F-35B, Where are you?

 First, I waited until the Marines located their missing F-35 before writing anything about it. Why? Because I didn't want to write some humorous piece and then have the fighter jet crash into a large building in a city somewhere in the South and cause some casualties.  Now with the fighter jet having been located in South Carolina and no casualties reported, we can go on.

How does one lose an $100 million piece of high-tech warmaking equipment? What caused the pilot to eject from the plane? Was there any communication before he left the plane? Let's face it, the plane flew for more than 60 miles before it crashed, so what was the emergency? If the transponder was off, why not turn it back on before leaving the plane? Did the Marines or the Navy issue a warning to people in South Carolina that a plane might crash into their homes? Or did it crash into a home? The government is not providing a lot of details in this case.

Is there anything more ridiculous than the military announcing that they have lost a fighter jet and to call if you have seen it? I loved the ads that popped up online offering F-35s for sale.

On a technical note, the F-35B version used by the Marines is designed to take off and land vertically as well as to be able to hover. The ejection seat in the F-35B is also able to operate automatically if the sensors decide the pilot is in danger. So basically, a faulty sensor on a $100 million airplane can decide to eject the guy flying it. Sounds like something out of an old movie. That didn't end well either.

Final note on the F-35B model. The Marine Corps is also the main user of the V-22 Osprey which like the F-35B can take off and land vertically. It can also hover. I think that there are some serious technological issues that need to be addressed in both of these aircraft before sacrificing any more service member lives in crashes. 

In other military related news, Dementia Joe is attacking Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama because he is still blocking confirmation of Generals and Admirals. The Democrats all want Tuberville to change his stand, but no one is advocating that The Defense Department change their policy of subsidizing abortions for service members. That policy is what started the whole thing. The Defense Department is trying to tap dance around the Hyde Amendment and Tuberville doesn't think that is right. 

I'm only surprised that Biden didn't try to blame the missing F-35 on Tuberville.

In other news Zelensky is in our country begging for more money to guarantee that the Ukraine can keep a corrupt government. Politicians who won't allocate money to defend our borders want to protect the borders in the Ukraine. 

There are more illegal immigrants in North Carolina than there are Russians in the Ukraine. Which one does Biden want to control?  Hint: North Carolina didn't vote for Biden, and we haven't sent any money to Hunter's secret accounts.

If the countries that border the Ukraine are not borrowing money from China to give the Ukraine, why is the United States doing that? We are broke, we don't have any money to give them! Stop the stupidity!!

Let's track this down. There is ample evidence that Hunter Biden, through a web of shell companies took millions of dollars from the Ukraine. Now Joe Biden, father of Hunter Biden, wants to give billions of dollars to keep the Ukraine free. Is that "free" to send Hunter more money? Are Joe and Hunter getting a cut of what we send the Ukraine? 

I don't want to single out Dementia Joe and Cocaine Hunter for special attention here. How many Senators and Congressmen are getting a cut from what we send to the Ukraine? 

Senator Lindsey Graham is a big supporter of the Ukraine. Before saying anything critical about South Carolina, my mother's family has been in South Carolina for more than 300 years. With that disclosure out of the way, I just don't believe that 90% of South Carolinians are able to find the Ukraine on a world map. I don't believe that the average South Carolinian cares about Ukraine. My brother lives in South Carolina and his biggest concern is the electric bill in the coming winter. Why is Sen. Graham so concerned? The same reason that the Bidens are concerned, $.