Look! Up in the sky! "A plane circling Lower Manhattan escorted by two fighter jets is part of a 'photo op,' said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters. Mr. Peters said the Defense Department is conducting a photo op that involves "SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF Lower Manhattan office workers who are already jittery about swine flu and the recession and those other planes from a couple years back." Er, actually, it involves, "deploying two F-16s and escorting a Boeing 747 in the vicinity of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty."
That's nothing. Westboro Baptist Church has a C-130 full of Mexican hogs in parachutes circling over Des Moines.
I saw that. I wouldn't have minded if the FAA maybe told us about it ahead of time? A bunch of people in my office were freaking out. Kinda ruined our meeting.
http://www.faa.gov/faa_feeds/
Maybe if office workers were working and not looking out their windows there would be neither a recession nor a swine flu. Because they would be working on a vaccine. Or something.
Yes, I certainly want my vaccines to come from the highly scientific mind of the HR girl.
We had to evacuate the building and my shoes were totes inapprops for 40 flights of stairs. The Department of Homeland Security owes me some moleskin.
government fail!
That was Cheney's minions planning the shoot-down on Obama's next visit. Followed by martial law, etc.
For a moment there I feared Travolta had entered the second stage of grief.