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Does everyone in America live in constant paranoid fear of low flying aircraft?
I used to live next to Heathrow, if I'd had sensibilities like that, I would have gone insane a long time ago.

i fear not the low flying planes....but bears.....they are another story

Glad to know Colbert is still relevant.

And anyways, the deal with this stuff is that you are always responsible for your subordinates. It may be their fault but its your ass. Always.

Growing up at the Hight of the IRA bombing Campaign, I can safely say I run Screaming from buses if I see so much as a Plastic bag without someone with it.

The US has had a grand total of ONE major attack by foreign attackers against it in recent years. Yes it was a big one, but get over it.

However, I agree that the dumb idiot who thought this up should have issued a public notice about it, or just paid some poor college kid $500 and got him to GIMP it.

Ah, the IRA. Now there was a REAL terrorist organisation. Not like these namby pamby islamic ones we get today.
They REALLY knew how to conduct a campaign of terror. None of this one bang and we're done malarkey.

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Mountains shaped vaguely like male genitals?

Cheese Elemental wrote:Mountains shaped vaguely like male genitals?

Maybe you should see a doctor...

Ah, the summary of the story is a stockphoto and the summary of the thread is that mountains have snow on top, that's what makes them different from hills.

OMG NEW DEVOLPMENTZ!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8041257.stm wrote:Aide resigns over NY plane scare

A White House aide has quit over his role in a low-level fly-past by a presidential plane that caused panic in New York.

A statement from the White House said President Barack Obama had accepted the resignation of military office director Louis Caldera.

The photo opportunity fly-past prompted the evacuation of number of offices.

The president has ordered a review to make sure such an incident is not repeated, the White House said.

The half-hour fly past by a presidential jet and a fighter plane on April 27 was a photo opportunity that did not involve Mr Obama.

Pentagon officials said the fly-past had been co-ordinated with city and state authorities, though no general public notification was issued in advance.

The flight startled scared the gak out of New York residents who correspondents say are still scarred by the September 2001 attacks in which hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center.

Tasteful edit for emphasis.

The turkey who ok'd this resigned today.

Frazzled wrote:The turkey who ok'd this resigned today.

Yes I already said that. Wake up lazy!

Sigh.

I always thought Noo Yawkers were made of sterner stuff.
It used to be a badge of honour to be a tough guy. The old "I saw three tours in 'nam!" - "yesh, so? I live in Noo Yawk! Who's the tough guy now?"

Afraid of a couple of planes flying over?

The heads-ups were given. Looks like just the politicians in charge of passing on the messages were doing their same-old, same-old and not passing them on.

Media beat-up, and Noo Yawker beat off.

We need to have lots of low flying aircraft going over New York. Break their paranoia.

So this was a fail on the Noo Yahwk city officials side of things? I guess I'm not particularly surprised, but still a small bit disturbed that someone who works for the city dropped the ball for something with such obvious potential scare-power.

No. It was a FAIL on the Whitehouse side of things.

Frazzled wrote:No. It was a FAIL on the WHITEhouse side of things.

Just making sure we all know whitey is to blame and not the awesomeness that is Barack Obama </Humourous-lighthearted-joke-about-white-people>. I mean, I know he is the president, but he cant be expected to know what every singe one of his braindead aides are doing at once.

While I do believe this is both the fault of the Whitehouse aid, and NYC Aid, and maybe to a lesser degree Barack's.

I would just like to know how many people instantly would have assumed it was Bush's fault had it have taken place during one of his terms.

BrotherStynier wrote:While I do believe this is both the fault of the Whitehouse aid, and NYC Aid, and maybe to a lesser degree Barack's.

I would just like to know how many people instantly would have assumed it was Bush's fault had it have taken place during one of his terms.

Thats only because Bush would be stupid enough to order this himself. Barack is able to tie his own shoes and wipe his own arse so we know he couldn't have ordered it.

But only if he is reading those directions off a teleprompter

Frazzled wrote:But only if he is reading those directions off a teleprompter

Well, when you consider bush didn't have so much a "Teleprompter" as a "man with a clown puppet and cards with crayon pictures"...

We can vote ours out. Your queen is forever

Frazzled wrote:We can vote ours out. Your queen is forever

Lies, our queen was only from... errrr.... whenever Cromwell set up the commonwealth. That's right, we were a republic even before you were (albeit temporarily).

Plus anyway, given the choice between a haemophiliac racist Christian upper class guy and a brain-dead racist Christian brain-dead moron as our head of state, I pick the former. Then move to Canada!

