A Suggestion for Obama: RE: Jets Flying Past NYC Buildings
Okay, Barack. So that whole jet rattling office buildings as it flew right by the site of the World Trade Center thing, that wasn't you. Okay. I'll accept that, because I like you. I'll go along with this not being on your head thing. But here's a little thought you might want to pass along to your staff.
If you guys get around to actually fixing the economy? And you're sort of saying to each other, "You know who's really going to be happy about this? The kids that aren't going to be in debt forever because we fixed the economy." Then you're going to realize, "Oh shit! Kids don't read the paper! We gotta celebrate this, and we gotta bring the celebration to them!" And you'll get your party planning people together and they'll be all, "You know what kids really love? T-shirt canons. They go CRAZY over T-shirt canons." And someone else will say "And those flag guns!" Someone will ask "Flag guns?" "Yeah! Flag guns! You know, those things that look like guns, but when you pull the trigger, a flag pops out and unfurls!"
So when they're done planning and they've figured out that the best way to brings high school and college aged kids onto the "hurray, the economy is fixed!" party boat is to burst into their schools with t-shirt canons and flag guns? Remind your staff to skip Virginia Tech and Columbine.
Because obviously, someone on your planning team is a retarded chimp.
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Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Obama supporter and in no way do I directly blame him for this stupidity but I will be dissipointed if somebody doesn't get the chop.
It is not the fact that they cruised over the city, but the fact that they spent so much money for a photo opportunity. I thought that the mentality that produced the air carrier photo op with the Mission Accomplished sign had gone with the Dodo.
Get the word out to the military pleeze that we do not need more photos. We don't need them, don't want them, and I am offended that they even thought we needed them.
I live in California and Travis AFB a couple of years ago spent 6 million building a rehearsal hall for the military band. Not a performance venue, mind you but a rehearsal hall while the schools are cutting music programs.
And here we thought Dubya had gone back to Texas. Obviously either he or one of his boneheaded subordinates is still working in the White House.
It was unfortunate and those responsible have apologized. I'm sure there was no intention to harm anyone. Let's move on, okay? People make mistakes. It is done.
I still can't believe this happened at all. Someone needs to be fired - this was really really stupid.
In all seriousness, CONAD would've sent at least two fighters after the 747 had it been an actual hijacking.
Glad to see someone still has a sense of humor at the huffpo. I thought it went extinct after the Gutman left.
Grammatical note: The author uses the word "canon" three times in the piece above, though the spelling of the word he was clearly intending to use is "cannon."
For anyone who cares, here's the difference:
canon: regulation or dogma decreed by a church council
cannon: a large heavy gun usually mounted on a carriage
See Jacob Dickerman's Profile
Oops. Yeah. You're right. I gotta learn to spell.
it's somewhat ironic that you made a mistake in your blog as you criticized the "retarded chimp" who made the mistake in new york.
though from what i understand, the retarded chimp(s) actually gave the proper authorities a heads up of the training exercise they planned on doing yesterday.
and actually living in new york, i would also like to point out that new yorkers have a tendency of over-reacting. i didn't panic. of course, i'm not originally from new york, i'm from the south, so i tend to be more laid back than these high strung people who live here.
i think a lot is being made of this incident, but then, a lot is made of seemingly everything lately.
Or a canon color copier.
Well, I dunno..som
To quote Leonard Pinth-Garnell:
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(None of which should be applied to the humorous sentiment of Jacob Dickman and his musings.)
Said the still-bitter girl who took 2nd place in the spelling bee, having choked on "necessary" and to this day, usually goes to great extremes to deem the word "unnecessa
I'm not sure what I'm angrier about:
1) The idiotic NYC flyby that was done without giving the public a heads up (Here's a tip Obama/Bloomberg: fire/demote some people to show incompetent government employees will be held accountabl
2) The TAX DOLLARS spent on this flyby. There are millions of unemployed peeps like me, some of whom are losing their unemployment benefits or houses. Surely there is a better use for our tax $.
