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1. #646433
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:35 am, steveegg said:

   Very nice.

2. #646434
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:35 am, tpitman said:

   Bums Away!

3. #646437
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:38 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   What a payload! Talk about an anti-missile defense shield, she’s so ugly, any missile would detonate before it got within two miles.

4. #646438
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:39 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   How’d that plane sneak up on the tarmac with a puss like that?

5. #646440
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:40 am, jangar said:

   Is that a bug gut catcher, or is that a collection of bug guts?

6. #646442
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:40 am, AmericanPatriot said:

   Looks like one of the Thomas the Tank Engine characters my son used to play with.

   Unfortunately, this one is broken and needs thrown away.

7. #646443
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:42 am, bradley said:

   That airplane would scare hell out of any bird within sight. Scares ME too.

8. #646444
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:42 am, cicerokid said:

   I’ve seen better looking heads on an Iodine bottle!

9. #646446
   On March 12th, 2009 at 8:43 am, ajmontana said:

   geez, way to ruin a beautiful aircraft.
   She looks like Mrs. Evil.

10. #646447
    On March 12th, 2009 at 8:49 am, jangar said:

    Only thing missing is the big “O” logo on her forehead.

11. #646449
    On March 12th, 2009 at 8:49 am, CyberCipher said:

    The pentagon should use that plane to buzz Kim Jong Ill.

    My collie says:

    If THAT doesn’t frighten him into giving up his nuclear weapons, nothing will.

12. #646450
    On March 12th, 2009 at 8:50 am, cicerokid said:

    I have seen this one before!

    Claire Chennault?

13. #646451
    On March 12th, 2009 at 8:51 am, jag5775 said:

    If the plane could talk, what would it/he/she be saying? Could it be printed?

14. #646452
    On March 12th, 2009 at 8:54 am, jangar said:

    OT-

    Coming out of anesthesia after his colonoscopy, Dr. Finger explaines the findings:

    “Mr. President, we removed a benign Pelosi, but your prostate looks okay”

15. #646453
    On March 12th, 2009 at 8:54 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    Thank goodness all of the old WWII bombers have women painted on them already!!

16. #646454
    On March 12th, 2009 at 8:55 am, Craig said:

    Michelle,
    I need a break from all these Pelosi posts. Looking at her ugly mug every morning is not helping me OR my kids.

    Yikes…cleanup on aisle 4.

17. #646456
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:03 am, babbledabble said:

    While I can’t stand Pelosi, I have to say she is pretty well preserved for an old geezer. Maybe we could get the Gov to give the rest of us geezers a subsidy for plastic surgery or botox – call it a beautification project. Dems like that kind of thing.

18. #646457
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:04 am, jamesgreenidge said:

    Nancy’s Decoy “#6″ Plane Is Letting Real Bombers In Under The Radar

    Don’t like Nan’s shenanigans anymore than the next guy, but it’s a red herring that’s keeping our eye off the stealthy big porkers and entitlements the Dems/libs want to ram down our throats. Dump the small potatoes and get to the meat, please!

    James Greenidge
    Queens, NY

19. #646461
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:08 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    The term Bar Rafaeli threw me so I did a web search. Very educational the web, enlightening.

    But it does disturb me that so many of our elected Public Servants demand to be treated as if they were the King or Tsar, Queen or Empress. The Office of the President has been accused of being the last imperial office yet the perks are expanding.

    No I would not expect the Speaker of the House, Senate Leader and other high officials to fly commercial. But with all too many of them too much is not enough. Pride, vanity, arrogance; the unholy trinity of all too many-not really appropriate in a Republic but to be expected I suppose.

    Photoshop credit: Bucktown Dusty Well done

    —
    Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns

20. #646463
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:10 am, RedDog said:

    Surely she is not flying a heavy cargo plane like that. What is that, a Hercules?

21. #646465
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:12 am, jangar said:

    Surely she is not flying a heavy cargo plane like that. What is that, a Hercules?

    It takes a lot to haul all the crap she packs around (and not people).

22. #646467
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:14 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    Nose art

    Nose art

    Nose art

    Nose art

    Now that is what blongs on bombers!!!

23. #646472
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:21 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Looks like a Galaxy.

    One thing- the Canada geese would get the heck out of the way with that coming at them, greatly reducing the risk of bird strikes.

24. #646474
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:22 am, John Deaux said:

    I would have thought her face on a Warthog (A-10) would be more appropo.

25. #646475
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:23 am, Sergeant Tim said:

    We need Stretch’s face on the front of all our tanks and other fighting vehicles; the enemy would flee in droves (and sue America for not air dropping barf bags in advance).

26. #646496
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:40 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    Damn… I though a C-5 landed on her and her face-lift ended up on the nose of the plane….. it’s just a photoshop…. bummer.

27. #646498
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:42 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    That’s a C-5 Galaxy RedDog.

28. #646503
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:45 am, PBoilermaker said:

    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:10 am, RedDog said:

    Surely she is not flying a heavy cargo plane like that. What is that, a Hercules?

