EDITOR NOTE–Folks need to ask their congressman and senators how they feel about these white elephants.

A short time ago you lost an AH-64 due to stupid pilot tricks. I suspect one of the factors in that crash was the lack of visual references causing the ground to hit them much sooner than expected. I’m sorry for loss of life, but thankful they only hit sand.

Well, recently I’ve noticed on several occasions’ AH-64s and S-60s sneaking around well below the FAA mandated safe altitudes for populated areas. It’s happening very late at night and the birds are in stealth mode with very low rotor speed. (Causes a low rumble in the cheap houses. Sounds like a mild earthquake.) Safe recovery from even a partial power failure at that RPM and altitude is unlikely.

Are you using occupied homes to provide a visual reference? Are we being used for Baghdad training again?

Long story short: Stop doing stupid stuff over occupied homes. If you need visual references, plant some light poles out in your training range. Especially so if these are foreigners not familiar with our high regard for protecting the life and liberty of the civil population.

The military is good. We need the military. I simply hate stupid people doing stupid stuff.

We are being transformed from a blue collar working class community into a white collar tech class escape. Reading many stories recently, I find that thousands of Americans are leaving the overpriced mega cities and seeking out cities like ours. San Francisco and San Jose being the worst and close enough for them to look at our great advantages. Bieter (and even some leg members) are counting on the windfall of these pilgrimages. It’s a model that relies on importation of wealth made outside and a stock market to sustain the windfall. Real estate and rents are the narcotic to get us locals to buy in to it all. We’ve seen this before and it doesn’t end well.

I agree with others who don’t want to see us grow too rapidly. We need to work and improve what we have instead of piling on more obligations that will cost more resources. The answer isn’t importing more wealthy people, it’s helping poor people become middle class. We need to stop coddling a dysfunctional banking system that fuels or hinders business success. We need more small and medium business successes, not more big corporate welfare queens that gain special favors from government.

The police will only enforce noise ordinances in the DT because the Modern whined. The F35 won’t fly over DT so there is no noise problem from that. Bieter sure has brought us into the 21st century so that we can all ride bikes and take a choo choo around DT (he desperately hopes) a DT which is supposed to be walkable BTW.

Bieter has bought into every leftist regressive trope and then doubled down. All the while taxing us into oblivion.

Kustra wants in the PAC-12 at any cost and Bieter wants to be Berkely at any cost.

I just want Boise to be “backwards and behind” the big cities. Boise is a haven and retreat from their insanity.