

Most can't see over the steering wheel.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:43 PM (v0R5T)

208 I thought the picture was the sex doll.

Posted by: Julie at February 16, 2023 07:43 PM (+LZfx)

209 Touching on something I've been warning about for years. When Schrödinger's Truth is hidden inside a box of lies at the center of a maze of funhouse mirrors, you get an epistemological collapse. Nobody can sort fact from fiction. It all becomes the same, because everything is Kremlinology.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (oINRc)

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Out: Anarcho-Capitalism.
In: Anarcho-Tyranny.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:43 PM (wsx8x)

210 Literally 2 minutes ago I began watching a documentary about an English Bronze Age site made by the Beaker People and said, "Meep!Meep!" to myself!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 07:42 PM (Vwz3I)

When archaeologists excavate our society I look forward to us being called the "Red Solo Cup" people because they are all over the place.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM (eoQWY)

211 'You have chosen the way of the sheep. From this day you are no warrior. Leave now. You can never come baaaacck.'

Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM (MF3yS)

212 I have. Being a pedestrian crossing streets is quite dangerous in some cities. Traffic lights? We don't use no stinking traffic lights.
Driving on the wrong side of the road? Those lanes weren't being used.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 07:25 PM (ynpvh)
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They have to be a bit crazy to dodge all the martial arts fights that seem to break out in the middle of busy streets, according the Asian documentary films I've seen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM (BpYfr)

213 I thought the picture was the sex doll.

Posted by: Julie at February 16, 2023 07:43 PM (+LZfx)

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LMAO. Threadwinner.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM (wsx8x)

214 These balloons are allowed because they provide data on wind patterns.

They are no bigger threat than a bird. There are a lot of birds in the sky

Engines are designed to handle them no problem. (Since they are smaller than a bird.)

Balloons have right of way, anyways.

Everyone knew it was hobby balloons. That is whey admin refused to say they were "balloons" instead they said they were cylindrical non-powered objects. Sane people no lying call that a balloon.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM (XxNmq)

215 "Blinken was heading to China, some figure getting him to cancel over this was what China wanted.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (eoQWY)"

Possible but not likely. I suspect she. They finally release more information on the payload, it's going to be interesting. There are already some high res pictures and people with skills looking at them. They've also reported the counter measures and ability to do some nav. That's not everyday stuff. Add to that the CHICOMS have done this for years. The only way we knew that was to go back and look at similar signatures and sightings. It's a shit storm.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM (pIKd9)

216 The US Military and/or Intelligence Community has been, and is in an agreement with China to allow their balloons to spy on our shit.

They are off the reservation.

The reasons why are many... money, ideology, etc. It is one of the only possible answers beyond the stupidity of all involved... which is likely.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:45 PM (Q4IgG)

217 Good evening! I was thinking we may need to do a bake sale to buy some binoculars for Advisors of Balloons.

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 07:45 PM (ZdaMQ)

218 Asians have been under represented in NASCAR since the start.
Posted by: Bubba Wang at February 16, 2023 07:38 PM

Let's not forget the NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA, and NHL.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2023 07:45 PM (a3Q+t)

219 $100 billion for Ukraine but no FEMA money for Ohio.

I didn't think i'd see a more unAmerican regime in my life than Obama but Biden has lowered the bar.
Posted by: JackStraw

What a disgusting pc of work Biden/his admin are.
The people that need financial assistance right now! will be forced to turn to Norfolk and Southern and take the small check the company bribed> offered. Then can they sue/expect a settlement when the true nature of the disaster becomes apparent?

Posted by: old chick at February 16, 2023 07:45 PM (sOete)

220 When archaeologists excavate our society I look forward to us being called the "Red Solo Cup" people because they are all over the place.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM (eoQWY)

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"And WTF were they doing buried under a mountain and sea of literally trillions of discarded face masks?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:46 PM (wsx8x)

221 crossing the Alps with elephants ... the new warfare is crossing the US with balloons. Or infiltrating the bureaucracy with bribes and "kompromat". Or using bioweapons to provoke an overreactive response ...