    C-5 Galaxy. It would have been an even better PS with her face superimposed on a C-32A (the USAF 757-200 that she regularly uses), but it makes the point all the same.

29. #646510
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:48 am, cabrerski said:

    Isn’t this the image you get when you turn off the lights, look in the mirror and repeat:

    “I believe in Mary Worth”.

    Then the image kills you?

    In the more updated urban legend, the image will just clean out your wallet.

30. #646515
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:53 am, madmonkphotog said:

    My love of fighter plane nose art just went out the window… along with my sexual drive.

    Thanks alot, Pelosi!

31. #646516
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:53 am, Bogtrotter said:

    Around 6 this morning I was sitting in my living room channel surfing news. I stopped at MSNBC and could not believe how they were covering the Pelosi travel story. They were making it out to be some GOP directed fringe groups action and much to do about nothing. What RAEALLY got me was when the reporter covering it describedthe groups available info as being related to travel for the ENTIRE congress, and not just Nancy Pelosi.

32. #646521
    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:55 am, madmonkphotog said:

    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:03 am, babbledabble said:

    While I can’t stand Pelosi, I have to say she is pretty well preserved for an old geezer.

    So was Lenin.

33. #646541
    On March 12th, 2009 at 10:11 am, cheapseat said:

    michelle you expected honesty and candor from the authoress of the most ethical congress in this nation’s history? she is the authoress of the minimum pay raise last year which specifically excluded guam because one of her big donors, starkist, essentially employs guam, and oh yeah her husband is heavily invested in that company. no conflict of interest though, because she tells us so.

34. #646558
    On March 12th, 2009 at 10:18 am, Kevin K. said:

    On March 12th, 2009 at 9:14 am, On-my-soap-box said: (#22)

    Now that is what belongs on bombers!!!

    I thoroughly agree!!

    (Too bad it won’t pass PC muster anymore.)

35. #646575
    On March 12th, 2009 at 10:29 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Like I said, somebody at the GAO or one of the Pentagon bean-counters needs to sit down and review the tax liabilities of all the free travel service San Fran Nan is wracking up. Speakers have been caught with similar problems when it came to book deals. She isn’t entitled to fly her free-loading family around the country or world on OUR DIME!

36. #646612
    On March 12th, 2009 at 10:53 am, chsw said:

    Reminds me of the Wicked Witch of the West appearing in the crystal ball in the Wizard of Oz.

37. #646648
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:13 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Said it before and will say it again. Do we HAVE to keep looking at Pelosi when we log on to this web site? If so we need a warning going in to “Click if you want to continue because you are about to see Nancy Pelosi up close….” option.

    YIKES!!!!!

    Tums anyone?

38. #646679
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:26 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Pelosi 2007: Hey, I’m happy to fly commercial

    Then do so! We call your bluff and challenge you to fly commercial.
    You can claim that you’re doing it “to save the planet”.

    Pelosi: ‘I never demanded a bigger plane’; Evidence: ‘Yes, she did’

    Her staff most definitely demanded a Gulfstream V (”G5″) instead of the Gulfstream III (”G3″) that her predecessor used.

    Gulfstream V:

    Length: 96 ft 5 in (29.4 m)
    Cruise speed: 488 knots (0.85 Mach, 904 km/h)
    Range: 5,800 nautical miles
    Service ceiling: 51,000 ft (15,545 m)

    Gulfstream III:

    Length: 83 ft 2 in (25.35 m)
    Cruise speed: 459 knots (528 mph, 850 km/h)
    Range: 3,767 nm
    Service ceiling: 45,000 ft (13,716 m)

39. #646697
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:34 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Comment in the previous thread:
    G3, G4, G5

40. #646713
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:39 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Well maybe all that CO2 San Fran Nan is pumping into the atmosphere will help mitigate the global cooling that is actually taking place. We can hope…

41. #646722
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:43 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert L. Wilkie’s February 7, 2007 response to a January 23, 2007 request for policy guidance from Speaker Pelosi’s staff.

42. #646736
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:50 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Good post. Now who do we contact to see that her “immediate family” is actually reimbursing the government for their travel?

43. #646741
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:53 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Say a prayer for the members of the 89th Airlift Wing who have to deal with Pelosi.

44. #646746
    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    This is the face that scared 1000 geese back to the arctic–no chance of any bird strikes on this C5! A perfect bird jammer.
    ***
    However, I think this new super weapon C5 is CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT for any one seeing it. This probably violates the Geneva convention–it looks a lot worse than Abu Garhib “panties on the head” torture.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

45. #646766
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm, pueblo1032 said:

    C’mon MICHELLE… These early posts about PELOSI are beginning to get to me… Especially when accompanied by a photo… It’s breakfast time in PHOENIX and now my scrambled eggs are starting to REACT…

46. #646768
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 12th, 2009 at 11:50 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Now who do we contact to see that her “immediate family” is actually reimbursing the government for their travel?

