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No. Not at all, and I have no doubt about his intellectual capacity. What I am saying is that I think it's disingenuous for these politicians, which is exactly what he is, to talk about their military service when it amounted to nothing more than keeping a uniform warm. I think he is a terrible Sect. of Transportation, and I doubt he is even concerned except what it can do for his political aspiratiins.

His service in the Navy is a zero. His deployment had him assigned to a forensic accounting group that looked into the insurgency financing. In other words, sit in an office and read stuff that others developed. He also drove superiors around, which he referred to as being a "military uber."

And as a third grader, clearly unaware of the energy crisis, the misery index, the Iranian hostage crisis or operation eagle claw. Some great times.

Just for awareness, this dirt bag was from Missouri and travelled to Charlottesville for this nonsense, just as the guy convicted of murder was from Ohio.

I didn't see anything about China or surveillance balloons, and a resume check shows absolutely nothing lending credence to a claim he would know anything about that. He was an enlisted Navy guy who was one of the POW camp instructors, and he recently volunteered to fight in the Ukraine. What gives him any knowledge of balloon surveillance technology? Not that I heard him say anything about that in the link.

Trudeau authorized it. Even in the NORAD org, Trudeau does not have the authority to "order" US engagements. Biden did as well, and it was shot down by a US F-22.

It wasn't a Canadian fighter, it was a US F-22. From your very own link: "it was a U.S. F-22 that “successfully fired at the object.”

When was that?

This war is starting to have other effects. The US State Department issued a travel warning yesterday urging US citizens to get out of Russia, and avoid travel there because of unusual harassment by Russian police.

This is a perfect example of the utter vacuous nature of your participation. The discussions about our current Sect. of Transportation, whose major accomplishment is spending millions to get NOTAMS, (Notices to Airman), changed to Notices to Air Missions, so as to eliminate the sexism of the original name, in use since Orville and Wilbur. He then presides over the entire failure of that system, resulting in a complete ground stop, ie., death to the system until resolved. Thankfully, didn't take too long. He has done nothing. Anyway, you then assert that people who kind of know about this stuff really dislike him for other reasons, which is preposterous. You then, seemingly without any ammo to defend him, direct your crosshairs on a previous holder of that position who was responsible for the explosion of drone regulations and auto driving vehicles. What's next? Actually, nobody cares. You add nothing.

If I am included in your "they," the assertion is idiotic. The man is useless. He is the typical political appointee with no skill in the area he is responsible for. Impresses his party by his ability to respond in front of a camera, until someone has the nuts to challenge him, as Joe Kernan did on CNBC. He then looks completely helpless, which he is. If nothing else, stop with the preposterous innuendo that anyone who thinks he is useless gives a rat's about what he does in his personal life. That assertion has been tried and tried and tried, and it's a false, failed course.

When you man your administration with people who have no corporate experience or knowledge or contacts, but are simply career public servants, this is the kind of uselessness you get.

All different airplanes. The balloon that shot down the first one had one painted on as soon as it landed. The F-22 has an interesting skin coating to assist in its low observability operation, so I'm not sure they can mess with it that much.

It will be interesting to learn who is responsible for these past two incursions. It it is determined that China is responsible for all three, it is time to respond in an incremental fashion. We'll see.

I don't know what "decommissioned" means, but there is a report of another radar hit over Lake Huron that didn't amount to much.

I suppose there would be a cheaper way using the gun, but that would probably result in a much longer and unpredictable drift. In addition, F-22's fly every day, so no additional expense there, and US Navy and Air Force planes shoot a small number of non warhead equipped Sidewinders and carious other missiles every year to assure satisfactory inventory, so it's one less practice shot to do. I wacked a drone with one during my days. Really fun. For various reasons I won't confess, the missile hit the full size drone and splashed it. The ground operator of the drone was supposed to cut the engine to remove the heat signature as soon as the missile came off the rail, but my call was "late" so he was late, and even the non warhead AIM 9 bulls-eyed the thing. A good day for me. Minor edit.. By the way, the AIM 9X, which was used in both cases, does not rely on heat signature for guidance. It uses light contrast. The heat signature of a balloon question has been brought up on various web stories by authors who don't know that.

Evidently whacked something else over Alaska today, this time at 40,000'. Same routine. F-22 with Sidewinder.

Here's a thought. If a being was so enormously powerful that he (pronoun of your choice), could create our universe, it is likely we could not understand him. Correct? Now if that being created the universe and its laws of science to sustain it, all science, he is probably capable of doing other things we are not capable of understanding, or in some cases even considering. If those laws of science that the universe he created were to operate, they would require a functioning universe on day one, ie., fossils, fires, decaying plant matter, rivers and all manner of natural phenomena, because the universe would not work without everything working on day one. So, this being we don't understand creates a universe that is operating on day one as if it were created millions of years ago. He says, "Here you go. Now use my laws of science and evolve."

He was the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and used that position to advocate and jawbone others to support the second Iraq war. I don't blame him for that, but it is what it is.

And it is, by any objective measure. What is your point?

He's a error a day guy. Here he is completely screwing up his own claimed religion's doctrine. Joe screwing things up

Bring those points to the 80+% that think we're heading in the wrong direction.

Kind of interesting that a full four fifths of US think we are on the wrong path, whatever that means. These two stats happen at the same time.

Have you ever tried to get stained glass in "being" colors? It's very difficult.

A simple reading of 1 John would clear up the issue. It is suggested that the epistle, among other motivations, was written to stop the emerging Gnostic view on the issue. I think it's interesting that he starts out by establishing his bona fides as a direct witness, not some guy who was forming a views based on current and developing opinion, ie., Gnosics of the time. "which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled,...."