Whats going on in the World

[BennyV]

The one balloon that actually had the spy gear on it finished its mission. They screwed the pooch on that one. Now they’re playing it up to try and make themselves look better. Too little, too late.

 

[Roccus7]

I'm thinking the Onacock Vigilante Association best have their Stingers turned off on Thursday. Maybe they should run over to Assateague and help calm down the ponies in case the launch spooks them, the ponies that is...

Two Sounding Rockets Expected to Launch Thursday​

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.- Two sounding rockets are expected to take off from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Accomack County Thursday.

The launch window is between 7 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. The flight was supposed to take of last Friday but was scrubbed due to unacceptable wind conditions. There are back-up launch days scheduled through February 19.

The rockets are scheduled to launched about 30 minutes apart.

NASA will test a new capability for supporting science research in the mesosphere.

A livestream of the launches will begin ~15 minutes before the first scheduled launch.

 

[movetheboat]

They didn't tweek anything...they are just looking at these things more closely.....about time someone did....It was actually brilliant for the Chinese to float this chit across the country mingled with hundreds of others BS balloons

Well there's a NEW SHERIFF in town now beeetches!!

 

[CELLFISH]

why waste a expensive missile, could’ve used bullets… ???

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any way : that train derailment, a SPOTER leading car, should be in place a half mile ahead of most cargo carry trains… should’ve been the procedure inda first place… thanks Butterjudge… cellie…
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[jpd]

The English have a great sense of humor lol

Pranksters fly ‘spy balloon’ over Chinese Embassy, accused of ‘starting WWIII’

Pranksters were busted flying a “spy” balloon over the Chinese embassy amid the alleged espionage row between China and the US.

nypost.com

 

[CELLFISH]

mr.Wader, btw, my faith in ABC news is on par wit shows they promote…

“ the view “ most dividing, hateful Americans as could be , whoopi G, joyless.. disgusting women… C22…
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[movetheboat]

misogynist eh? You don't like women who speak their minds!!

 

[Aquarius]

The English have a great sense of humor lol

Pranksters fly ‘spy balloon’ over Chinese Embassy, accused of ‘starting WWIII’

Pranksters were busted flying a “spy” balloon over the Chinese embassy amid the alleged espionage row between China and the US.

nypost.com

That is hysterical!

 

[longcast]

NYC homeless man arrested after 66-year-old man shoved onto subway tracks: police

Corey Walcott, a 44-year-old homeless man with 19 prior arrests, was taken into custody after allegedly shoving a 66-year-old man onto subway tracks in New York City.

www.foxnews.com

Essig said that Walcott has 19 prior arrests for multiple counts of forcible touching, criminal possession of a controlled substance, assault, criminal sale of marijuana, fare evasion and criminal possession of a weapon.

 

[JackPrintMD]

misogynist eh? You don't like women who speak their minds!!

They are so Nasty they dont even support Women.

Their opinion is , If you disagree with their opinion, you are a bad person, that’s not liberal, that’s Evil.

 

[movetheboat]

They are so Nasty they dont even support Women.

Their opinion is , If you disagree with their opinion, you are a bad person, that’s not liberal, that’s Evil.

I have never watched that and never will...YENTAS

 

[dsedy]

I have never watched that and never will...YENTAS

 

[movetheboat]

The Buffalo Tops shooter has been sentenced to life in prison without parole​

Updated February 15, 202311:38 AM ET


THE BROTHERS WILL GET HIM IN PRISON


The 19-year-old white gunman who killed 10 Black people and injured three others at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., last year has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan handed down the sentence during a hearing on Wednesday.

"There is no place for you or your ignorant, hateful and evil ideologies in a civilized society. There can be no mercy for you, no understanding, no second chances," Eagan said.

"The damage you have caused is too great, and the people you have hurt are too valuable to this community. You will never see the light of day as a free man ever again," she added.

Payton Gendron pleaded guilty in November to 15 criminal charges — including a first-degree domestic terrorism charge that comes with a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the chance of parole — following the deadly racist attack at a Tops supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood.

For much of the roughly two-hour hearing, family members of those who were shot and one man who was injured in the shooting gave emotional victim impact statements to a crowded courtroom.


Simone Crawley, whose 86-year-old grandmother Ruth Whitfield was killed in the attack, told Gendron that her grandmother's legacy will outlive him.

BUFFALO TOPS MASS SHOOTING​

N.Y. officials announce plans for a memorial to the victims of the Buffalo shooting​

"You will simply go from a name to a number. You will be herded like cattle. You will be shut away from the world," Crawley said. "Even with all of the heartache you have caused, you have failed to break our family's spirit. You thought you broke us, but you awoke us."

Gendron, who was wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, bowed his head and appeared to be crying at times during the statements from victims' family members.

Barbara Massey Mapps berated Gendron and shared memories of her sister, Kat, who was also shot and killed at Tops.

"Kat would do anything for anybody any time," Massey Mapps said. "You have made me sick. You got my family crying. I miss my sister every day."

At one point while Massey Mapps was speaking, a man lunged toward Gendron and was restrained by police, while other officers quickly escorted Gendron out of the courtroom. The hearing paused briefly before resuming.