What is the Real War? idk, the whole CRT thang is expanded Critical Theory, destroy everything good. But add in the Google/FB monopolies, the BigBank infinite bailouts, the Intel "community" aggressively attacking Liberty ... we are in a helluva mess.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 16, 2023 07:46 PM (Cus5s)

222 "And WTF were they doing buried under a mountain and sea of literally trillions of discarded face masks?"
Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:46 PM (wsx8x)

The usual archaeologist response "Ritual Purposes"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM (eoQWY)

223 182. Jack the GP has an article today with video of JD Vance stirring the bottom of the creek in East Palastine and globs of multicolored sheen appearing. Another video of a resident throwing a big rock into the creek and rainbow sheen circles appearing everywhere.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM (wQ0cM)

224 Inspection of the balloon debris revealed a stencil indicating 'Drinks Half Price for Women on Ladies Night.'

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM (Jg7EG)

225 Then can they sue/expect a settlement when the true nature of the disaster becomes apparent?
Posted by: old chick

Only if they were up to date on the boosters...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM (BcMd9)

226 Damn, those are some mad video-game like skills; dude (or dudette?) should be racing on the Formula One circuit.
Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude

I think it is sped up, and audio is unrelated and added later.
I think. I saw it long ago and that is what I remember

ie, Lamont is back.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM (XxNmq)

227 'You have chosen the way of the sheep. From this day you are no warrior. Leave now. You can never come baaaacck.'
Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 07:44 PM

* villagers pointing * 'Ewwwwwwwwe!'

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM (a3Q+t)

228 When archaeologists excavate our society I look forward to us being called the "Red Solo Cup" people because they are all over the place.
Posted by: Oldcat

They'll further think our bathroom sinks are some kind of altar as we all seem to perform strange rituals in front of them at various times of the day.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 07:48 PM (qoGsy)

229 If Trump gets elected he will create... wait for it...
Balloon Force!

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:48 PM (v0R5T)

230 Literally 2 minutes ago I began watching a documentary about an English Bronze Age site made by the Beaker People and said, "Meep!Meep!" to myself!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 07:42 PM (Vwz3I)

I have run across commentary that the Hittites were experimenting with iron smelting before the Bronze age collapse, and I think it is possible since one of the techniques for reducing copper ore is to use Iron oxide flux which could have left Iron "prills" in the slag.

I keep finding videos on the Hittites which are fascinating.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2023 07:48 PM (xhaym)

231 "And WTF were they doing buried under a mountain and sea of literally trillions of discarded face masks?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:46 PM (wsx8x)

We know that as The Mask Layer. It coincides with the tyrant Fauci.

Posted by: Future Archeologist at February 16, 2023 07:48 PM (SYTee)

232 Good news everyone! The Georgia special grand jury found the 2020 election the squeaky-cleaniest evah!

Have been dutifully informed of such by every major news outlet and social media site.

Anyone who questions the virgin-like innocence of our election process is a doodie head and probs Putin.

Onward to 2024!

Posted by: DaisyB at February 16, 2023 07:49 PM (AbL8c)

233 What a disgusting pc of work Biden/his admin are.
The people that need financial assistance right now! will be forced to turn to Norfolk and Southern and take the small check the company bribed> offered. Then can they sue/expect a settlement when the true nature of the disaster becomes apparent?

Posted by: old chick at February 16, 2023 07:45 PM (sOete)

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BREAKING: EPA Retroactively Grants Norfolk and Southern "Emergency Use Authorization" in Transportation of Dangerous Chemicals, Preempting Future Victim Lawsuits. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:49 PM (wsx8x)

234 219 - once you settle, that is it. You sign a waiver and release, which is why the attorney who is trying to represent those affected is saying not to accept this offer yet.

We are mad at the railways, but does anyone know the company whose chemicals these are? Both on the buying and selling end?

