As egg prices rise in the US some Americans are attempting to save money by purchasing them in Mexico and bringing them back across the border
Bringing eggs back into the US is illegal and this has led to a sharp increase in seizures at the US-Mexico border
US Customs and Border Protection say egg seizures have risen by 91% in El Paso, 301% in Laredo, 333% in Tucson, and 368% in San Diego compared to last year
#8
If they are using traditional drug smuggling techniques, I would think that the eggs would need to be hard-boiled. I will not be buying brown eggs until this all gets sorted out.
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#9
According to Warhog's link @ #7, at least 23 fires have burned various food processing plants since January 2021. That's just a little bit suspicious.
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#10
We are now at legal brick weed and illegal chicken eggs.
[American Thinker] In "Spate of shootings against Israelis puts region on high alert" (1/28/23), the Washington Post blamed the recent acts of violence in Israel over the last few days on a "cycle of violence." Israeli security have a 24/7 role to thwart Palestinian terrorist attacks. Their successes are rarely covered, but they occur almost daily. Palestinians are nonstop either plotting terrorist attacks or perpetrating terrorism against Israeli civilians. Whatever part of that is a cycle is in the imagination of the Washington Post. Israel is trying to protect its citizens, and the Palestinians are trying to kill them. That's the whole story. Downplaying the culpability of the Palestinians may seem politically correct to the Post reporters, but it is far from the truth.
If not for Israeli military incursions into Palestinian areas, the number of deaths of Israeli citizens would be far greater. The Washington Post says, "[A]t least 30 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces in the West Bank this year," but what the Post doesn't tell you is that the majority of those killed were either plotting terror attacks or attacking Israeli military.
The Washington Post states that "Israeli responses to Palestinian attacks have been criticized by rights groups as 'collective punishment.'" These so-called rights groups are nothing but wrong. It's the Palestinians who are guilty of collective punishment of Israeli civilians. Israeli security forces are merely attempting to stop it.
To its credit, the Post reported that the terrorist attack that killed seven Israelis outside a synagogue this past weekend cynically spurred "celebrations by Palestinians." It is this militant mindset that Israel is up against and necessitates Israeli security to be proactive. Israel doesn't need to apologize for thwarting Palestinian terrorists — all countries have that responsibility — to protect its citizens. Would we expect our military to act differently?
[YouTube] On Saturday, an American F-22 Raptor shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina using an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. In the days leading up to the intercept, the balloon had traversed the U.S. mainland and portions of Canada, leaving a flood of conspiracy theories in its wake.
Let's talk facts and dispel some of these myths and misconceptions.
#4
The USAF A-22 maximum operational ceiling just above 50,000 feet (9.4 miles), the operational range of an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile is 0.6 to 22 mile, and the balloon was said to be at about 70K Ft. (13.2 miles).
Would make it an interested kill and begs the question of why not done sooner?
#6
The AIM 9-X Sidewinder missile that was used to shoot down the Chinese balloon costs taxpayers $427,000.
So much for guns.
This has been explained in the video and other places. Guns have been used. The Canadians used guns to try to shoot down a rogue weather balloon. After 200 hits and 1000 rounds later, it kept going. Plus it is possible the payload would have been hit. So the Air Force used an inert missile to rip the bottom of the balloon off and save what they could of the payload for examination. There actually was a method to the madness.
#7
^ Yeah, I'm a little surprised nobody chimed in with "muh A-10..."
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begs the question of why not done sooner?
Your question "begs the question" of failed attempts by US air defense in the days before the balloon was downed -- attempts that failed and have not been disclosed outside of the military. The message that the high command to Biden that downing the balloon was impossible could have been based on their very recent experience.
#9
There has been no discussion online that the US once had missile armed equivalents of the Blackbird that were operational at Mach 3 and 80,000 feet, which did succeed in launching AIM-type air-to-air missiles at high altitudes.
#10
All according to the incredibly clever Biden plan to capture the balloon for its intelligence secrets!
YJCMTSU
Posted by: Bobby ||
02/07/2023 8:46 Comments ||
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#11
^ There is no sense in capturing the balloon for its intelligence secrets until it obtains some intelligence secrets. That is why Brandon let if drift across the entire continental United States.
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The speculation that the balloon was missed by radar in the path it took was either unrealistic or worrisome.
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...RE: the gun...
The M61 Vulcan is on the -22 because 50+ years ago, it wasn't on the F-4. The Fighter community swore then that they were never going to war again without a gun, and by God and Robin Olds, they've stuck to it...even though that in terms of modern air-to-air combat, if you find yourself in a situation that your best/only option against an enemy aircraft is the gun, you have seriously screwed up. (The F-35 has a larger caliber gun, but since in theory it will be used as a CAS bird, that makes sense.)
Hitting a stationary target like the balloon sounds like it should be simple, but at that altitude, it's far from easy. They wanted to keep the balloon as intact as possible, and the solution - using the -9X with an inert warhead to literally harpoon the damn thing - worked beautifully.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Genocide takes many forms. 
/\ Contracting delay. Took time for Raytheon to send out a AIM-9 w/o a warhead ?
