Four Observations

 1.  I watched probably 25 minutes of the State of the Union message.  Nothing much there. 

Lot of speed-slurring where President Biden lumped two minutes of text into one minute of verbal commenting.  It was like his mind was set on a 20-percent faster pace of speech.

2.  Odds of this George Santos guy in Congress....being expelled?  I'd say his odds went from 10-percent to 50-percent in the past couple of days.  Kinda funny....fake-Republican, that the Republicans themselves want to see gone.

3.  Just general depravity of society at present....shocking if you compare it to 1993.

4.  Just odd, in the middle of C-SPAN covering the Twitter hearings....signal got lost, and they cut to a repeat of the State of the Union Message.

This Trump-Era Balloon Chatter

 One odd thing you notice....each time some idiot comes up to say there were Chinese balloon episodes during the 2017 to 2021 period, they never cite the year, the month or the day.

Another odd thing, on an average....there are 84,000 pilots/co-pilots in the air.  If any of them had noticed a balloon of this size....they would have talked about it via Twitter or reported it via FAA.  That never happened.

BS?  I'm more skeptical of the story now, than before.  

What This Balloon Thing Is All About

 If you sit and ponder upon it....it's the fact that China can't develop and build a decent satellite spy camera.  So they've given up and gone to a cheaper technology weather balloon situation, with the camera taking a better picture, and relying it back 'home'.  

Ten Observations

 1.  This story of former Secretary of Defense Mattis (under Trump) saying that there was a Chinese balloon episode during Trump's period, but he refused to brief Trump on it? 

He might want to hire up a lawyer and prepare for trouble.  If asked about this, and admits that he might have briefed Speaker of the House Pelosi?  He'll drag down the entire leadership of the Democratic Party.  

This also begs the question....what else did he not brief Trump upon?

On the other hand....might all of this be BS?  One odd aspect....this balloon from last week was noticeable in the sky.  How was the previous balloon NOT noticeable?  

2.  When you use the term 'fossil fuels'.....is it really from fossils?

3.  CNBC says two out of three Americans living paycheck to paycheck.

4.  VP Harris: "I think that most of us who are devout public servants understand that we in government have great possibility in terms of the range at which we work as government."

I have no idea what she meant.

5.  I noticed that the Memphis city council (Shelby County Commissioners) stood up and said that they want "culturally competent therapists" assigned to the police department.

Not sure what they meant by culturally competent.....probably means you can't be Asian, white, or Hispanic.

6.  State of the Union drinking game rules?  If President Biden says 'I'm not joking', you have to do a shot of Vodka each time.  If he says 'Ultra MAGA', you have to do two shots per each time.

7.  If you were just born stupid.....there's no drug, no therapy and no transitional process to improve your situation.  

8.  What's the whole positive of the Chinese balloon business?  More or less....they have to admit that their efforts to make a decent camera for satellite pictures....has been crap.  

9.  NY City is apparently giving out free bus tickets.....to get migrants to Canada.

10.  These days....mentioning that you have a college degree....kinda measures up to admitting that you have some knowledge over septic tanks.  

Ten Things I Tend To Believe

 1.  After Fauci and crew decided to get some kind of 'gain-of-function' out of Covid....they really screwed up by going to China and having a marginalized lab (it probably looked good in pictures) to handle the work required, and to do so in a safe manner.

2.  The Chinese balloon 'trick' will become a weekly thing, and Biden will have a tough time doing his standard 'we are on it' speech.

3.  The term 'balloon-war' will replace 'cold-war' in our language.

4.  Sexualization has gotten so bad....that you start to think it's attached to weather reports, gas station attendants, and fast food clerks. 

5.  Complimenting people should be limited to just a few times a week.  You shouldn't go overboard and pump people up.

6.  Once the Pentagon guys get the balloon pieces back to some top secret lab in Dayton, Ohio....they will discover that virtually everything (even the balloon itself) was all American made.  This inventory will be stamped top-secret but end up in a NY Times exclusive article by Thanksgiving, 2023.  

7.  I suspect if you asked....roughly 98-percent of people will admit they've never been to a drag-show in their life.  If you asked strictly guys....more than 25-percent will respond they've been to topless bars, and 3-percent will admit they go monthly to a stripper bar.

8.  A new trend will develop in 2023, with a handful of women adding a third boob (through plastic surgical processes).  

9.  Even if ten facts were laid on the table that Hunter Biden had compromised 'dad' with China dealings....most Senators would be in absolute fear of impeaching him because you'd end up with Harris as President.  

10.  Someone will wake up and discover around the year 2040....that almost 99-percent of Biden's documents are still boxed-up at the Biden-Center, and the guy in charge admits that it's hard to find anything coherent that he wrote from his Senate period.  

Balloon-Buster PIlots

 This was a term coined in WW I, and the American with the most balloon kills was Frank Luke, which Luke AFB, AZ is named after.

I should also note that his tally adds up to fourteen balloons destroyed.  The guy with the most balloon kills?  Willy Coopens, Belgian guy, with 35 balloons 'killed'.

In those days, it was a big deal. 

The Balloon: Aftermath

 First, we will need a truth commission....probably a House committee.  It's mostly WH members, the Pentagon, NORAD, and the FAA dragged in.  When was the President alerted....what plans existed...who briefed what, and a bunch of BS.

Then in the middle of this 'mess'.....some officer will run in and brief the four-star....two more balloons now over Alaska.  

Second, at least twenty-five individuals within the Pentagon and Air Force are attempting to write medals over their heroic actions.  

Third, the Navy will say if they were in charge of things....they would have shot it down once it passed Alaska.

Finally, this will open up a long period of balloon launches....maybe reaching one-hundred per day, and the Pentagon constantly having to alert President Biden.....with him uttering 'get them things'.  Russia and North Korea will view the mess, and also start to launch their own balloons.  2023 will be known as the year of the 'balloon'.