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Alaska Airlines takes flying fish to a whole new level--$500K fed grant pays for custom paint job
Anchorage Daily News ^
| October 2, 2005
| Wesley Loy
Posted on 10/03/2005 1:45:49 PM PDT by hinterlander
So, you landed a big king salmon this summer? It can't compare to the colossal king Alaska Airlines plans to land this morning in Anchorage.
The Seattle-based carrier has painted nearly the full length of a Boeing 737-400 passenger jet as a wild Alaska king, or chinook, salmon. The airline has dubbed its flying fish the "Salmon-Thirty-Salmon."
It's a bold promotional move
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: pork; spending; stevens; taxes
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To: hinterlander; COEXERJ145; Clemenza
So, did the painters work for scale?
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:47:45 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: hinterlander
I thought this was cute. Now that I know I'm paying for it, it is not so cute.
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:49:26 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Aren't the "reality-based community" folks the same ones who insist there is no objective reality?)
To: Paleo Conservative
Will the passengers fly in the lap of loxury?
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:49:27 PM PDT
by
JAWs
To: hinterlander
It's way cool, but awfully hard to get the smell out of your suitcase afterwards...
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:51:03 PM PDT
by
Texas dog
To: thoughtomator
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:51:55 PM PDT
by
sheana
To: hinterlander
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:52:52 PM PDT
by
smonk
To: hinterlander
$500K fish painting - our Republican Senate in action.
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:53:13 PM PDT
by
mdefranc
To: hinterlander
A local nonprofit agency, the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board, gave Alaska Airlines a $500,000 grant to paint the jet. The money came out of about $29 million in federal funding U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and his congressional colleagues have appropriated to the marketing board, created in 2003, to promote and enhance the value of Alaska seafood. Looks like fish, smells like PORK!
But Tom Delay told us that the federal budget was cut to the bone and there wasn't one bit of fat in it, so I guess painting planes like fish must be a vital and Constitutional authority given to the government.
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:53:22 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Instead we got a Dem approved Bush crony. :-()
To: hinterlander
I just knew something was fishy about this.
To: hinterlander
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To: hinterlander
Been there. Saw that. Bought the t-shirt. Hayward, WI.
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:54:59 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: hinterlander
Ted Stevens, Senator of the Welfare Queen State.
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:55:43 PM PDT
by
Diddle E. Squat
("I'm quitting the GOP! (Again!)" - Eeyore. Join the Self-Annointed Martyr Party!)
To: hinterlander
Can ANYONE explain to me how this is the (federal) taxpayer's responsibility?
I am SO done with the Godd@mn GOP. The are NO BETTER than the frickin' Rats!
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posted on
10/03/2005 1:57:44 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: hinterlander
Salmon painted airplane
You may fleece a taxpayer...
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posted on
10/03/2005 2:00:11 PM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(The best things happen just before the thread snaps.)
To: hinterlander
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posted on
10/03/2005 2:00:59 PM PDT
by
tazman3
To: tazman3
Me speciality on the grill is cedar plank salmon.
To: Stand Watch Listen
it actually looks dumb - why not do it all the way instead of 7/8ths? - dumb
To: Stand Watch Listen
I like the Long-horned Texas Air Force 1 better
To: hinterlander
Alaska Airlines takes flying fish to a whole new level--$500K fed grant pays for custom paint job Damm talk about a flying Pork Barrel project " why not just paint it with a giant pig then it would be truth in advertising and keep all the Islamofascist hijackers off it at the same time
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posted on
10/03/2005 2:12:57 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(This bulletin just in:"Chinese's Fire Drill's" will now be known as "New Orleans' Hurricane Drill's")
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