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 07:49 PM (ZdaMQ)

235 7-11 nationally averages one vehicle a day smashing into it's stores. I would love to see a gallery of the drivers.

Posted by: Ow! My Head! at February 16, 2023 07:49 PM (wrJpE)

236 NorFuck Southern should go bankrupt over this, but maybe like the BigBanks, too big to fail, too big to jail? Well Biden is allegedly a friend of them, so common people should just expect to die/suffer, for the greater good.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 16, 2023 07:50 PM (Cus5s)

237 They'll further think our bathroom sinks are some kind of altar as we all seem to perform strange rituals in front of them at various times of the day.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 07:48 PM (qoGsy)

Did you ever read the article "Body Ritual among the Nacarema". I found it in a book called A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown" in my grandpa's books after he died.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:50 PM (eoQWY)

238 We know that as The Mask Layer. It coincides with the tyrant Fauci.

Posted by: Future Archeologist at February 16, 2023 07:48 PM (SYTee)

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Heh. Well-played, davidt.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:50 PM (wsx8x)

239 224 Inspection of the balloon debris revealed a stencil indicating 'Drinks Half Price for Women on Ladies Night.'
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM
Ribbed for her pleasure.

Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 07:50 PM (MF3yS)

240 We know that as The Mask Layer. It coincides with the dwarf tyrant Fauci.

Posted by: Future Archeologist

FIFY

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 07:50 PM (BcMd9)

241 118 Bus driver has mad skillz.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

Yep! Need to get that guy a ride in the WRC (World Rally Championship).

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (fWTJL)

242 I'll tell ya the scary thing about the balloon story.

Our military could actually be that paranoid and incompetent.

It was preferable when it was a distraction op intended for the masses.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (d7tk9)

243 "might just have been a $12 balloon by a hobby group"

Sure, that's what they want you to think.

Posted by: The FBI, ferreting all terrorist balloons at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (G1dq6)

244 >> Jack the GP has an article today with video of JD Vance stirring the bottom of the creek in East Palastine and globs of multicolored sheen appearing. Another video of a resident throwing a big rock into the creek and rainbow sheen circles appearing everywhere.

I saw the videos. NS destroyed that town and the corrupt Biden administration and the media are doing their best to pretend nothing happened. It's disgraceful.

If this was a minority community instead of a lower income, white town the country would be on fire. Again.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (ZLI7S)

245 Has been a few Asians in F-1 but none have gone far

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (xhxe8)

246 AZ appeals court affirms the steal. She should have made her claims before the election. After the election is too late. And somehow the court was correct to dismiss her claim about the staff being slow to respond to the tabulator issues, because it was basically the same as her claim that the ballots were misprinted, and the court correctly found that that was totes fine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (DK4U1)

247 I've never launched an APRS balloon, but I'm sorely tempted to try just to see what happens.

Posted by: PabloD at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (6+pFt)

248 And a F-1 car isn't over 3 feet high

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (xhxe8)

249 Why would the DOT allow chemical weapons to be transported by rail thru residential areas like lumber?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (Jg7EG)

250 ShainS - interesting… I worked for a very large chemical company and we shipped by rail car all the time, and we receive raw materials by rail car all the time.

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

251 They'll further think our bathroom sinks are some kind of altar as we all seem to perform strange rituals in front of them at various times of the day.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 07:48 PM (qoGsy)

Did you ever read the article "Body Ritual among the Nacarema".

https://u.osu.edu/vsteffel/
supplemental-material/
body-ritual-among-the-nacirema/

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (eoQWY)

252
$100 billion for Ukraine but no FEMA money for Ohio.

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They'll fight to your last dollar!

