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This is the key//That’s the vehicle//Open the doors//Where’s the people?

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Another Grim Moment in Marketing…

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Images: (smoke) pyr.ec.gc.ca; (saab 93) en-wikimedia.org; (Saab ad) vintagetechnology.com; (military plane) worldwide-military.com; (clouds) ics.uci.edu; (T-Bird) user morrea via en-wikipedia.org; (ejection suit) canit.se; (Saab Aero X) zeenz.nl; (aqurium) aquarium.com; (Fiat) en-wikipedia.org; (Van) renault-logan.eastroblog.com; (church) freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com; (purple curtains) party.pro.com; (Nose Art) aert-letters.com;(French doors) (Versailles) (BMW) edge-inc.net; (Mercedes) readthisblog.net; (’57 Ford) tocmp.com; (Mazda) […]

The Associated Press has found that self-designated frugal, South Carolina governor Sanford used state airplanes for family vacations, trips to get his ears lowered and his children’s sports events.

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

 Just don’t tell us how to live, Mark!

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Image: (barrel) (Mark) examiner.com; (flag) & (Buenos Aires) rlv.zcache.com via zazzle.com;; (fragile) noonaco.com; (end up) everythingradio.com;

2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First–New York Times headline, May 25, 2009

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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In other news, Doug Corrigan was honestly confused…

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and Saint Thomas (a.k.a Doubting Tom) really believed in the Resurrection, but after having seen David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME at the Jerusalem Golgotha-Plex on Saturday evening, wounds intrigued him. Caravaggio’s painting demonstrates.
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Images: (Post) via worldpeacethroughtbeer.org; (parade) + (book) + (movie) via 100megspop3.com;(sheet music) via smithsonianlibraries.si.edu;(James Woods) in david […]

Welcome to the WORLD’S MOST MORONIC POLICE CHASES.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

ABC News
Stolen Cessna’s Pilot Captured
Pilot Took Off Running After Landing Plane Following Pursuit by Fight Jets
By PIERRE THOMAS and LUIS MARTINEZ
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2009

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Images: (Larry King) CNN via magkachi.files.wordpress.com; Sandra Bullock)–from SPEED via  oviereviews.today.com; (Airbus) fantom-xp.com; (C5A) p.base.com; (Preston) via truckhobby.com; (St. Louis) users.globairnet.co.uk; (Mud Flaps) from Warner Bros. via yosemitesam.net via wise-family.info; (Cessna) aerospaceweb.org; […]

Let Hezbollah have its Terrorist Amusement Park, we have…

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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Images: (Air & Space Museum) letsgo.dc.com; (Ford) texashideout.tripod.com; (Terraplane) hetclub.com;(C-123k) via staticflickr.com; (’54 Greyhound) Redden Archive Collection via walkercustomer.com; (Packard) via imstumped.com; (Con-Air) via  allposters.com

Flying a warplane is difficult enough, but if it falls apart like a cheap suit; the pilot definitely has a real beef!

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

U.S. Pilot Sues Boeing Over F-15 Falling Apart
By bruce rolfsen
Published: 24 Mar 15:27 EDT (11:27 GMT)
The pilot of the F-15C Eagle that broke apart in November, forcing an U.S. Air Force-wide grounding of F-15s, has sued the jet’s builder.
The lawsuit seeks more than $75,000 from Boeing.
(Capt. Tana Stevenson / U.S. Air Force)
Maj. Stephen Stilwell’s lawsuit […]

The Straight-Talk Express just had another bus plunge.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

McCain advisers lobbied for Airbus
March 11, 2008 - 5:57am
By JIM KUHNHENN and MATTHEW DALY
Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more […]

I shall simply join readers and shake my head in disbelief.

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Unchecked aliens cram flight schools
by Bill Hutchinson
Daily News staff writer
Thursday, February 28th 2008, 4:00 AM
Despite tough post-9/11 laws, thousands of foreign students are training at U.S. flight schools without proper visas or security background checks, government documents show.
“TSA’s enforcement is basically nonexistent,” Bill McNease, a former Federal Aviation Administration inspector, said in an interview aired […]

I wonder if they enjoyed THUNDER ROAD and NUDE IN A WHITE CAR?

Friday, October 26th, 2007

My pal Mark emailed some photos of the Tucson Bone Yard of retired military aircraft in the Arizona desert. Most of us have seen these incredible bird’s-eye view photos of the resting planes.
For example…
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But, no one ever talks about or photographs the airplanes at night.
I have and found this incredible event.
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Images: (intermission) […]

I recall the time they had mistakenly attached cruise missile nukes to the underside of a Piedmont Airlines DC-3 making its Raleigh to Durham run.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

The Seattle Times
Thursday, September 6, 2007 - Page updated at 02:08 AM
Air Force fires commander in nuke error
By PAULINE JELINEK
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Air Force fired a commander after a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states last week, Pentagon officials said […]