First the new object shot down today shows that Magoo got the message and just to be a conspiracy theorist consider the possibility that the Chinese after being given free range to surveil our country by their bought and paid for Magoo, sent up a meaningless object so Magoo could appear to be tough. A possibility I think.

Next I heard on Clay and Buck earlier this week that they were worried that if China invaded Taiwan that Magoo wouldn’t be able to make a decision about action until it was too late. My immediate thought was that I can’t believe that there isn’t an already approved and signed off on plan of action that was authorized by Magoo, but then I remembered we’re dealing with Magoo and making decisions after the fact is presently his forte. Feeling bad for the Taiwanese.

And lastly I heard Jessica Tarlov say on the Five say that we shot down today’s intruder because it was flying at 40,000 feet while the previous balloon was at 60,000 feet which was above the range of the F-22. So I looked it up and found out it’s true because the F-22 can fly at 52,800 feet — 10 miles — but that’s really stupid. It assumes that an F-22 can only fire its missiles horizontally. They would only have to tilt upwards and fire a missile that needs to go little more than a mile. Really? And if you recall some of the nonsense being pushed last week is that we needed to wait for the spy balloon to get lower.

People I’m not a hunter but have seen enough shows to know that when you’re hunting ducks or geese or any other birds you need to fire upwards, unless you’re Dick Cheney, and then you just shoot your friend in the face. Btw his friend died recently. And I’m pretty sure there are laws that make it illegal in this country to shoot birds that aren’t at least ten feet off the ground which is higher than any hunter unless we’re talking drugs.

And this all made me think about something from my time as a co-op engineer overhauling carrier based jets. This is not and never was classified but the A-4 jet had to perform a certain maneuver to be able to successfully deliver a nuclear weapon and survive. They didn’t fly high enough or fast enough to drop it and get far enough away before it exploded. What was necessary was that they had to go vertical and basically throw the bomb upwards and then keep going backwards and haul ass to get safely away. Think taking your kids foot in the swimming pool and throwing them up and over.