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (ZLyax)

253 Another video of a resident throwing a big rock into the creek and rainbow sheen circles appearing everywhere.

Awww, and it's not even pride month!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (tsrLw)

254 Peet says the E palestine crash is no big deal because there are 1000 derailments per year. So this was just 1/1000.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 07:53 PM (DK4U1)

255 Why would the DOT allow chemical weapons to be transported by rail thru residential areas like lumber?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (Jg7EG)

They weren't weapons when shipping - burning while contained could convert them into a chemical weapon gas, so they 'uncontained' them to mitigate this.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:53 PM (eoQWY)

256 $100 billion for Ukraine but no FEMA money for Ohio.

The railway operator is offering residents $1000 inconvenience payments.

Just sign here....and here....and this cancer indemnity clause here....

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 16, 2023 07:54 PM (d7tk9)

257 I think it is sped up, and audio is unrelated and added later.
I think. I saw it long ago and that is what I remember

ie, Lamont is back.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 16, 2023 07:47 PM (XxNmq)

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Ah so, that explains it.

LOL, was lobbying earlier today for Lamont the Big Dummy to guest-blog for Ace on ~~President's Day~~ Washington's Birthday so he could take the day off. /

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:54 PM (wsx8x)

258 Did you ever read the article "Body Ritual among the Nacarema".

https://u.osu.edu/vsteffel/
supplemental-material/
body-ritual-among-the-nacirema/
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (eoQWY)
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The body ritual of the Macarena was bad enough...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 07:54 PM (BpYfr)

259 112 There is this ugly stereotype that Asians are bad drivers.
I've no idea where that comes from...

Posted by: gourmand du jour with a knee brace at February 16, 2023 07:22 PM (jTmQV)
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Singapore.

Posted by: Ciampino - what traffic laws? at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (qfLjt)

260 I saw the videos. NS destroyed that town and the corrupt Biden administration and the media are doing their best to pretend nothing happened. It's disgraceful.

If this was a minority community instead of a lower income, white town the country would be on fire. Again.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (ZLI7S)

Ohio-Americans are a minority. There are 49 other states.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (eoQWY)

261 234 - 219 - once you settle, that is it. Piper

I could spit after watching those residents of East Palestine and to know what they lived thru when the tankers were ignited and the fall-out ever since - especially now to hear that the federal gov will offer not a cent to assist then NOW when they need funds.
They are being forced to find extra funds somewhere to pay for all the health problems the railroad ONLY caused.

Posted by: old chick at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (sOete)

262 If this was a minority community instead of a lower income, white town the country would be on fire. Again.
Posted by: JackStraw

The country wasn't burned down over Flint, Mi. Although, a half billion dollars was stolen by the city's black managerial cless.

So, that would have happened if Palestine were black, anyway.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (iKBwy)

263 I saw the videos. NS destroyed that town and the corrupt Biden administration and the media are doing their best to pretend nothing happened. It's disgraceful.

If this was a minority community instead of a lower income, white town the country would be on fire. Again.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (ZLI7S)

The railroad and the media are owned by Blackrock and Vanguard. It doesn't matter, the news would be suppressed either way because I suspect the hedge funds have been pulling money out of the railroad instead of maintaining the tracks and the rolling stock.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (xhaym)

264 If Trump gets elected he will create... wait for it...
Balloon Force
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On local Newz today they said that Brandon enlisted the help of NASA with watching our airspace. The first thing I thought is that the TDS is large with Brandon, that he won't even utter the term space force.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (Xsc6r)

265
Coming soon!

Cocaine Bear (2023)

"Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow and blood."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (pNxlR)

266 We have a homeless problem. We have rail cars that need monitoring. Put a hobo on every train car who can report problems before the train derails.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (DK4U1)

267 Another video of a resident throwing a big rock into the creek and rainbow sheen circles appearing everywhere.
.......

"Why, it sounds like paradise!" - EPA

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (v0R5T)

268 The body ritual of the Macarena was bad enough...

The Macaroni were known for sticking a feather in their caps.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 07:56 PM (eOEVl)

269 249 they always have. This isn’t new at all. Our rail systems is old, and there isn’t a separate rail system for passenger. The government, which may shock you, should have thought about infrastructure for fixing the railways in terms of commercial transport rather than lightly used passenger. They were focused on the wrong thing.

