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FAA says low-flying plane over Staten Island is 'pre-planned' flight to take photos
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Posted on 04/27/2009 7:30:01 AM PDT by LottieDah

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To: VA40

Probably expletive overload.


321 posted on 04/27/2009 2:19:29 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: VA40

Video of the flybys with commentary here:

http://wcbstv.com/local/military.jets.nyc.2.995375.html


322 posted on 04/27/2009 2:20:25 PM PDT by shoutingandpointing ("Tagline?" What kind of pasta is that?)
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To: LottieDah
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Photo op or no photo op this is just beyond reckless.
323 posted on 04/27/2009 2:25:08 PM PDT by VA40
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To: Cementjungle

Post 225

Boy, it must have taken some major mental contortions to come up with that.


324 posted on 04/27/2009 2:26:33 PM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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To: Velveeta

“I’m speechless!”

#

I’m not. It’s the Obama administration — another day.


325 posted on 04/27/2009 2:34:32 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Grampa Dave

Perfect. Schultzy Gibbs and the obamination are too busy to worry about freakin’ NYers.


326 posted on 04/27/2009 2:45:32 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (the obamination will ruin this nation)
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To: Velveeta

This is complete and utter BS!! No explanation for this ‘top secret mission’ to terrorize New Yorkers! I guess Obama convinced this guy to take the fall. Watch for a rapid advancement of director Louis Caldera.

Thanks for ping!


327 posted on 04/27/2009 2:46:03 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Grampa Dave

The sad thing is, being the airplane nut that I am, I would LOVE to see a VC-25 do a couple of low passes like that with a couple of F-16s escorting. But to do it over the Statue of Liberty, near lower Manhattan, with 9/11 still a living memory for thousands down there...that shows a level of narcissism and insensitivity that we’ve come to expect from TOTUS, doesn’t it?

I expect that some flunky either in the Air Force or the White House is about to become the O-bus’s latest speedbump. Because for sure, TOTUS’ motto ain’t “the buck stops here,” it’s “this is not the buck I’ve known, it ain’t my buck, you can’t prove it’s my buck, it’s his buck.”

}:-)4


328 posted on 04/27/2009 2:46:25 PM PDT by Moose4 (Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
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To: who knows what evil?

They’re veteran Air Force pilots, the best of the best. They’ll do what they’re told to do.

}:-)4


329 posted on 04/27/2009 2:47:19 PM PDT by Moose4 (Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
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To: Velveeta

And Louis Caldera becomes the latest associate of TOTUS to get the Goodyear tattoo on his forehead.

The wheels on the bus go thump-thump-thump...

}:-)4


330 posted on 04/27/2009 2:50:25 PM PDT by Moose4 (Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
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To: Moose4

Thanks for your earlier plane clarification.

I agree totally with you and appropriate fly overs. I love it when the Blue Angels visit the Bay Area.

My grandson loves to visit and watch the C5A’s fly over and do their touch and goes a few miles east of here.

Many of us warned about the narcissism of TOTUS when he was just 0b0z0. That arrogance has awaken a few people.

It will be interesting to see who ends up under 0b0z0’s bus because of this incidence.

Bloomberg will get a scalp for this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090427/us_nm/us_newyork_plane

“New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized the federal government and his own administration for failing to warn the public, which was shocked by the image of a jumbo jet flanked by an F-16 flying near the World Trade Center site.

“The good news is it was nothing more than an inconsiderate, badly conceived and insensitive photo op with the taxpayers’ money,” Bloomberg told reporters.

“They should know how sensitive people would be if they had low-flying planes down around the World Trade Center site,” said Bloomberg, adding that he was “furious.”


331 posted on 04/27/2009 3:15:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: DryFly; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ..
Re: Could be an E-4B, like the one that showed up after 9-11 to monitor the situation.

E-4B: from http://www.strategic-air-command.com/aircraft/command/e-4B_NOAC_Airplane.htm

Since when does an E-4B, if this is one flying over NYC... have the color scheme of Air Force One?


332 posted on 04/27/2009 3:18:05 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Cold Heart
And the Carbon Foot Print is?

That was one of my first questions too.

I'd have to freeze or sweat to death for a long time to save the carbon that Zero wasted at taxpayer expense for this sure to be campaign photo op.

333 posted on 04/27/2009 3:19:49 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: BOBTHENAILER

Gibbs looks so much like Schultz.


334 posted on 04/27/2009 3:22:05 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: anymouse
"How would a devious terrorist get a whole lot of people to go outside, overriding their fear of exposure to an airborne pandemic virus? Exploit an even more frightening fear that they were already exposed to - a large aircraft flying dangerously around downtown Manhattan."


335 posted on 04/27/2009 3:26:17 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: LottieDah; Velveeta; Squantos

This video is linked at this moment by Yahoo news:

Mayor (Bloomberg) ‘furious’ over military photo op:

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=13186257&ch=&src=news


336 posted on 04/27/2009 3:41:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0B0Z0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: Finny

Talking of aircraft Photo-ops, I just had a B-24 Liberator fly directly over my house!


337 posted on 04/27/2009 3:43:59 PM PDT by Wil H (The most destructive act of Muslim terrorism against the US was paying for 0bama's Harvard education)
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To: Bender2

In one of the videos, you can CLEARLY see the presidential seal just forward of the wing and below the centerline of the plane.

King Baraq the Red is 100% behind this asinine stunt. I hope those people who were injured in the panic sue the living crap out of the King.


338 posted on 04/27/2009 3:50:20 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: BOBTHENAILER; Grampa Dave; MeekOneGOP; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik

339 posted on 04/27/2009 4:24:26 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Cindy

~sigh~ That’s true.


340 posted on 04/27/2009 4:28:03 PM PDT by Velveeta
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