Airplanes painted like fish.
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Shouldn’t that salmon have the head of Sen. Ted Stevens?
February 16th, 2006 at 12:06 pmwtf? How many people could be housed in New Orleans for that?
February 16th, 2006 at 12:07 pmHave you ever noticed how many reports we get on airplane crashes when we have slow news days? There was a handful around the time when JetBlue landed with a twisted wheel, and the plane that didn’t stop and ran into the street killing one person…. it makes me worry how long THIS plane will last in the air.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:12 pmThis is old news.
ABC News
October 4, 2005
Some Call Flying Fish Just Plain Pork
They even got some video:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1184062
And more pictures:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/popup?id=1183015
Come on Think Progress, Lt. Col. Anthony Schaffer, a memeber of Able Danger, testified on Tuesday that Able Danger had identified Muhammed Atta 13 times and that there was sufficient intellegence to stop the 9/11 attacks.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:14 pm2 comments:
1) Waste of money, for sure, but DAMN does it look cool
February 16th, 2006 at 12:22 pm2) I hope you washed your hands and took some antibiotics after going to the townhall.com site. what a wretched, vile place to link to….
#4 Agreed, Spudge. There’s a lot of important things to be discussed before they are swept under the Republican rug.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:23 pmwhat a wretched, vile place to link to….
Comment by Punchy — February 16, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Good point. Hey, TP! Is there some way you could warn us when we’re about to wade into excrement? Just let us know where the link you’re providing is going to take us, that’s all. Thanks.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:25 pmthat’s not a 747, as the link says… those have that hump behind the cockpit, which is actually a second level… anyway, I hope this thing doesn’t smell like one…
February 16th, 2006 at 12:27 pmWow, I heard about this ages ago.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:30 pmThink Progess, just change your link to the one I have in my post and then nobody has to go to townhall.com and they will actually get some info, pictures and video.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:34 pmDo I love it? Yes!
February 16th, 2006 at 12:38 pmDo I think taxpayers should pay for it? No!
Is there more important stuff out there? Hell, yes!
Interesting that townhall links to this document from the Republican Study Committee, on the House of Reps site, which slams these paint jobs. So, who voted for them?
http://www.house.gov/pence/rsc/doc/flyingfish.doc
Our buddy Ted Stevens. Who did he do it for, his son Ben Stevens, who is on the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board (AFMB).
Okay, time to move on.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:41 pm“2) I hope you washed your hands and took some antibiotics after going to the townhall.com site. what a wretched, vile place to link to….”
really, TP – please give a warning about this kind of thing…
even my Safari gave me a warning, but as soon as i read “townhall”, the warning window went away and the sight popped up…couldn’t get out of there fast enough…
this is quite old news, not?
February 16th, 2006 at 12:46 pmHomeland Security and FEMA are working on painting pictures of Michael Brown’s Norsdstrom’s wardrobe on rescue helicopters for the next disaster.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:47 pmHardy, you’re funny!
February 16th, 2006 at 1:40 pmFashion god to the rescue…
And Republicans are mainly responsible for this waste…
Isn’t it about time they STOP telling us they are fiscally conservative, when their actions are clearly not.
Our country’s priorities are not healthcare, education, retirement/pension, environment, nuclear proliferation/terrorism, energy alternatives but painting a fish on a airplane. Good going Congress!
This why people get mad at paying taxes. It isn’t the taxes themselves, since we all know they are needed for a civil society. But it the conplexing of the tax system, coupled with the waste.
February 16th, 2006 at 3:35 pm#16 They’ve stopped telling us they were fiscally conservative, haven’t you read a federal budget in the last 5 years,
They aren’t tax and spend; they are borrow from the children and grandchildren and spend like hell.
February 16th, 2006 at 5:03 pmPersonally, I think it’s a highly cost-effective way of promoting wild Alaskan salmon vs. the crappy-tasting, eco-unfriendly Norwegian- and lately BC-farmed salmon that has taken away much of the market. Promoting US products is fairly standard procedure for the USG (as well as other governments). Increased sales for Alaskan salmon would (a) help protect US West Coast salmon threatened by disease, etc., from BC-farmed Atlantic salmon; (b) provide a better living/more jobs for Alaska’s salmon fishing industry (fishermen, canners, ships chandlers), all of which have suffered because of crappy imported farmed salmon; and (c) reduce the trade deficit (though admittedly not by much). Those of us who really know salmon would never buy or eat the farmed stuff.
February 17th, 2006 at 9:28 amplane crashes
Didn’t realise there was this type of information out there
March 19th, 2008 at 7:04 am