That said, my dealings with the EPA, and whatever state version of this in play as every state has one, is they are very, very much a PIA about these things. So if they are being flexible and nice right now? That is actually shocking.

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 07:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

270 ShainS - interesting… I worked for a very large chemical company and we shipped by rail car all the time, and we receive raw materials by rail car all the time.

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (ZdaMQ)

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Sorry if you took my "BREAKING" news seriously; it's always hyperbolic prediction (implied sarcasm), and like the Babylon Bee -- sometimes does come true eventually.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 07:56 PM (wsx8x)

271 Sheep guy would have gotten away, if he hadn't stopped to have sex with the local farmer.

Posted by: Roy at February 16, 2023 07:57 PM (rqgpJ)

272 But Obama was looking for an ass to kick because BP made some oil bubble up in the Gulf.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 07:57 PM (DK4U1)

273 270 oh. Haha, well. Never mind. 😂

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 07:58 PM (ZdaMQ)

274 What we need is high speed freight rail. Move this shit through town at 250mph.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 07:58 PM (DK4U1)

275 > We have a homeless problem. We have rail cars that need monitoring. Put a hobo on every train car who can report problems before the train derails.
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Fuck that... put 200 illegals on every train car and send them due north to every fucking blue shit hole.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 07:58 PM (Q4IgG)

276 Jen's videos:

Breaking911 @Breaking911
WATCH: Sen. J.D. Vance in East Palestine, Ohio after toxic train derailment
https://tinyurl.com/pr83wte3

Disclose.tv @disclosetv
MORE - Another video shows similar, heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.
https://tinyurl.com/2vutmpen

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 07:58 PM (Vwz3I)

277 244
If this was a minority community instead of a lower income, white town the country would be on fire. Again.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (ZLI7S)
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No FEMA aid as it is a Trump-supporting area.

Posted by: Ciampino - Traffic? Try Turkey's taxis at February 16, 2023 07:59 PM (qfLjt)

278 Greg Price
@greg_price11

Buttigieg: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing."

Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2023 07:59 PM (NpAcC)

279 put 200 illegals on every train car and send them due north to every fucking blue shit hole.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Only 200?
Load them up like the India trains with people hanging all over them, then send them non stop North.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 07:59 PM (BcMd9)

280 Did you ever read the article "Body Ritual among the Nacarema".

Posted by: Oldcat

You're on to my schtick. It was required reading in back in the 70s at 'THE' OSU for some biology majors.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 16, 2023 08:00 PM (qoGsy)

281 Watch Ohio get FEMA money and then quietly change their voter ID rules.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at February 16, 2023 08:01 PM (Eeb9P)

282 NS destroyed that town and the corrupt Biden administration and the media are doing their best to pretend nothing happened. It's disgraceful.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 07:51 PM (ZLI7S)

You all remember Love Canal (this town.)

Anyone hear the true story. That land was sold to the school board for almost $0 in order to prevent them from seizing it with eminent domain, with the express purpose of putting into the deed that it could never be built on. Owner knew what it was and the risk. They planned to seize it to expand school.

They sold have the land to developers and built on the rest.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 16, 2023 08:01 PM (XxNmq)

283 Why would the DOT allow chemical weapons to be transported by rail thru residential areas like lumber?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 07:52 PM (Jg7EG)

Railroads were built before the towns. There is a lot of history around this, but the railroads got land grants to go along with the right of way, and they sold town lots to both have an intermediate stopping point around watering points, and to make some of the money back.

There is a question on whether the tanks were flagged correctly and that is an issue for the DoT and NTSB, and of course how the spills were handled
If a brake got stuck on and heated up, as has happened in the past, that is a serious safety issue.