    I don’t know, but I’d love to see someone do a FOIA on that… it would be quite the scandal to find out that the leader of “the most ethical Congress ever” had failed to reimburse the government for her family’s travel.

    During another email exchange DOD staff advised Kay King that one Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met because of “crew rest requirements” and offered to help secure commercial travel. Kay King responded: “We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [sic] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses. If we can find another way to assist with military assets, we would like to do that.”

    What is “the problem that creates with spouses” flying commercially, versus on the military jets?

47. #646773
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    What a payload! Talk about an anti-missile defense shield, she’s so ugly, any missile would detonate before it got within two miles.

    trouble is they have to fumigate the planes after every flight….

48. #646780
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:18 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    I think in the quote “codel” is shorthand for “Congressional Delegation.”

    I wonder if Judicial Watch is looking into such reimbursements? It is a rather logical next step to their inquiries. I suspect htey will be met with “national security” issues if there is something there. I don’t think FOIA will get past a “national security” response.

49. #646783
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:21 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah, hell that’s scarier than the flying tiger graphic on a P-40E. This would truely strike fear into the hearts of our enemies if it was put on all fighter aircraft. The only problem with putting her mug on Air Force planes is the cost to the pentagon for botox injections to keep the planes noses up off the runnways. I think I just heard betty grable rolling over . . . .

50. #646784
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:22 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    unless they’ve improved the C-5 aircraft she definitely wouldn’t use one of them, they are way too cold and far too noisy…I know I flew in them in the military from Okinawa back to the states…you didn’t put your feet on the floor because they’d freeze….the box lunches were good though…lol

51. #646790
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah is the USAF able to buy a bag that big for a C5A?

52. #646832
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:50 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah, She’s no Bar Rafaeli, she’s Bug Repelli. I would make this plane fly backwards, yeesh.

53. #646843
    On March 12th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, secondsight said:

    Time to burn the eyes out of your head.

    Imagine that the photoshop artist had used Sports Illustrated plane as his archetype.

    And then after Nancy, he made a second one for Hillary.

54. #646857
    On March 12th, 2009 at 1:00 pm, shooter said:

    That pic actually frightens me…woah.

55. #646921
    On March 12th, 2009 at 1:29 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    I flew as a passenger in a C-5A in 1985 between Cubi Point NAS, RP and Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory.

    Passenger compartment, seats about 60-ish people in rear facing seats larger than modern coach airline seats, no windows, bring a book. An Air Force tech sergeant served inflight Swanson TV dinners.

    BTW, not a whole lot to do in Diego Garcia, but the USAF had liquor stores (category Six, IIRC) that sold beer on most excellent discount, there were beaches and a pool, and the work details cut loose for the day at lunch time because of the heat.

56. #646927
    On March 12th, 2009 at 1:30 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Hillary Clinton plane

57. #646973
    On March 12th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    From http://www.flyprivate.com/pricing.html

    A Gulfstream 5 is categorized as a “Heavy Jet”, and the Domestic Pricing Guidelines (Best Positioned) show Round-Trip pricing guidelines of $5,350. per hour. Assume a round trip is a minimum of 10 hours, or $53,500 per round trip.

    The guideline prices listed above are an estimate for domestic transportation. It does not include a 7.5% Federal Excise Tax, and does not include, where applicable, a per passenger facility charge of up to $18.00 per round-trip, a September 11 Security Fee of $2.50 per passenger enplanement, and a per flight segment tax of $3.20 per passenger. For international transportation (including Mexican and Canadian transborder operations), please contact Private Business Jets for a separate price quotation.

    Additional Flight Services and Fees:

    Crew Overnight Fee $1000/night
    Flight Attendant Standard on Heavy Jets (otherwise case by case)
    Fuel Surcharge Guidelines (If required, may vary by region and category
    Catering Special Services (beyond standard complimentary)
    Phone Billed at cost by carrier operator
    Signature Landing Fees $500/landing
    International Fees Costs vary, can be quoted

    But it appears that Pelosi is only required to pay the equivalent of commercial coach fare (probably on the order of $500 – $1,000 round trip) when her family travels in executive jet style.

58. #647130
    On March 12th, 2009 at 3:31 pm, Khyris said:

    Only thing missing is the big “O” logo on her forehead.

    That’s because the big “0″ is INSIDE her forehead.

59. #647159
    On March 12th, 2009 at 4:03 pm, rightwingmom said:

    Marie Antoinette infamously said,
    “Let them eat cake.”

    Queen Nancy says,
    “Let them fly coach.”

60. #647418
    On March 12th, 2009 at 10:28 pm, bayou22 said:

    This picture, and Nancy Pelosi, always make me think of the giant heads on the fronts of the Mardi Gras floats. Downright scary!

61. #647469
    On March 13th, 2009 at 1:03 am, cabrerski said:

    On March 12th, 2009 at 1:30 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Ed,

    Loved the photo. You realize the extra head room on the plane is for the dome of the world’s smartest woman. Her melon can barely keep all that brain power contained…or was that her ego?