Just now on CNN: Footage of an F-16 and the information (in caption form) that Dutch F-16's have now joined the search for that missing white girl in Aruba.
This immediately sparked a debate between me and a friend. Do you call in the F-16s because a speeding supersonic jet is the best way to find a small object on the ground? Or do you do it because when they find her, they'll want to shoot her out of the sky.*
Of course, my friend pointed out that I was forgetting that "the most critical factor in white girl search-and-rescue operations is establishing air superiority." Which is totally true, and I'm embarrased to have forgotten. I love when the news is so ... newsy.
* The F-16 is also a capable air-to-ground attack platform, so maybe they'll just be deploying some laser-guidhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifed bombs or Maverick missiles into the search-and-rescue fray. Seriously, what the hell is going on?
Late-night addendum: I see Larry King Live is about the "controverisal debate" over UFOs. I know he's got tenure, but seriously? Rather conveniently, I'm drinking a Harpoon UFO at the moment, too.
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Just remember if you screw up just this much you'll be flying cargo planes full of rubber dog shit out of hong kong.
Ha! Not in the George W. Bush Age of Accountability. Screw up huge, and you'll be promoted, while the people who were actually right get assigned to novelty-poop uplift.
so, what are you saying, Couger gets to go to Top Gun? Or are you saying that you'd like to keep up foreign relations inverted?
Or are you saying that you fly ice cold, no mistakes?
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