Issues like the flyover and the Social Security ponzi, validate my low opinion of Fed and state governments.
hey give em a break; I hear they are trying to sell AF1 to save the economy.
It's listed on Ebay , isn't it?
Angry much?
Try meditation.
Good for your blood pressure and your temper.
To your question, my friends say I smile a lot--I'm generally a laid-back person. Yet I vividly remember my day at my Houston office on 911, including the hasty evacuation. Remember that day? And I agree with Jacob Dickerman's comment: "someone on your [Obama's] planning team is a retarded chimp."
Can you imagine if this happened on Bush's watch? There would be LOTS of people needing meditation. LOL
Good leaders lead by example. If you care about the environment, like I do, you don't burn 9,000+ gallons of fuel in AF1 for an Earth Day speech. You don't scare people by saying the economy may not recover absent a $750 billion bailout. Similarly, you respect the 911 survivors by not giving them a jumbo jet flyover that vividly reminds them of 911. Symbolism matters.
So yeah, I'm teed off because the examples I cited should be common sense, at least for a smart guy like Obama and his talented team. Am I nitpicking?
Have a nice day fellow bloggers. :-)
The flights were classified as "training"
Do you think the AF just flies when it has to?
Pilots and crews need to maintain skills and this is done by taking out the aircraft they fly on training missions. No, they don't just fly in circles around their home base. They go on multi-hour trips that simulate actual missions. Photo ops are part of the long list of things that can be accomplished during a training mission. "Training" is budgeted for in every USAF flying unit.
Good point about the training, cdiasmd. Having many former classmates in the military, I understand the critical role of training. I would point out that we have the technology, the drones, the satellites, to recon NYC from the air without risking the President in an AF1 flyover.
Many people were shaken by the flyover. For example, quoting the New York Times: “I thought there was some kind of an attack,” said Paul Nadler, who sprinted down more than 20 flights of stairs after watching the plane from his office in Jersey City shortly after 10 a.m. “We ran like hell.”
The Fed and NYC governments screwed up big time and they should accept responsibility.
Just a suggestion: if you want to complain about something that the armed forces did, don't throw in Social Security as an afterthought about things you don't like. There is no connection whatsoever between a dumb decision to fly an airplane past the Statue of Liberty and whether Social Security is a good plan.
Fair enough, social security is off topic.
The connection between the social security and the dumb flyover is the relative lack of accountability in government (yes, one staffer was reprimanded). In the private sector, if you ran a Ponzi or "disturbed the peace" by scaring thousands of New Yorkers, you would be demoted, fired, or jailed. In the private sector, social security $ would be in a lock box and the channels communicating the AF1 flyover would have used common sense.
My two cents.
1) Since when does the Air Force answer to the New York City government?
2) Your TAX DOLLARS [sic] are spent on the privilege of plastering the words "US Army" and "National Guard" on the sides of cars that do nothing but go in circles for hours on end, yet you are strangely silent on this matter.
Doesn't anyone in the government know about Photoshop! Heck of a lot cheaper and everyone would understand why the promo pics were done on Photoshop!! Geez......
Exactly my thoughts when I heard about this and a hell of lot cheaper and no jet fuel used.
Someone should be fired with media coverage.
Just who was it that ordered this: some prima-donna photographer, or just some crazed PR flack?
Nero fiddled whist Rome Burned.
whist?
isn't a whist that wire thing for mixing in a kitchen?
whilst
would have been easier if the author had just used "while"
I laughed hysterically at this article. It was the disturbing laugh of a person who has seen too much in such a short time of 35 years. Some people call it PTSD. We've been affected as a nation and I think we can all benefit from counseling. The debris and dust from the W T C drifted over to Staten Island and helped to aggravate my father's chronic respiratory problems and he eventually died when his heart gave out a short time later. I howled with laughter at Jon Stewart's segment on the Daily Show last night until I had tears in my eyes. It wasn't that funny, yet it was.
get around to fixing the economy... because he's just hanging out now right. Planning flyovers and parties.
I understand your panic, but you have to get some perspective.
J
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