It would not surprise me that "everything is going to be fine just roll" was the order, because the command from DC was "ungefukt the supply chain, idioten" and like Chernobyl, it just destroyed a region.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2023 08:02 PM (xhaym)

284 Watch Ohio get FEMA money and then quietly change their voter ID rules.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC

Other way.

You change your voter ID rules, and we will consider sending FEMA.

Ok, we ditched the law

What?

Uh, Fema?

Who?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 08:02 PM (DK4U1)

285 1000 train derailments a year sounds like something the Sec of Transportation may want to check into.

Posted by: davidt at February 16, 2023 08:02 PM (SYTee)

286 278 this may be true, but not all of those derailments are of this magnitude, nor are they resulting in chemical releases. Some? Sure. This bad? Nope.

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 08:03 PM (ZdaMQ)

287 272 - But Obama was looking for an ass to kick because BP made some oil bubble up in the Gulf.
C A T

Rush talked, sometimes at nauseum, to explain to liv, including myself, that the spill was not the disaster of the century.
This disaster in Ohio needs someone like Rush to keep talking every single day because the residents are going to be forsaken otherwise.

Posted by: old chick at February 16, 2023 08:03 PM (sOete)

288 "Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow and blood."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (pNxlR)

Ooooh, the Cute Version of Scarface!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 16, 2023 08:03 PM (xhaym)

289 And we will find the hot brake detector for that stretch of track just so happened to be down. Cowinkidink.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 08:04 PM (DK4U1)

290 Deception is increasing, while the love of many grows cold.
God said this would happen.

But praise His name, revivals are popping up all over the place!

Live at Asbury Revival Day 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_12BbXtgYo

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 16, 2023 08:04 PM (AxTbI)

291 Buttigieg: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing."
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2023 07:59 PM (NpAcC)

IIRC, from my days in logistics, most of those derailments happen in the yards. I might be wrong, though.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 16, 2023 08:05 PM (OX9vb)

292 Only 1000 train accidents a year.
It is but a trifle.
Nothing to see here, move along.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 16, 2023 08:05 PM (BcMd9)

293 There are 1000 airliner crashes per day. Right?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 08:06 PM (DK4U1)

294 Nood cafe

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 16, 2023 08:06 PM (u73oe)

295 Buttigieg: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing."
Posted by: redridinghood at February 16, 2023 07:59 PM (NpAcC)

IIRC, from my days in logistics, most of those derailments happen in the yards. I might be wrong, though.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 16, 2023 08:05 PM (OX9vb)

They have that rotating wheel to separate cars from one train onto others...if you mess that up that's a derail.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 08:06 PM (eoQWY)

296 1000 train derailments and chemical releases into communities every year is no big deal.

One black criminal rightfully shot by someone...

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 16, 2023 08:06 PM (StKe7)

297 I wonder if the lack of FEMA money is because they are looking to go back to the companies from a hazmat perspective, specifically the company who loaded and shipped this. Cradle to grave responsibility.

There are going to be lawsuits flying all over the place, is my guess.

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 08:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

298
IIRC, from my days in logistics, most of those derailments happen in the yards. I might be wrong, though.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 16, 2023 08:05 PM (OX9vb)

———

What do you mean, we got a thousand mushroom clouds a year.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2023 08:07 PM (cMXNt)

299 Would love to see Trump fund (personally or raise the money) and conduct a humanitarian mission to get those affected evacuated, fed, compensated, and medically treated if necessary — with no grandstanding other than pointing out that these people & their property have been egregiously & incompetently wronged by their so called “public servants.”

At least then, maybe the MDM-MSM would at least cover it and start asking the right questions …

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 08:07 PM (wsx8x)

300 You all remember Love Canal (this town.)

is that the thang that cost the same in town ?

