“Would you like to ride in my Chinese spy balloon….”

Talk radio over the weekend is even more unhinged than Monday thru Friday. Unless of couse, they run a “best of” show over the weekend to replay the same hits you missed during the week.

 

How come all these Republicans bitching at Biden aren’t upset Canada didn’t shoot the balloon down when it had the chance?

 

Previous Chinese Balloon Incursions Initially Went Undetected

WASHINGTON — The top military commander overseeing North American airspace said Monday that some previous incursions by Chinese spy balloons during the Trump administration were not detected in real time, and the Pentagon learned of them only later.

“I will tell you that we did not detect those threats, and that’s a domain awareness gap,” said Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, the commander of the Pentagon’s Northern Command.

 

The First Space Ace | Air & Space Magazine| Smithsonian Magazine

 

I read an entire book about zeppelins last year, never knowing it could be useful to anything happening since the 1920s.

 

In My Time of Spying

 

Behold the future!

Airships Rise Again | Air & Space Magazine| Smithsonian Magazine

 

He would have shot it down with an elephant gun, by Jove.

 

I'd like to think Biden won't introduce the pilot who shot it down tonight at the SOTU

 

Might get slap happy.

 

The Department of Defense has neither confirmed nor denied that they still haven't found what they were looking for.