We interrupt this blog for a moment in extreme cruelty and douchebaggery...
(source: NY Times) Loud planes... flying really low... too low... circling NYC... A 747? What? AIRFORCE ONE! F-16 CHASING IT??
NO. OH GOD. PLEASE, NOT AGAIN!!
NAUSEA
PANIC
QUICK GATHER THOUGHTS
EXACUATE BUILDING
CALL LOVED ONES
PRAY
"I approved a mission over New York, I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused."
-Louis Caldera Director of the White House military office
(source: NY Times)
“First thing is, I’m annoyed – furious is a better word – that I wasn’t told. Why the Defense Department wanted to do a photo-op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe defies imagination. Poor judgment would be a nice ways to phrase it, but they did. I also think that once they had told us, we should have done a better job. Had I known about it, I would have called them right away and asked them not to. It is the federal government and they can do in the end what they please, but I would have tried to stop it. I don’t know there’s a lot else to say other than they shouldn’t have done it.”- NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg who said he was not apprised of the flyover until his BlackBerry started buzzing this morning (4/27/09) with messages from people asking if he knew what was going on.
(source: istolethetv on flickr)
