WTF Is It Now?!?

Back yard, 11 May 05.


Two innocent, hapless shlubs accidently fly near WH airspace - a nation of whores panics!
Is anyone else suffering from severe eye and facial tics over the incessant rehashing of the DC/plane nonstory?

I can't do a screen grab, but here were the top news items this morning on CNN.com:
1. No charges for pilots in D.C. scare
2. Culkin: Jackson 'never' molested me
3. Bolton's chances brighten ahead of vote
4. Iraqi general, colonel gunned down
5. Bush asked to explain UK war memo
6. Prosecutors: Girls stabbed 31 times
7. Woman, 70, survives nine-story fall
8. 'Idol' says farewell to Fedorov

CNN's Question of the Day
Do you think the security response to a small plane violating Washington airspace was appropriate?
Yes
No

And on Crossfire...

Dem P.J. CROWLEY: I think by and large the system did work. It certainly worked today butter than it did a year ago when a plane with Ernie Fletcher, the governor of Kentucky, was coming in for Reagan's funeral and they couldn't intercept it in time. So, I'm hard pressed to criticize that.

Repug CLIFF MAY: I agree with my friend P.J., overall it wasn't bad. You don't want things like this to happen. As an exercise it went fairly well. There are still things wrong.

Host BOOB NOVAK: Not an overreaction, gentlemen?

CROWLEY: No.

NOVAK: Gee, a little tiny plane. Isn't there any judgment.

MAY: P.J. knows this better than I. Very quickly, the pilots who track the plane realized this is a two seater. It doesn't have much on it. They couldn't hold much more than fuel. This is not a great danger. That's not an easy thing to recognize without good experience in the air. And you know this.

NOVAK: So it didn't work so well then.

MAY: Figure it out. They didn't even shoot it -- if they shot it down I wouldn't be laughing so much.

Guest host DONNA BRAZILE: First of all, I agrees with Cliff and P.J., that this was a danger and they did the right thing in evacuating the Capitol and of course the White House and the Supreme Court...

MAY: As usual I think have you a point. I think as a fire drill, this went pretty well. But what you just mentioned is something to learn from this. So we can do better. Our homeland security has a long way to go yet.

NOVAK: All right. We're going to take a break. And when we come back, does the color coded terrorist alert system work? And what did actor Macaulay Culkin have to say about Michael Jackson today? I bet you'll want to know that.

Senile, pandering pudhead NOVAK: Welcome back to Crossfire. The response to today's alert in the skies over Washington was quick enough to avoid any damage or injuries, but was there overreaction?

Jesus Christ.


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Meanwhile...
Death toll nears 400 as violence escalates in Iraq
Insurgents Bomb Baghdad Market, 21 Dead
Suicide car bomb kills 12 in Baghdad market (I think it's up to 17 now)
Agriculture Dept. paid journalist for favorable stories
North Korea intensifies anxiety over nukes
Afghan protests against U.S. widen
Iraq war 'facts were fixed'
United States’ reluctance to compromise blamed for North Korean nuclear crisis
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