Yep, I borrowed that takeoff from the old Johnny Horton song from Don Surber. Don used to do a daily news roundup that I looked forward to first thing in the morning. These days he only does a substack, but today’s really nails the hot air hysteria that permeated the US for about a week:
Last night I quoted (in a comment) a CBS News tweet that confirmed that—contrary to the nonsense about Chinese balloons supposedly evading our radar, because balloons are a new thing are some such drivel—in fact we tracked the Chinese balloon from the moment it took off from Hainan Island.
So what about those other balloons or octagons or whatever?
Moreover:
We know the objects were American because the Washington Post reported, “Objects shot down in Alaska, Canada less advanced than Chinese balloon.”
Remarkably for our government sponsored MSM, the truth is driveling out—I use that word advisedly in the circumstances. But I’ll quote Don, who is in high form:
Chairman Xi said the first balloon was his but not the other ones. …
These were our balloons. On August 2, 2019, Lisa Kaczke of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader in South Dakota, reported, “Pentagon launching drug surveillance balloons over Midwest.”
Ah, the Santa Claus government. It gives you gifts in the form of food stamps and student loans, but it also sees you while you’re sleeping — and knows when you’re not woke.
Co-published in USA Today, Kaczke’s story said, “The Pentagon is testing the high-altitude, solar-powered balloons across six states, The Guardian reported on Friday.
“The balloons were launched to provide ‘a persistent surveillance system’ for narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.”
You read that right. The Pentagon, the US military, is surveilling the Homeland for “homeland security threats”.
The British paper reported, “Traveling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000 feet (12 miles), the balloons are intended to ‘provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats,’ according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defense company.”
Sure, sure, sure. It was about drugs.
Our federal government is so concerned about illegal drugs that Obama’s third administration opened the southern border, giving fentanyl smugglers free rein.
The biggest threat to the Homeland? I leave that to you readers.
Today, Biden held a press conference on the topic of unidentified aerial objects. Sounded like we cannot tell the difference between friend and foe in the sky. They will create an inventory...? Sounds ominous.
Don’t insult Mad Magazine. Never missed issue growing up. Far more intelligent than she could ever got to be.