Posted by: REDACTED at February 16, 2023 08:07 PM (us2H3)

301 Live at Asbury Revival Day 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_12BbXtgYo
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 16, 2023 08:04 PM (AxTbI)

Someone mentioned that in my video meeting this morning at work. Wow! Gave me some chills, it did.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 16, 2023 08:08 PM (OX9vb)

302 If those rolling stock tanker cars had been transporting baby formula, Mayor Pete would be all over this situation like he was... oh, wait! Nevermind.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 08:08 PM (Jg7EG)

303 Biden's doctor is a full of de caca.

Or he is trying to make a name for himself by being a physician who tells the life insurance company that you are in excellent health and make for an ideal customer.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 16, 2023 08:09 PM (l7lsb)

304 The Secretary of Transportation is okay with 1000 or so rail derailments per year. Like it's not his job or anything.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 16, 2023 08:09 PM (U4pE/)

305 Someone mentioned that in my video meeting this morning at work. Wow! Gave me some chills, it did.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
___

People are coming from around the world, and it's amazing to behold.
In 1970, a revival took place at Asbury, during the Jesus Revolution.

https://jesusrevolution.movie/

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 16, 2023 08:11 PM (AxTbI)

306 182 East Palestine in Russian is
?????? according to an online translator.
However this blog won't accept the characters which is odd.

Posted by: Ciampino - Traffic? Try Turkish taxis at February 16, 2023 08:11 PM (qfLjt)

307 Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild dark comedy finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow and blood."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 07:55 PM (pNxlR)

Well there was a 1976 movie called Grizzy that was filmed in Georgia.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 16, 2023 08:12 PM (N52dd)

308 267 Another video of a resident throwing a big rock into the creek and rainbow sheen circles appearing everywhere.
.......

"Why, it sounds like paradise!" - EPA
Posted by: wth

It means Progressive Unicorns have already blessed that stream!! You may drink from its holy waters!! My word as a Biden!!

Posted by: Joe Biden never lies, jack at February 16, 2023 08:13 PM (fWTJL)

309 286 278 this may be true, but not all of those derailments are of this magnitude, nor are they resulting in chemical releases. Some? Sure. This bad? Nope.

Posted by: Piper at February 16, 2023 08:03 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Wasn't there a bad vinyl chloride spill in NJ some years back? Of course being NJ nobody would have noticed, especially the smell.

Posted by: Ciampino - Garden State? Really? at February 16, 2023 08:15 PM (qfLjt)

310 The Ladies' Quartet - It Is Well (With My Soul)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=818bnvpsx7A

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 16, 2023 08:20 PM (AxTbI)

311 278 Greg Price
@greg_price11

Buttigieg: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing."
Posted by: redridinghood

Well, that's a relief. Thank you for taking some time from breast feeding your child and letting us know!!

Posted by: Joe Biden never lies, jack at February 16, 2023 08:23 PM (fWTJL)

312 off sock

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 16, 2023 08:24 PM (fWTJL)

313
Another video of a resident throwing a big rock into the creek and rainbow sheen circles appearing everywhere.
Posted by: Jen the original

That was LGBTQRM creek.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2023 08:25 PM (63Dwl)

314 Buttigieg: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing."

**"

Remarkably tone-deaf

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 16, 2023 08:26 PM (Xlnez)

315 Mcgonical registered Republican ace is now laughing at these spy balloons but used to be terrified of them

Posted by: Paul at February 16, 2023 08:51 PM (ZOlmS)

316 That clip with Megyn Kelly reminds me once again how much the left actually seems to hate actual woman. Right there is an actual stronk empowered woman: smart, confident, good-humored and by God actually looks like a woman, and might I add a quite attractive woman in an age-appropriate way, viz. not trying to dress and act like a 20 year old.

She should be an icon to the self-described feminists, but instead they hold up the purple haired, charmless Megan Rapinoe, the fake-betitted fake-Admiral Levine, the vicious cows of the The View, the gremlin-in-training Thunberg etc etc. The left is all anti-women and parody-women.

Posted by: Zek at February 17, 2023 09:21 AM (5FPX4)

317 Necrophiliacs of the world, rejoice!

Posted by: Anotheranon at February 17, 2023 01:11 PM (EVZJy)

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