Frazzled wrote:We can vote ours out. Your queen is forever

Not quite true.. abdication etc... all over an American !Honestly !

Charles isn't very popular and it wouldn't surprise me if when the time comes there's a long hard look at the future role of the/any "royal" family.

Gwar! wrote:Plus anyway, given the choice between a haemophiliac racist Christian upper class guy and a brain-dead racist Christian brain-dead moron as our head of state, I pick the former. Then move to Canada!

Which one do you view as Bush?

reds8n wrote:

Frazzled wrote:We can vote ours out. Your queen is forever

Not quite true.. abdication etc... all over an American !Honestly !

Charles isn't very popular and it wouldn't surprise me if when the time comes there's a long hard look at the future role of the/any "royal" family.

Well, it's a good thing that either he will die before the queen (more than likely) or that he will change his name to Henryetta or something (we all know what happened to the last two King Charles, so I think he will use the right to pick a throne name )

mcfly wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Plus anyway, given the choice between a haemophiliac racist Christian upper class guy and a brain-dead racist Christian brain-dead moron as our head of state, I pick the former. Then move to Canada!

Which one do you view as Bush?

Well, considering that the Haemophiliac comment was a stab at the high prevalence within the highly inbred royal families of Europe, Bush is most certainly not upper class, and Charles is not Brain-dead, I thought It would be obvious.

Oh contraire, Bush is quite upper class. The family is worth in the hundreds of millions IIRC.

Brain dead. Call me when you graduate from one of the top 10 schools in the world.

Frazzled wrote:Oh contraire, Bush is quite upper class. The family is worth in the hundreds of millions IIRC.

Money (made by parents) != Class.

Brain dead. Call me when you graduate from one of the top 10 schools in the world.

Money (used by said parents) != Smart.

And srsly why are you defending him? He gave both Americans and Texans a bad name, which is a shame because one of my Friends here is from Texas and he is awesome

Gwar! wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Oh contraire, Bush is quite upper class. The family is worth in the hundreds of millions IIRC.

Money (made by parents) != Class.

Research GWAR, it helps so much. The Bush's have been considered blue bloods for multiple generations. If it helps, they didn't come from Texas.

Brain dead. Call me when you graduate from one of the top 10 schools in the world.

Money (used by said parents) != Smart.

Again, put up or shut up. What vaunted establishment of education did you arise from? Unless its Ivy League you're just blowing smoke out your arse to use a Grotsnikism.

And srsly why are you defending him? He gave both Americans and Texans a bad name, which is a shame because one of my Friends here is from Texas and he is awesome

1. He's a former US President. You aren't.
2. Time will reflect much more favorably on his presidency. Iraq was a very bad idea and almost a failure. The initial budget debacle and not trying to head off the housing nightmare in 2006 can be laid at his feet. But the same can be said for Congress. He did stop Al Qaeda and his administration worked well in the 2002-2003 recession. We'll see how this adminstration does, after two years of budgets that are 4x as large as anything in history adn after we again treat terrorism as a crime.

We'll see how popular he is when he starts releasing Gitmo terrorists into the US. We'll see what the economy is like in 2012. We'll see.

However, the fact Europeans hate Bush is always a positive. You guys love Obama yet haven't lifted finger one in requests, so who's the better President?

Frazzled wrote:Again, put up or shut up. What vaunted establishment of education did you arise from? Unless its Ivy League you're just blowing smoke out your arse to use a Grotsnikism.

No offence, but an English Primary School probably teaches more in one year than he has learnt his entire life. At the very least UK primary Schools teach us how to write our own name.

1. He's a former US President. You aren't.

You point? How does being Elected (under conterversial Standards I might add) to be a government puppet make him any better than me?

2. Time will reflect much more favorably on his presidency. Iraq was a very bad idea and almost a failure. The initial budget debacle and not trying to head off the housing nightmare in 2006 can be laid at his feet. But the same can be said for Congress. He did stop Al Qaeda and his administration worked well in the 2002-2003 recession. We'll see how this adminstration does, after two years of budgets that are 4x as large as anything in history and after we again treat terrorism as a crime.

Riiiiiight. As for Al Qaeda, tell that to the operatives still in Iraq and Iran.

We'll see how popular he is when he starts releasing Gitmo terrorists into the US. We'll see what the economy is like in 2012. We'll see.

Yes, "terrorists" that have never been charged with anything and have never had any proof of terrorism brought against the, At least when the UK locked up Irishmen we had SOME evidence.

However, the fact Europeans hate Bush is always a positive. You guys love Obama yet haven't lifted finger one in requests, so who's the better President?

Obama has been in office approx 100 days....