Toward the end of the proceeding, Gendron made a brief statement in which he apologized to the families of the victims for carrying out the racist massacre.

"I did a terrible thing that day. I shot and killed people because they were Black," said Gendron, who spoke from the defense table. "Looking back now I can't believe I actually did it."

 

[jpd]

Lots of Russkies falling out windows these days....

Top Putin war official plunges 160 feet to her death from high-rise building

Marina Yankina, 58, an official with Russia’s Ministry of Defense, was found dead outside an apartment building in St. Petersburg.

nypost.com

 

[wader]

NYC homeless man arrested after 66-year-old man shoved onto subway tracks: police

Corey Walcott, a 44-year-old homeless man with 19 prior arrests, was taken into custody after allegedly shoving a 66-year-old man onto subway tracks in New York City.

www.foxnews.com

Essig said that Walcott has 19 prior arrests for multiple counts of forcible touching, criminal possession of a controlled substance, assault, criminal sale of marijuana, fare evasion and criminal possession of a weapon.

should just toss him under a train..........

 

[wader]

‘That could be one of our balloons’: Hobbyist says downed object may belong to amateur club

“The thing they described as having shot down is not inconsistent with what we're flying out there,” the member said.

www.yahoo.com

‘That could be one of our balloons’: Hobbyist says downed object may belong to amateur club​

It’s possible that the object shot down by American forces over the Yukon last weekend “could have been our balloon,” a member of an Illinois hobbyist group said Friday.

On Thursday, news surfaced that an amateur group in Illinois said one of its balloons had gone missing near Alaska on Saturday, the same day an F-22 shot down an object over the Yukon in Canada. In a blog post on the group’s website on Tuesday, it said the balloon had gone “missing in action” but avoided making any connection with the military shoot-down.

The object was one of three unknown aerial craft that were shot down over the weekend, days after the incursion of a Chinese spy balloon over the U.S. and Canada prompted the military to look more closely at objects floating in U.S. airspace.

“When I heard that [it was a] silver object with a payload attached to it, that could be one of our balloons,” a member of the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told POLITICO in a phone interview. The member was granted anonymity because the group has agreed not to talk to the media.

Government officials have reached out to some of the hobby group’s members, the person said. On Thursday, a spokesperson for the North American Aerospace Defense Command said the FBI had contacted the club but did not provide more details. The FBI did not return a request to comment.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Friday that the U.S. can't confirm reports that the balloon belongs to the club. "We haven't recovered it so it's very difficult until you can get your hands on something to be able to tell," he said. "I mean we all have to accept the possibility that we may not be able to recover it."

For months, the hobby group tracked its balloon using an antenna attached to the craft, using GPS to estimate where it was. Based on their data, the balloon should have been over Alaska when it went offline.

But hundreds, if not thousands, of objects are floating in that jet stream at any given time, so no one can be sure what was shot down unless you “go through the Yukon and trudge through the snow,” the member said.

“Think about it. We know where the balloon was off the coast of Alaska. We know where it was, if all was well,” the member said. “We know that it didn't wake up that morning. We know [American forces] shot something down, and the thing they described as having shot down is not inconsistent with what we're flying out there. So, that's that.”

Balloons flown by the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade are no different from the $10 to $15 balloons children buy for parties, the person said. They’re not specifically designed for scientific purposes. The Sidewinder missile used by the Air Force to shoot down the object over the Yukon costs roughly $400,000.

“Unless it has Mickey Mouse ears and F-22 pilots got sharp eyes and can discern that, it's not clear exactly what you're looking at. But the point is that it is not at all a huge reach,” to assume it’s the group’s balloon, the member said.

Kirby said the U.S. stands by the decision to shoot down the objects.

 

[Rick67]

It was too white.

 

[Rick67]

Finally the rain comes to wash the scum off the streets.

 

[movetheboat]

that will help!!

 

[movetheboat]

‘Look, the president called me and said, “Anything you need.” I have not called him back after that conversation. We will not hesitate to do that if we’re seeing a problem or anything, but I’m not seeing it.’
— Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine


DeWine, a second-term Republican, said he had been contacted after the disaster by President Joe Biden, who, he said, offered any necessary federal assistance. Said DeWine at the Tuesday news briefing: “Look, the president called me and said, ‘Anything you need.’ I have not called him back after that conversation. We will not hesitate to do that if we’re seeing a problem or anything, but I’m not seeing it.”


The White House explained why it turned down Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's request for disaster relief this week in the aftermath of a derailment of a train hauling toxic chemicals.

A Biden administration official told Fox News Digital that it has provided extensive assistance to surrounding communities following the chemical release earlier this month in eastern Ohio. However, the official said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the agency that usually provides relief to communities hit by hurricanes and other natural disasters, isn't best equipped to support the state's current needs.

"The Biden Administration is mobilizing a robust, multi-agency effort to support the people of East Palestine, Ohio. Since February 3, the Environmental Protection Agency has had personnel on the ground," the official told Fox News Digital. "FEMA is coordinating with the emergency operations center working closely with the Ohio Emergency Management Agency."


"But what East Palestine needs is much more expansive than what FEMA can provide," they continued. "FEMA is on the frontlines when there is a hurricane or tornado. This situation is different."