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If you\u2019re like the rest of an anxious America, you\u2019re worried about that Chinese \u2018observation\u2019 balloon floating menacingly over Montana and moving toward a neighborhood near you with unknown intentions and possibly a cargo of new bio-weapons to unleash on the hinterlands.\u00a0 What to do? What to do?\u00a0 The Republicans want to shoot it down.\u00a0 Or at least shoot down Biden\u2019s non-response.\u00a0 Maybe they think blowing up a balloon full of killer viruses that will float down like a toxic snowstorm on the unprotected livestock and denizens below is a good plan.\u00a0 As good as their budget proposals anyway.<\/p>\n
Those darn Chinese!\u00a0 First they unleash the Covid virus they developed in Fauci\u2019s bio-engineering lab in Wuhan, now they\u2019re filling our stratosphere with pestilential orbs.\u00a0 And our blogosphere with new and more potent conspiracy theories.\u00a0 Qanon, no doubt about it, will link this balloon menace with the green comet pass-by, triggering mass panic among its ardent followers, no telling what ensuing terror would be unleashed across this great land.\u00a0 The Chinese at least have a good plan.<\/p>\n
The longer that menace floats across American airspace the more the danger from trigger happy Congressmen and gullible blog readers will become.\u00a0 Biden is undoubtedly huddled with his advisors and the generals.\u00a0 And his re-election committee.\u00a0 If this drifting ball of poisonous rumors is allowed to cross the continent, no telling what the fallout will be even if the damn thing floats out into the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 Political lives will be lost, you can count on that.<\/p>\n
Down here on the South End the danger has already passed.\u00a0 Wendy Schneider\u2019s daughter\u2019s\u00a0 7th<\/sup> birthday party was a few days ago.\u00a0 She told me they\u2019d rented one of those bouncy playhouses for her and all her friends, but made the mistake of filling it with a hundred small helium balloons that all said Happy 7th<\/sup> Birthday, Tina! that floated for awhile at the top of the plastic roof, which was fine while the two dozen kids romped and cavorted, but when they exited for the birthday cake inside Wendy\u2019s trailer, the bouncy house lifted off and was last seen headed over the long closed Tyee Store.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s very likely the thing was made in China.\u00a0 And this may have been the plan all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you\u2019re like the rest of an anxious America, you\u2019re worried about that Chinese \u2018observation\u2019 balloon floating menacingly over Montana and moving toward a neighborhood near you with unknown intentions and possibly a cargo of new bio-weapons to unleash on the hinterlands.\u00a0 What to do? What to do?\u00a0 The Republicans want to shoot it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5363,5362],"class_list":["post-16335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-chinese-observation-balloon","tag-chinese-treachery"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16336,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions\/16336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}