Clay Bennett for February 14, 2023

You first!

Frank Luke is smiling somewhere…

Hey, one that’s funny and not sad. A rare sort indeed.

Is it Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen? Call Snoopy.

Good point.

Yes, I went there.

Hey! Think of it as target practice!

Get on the horn to Peking and yell: “PULL!”

“Shoot first” is becoming the default procedure in every situation for trigger-happy America.

We on the ground should be holding up that sign too, too many mass shootings going on here.

They don’t even know what they are shooting down. As long as it’s not coming from China, it’s open season.

Finally, a constructive use for the NRA.

“Fighter jets”? What is this, 1950?

Bit of a difference between cupid and spy balloons

Has anyone yet seen a photo of one of the “cylindrical” things?

Awww! ❤️❤️❤️

Be very, very careful, Cupid.

The next time there’s a boy in a balloon, we’re ready!

Also, I believe the 3rd one was brought down by an F-22. An F-22 Raptor costs about $135 million. Over $300 Million if you include research and development. I suspect that if you ranked national militaries on effectiveness instead of money, the U.S. would drop quite a bit. Especially if you’re using a missile to take out a … balloon?

Cupid, don’t draw back your bow! / If you let that arrow fly, / Fighter jets will blow you right out of the sky. . ." (Sincere thanks and apologies to Sam Cooke’s “Cupid” – 1961.)

Marjorie Taylor Greene used the death count from hijacked 9/11 Flight 93 to minimize the risk of shooting down the spy balloon.

MTG: “Do you guys remember on 9/11 when an airplane crashed in Pennsylvania? …It killed everyone on board, but it didn’t kill anyone on the ground.”

Not to worry, cupid, like republican policies, is imaginary.

Good one, Mr Bennett.

Wow. When we didn’t shoot the balloon down until it was over the ocean they said Biden was weak. Now he’s "trigger-happy. No pleasing you idiots.

As long as the USAF can identify him, he’s safe.

I keep thinking of the poor F-22 Raptor pilot, all those years of training, trillions of dollars spent developing 5th generation aircraft. And the only air-to-air kill is a balloon.